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Evidence from Lake Baikal for Siberian glaciation during oxygen-isotope substage 5d Evidence from Lake Baikal for Siberian glaciation during oxygen-isotope substage 5d
The paleoclimatic record from bottom sediments of Lake Baikal (eastern Siberia) reveals new evidence for an abrupt and intense glaciation during the initial part of the last interglacial period (isotope substage 5d). This glaciation lasted about 12 000 yr from 117 000 to 105 000 yr BP according to correlation with the SPEC-MAP isotope chronology. Lithological and biogeochemical evidence...
Authors
E.B. Karabanov, A.A. Prokopenko, D. F. Williams, Steven M. Colman
Backyard bolides: Finding a buried impact crater Backyard bolides: Finding a buried impact crater
Geologist Wylie Poag explains how he happened to find a major impact crater buried beneath Chesapeake Bay.
Authors
C. Wylie Poag
New seismic images of the cascadia subduction zone from cruise SO 108-ORWELL New seismic images of the cascadia subduction zone from cruise SO 108-ORWELL
In April and May 1996, a geophysical study of the Cascadia continental margin off Oregon and Washington was conducted aboard the German R/V Sonne. This cooperative experiment by GEOMAR and the USGS acquired wide-angle reflection and refraction seismic data, using ocean-bottom seismometers (OBS) and hydrophones (OBH), and multichannel seismic reflection (MCS) data. The main goal of this...
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E.R. Flueh, M. A. Fisher, J. Bialas, J.R. Childs, D. Klaeschen, Nina Kukowski, T. Parsons, D.W. Scholl, Uri S. ten Brink, A.M. Trehu, N. Vidal
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
No abstract available.
Authors
M. Martini, P. Clay
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
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
Brief notes on habitat geology and clay pipe habitat on Stellwagen Bank Brief notes on habitat geology and clay pipe habitat on Stellwagen Bank
In our studies of sea floor habitats, my colleagues and I use both biological and geological approaches. We call our studies “habitat geology,” a term coined by a biologist friend of mine. We view it as the study of sea floor materials and biological and geological processes that influence where species live. Some of the factors that we consider are the following:composition of the sea...
Authors
Page C. Valentine
Water-level changes in Lake Baikal, Siberia: Tectonism versus climate Water-level changes in Lake Baikal, Siberia: Tectonism versus climate
Relative changes in the level of Lake Baikal, amounting to hundreds of meters in Quaternary time, are well documented. Data presented here show that tectonic displacements of the lake outlet or former shoreline features are entirely sufficient to explain these relative lake-level changes. In contrast, the morphology and hydrology of the lake make its level hydrologically insensitive to...
Authors
Steven M. Colman
Evidence for faulting related to dissociation of gas hydrate and release of methane off the southeastern United States Evidence for faulting related to dissociation of gas hydrate and release of methane off the southeastern United States
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). An irregular, faulted, collapse depression about 38 x 18 km in extent is located on the crest of the Blake Ridge offshore from the south- eastern United States. Faults disrupt the sea floor and terminate or sole out about 40-500 m below...
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William P. Dillon, W. W. Danforth, D. R. Hutchinson, R.M. Drury, M.H. Taylor, J.S. Booth
Heat flow and geothermal field in Siberia Heat flow and geothermal field in Siberia
No abstract available.
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A.J. Golmshtok, A. Duchkov, D. R. Hutchinson, S.B. Khanukaev, A.I. El’nikov
Preliminary results of the first scientific Drilling on Lake Baikal, Buguldeika site, southeastern Siberia Preliminary results of the first scientific Drilling on Lake Baikal, Buguldeika site, southeastern Siberia
The Baikal Drilling Project (BDP) is a multinational effort to investigate the paleoclimatic history and tectonic evolution of the Baikal sedimentary basin during the Late Neogene. In March 1993 the Baikal drilling system was successfuly deployed from a barge frozen into position over a topographic high, termed the Buguldeika saddle, in the southern basin of Lake Baikal. The BDP-93...
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Douglas F. Williams, S. Colman, M. Grachev, P. Hearn, Shoji Horie, T. Kawai, Mikhail I. Kuzmin, N. Logachov, V. Antipin, A. Bardardinov, A. Bucharov, V. Fialkov, A. Gorigljad, B. Tomilov, B.N. Khakhaev, S. Kochikov, N. Logachev, L.A. Pevzner, E.B. Karabanov, V. Mats, E. Baranova, O. Khlystov, E. Khrachenko, M. Shimaraeva, E. Stolbova, S. Efremova, A. Gvozdkov, A. Kravchinski, J. Peck, T. Fileva, S. Kashik, T. Khramtsova, I. Kalashnikova, T. Rasskazova, V. Tatarnikova, Richard Yuretich, V. Mazilov, K. Takemura, V. Bobrov, T. Gunicheva, H. Haraguchi, S. Ito, T. Kocho, M. Markova, V. Pampura, O. Proidakova, R. Ishiwatari, H. Sawatari, A. Takeuchi, K. Toyoda, S. Vorobieva, A. Ikeda, A. Marui, T. Nakamura, K. Ogura, Takeshi Ohta, J. King, H. Sakai, T. Yokoyama, A. Hayashida, E. Bezrukova, S. Fowell, N. Fujii, P. Letunova, V. Misharina, N. Miyoshi, G. Chernyaeva, I. Ignatova, E. Likhoshvai, L. Granina, O. Levina, P. Dolgikh, F. Lazo, N. Lutskaia, W. Orem, E. Wada, K. Yamada, S. Yamada, E. Callander, L. Golobokoval, W. C. Pat Shanks, R. Dorofeeva, A. Duchkov
Science in the Gulf of Maine: Directions for the 1990's Science in the Gulf of Maine: Directions for the 1990's
No abstract available.
Authors
Bradford Butman, Robert C. Beardsley