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Landslide problems at West Valley Nuclear Service Center, New York: An assessment and recommendations for study Landslide problems at West Valley Nuclear Service Center, New York: An assessment and recommendations for study

Problems due to landslides prompted a visit to the West Valley Nuclear Service Center (WVNSC) near Springville, New York, on March 15 and 16, 1976. From this visit a report was prepared and contains the following: An assessment of the landslide conditions. An assessment of the immediacy of the landslide problems. A suggested study program for reducing the landslide hazard to an...
Authors
Robert W. Fleming

Rise of a variable-viscosity fluid in a steadily spreading wedge-shaped conduit with accreting walls Rise of a variable-viscosity fluid in a steadily spreading wedge-shaped conduit with accreting walls

Relatively rigid plates making up the outer 50 to 100 km of the Earth are steadily separating from one another along narrow globe-circling zones of submarine volcanism, the oceanic spreading centers. Continuity requires that the viscous underlying material rise beneath spreading centers and accrete onto the steadily diverging plates. It is likely that during the rise the viscosity...
Authors
Arthur H. Lachenbruch, Manuel Nathenson
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