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Earthquake recurrence estimates for northern Caribbean faults from combinatorial optimization

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Pragmatically mapping Phragmites with unoccupied aerial systems: A comparison of invasive species land cover classification using RGB and multispectral imagery

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Hydroacoustic observations reveal drivers of mixing and salinization of a karst subterranean estuary during intense precipitation

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Patterns of late Cenozoic volcanic and tectonic activity in the West Antarctic rift system revealed by aeromagnetic surveys Patterns of late Cenozoic volcanic and tectonic activity in the West Antarctic rift system revealed by aeromagnetic surveys

Aeromagnetic surveys, spaced ≤5 km, over widely separated areas of the largely ice- and sea-covered West Antarctic rift system, reveal similar patterns of 100- to 1700-nT, shallow-source magnetic anomalies interpreted as evidence of extensive late Cenozoic volcanism. We use the aeromagnetic data to extend the volcanic rift interpretation over West Antarctica starting with anomalies over...
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John C. Behrendt, R. Saltus, D. Damaske, A. McCafferty, C. A. Finn, D. Blankenship, R.E. Bell
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

High-resolution seismic-reflection surveys of Lake Baikal, Siberia, 1990-1992 High-resolution seismic-reflection surveys of Lake Baikal, Siberia, 1990-1992

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Steven M. Colman, D.S. Foster, Josephine Hatton
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

A review of the tectonic problems of the strike-slip northern boundary of the Caribbean Plate and examination by GLORIA A review of the tectonic problems of the strike-slip northern boundary of the Caribbean Plate and examination by GLORIA

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William P. Dillon, N. Terence Edgar, Kathryn M. Scanlon, Dwight F. Coleman
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Analysis of the mobility of far reaching debris flows on the Mississippi Fan, Gulf of Mexico Analysis of the mobility of far reaching debris flows on the Mississippi Fan, Gulf of Mexico

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J. Locat, H. J. Lee, H.C. Nelson, W. C. Schwab, D.C. Twichell
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Osmium isotopes and silver as tracers of anthropogenic metals in sediments from Massachusetts and Cape Cod bays Osmium isotopes and silver as tracers of anthropogenic metals in sediments from Massachusetts and Cape Cod bays

High concentrations of osmium (Os) and silver (Ag) and low 187Os/186Os ratios in Boston sewage make these elements sensitive tracers of the influence of sewage on marine sediments in Massachusetts and Cape Cod bays. Pristine marine sediments have Ag concentrations more than 200 times lower than sewage sludge, Os concentrations 10-40 times lower, and 187Os/186Os ratios six times higher...
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G.E. Ravizza, Michael H. Bothner
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Silt heavy-mineral distributions off the Southeastern United States Silt heavy-mineral distributions off the Southeastern United States

Until recently heavy-mineral studies of marine sediments were largely restricted to sand fractions. New techniques permitting analysis of decalcified silt fractions have been applied to sediments off the southeastern United States. Our data, which confirm predictions from the basic relationship among grain size, specific gravity, and equivalent hydraulic transport behavior, show that
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L.J. Poppe, J.A. Commeau
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

[Book Review] J.P. Riley, R. Chester (Eds.) SEAREX: The sea/air exchange program, a review with comments on recovery of data, from large earth-science research programs, chemical oceanography, Vol. 10, Academic Press (1989), 404p., US $48.00 (ISBN 0-12-58 [Book Review] J.P. Riley, R. Chester (Eds.) SEAREX: The sea/air exchange program, a review with comments on recovery of data, from large earth-science research programs, chemical oceanography, Vol. 10, Academic Press (1989), 404p., US $48.00 (ISBN 0-12-58

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F.T. Manheim
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Impact origin of the Chesapeake Bay structure and the source of the North American tektites Impact origin of the Chesapeake Bay structure and the source of the North American tektites

Seismic profiles, drill core samples, and gravity data suggest that a complex impact crater ~35.5 million years old and 90 kilometers in diameter is buried beneath the lower Chesapeake Bay. The breccia that fills the structure contains evidence of shock metamorphism, including impact melt breccias and multiple sets of planar deformation features (shock lamellae) in quartz and feldspar...
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C. Koeberl, C. W. Poag, W.U. Reimold, D. Brandt
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Chesapeake Bay Activities, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Character, paleoenvironment, rate of accumulation, and evidence for seismic triggering of Holocene turbidites, Canada Abyssal Plain, Arctic Ocean Character, paleoenvironment, rate of accumulation, and evidence for seismic triggering of Holocene turbidites, Canada Abyssal Plain, Arctic Ocean

Four box cores and one piston core show that Holocene sedimentation on the southern Canada Abyssal Plain for the last 8010 ± 120 yr has consisted of a continuing rain of pelagic organic and ice-rafted clastic sediment with a net accumulation rate during the late Holocene of ⩽10 mm/1000 yr, and episodically emplaced turbidites 1–5 m thick deposited at intervals of 830 to 3450 yr (average...
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A. Grantz, R. L. Phillips, M. W. Mullen, S. W. Starratt, Glenn A. Jones, A.S. Naidu, B. P. Finney
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Images of crust beneath southern California will aid study of earthquakes and their effects Images of crust beneath southern California will aid study of earthquakes and their effects

The Whittier Narrows earthquake of 1987 and the Northridge earthquake of 1991 highlighted the earthquake hazards associated with buried faults in the Los Angeles region. A more thorough knowledge of the subsurface structure of southern California is needed to reveal these and other buried faults and to aid us in understanding how the earthquake-producing machinery works in this region.
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G. S. Fuis, D. A. Okaya, R.W. Clayton, W. J. Lutter, T. Ryberg, T.M. Brocher, T.M. Henyey, M.L. Benthien, P.M. Davis, J. Mori, R. D. Catchings, Uri S. ten Brink, M.D. Kohler, Kim D. Klitgord, R. G. Bohannon
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Seismic reflection profile of the Blake Ridge near sites 994, 995, and 997 Seismic reflection profile of the Blake Ridge near sites 994, 995, and 997

Seismic reflection profiles near Sites 994, 995, and 997 were collected with seismic sources that provide maximum resolution with adequate power to image the zone of gas hydrate stability and the region direction beneath it. The overall structure of the sediment drift deposit that constitutes the Blake Ridge consists of southwestward-dipping strata. These strata are approximately...
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William P. Dillon, Deborah R. Hutchinson, Rebecca M. Drury
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Mineral intergrowths replaced by "elbow-twinned" rutile in altered rocks Mineral intergrowths replaced by "elbow-twinned" rutile in altered rocks

Some aggregates of rutile, classically considered to be "elbow" twinned, instead are topotactic replacements of ilmenite or other hexagonal titaniferous precursors. Twinned rutile can be differentiated from the reticulated rutile of topotactic replacements by the angle of prism intersections, junction morphology, and the overall form of the aggregate. In a special case of topotactic...
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E. R. Force, R. P. Richards, K. M. Scott, P. C. Valentine, N.S. Fishman
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
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