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Well bore breakouts and in situ stress
The detailed cross-sectional shape of stress induced well bore breakouts has been studied using specially processed ultrasonic borehole televiewer data. Breakout shapes are shown for a variety of rock types and introduce a simple elastic failure model which explains many features of the observations. Both the observations and calculations indicate that the breakouts define relatively broad and fla
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Mark D. Zoback, Daniel Moos, Larry Mastin, Roger N. Anderson
Innovative approaches to landslide hazard and risk mapping
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E. E. Brabb
Correlation of metamorphosed Paleozoic strata of the southeastern Mojave Desert region, California and Arizona: Discussion and reply
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H.J. Brown, Paul Stone, Keith A. Howard, Warren Hamilton
Geology of the Ruby Mountains-East Humboldt Range, Nevada: A Cordilleran metamorphic core complex
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A.W. Snoke, Keith A. Howard
Canyon-filling lavas and lava dams on the Boise River, Idaho, and their significance for evaluating downcutting during the last 2 million years
Basalts that periodically dammed the Boise River and its South Fork over the last 2 million years reveal the canyon history and illustrate how lava interacted with impounded river water. Intracanyon basalt flows record a granite canyon successively filled by lava and then recut at least five times in the last 2 million years. The most voluminous flow, Steamboat Rock Basalt, reached 60 kilometers d
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Keith A. Howard, John W. Shervais, E. H. McKee
Statistical relations among earthquake magnitude, surface rupture length, and surface fault displacement
In order to refine correlations of surface-wave magnitude, fault rupture length at the ground surface, and fault displacement at the surface by including the uncertainties in these variables, the existing data were critically reviewed and a new data base was compiled. Earthquake magnitudes were redetermined as necessary to make them as consistent as possible with the Gutenberg methods and results,
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Manuel G. Bonilla, Robert K. Mark, James J. Lienkaemper
Preaccretion and postaccretion plutonic belts in allochtonous terrane of the Klamath Mountains, California and Oregon
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W. P. Irwin
Implications of paleomagnetism for the tectonic history of the Eastern Klamath and related terranes in California and Oregon
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E. A. Mankinen, W. P. Irwin, C. S. Grommé
Paleomagnetism in the Klamath Mountains, California and Oregon
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W. P. Irwin, E. A. Mankinen, C. S. Grommé
Sedimentary petrology of graywacke of the Franciscan Complex in the northern San Francisco Bay Area, California
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A. S. Jayko, M. Clark Blake
Tectonostratigraphic terranes of the San Francisco Bay Region
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M. Clark Blake, D. G. Howell, A. S. Jayko