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Geology and hydrogeology of the Caribbean Islands aquifer system of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Poorly lithified to unconsolidated carbonate and clastic sedimentary rocks of Tertiary (Oligocene to Pliocene) and Quaternary (Pleistocene to Holocene) age compose the South Coast aquifer and the North Coast limestone aquifer system of Puerto Rico; poorly lithified to unlithified carbonate rocks of late Tertiary (early Miocene to Pliocene) age make up the Kingshill aquifer of St. Croix, U.S. Virgi
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Robert A. Renken, W. C. Ward, I. P. Gill, Fernando Gómez-Gómez, Jesús Rodríguez-Martínez
Controls on facies and sequence stratigraphy of an upper Miocene carbonate ramp and platform, Melilla basin, NE Morocco
Upwelling of cool seawater, paleoceanographic circulation, paleoclimate, local tectonics and relative sea-level change controlled the lithofacies and sequence stratigraphy of a carbonate ramp and overlying platform that are part of a temporally well constrained carbonate complex in the Melilla basin, northeastern Morocco. At Melilla, from oldest to youngest, a third-order depositional sequence wit
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Kevin J. Cunningham, Luke S. Collins
Sequence stratigraphy of a South Florida carbonate ramp and bounding siliciclastics (late Miocene-Pliocene)
In southern peninsular Florida, a late-early to early-late Pliocene carbonate ramp (Ochopee Limestone Member of the Tamiami Formation) is sandwiched between underlying marine siliciclastics of the late Miocene to early Pliocene Peace River Formation and an overlying late Pliocene unnamed sand. At least three depositional sequences (DS1, DS2, and DS3), of which two contain condensed sections, are r
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Kevin J. Cunningham, David Bukry, T. Sato, John A. Barron, Laura A. Guertin, Ronald S. Reese
Molluscan fauna from core 25B, Whipray Basin, central Florida Bay, Everglades National Park
Molluscan assemblages preserved in an 80-cm core from Whipray Basin in
central Florida Bay, Everglades National Park, illustrate changes in the environmental
conditions within the basin over the last two centuries. Salinity remained polyhaline to
euhaline throughout the time of deposition (1800-1997), with alternating periods of
stability and increased fluctuations. Since 1800, a Brachidontes
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Carleigh A. Trappe, G. Lynn Brewster-Wingard
Simulation of flow in the upper North Coast Limestone Aquifer, Manati-Vega Baja area, Puerto Rico
A two-dimensional computer ground-water model was constructed of the Manati-Vega Baja area to improve the understanding of the unconfined upper aquifer within the North Coast Province of Puerto Rico. The modeled area covers approximately 79 square miles within the municipios of Manati and Vega Baja and small portions of Vega Alta and Barceloneta.
Steady-state two-dimensional ground-water simul
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Gregory S. Cherry
Flash-flood related hazards: landslides, with examples from the December 1999 disaster in Venezuela Chapter 24
No abstract available.
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Matthew C. Larsen, Maria Teresa Vasquez-Conde, R.A. Clark
Vegetative resistance to flow in South Florida: Summary of Vegetation Sampling in Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park, September 1997–July 1998
The U.S. Geological Survey is one of many agencies providing scientific support to the effort to restore the South Florida Everglades. In September and November 1997 and July 1998, vegetation was sampled at selected sites in the Everglades as part of a study to quantify vegetative resistance to flow. The objectives of the vegetation sampling are (1) to provide detailed information on species compo
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N. B. Rybicki, J. T. Reel, H. Ruhl, P. A. Gammon, Virginia Carter
The tides and inflows in the mangroves of the Everglades (TIME) interdisciplinary project of the South Florida Ecosystem Program
The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) has a prominent role in the Federal Government's comprehensive restoration plan for the south Florida ecosystem encompassing the Everglades-the largest remaining subtropical wilderness in the continental United States. USGS scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Park Service (NPS), other governmental agencies, and academia, are providing
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R.W. Schaffranek
The rainfall-triggered landslide and flash-flood disaster in northern Venezuela, December 1999
Rainstorms in December 1999 induced thousands of landslides along the northern slopes of the Cordillera de la Costa mountain range principally in the state of Vargas, Venezuela. Rainfall accumulation of 293 millimeters during the first 2 weeks ofDecember was followed by an additional 911 millimeters of rainfall on December 14 through 16. The landslides and floods inundated coastal communities resu
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Matthew C. Larsen, Gerald F. Wieczorek, L.S. Eaton, Heriberto Torres-Sierra
Measurement of sediment oxygen demand rates in the Mangrove Lagoon, Vessup Bay, and Benner Bay in southeastern St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
No abstract available.
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Orlando Ramos-Gines
New empirical models for estimating magnitude and frequency of flood for streams in Puerto Rico
No abstract available.
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Orlando Ramos-Gines
Puerto Rico sources water assessment program
No abstract available.
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Zuleima Rodriguez, Eva Hernandez, Orlando Ramos-Gines