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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

2023 Annual Report

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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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Origins and development of the west-central Florida barrier island system: Interpretations of the past and recommendations for the future Origins and development of the west-central Florida barrier island system: Interpretations of the past and recommendations for the future

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G. Gelfenbaum, G. R. Brooks, R. A. Davis, L. J. Doyle, A. E. Gibbs, A. C. Hine, S. D. Locker, D.C. Twichell, Robert H. Weisberg
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Mapping U.S. continental shelves Mapping U.S. continental shelves

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J.V. Gardner, Bradford Butman, L. A. Mayer, J.H. Clarke
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Use of remote sensing techniques Use of remote sensing techniques

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R. S. Williams, D. K. Hall
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Comment on "New evidence of magmatic diapirs in the intermediate crust under the Dead Sea, Israel" by Nitzan Rabinowitz, Jean Steinberg, and Yossi Mart Comment on "New evidence of magmatic diapirs in the intermediate crust under the Dead Sea, Israel" by Nitzan Rabinowitz, Jean Steinberg, and Yossi Mart

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A. Hofstetter, M. Rybakov, Uri S. ten Brink
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

The Chesapeake Bay bolide impact: a new view of coastal plain evolution The Chesapeake Bay bolide impact: a new view of coastal plain evolution

A spectacular geological event took place on the Atlantic margin of North America about 35 million years ago in the late part of the Eocene Epoch. Sea level was unusually high everywhere on Earth, and the ancient shoreline of the Virginia region was somewhere in the vicinity of where Richmond is today (fig. 1). Tropical rain forests covered the slopes of the Appalachians. To the east of...
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C. Wylie Poag
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Nonlinear refraction and reflection travel time tomography Nonlinear refraction and reflection travel time tomography

We develop a rapid nonlinear travel time tomography method that simultaneously inverts refraction and reflection travel times on a regular velocity grid. For travel time and ray path calculations, we apply a wave front method employing graph theory. The first-arrival refraction travel times are calculated on the basis of cell velocities, and the later refraction and reflection travel...
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Jiahua Zhang, Uri S. ten Brink, M.N. Toksoz
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

A new view into the Cascadia subduction zone and volcanic arc: Implications for earthquake hazards along the Washington margin A new view into the Cascadia subduction zone and volcanic arc: Implications for earthquake hazards along the Washington margin

In light of suggestions that the Cascadia subduction margin may pose a significant seismic hazard for the highly populated Pacific Northwest region of the United States, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Research Center for Marine Geosciences (GEOMAR), and university collaborators collected and interpreted a 530-km-long wide-angle onshore-offshore seismic transect across the...
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T. Parsons, A.M. Trehu, J.H. Luetgert, K. Miller, F. Kilbride, R.E. Wells, M. A. Fisher, E. Flueh, Uri S. ten Brink, N.I. Christensen
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Major occurrences and reservoir concepts of marine clathrate hydrates: Implications of field evidence Major occurrences and reservoir concepts of marine clathrate hydrates: Implications of field evidence

This paper is part of the special publication Gas hydrates: relevance to world margin stability and climatic change (eds J.P. Henriet and J. Mienert). Questions concerning clathrate hydrate as an energy resource, as a factor in modifying global climate and as a triggering mechanism for mass movements invite consideration of what factors promote hydrate concentration, and what the...
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J.S. Booth, W.J. Winters, William P. Dillon, M. B. Clennell, M.M. Rowe
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

A classification of quaternary dating methods A classification of quaternary dating methods

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S.M. Colman, K. L. Pierce
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Glaciers of South America Glaciers of South America

Landsat images, together with maps and aerial photographs, have been used to produce glacier inventories, define glacier locations, and study glacier dynamics in the countries of South America, along with the Andes Mountains. In Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia, the small glaciers have been undergoing extensive glacier recession since the late 1800's. Glacier-related hazards...
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C. Schubert, Fabian Hoyos-Patino, Ekkehard Jordan, Stefan Hastenrath, Benjamin Morales Arnao, Louis Lliboutry, Arturo Corte
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

An inter-comparison test of an RD Instruments' workhorse ADCP mounted in a new trawl-resistant bottom mount, an RD instruments' broadband ADCP and Vector measuring current meter An inter-comparison test of an RD Instruments' workhorse ADCP mounted in a new trawl-resistant bottom mount, an RD instruments' broadband ADCP and Vector measuring current meter

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M. Martini, P. Clay
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Analysis of coastal change in Marie Byrd Land and Ellsworth Land, West Antarctica, using Landsat imagery Analysis of coastal change in Marie Byrd Land and Ellsworth Land, West Antarctica, using Landsat imagery

The U.S. Geological Survey is using Landsat imagery from the early 1970s and mid- to late 1980s/early 1990s to analyze glaciological features, compile a glacier inventory, measure surface velocities of outlet glaciers, ice streams and ice shelves, determine coastline change and calculate the area and volume of iceberg calving in Antarctica. Ice-surface velocities in Marie Byrd and...
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Jane G. Ferrigno, Richard S. Williams, Christine E. Rosanova, Baerbel K. Lucchitta, Charles Swithinbank
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Astrogeology Science Center
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