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Illustrations
A cone diagram showing a slice of the Earth's crust with continental (gray) and oceanic crust (black).

Crust
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Continental crust

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On the estimation of temperatures at moderate depths in the crust of the Earth

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Aleutian basin oceanic crust

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A digital crust to advance continental‐scale modeling of subsurface fluid flow in climate, crustal process, and Earth system models

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Complex carbonate ore mineralogy in the Mountain Pass carbonatite rare earth element deposit, USA

Data Release
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Global ferromanganese crust and abyssal ferromanganese nodule prospective occurrence regions

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E is for earth

Presentations and Events

PubTalk 1/2013 — Exploring the Earth's Crust
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Volcanic explosion penetrates both upper atmosphere and upper crust around the globe

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Completing the dryland puzzle: creating a predictive framework for biological soil crust function and response to climate change

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A window into Yellowstone's interior, part II: The Yellowstone crust-mantle volcanic system

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The impact environment of the Hadean Earth

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Dynamics of the Continental Crust: suggestions for U.S. Geological Survey research in the 1980's

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Earth’s upper crust seismically excited by infrasound from the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai eruption, Tonga

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Trace element chemistry of zircons from oceanic crust: A method for distinguishing detrital zircon provenance

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Implications of regional gravity for state of stress in the earth's crust and upper mantle

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Rare earth elements in coal and coal fly ash

Podcasts
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The Heavens on Earth
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MT+, integrating magnetotellurics to determine earth structure, physical state, and processes

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Seismicity of the Earth 1900-2007, Nazca Plate and South America

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Juvenile continental crust evolution in a modern oceanic arc setting: Petrogenesis of Cenozoic felsic plutons in Fiji, SW Pacific

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Developing tools to image the Earth in 3D using gravity and magnetic fields

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Elizabeth S Cochran
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Cutaway views showing the internal structure of the Earth. Left: To...

Cutaway views showing the internal structure of the Earth. Left: To...
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Seismicity of the Earth 1900-2013, seismotectonics of South America (Nazca Plate Region)

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The relation between earth movements and volcanism in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado

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Rare Earth Elements in U.S. Not So Rare
Research
Developing tools to image the Earth in 3D using gravity and magnetic fields

Developing tools to image the Earth in 3D using gravity and magnetic fields - Anjana Shah

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Upper Jurassic mafic magmatic rocks of the eastern Klamath Mountains, northern California: remnant of a volcanic arc built on young continental crust

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