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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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Barrier island erosion accelerating Barrier island erosion accelerating

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R.A. McBride, C.G. Groat, P.S. Penland, S.J. Williams, A. H. Sallenger
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Accretionary margin of north-western Hispaniola: morphology, structure and development of part of the northern Caribbean plate boundary Accretionary margin of north-western Hispaniola: morphology, structure and development of part of the northern Caribbean plate boundary

Broad-range side-scan sonar (GLORIA) images and single- and multi-channel seismic reflection profiles demonstrate that the margin of north-western Hispaniola has experienced compression as a consequence of oblique North American-Caribbean plate convergence. Two principal morphological or structural types of accretionary wedges are observed along this margin. The first type is...
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William P. Dillon, James A. Austin, Kathryn M. Scanlon, Edgar N. Terence, L.M. Parson
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Holocene depocenter migration and sediment accumulation in Delaware Bay: A submerging marginal marine sedimentary basin Holocene depocenter migration and sediment accumulation in Delaware Bay: A submerging marginal marine sedimentary basin

The Holocene transgression of the Delaware Bay estuary and adjacent Atlantic coast results from the combined effect of regional crustal subsidence and eustasy. Together, the estuary and ocean coast constitute a small sedimentary basin whose principal depocenter has migrated with the transgression. A millenial time series of isopach and paleogeographic reconstructions for the migrating...
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C.H. Fletcher, H.J. Knebel, J.C. Kraft
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Woods Hole Image Processing System Software implementation; using NetCDF as a software interface for image processing Woods Hole Image Processing System Software implementation; using NetCDF as a software interface for image processing

The Branch of Atlantic Marine Geology has been involved in the collection, processing and digital mosaicking of high, medium and low-resolution side-scan sonar data during the past 6 years. In the past, processing and digital mosaicking has been accomplished with a dedicated, shore-based computer system. With the need to process sidescan data in the field with increased power and reduced...
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Valerie F. Paskevich
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

A geologic overview of Cape Cod; a guide for the Sigma XI field trip, September 26, 1992 A geologic overview of Cape Cod; a guide for the Sigma XI field trip, September 26, 1992

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R. N. Oldale
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey Branch of Atlantic Marine Geology: Calendar Year 1991 Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey Branch of Atlantic Marine Geology: Calendar Year 1991

This [summary of] U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 92-585 contains a listing of publications authored or co-authored by members of the Branch of Atlantic Marine Geology during 1991. Results of Branch investigations are distributed in a variety of ways, including maps, journal articles, abstracts and U.S.G.S. publications. Copies of U.S.G.S. Open File Reports may generally be...
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Margaret C. Mons-Wengler, Robert N. Oldale
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) user's guide; version 1.0 Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) user's guide; version 1.0

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William W. Danforth, E. Robert Thieler
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

An aeromagnetic survey over the northwestern Ross Ice Shelf and the McMurdo Sound area An aeromagnetic survey over the northwestern Ross Ice Shelf and the McMurdo Sound area

As part of the expedition GANOVEX VI 1990/91, the Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) carried out an airborne magnetic survey over the northwestern Ross Ice Shelf and McMurdo Sound between Ross Island, the Transantarctic Mountains, and Minna Bluff. The...
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Detlef Damaske, Uwe Meyer, Anne E. McCafferty, John Behrendt, Herbert Hoppe
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Access to spatial environmental data for development of an oil spill response geographic Access to spatial environmental data for development of an oil spill response geographic

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M.W. Hiland, M.R. Byrnes, R.A. McBride, S. Penland, K. Ramsey, K. Debusschere, S.J. Williams
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Upper Pleistocene turbidite sand beds and chaotic silt beds in the channelized, distal, outer-fan lobes of the Mississippi fan Upper Pleistocene turbidite sand beds and chaotic silt beds in the channelized, distal, outer-fan lobes of the Mississippi fan

Cores from a Mississippi outer-fan depositional lobe demonstrate that sublobes at the distal edge contain a complex local network of channelized-turbidite beds of graded sand and debris-flow beds of chaotic silt. Off-lobe basin plains lack siliciclastic coarse-grained beds. The basin-plain mud facies exhibit low acoustic backscatter on SeaMARC IA sidescan sonar images, whereas high...
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C.H. Nelson, D.C. Twichell, W. C. Schwab, H.J. Lee, Neil H. Kenyon
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Dating methods applicable to the Quaternary Dating methods applicable to the Quaternary

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J.N. Rosholt, S.M. Colman, M. Stuiver, P.E. Damon, C. W. Naeser, N. D. Naeser, Barney J. Szabo, Daniel R Muhs, J. C. Liddicoat, S.L. Forman, M. N. Machette, K. L. Pierce
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Volcano spacing and plate rigidity Volcano spacing and plate rigidity

In-plane stresses, which accompany the flexural deformation of the lithosphere under the load of adjacent volcanoes, may govern the spacing of volcanoes in hotspot provinces. Specifically, compressive stresses in the vicinity of a volcano prevent new upwelling in this area, forcing a new volcano to develop at a minimum distance that is equal to the distance in which the radial stresses...
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Uri S. ten Brink
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
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