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Frequent outburst floods from South Tahoma Glacier, Mount Rainier, USA: Relation to debris flows, meteorological origin, and implications for subglacial hydrology Frequent outburst floods from South Tahoma Glacier, Mount Rainier, USA: Relation to debris flows, meteorological origin, and implications for subglacial hydrology
Destructive debris flows occur frequently at glacierized Mount Rainier volcano, Washington, U.S.A. Twenty-three such flows have occurred in the Tahoma Creek valley since 1967. Hydrologic and geomorphic evidence indicate that all or nearly all of these flows began as outburst floods from South Tahoma Glacier. Flood waters are stored subglacially. The volume of stored water discharged...
Authors
J. S. Walder, C. L. Driedger
Living with a volcano in your backyard; volcanic hazards at Mount Rainier Living with a volcano in your backyard; volcanic hazards at Mount Rainier
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Authors
J. S. Walder, C. L. Driedger
Topographic maps of Novarupta dome and selected portions of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska Topographic maps of Novarupta dome and selected portions of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska
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Authors
Robert Strobe, William Rice, C.A. Neal
Volcano hazards in the Mount Adams region, Washington Volcano hazards in the Mount Adams region, Washington
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W. E. Scott, R.M. Iverson, J.W. Vallance, Wes Hildreth
Volcanic-hazard zonation for Glacier Peak Volcano, Washington Volcanic-hazard zonation for Glacier Peak Volcano, Washington
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R. B. Waitt, Larry Mastin, J. E. Beget
The USGS/OFDA Volcano Disaster Assistance Program The USGS/OFDA Volcano Disaster Assistance Program
An erupting volcano is one of nature's truly spectacular sights. From a distance, or perhaps through the cameras of the news media, we often observe roiling mushroom clouds of ash or flows of incandescent lava issuing from the volcano's throat. If, however, you happen to live near that erupting volcano, your life or livelihood may be endangered and your property at risk of destruction a...
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J.W. Ewert, C.D. Miller
Mining the earth's heat in the basin and range Mining the earth's heat in the basin and range
The Geothermal Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is revisiting the Basin and Range Province after a hiatus of over a decade. The Basin and Range is a region of Neogene extension and generally high, but regionally and locally variable heat flow. The northern Basin and Range (Great Basin) has higher mean elevation and more intense Quaternary extension than does the southern...
Authors
John H. Sass
Can magma-injection and groundwater forces cause massive landslides on Hawaiian volcanoes? Can magma-injection and groundwater forces cause massive landslides on Hawaiian volcanoes?
Landslides with volumes exceeding 1000 km3 have occurred on the flanks of Hawaiian volcanoes. Because the flanks typically slope seaward no more than 12 °, the mechanics of slope failure are problematic. Limit-equilibrium analyses of wedge-shaped slices of the volcano flanks show that magma injection at prospective headscarps might trigger the landslides, but only under very restrictive...
Authors
R.M. Iverson
Hydrogen and oxygen isotopic compositions of waters from fumaroles at Kilauea summit, Hawaii Hydrogen and oxygen isotopic compositions of waters from fumaroles at Kilauea summit, Hawaii
Condensate samples were collected in 1992 from a high-temperature (300° C) fumarole on the floor of the Halemaumau Pit Crater at Kilauea. The emergence about two years earlier of such a hot fumarole was unprecedented at such a central location at Kilauea. The condensates have hydrogen and oxygen isotopic compositions which indicate that the waters emitted by the fumarole are composed...
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T. K. Hinkley, J. E. Quick, R. T. Gregory, T.M. Gerlach
Bibliography for Hayes, Spurr, Crater Peak, Redoubt, Iliamna, Augustine, Douglas, and Aniakchak volcanoes, Alaska Bibliography for Hayes, Spurr, Crater Peak, Redoubt, Iliamna, Augustine, Douglas, and Aniakchak volcanoes, Alaska
Alaska has more than 40 active volcanoes, many of which are close to the major population centers of south-central Alaska. This bibliography was compiled to assist in the preparation of volcano hazard evaluations at Cook Inlet volcanoes. It lists articles, reports, and maps about the geology and hydrology of Hayes, Spurr, Redoubt, Iliamna, Augustine, and Douglas volcanoes in the Cook...
Authors
K.J. Lemke, B.A. May, A.M. Vanderpool
Hydrologic effects associated with the January 17, 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake Hydrologic effects associated with the January 17, 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake
This report compiles hydrologic observations in southern California associated with the 1994 Mw = 6.7 Northridge, California earthquake. In southern California, the largest ground water level change was a drop of 52 cm at Crystalaire. Most of the steplike water-level changes recorded following the Northridge earthquake agreed in direction with the sign of the calculated coseismic volume...
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E.G. Quilty, C. D. Farrar, D. L. Galloway, S. N. Hamlin, R. J. Laczniak, E.A. Roeloffs, M.L. Sorey, D.E. Woodcock
Volcanic-hazard zonation for Mount St. Helens, Washington, 1995 Volcanic-hazard zonation for Mount St. Helens, Washington, 1995
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Authors
E.W. Wolfe, T.C. Pierson