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Assessment of urbanization patterns and trends in the Gulf of Mexico region of the southeast United States with Landsat and nighttime lights imagery Assessment of urbanization patterns and trends in the Gulf of Mexico region of the southeast United States with Landsat and nighttime lights imagery
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George Z. Xian, Collin G. Homer
Avian community responses to vegetation structure within chained and hand-cut pinyon-juniper woodlands on the Colorado Plateau Avian community responses to vegetation structure within chained and hand-cut pinyon-juniper woodlands on the Colorado Plateau
We investigated relationships between breeding birds and vegetation characteristics in fuels-reduction treatment areas within pinyon-juniper woodlands at locations over the Colorado Plateau. The goal of this study was to document differences in avian community responses to two types of pinyon-juniper fuels-reduction treatments (chained vs. hand-cut), relative to control sites. We...
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Charles van Riper, Claire Crow
Basin-floor Lake Bonneville stratigraphic section as revealed in paleoseismic trenches at the Baileys Lake site, West Valley fault zone, Utah Basin-floor Lake Bonneville stratigraphic section as revealed in paleoseismic trenches at the Baileys Lake site, West Valley fault zone, Utah
Recent paleoseismic trenching on the Granger fault of the West Valley fault zone in Salt Lake County, Utah, exposed a nearly complete section of late Pleistocene Lake Bonneville deposits, and highlights challenges related to accurate interpretation of basin-floor stratigraphy in the absence of numerical age constraints. We used radiocarbon and luminescence dating as well as ostracode
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Michael D. Hylland, Christopher B. DuRoss, Greg N. McDonald, Susan S. Olig, Charles G. Oviatt, Shannon A. Mahan, Anthony J. Crone, Stephen Personius
Basins in ARC-continental collisions Basins in ARC-continental collisions
Arc-continent collisions occur commonly in the plate-tectonic cycle and result in rapidly formed and rapidly collapsing orogens, often spanning just 5-15 My. Growth of continental masses through arc-continent collision is widely thought to be a major process governing the structural and geochemical evolution of the continental crust over geologic time. Collisions of intra-oceanic arcs...
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Amy E. Draut, Peter D. Clift
Biostratigraphy and chronostratigraphy of the Cambrian-Ordovician great American carbonate bank Biostratigraphy and chronostratigraphy of the Cambrian-Ordovician great American carbonate bank
The carbonate strata of the great American carbonate bank (GACB) have been subdivided and correlated with ever-increasing precision and accuracy during the past half century through use of the dominant organisms that evolved on the Laurentian platform through the Cambrian and the Ordovician. Trilobites and conodonts remain the primary groups used for this purpose, although brachiopods...
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John F. Taylor, John E. Repetski, James D. Loch, Stephen A. Leslie
Bothriocephalus acheilognathi Yamaguti (Asian Tapeworm) Bothriocephalus acheilognathi Yamaguti (Asian Tapeworm)
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Anindo Choudhury, Rebecca Cole
Cambrian-lower Middle Ordovician passive carbonate margin, southern Appalachians Cambrian-lower Middle Ordovician passive carbonate margin, southern Appalachians
The southern Appalachian part of the Cambrian–Ordovician passive margin succession of the great American carbonate bank extends from the Lower Cambrian to the lower Middle Ordovician, is as much as 3.5 km (2.2 mi) thick, and has long-term subsidence rates exceeding 5 cm (2 in.)/k.y. Subsiding depocenters separated by arches controlled sediment thickness. The succession consists of five
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J. Fred Read, John E. Repetski
Climate variability during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age based on ostracod faunas and shell geochemistry from Biscayne Bay, Florida Climate variability during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age based on ostracod faunas and shell geochemistry from Biscayne Bay, Florida
An 800-year-long environmental history of Biscayne Bay, Florida, is reconstructed from ostracod faunal and shell geochemical (oxygen, carbon isotopes, Mg/Ca ratios) studies of sediment cores from three mudbanks in the central and southern parts of the bay. Using calibrations derived from analyses of modern Biscayne and Florida Bay ostracods, palaeosalinity oscillations associated with...
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Thomas M. Cronin, G. Lynn Wingard, Gary S. Dwyer, Peter K. Swart, Debra A. Willard, Jessica Albietz
Communicating science: from cuneiform to the contemporary and beyond Communicating science: from cuneiform to the contemporary and beyond
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Cecil A. Jennings
Conducting fisheries investigations Conducting fisheries investigations
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Authors
Alexander V. Zale, Donna L. Parrish, Trent M. Sutton
Design of future surveys Design of future surveys
This brief chapter addresses two related issues: how effort should be allocated to different parts of the sampling plan and, given optimal allocation, how large a sample will be required to achieve the PRISM accuracy target. Simulations based on data collected to date showed that 2 plots per cluster on rapid surveys, 2 intensive camps per field crew-year, 2-4 intensive plots per...
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Jonathan Bart, Paul A. Smith