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The 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of the eastern Mojave Desert, California, and adjacent western Arizona with implications for the evolution of metamorphic core complexes
Mesozoic thickening and Cenozoic extension resulted in the juxtaposition of upper and middle crustal rocks in the eastern Mojave Desert, southeastern California and western Arizona. The application of 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology to rocks in this region provides information about the timing and nature of thrusting, plutonism, metamorphism, denudation, and detachment faulting. The 40Ar/39Ar ages of 1
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D.A. Foster, T.M. Harrison, C. F. Miller, Keith A. Howard
Estimating potential for small fields in mature petroleum provinces: Discussion
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John H. Schuenmeyer, L. J. Drew, David H. Root, Emil D. Attanasi
Geosciences
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Roger D. Borcherdt, N. C. Donovan, D. Eberhart-Phillips, A. Michael, Paul A. Reasenberg, L. Dietz, W. Ellsworth, Daniel J. Ponti, Ray E. Wells, R. A. Haugerud, M. M. Clark, N. T. Hall
Economic implications of petroleum field size distributions
The unprecedented natural gas price increases in the late 1970's and early 1980's allowed a glimpse of part of the in-situ distribution of natural gas fields that had been hidden by economic truncation. Analysis of those discoveries shows the distribution to be characterized by progressively larger numbers of fields as size category declines. This paper demonstrates the effects of economic truncat
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Emil D. Attanasi, Lawrence J. Drew
Program to prepare standard figures for grade-tonnage models on a Macintosh
Grade-tonnage models are frequency distributions of deposit tonnage and grades of mineral deposits of a specific type. The program described here allows users to prepare standard figures of grade and tonnage distributions and display the deposit name associated with any of the data points. Titles and scales appropriate for most deposit types are plotted automatically for tonnage, Cu, Ni, Sn, Nb, W
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Donald A. Singer, James D. Bliss
Evolution of the Tertiary La Honda basin, central California
Tertiary strata of the La Honda basin are exposed in the Santa Cruz Mountains along the central California coast south of San Francisco. The basin fill has a composite thickness of more than 14,500 m and consists of sedimentary and volcanic rocks that in places rest on granitic basement rocks of the Salinia terrane. Paleogene strata are mainly turbidite sandstone and hemipelagic mudstone that accu
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Richard G. Stanley
Review of paleomagnetic data from the Klamath Mountains, Blue Mountains, and Sierra Nevada; Implications for paleogeographic reconstructions
Paleomagnetic studies of the Klamath Mountains, Blue Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and northwestern Nevada pertain mostly to Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks, but some data also are available for Permian and Triassic rocks of the region. Large vertical-axis rotations are indicated for rocks in many of the terranes, but few studies show statistically significant latitudinal displacements. The most complet
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Edward A. Mankinen, William P. Irwin
Maps showing elevation of bedrock and implications for design of engineered structures to withstand earthquake shaking in San Mateo County, California
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W.H. Hensolt, E. E. Brabb
Preliminary maps showing landslide deposits and related features in New Mexico
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Mauro Cardinali, Fausto Guzzetti, Earl E. Brabb
Mineral resources of the Mount Pennell Wilderness Study Area, Garfield County, Utah
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Russell F. Dubiel, C. S. Bromfield, S. E. Church, W. M. Kemp, M. J. Larson, Fred Peterson, C. T. Pierson, D. D. Gese
The San Andreas Fault System, California
Maps of northern and southern California printed on flyleaf inside front cover and on adjacent pages show faults that have had displacement within the past 2 million years. Those that have had displacement within historical time are shown in red. Bands of red tint emphasize zones of historical displacement; bands of orange tint emphasize major faults that have had Quaternary displacement before hi
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Natural Hazards Mission Area, Earthquake Hazards Program, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Earthquake Science Center, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center