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Holocene sedimentary architecture and paleoclimate variability at Mono Lake, California
Mono Lake occupies an internally drained basin on the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada, and it is sensitive to climatic changes affecting precipitation in the mountains (largely delivered in the form of snowpack). Efforts to recover cores from the lake have been impeded by coarse tephra erupted from the Mono Craters, and by disruption of the lake floor due to the uplift of Paoha Island ~300 yr a
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Susan H Zimmerman, Sidney R. Hemming, Scott W. Starratt
Rare earth element deposits in China: A review and new understandings
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Yuling Xie, Philip Verplanck, Zengqian Hou, Richen Zhong
Earthquakes, ShakeMap
ShakeMap® is an open-source software program employed to automatically produce a suite of maps and products that portray the geographical extent and severity of potentially damaging shaking following an earthquake. ShakeMap’s primary purpose is to provide post-earthquake situational awareness for emergency management and response as well as damage and loss estimation. The availability of ShakeMaps
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David J. Wald, Charles Worden, Eric M. Thompson, Mike Hearne
Aquatic cycling of mercury
This chapter examines crucial processes in the aquatic cycling of mercury (Hg) that may lead to microbial production of neurotoxic and bioaccumulative methylmercury (MeHg), and highlights environmental conditions in the Everglades that make it ideal for MeHg production and bioaccumulation. The role of complexation of Hg2+ in surface water, especially by dissolved organic matter (DOM), in the trans
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William H. Orem, David P. Krabbenhoft, Brett Poulin, George A Aiken
Sulfur contamination in the Everglades, a major control on mercury methylation
In this chapter sulfur contamination of the Everglades and its role as a major control on methylmercury (MeHg) production is examined. Sulfate concentrations over large portions of the Everglades (60% of the ecosystem) are elevated or greatly elevated compared to background conditions of <1 mg/L. Land and water management practices in south Florida are the primary reason for the high levels of sul
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William H. Orem, David P. Krabbenhoft, Brett Poulin, George Aiken
Seabirds
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Patrick Jodice, Evan Adams, Juliet S. Lamb, Yvan Satgé, Jeffrey S. Gleason
Pyritization history in the middle to upper Cambrian Alum Shale, Scania Sweden: Evidence for ongoing diagenetic processes
Detailed diagenetic studies of the late Cambrian Alum Shale in southern Sweden were undertaken across an interval that includes the peak Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion (SPICE) event to evaluate the pyrite mineralization history in the formation. Samples were collected from the Andrarum-3 core (Scania, Sweden); here the Alum was deposited in the distal, siliciclastic mudstone-rich end
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Neil S. Fishman, Sven O. Egenhoff, Heather A. Lowers, Adam Boehlke, Per Ahlberg
Tradition and science chronicle Pele's unyielding power
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James P. Kauahikaua
A shrubbier future: Forest transformation in the eastern Jemez Mountains
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Craig D. Allen
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is the remote elemental analysis technique used by the ChemCam instrument on the Curiosity rover. LIBS involves remotely ablating material from rocks and soils with a focused high-energy laser, which generates an optically excited plasma from which the elements in the rock or soil sample are quantitatively determined. The LIBS technique offers many advan
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Samuel M. Clegg, Ryan Anderson, Noureddine Melikechi
Historical range and variation (HRV)
Fire-prone landscapes are experiencing rapid and potentially persistent changes as the result of complex and potentially novel interactions of anthropogenic climate changes, shifting fire regimes, exotic plant, insect, and pathogen invasions, and industrial, agricultural, and urban development. Are these landscapes fully departed from historical conditions? Should they be managed as novel environ
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Robert Keane, Rachel A. Loehman
Simultaneous autoregressive (SAR) model
Simultaneous autoregressive (SAR) models are useful for accommodating various forms of dependence among data that have discrete support in a space of interest. These models are often specified hierarchically as mixed-effects regression models with first-moment structure controlled by a conventional linear regression term and second-moment structure induced by correlated random effects. In their ge
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Mevin Hooten, Jay M. Ver Hoef, Ephraim M. Hanks