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Average topography, isostatic residual gravity, and aeromagnetic maps of the Parkfield region, California

No abstract available.
Authors
Robert W. Simpson, R.C. Jachens, Carl M. Wentworth
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

Strontium

No abstract available.
Authors
J.A. Ober
By
Mineral Resources Program, National Minerals Information Center

Magnesite

No abstract available.
Authors
D.A. Kramer
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Mineral Resources Program, National Minerals Information Center

Studies of geology and hydrology in the Basin and Range province, southwestern United States, for isolation of high-level radioactive waste: Characterization of the Sonoran region, California

No abstract available.
Authors
Marion S. Bedinger, K. A. Sargent, William H. Langer
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Mineral Resources Program

Oligocene and Miocene paleogeography of central California and displacement along the San Andreas fault

Recently completed sedimentologic and petrologic studies of Oligocene and Miocene strata in the Temblor Range (San Joaquin basin) and Santa Cruz Mountains (La Honda basin) permit detailed reconstructions of paleogeography, as well as new estimates of displacement along the San Andreas fault. During the Oligocene and Miocene, the San Joaquin and La Honda basins were contiguous. The southwestern mar
Authors
S.A. Graham, Richard G. Stanley, J. V. Bent, J. B. Carter
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

Mechanisms of Cenozoic tectonic rotation, Pacific Northwest Convergent Margin, U.S.A.

Large clockwise rotations (15–80°) are characteristic of Cenozoic volcanic and sedimentary rocks along the convergent margin of the northwestern United States. Abundant paleomagnetic data from 62–12 m.y. old rocks in forearc, arc, and backarc regions show that rotation increases with age and with proximity to the coast. Paleomagnetic and structural studies both support dextral shear as a significa
Authors
Ray E. Wells
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

Paleomagnetism and tectonic rotation of the lower Miocene Peach Springs Tuff: Colorado Plateau, Arizona, to Barstow, California

We have determined remanent magnetization directions of the lower Miocene Peach Springs Tuff at 41 localities in western Arizona and southeastern California. An unusual northeast and shallow magnetization direction confirms the proposed geologic correlation of isolated outcrops of the tuff from the Colorado Plateau to Barstow, California, a distance of 350 km. The Peach Springs Tuff was apparently
Authors
Ray E. Wells, John W. Hillhouse
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

Correlation of Miocene flows of the Columbia River Basalt Group from the central Columbia River Plateau to the coast of Oregon and Washington

Nearly twenty flows of the Columbia River Basalt Group (CRBG) can be paleomagnetically and chemically correlated westward as far as 500 km from the Columbia Plateau in Washington, through the Columbia Gorge, to the Coast Range of Oregon and Washington. In the Coast Range near Cathlamet, Washington, the CRBG flow stratigraphy includes 10 flows of Grande Ronde Basalt (1 low-MgO R2 flow, 6 low-MgO N2
Authors
Ray E. Wells, R. W. Simpson, R. D. Bentley, Melvin H. Beeson, Margaret T. Mangan, Thomas L. Wright
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

Paleomagnetic study of the Eastern Klamath terrane, California, and implications for the tectonic history of the Klamath Mountains Province

Paleomagnetic study of Permian through Jurassic volcanic and sedimentary strata of the Eastern Klamath terrane has shown the remanent magnetization of many of these rocks to be prefolding and most likely primary. Similarities in magnetic declinations recorded by coeval strata over a broad area are consistent with the hypothesis that the terrane, in general, has behaved as a single rigid block. Pal
Authors
Edward A. Mankinen, William P. Irwin, C. Sherman Grommé
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

Minimum earthquake magnitude associated with coseismic surface faulting

No abstract available.
Authors
Manuel G. Bonilla
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

Pb isotopic evidence for the formation of Proterozoic crust in the southwestern United States

No abstract available.
Authors
J. L. Wooden, J. S. Stacey, Keith A. Howard, B. R. Doe, D. M. Miller
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

New and revised lithostratigraphic units from the southwestern New England Fold Belt

New and revised lithostratigraphic units are recognized in northern New South Wales. New lithostatigraphic units are: Cara Formation, Whitlow Formation, Bobs Creek Formation, Nangahrah Formation, and Dinoga Formation. Revision of the Woolomin beds to Woolomin Group and Woodsreef Melange is proposed.
Authors
M. Clark Blake, B. Murchey
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center