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Integration of COCORP deep reflection and magnetic anomaly analysis in the southeastern United States: Implications for origin of the Brunswick and East Coast magnetic anomalies: Alternative interpretation and reply Integration of COCORP deep reflection and magnetic anomaly analysis in the southeastern United States: Implications for origin of the Brunswick and East Coast magnetic anomalies: Alternative interpretation and reply

Integration of magnetic anomaly analysis with COCORP deep reflection data from the southeastern United States provides three new constraints on the interpretation of the Brunswick and East Coast magnetic anomalies, as well as on the reflection data. These are as follows. (1) The source of the Brunswick anomaly lies within the deep crust. This anomaly is not caused by a Mesozoic rift...
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Deborah R. Hutchinson, Kim D. Klitgord, Anne M. Trehu, John H. McBride, K. D. Nelson

Effect of wave-current interaction on wind-driven circulation in narrow, shallow embayments Effect of wave-current interaction on wind-driven circulation in narrow, shallow embayments

The effect of wind waves on the steady wind-driven circulation in a narrow, shallow bay is investigated with a two-dimensional (y, z) circulation model and the Grant and Madsen [1979] bottom-boundary layer model, which includes wave-current interaction. A constant wind stress is applied in the along-channel x direction to a channel with a constant cross-sectional profile h(y). The wind...
Authors
Richard P. Signell, Robert C. Beardsley, H. C. Graber, A. Capotondi

Rheological analysis of fine-grained natural debris-flow material Rheological analysis of fine-grained natural debris-flow material

Experiments were conducted on large samples of fine-grained material (???2mm) from a natural debris flow using a wide-gap concentric-cylinder viscometer. The rheological behavior of this material is compatible with a Bingham model at shear rates in excess of 5 sec. At lesser shear rates, rheological behavior of the material deviates from the Bingham model, and when sand concentration of...
Authors
Jon J. Major, Thomas C. Pierson

Summit Lake landslide and geomorphic history of Summit Lake basin, northwestern Nevada Summit Lake landslide and geomorphic history of Summit Lake basin, northwestern Nevada

The Summit Lake landslide, northwestern Nevada, composed of Early Miocene pyroclastic debris, Ashdown Tuff, and basalt and rhyolite of the Black Rock Range, blocked the upper Soldier Creek-Snow Creek drainage and impounded Summit Lake sometimes prior to 7840 yr B.P. The slide covers 8.2 km2 and has geomorphic features characteristic of long run-out landslides, such as lobate form...
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B. Brandon Curry, W.N. Melhorn

Deep crustal structure of the Cascade Range and surrounding regions from seismic refraction and magnetotelluric data Deep crustal structure of the Cascade Range and surrounding regions from seismic refraction and magnetotelluric data

Several regional seismic refraction and magnetotelluric (MT) profiles have been completed across the Cascade Range and surrounding geologic provinces in California, Oregon, and Washington. Analysis of three MT and two seismic refraction profiles in Oregon and a coincident MT and refraction profile in northern California show a high degree of correlation between resistivity and velocity...
Authors
William D. Stanley, Walter D. Mooney, Gary S. Fuis
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