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Tapping the Earth's natural heat
T he Earth is a bountiful source of heat. It continuously produces heat at depth, primarily by the decay of naturally radioactive chemical elements (principally uranium, thorium, and potassium) that occur in small amounts in all rocks. This deep heat then rises toward the cooler surface, where scientists can measure the rate of its escape through the Earth's crust. The annual heat loss from the Ea
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Wendell A. Duffield, J. H. Sass, M. L. Sorey
Abstracts of the eighth international conference on Geochronology, cosmochronology, and isotope geology
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Marvin A. Lanphere, G. Brent Dalrymple, Brent D. Turrin
Eruptive history and petrology of Mount Drum volcano, Wrangell Mountains, Alaska
Mount Drum is one of the youngest volcanoes in the subduction-related Wrangell volcanic field (80x200 km) of southcentral Alaska. It lies at the northwest end of a series of large, andesite-dominated shield volcanoes that show a northwesterly progression of age from 26 Ma near the Alaska-Yukon border to about 0.2 Ma at Mount Drum. The volcano was constructed between 750 and 250 ka during at least
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D.H. Richter, E. J. Moll-Stalcup, T. P. Miller, M. A. Lanphere, G. B. Dalrymple, R. L. Smith
Stream-channel changes in response to volcanic detritus under natural and augmented discharge, South Coldwater Creek, Washington
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D. F. Meyer
Russian volcanic eruption disrupts north pacific air traffic: Alaska Volcano Observatory fact sheet
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Thomas P. Miller, Vladimir Yu. Kirianov, H. Lee Kelley
Publications of the Branch of Atlantic Marine Geology for Calendar Year 1993
This U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report [extract] contains a listing of publications authored or co-authored by members of the Branch of Atlantic Marine Geology and published in calendar year 1993. The Branch conducts a broad geologic and geophysical research and mapping program, primarily along the U.S. Atlantic Margin, in the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and polar regions.
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Margaret C. Mons-Wengler, Robert N. Oldale
Hydrologic hazards at Alaska volcanoes?Chakachatna River Basin near Crater Peak, Spurr Volcano
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J.M. Dorava, C. F. Waythomas
Routine processing of seismic hypocentral data using personal computers
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T.L. Murray
Preliminary map showing quaternary faults and landslides in the Cliff Lake 15' quadrangle, Madison County, Montana
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J. M. O'Neill, T. H. LeRoy, Paul E. Carrara
Analysis of the origin of landslides in the New Madrid seismic zone
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R. W. Jibson, D. K. Keefer
Chapter C. The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989 - Fire, police, transportation and hazardous materials
The papers in this chapter discuss some of the failures and successes that resulted from the societal response by a multitude of agencies to the Loma Prieta earthquake. Some of the lessons learned were old ones relearned. Other lessons were obvious ones which had gone unnoticed. Still, knowledge gained from past earthquakes spawned planning and mitigation efforts which proved to be successful in l
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Charles R. Scawthorn
Chapter A. The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989 - Loss estimation and procedures
This Professional Paper includes a collection of papers on subjects ranging from evaluation of building safety, to human injuries, to correlation of ground deformation with building damage. What these papers share is a common goal to improve the tools available to the research community to measure the nature, extent, and causes of damage and losses due to earthquakes. These measurement tools are c