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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...
Authors
Jane G. Ferrigno, Jerry L. Mullins, Jo Anne Stapleton, Robert Bindschadler, Ted A. Scambos, Lynda B. Bellisime, Jo-Ann Bowell, Alex V. Acosta

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...
Authors
William J. Strahle, Marinna A. Martini, Ray E. Davis

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

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...
Authors
Richard P. Signell, Harry L. Jenter, Alan F. Blumberg

Seismic images of a tectonic subdivision of the Greenville Orogen beneath lakes Ontario and Erie Seismic images of a tectonic subdivision of the Greenville Orogen beneath lakes Ontario and Erie

New seismic data from marine air-gun and Vibroseis profiles in Lake Ontario and Lake Erie provide images of subhorizontal Phanerozoic sediments underlain by a remarkable series of easterly dipping reflections that extends from the crystalline basement to the lower crust. These reflections are interpreted as structural features of crustal-scale subdivisions within the Grenville Orogen...
Authors
D. A. Forsyth, Bernd Milkereit, A. Davidson, S. Hanmer, Deborah R. Hutchinson, W. J. Hinze, R.F. Mereu

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...
Authors
Margaret C. Mons-Wengler, Robert N. Oldale

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...
Authors
Steven M. Colman, L.D. Keigwin, R. M. Forester
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