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Publications of the Branch of Atlantic Marine Geology for Calendar Year 1990 Publications of the Branch of Atlantic Marine Geology for Calendar Year 1990

This U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report [extract] contains a listing of publications authored or co-authored by members of the Branch of Atlantic Marine Geology and published in calendar year 1990. The Branch conducts a broad geologic and geophysical research and mapping program, primarily along the U.S. Atlantic Margin, in the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and...
Authors
Margaret C. Mons-Wengler, Robert N. Oldale

Geodetic estimate of coseismic slip during the 1989 Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake Geodetic estimate of coseismic slip during the 1989 Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake

Offsets in the relative positions of geodetic stations resulting from the Loma Prieta earthquake can be explained with a dislocation model that includes buried oblique slip on a rupture surface extending 37 km along the strike of the San Andreas fault, dipping 70° to the SW, and extending from a depth of about 5 to 17.5 km. Assuming uniform slip on a rectangular surface, the mean values...
Authors
Michael Lisowski, W.H. Prescott, James C. Savage, M. J. Johnson

A possible geodetic anomaly observed prior to the Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake A possible geodetic anomaly observed prior to the Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake

Monthly measurements since mid‐1981 of distance from a geodetic station located 11 km from the epicenter of the Loma Prieta earthquake (Ms = 7.1; October 17, 1989) to three stations 30 to 40 km distant provides an unusually complete record of deformation in the epicentral region in the years prior to an earthquake. Roughly 1.3 years before the earthquake, at about the time of the first...
Authors
Michael Lisowski, W.H. Prescott, James C. Savage, Jerry L. Svarc

An apparent shear zone trending north‐northwest across the Mojave Desert into Owens Valley, eastern California An apparent shear zone trending north‐northwest across the Mojave Desert into Owens Valley, eastern California

Strain rates measured at four geodetic networks in eastern California situated between northern Owens Valley and the Transverse Ranges along a small circle drawn about the Pacific‐North America pole of rotation are remarkably consistent. Each exhibits 0.14 μrad/yr simple right‐lateral engineering‐shear‐strain accumulation across the local vertical plane tangent to the small circle. Local...
Authors
James C. Savage, Michael Lisowski, W.H. Prescott
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