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Planning considerations for recording the next major earthquake in California
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Authors
Roger D. Borcherdt, B. A. Bolt
Geomorphologic evidence for ground ice on Mars
For ground ice to exist on Mars, two conditions have to be met. One is the presence of permafrost; the second is the availability of water. Because the mean temperature of Mars’surface is − 80 C., permafrost 1–3 km thick occurs over the entire planet. Remote-sensing measurements suggest that water presently exists in the atmosphere and in the polar caps; frost has been observed at the Viking landi
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Baerbel K. Lucchitta
Landslides and related features, West Virginia and Ohio; Charleston 1° by 2° sheet
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Gregory C. Ohlmacher
Landslides and related features, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky; Huntington
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Authors
William E. Davies, Vernon Mast, Gregory C. Ohlmacher
Reconnaissance landslide map of the Healdsburg 15-minute Quadrangle, Sonoma County, California
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Carl M. Wentworth
Report on recommended list of structures for seismic instrumentation in San Bernardino County, California
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G. Brady, Mehmet Çelebi, C. Rojahn, Wilfred Iwan, G. Hart, G. Pardoen, L. Schoelkopf, R. Haskell, K. Topping, Erdal Safak, R.P. Maley
Description and preliminary testing of the CDSN Seismic Sensor Systems
The China Digital Seismograph Network (CDSN) is being designed and installed to provide the People's Republic of China with the facilities needed to create a national digital database for earthquake research. The CDSN, which is being developed jointly by the PRC State Seismological Bureau and the U.S. Geological Survey, will consist initially of nine digitally-recording seismograph stations, a dat
Authors
Jon Peterson, Edwin E. Tilgner
Landslides and debris flows east of Mount Pleasant, Utah, 1983 and 1984
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Authors
E.W. Lips
The Steens Mountain (Oregon) geomagnetic polarity transition: 1. Directional history, duration of episodes, and rock magnetism
The thick sequence of Miocene lava flows exposed on Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon is well known for containing a detailed record of a reversed‐to‐normal geomagnetic polarity transition. Paleomagnetic samples were obtained from the sequence for a combined study of the directional and intensity variations recorded; the paleointensity study is reported in a companion paper. This effort has r
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Edward A. Mankinen, M. Prevot, C. Sherman Grommé, Robert S. Coe
The Steens Mountain (Oregon) geomagnetic polarity transition, 2. Field intensity variations and discussion of reversal models
We carried out an extensive paleointensity study of the 15.5±0.3 m.y. Miocene reversed‐to‐normal polarity transition recorded in lava flows from Steens Mountain (south central Oregon). One hundred eighty‐five samples from the collection whose paleodirectional study is reported by Mankinen et al. (this issue) were chosen for paleointensity investigations because of their low viscosity index, high C
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M. Prevot, Edward A. Mankinen, Robert S. Coe, C. Sherman Grommé
Use of strontium isotopes to constrain the timing and mode of dolomitization of upper Cenozoic sediments in a core from San Salvador, Bahamas
The 87Sr/86Sr ratios and the activity ratios of 234U/238U and 230Th/238U have been measured in dolomites from a 168-m-deep core taken on the island of San Salvador, Bahamas. These data suggest two periods of dolomitization. The first episode dolomitized Miocene age sediments during the latest Miocene, and the second dolomitized the Pliocene portion of the core and was still active as recently as 1
Authors
Peter K. Swart, Joaquin Ruiz, Charles W. Holmes
Occurrence and preservation of Eocene squamariacean and coralline rhodoliths: Eau, Tonga
A widespread rhodolith facies occurs within middle Eocene limestones of Eua, Tonga (Fig. 1). These limestones, first described by Hoffmeister (1932), represent a portion of a broad, early Tertiary platform that developed in the Tonga area prior to disruption and uplift by later Tertiary plate movements (Kroenke and Tongilava 1975). Algal rhodoliths form beds several meters thick within Eocene lime
Authors
Binyamin Buchbinder, Robert B. Halley