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El Nino 1997-98; damaging landslides in the San Francisco Bay area

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Authors
Lynn M. Highland, J. W. Godt, D. G. Howell, W. Z. Savage

Migration of fluids beneath Yellowstone caldera inferred from satellite radar interferometry

Satellite interferometric synthetic aperture radar is uniquely suited to monitoring year-to-year deformation of the entire Yellowstone caldera (about 3000 square kilometers). Sequential interferograms indicate that subsidence within the caldera migrated from one resurgent dome to the other between August 1992 and August 1995. Between August 1995 and September 1996, the caldera region near the nort
Authors
Charles W. Wicks, Wayne R. Thatcher, Daniel Dzurisin

[Book Review] The Dead Sea, the lake and its setting, edited by T. Niemi, Z. Ben-Avraham, J. Gat

Review of The Dead Sea, the Lake and its Setting. Tina M. Niemi, Zvi Ben-Avraham, and Joel R. Gat (Editors). Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics No. 36. Oxford University Press, N.Y. 286 pp. ISBN 0-19-508703-8, 1997. $75.
Authors
Uri S. ten Brink

The spatial variability of large scale sand bars

No abstract available.
Authors
C. R. Worley, T. C. Lippmann, J. W. Haines, A. H. Sallenger

Geologic controls on the formation of lakes in north-central Florida

Fluid exchange between surficial waters and groundwater, as well as the processes that control this exchange, are of critical concern to water management districts and planners. Digital high-resolution seismic systems were used to collect geophysical data from 30 lakes of north-central Florida. Although using seismic profile data in the past has been less than successful, the use of digital techno
Authors
Jack L. Kindinger, Jeffrey B. Davis, James G. Flocks

Seasonal variation in habitat use by marsh fishes

We used I-m2 throw traps to examine habitat use by smallsized fishes within a mosaic of wet prairies and sloughs in the headwaters of the St. Johns River, Florida between August 1992 and November 1995. Estimates of total fish density and biomass varied temporally, but did not differ significantly between habitats. Patterns of habitat use, however, differed among the five numerically dominant speci
Authors
F. Jordan, K. J. Babbitt, C. C. McIvor

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
Authors
Ruth A. Harris, Robert W. Simpson

Environmental impacts on the southern Florida coastal waters: A history of change in Florida Bay

Analyses of four cores located in the northern transitional, eastern, and central portions of Florida Bay reveal historical patterns of change in salinity and seagrass distribution. Salinity and the distribution of seagrass beds are two critical issues for the restoration of Florida Bay. The distribution of benthic fauna in Bob Allen 6A and Russell Bank 19B cores illustrates changes in environment
Authors
G. Lynn Wingard, S. E. Ishman, C. W. Holmes

The Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō-Kūpaianaha erruption of Kīlauea, November 1991–February 1994: Field data and flow maps

The Pu'u 'Ō'ō-Kūpaianaha eruption on the east rift zone of Kīlauea, which began in January 1983, is the longest-lived rift zone eruption of the last two centuries. By 1994, a broad field of lava, nearly 1 km3 in volume and 12 km wide at the coast, had buried 87 km2 of the volcano's south flank. The initial six months of fissure eruptions (episodes 1-3) were followed by three years of episodic lava
Authors
C. Christina Heliker, Margaret T. Mangan, Tari N. Mattox, James P. Kauahikaua

Landslides triggered by the winter 1996-97 storms in the Puget Lowland, Washington

Snowmelt and rainfall events triggered many landslides and debris flows in the Seattle, Washington, area during late December 1996 and January and March 1997. Landslides caused the deaths of at least four people, millions of dollars in damage to public and private property, lost revenues, traffic diversions, and other direct and indirect losses. Although shallow slides and debris flows were the mo
Authors
Rex L. Baum, Alan F. Chleborad, Robert L. Schuster
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