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Pliocene to Holocene Lakes in the Western Great Basin, USA: New perspectives on paleoclimate, landscape dynamics, tectonics, and paleodistribution of aquatic species
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Marith C. Reheis, Joanna L. Redwine, K. Adams, S. Stine, K. Parker, R. Negrini, R. M. Burke, G. Kurth, John McGeehin, James B. Paces, F. Phillips, Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki, J. Smoot
Tree-ring dated landslide movements and their relationship to seismic events in southwestern Montana, USA
To determine periods of incremental landslide movement and their possible relationship to regional seismic events, the tree-ring records of 32 titled and damaged conifers at three sites on landslides in the Gravelly Range of southwestern Montana were examined. Several signs of disturbance in the tree-ring record indicating landslide movement were observed. Commonly, the tree-ring record displayed
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Paul E. Carrara, J. M. O'Neill
The role of climate and vegetation change in shaping past and future fire regimes in the northwestern US and the implications for ecosystem management
Fire is an important part of the disturbance regimes of northwestern US forests and its role in maintaining and altering forest vegetation is evident in the paleoecological record of the region. Long-term reconstructions of Holocene fire regimes, provided by the analysis of charcoal, pollen, and other fire proxies in a network of lake records, indicate that the Pacific Northwest and summer-dry reg
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C. Whitlock, S.L. Shafer, J. Marlon
Marine terraces, sea level history and Quaternary tectonics of the San Andreas fault on the coast of California
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D.R. Muhs, C. Prentice, D.J. Merrits
Last Glacial loess in the conterminous USA
The conterminous United States contains an extensive and generally well-studied record of Last Glacial loess. The loess occurs in diverse physiographic provinces, and under a wide range of climatic and ecological conditions. Both glacial and non-glacia lloess sources are present, and many properties of the loess vary systematically with distance from loess sources. United States' mid-continent Las
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E. Arthur Bettis, Daniel R. Muhs, Helen M. Roberts, Ann G. Wintle
Quaternary loess-Paleosol sequences as examples of climate-driven sedimentary extremes
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Daniel R. Muhs, E. Arthur Bettis
Geology of the Right Stepover region between the Rodgers Creek, Healdsburg, and Maacama faults, northern San Francisco Bay region: A contribution to Northern California Geological Society Field Trip Guide, June 6-8, 2003
This Open file report was written as part of a two-day field trip on
June 7 and 8, 2003, conducted for the Northern California Geological
Society. The first day of this field trip (June 7) was led by McLaughlin and
Sarna-Wojcicki in the area of the right- step between the Rodgers Creek-
Healdsburg fault zone and the Maacama fault. The second day of the trip
(June 8), was led by David Wagner o
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Robert J. McLaughlin, Andrei Sarna-Wojcicki
Quaternary stratigraphy, geomorphology, soils, and alpine archaeology in an alpine-to-plains transect, Colorado Front Range
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David P. Dethier, James B. Benedict, Peter W. Birkeland, Nel Caine, P. Thompson Davis, Richard F. Madole, Penny E. Patterson, Alan B. Price, Taylor F. Schildgen, Ralph R. Shroba
Tectonic controls of Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc mineralization in orogenic forelands
Most of the world's Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) zinc-lead deposits occur in orogenic forelands. We examine tectonic aspects of foreland evolution as part of a broader study of why some forelands are rich in MVT deposits, whereas others are barren. The type of orogenic foreland (collisional versus Andean-type versus inversion-type) is not a first-order control, because each has MVT deposits (e.g.
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D. C. Bradley, D. L. Leach
Pliocene to middle Pleistocene lakes in the western Great Basin: Ages and connections
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Marith C. Reheis, Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki, Richard L. Reynolds, C. A. Repenning, Martin D. Mifflin
Reply to Discussion on "Mississippi Valley-type lead–zinc deposits through geological time: implications from recent age-dating research"
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David L. Leach, Dwight Bradley, Michael T. Lewchuk, David T. Symons, Wayne R. Premo, Joyce Brannon, G. De Marsily
Monitoring dust storms and mapping landscape vulnerability to wind erosion using satellite and ground-based digital images
Wind-induced dust emission in the southwestern United States is important regionally because of its impact on human health and safety and its influence on ecosystem dynamics. Factors that control dust emission include wind velocity, sediment availability, and surface conditions (e.g., vegetation type and degree of cover, surface crusts and armoring, and soil moisture - Gillette and Passi, 1988; Gi
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Pat S. Chavez, David MacKinnon, Richard L. Reynolds, Miguel G. Velasco