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Earthquake recurrence estimates for northern Caribbean faults from combinatorial optimization

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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

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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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Sedimentary Carbon, Sulfur, and Iron Relationships in Modern and Ancient Diagenetic Environments of the Eel River Basin (U.S.A.) Sedimentary Carbon, Sulfur, and Iron Relationships in Modern and Ancient Diagenetic Environments of the Eel River Basin (U.S.A.)

Depositional and diagenetic controls on the distributions of carbon, sulfur, and iron (C-S-Fe) in modern sediments and upper Pleistocene mudrocks of the Eel River Basin (ERB), northern California continental margin, were investigated using a combination of geochemical, radioisotopic, and sedimentological methods. A mass balance based on down-core profiles of porewater and solid-phase...
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C.K. Sommerfield, R.C. Aller, C.A. Nittrouer
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Gas hydrate in seafloor sediments: Impact on future resources and drilling safety Gas hydrate in seafloor sediments: Impact on future resources and drilling safety

Gas hydrate concentrates methane and sometimes other gases in its crystal lattice and this gas can be released intentionally creating a resource or escape accidentally forming a hazard. The densest accumulations of gas hydrate tend to occur at sites where the base of the gas hydrate stability zone (commonly the upper several hundred m of the sedimentary section) is configured to trap gas...
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William P. Dillon, Michael D. Max
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Natural gas hydrates: Occurrence, distribution, and detection Natural gas hydrates: Occurrence, distribution, and detection

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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Fish species and community distributions as proxies for sea-floor habitat distributions: the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary example (northwest Atlantic, Gulf Of Maine) Fish species and community distributions as proxies for sea-floor habitat distributions: the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary example (northwest Atlantic, Gulf Of Maine)

Defining the habitats of fishes and associated fauna on outer continental shelves is problematic given the paucity of data on the actual types and distributions of seafloor habitats. However many regions have good data on the distributions of fishes from resource surveys or catch statistics because of the economic importance of the fisheries. Fish distribution data (species or...
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Peter J. Auster, Kevin Joy, Page C. Valentine
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

SeaMARC 1A sidescan sonar mosaic, cores and depositional interpretation of the Mississippi Fan: ArcView GIS data release SeaMARC 1A sidescan sonar mosaic, cores and depositional interpretation of the Mississippi Fan: ArcView GIS data release

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Valerie F. Paskevich, David C. Twichell, William C. Schwab
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Geology of the Woods Hole area, Massachusetts; the story behind the landscape Geology of the Woods Hole area, Massachusetts; the story behind the landscape

The geologic story of the Woods Hole area, Cape Cod, Mass., was written by glacial ice during the last ice age and edited by the ocean waves. If you learn to read today's landscape, you can see the fascinating history it records. The features of Cape Cod, from the ponds and cranberry bogs to the gently sloping sandy uplands and rocky, irregular hills to the beaches, result from the...
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D. R. Hutchinson, Beth Schwarzman
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Coastal evolution and sediment budget at the mouth of the Columbia River, USA Coastal evolution and sediment budget at the mouth of the Columbia River, USA

The coastal morphology of the Mouth of the Columbia River (MCR) has changed dramatically over the past century. Since the construction of jetties in 1914 and 1917, the inlet deepened and stabilized, the outer ebb delta migrated northward and offshore several kilometers, and the adjacent shorelines to the north and south prograded several hundreds of meters. Recently, high rates of...
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Guy Gelfenbaum, Maarten C. Buijsman, Christopher R. Sherwood, Hans R. Moritz, Ann E. Gibbs
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Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Sediment transport on a high-energy ebb-tidal delta Sediment transport on a high-energy ebb-tidal delta

Six tripods were deployed at shallow (~14-m) and deep (~24-m) sites on the northern, middle, and southern flanks of the Grays Harbor, Washington, U.S.A. ebb-tidal delta from early October through December, 1999 to measure waves, currents, temperature, and suspended-sediment concentrations as part of a wave-refraction and sediment-transport experiment. Directional wave spectra show that...
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Christopher R. Sherwood, Guy Gelfenbaum, Peter A. Howd, Margaret L. Palmsten
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Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Photographs of the sea floor in western Massachusetts Bay, offshore of Boston, Massachusetts, July, 1999 Photographs of the sea floor in western Massachusetts Bay, offshore of Boston, Massachusetts, July, 1999

This CD-ROM contains photographs and sediment sample analyses of the sea floor obtained at 142 sites in western Massachusetts Bay (Figure 1) during a research cruise (USGS cruise ISBL99024) aboard the Fishing Vessel (FV) Isabel S. (Figure 2) conducted July 18-21, 1999. These photographs and samples provide critical ground truth information for the interpretation of shaded relief and...
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Benjamin T. Gutierrez, Bradford Butman, Dann S. Blackwood
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Origin and history of the Charleston Bump - Geological formations, currents, bottom conditions, and their relationship to wreckfish habitats on the Blake Plateau Origin and history of the Charleston Bump - Geological formations, currents, bottom conditions, and their relationship to wreckfish habitats on the Blake Plateau

The Charleston Bump is a structural and topographic high on the northern Blake Plateau that overlies a seaward offset of the edge of continental crust. The feature causes the bottom to shoal and deflects the Gulf Stream offshore, causing an intensification of bottom currents. The area has been swept by strong currents since late Cretaceous time, but the strongest currents have occurred...
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P. Popenoe, F.T. Manheim
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Modern sedimentation on the shoreface and inner continental shelf at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, U.S.A Modern sedimentation on the shoreface and inner continental shelf at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, U.S.A

The geologic framework and surficial morphology of the shoreface and inner continental shelf off the Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, barrier island were mapped using high-resolution sidescan-sonar, bathymetric, and seismic-reflection surveying techniques, a suite of over 200 diver vibracores, and extensive seafloor observations by divers. The inner shelf is a sediment-starved, active...
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R.E. Thieler, O.H. Pilkey, W.J. Cleary, W. C. Schwab
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Salt diapirs in the Dead Sea basin and their relationship to Quaternary extensional tectonics Salt diapirs in the Dead Sea basin and their relationship to Quaternary extensional tectonics

Regional extension of a brittle overburden and underlying salt causes differential loading that is thought to initiate the rise of reactive diapirs below and through regions of thin overburden. We present a modern example of a large salt diapir in the Dead Sea pull-apart basin, the Lisan diapir, which we believe was formed during the Quaternary due to basin transtension and subsidence...
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A. Al-Zoubi, Uri S. ten Brink
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
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