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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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The effect of diagenesis and fluid migration on rare earth element distribution in pore fluids of the northern Cascadia accretionary margin The effect of diagenesis and fluid migration on rare earth element distribution in pore fluids of the northern Cascadia accretionary margin

Analytical challenges in obtaining high quality measurements of rare earth elements (REEs) from small pore fluid volumes have limited the application of REEs as deep fluid geochemical tracers. Using a recently developed analytical technique, we analyzed REEs from pore fluids collected from Sites U1325 and U1329, drilled on the northern Cascadia margin during the Integrated Ocean Drilling...
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Ji-Hoon Kim, Marta E. Torres, Brian A. Haley, Miriam Kastner, John W. Pohlman, Michael Riedel, Young-Joo Lee
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Holocene aridification of India Holocene aridification of India

Spanning a latitudinal range typical for deserts, the Indian peninsula is fertile instead and sustains over a billion people through monsoonal rains. Despite the strong link between climate and society, our knowledge of the long‐term monsoon variability is incomplete over the Indian subcontinent. Here we reconstruct the Holocene paleoclimate in the core monsoon zone (CMZ) of the Indian...
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C. Ponton, L. Giosan, T.I. Eglinton, D.Q. Fuller, J.E. Johnson, P. Kumar, Timothy S. Collett
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

State of the Earth’s cryosphere at the beginning of the 21st century: Glaciers, global snow cover, floating ice, and permafrost and periglacial environments State of the Earth’s cryosphere at the beginning of the 21st century: Glaciers, global snow cover, floating ice, and permafrost and periglacial environments

This chapter is the tenth in a series of 11 book-length chapters, collectively referred to as “this volume,” in the series U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1386, Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World. In the other 10 chapters, each of which concerns a specific glacierized region of Earth, the authors used remotely sensed images, primarily from the Landsat 1, 2, and 3...
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Richard S. Williams, Thomas G. Huntington, Jane G. Ferrigno, Lonnie Thompson, M.B. Dyurgerov, Mark Meier, Bruce Raup, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Dorothy K. Hall, David A. Robinson, Claire L. Parkinson, D. Cavalieri, Martin O Jeffries, K. Morris, Claude R. Duguay, J. A. Heginbottom, Jerry Brown, Ole Humlum, Harald Svensson, Kevin M. Foley
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Minimum distribution of subsea ice-bearing permafrost on the US Beaufort Sea continental shelf Minimum distribution of subsea ice-bearing permafrost on the US Beaufort Sea continental shelf

Starting in Late Pleistocene time (~19 ka), sea level rise inundated coastal zones worldwide. On some parts of the present-day circum-Arctic continental shelf, this led to flooding and thawing of formerly subaerial permafrost and probable dissociation of associated gas hydrates. Relict permafrost has never been systematically mapped along the 700-km-long U.S. Beaufort Sea continental...
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Laura L. Brothers, Patrick E. Hart, Carolyn D. Ruppel
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Observations of ocean circulation and sediment transport experiment offshore of Fire Island, NY Observations of ocean circulation and sediment transport experiment offshore of Fire Island, NY

Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC), in collaboration with Coastal Carolina University (CCU) and University of South Carolina (USC), conducted a scientific field study to investigate the ocean circulation and sediment transport processes offshore of Fire Island, NY. Although the physical processes along the entire...
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Marinna A. Martini, John C. Warner, Brandy Armstrong, Jeffrey H. List, Ellyn Montgomery, Nicole Marshall
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Late Pleistocene Colus stimpsoni (Mörch, 1868) (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) from a seabed core (2520 m) in the western North Atlantic Late Pleistocene Colus stimpsoni (Mörch, 1868) (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) from a seabed core (2520 m) in the western North Atlantic

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Michael Rex, Jason D. Chaytor, Carol Stuart
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Large submarine sand waves and gravel lag substrates on Georges Bank off Atlantic Canada Large submarine sand waves and gravel lag substrates on Georges Bank off Atlantic Canada

Georges Bank is a large, shallow, continental shelf feature offshore of New England and Atlantic Canada. The bank is mantled with a veneer of glacial debris transported during the late Pleistocene from continental areas lying to the north. These sediments were reworked by marine processes during postglacial sea-level transgression and continue to be modified by the modern oceanic regime...
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B.J. Todd, Page C. Valentine
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

High-resolution geophysical data from the inner continental shelf—Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts High-resolution geophysical data from the inner continental shelf—Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) have cooperated to map approximately 410 square kilometers (km²) of the inner continental shelf in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. This report contains geophysical data collected by the USGS on three cruises conducted in 2009, 2010, and 2011, and additional bathymetry data collected by the...
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Seth D. Ackerman, Brian D. Andrews, David S. Foster, Wayne E. Baldwin, William C. Schwab
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Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Farallon slab detachment and deformation of the Magdalena Shelf, southern Baja California Farallon slab detachment and deformation of the Magdalena Shelf, southern Baja California

Subduction of the Farallon plate beneath northwestern Mexico stalled by ~12 Ma when the Pacific-Farallon spreading-ridge approached the subduction zone. Coupling between remnant slab and the overriding North American plate played an important role in the capture of the Baja California (BC) microplate by the Pacific Plate. Active-source seismic reflection and wide-angle seismic refraction...
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Daniel S. Brothers, Alistair J. Harding, Antonio Gonzalez-Fernandez, W.S. Steven Holbrook, Graham M. Kent, Neal W. Driscoll, John M. Fletcher, Daniel Lizarralde, Paul J. Umhoefer, Gary Axen
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Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Quantifying anthropogenically driven morphologic changes on a barrier island: Fire Island National Seashore, New York Quantifying anthropogenically driven morphologic changes on a barrier island: Fire Island National Seashore, New York

Beach scraping, beach replenishment, and the presence of moderate development have altered the morphology of the dune–beach system at Fire Island National Seashore, located on a barrier island on the south coast of Long Island, New York. Seventeen communities are interspersed with sections of natural, nonmodified land within the park boundary. Beach width, dune elevation change, volume...
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Meredith G. Kratzmann, Cheryl J. Hapke
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Methane hydrate-bearing seeps as a source of aged dissolved organic carbon to the oceans Methane hydrate-bearing seeps as a source of aged dissolved organic carbon to the oceans

Marine sediments contain about 500–10,000 Gt of methane carbon1, 2, 3, primarily in gas hydrate. This reservoir is comparable in size to the amount of organic carbon in land biota, terrestrial soils, the atmosphere and sea water combined1, 4, but it releases relatively little methane to the ocean and atmosphere5. Sedimentary microbes convert most of the dissolved methane to carbon...
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John W. Pohlman, William F. Waite, James E. Bauer, Christopher L. Osburn, N. Ross Chapman
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Surficial geology and benthic habitat of the German Bank seabed, Scotian Shelf, Canada Surficial geology and benthic habitat of the German Bank seabed, Scotian Shelf, Canada

To provide the scientific context for management of a newly opened scallop fishing ground, surficial geology and benthic habitats were mapped on German Bank on the southern Scotian Shelf off Atlantic Canada. To provide a seamless regional dataset, multibeam sonar surveys covered 5320 sqaure kilometres of the bank in water depths of 30–250 m and provided 5 m horizontal resolution...
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Brian J. Todd, Vladimir E. Kostylev
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
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