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A review of the recent geochemical evolution of Piton de la Fournaise volcano (1927-2010)
Between 1927 and 2010, more than one hundred eruptions of Piton de la Fournaise produced ~1 km3 of lava, and the volcano’s summit collapsed twice (in 1931 and 2007). These lavas display, respectively, 20 and 65 % of the Sr–Nd and the Pb isotope ranges reported for La Réunion volcanoes over their known eruptive record (3.8 Ma). Variations in major and trace element concentrations and Sr–Pb isotopes
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Aaron J. Pietruszka, Ivan Vlastélic
Inland valley wetland cultivation and preservation for africa’s green and blue revolution using multi-sensor remote sensing
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Prasad S. Thenkabail, Pardhasaradhi G. Teluguntla
Remote sensing data characterization, classification, and accuracies: advances of the last 50 years and a vision for the future
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Prasad S. Thenkabail
Remote sensing of land resources: Monitoring, modeling, and mapping advances over the last 50 years and a vision for the future
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Prasad S. Thenkabail
Remote sensing of water resources, disasters, and urban area: monitoring, modeling, and mapping advances over last 50 years and a vision for the future
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Prasad S. Thenkabail
Water productivity studies from earth observation data: characterization, modeling and mapping water use and water productivity
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Antônio de C. Teixeira, Fernando B. T. Hernandez, Morris Scherer-Warren, Ricardo G. Andrade, Janice F. Leivas, Daniel C. Victoria, Edson L. Bolfe, Prasad S. Thenkabail, Renato A. M. Franco
Olistostrome shed eastward from the Antler orogenic forebulge, Bisoni-McKay area, Fish Creek Range, central Nevada
The Bisoni-McKay area, a structurally isolated, fault-bounded horst, offset eastward at the south end of the Fish Creek Range, displays a geologic terrane that is previously unrecorded in Nevada, and perhaps elsewhere in North America. This unique terrane is an olistostrome that was shed eastward by listric faulting from the east side of the migrating Antler orogenic forebulge in Late Devonian (ea
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Forrest G. Poole, Charles Sandberg
Understanding natural capital
This chapter serves to introduce the geophysics of Neotropical steeplands. Topics are covered in a general manner with hyperlinks to active research and monitoring sites (such as the National Hurricane Center and US Geological Survey publication). Topics covered include ‘tropical climate and weather,’ ‘climate variations and trends,’ Neotropical ‘geology, and soils,’ ‘hillslopes and erosion,’ ‘lak
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Robert F. Stallard
Copahue volcano and its regional magmatic setting
Copahue volcano (Province of Neuquen, Argentina) has produced lavas and strombolian deposits over several 100,000s of years, building a rounded volcano with a 3 km elevation. The products are mainly basaltic andesites, with the 2000–2012 eruptive products the most mafic. The geochemistry of Copahue products is compared with those of the main Andes arc (Llaima, Callaqui, Tolhuaca), the older Caviah
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J. C. Varekamp, J. E. Zareski, L. M. Camfield, Erin Todd
Volcano monitoring from space
Unlike many natural hazards, volcanoes usually give warnings of impending eruptions that can be detected from hours to years prior to any hazardous activity [Sparks et al., 2012]. The Eyjafjallajökull eruption, for example, was preceded by several discrete episodes of subsurface magma accumulation that highlighted the potential for future eruption. Once it begins, an eruption can last for up to
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Michael P. Poland
Application of MC1 to Wind Cave National Park: Lessons from a small-scale study: Chapter 8
MC1 was designed for application to large regions that include a wide range in elevation and topography, thereby encompassing a broad range in climates and vegetation types. The authors applied the dynamic global vegetation model MC1 to Wind Cave National Park (WCNP) in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota, USA, on the ecotone between ponderosa pine forest to the northwest and mixed-grass prai
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David A. King, Dominique M. Bachelet, Amy J. Symstad
Spotted bass Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque 1819)
Three subspecies of Spotted Bass Micropterus punctulatus were historically recognized: the smaller Northern Spotted Bass M. p. punctulatus, the larger, longer-lived Alabama Spotted Bass M. p. henshalli, and the now invalidated Wichita Spotted Bass M. p. wichitae (Bailey and Hubbs 1940; Cofer 1995; Warren 2009; Rider and Maceina 2015, this volume). The subspecific status has been examined over the
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Timothy N. Churchill, Phillip William Bettoli