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Floods of water and lava in the Columbia River Basin: Analogs for Mars Floods of water and lava in the Columbia River Basin: Analogs for Mars

The Columbia River Basin (CRB) is home to the best studied examples of two of the most spectacular geologic processes on Earth and Mars: flood volcanism and catastrophic water floods. Additionally, features formed by a variety of eolian, glacial, tectonic, and mass-wasting processes can also be seen in the CRB. These terrains provide exceptional terrestrial analogs for the study of...
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Laszlo P. Keszthelyi, Victor R. Baker, Windy L. Jaeger, David R. Gaylord, Bruce Bjornstad, Noam Greenbaum, Stephen Self, Thorvaldur Thordarson, Naomi Porat, Marek G. Zreda

Volcano deformation and gravity workshop synopsis and outcomes: The 2008 volcano deformation and temporal gravity change workshop Volcano deformation and gravity workshop synopsis and outcomes: The 2008 volcano deformation and temporal gravity change workshop

A volcano workshop was held in Washington State, near the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Cascades Volcano Observatory. The workshop, hosted by the USGS Volcano Hazards Program (VHP), included more than 40 participants from the United States, the European Union, and Canada. Goals were to promote (1) collaboration among scientists working on active volcanoes and (2) development of new tools...
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Daniel Dzurisin, Zhong Lu

Total field sensor comparison Total field sensor comparison

During the XIIIth IAGA Workshop (hereafter referred to as “the workshop"), several total field comparison measurements were conducted at the Boulder Magnetic Observatory (BOU). The purpose of these tests was to look for errors within the total field instruments which are considered “absolutes” instruments. The total field measurement is a critical component of the absolute measurement...
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Tim White

Earthquake Spectra at 25 Earthquake Spectra at 25

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Charles C. Thiel, James E. Beavers, Jack P. Moehle, Roger D. Borcherdt, Farzad Naeim, Polat Gulkan

Earth's magnetic field complex: U.S. National activities during the Decade of Geopotential Field Research Earth's magnetic field complex: U.S. National activities during the Decade of Geopotential Field Research

The US geomagnetism community is supported by NASA, NOAA, USGS, NSF, DOD, and US universities. During the Decade of Geopotential Field Research, inaugurated in 1999 with the launch of the Danish satellite Ørsted on a US rocket, the US community has been involved in satellite mission development and analysis, instrument development, model development, and in the discovery and...
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Michael E. Purucker, T. Sabaka, W. Kuang, S. Maus, Jeffrey J. Love

Extraterrestrial GIS Extraterrestrial GIS

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Trent M. Hare, Randolph L. Kirk, James A. Skinner, Kenneth L. Tanaka

BSSA: Worth thinking about BSSA: Worth thinking about

The Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA) is a powerful community project that has helped us share the information necessary to keep our field moving forward since 1911. In some ways, BSSA is much like it has always been, and each issue provides us with a collection of research that has been improved by the peer review process and copyedited, typeset, and printed to...
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Andrew J. Michael

Logs of paleoseismic excavations across the Central Range Fault, Trinidad Logs of paleoseismic excavations across the Central Range Fault, Trinidad

This publication makes available maps and trench logs associated with studies of the Central Range Fault, part of the South American-Caribbean plate boundary in Trinidad. Our studies were conducted in 2001 and 2002. We mapped geomorphic features indicative of active faulting along the right-lateral, Central Range Fault, part of the South American-Caribbean plate boundary in Trinidad. We
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Christopher J. Crosby, Carol S. Prentice, John Weber, Daniel Ragona

Three short videos by the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory Three short videos by the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory

This is a collection of videos of unscripted interviews with Jake Lowenstern, who is the Scientist in Charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO). YVO was created as a partnership among the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Yellowstone National Park, and University of Utah to strengthen the long-term monitoring of volcanic and earthquake unrest in the Yellowstone National Park...
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Stephen Wessells, Jake Lowenstern, Dina Venezky

Mapping products of Titan's surface Mapping products of Titan's surface

Remote sensing instruments aboard the Cassini spacecraft have been observed the surface of Titan globally in the infrared and radar wavelength ranges as well as locally by the Huygens instruments revealing a wealth of new morphological features indicating a geologically active surface. We present a summary of mapping products of Titan's surface derived from data of the remote sensing...
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Katrin Stephan, Ralf Jaumann, Erich Karkoschka, Jason W. Barnes, Martin G. Tomasko, Elizabeth P. Turtle, Lucille Le Corre, Mirjam Langhans, Stephane Le Mouelic, Ralf D. Lorenz, Jason Perry

Stratigraphic controls on saltwater intrusion in the Dominguez Gap area of coastal Los Angeles Stratigraphic controls on saltwater intrusion in the Dominguez Gap area of coastal Los Angeles

The Los Angeles Basin is a densely populated coastal area that significantly depends on groundwater. A part of this groundwater supply is at risk from saltwater intrusion—the impetus for this study. High-resolution seismic-reflection data collected from the Los Angeles–Long Beach Harbor Complex have been combined with borehole geophysical and descriptive geological data from four nearby...
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Brian D. Edwards, Kenneth D. Ehman, Daniel J. Ponti, Eric G. Reichard, John Tinsley, Robert J. Rosenbauer, Michael T. Land
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