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Crust and lithospheric structure – Global crustal structure Crust and lithospheric structure – Global crustal structure
The Earth’s crust has played an important role in all aspects of this planet’s evolution. This chapter presents a review of our current understanding of the physical properties of the crust on a global basis. This understanding comes from extensive seismic measurements using many techniques, as well as nonseismic geophysics, including gravity, magnetic, geoelectric, and heat flow...
Authors
Walter D. Mooney
Beating effect identified from seismic responses of instrumented buildings Beating effect identified from seismic responses of instrumented buildings
Beating effects observed in the recorded responses of buildings are examined in this paper. Beating is a periodic, resonating and prolonged vibrational behavior caused by distinctive close coupling of translational and torsional modes of a lightly damped structure. Repetitively stored potential energy during the coupled translational and torsional deformations turns into repetitive...
Authors
Mehmet Celebi
A 3-Dimensional Model of Water-Bearing Sequences in the Dominguez Gap Region, Long Beach, California A 3-Dimensional Model of Water-Bearing Sequences in the Dominguez Gap Region, Long Beach, California
A 3-dimensional computer model of the Quaternary sequence stratigraphy in the Dominguez gap region of Long Beach, California has been developed to provide a robust chronostratigraphic framework for hydrologic and tectonic studies. The model consists of 13 layers within a 16.5 by 16.1 km (10.25 by 10 mile) square area and extends downward to an altitude of -900 meters (-2952.76 feet). Ten...
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Daniel J. Ponti, Kenneth D. Ehman, Brian D. Edwards, John C. Tinsley, Thomas Hildenbrand, John W. Hillhouse, Randall T. Hanson, Kristen McDougall, Charles L. Powell, Elmira Wan, Michael Land, Shannon Mahan, Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki
3D Visualization of Earthquake Focal Mechanisms Using ArcScene 3D Visualization of Earthquake Focal Mechanisms Using ArcScene
We created a new tool, 3D Focal Mechanisms (3DFM), for viewing earthquake focal mechanism symbols three dimensionally. This tool operates within the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI®) GIS software ArcScene® 9.x. The program requires as input a GIS point dataset of earthquake locations containing strike, dip, and rake values for a nodal plane of each earthquake. Other...
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Keith A. Labay, Peter J. Haeussler
Protegiendo a su familia de los terremotos-Los siete pasos a la seguridad para prepararse en caso de un terremoto (en espa?ol y en ingles) Protegiendo a su familia de los terremotos-Los siete pasos a la seguridad para prepararse en caso de un terremoto (en espa?ol y en ingles)
Les escribimos esta carta para comunicarle un mensaje sumamente importante sobre las preparaciones de emergencia. Historicamente, hemos sufrido terremotos aqui en el Area de la Bahia de San Francisco que han causado graves privaciones para los residentes de la comunidad y da?os increibles a nuestras ciudades. Es probable que suframos un terremoto de gran magnitud en los proximos 30 a?os...
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Asian Pacific Fund California Earthquake Authority Desarrollado por American Red Cross
Protecting your family from earthquakes: The seven steps to earthquake safety Protecting your family from earthquakes: The seven steps to earthquake safety
This book is provided here because of the importance of preparing for earthquakes before they happen. Experts say it is very likely there will be a damaging San Francisco Bay Area earthquake in the next 30 years and that it will strike without warning. It may be hard to find the supplies and services we need after this earthquake. For example, hospitals may have more patients than they...
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Protecting Your Family From Earthquakes-The Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety (in Spanish and English) Protecting Your Family From Earthquakes-The Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety (in Spanish and English)
This book is provided here to share an important message on emergency preparedness. Historically, we have suffered earthquakes here in the San Francisco Bay Area that have caused severe hardship for residents and incredible damage to our cities. It is likely we will experience a severe earthquake within the next 30 years. Many of us come from other countries where we have experienced...
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Water Resources Division U.S. Geological Survey
Crystal growth of ice-I/hydrate eutectic binary solutions Crystal growth of ice-I/hydrate eutectic binary solutions
No abstract available.
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C. McCarthy, K.D. Rieck, Stephen H. Kirby, W.B. Durham, L.A. Stern, R.F. Cooper
A form and checklist for the description of orchids in the field and laboratory work A form and checklist for the description of orchids in the field and laboratory work
No abstract available.
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Stephen H. Kirby, Melania Munoz
An orchid inventory and conservation project at Bosque de Paz Biological Reserve, Upper Rio Toro Valley, Alajuela, Costa Rica An orchid inventory and conservation project at Bosque de Paz Biological Reserve, Upper Rio Toro Valley, Alajuela, Costa Rica
No abstract available.
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Melania Munoz, Stephen H. Kirby
Geological processes and orchid biogeography with applications to southeast central America Geological processes and orchid biogeography with applications to southeast central America
This contribution owes its origins to a paper presentation by Dr. Calloway H. Dodson at the Second International Conference on Neotropical Orchidology held in San José, Costa Rica in May of2003 (Dodson 2003). Dr. Dodson outlined some ofthe reasons to suspect that regional geological fac-tors may play important roles in orchid speciation and biogeography and gave examples from the...
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Stephen H. Kirby
Experimental geoscience in a freezer: Ice and icy compounds as useful educational analogues for teaching earth and planetary materials science and the physical sciences Experimental geoscience in a freezer: Ice and icy compounds as useful educational analogues for teaching earth and planetary materials science and the physical sciences
No abstract available.
Authors
Stephen H. Kirby