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Holocene sand shoals offshore of the Mississippi River delta plain
Offshore of the Mississippi River delta plain lies a series of Holocene sand shoals marking the position of ancient submerged shorelines associated with younger shelf-phase delta plains. These submerged shorelines represent positions when sea level stood lower than present. Short periods of rapid sea level rise during the Holocene transgression, in combination with subsidence, led to the submergen
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Shea Penland, John R. Suter, Randolph A. McBride, S. Jeffress Williams, Jack L. Kindinger, Ron Boyd
Morphodynamic signature of the 1985 hurricane impacts on the northern Gulf of Mexico
Three hurricanes hit Lousiana (LA), Mississippi (MS), Alabama (AL), and the Florida (FL) panhandle in 1985, producing dramatic geomorphic changes in a wide variety of coastal environments. The impact zone for hurricanes Danny, Elena, and Juan stretched 1000 km between the Sabine River in LA to the Apalachicola River in FL. Barrier shorelines experienced repeated intense overwash events, producing
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Shea Penland, John R. Suter, Ashbury H. Sallenger, S. Jeffress Williams, Randolph A. McBride, Karen E. Westphal, P. Douglas Reimer, Bruce E. Jaffe
Structures associated with strike-slip faults that bound landslide elements
Large landslides are bounded on their flanks and on elements within the landslides by structures analogous to strike-slip faults. We observed the formation of thwse strike-slip faults and associated structures at two large landslides in central Utah during 1983-1985. The strike-slip faults in landslides are nearly vertical but locally may dip a few degrees toward or away from the moving ground. Fa
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R. W. Fleming, A. M. Johnson
Flow modeling in the Toutle River, Washington
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Yasuyuki Shimizu, Randy L. Dinehart, J. Dungan Smith
Recent carbonate slope sediments and sedimentary processes bordering a non-rimmed platform: southwest Florida continental margin
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Gregg R. Brooks, Charles W. Holmes
An introduction to quiet daily geomagnetic fields
On days that are quiet with respect to solar-terrestrial activity phenomena, the geomagnetic field has variations, tens of gamma in size, with major spectral components at about 24, 12, 8, and 6 hr in period. These quiet daily field variations are primarily due to the dynamo currents flowing in the E region of the earth's ionosphere, are driven by the global thermotidal wind systems, and are depen
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W.H. Campbell
Statistical analysis of factors affecting landslide distribution in the new Madrid seismic zone, Tennessee and Kentucky
More than 220 large landslides along the bluffs bordering the Mississippi alluvial plain between Cairo, Ill., and Memphis, Tenn., are analyzed by discriminant analysis and multiple linear regression to determine the relative effects of slope height and steepness, stratigraphic variation, slope aspect, and proximity to the hypocenters of the 1811-12 New Madrid, Mo., earthquakes on the distribution
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R. W. Jibson, D. K. Keefer
The competition between thermal contraction and differentiation in the stress history of the Moon
The scarcity of both extension and compression features on the Moon strongly constrains the history of the lunar radius—to variations of less than ±1 km over the past 3.8 Gyr. This limit has traditionally been interpreted as requiring a delicate balance between thermal contraction of the near‐surface and expansion of a substantial cold interior region. Recent theories of lunar origin (e.g., giant
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Randolph L. Kirk, David J. Stevenson
A direct method for calculating instrument noise levels in side-by-side seismometer evaluations
The subject of determining the inherent system noise levels present in modem broadband closed loop seismic sensors has been an evolving topic ever since closed loop systems became available. Closed loop systems are unique in that the system noise can not be determined via a blocked mass test as in older conventional open loop seismic sensors. Instead, most investigators have resorted to performing
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L. Gary Holcomb
Landslide deposits in the Duchesne 30' x 60' Quadrangle, Utah
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R. B. Colton, Bruce Bryant
Landslides and debris flows in Ephraim Canyon, central Utah
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Rex L. Baum, Robert W. Fleming
Earthquakes: Putting good ideas to work
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