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Suggested nomenclature for landslides
The IAEG Commission on Landslides and other Mass Movements on Slopes has proposed English and French names for 19 identifiable features of slope movements and for 7 dimensions of those features. The Commission intends to publish this list in other languages and to supplement and revise it from time to time.
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D.M. Cruden, S. Novograd, G.A. Pilot, E. Krauter, R.K. Bhandari, V. Cotecchia, H. Nakamura, C.O. Okagbue, Zhang Zhuoyuan, J.N. Hutchinson, D. J. Varnes, G.I. Ter-Stepanian
Lava flow surface textures: SIR-B radar image texture, field observations, and terrain measurements
Space Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR-8) images, field observations, and small-scale (cm) terrain measurements are used to study lava flow surface textures related to emplacement processes of a single hawaiian lava flow. Although smooth pahoehoe textures are poorly characterized on the SIR-B data, rougher pahoehoe types and the a'a flow portion show image textures attributed to spatial variations in su
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Lisa R. Gaddis, Peter J. Mouginis-Mark, Joan N. Hayashi
Basal slip and mechanical anisotropy of biotite
The basal slip systems of biotite and their mechanical expressions have been investigated by shortening single crystals oriented to maximize and minimize shear stresses on (001). Samples loaded at 45° to (001) exhibit gentle external rotations associated with dislocation glide. High‐angle kink bands in these samples, unlike those developed in micas loaded parallel to (001), are limited to sample c
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A. K. Kronenberg, Stephen H. Kirby, John C. Pinkston
Investigating climate change by digital analysis of blue-ice extent on satellite images of Antarctica
Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper (TM) and SPOT data collected two years apart from an identical area of Dronning (Queen) Maud Land, Antarctica, have been analyzed to detect variations in surface features that may signal climatic change, and to establish a technique that readily identifies such changes. We found that selective principal component analysis (Chavez and Kwarteng 1989), on band ratios of near
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Olav Orheim, Baerbel K. Lucchitta
Hurricane impacts on the coastal environment
In terms of insured losses, Hurricane Andrew is the most severe catastrophe in the Nation's history. Prior to the arrival of Andrew, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Louisiana Geological Survey (LGS), acquired an extensive body of information and data on the behavior and long-term erosion of Louisiana barrier islands. As a result, we have a clear understanding of pre-stor
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Abby Sallenger
Influence of local geology in the San Francisco Bay region, California on ground motions generated by the Loma Prieta earthquake of October 17, 1989, Tokyo, Japan
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Roger D. Borcherdt
Monitoring the hydrologic system for potential effects of geothermal and ground-water development in the Long Valley caldera, Mono County, California, U.S.A.
In the early 1980's, renewed interest in the geothermal potential of the Long Valley caldera, California, highlighted the need to balance the benefits of energy development with the established recreational activities of the area. The Long Valley Hydrologic Advisory Committee, formed in 1987, instituted a monitoring program to collect data during the early stages of resource utilization to evaluat
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C. D. Farrar, D. L. Lyster
Lava domes modeled as brittle shells that enclose pressurized magma, with application to Mount St. Helens
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R. M. Iverson
Summary of geotechnical and hydrologic data collected through April 30, 1990, for the Alani-Paty Landslide, Manoa Valley, Honolulu, Hawaii
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R.L. Baum, S.R. Spengler, J.D. Torikai, L.A. Liu
Cincinnati landslide database
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R.L. Berknopf, R. H. Campbell, D.S. Brookshire, C.D. Shapiro
Multichannel seismic reflection surveys over the Antarctic continental margin relevant to petroleum resource studies
More than 100,000 km of marine multichannel seismic profiles have been acquired over the continental margin of Antarctica since 1976 by scientific research programs of Australia, Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, United Kingdom, United States, U.S.S.R. and West Germany. Although scientific results are reported for most of these data, they also are relevant to petroleum resource assessm
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John C. Behrendt