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Provisional geologic map of Augustine Volcano, Alaska

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Authors
R. B. Waitt, J. E. Beget, Juergen Kienle

Photographs of the 1989-90 eruptions of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska

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Authors
A.L. Roach, Christina A. Neal, R. G. McGimsey

Geothermal resources in the Crater Lake area, Oregon

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Authors
Charles R. Bacon, Manuel Nathenson

Hydrologic data for Long Valley Caldera, Mono County, California, 1987-93

Hydrologic data were collected during 1987-93 as part of the U.S. Geological Survey's long-term Volcanic Hazards Monitoring Program of the Long Valley Caldera, Mono County, California. The data are presented in graphs or tables. Data collected for the Long Valley Hydrologic Advisory Committee monitoring program also are presented. Hydrologic data collected include continuous record of ground-water
Authors
J. F. Howle, C. D. Farrar

Tectonics and seismicity of the southern Washington Cascade range

Geophysical, geological, and seismicity data are combined to develop a transpressional strain model for the southern Washington Cascades region. We use this model to explain oblique fold and fault systems, transverse faults, and a linear seismic zone just west of Mt. Rainier known as the western Rainier zone. We also attempt to explain a concentration of earthquakes that connects the northwest-tre
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W. D. Stanley, S. Y. Johnson, A.I. Qamar, C. S. Weaver, J. M. Williams

Channel adjustment of an unstable coarse-grained stream: Opposing trends of boundary and critical shear stress, and the applicability of extremal hypotheses

Channel adjustments in the North Fork Toutle River and the Toutle River main stem were initiated by deposition of a 2.5km3 debris avalanche and associated lahars that accompanied the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington on 18 May 1980. Channel widening was the dominant process. In combination, adjustments caused average boundary shear stress to decrease non-linearly with time and
Authors
Andrew Simon, Colin R. Thorne

Long-term geochemical surveillance of fumaroles at Showa-Shinzan dome, Usu volcano, Japan

This study investigates 31 years of fumarole gas and condensate (trace elements) data from Showa-Shinzan, a dacitic dome-cryptodome complex that formed during the 1943-1945 eruption of Usu volcano. Forty-two gas samples were collected from the highest-temperature fumarole, named A-1, from 1954 (800??C) to 1985 (336??C), and from lower-temperature vents. Condensates were collected contemporaneously
Authors
R.B. Symonds, Y. Mizutani, Paul H. Briggs

Exsolved magmatic fluid and its role in the formation of comb-layered quartz at the Cretaceous Logtung W-Mo deposit, Yukon Territory, Canada

Comb-layered quartz is a type of unidirectional solidification texture found at the roofs of shallow silicic intrusions that are often associated spatially with Mo and W mineralisation. The texture consists of multiple layers of euhedral, prismatic quartz crystals (Type I) that have grown on subplanar aplite substrates. The layers are separated by porphyritic aplite containing equant phenocrysts o
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J. B. Lowenstern, W.D. Sinclair

The initial cooling of pahoehoe flow lobes

In this paper we describe a new thermal model for the initial cooling of pahoehoe lava flows. The accurate modeling of this initial cooling is important for understanding the formation of the distinctive surface textures on pahoehoe lava flows as well as being the first step in modeling such key pahoehoe emplacement processes as lava flow inflation and lava tube formation. This model is constructe
Authors
L. Keszthelyi, R. Denlinger

Non-double-couple earthquake mechanisms at the Geysers geothermal area, California

Inverting P- and S-wave polarities and P:SH amplitude ratios using linear programming methods suggests that about 20% of earthquakes at The Geysers geothermal area have significantly non-double-couple focal mechanisms, with explosive volumetric components as large as 33% of the seismic moment. This conclusion contrasts with those of earlier studies, which interpreted data in terms of double couple
Authors
A. Ross, G. R. Foulger, B. R. Julian