Publications
Scientific literature and information products produced by Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center staff.
USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Publications Warehouse
Browse the USGS Publications Warehouse to broaden your search with enhanced filtering.
Sound Waves Newsletter
Sound Waves Newsletter
Browse issues of Sound Waves, featuring USGS coastal and marine research news.
Filter Total Items: 1781
An inter-comparison test of an RD Instruments' workhorse ADCP mounted in a new trawl-resistant bottom mount, an RD instruments' broadband ADCP and Vector measuring current meter An inter-comparison test of an RD Instruments' workhorse ADCP mounted in a new trawl-resistant bottom mount, an RD instruments' broadband ADCP and Vector measuring current meter
No abstract available.
Authors
M. Martini, P. Clay
A classification of quaternary dating methods A classification of quaternary dating methods
No abstract available.
Authors
S.M. Colman, K. L. Pierce
A new view into the Cascadia subduction zone and volcanic arc: Implications for earthquake hazards along the Washington margin A new view into the Cascadia subduction zone and volcanic arc: Implications for earthquake hazards along the Washington margin
In light of suggestions that the Cascadia subduction margin may pose a significant seismic hazard for the highly populated Pacific Northwest region of the United States, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Research Center for Marine Geosciences (GEOMAR), and university collaborators collected and interpreted a 530-km-long wide-angle onshore-offshore seismic transect across the...
Authors
T. Parsons, A.M. Trehu, J.H. Luetgert, K. Miller, F. Kilbride, R.E. Wells, M. A. Fisher, E. Flueh, Uri S. ten Brink, N.I. Christensen
The Toms Canyon structure, New Jersey outer continental shelf: A possible late Eocene impact crater The Toms Canyon structure, New Jersey outer continental shelf: A possible late Eocene impact crater
The Toms Canyon structure [~20-22 km wide] is located on the New Jersey outer continental shelf beneath 80-100 m of water, and is buried by ~1 km of upper Eocene to Holocene sedimentary strata. The structure displays several characteristics typical of terrestrial impact craters (flat floor; upraised faulted rim: brecciated sedimentary fill), but several other characteristics are atypical...
Authors
C. W. Poag, L. J. Poppe
Metal concentrations in surface sediments of Boston Harbor: Changes with time Metal concentrations in surface sediments of Boston Harbor: Changes with time
The concentrations of metals in surface sediments of Boston Harbor have decreased during the period 1977–1993. This conclusion is supported by analysis of: (1) surface sediments collected at monitoring stations in the outer harbor between 1977 and 1993; (2) metal concentration profiles in sediment cores from depositional areas of the harbor; and (3) historical data from a contaminated...
Authors
Michael H. Bothner, Marilyn R. Buchholtz ten Brink, F.T. Manheim
Analysis of coastal change in Marie Byrd Land and Ellsworth Land, West Antarctica, using Landsat imagery Analysis of coastal change in Marie Byrd Land and Ellsworth Land, West Antarctica, using Landsat imagery
The U.S. Geological Survey is using Landsat imagery from the early 1970s and mid- to late 1980s/early 1990s to analyze glaciological features, compile a glacier inventory, measure surface velocities of outlet glaciers, ice streams and ice shelves, determine coastline change and calculate the area and volume of iceberg calving in Antarctica. Ice-surface velocities in Marie Byrd and...
Authors
Jane G. Ferrigno, Richard S. Williams, Christine E. Rosanova, Baerbel K. Lucchitta, Charles Swithinbank
Oceanic methane hydrate: The character of the Blake Ridge hydrate stability zone, and the potential for methane extraction Oceanic methane hydrate: The character of the Blake Ridge hydrate stability zone, and the potential for methane extraction
Oceanic methane hydrates are mineral deposits formed from a crystalline 'ice' of methane and water in sea-floor sediments (buried to less than about 1 km) in water depths greater than about 500 m; economic hydrate deposits are probably restricted to water depths of between 1.5 km and 4 km. Gas hydrates increase a sediment's strength both by 'freezing' the sediment and by filling the pore...
