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Landslides, Floods, and Marine Effects of the Storm of January 3-5, 1982, in the San Francisco Bay Region, California Landslides, Floods, and Marine Effects of the Storm of January 3-5, 1982, in the San Francisco Bay Region, California
A catastrophic rainstorm in central California on January 3-5,1982, dropped as much as half the mean annual precipitation within a period of about 32 hours, triggering landslides and floods throughout 10 counties in the vicinity of the San Francisco Bay. More than 18,000 of the slides induced by the storm transformed into debris flows that swept down hillslopes or drainages with little...
Authors
Gerald F. Wieczorek
Causes of varied sediment gravity flow types on the Alsek Prodelta, northeast Gulf of Alaska Causes of varied sediment gravity flow types on the Alsek Prodelta, northeast Gulf of Alaska
Slope failures and subsequent mass movements have been identified in Holocene glaciomarine sediment on declivities less than 1.3° on the Alsek prodelta, Gulf of Alaska. Isolated collapse features cover less than 10 percent of a nearshore sand deposit, in water depths less than 40 m. In contrast, sediment gravity flow deposits (disintegrative failures) cover more than 95 percent of a...
Authors
William C. Schwab, Homa J. Lee, Bruce F. Molnia
Strontium-isotope stratigraphy of Enewetak Atoll Strontium-isotope stratigraphy of Enewetak Atoll
87Sr/86Sr ratios determined for samples from a 350 m core of Neogene lagoonal, shallow-water limestones from Enewetak Atoll display a remarkably informative trend. Like the recently published data for Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) carbonates, 87Sr/86Sr at Enewetak increases monotonically but not smoothly from the early Miocene to the Pleistocene. The data show intervals of little or...
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K.R. Ludwig, Robert B. Halley, Kathleen R. Simmons, Zell E. Peterman
Geologic and geotechnical conditions adjacent to the Turnagain Heights landslide, Anchorage, Alaska Geologic and geotechnical conditions adjacent to the Turnagain Heights landslide, Anchorage, Alaska
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Randall G. Updike, H. W. Olsen, H. R. Schmoll, Y.K. Kharaka, K.H. Stokoe
U.S. Geological Survey deep seismic reflection profile across the Gulf of Maine U.S. Geological Survey deep seismic reflection profile across the Gulf of Maine
Deep seismic reflection and magnetic data suggest that the Gulf of Maine is underlain by four crustal blocks of differing reflection and magnetic character. Two of these blocks, the Gulf of Maine fault zone and adjacent central plutonic zone, can be correlated with Avalonian rocks in southern New England and New Brunswick. The boundary between them, the Fundy fault, projects onshore near...
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Deborah R. Hutchinson, Kim D. Klitgord, Myung W. Lee, Anne M. Trehu
Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska, August 1988 Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska, August 1988
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John B. Townshend, R. V. O’Connell, L.Y. Torrence
Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska, March 1988 Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska, March 1988
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John B. Townshend, R. V. O’Connell, L.Y. Torrence
QED QED
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Regional earthquake hazards assessments Regional earthquake hazards assessments
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Henry Spall
Report on recommended list of structures for seismic instrumentation in the Boston Region Report on recommended list of structures for seismic instrumentation in the Boston Region
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Authors
Mehmet Çelebi
Hydrologic data for computation of sediment discharge: Toutle and North Fork Toutle Rivers near Mount St. Helens, Washington, water years 1980-84 Hydrologic data for computation of sediment discharge: Toutle and North Fork Toutle Rivers near Mount St. Helens, Washington, water years 1980-84
Immediately after the devastating May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens, a program was initiated by the U.S. Geological Survey to study the streamflow and sediment characteristics of streams impacted by the eruption. Some of the data gathered in that program are presented in this report. Data are presented for two key sites in the Toutle River basin: North Fork Toutle River near Kid...
Authors
Dallas Childers, Stephen E. Hammond, William P. Johnson