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Gravity field over the Sea of Galilee: Evidence for a composite basin along a transform fault Gravity field over the Sea of Galilee: Evidence for a composite basin along a transform fault
The Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinneret) is located at the northern portion of the Kinneret-Bet Shean basin, in the northern Dead Sea transform. Three hundred kilometers of continuous marine gravity data were collected in the lake and integrated with land gravity data to a distance of more than 20 km around the lake. Analyses of the gravity data resulted in a free-air anomaly map, a variable...
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Z. Ben-Avraham, Uri S. ten Brink, R. Bell, M. Reznikov
AMS radiocarbon analyses from Lake Baikal, Siberia: Challenges of dating sediments from a large, oligotrophic lake AMS radiocarbon analyses from Lake Baikal, Siberia: Challenges of dating sediments from a large, oligotrophic lake
A suite of 146 new accelerator-mass spectrometer (AMS) radiocarbon ages provides the first reliable chronology for late Quaternary sediments in Lake Baikal. In this large, highly oligotrophic lake, biogenic and authigenic carbonate are absent, and plant macrofossils are extremely rare. Total organic carbon is therefore the primary material available for dating. Several problems are...
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Steven M. Colman, Glenn A. Jones, M. Rubin, J.W. King, J.A. Peck, W. H. Orem
Sedimentary processes in the salt deformation province of the Texas-Louisiana continental slope Sedimentary processes in the salt deformation province of the Texas-Louisiana continental slope
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David C. Twichell, Catherine M. Delorey
An 84-kyr paleomagnetic record from the sediments of Lake Baikal, Siberia An 84-kyr paleomagnetic record from the sediments of Lake Baikal, Siberia
We have conducted a paleomagnetic study of sediment cores obtained from the Selenga prodelta region of Lake Baikal, Russia. This record, which spans approximately the last 84 kyr, contributes to a better understanding of the nature of geomagnetic field behavior in Siberia and is a useful correlation and dating tool. We demonstrate that the Lake Baikal sediments are recording variations...
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J.A. Peck, J.W. King, Steven M. Colman, V.A. Kravchinsky
Continental drilling for paleoclimatic records: Recommendations from an international workshop Continental drilling for paleoclimatic records: Recommendations from an international workshop
The Workshop, entitled "Continental Drilling for Paleoclimate Records", was sponsored by the Past Global Changes (PAGES) Project, a core project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and by the GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany, in conjunction with the International Continental Drilling Programme (ICDP). The impetus for the meeting was the need for long...
Late Quaternary turbidite systems in Lake Baikal, Russia Late Quaternary turbidite systems in Lake Baikal, Russia
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C.H. Nelson, E.B. Karabanov, S.M. Colman
The Lake Pontchartrain Basin: Louisiana's troubled urban estuary The Lake Pontchartrain Basin: Louisiana's troubled urban estuary
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S. Jeffress Williams
Seafloor environments within the Boston Harbor- Massachusetts Bay sedimentary system: A regional synthesis Seafloor environments within the Boston Harbor- Massachusetts Bay sedimentary system: A regional synthesis
Modern seafloor sedimentary environments within the glaciated, topographically complex Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay area have been interpreted and mapped from an extensive collection of sidescan sonar records and supplemental marine geologic data. Three categories of environments are present that reflect the dominant long-term processes of erosion or nondeposition, deposition, and...
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H.J. Knebel, R.C. Circe
Geometry of sandy deposits at the distal edge of the Mississippi Fan, Gulf of Mexico Geometry of sandy deposits at the distal edge of the Mississippi Fan, Gulf of Mexico
Sidescan sonar provides a map of the seafloor that has greatly improved the understanding of depositional processes on modern deep-sea fans (e.g. Mutti and Normark 1991). Here, we present a sidescan-sonar mosaic from the eastern Gulf of Mexico that images the distal reaches of a channel on the Mississippi Fan and the deposits associated with it (Fig. 41.1). This area is one of several...
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D.C. Twichell, W. C. Schwab, Neil H. Kenyon
EAST93: Geophysical traverse from the Transantarctic Mountains to the Wilkes Basin, East Antarctica EAST93: Geophysical traverse from the Transantarctic Mountains to the Wilkes Basin, East Antarctica
The East Antarctic Seismic Traverse (EAST93) was a geophysical traverse designed to image the bedrock under the East Antarctic ice cap. The traverse started 10 km west of the Taylor Dome drill site and 25 km west of the exposed bedrock of the Transantarctic Mountains at Lashly Mt. and ended 323 km west of the drill site over the Wilkes subglacial basin (Fig. 1). The traverse was located
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Uri S. ten Brink, Stephen Bannister
Introduction: large-scale coastal behavior Introduction: large-scale coastal behavior
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Jeffrey H. List, Joost H. J. Terwindt
Historical shoreline changes at Rincon, Puerto Rico Historical shoreline changes at Rincon, Puerto Rico
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E. Robert Thieler, Milton Carlo