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Socioeconomic and environmental impacts of landslides in the Western Hemisphere
In spite of improvements in recognition, prediction, mitigative measures, and warning systems, economic losses and casualties due to landslides in the Western Hemisphere appear to be growing as a result of increasing development of landslide-prone areas due to population pressures. This paper notes outstanding examples of socioeconomic losses in the Americas.
Landslides impact the following ele
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Robert L. Schuster, Lynn M. Highland
Preliminary compilation of data for selected oil test wells in Northern California
Oil test wells can provide information on the depth, age, inclination, porosity, permeability, density, faulting, folding, and organic content of geologic formations mapped at the surface, or on units not recognized in surface outcrops. Formation density, as expressed in sonic and density logs commonly obtained when wells are drilled, has become increasingly important in making a crustal-scale 3-D
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Earl E. Brabb, Charles L. Powell, Thomas M. Brocher
Field observations of swash zone flow patterns and 3D morphodynamics
Rapid video measurements of foreshore morphology and velocity were collected at Duck, NC in 1997 to investigate sediment transport processes in the swash zone. Estimates of foreshore evolution over a roughly 30 m cross-shore by 80 m alongshore study area were determined using a stereogrammetric technique. During the passage of a small storm (offshore wave heights increased from 1.4 to 2.5 m), the
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Jack A. Puelo, K. Todd Holland, Timothy N. Kooney, Asbury H. Sallenger,
Microbial lime-mud production and its relation to climate change
Microbial calcification has been identified as a significant source of carbonate sediment production in modern marine and lacustrine environments around the globe. This process has been linked to the production of modern whitings and large, micritic carbonate deposits throughout the geologic record. Furthermore, carbonate deposits believed to be the result of cyanobacterial and microalgal calcific
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K. K. Yates, L. L. Robbins
The Florida Everglades ecosystem: climatic and anthropogenic impacts over the last two millennia
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Debra A. Willard, Charles W. Holmes, Lisa M. Weimer
Integrated strategy urged to address coastal contamination issues
Coastal bays and estuaries are well known for their intrinsic recreational and economic value, yet these ecosystems are also among our most troubled natural environments. Urban development, agriculture, and shipping are just a few examples of human activities that can cause a wide range of deleterious changes within the coastal environment. These alterations, however, occur simultaneously with cyc
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Peter W. Swarzenski, Keith A. Kvenvolden, Arthur J. Horowitz, Marilyn R. Buchholtz ten Brink
Quantifying hurricane-induced coastal changes using topographic lidar
USGS and NASA are investigating the impacts of hurricanes on the United States East and Gulf of Mexico coasts with the ultimate objective of improving predictive capabilities. The cornerstone of our effort is to use topographic lidar to acquire pre- and post-storm topography to quantify changes to beaches and dunes. With its rapidity of acquisition and very high density, lidar is revolutionizing t
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Asbury H. Sallenger,, William Krabill, Robert Swift, John Brock
Use of rotating side-scan sonar to measure bedload
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D. M. Rubin, G. B. Tate, D.J. Topping, R. A. Anima
Field evidence of subsidence and faulting induced by hydrocarbon production in coastal southeast Texas
Three large, mature hydrocarbon fields in coastal southeast Texas were examined to evaluate competing hypotheses of wetland losses and to characterize subaerial and submerged surfaces near reactivated faults and zones of subsidence. Detailed topographic and bathymetric profiles and shallow cores at the Port Neches, Clam Lake, and Caplen Fields provide a basis for distinguishing between (1) extensi
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Robert A. Morton, Noreen A. Purcell, Russell L. Peterson
How are climate and marine biological outbreaks functionally linked?
Since the mid-1970s, large-scale episodic events such as disease epidemics, mass mortalities, harmful algal blooms and other population explosions have been occurring in marine environments at an historically unprecedented rate. The variety of organisms involved (host, pathogens and other opportunists) and the absolute number of episodes have also increased during this period. Are these changes co
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Marshall L. Hayes, Joseph Bonaventura, Todd P. Mitchell, Joseph M. Prospero, Eugene A. Shinn, Frances Van Dolah, Richard T. Barber