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A drowned Holocene barrier spit off Cape Ann, Massachusetts
Seismic profiles and bathymetric contours reveal a drowned barrier spit on Jeffreys Ledge off Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Seaward-dipping internal reflectors indicate that a regressive barrier formed during the early Holocene low sea-level stillstand. Preservation of the barrier spit may have been favored by its large size (as much as 20 m thick), by an ample sediment supply from unconsolidated glaci
Authors
Robert N. Oldale
Rapid postglacial shoreline changes in the western Gulf of Maine and the Paleo-Indian environment
Rapid shoreline regression and transgression along the western Gulf of Maine between 13,000 and 9000 years B.P. are inferred to have produced a nearshore marine environment low in biologic productivity. Paleo-Indians living near the coast of the Gulf were probably forced to rely on nonmarine resources landward of the late-glacial marine limit. Thus, Paleo-Indian sites of the time period in questio
Authors
Robert N. Oldale
Why deposits of longitudinal dunes are rarely recognized in the geologic record
Dunes that are morphologically of linear type, many of which are probably of longitudinal type in a morphodynamic sense, are common in modern deserts, but their deposits are rarely identified in aeolian sandstones. One reason for non-recognition of such dunes is that they can migrate laterally when they are not exactly parallel to the long-term sand-transport direction, thereby depositing cross-st
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David M. Rubin, Ralph E. Hunter
Burial diagenesis: out of sight, out of mind!
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Peter A. Scholle, Robert B. Halley
Foraminiferal, lithic, and isotopic changes across four major unconformities at Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 548, Goban Spur
Sediment samples taken at close intervals across four major unconformities (middle Miocene/upper Miocene, lower Oligocene/upper Oligocene, lower Eocene/upper Eocene, lower Paleocene/upper Paleocene) at DSDP-IPOD Site 548, Goban Spur, reveal that coeval biostratigraphic gaps, sediment discontinuities, and seismic unconformities coincide with postulated low stands of sea level. Foraminiferal, lithic
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C. Wylie Poag, Leslie A. Reynolds, James M. Mazzullo, Loyd D. Keigwin
Coupling of ocean bottom seismometers to sediment: Results of tests with the U.S. Geological Survey ocean bottom seismometer
The response of an ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) to a transient pull that excites the natural OBS-sediment coupling resonance can be modeled as a mass-spring-dashpot system in which the resonant frequency and damping are functions of instrument mass and bearing radius and of the physical properties of the sediment (primarily the shear modulus). For the very soft sediments sometimes found on the s
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Anne M. Tréhu
Dolomitization in a mixing zone of near-seawater composition, Late Pleistocene, northeastern Yucatan Peninsula
Patches of dolomite occur in cores of reefal limestone from the shallow subsurface on the northeastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. This limestone accumulated during an interglacial high stand of sea level about 200,000 years ago. Dolomitization was preceded by freshwater diagenesis, including precipitation of sparry calcite cement, stabilization of Mg-calcitic skeletal fragments, and partial d
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W. C. Ward, Robert B. Halley
A note on the effect of bottom currents on an ocean bottom seismometer
Two three-component ocean bottom seismometers and a current meter were deployed a few hundred meters apart on the southern Blake Plateau off the United States eastern coast to study the effect of near-bottom currents on the background noise level of seismometers. Although analysis of the data is limited somewhat by instrumental problems, the increase in current speed, which ranged from 2 to 25 cm/
Authors
Anne M. Tréhu
An assessment of the near-surface accuracy of the international geomagnetic reference field 1980 model of the main geomagnetic field
The new International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) model of the main geomagnetic field for 1980 is based heavily on measurements from the MAGSAT satellite survey. Assessment of the accuracy of the new model, as a description of the main field near the Earth's surface, is important because the accuracy of models derived from satellite data can be adversely affected by the magnetic field of el
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N. W. Peddie, A. K. Zunde
Preliminary response activities and recommendations of the USGS Landslide Hazard Research Team to the Puerto Rico landslide disaster of October 7, 1985
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R. H. Campbell, D.G. Herd, R.M. Alonso
Bibliography of United States landslide maps and reports
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C.S. Alger, E. E. Brabb
Feasibility of a nationwide program for the identification and delineation of hazards from mud flows and other landslides; Chapter D, The Economics of landslide mitigation strategies in Cincinnati, Ohio : a methodology for benefit-cost analysis
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Richard L. Bernknopf, David S. Brookshire, Russell H. Campbell, Carl D. Shapiro, Robert W. Fleming