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Landslides: Extent and economic significance in the United States Landslides: Extent and economic significance in the United States
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E. E. Brabb
The extent of landsliding in northern New Mexico and similar semi-arid and arid regions The extent of landsliding in northern New Mexico and similar semi-arid and arid regions
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E. E. Brabb, Fausto Guzzetti, Robert K. Mark, R. W. Simpson
Paleomagnetism and tectonic rotation of the lower Miocene Peach Springs Tuff: Colorado Plateau, Arizona, to Barstow, California Paleomagnetism and tectonic rotation of the lower Miocene Peach Springs Tuff: Colorado Plateau, Arizona, to Barstow, California
We have determined remanent magnetization directions of the lower Miocene Peach Springs Tuff at 41 localities in western Arizona and southeastern California. An unusual northeast and shallow magnetization direction confirms the proposed geologic correlation of isolated outcrops of the tuff from the Colorado Plateau to Barstow, California, a distance of 350 km. The Peach Springs Tuff was...
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Ray E. Wells, John W. Hillhouse
Average topography, isostatic residual gravity, and aeromagnetic maps of the Parkfield region, California Average topography, isostatic residual gravity, and aeromagnetic maps of the Parkfield region, California
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Robert W. Simpson, R.C. Jachens, Carl M. Wentworth
Robustness of disaggregate oil and gas discovery forecasting models Robustness of disaggregate oil and gas discovery forecasting models
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Emil D. Attanasi, J.H. Schuenemeyer
Oligocene and Miocene paleogeography of central California and displacement along the San Andreas fault Oligocene and Miocene paleogeography of central California and displacement along the San Andreas fault
Recently completed sedimentologic and petrologic studies of Oligocene and Miocene strata in the Temblor Range (San Joaquin basin) and Santa Cruz Mountains (La Honda basin) permit detailed reconstructions of paleogeography, as well as new estimates of displacement along the San Andreas fault. During the Oligocene and Miocene, the San Joaquin and La Honda basins were contiguous. The...
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S.A. Graham, Richard G. Stanley, J. V. Bent, J. B. Carter
Mechanisms of Cenozoic tectonic rotation, Pacific Northwest Convergent Margin, U.S.A. Mechanisms of Cenozoic tectonic rotation, Pacific Northwest Convergent Margin, U.S.A.
Large clockwise rotations (15–80°) are characteristic of Cenozoic volcanic and sedimentary rocks along the convergent margin of the northwestern United States. Abundant paleomagnetic data from 62–12 m.y. old rocks in forearc, arc, and backarc regions show that rotation increases with age and with proximity to the coast. Paleomagnetic and structural studies both support dextral shear as a
Authors
Ray E. Wells
Correlation of Miocene flows of the Columbia River Basalt Group from the central Columbia River Plateau to the coast of Oregon and Washington Correlation of Miocene flows of the Columbia River Basalt Group from the central Columbia River Plateau to the coast of Oregon and Washington
Nearly twenty flows of the Columbia River Basalt Group (CRBG) can be paleomagnetically and chemically correlated westward as far as 500 km from the Columbia Plateau in Washington, through the Columbia Gorge, to the Coast Range of Oregon and Washington. In the Coast Range near Cathlamet, Washington, the CRBG flow stratigraphy includes 10 flows of Grande Ronde Basalt (1 low-MgO R2 flow, 6...
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Ray E. Wells, R.W. Simpson, R. D. Bentley, Melvin H. Beeson, Margaret T. Mangan, Thomas L. Wright
Paleomagnetic study of the Eastern Klamath terrane, California, and implications for the tectonic history of the Klamath Mountains Province Paleomagnetic study of the Eastern Klamath terrane, California, and implications for the tectonic history of the Klamath Mountains Province
Paleomagnetic study of Permian through Jurassic volcanic and sedimentary strata of the Eastern Klamath terrane has shown the remanent magnetization of many of these rocks to be prefolding and most likely primary. Similarities in magnetic declinations recorded by coeval strata over a broad area are consistent with the hypothesis that the terrane, in general, has behaved as a single rigid...
Authors
Edward A. Mankinen, William P. Irwin, C. Sherman Gromme
The style of late Cenozoic deformation at the eastern front of the California Coast Ranges The style of late Cenozoic deformation at the eastern front of the California Coast Ranges
The 1983 Coalinga earthquake occurred at the eastern boundary of the California Coast Ranges in response to northeast directed thrusting. Such movements over the past 2 Ma have produced Coalinga anticline by folding above the blind eastern tip of the Coalinga thrust zone. The 600-km length of the Coast Ranges boundary shares a common structural setting that involves westward upturn of...
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Carl M. Wentworth, Mark D. Zoback