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Comments and replies on ‘Biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of Paleocene terrestrial deposits, San Juan Basin, New Mexico’: Comment Comments and replies on ‘Biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of Paleocene terrestrial deposits, San Juan Basin, New Mexico’: Comment
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James E. Fassett
Risk preferences and flood insurance Risk preferences and flood insurance
A detailed theoretical model characterizing the individual's decision to purchase flood insurance is specified and the magnitude of the risk parameter is estimated using data based on transactions of flood insurance purchases. Empirical results for several samples of this subset of the general population indicated that consumers exhibited a relatively uniform degree of risk aversion...
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Emil D. Attanasi, Michael R. Karlinger
Nature of firm expectations in petroleum exploration Nature of firm expectations in petroleum exploration
Recent interest in the state of the United States domestic petroleum industry has resulted in an increased concern regarding the ability of current large- scale econometric models to provide useful predictions about supply price sensitivity and about the effects of differing policy options on future supply. The petroleum industry's exploration and reserve response functions appear to...
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Emil D. Attanasi
Frontier Formation and equivalent rocks in eastern Wyoming Frontier Formation and equivalent rocks in eastern Wyoming
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E. Allen Merewether, W. A. Cobban, E.T. Cavanaugh
Comment and reply on ‘Mapped offset on the right-lateral Kern Canyon fault, southern Sierra Nevada, California’: Reply Comment and reply on ‘Mapped offset on the right-lateral Kern Canyon fault, southern Sierra Nevada, California’: Reply
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James G. Moore, Edward A. du Bray
Annotated bibliography of landslides in the Circumpacific region exclusive of the Soviet Union and the United States Annotated bibliography of landslides in the Circumpacific region exclusive of the Soviet Union and the United States
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Fred A. Taylor, Earl E. Brabb
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Geology, Energy, and Minerals Mission Area, Natural Hazards Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Landslide Hazards Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center
Terrain corrections for borehole gravity measurements Terrain corrections for borehole gravity measurements
This note presents examples of terrain corrections calculated for borehole gravity surveys made in a variety of topographic settings. The effect of terrain corrections on vertical density profiles calculated from borehole gravity measurements also is shown.
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Larry A. Beyer
Revised geomagnetic polarity time scale for the interval 0–5 m.y. B.P. Revised geomagnetic polarity time scale for the interval 0–5 m.y. B.P.
A change in the constants used in K‐Ar dating and a significant increase in new data have made a recompilation and recomputation of data used to define the Late Cenozoic K‐Ar polarity time scale highly desirable at this time. All available data in the range 0–5 m.y. have been recalculated using the refined constants, with 354 data points in this time interval now meeting the minimum...
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Edward A. Mankinen, G. Brent Dalrymple
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Geomagnetic paleointensities by the Thelliers' method from submarine pillow basalts: Effects of seafloor weathering Geomagnetic paleointensities by the Thelliers' method from submarine pillow basalts: Effects of seafloor weathering
Measurements of geomagnetic paleointensity using the Thelliers' double‐heating method in vacuum have been made on 10 specimens of submarine pillow basalt obtained from 7 fragments dredged from localities 700,000 years old or younger. In the magnetic minerals, the titanium/iron ratio parameter x and the cation deficiency (oxidation) parameter x were determined by X‐ray diffraction and...
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Sherman Gromme, Edward A. Mankinen, Monte Marshall, Robert S. Coe
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Assessing Metallic Resources in Alaska Assessing Metallic Resources in Alaska
In the last two decades federal and state governments have become in creasingly preoccupied with classi fying public lands according to the uses that may be made of them. One outcome of the classifying can be a change in the land's legal status from one in which any use is tolerated to one in which only selected activities are allowed. Since such a change af fects the economic and...
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Donald A. Singer, A. Thomas Ovenshine
Preliminary geologic map of the Castle Rock Ridge Quadrangle, Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties, California Preliminary geologic map of the Castle Rock Ridge Quadrangle, Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties, California
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Earl E. Brabb, T. W. Dibblee
Maps showing aeromagnetic anomalies, faults, earthquake epicenters, and igneous and volcanic rocks in the southern San Francisco Bay region, California Maps showing aeromagnetic anomalies, faults, earthquake epicenters, and igneous and volcanic rocks in the southern San Francisco Bay region, California
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William F. Hanna, Earl E. Brabb