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Cathodoluminescent bimineralic ooids from the Pleistocene of the Florida continental shelf

A bored and encrusted late Pleistocene ooid grainstone was recovered from the seafloor at a depth of approximately 40 m on the outer continental shelf of eastern Florida. Ooid cortices are dominantly bimineralic, generally consisting of inner layers of radial magnesian calcite and outer layers of tangential aragonite. Ooid nuclei are dominantly rounded cryptocrystalline grains, although quartz gr
Authors
R. P. Major, Robert B. Halley, Karen J. Lukas

Causes of two slope-failure types in continental-shelf sediment, northeastern Gulf of Alaska

Slumps and sediment-gravity flows have been identified in Holocene glaciomarine sediment on declivities less than 1.3 degrees on the Gulf of Alaska continental shelf. Geologic and geotechnical investigation suggest that the processes responsible for these slope failures are earthquake and storm-wave loading, coupled with cyclic degradation of the sediment-shear strength. We propose that the failur
Authors
William C. Schwab, Homa J. Lee

Causes of varied sediment gravity flow types on the Alsek Prodelta, northeast Gulf of Alaska

Slope failures and subsequent mass movements have been identified in Holocene glaciomarine sediment on declivities less than 1.3° on the Alsek prodelta, Gulf of Alaska. Isolated collapse features cover less than 10 percent of a nearshore sand deposit, in water depths less than 40 m. In contrast, sediment gravity flow deposits (disintegrative failures) cover more than 95 percent of a clayey silt de
Authors
William C. Schwab, Homa J. Lee, Bruce F. Molnia

Meers Fault, Oklahoma

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Authors
Henry Spall

Geologic and geotechnical conditions adjacent to the Turnagain Heights landslide, Anchorage, Alaska

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Authors
Randall G. Updike, H. W. Olsen, H. R. Schmoll, Y.K. Kharaka, K.H. Stokoe

Geologic and hydrologic investigations of a potential nuclear waste disposal site at Yucca Mountain, southern Nevada

Crustal velocity sections based on two seismic-refraction profiles are presented for the area west of Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada. The Crater Flat profile is interpreted in terms of six velocity layers ranging from 1.5 to 6.1 km/s. Interpretation of the Beatty profile reveals an escarpment near the northeast edge of Bare Mountain, where Paleozoic rocks are probably down-faulted 2600 m into