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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...
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C. W. Poag, L.J. Poppe
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...
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M.D. Max, William P. Dillon
Brief notes on habitat geology and clay pipe habitat on Stellwagen Bank Brief notes on habitat geology and clay pipe habitat on Stellwagen Bank
In our studies of sea floor habitats, my colleagues and I use both biological and geological approaches. We call our studies “habitat geology,” a term coined by a biologist friend of mine. We view it as the study of sea floor materials and biological and geological processes that influence where species live. Some of the factors that we consider are the following:composition of the sea...
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Page C. Valentine
Water-level changes in Lake Baikal, Siberia: Tectonism versus climate Water-level changes in Lake Baikal, Siberia: Tectonism versus climate
Relative changes in the level of Lake Baikal, amounting to hundreds of meters in Quaternary time, are well documented. Data presented here show that tectonic displacements of the lake outlet or former shoreline features are entirely sufficient to explain these relative lake-level changes. In contrast, the morphology and hydrology of the lake make its level hydrologically insensitive to...
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Steven M. Colman
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...
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William P. Dillon, W. W. Danforth, D. R. Hutchinson, R.M. Drury, M.H. Taylor, J.S. Booth
Heat flow and geothermal field in Siberia Heat flow and geothermal field in Siberia
No abstract available.
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A.J. Golmshtok, A. Duchkov, D. R. Hutchinson, S.B. Khanukaev, A.I. El’nikov
The reconstruction of short intense cooling events in northern Asia during interglacial period (isotopic stages 5, 7, 9) from the long continental records from Lake Baikal sediments The reconstruction of short intense cooling events in northern Asia during interglacial period (isotopic stages 5, 7, 9) from the long continental records from Lake Baikal sediments
No abstract available.
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E.B. Karabanov, D. Williams, A.A. Prokopenko, S. Fowell, Pierre Francus, S. Colman, Mikhail I. Kuzmin, E. Bezrukova, V. Misharina
Geophysical evidence for late Cenozoic subglacial volcanism beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet and additional speculation as to its origin Geophysical evidence for late Cenozoic subglacial volcanism beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet and additional speculation as to its origin
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John C. Behrendt, D. D. Blankenship, D. Damaske, A. K. Cooper, C. Finn, R.E. Bell, C. Ricci
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...
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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
Science in the Gulf of Maine: Directions for the 1990's Science in the Gulf of Maine: Directions for the 1990's
No abstract available.
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Bradford Butman, Robert C. Beardsley
Offset-vertical seismic profiling for marine gas hydrate exploration: Is it a suitable technique? First results from ODP Leg 164 Offset-vertical seismic profiling for marine gas hydrate exploration: Is it a suitable technique? First results from ODP Leg 164
Walkaway vertical seismic profiles were acquired during Ocean Drilling Project (ODP) Leg 164 at the Blake Ridge to investigate seismic properties of hydrate-bearing sediments and the zone of free gas beneath them. An evaluation of compressional (P-) wave arrivals Site 994 indicates P-wave anisotrophy in the sediment column. We identified several shear (S-) wave arrivals in the horizontal
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I.A. Pecher, W.S. Holbrook, R.A. Stephen, H. Hoskins, D. Lizarralde, D. R. Hutchinson, W.T. Wood
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.
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F.T. Manheim, A. McIntire, George C. Flowers, M. Marot, C. W. Holmes