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U.S. Geological Survey
2150 Centre Ave., Bldg. C
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Tungsten appears on the 2018 and 2022 U.S. Geological Survey critical mineral lists in part because of a very high global production concentration in China, which produces almost 83 percent of the world’s mined tungsten. Using known parameters and values from other tungsten mining operations, we created hypothetical scenarios in which three tungsten deposits in Uzbekistan are considered for development. Our results show that all three deposits are likely to be economically viable to develop under 2024 market conditions. If the three studied tungsten deposits were put into production, Uzbekistan could become the third-leading tungsten-producing country in the world and increase world output of tungsten by 2.7 percent. Putting these tungsten deposits in Uzbekistan into production could slightly reduce the tungsten global market concentration, therefore reducing the supply disruption potential for tungsten.
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Humans and animals might well share similar navigational strategies because they developed within the same physical environments. A “map-and-compass” model has been proposed to explain the two-step avian navigational process, but the “map” step has remained elusive. Although scalar values from bicoordinate geomagnetic or atmospheric olfactory gradients have been considered foundational to the avian map, neither has proved convincing engendering decades of controversy. The olfactory map, and an alternative infrasound direction-finding (IDF) hypothesis, are discussed in this review. The olfactory map hypothesis currently requires extensive stable gradients of trace-odor ratios, but such gradients are highly unlikely within a turbulent and rapidly mixed lower atmosphere. The IDF hypothesis, on the other hand, postulates a two-step navigational model analogous to the maritime and aeronautical radio direction-finding technique. 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We analyzed footage from the ~ 7-h summit episode, processing > 87,000 frames using a newly automated method to measure fountain heights, fissure lengths, and inflight ejecta volumes. The summit episode comprised four phases. In Phase 1 (~ 1 h), a ~ 1 km long fissure propagated from southwest to northeast, with steady fountain heights reaching 125 m. In Phase 2 (~ 50 min), two further fissure segments extended the total length to ~ 2.4 km, with fountains focused into point sources reaching up to 70 m. In Phase 3 (~ 70 min), the eruption was steady with no major changes in eruptive behavior. In Phase 4 (~ 4 h), fountains became unsteady and weak (< 30 m). Fissure growth rates varied from ~ 20 to -9 m/min, and bulk magma flux peaked at 2.7 × 104 m3/s. An inverse relationship between maximum fountain heights and fissure lengths suggests that total magma flux was nearly constant until Phase 4. We propose an interconnected feeding system for the summit episode with a preferential pathway for gas-rich magma in the southwest portion of the caldera. The sustained nature of the episode was likely driven by the fast rise of melt coupled with small bubbles, with trains of decoupled larger bubbles producing pulsations. Webcam videography was an effective tool to quantify early-stage eruption parameters and could be further explored for rapid response and fine-tuning of hazard mitigation strategies on erupting basaltic volcanoes.
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Digital elevation models (DEMs) can be used to identify the location and determine the size and shape of closed depressions, but separating artificial depressions due to error from real depressions in DEMs can be difficult. Artificial depressions in the DEMs can result from errors that were inherited from limitations in the source data, the interpolation of the elevation data into a grid of values, or horizontal and vertical accuracy of the elevation data. Because the source dataset used to derive DEMs is only a model of the true landscape, field verification is necessary to separate artificial depressions from real ones in DEMs. DEM analysis alone can only be used to determine whether a depression is likely or unlikely to exist in the landscape.
The U.S. Geological Survey has applied methods to delineate depressions, sinking streams, and their watersheds by using DEMs derived from two sources of elevation data within karst areas of Tennessee and parts of surrounding States. Preliminary depressions, which include all depressions before separating the likely depressions from the unlikely depressions, were delineated from the DEMs with 30- by 30-foot cells derived from each elevation data source. The characteristics of these preliminary depressions were compared to occurrence probabilities for depressions derived from numerical error propagation tests in 10 test areas across the study area and to topographic-contour source data within a 17,739-square-mile test area in middle Tennessee and northern Alabama. The comparison was conducted to determine depression characteristics that, when combined with depression-proximity filters, could be used to separate unlikely from likely depressions. Preliminary depressions were examined in the field at 91 sites in Tennessee, and field observations were compared to digital determinations of unlikely and likely depressions.
The density and size of depressions derived from each elevation dataset were compared within eight karst regions in the study area. Depressions and their watersheds were compiled from each elevation dataset. Sinking streams derived from the National Hydrography Dataset and their watersheds also were compiled for the study area.
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Methods: Water availability data from these models are difficult to validate. New methods using satellite data to classify surface water provide an opportunity to assess the performance of these tools. This study compares water availability estimates derived from Landsat and Sentinel 1 satellite imagery to in situ observations and model simulations of water availability in 22 ephemeral ponds located in the Ferlo region of Senegal.
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Many standardized tools for these tasks exist, including the open‐source package repeating earthquake detector in Python (REDPy). REDPy generates an organized catalog of seismic events from continuous waveform data, in which events are automatically separated into groups (“families”) by their waveform similarity through cross‐correlation. REDPy also automatically generates various outputs that allow a user to visualize important trends in the catalog, which may be used in real time or in retrospective analyses to allow rapid identification of interesting features. The code was designed for near‐real‐time volcano monitoring but is applicable across a broad range of use cases in seismology and seismoacoustics. 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