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Publications from the staff of the Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center
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Foreshocks and aftershocks of the great 1857 California earthquake
The San Andreas fault is the longest fault in California and one of the longest strike-slip faults anywhere in the world, yet we know little about many aspects of its behavior before, during, and after large earthquakes. We conducted a study to locate and to estimate magnitudes for the largest foreshocks and aftershocks of the 1857 M 7.9 Fort Tejon earthquake on the central and southern segments o
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A.J. Meltzner, D. J. Wald
How useful is landslide hazard information? Lessons learned in the San Francisco Bay region
Landslides, worldwide and in the United States, are arguably the most costly natural hazard. Substantial landslide information is available, but much of it remains underutilized, as a disconnect exists among geologists, decision makers, and the public. The lack of a national landslide insurance policy exacerbates this situation and promotes litigation as the principal recourse for recouping landsl
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D. G. Howell, D.W. Ramsey, E. E. Brabb
Geology and regional correlation of the Cretaceous and Paleogene rocks of the Gualala block, northern California
No abstract available.
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C. M. Wentworth, D. L. Jones, E. E. Brabb
Character of the middle Nonlithophysal Zone of the Topopah Spring Tuff at Yucca Mountain
No abstract available.
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David C. Buesch, R.W. Spengler
Detailed correlation of lithostratigraphic and borehole geophysical log data for identifying contacts at Yucca Mountain
No abstract available.
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David C. Buesch, R.W. Spengler
A simplified economic filter for open-pit gold-silver mining in the United States
In resource assessments of undiscovered mineral deposits and in the early stages of exploration, including planning, a need for prefeasibility cost models exists. In exploration, these models to filter economic from uneconomic deposits help to focus on targets that can really benefit the exploration enterprise. In resource assessment, these models can be used to eliminate deposits that would proba
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Donald A. Singer, W. David Menzie, Keith R. Long
Suppression of large earthquakes by stress shadows: A comparison of Coulomb and rate-and-state failure
Stress shadows generated by California's two most recent great earthquakes (1857 Fort Tejon and 1906 San Francisco) substantially modified 19th and 20th century earthquake history in the Los Angeles basin and in the San Francisco Bay area. Simple Coulomb failure calculations, which assume that earthquakes can be modeled as static dislocations in an elastic half-space, have done quite well at appro
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Ruth A. Harris, Robert W. Simpson
Geology of the onshore part of San Mateo County, California: A digital database
No abstract available.
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E. E. Brabb, R. W. Graymer, D. L. Jones
Late-stage sinking of plutons: Comment and Reply
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Scott R. Paterson, A. F. Glazner, David M. Miller
Tertiary uplift of the Mt. Doonerak antiform, central Brooks Range, Alaska: Apatite fission track evidence from the Trans-Alaska crustal transect
The Mt. Doonerak antiform is a northeast-trending, doubly plunging antiform located along the axial part of the central Brooks Range. This antiform is a crustal-scale duplex estimated to have a vertical displacement of ~15 km. The antiform folds the Amawk thrust, which separates relatively less displaced lower plate rocks in a window in the core of the antiform from allochthonous upper plate rocks
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P. B. O'Sullivan, Thomas E. Moore, J.M. Murphy
Digital geologic map of the Spokane 1:100,000 quadrangle, Washington and Idaho: A digital database for the 1990 N.L. Joseph map
Geologic data from the geologic map of the Spokane 1:100,000-scale quadrangle compiled by Joseph (1990) were entered into a geographic information system (GIS) as part of a larger effort to create regional digital geology for the Pacific Northwest. The map area is located in eastern Washington and extends across the state border into western Idaho (Fig. 1). This open-file report describes the meth
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Bruce R. Johnson, Pamela D. Derkey
Drainage from adits and tailings piles in the Coeur d'Alene mining district, Idaho; sampling, analytical methods and results
This report contains information about collecting, handling, and analyzing waters draining from adits and seeping from beneath tailings piles in the Coeur d'Alene mining district during August 1996, November 1996, and June 1997. Data include temperature, pH, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, alkalinity, flow, and total acid soluble and dissolved (<0.45 \im) major and trace ion concentrations for 11
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Laurie S. Balistrieri, A. A. Bookstrom, S. E. Box, Mohammed Ikramuddin