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Decomposition of AVIRIS spectra: Extraction of spectral reflectance, atmospheric, and instrumental components

Presents techniques that use only information contained within a raw, high-spectral-resolution, hyperspectral Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) scene to estimate and remove additive components (atmospheric scattering and instrument dark current). These techniques allow normalization of multiplicative components (instrument gain, topography, atmospheric transmission) and enhan
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Lisa R. Gaddis, Laurence A. Soderblom, Hugh H. Kieffer, Kris J. Becker, James M. Torson, Kevin F. Mullins

Quake Forecasting- An Emerging Capability

No abstract available.
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Andrew Michael, Paul Reasenberg, Peter H. Stauffer, James W. Hendley

Hydrologic data for Long Valley Caldera, Mono County, California, 1987-93

Hydrologic data were collected during 1987-93 as part of the U.S. Geological Survey's long-term Volcanic Hazards Monitoring Program of the Long Valley Caldera, Mono County, California. The data are presented in graphs or tables. Data collected for the Long Valley Hydrologic Advisory Committee monitoring program also are presented. Hydrologic data collected include continuous record of ground-water
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J. F. Howle, C. D. Farrar

Breaching the levee of a channel on the Mississippi Fan

GLORIA images of the youngest channel on the Mississippi Fan indicate that it has not been a stable feature, but instead has shifted its course several times. A detailed study of a site of channel shifting found a complex stratigraphy that resulted from one episode of channel avulsion. The channel avulsion appears to have been initiated by a large mass flow that choked the channel below the point
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David C. Twichell, William C. Schwab, Neil H. Kenyon, Homa J. Lee

Gull of Mexico and Caribbean EEZ: Part III

No abstract available.
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David C. Twichell, Kathryn M. Scanlon, William P. Dillon

The stable oxygen and carbon isotopic record from a coral growing in Florida Bay: a 160 year record of climatic and anthropogenic influence

A 160 year record of skeletal δ13C and δ18O was examined in a specimen of the coral Solenastrea bournonigrowing in Florida Bay. Variations in the δ18O of the skeleton can be correlated to changes in salinity while changes in the δ13C reflect cycling of organic material within the Bay. Based on the correlation between salinity and skeletal δ18O, we have concluded that there has been no long term in
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Peter K. Swart, Genevieve F. Healy, Richard E. Dodge, Philip Kramer, J. Harold Hudson, Robert B. Halley, Michael B. Robblee

Tectonics and seismicity of the southern Washington Cascade range

Geophysical, geological, and seismicity data are combined to develop a transpressional strain model for the southern Washington Cascades region. We use this model to explain oblique fold and fault systems, transverse faults, and a linear seismic zone just west of Mt. Rainier known as the western Rainier zone. We also attempt to explain a concentration of earthquakes that connects the northwest-tre
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W. D. Stanley, S. Y. Johnson, A.I. Qamar, C. S. Weaver, J. M. Williams

Landslides triggered by the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake

The 17 January 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake (Mw = 6.7) triggered more than 11,000 landslides over an area of about 10,000 km2. Most of the landslides were concentrated in a 1000-km2 area that included the Santa Susana Mountains and the mountains north of the Santa Clara River valley. We mapped landslides triggered by the earthquake in the field and from 1:60,000-nominal-scale aerial pho
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E. L. Harp, R. W. Jibson
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