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Geological, geophysical, and engineering investigations of the Loveland Basin landslide, Clear Creek County, Colorado, 1963-65

No abstract available.
Authors
Charles Sherwood Robinson, Fitzhugh T. Lee, R.W. Moore, R. D. Carroll, J. H. Scott, J.D. Post, C. S. Robinson, R.A. Bohman

Pacific geomagnetic secular variation

A smooth field over the central Pacific for a million years indicates a nonuniform lower mantle of the earth.
Authors
Richard R. Doell, A. Cox

Geomagnetic polarity epochs: age and duration of the olduvai normal polarity event

New data show that the Olduvai normal geomagnetic polarity event is represented in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, by rocks covering a time span of roughly from 0.1 to 0.2 my and is no older than 2.0 my. Hence the long normal polarity event of this age that is seen in deep-sea sediment cores and in magnetic profiles over oceanic ridges should be called the Olduvai event. The lava from which the Gilsàeven
Authors
C. S. Grommé, R. L. Hay

A computer program to trace seismic ray distribution in complex two-dimensional geological models

A computer program has been developed to trace seismic rays and their amplitudes and energies through complex two-dimensional geological models, for which boundaries between elastic units are defined by a series of digitized X-, Y-coordinate values. Input data for the program includes problem identification, control parameters, model coordinates and elastic parameter for the elastic units. The pro
Authors
Nazieh K. Yacoub, James H. Scott

Map showing relative amounts of landslides in California

No abstract available.
Authors
Dorothy H. Radbruch, Kenneth C. Crowther

History of the geomagnetic field

Direct measurements of the direction and strength of the earth's magnetic field have provided a knowledge of the field's form and behavior during the last few hundreds of years. For older times, however, it has been necessary to measure the magnetism of certain rocks to learn what the geomagnetic field was like. For example, when a lava flow solidifies (at temperatures near 1000°C) and cools throu
Authors
Richard R. Doell

Geomagnetic reversals

Although decreasing rapidly, the earth's magnetic field is probably not now reversing.
Authors
A. Cox