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Nanoparticles formed from bacterial oxyanion reduction of toxic Group 15 and 16 metalloids
This chapter presents some examples of nanoparticles formed by only a few microbial species that are cultivated in only a handful of laboratories worldwide. The investigations so far have just scratched the surface of the potential of the natural world to yield bionanomineral producers. While future research should involve screening surveys of the prokaryotes for this biomineralizing phenomenon, m
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C.I. Pearce, S. Baseman, J.W. Fellowes, Ronald S. Oremland
Hydrology and biogeochemistry linkages
This chapter provides an overview of the linkages between hydrology and biogeochemistry in terrestrial and aquatic systems. Selected topics include hydrological pathways on drainage basin slopes, mountain environments, within-river (or in-stream) processes, wetlands, groundwater (and groundwater–surface water interactions), and lakes. Beginning from catchment headwaters, This chapter introduces me
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Norman E. Peters, J. K. Bohlke, P. D. Brooks, T.P. Burt, Michael N. Gooseff, David P. Hamilton, P. J. Mulholland, Nigel Roulet, J.V. Turner
The Edwardsburg Formation and related rocks, Windermere Supergroup, central Idaho, USA
In central Idaho, Neoproterozoic stratified rocks are engulfed by the Late Cretaceous Idaho batholith and by Eocene volcanic and plutonic rocks of the Challis event. Studied sections in the Gospel Peaks and Big Creek areas of west-central Idaho are in roof pendants of the Idaho batholith. A drill core section studied from near Challis, east-central Idaho, lies beneath the Challis Volcanic Group an
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Karen Lund, John N. Aleinikoff, Karl V. Evans
Patch reefs: Lidar morphometric analysis
Alina Reef is one of several thousand patch reefs that lie across the shallow carbonate platform seaward of Hawk Channel off the northern Florida Keys. The site is near the northern latitudinal fringe of the late Holocene western Atlantic coral reef distribution (Figure 1). The area is covered by calcareous sand and discontinuous Thalassia testudinum seagrass meadows and is studded with numerous s
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John Brock, Monica Palaseanu-Lovejoy
Introduction: An ecoregional assessment of the Wyoming Basins
The Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment (WBEA) area in the western United States contains a number of important land cover types, including nearly one-fourth of the sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) in North America. Although relatively unappreciated until recent decades, the broad open landscapes dominated by sagebrush communities have received increasing attention for their ecological value and the r
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Steven T. Knick, Steve E. Hanser, Matthias Leu, Cameron L. Aldridge, Michael J. Wisdom
Deep rock damage in the San Andreas Fault revealed by P- and S-type fault-zone-guided waves
Damage to fault-zone rocks during fault slip results in the formation of a channel of low seismic-wave velocities. Within such channels guided seismic waves, denoted by Fg, can propagate. Here we show with core samples, well logs and Fg-waves that such a channel is crossed by the SAFOD (San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth) borehole at a depth of 2.7 km near Parkfield, California, USA. This lat
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William L. Ellsworth, Peter E. Malin
Geoinformatics in the public service: Building a cyberinfrastructure across the geological surveys
Advanced information technology infrastructure is increasingly being employed in the Earth sciences to provide researchers with efficient access to massive central databases and to integrate diversely formatted information from a variety of sources. These geoinformatics initiatives enable manipulation, modeling and visualization of data in a consistent way, and are helping to develop integrated Ea
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M. Lee Allison, Linda C. Gundersen, Stephen M. Richard
Chapter 1: Study area description
The boundary for the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment (WBEA) was largely determined by the co-occurrence of some of the largest tracts of intact sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) remaining in the western United States with areas of increasing resource extraction. The WBEA area includes two ecoregions in their entirety, Wyoming Basins and Utah-Wyoming Rocky Mountains, and portions of two others (Sout
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Mary M. Rowland, Matthias Leu