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Late Pleistocene through Holocene landscape evolution of the White River Badlands, South Dakota
Badlands are common arid and semiarid landscapes long recognized in slope development and erosion rate studies by preeminent geomorphologists including Gilbert, Davis, and Schumm. The trip described here will examine in detail Quaternarystrata and landscape evolution in arguably the most famous badlands, the White River Badlands of South Dakota, which were pivotal during development of vertebrate
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Patrick A. Burkhart, Jack Livingston, J. E. Rawling, Paul R. Hanson, Shannon A. Mahan, Rachel Benton, Erin Heffron, Michael Jahn, Travis Anderson, Bryan Page
Stable isotope tracing of temporal and spatial variability in organic matter sources to freshwater ecosystems
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Jacques C. Finlay, Carol Kendall
Tracing anthropogenic inputs of nitrogen to ecosystems
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Carol Kendall, Emily M. Elliott, Scott D. Wankel
Water quality
Sustainable water policy in California will require maintaining or improving water quality. The Delta is an important source of drinking water for Californians, but sustaining a quality sufficient for human and agricultural consumption presents a number of problems and challenges to water managers. Similarly, poor environmental water quality is recognized as one of the influential stressors contri
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Samuel N. Luoma, Susan Anderson, Brian A. Bergamaschi, Lisa Holm, Cathy Ruhl, David H. Schoellhamer, Robin Stewart
Making non-digitally-recorded seismograms accessible online for studying earthquakes
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W.H.K. Lee, R. Benson
Mining impacts on fish in the Clark Fork River, Montana: A field ecotoxicology case study
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Samuel N. Luoma, Johnnie N Moore, Aida Farag, Tracy H. Hillman, Daniel J. Cain, Michelle I. Hornberger
A decade of measuring, monitoring, and studying the fate and transport of triazine herbicides in groundwater, surface water, reservoirs, and precipitation by the U.S. Geological Survey
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E.M. Thurman, E.A. Scribner
Palaeoclimate
This chapter assesses palaeoclimatic data and knowledge of how the climate system changes over interannual to millennial time scales, and how well these variations can be simulated with climate models. Additional palaeoclimatic perspectives are included in other chapters. Palaeoclimate science has made significant advances since the 1970s, when a primary focus was on the origin of the ice ages, th
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Eystein Jansen, Jonathan Overpeck, Keith R. Briffa, Jean-Claude Duplessy, Fortunat Joos, Valerie Masson-Delmotte, Daniel Olago, Bette Otto-Bliesner, W. Richard Peltier, Stefan Rahmstorf, Rengaswamy Ramesh, Dominique Raynaud, David Rind, Olga Solomina, Ricardo Villalba, De'er Zhang, Jean-Marc Barnola, Eva M. Bauer, Esther Brady, Mark Chandler, Julia E. Cole, Edward R. Cook, Esla Cortijo, Trond Dokken, Dominik Fleitmann, Masa Kageyama, Myriam Khodri, Laurent Labeyrie, Alexander Laine, Anders Levermann, E. Mosley-Thompson, Daniel R. Muhs, Raimund Muscheler, Tim Osborn, Oyvind Paasche, Frederic Parrenin, Gian-Kasper Plattner, Henry Pollack, Renato Spahni, Lowell D. Stott, Lonnie Thompson, Claire Waelbroeck, Gregory Wiles, James Zachos, Zhangteng Guo
Neogene exhumation of the Tordrillo Mountains, Alaska, and correlations with Denali (Mount McKinley)
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Peter J. Haeussler, Paul J O'Sullivan, Aaron L Berger, James A Spotila
Cenozoic climate history from seismic reflection and drilling studies on the Antarctic continental margin
Seismic stratigraphic studies and scientific drilling of the Antarctic continental margin have yielded clues to the evolution of Cenozoic climates, depositional paleoenvironments and paleoceanographic conditions. This paper draws on studies of the former Antarctic Offshore Stratigraphy Project and others to review the geomorphic and lithostratigraphic offshore features that give insights into the
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Alan K. Cooper, Giuliano Brancolini, C. Escutia, Y. Kristoffersen, R.D. Larter, G. Leitchenkov, Philip O'Brien, Wilfried Jokat
Methane hydrates
Gas hydrate is a solid, naturally occurring substance consisting predominantly of methane gas and water. Recent scientific drilling programs in Japan, Canada, the United States, Korea and India have demonstrated that gas hydrate occurs broadly and in a variety of forms in shallow sediments of the outer continental shelves and in Arctic regions. Field, laboratory and numerical modelling studies con
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Ray Boswell, Koji Yamamoto, Sung-Rock Lee, Timothy S. Collett, Pushpendra Kumar, Scott Dallimore