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Electronic thermal sensor and Data Collection Platform technology: Part 5 in Thermal surveillance of active volcanoes using the Landsat-1 Data Collection System

Five Data Collection Platforms (DCP) were integrated electronically with thermall sensing systems, emplaced and operated in an analog mode at selected thermally significant volcanic and geothermal sites. The DCP's transmitted 3260 messages comprising 26,080 ambient, surface, and near-surface temperature records at an accuracy of ±1.15 °C for 1121 instrument days between November 14, 1972 and April
Authors
Duane M. Preble, Jules D. Friedman, David Frank

Rise of a variable-viscosity fluid in a steadily spreading wedge-shaped conduit with accreting walls

Relatively rigid plates making up the outer 50 to 100 km of the Earth are steadily separating from one another along narrow globe-circling zones of submarine volcanism, the oceanic spreading centers. Continuity requires that the viscous underlying material rise beneath spreading centers and accrete onto the steadily diverging plates. It is likely that during the rise the viscosity changes systemat
Authors
Arthur H. Lachenbruch, Manuel Nathenson

Geologic interpretation of an aeromagnetic map of the west-central Columbia Plateau, Washington and Oregon

A low altitude, total intensity aeromagnetic map of the ?west-central Columbia Plateau, underlain principally by the Yakima Basalt,. shows Positive and negative anomalies that stand out from a moderate intensity .background reflecting .interbedded flows of normal and reversed magnetic polarity. One set of anomalies is related to anticlinal ridges, nother follows the traces of known or inferred fau
Authors
Donald A. Swanson, Thomas L. Wright, Isidore Zietz

Chemical compositions of Kilauea east-rift lava, 1968–1971

The major element chemical compositions of lava from four eruptions on the east rift zone of Kilauea between August 1968 and October 1971 reflect three petrologic processes:Production of chemically distinct batches of magma in the mantle.Separation of olivine, augite, and plagioclase from liquid during flow in the rift-zone conduits.Mixing of different magmas during ascent to the surface.Chemicall
Authors
Thomas L. Wright, Don Swanson, Wendell A. Duffield