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Groundwater processes in the submarine environment: Chapter 12
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James M. Robb
How Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket were formed
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R. N. Oldale
Numerical simulation of tidal dispersion around a coastal headland
Tidal flows around headlands can exhibit strong spatial gradients in the Eulerian currents, resulting in complex Lagrangian trajectories and dispersion of the vertically integrated flow. This typically occurs when the horizontal length scale of the headland is comparable to or smaller than the tidal excursion. The effects of these headlands on dispersion are investigated using a depthaveraged hydr
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R. P. Signell, W. Rockwell Geyer
Paleogeography and Paleo-oceanography of the Miocene of the southeastern United States
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P. Popenoe
Stoichiometry of mineral reactions from mass balance computations for acid mine waters, Iron Mountain, California
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Charles N. Alpers, D. Kirk Nordstrom
Physical and chemical properties of the phosphate deposit on Nauru, western equatorial Pacific Ocean
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David Z. Piper, B.J. Loebner, P. Aharon
Development of slope valleys in the glacimarine environment of a complex subduction zone, Northern Gulf of Alaska
Morphological, seismic-reflection, and sedimentological evidence indicates that glacial ice tongues cut large sea valleys into the Gulf of Alaska continental shelf during the Pleistocene. During the Holocene, glacially-derived sediments from the Copper River and other meltwater streams have been prograding seaward across the shelf, covering the glacial and glacimarine upper Yakataga diamicts that
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Paul R. Carlson, Terry R. Bruns, Michael A. Fisher
Chapter 5: Petrology and geochemistry of the metaluminous to peraluminous Chemehuevi Mountains Plutonic Suite, southeastern California
Structural relief resulting from middle Tertiary extensional deformation in the Chemehuevi Mountains exposes a unique cross section through a temporally and compositionally zoned (both vertically and horizontally), laccolith-shaped intrusion of Late Cretaceous age. The calc-alkalic, metaluminous to peraluminous Chemehuevi Mountains Plutonic Suite exhibits crude normal, vertical, and temporal zonat
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Barbara E John, Joe Wooden
Chapter 19: Magmatic components of a tilted plutonic system, Klamath Mountains, California
The Slinkard pluton (SP) and Wooley Creek batholith (WCB) are the lower and upper parts, respectively, of a tilted Middle Jurassic magma system. The SP and lower WCB intruded structurally lower ophiolitic mélange of the Marble Mountain terrane; the upper WCB intruded successively structurally higher metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the western and eastern Hayfork terranes. The predominant
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Calvin G. Barnes, Charlotte M. Allen, James D. Hoover, Robert H. Brigham
Chapter 21: Neodymium, strontium, and trace-element evidence of crustal anatexis and magma mixing in the Idaho batholith
Variations in initial 143Nd/144 Nd in Late Cretaceous plutonic rocks along the South Fork of the Clearwater River (SFCR) supplement results of Sr and O studies, which demonstrate large-scale mixing in magmas forming the western margin of the Idaho batholith. These marginal or border phases of the batholith span the terrane boundary between Proterozoic crust of North America and late Paleozoic-Meso
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Robert J. Fleck
Chapter 15: Two different lithosphere types in the Sierra Nevada, California
Chemical and isotopic characteristics of plutons in the western United States reflect compositions and protoliths of subjacent source materials. A discontinuously exposed shear zone that extends along the length of the Sierra Nevada in California marks a boundary between two areas manifested geologically by wall-rock and roof-pendant lithologies of different ages, depositional environments, and st
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Ronald W. Kistler
Chapter 7: Jurassic granitoids and related rocks of the southern Bristol Mountains, southern Providence Mountains, and Colton Hills, Mojave Desert, California
Jurassic plutons in the east-central Mojave Desert region are markedly different from older and younger Mesozoic plutons in the region. They form a chemically and texturally heterogeneous group that ranges in composition from diorite to syenogranite; some phases are alkalic. Igneous rocks in the southern Bristol Mountains, southern Providence Mountains, and Colton Hills are subdivided into five br
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Lydia Fox, David M. Miller