Authors
M.D. Max, William P. Dillon
Major occurrences and reservoir concepts of marine clathrate hydrates: Implications of field evidence Major occurrences and reservoir concepts of marine clathrate hydrates: Implications of field evidence
This paper is part of the special publication Gas hydrates: relevance to world margin stability and climatic change (eds J.P. Henriet and J. Mienert). Questions concerning clathrate hydrate as an energy resource, as a factor in modifying global climate and as a triggering mechanism for mass movements invite consideration of what factors promote hydrate concentration, and what the...
Authors
J.S. Booth, W.J. Winters, William P. Dillon, M. B. Clennell, M.M. Rowe
Evidence for faulting related to dissociation of gas hydrate and release of methane off the southeastern United States Evidence for faulting related to dissociation of gas hydrate and release of methane off the southeastern United States
This paper is part of the special publication Gas hydrates: relevance to world margin stability and climatic change (eds J.P. Henriet and J. Mienert). An irregular, faulted, collapse depression about 38 x 18 km in extent is located on the crest of the Blake Ridge offshore from the south- eastern United States. Faults disrupt the sea floor and terminate or sole out about 40-500 m below...
Authors
William P. Dillon, W. W. Danforth, D. R. Hutchinson, R.M. Drury, M.H. Taylor, J.S. Booth
Sediments from lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas: Database development and preliminary synthesis of historical chemical and other environmental data Sediments from lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas: Database development and preliminary synthesis of historical chemical and other environmental data
No abstract available.
Authors
F.T. Manheim, A. McIntire, George C. Flowers, M. Marot, C. W. Holmes
Heat flow and geothermal field in Siberia Heat flow and geothermal field in Siberia
No abstract available.
Authors
A.J. Golmshtok, A. Duchkov, D. R. Hutchinson, S.B. Khanukaev, A.I. El’nikov
Preliminary results of the first scientific Drilling on Lake Baikal, Buguldeika site, southeastern Siberia Preliminary results of the first scientific Drilling on Lake Baikal, Buguldeika site, southeastern Siberia
The Baikal Drilling Project (BDP) is a multinational effort to investigate the paleoclimatic history and tectonic evolution of the Baikal sedimentary basin during the Late Neogene. In March 1993 the Baikal drilling system was successfuly deployed from a barge frozen into position over a topographic high, termed the Buguldeika saddle, in the southern basin of Lake Baikal. The BDP-93...
Authors
Douglas F. Williams, S. Colman, M. Grachev, P. Hearn, Shoji Horie, T. Kawai, Mikhail I. Kuzmin, N. Logachov, V. Antipin, A. Bardardinov, A. Bucharov, V. Fialkov, A. Gorigljad, B. Tomilov, B.N. Khakhaev, S. Kochikov, N. Logachev, L.A. Pevzner, E.B. Karabanov, V. Mats, E. Baranova, O. Khlystov, E. Khrachenko, M. Shimaraeva, E. Stolbova, S. Efremova, A. Gvozdkov, A. Kravchinski, J. Peck, T. Fileva, S. Kashik, T. Khramtsova, I. Kalashnikova, T. Rasskazova, V. Tatarnikova, Richard Yuretich, V. Mazilov, K. Takemura, V. Bobrov, T. Gunicheva, H. Haraguchi, S. Ito, T. Kocho, M. Markova, V. Pampura, O. Proidakova, R. Ishiwatari, H. Sawatari, A. Takeuchi, K. Toyoda, S. Vorobieva, A. Ikeda, A. Marui, T. Nakamura, K. Ogura, Takeshi Ohta, J. King, H. Sakai, T. Yokoyama, A. Hayashida, E. Bezrukova, S. Fowell, N. Fujii, P. Letunova, V. Misharina, N. Miyoshi, G. Chernyaeva, I. Ignatova, E. Likhoshvai, L. Granina, O. Levina, P. Dolgikh, F. Lazo, N. Lutskaia, W. Orem, E. Wada, K. Yamada, S. Yamada, E. Callander, L. Golobokoval, W. C. Pat Shanks, R. Dorofeeva, A. Duchkov