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Pragmatically mapping Phragmites with unoccupied aerial systems: A comparison of invasive species land cover classification using RGB and multispectral imagery

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Appendix I. Physical properties and correlation of seismic profiles with drilling results

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Authors
Lucien Montadert, C. Wylie Poag
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Environmental trends among Neogene benthic foraminifers at Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 548, Irish continental margin

An analysis of diversity and abundance trends among all benthic foraminiferal genera and species, and particularly among species of Bolivina, was carried out for 59 samples of Neogene sediment from DSDP-IPOD Site 548, Goban Spur. By correlating these census data with lithological, geophysical, geochemical, and other faunal and floral measurements in the same stratigraphic interval, a...
Authors
C. Wylie Poag, Doris Low
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Drilling on the Goban Spur: Objectives, regional geological setting, and operational summary.

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Authors
P.C. de Graciansky, C. Wylie Poag, Glen Foss
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Biostratigraphy, paleoenvironmental, and paleomagnetic synthesis of the Goban Spur region, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 80

A composite stratigraphic section based on the four DSDP-IPOD Leg 80 drill sites provides a nearly complete record of syn-rift and post-rift events in the vicinity of Goban Spur. Syn-rift sediments were deposited in marginal marine to outer shelf environments. Above the "breakup" unconformity (hiatus spanning most of the Aptian), post-rift Albian sediments indicate the development of a...
Authors
Scott W. Snyder, C. Muller, Hilary Townsend, C. Wylie Poag
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Benthic foraminifera as indicators of potential petroleum sources

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Authors
C. Wylie Poag
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Deep continental margin reflectors

In contrast to the rarity of such observations a decade ago, seismic reflecting and refracting horizons are now being observed to Moho depths under continental shelves in a number of places. These observations provide knowledge of the entire crustal thickness from the shoreline to the oceanic crust on passive margins and supplement Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP)...
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J. Ewing, J. Heirtzler, M. Purdy, Kim D. Klitgord
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Ferromanganese crusts from Necker Ridge, Horizon Guyot and S.P. Lee Guyot: Geological considerations

Necker Ridge, Horizon Guyot and S.P. Lee Guyot in the Central Pacific were sampled, seismically surveyed, and photographed by bottom cameras in order to better understand the distribution, origin, and evolution of ferromanganese crusts. Necker Ridge is over 600 km long with a rugged crest, pods of sediment to 146 m thick, slopes that average 12° to 20°, and debris aprons that cover some...
Authors
James R. Hein, Frank T. Manheim, William C. Schwab, Alice S. Davis
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

A drowned Holocene barrier spit off Cape Ann, Massachusetts

Seismic profiles and bathymetric contours reveal a drowned barrier spit on Jeffreys Ledge off Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Seaward-dipping internal reflectors indicate that a regressive barrier formed during the early Holocene low sea-level stillstand. Preservation of the barrier spit may have been favored by its large size (as much as 20 m thick), by an ample sediment supply from...
Authors
Robert N. Oldale
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Rapid postglacial shoreline changes in the western Gulf of Maine and the Paleo-Indian environment

Rapid shoreline regression and transgression along the western Gulf of Maine between 13,000 and 9000 years B.P. are inferred to have produced a nearshore marine environment low in biologic productivity. Paleo-Indians living near the coast of the Gulf were probably forced to rely on nonmarine resources landward of the late-glacial marine limit. Thus, Paleo-Indian sites of the time period...
Authors
Robert N. Oldale
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Foraminiferal, lithic, and isotopic changes across four major unconformities at Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 548, Goban Spur

Sediment samples taken at close intervals across four major unconformities (middle Miocene/upper Miocene, lower Oligocene/upper Oligocene, lower Eocene/upper Eocene, lower Paleocene/upper Paleocene) at DSDP-IPOD Site 548, Goban Spur, reveal that coeval biostratigraphic gaps, sediment discontinuities, and seismic unconformities coincide with postulated low stands of sea level...
Authors
C. Wylie Poag, Leslie A. Reynolds, James M. Mazzullo, Loyd D. Keigwin
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

An underwater instrument for determining bearing capacity of shallow marine sediments

A small, portable, underwater instrument for measuring carbonate substrate bearing capacity in situ is described. The device was used in various shallow water ( 9 m) carbonate reef environments. Criteria for design and operation were based on ability to deliver controlled levels of stress to bearing plates of various sizes, operability underwater by scuba divers, transportability, and...
Authors
Ronald C. Circe
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Slumping and shallow faulting related to the presence of salt on the Continental Slope and rise off North Carolina

Seismic reflection profiles and long- and medium-range sidescan sonar were used to investigate a salt diapir complex and area of slope instability near the base of the Continental Slope off North Carolina. Within the area of investigation three diapirs are bounded on their upslope side by a scarp 60 m high and 50 km long. The slope above the scarp is characterized by a series of shallow...
Authors
K. V. Cashman, P. Popenoe
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
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