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A strategy for assessing potential future changes in climate, hydrology, and vegetation in the Western United States A strategy for assessing potential future changes in climate, hydrology, and vegetation in the Western United States
Historical and geological data indicate that significant changes can occur in the Earth's climate on time scales ranging from years to millennia. In addition to natural climatic change, climatic changes may occur in the near future due to increased concentrations of carbon dioxide and other trace gases in the atmosphere that are the result of human activities. International research...
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Robert Stephen Thompson, Steven W. Hostetler, Patrick J. Bartlein, Katherine H. Anderson
The implication of a perched-water system based on USW WT-24 hydrochemistry The implication of a perched-water system based on USW WT-24 hydrochemistry
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Gary L. Patterson, Zell E. Peterman, James B. Paces
Anomalous groundwater 234U/238U beneath Yucca Mountain: Evidence for local recharge? Anomalous groundwater 234U/238U beneath Yucca Mountain: Evidence for local recharge?
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James B. Paces, K.R. Ludwig, Zell E. Peterman, Leonid A. Neymark, J. M. Kenneally
Inferences for Yucca Mountain unsaturated-zone hydrology from secondary minerals Inferences for Yucca Mountain unsaturated-zone hydrology from secondary minerals
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James B. Paces, Leonid A. Neymark, Brian D. Marshall, J. F. Whelan, Zell E. Peterman
"Overview of calcite/opal deposits at or near the proposed high-level nuclear waste site, Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA: pedogenic, hypogene, or both" by C.A. Hill, Y.V. Dublyansky, R.S. Harmon, C.M. Schluter "Overview of calcite/opal deposits at or near the proposed high-level nuclear waste site, Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA: pedogenic, hypogene, or both" by C.A. Hill, Y.V. Dublyansky, R.S. Harmon, C.M. Schluter
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John S. Stuckless, Brian D. Marshall, D. T. Vaniman, W. W. Dudley, Zell E. Peterman, James B. Paces, J. F. Whelan, Emily M. Taylor, Richard M. Forester, D. W. O’Leary
Paleomagnetic evidence for counterclockwise rotation in a broad sinistral shear zone, Basin and Range Province, southeastern Nevada and southwestern Utah Paleomagnetic evidence for counterclockwise rotation in a broad sinistral shear zone, Basin and Range Province, southeastern Nevada and southwestern Utah
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Mark R. Hudson, Joseph G. Rosenbaum, C. S. Grommé, R. B. Scott, P. D. Rowley
Soil relative dating of moraine and outwash-terrace sequences in the northern part of the upper Arkansas Valley, central Colorado, U.S.A. Soil relative dating of moraine and outwash-terrace sequences in the northern part of the upper Arkansas Valley, central Colorado, U.S.A.
Profile development indices for soils developed in moraines and outwash near Twin Lakes and in outwash near Leadville support the correlation of moraines with subdued morphology and two high outwash terraces with the Bull Lake glaciation (ca. 130-160 ka) and the correlation of hummocky moraines and two low outwash terraces with the Pinedale glaciation (ca. 14-47 ka). Elsewhere in the...
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Alan R. Nelson, Ralph R. Shroba
The geochemical record in rock glaciers The geochemical record in rock glaciers
A 9.5 m ice core was extracted from beneath the surficial debris cover of a rock glacier at Galena Creek, northwestern Wyoming. The core contains clean, bubble-rich ice with silty debris layers spaced at roughly 20 cm intervals. The debris layers are similar in appearance to those in typical alpine glaciers, reflecting concentration of debris by melting at the surface during the summer...
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E.J. Steig, J. J. Fitzpatrick, N. Potter, D.H. Clark
U-Th-Pb isotopic systematics of lherzolithic shergotite Yamato-793605 U-Th-Pb isotopic systematics of lherzolithic shergotite Yamato-793605
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Keiji Misawa, N. Nakamura, Wayne R. Premo, M. Tatsumoto
Chemical, mineralogical, and magnetic characterization of sized fly ash from a coal-fired power plant in Kentucky Chemical, mineralogical, and magnetic characterization of sized fly ash from a coal-fired power plant in Kentucky
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James D. Cathcart, Richard L. Reynolds, Michael E. Brownfield, James C. Hower
Effects of El Nino on streamflow, lake level, and landslide potential Effects of El Nino on streamflow, lake level, and landslide potential
One of the most important sources of year-to-year climate variation in the Southwest is the El Niño phenomenon of the tropical Pacific Ocean. El Niño is a natural but largely unpredictable condition that results from complex interplay among clouds and storms, regional winds, oceanic temperatures, and ocean currents along the equatorial Pacific. Under "normal" conditions, the tropical...
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Richard L. Reynolds, Michael D. Dettinger, Daniel Cayan, Doyle Stephens, Lynn M. Highland, Raymond C. Wilson
Dust deposition downwind of Owens (dry) Lake, 1991–1994: Preliminary findings Dust deposition downwind of Owens (dry) Lake, 1991–1994: Preliminary findings
Salt‐rich dust derived from the Owens Lake playa is deposited in significant quantities to distances of at least 40 km north and south of the playa. Semiannual measurements from 1991 to 1994 of dust deposition rates (dust flux) and composition 2 m above the ground at seven sites in Owens Valley show that (1) dust in Owens Valley is derived mainly from the playa, although areas closer to...
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Marith C. Reheis