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Passive margins: U.S. Geological Survey Line 19 across the Georges Bank basin Passive margins: U.S. Geological Survey Line 19 across the Georges Bank basin

Georges Bank is a shallow part of the Atlantic continental shelf southeast of New England (Emery and Uchupi, 1972, 1984). This bank, however, is merely the upper surface of several sedimentary basins overlying a block-faulted basement of igneous and metamorphic crystalline rock. Sedimentary rock forms a seaward-thickening cover that has accumulated in one main depocenter and several...
Authors
Kim D. Klitgord, John S. Schlee, John A. Grow

Some effects of quiet geomagnetic field changes upon values used for main field modeling Some effects of quiet geomagnetic field changes upon values used for main field modeling

The effects of three methods of data selection upon the assumed main field levels for geomagnetic observatory records used in main field modeling were investigated for a year of very low solar-terrestrial activity. The first method concerned the differences between the year's average of quiet day field values and the average of all values during the year. For H these differences were 2-3...
Authors
W.H. Campbell

Assessment of models proposed for the 1985 revision of the international geomagnetic reference field Assessment of models proposed for the 1985 revision of the international geomagnetic reference field

Geomagnetic measurements from land, marine and aerial surveys conducted in the years 1945-1964 were used to test the 14 models proposed as additions, for that period, to the series of definitive geomagnetic reference field (DGRF) models. Overall, NASA's 'SFAS' models and the BGS (British Geological Survey) models agree best with these data. Comparisons of the two proposed definitive main...
Authors
N.W. Peddie, A.K. Zunde
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