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The Loma Prieta, California, earthquake of October 17, 1989: Landslides

Central California, in the vicinity of San Francisco and Monterey Bays, has a history of fatal and damaging landslides, triggered by heavy rainfall, coastal and stream erosion, construction activity, and earthquakes. The great 1906 San Francisco earthquake (MS=8.2-8.3) generated more than 10,000 landslides throughout an area of 32,000 km2; these landslides killed at least 11 people and caused subs
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David K. Keefer, Michael W. Manson, Gary B. Griggs, Nathaniel Plant, Robert L. Schuster, Gerald F. Wieczorek, David G. Hope, Edwin Harp, J. M. Nolan, Gerald E. Weber, William F. Cole, Dale R. Marcum, Patrick O. Shires, Bruce R. Clark

Assessment of acreage and vegetation change in Florida's Big Bend tidal wetlands using satellite imagery

Fluctuations in sea level and impending development on the west coast of Florida have aroused concern for the relatively pristine tidal marshes of the Big Bend. Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) images for 1986 and 1995 are processed and evaluated for signs of change. The images cover 250 km of Florida's Big Bend Gulf Coast, encompassing 160,000 acres of tidal marshes. Change is detected using the norm
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Ellen A. Raabe, Richard P. Stumpf

Eocene-Oligocene sea-level changes on the New Jersey coastal plain linked to the deep-sea record

We use magnetostratigraphy and Sr-isotope stratigraphy to improve stratigraphic control for the Eocene to Oligocene of the New Jersey coastal plain (ACGS4 borehole). Magnetostratigraphy in many cases is complicated in outcrop sections of shallow-water (<200 m paleodepth) sediments by low remanence and weathering; we minimize these problems by analyzing large samples obtained from the ACGS4 borehol
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Kenneth G. Miller, Dennis V. Kent, Andrew N. Brower, Laurel M. Bybell, Mark D. Feigenson, Richard K. Olsson, Richard Z. Poore

Correlation of the middle eocene Kellogg Shale of northern California

The Kellogg Shale of northern California has traditionally been considered to be late Eocene in age on the basis of benthic foraminifer, radiolarian, and diatom correlations. The 30-m-thick Kellogg section exposed west of Byron, California, however, contains middle Eocene planktonic foraminifers (Zone P12), coccoliths (Subzones CP13c and CP14a), silicoflagellates (Dictyocha hexacantha Zone), and d
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John A. Barron, David Bukry, Richard Z. Poore