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Earthquake recurrence estimates for northern Caribbean faults from combinatorial optimization

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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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Hydroacoustic observations reveal drivers of mixing and salinization of a karst subterranean estuary during intense precipitation

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Glacial processes affecting the stratigraphy of the Antarctic Continental Shelf: Results from modeling Glacial processes affecting the stratigraphy of the Antarctic Continental Shelf: Results from modeling

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Uri S. ten Brink, Christopher Schneider
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

A synthesis of post-glacial diatom records from Lake Baikal A synthesis of post-glacial diatom records from Lake Baikal

The biostratigraphy of fossil diatoms contributes important chronologic, paleolimnologic, and paleoclimatic information from Lake Baikal in southeastern Siberia. Diatoms are the dominant and best preserved microfossils in the sediments, and distinctive assemblages and species provide inter-core correlations throughout the basin at millennial to centennial scales, in both high and low...
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J. Platt Bradbury, E. Bezrukova, G. Chernyaeva, S.M. Colman, G. Khursevich, J.W. King, Ye. V. Likoshway
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Landsat TM image maps of the Shirase and Siple Coast ice streams, West Antarctica Landsat TM image maps of the Shirase and Siple Coast ice streams, West Antarctica

Fifteen 1: 250000 and one 1: 1000 000 scale Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) image mosaic maps are currently being produced of the West Antarctic ice streams on the Shirase and Siple Coasts. Landsat TM images were acquired between 1984 and 1990 in an area bounded approximately by 78°-82.5°S and 120°- 160° W. Landsat TM bands 2, 3 and 4 were combined to produce a single band, thereby...
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Jane G. Ferrigno, Jerry L. Mullins, Jo Anne Stapleton, Robert Bindschadler, Ted A. Scambos, Lynda B. Bellisime, Jo-Ann Bowell, Alex V. Acosta
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Tectonic subsidence and the stratigraphy of the Antarctic continental margins and intracontinental basins Tectonic subsidence and the stratigraphy of the Antarctic continental margins and intracontinental basins

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Uri S. ten Brink
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

High-energy storms shape Puerto Rico High-energy storms shape Puerto Rico

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William C. Schwab
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Data and information management at the Branch of Atlantic Marine Geology and the contaminated-sediment database Data and information management at the Branch of Atlantic Marine Geology and the contaminated-sediment database

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Marilyn R. Buchholtz ten Brink, Frank T. Manheim, N.K. Soderberg, J.C. Hathaway
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Instrument packages to study long-term sediment transport processes in a shallow bay Instrument packages to study long-term sediment transport processes in a shallow bay

Pressure and near-surface and near-bottom measurements of current, temperature, salinity and light transmission were required in Mobile Bay, a 3 m deep estuary on the Gulf of Mexico. This environment presented several obstacles to obtaining long term observations. Boat traffic, soft estuary bottom, heavy biofouling, rapid sample rates and large data storage were overcome by using...
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William J. Strahle, Marinna A. Martini, Ray E. Davis
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Mechanistic solutions to the opening of the Gulf of Mexico Mechanistic solutions to the opening of the Gulf of Mexico

Two mechanistic models—which are unlike the traditional plate-tectonic landfill models used for most proposed Pangea reconstructions of the Yucatán block—relate the Mesozoic opening of the Gulf of Mexico directly to the movement of the North and South American plates: (1) a previous piggyback model in which Yucatán moves with South America out of the western gulf and (2) a new edge...
Authors
Hans Schouten, Kim D. Klitgord
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Modeling the seasonal circulation in Massachusetts Bay Modeling the seasonal circulation in Massachusetts Bay

An 18 month simulation of circulation was conducted in Massachusetts Bay, a roughly 35 m deep, 100??50 km embayment on the northeastern shelf of the United States. Using a variant of the Blumberg-Mellor (1987) model, it was found that a continuous 18 month run was only possible if the velocity field was Shapiro filtered to remove two grid length energy that developed along the open...
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Richard P. Signell, Harry L. Jenter, Alan F. Blumberg
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Publications of the Branch of Atlantic Marine Geology for Calendar Year 1993 Publications of the Branch of Atlantic Marine Geology for Calendar Year 1993

This U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report [extract] contains a listing of publications authored or co-authored by members of the Branch of Atlantic Marine Geology and published in calendar year 1993. The Branch conducts a broad geologic and geophysical research and mapping program, primarily along the U.S. Atlantic Margin, in the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and...
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Margaret C. Mons-Wengler, 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

Submerged and eroded drumlins off northeastern Massachusetts Submerged and eroded drumlins off northeastern Massachusetts

Streamlined, oval-shaped, oriented topographic highs in Massachusetts Bay are identified as the erosional remnants of drumlins. The topographic highs correlate with outlines of lag gravel deposits on the sea floor and both the highs and lag gravel seafloor footprint have a distinct east-southeast long axis trend. This trend is similar to the preferred orientation of the long axes of...
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R. N. Oldale, H.J. Knebel, Michael H. Bothner
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Two episodes of meltwater influx from glacial Lake Agassiz into the Lake Michigan basin and their climatic contrasts Two episodes of meltwater influx from glacial Lake Agassiz into the Lake Michigan basin and their climatic contrasts

Two episodes of meltwater influx from glacial Lake Agassiz are recorded as prominent sedimentologic, isotopic, magnetic, and faunal signatures in southern Lake Michigan profundal sediments. As a tributary to the main path of eastward Lake Agassiz flow, southern Lake Michigan recorded only the largest, catastrophic discharges. The distinctive Wilmette Bed, a massive gray mud that...
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Steven M. Colman, L.D. Keigwin, R. M. Forester
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
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