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Low-flow statistics computed for streamflow gages and methods for estimating selected low-flow statistics for ungaged stream locations in Ohio, water years 1975–2020 Low-flow statistics computed for streamflow gages and methods for estimating selected low-flow statistics for ungaged stream locations in Ohio, water years 1975–2020

A study was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Ohio Water Development Authority and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, to compute low-flow frequency, flow-duration, and harmonic mean flow statistics for long-term streamflow gages and to develop regression equations to estimate those statistics at unregulated, ungaged stream locations in Ohio. The flow
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Branden L. VonIns, G. F. Koltun
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Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center

Parsimonious high-resolution landslide susceptibility modeling at continental scales Parsimonious high-resolution landslide susceptibility modeling at continental scales

Landslide susceptibility maps are fundamental tools for risk reduction, but the coarse resolution of current continental-scale models is insufficient for local application. Complex relations between topographic and environmental attributes characterizing landslide susceptibility at local scales are not transferrable across areas without landslide data. Existing maps with multiple...
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Benjamin B. Mirus, Gina Marie Belair, Nathan J. Wood, Jeanne M. Jones, Sabrina N. Martinez
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Landslide Hazards Program, Geologic Hazards Science Center

Migrating whooping crane activity near U.S. Air Force bases and airfields in Oklahoma Migrating whooping crane activity near U.S. Air Force bases and airfields in Oklahoma

The Aransas-Wood Buffalo population of Grus americana (Linnaeus, 1758; whooping cranes) migrates through the U.S. Great Plains, encountering places substantially altered by human activity. Using telemetry data from 2017 to 2022, we investigated whooping crane migration behavior around U.S. Air Force bases in Oklahoma. Our study focused on potential collision risks between whooping cranes...
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David A. Brandt, Aaron T. Pearse
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

A new species of benthic ostracod Tuberoloxoconcha: A proxy for glacioeustatic sea-level changes in the Gulf of Corinth A new species of benthic ostracod Tuberoloxoconcha: A proxy for glacioeustatic sea-level changes in the Gulf of Corinth

In 2017, sediment cores were retrieved from sites M0080, M0079, and M0078 in the Corinth basin during IODP Expedition 381. This study focuses on the Holocene and middle Pleistocene ostracod assemblages retrieved from sites M0080, in the Gulf of Alkyonides, and M0078 in the Corinth Gulf. It explores the paleoenvironmental constraints that affected the Tuberoloxoconcha species'...
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Roberta Parisi, T. M. Cronin, G. Aiello, D. Barra, D.L. Danielopol, D.J. Horne, I. Mazzini
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Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

The petrology of dispersed organic matter in sedimentary rocks: Review and update The petrology of dispersed organic matter in sedimentary rocks: Review and update

Organic petrology developed from coal petrology, and, in the 1960s, it began to be applied to the study of dispersed organic matter (DOM) in sedimentary rocks other than coal. Over the last few decades, the petrology of DOM has been used to characterize organic matter in sedimentary basins with an emphasis on fossil fuel resource exploration. Today, due to the global research shift on...
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P.A. Goncalves, J. Kus, Paul C. Hackley, A.G. Borrego, M. Hámor-Vidó, W. Kalkreuth, J.G. Mendonça Filho, H.I. Petersen, W. Pickel, M.J. Reinhardt, I. Suárez-Ruiz, ICCP
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Energy Resources Program, Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center

Lead isotopes constrain Precambrian crustal architecture, thermal history, and lithospheric foundering in Laurentia Lead isotopes constrain Precambrian crustal architecture, thermal history, and lithospheric foundering in Laurentia

Laurentia (ancestral North America) records nearly 4 billion years of crustal evolution. Here, a newly compiled continental-scale Pb isotopic database is used to evaluate the Precambrian crustal evolution of Laurentia. Pb model ages yield a 2.7 Ga peak, a 2.5–1.8 Ga minimum and 1.8–0.9 Ga continuum. Pb model ages yield thermochronometric data and track crustal growth via arc-related...
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Ian William Hillenbrand
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Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
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