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Origin of reverse-graded bedding in air-fall pumice, Coso Range, California
The origin of reverse grading in air-fall pyroclastic deposits has been ascribed to: (1) changing conditions at an erupting vent; (2) deposition in water; or (3) rolling of large clasts over smaller clasts on the surface of a steep slope. Structural features in a deposit of air-fall pumice lapilli in the Coso Range, California, indicate that reverse grading there formed by a fourth mechanism durin
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W. A. Duffield, C. R. Bacon, G.R. Roquemore
A computer-assisted graphical method for identification and correlation of igneous rock chemistries
We have devised a computer-assisted graphical method for correlating chemical analyses in suites of related igneous rocks. The method provides a direct and empirical means of sample identification using all of the reported chemistry. In a study of basalt of the Columbia River plateau, the method has been used for (1) checking field identifications of rocks, (2) spotting analytical errors in analys
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Thomas L. Wright, M.S. Hamilton
Mapped offset on the right-lateral Kern Canyon fault, southern Sierra Nevada, California
The north-trending Kern Canyon fault, the longest fault within the southern Sierra Nevada, has been mapped from lat 36°00′N to its northern end near lat 36°40′N. The fault cuts and offsets granitic plutons as young as 80 m.y., but despite the fact that many recent earthquake foci plot close to the fault, it does not appear to offset an overlying 3.5-m.y.-old basalt flow. Seven granitic plutons are
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James G. Moore, Edward A. du Bray
Reconnaissance geologic map and geochronology, Talkeetna Mountains quadrangle, northern part of Anchorage quadrangle, and southwest corner of Healy quadrangle, Alaska
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Bela Csejtey, W. H. Nelson, D. L. Jones, Norman J. Silberling, R. M. Dean, M.S. Morris, M. A. Lanphere, James G. Smith, M.L. Silberman
Interaction of meteoric waters with magmas of the Boulder Batholith, Montana
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Authors
Robert I. Tilling
High temperature heat content and heat capacity of silicate glasses: experimental determination and a model for calculation
Knowledge of the thermodynamic properties of silicate melts is fundamental to quantitative characterization of igneous systems. This paper presents new data on one of these properties, heat content, for silicate glasses and supercooled silicate liquids and derives partial molar heat contents for the glasses. The high temperature heat contents of two FeO-rich synthetic silicate glasses and five gla
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Charles R. Bacon
Composition and phase chemistry of sulfide globules in basalt from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge rift valley near 37°N lat
The electron microprobe was used to determine the bulk composition of immiscible sulfide globules trapped in the glass phase of 25 fresh submarine basalt samples from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Twenty-three samples represent a spectrum of primitive through differentiated tholeiites from the FAMOUS dive area; two are differentiated basalts from the Reykjanes Ridge. The analyzed globules range in diame
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G. Czamanske, James G. Moore
Compositional variations of young basalts in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge rift valley near lat 36°49′N
Fifty acoustically positioned samples of fresh basalt were collected by the submersible Alvin from the median valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge during the French American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study (FAMOUS) in the summer of 1974. The samples show regular compositional variations from the center of the rift valley (central lava flows) out to the rift valley walls (flank lava flows). The central lava s
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W.B. Bryan, James G. Moore
Earthquake-hazard map of the United States
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Sylvester Theodore Algermissen, David M. Perkins
Earthquake prediction: A perspective for a national program
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Authors
Peter L. Ward