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Progress on seismic zonation in the San Francisco Bay region Progress on seismic zonation in the San Francisco Bay region
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Authors
Earl E. Brabb
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.
Authors
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...
Authors
Edward A. Mankinen, G. Brent Dalrymple
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...
Authors
Sherman Gromme, Edward A. Mankinen, Monte Marshall, Robert S. Coe
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...
Authors
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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Authors
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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Authors
William F. Hanna, Earl E. Brabb
Uranium abundances and distribution in associated glassy and crystalline rhyolites of the western United States Uranium abundances and distribution in associated glassy and crystalline rhyolites of the western United States
The abundance and distribution of uranium have been determined in 11 units of rhyolitic lava and ash-flow tuff of calc-alkaline and transitional composition from the western United States in order to further evaluate the potential of rhyolitic glass as a source of uranium ores. Samples consist of coexisting obsidians, perlites, and felsites that range in age from Pleistocene to Oligocene...
Authors
Robert A. Zielinski
Apollo over the Moon: A view from orbit Apollo over the Moon: A view from orbit
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Authors
Harold Masursky, G. W. Colton, Farouk El-Baz, Frederick J. Doyle, Richard E. Eggleton, Maurice J. Grolier, James W. Head, Carroll Ann Hodges, Keith A. Howard, Leon J. Kosofsky, Baerbel K. Lucchitta, Michael C. McEwen, Henry J. Moore, Gerald G. Schaber, David H. Scott, Laurence A. Soderblom, Mareta West, D.E. Wilhems
Early Cretaceous metamorphic age of the South Fork Mountain Schist in the northern Coast Ranges of California Early Cretaceous metamorphic age of the South Fork Mountain Schist in the northern Coast Ranges of California
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Authors
Marvin A. Lanphere, M. Clark Blake, W. P. Irwin
Examples of seismic zonation in the San Francisco Bay region Examples of seismic zonation in the San Francisco Bay region
No abstract available.
Authors
W. J. Kockelman, E. E. Brabb