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Distribution and tsunamigenic potential of submarine landslides in the Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is a geologically diverse ocean basin that includes three distinct geologic provinces: a carbonate province, a salt province, and canyon to deep-sea fan province, all of which contain evidence of submarine mass movements. The threat of submarine landslides in the GOM as a generator of near-field damaging tsunamis has not been widely addressed. Submarine landslides in the G
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Jason D. Chaytor, David C. Twichell, Patrick Lynett, Eric L. Geist
High resolution near-bed observations in winter near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Science Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, is leading an effort to understand the regional sediment dynamics along the coastline of North and South Carolina. As part of the Carolinas Coastal Change Processes Project, a geologic framework study in June of 2008 by the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center's Sea Floor Mapping Group focused
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Marinna A. Martini, Brandy N. Armstrong, John C. Warner
Tsunami simulations of the 1867 Virgin Island earthquake: Constraints on epicenter location and fault parameters
The 18 November 1867 Virgin Island earthquake and the tsunami that closely followed caused considerable loss of life and damage in several places in the northeast Caribbean region. The earthquake was likely a manifestation of the complex tectonic deformation of the Anegada Passage, which cuts across the Antilles island arc between the Virgin Islands and the Lesser Antilles. In this article, we att
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Roy Barkan, Uri S. ten Brink
Complexities in barrier island response to sea level rise: Insights from numerical model experiments, North Carolina Outer Banks
Using a morphological-behavior model to conduct sensitivity experiments, we investigate the sea level rise response of a complex coastal environment to changes in a variety of factors. Experiments reveal that substrate composition, followed in rank order by substrate slope, sea level rise rate, and sediment supply rate, are the most important factors in determining barrier island response to sea l
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Laura J. Moore, Jeffrey H. List, S. Jeffress Williams, David Stolper
A versatile suite of laboratory-nonspecific software for processing sediment grain-size data
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Lawrence J. Poppe, Andrew H. Eliason, Katherine Y. McMullen
Serving ocean model data on the cloud
The NOAA-led Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) and the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative Cyberinfrastructure Project (OOI-CI) are collaborating on a prototype data delivery system for numerical model output and other gridded data using cloud computing. The strategy is to take an existing distributed system for delivering gridded data and redeploy on the cloud, making modifications t
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Michael Meisinger, Claudiu Farcas, Emilia Farcas, Charles Alexander, Matthew Arrott, Jeff de La Beaujardiere, Paul Hubbard, Roy Mendelssohn, Richard P. Signell
NetCDF-CF-OPeNDAP: Standards for ocean data interoperability and object lessons for community data standards processes
It is generally recognized that meeting society's emerging environmental science and management needs will require the marine data community to provide simpler, more effective and more interoperable access to its data. There is broad agreement, as well, that data standards are the bedrock upon which interoperability will be built. The path that would bring the marine data community to agree upon a
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Steven C. Hankin, Jon D. Blower, Thierry Carval, Kenneth S. Casey, Craig Donlon, Olivier Lauret, Thomas Loubrieu, Ashwanth Srinivasan, Joaquin Trinanes, Øystein Godøy, Roy Mendelssohn, Richard P. Signell, Jeff de La Beaujardiere, Peter Cornillon, Frederique Blanc, Russ Rew, Jack Harlan
Ocean and coastal data management
We introduce data management concepts, including what we mean by "data" and its "management," sources of data, interoperability, and data geometry. We then discuss various components of a data management system. Finally, we summarize some existing ocean and coastal data management efforts. We make specific recommendations throughout the paper. We are generally optimistic that ocean and coastal dat
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Jeff de La Beaujardière, C Beegle-Krause, Luis Bermudez, Steven C. Hankin, Lisa Hazard, Eoin Howlett, Steven Le, Roger Proctor, Richard P. Signell, Derrick P. Snowden, Julie Thomas
Standard-target calibration of an acoustic backscatter system
The standard-target method used to calibrate scientific echo sounders and other scientific sonars by a single, solid elastic sphere is being adapted to acoustic backscatter (ABS) systems. Its first application, to the AQUAscat 1000, is described. The on-axis sensitivity and directional properties of transducer beams at three operating frequencies, nominally 1, 2.5, and 4 MHz, have been determined
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Kenneth G. Foote, Marinna A. Martini
Chemical and isotopic signature of bulk organic matter and hydrocarbon biomarkers within mid-slope accretionary sediments of the northern Cascadia margin gas hydrate system
The chemical and isotopic compositions of sedimentary organic matter (SOM) from two mid-slope sites of the northern Cascadia margin were investigated during Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 311 to elucidate the organic matter origins and identify potential microbial contributions to SOM. Gas hydrate is present at both locations (IODP Sites U1327 and U1328), with distinct pattern
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Masanori Kaneko, Hiroshi Shingai, John W. Pohlman, Hiroshi Naraoka
A model for Iapetan rifting of Laurentia based on Neoproterozoic dikes and related rocks
Geologic evidence of the Neoproterozoic rifting of Laurentia during breakup of Rodinia is recorded in basement massifs of the cratonic margin by dike swarms, volcanic and plutonic rocks, and rift-related clastic sedimentary sequences. The spatial and temporal distribution of these geologic features varies both within and between the massifs but preserves evidence concerning the timing and nature o
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William C. Burton, Scott Southworth
The Nation's top 25 construction aggregates producers
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Jason Christopher Willett