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Monitoring beach morphology changes using small-format aerial photography and digital softcopy photogrammetry Monitoring beach morphology changes using small-format aerial photography and digital softcopy photogrammetry

Current methods of monitoring beach morphology changes commonly involve the establishment of Global Positioning System profiles that are surveyed on a regular basis. Although this method produces precise measurements of coastal topography, it is costly in time and effort and may result in large data gaps between profiles. Much of our understanding of coastal dynamics is thus limited by...
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Cheryl Hapke, Bruce M. Richmond
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Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

The Loma Prieta, California, earthquake of October 17, 1989: Landslides 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...
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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
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Earthquake Hazards Program, Landslide Hazards Program, Geologic Hazards Science Center, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, Earthquake Science Center

Assessment of acreage and vegetation change in Florida's Big Bend tidal wetlands using satellite imagery 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...
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Ellen A. Raabe, Richard P. Stumpf
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St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Maps of the shallow shelf off the Florida Keys (subsurface bedrock topography, overlying reefs and sediments, benthic habitats) Maps of the shallow shelf off the Florida Keys (subsurface bedrock topography, overlying reefs and sediments, benthic habitats)

No abstract available.
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Barbara H. Lidz
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Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Evolution and history of incised valleys: The Mobile Bay model Evolution and history of incised valleys: The Mobile Bay model

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Authors
Jack Kindinger
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Geology and human activity in the Florida Keys Geology and human activity in the Florida Keys

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Eugene A. Shinn
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Eocene-Oligocene sea-level changes on the New Jersey coastal plain linked to the deep-sea record 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 (
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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
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Florence Bascom Geoscience Center, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Correlation of the middle eocene Kellogg Shale of northern California 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...
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John A. Barron, David Bukry, Richard Z. Poore
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Volcano Hazards Program, Volcano Science Center, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
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