Stratigraphic reference section for Georges Bank Basin - Depositional model for New England passive margin.
C. Wylie Poag
1982, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (66) 1021-1041
A multichannel seismic reflection profile (U.S. Geological Survey line 19), calibrated with the COST G-1, COST G-2, and Shell Mohican I-100 wells, and seismic-sequence analysis shows that the chronostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic units and depositional history of the Georges Bank basin are similar to those of the Scotian basin. Carbonate rocks...
Geometry of a mapping satellite.
J.P. Snyder
1982, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (48) 1593-1602
The proposed mapping satellite Mapsat is to consist of fixed fore, vertical, and aft linear detector arrays, any two of which may be used simultaneously to obtain digital images for one- dimensional stereo correlation. The satellite attitude may be varied according to Fourier series to enable a given detector on...
A rapid method for concentrating sedimentary organic matter for vitrinite reflectance analysis
C.E. Barker
1982, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology (52) 663-664
The tecnique discussed in this paper utilizes crushing, high-speed blending, and ultrasonic treatment to mechanically disaggregate rock and release the sedimentary organic matter (OM) in a suitable heavy liquid. This new method can provide freeze-dried concentrated OM in approximately 8 to 24 hours (longer time is necessary for removing carbonate)....
Geotechnical characteristics of bottom sediments in the northeastern Bering Sea.
H. W. Olsen, E.C. Clukey, C.H. Nelson
1982, Geologie en Mijnbouw (61) 91-103
Sediment of Holocene age derived from the Yukon River, consisting dominantly of silty fine sand and sandy silt, covers the bottom of central and western Norton Sound, which is a high energy environment involving extensive ice loading, high waves, and strong bottom currents. The sediment characteristics indicate that it is...
Distribution, mineralogy, and texture of manganese nodules and their relation to sedimentation at DOMES Site A in the equatorial North Pacific
David Z. Piper, J. R. Blueford
1982, Deep Sea Research Part A, Oceanographic Research Papers (29) 927-951
DOMES Site A, in the equatorial North Pacific, was surveyed in detail in an attempt to relate the distribution of nodules to sedimentation. The sea floor is characterized by a broad east-west-trending valley defined by strongly dissected highlands to the north and...
Water-soluble material on aerosols collected within volcanic eruption clouds
D. B. Smith, R. A. Zielinski, W.I. Rose Jr., B.J. Huebert
1982, Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans (87) 4963-4972
In February and March of 1978, filter samplers mounted on an aircraft were used to collect the aerosol fraction of the eruption clouds from three active Guatemalan volcanoes (Fuego, Pacaya, and Santiaguito). The samples were collected on Teflon (Fluoropore) filters with a nominal pore diameter of 0.5μm. The mass of...
USGS aerial resolution targets.
P.H. Salamonowicz
1982, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (48) 1469-1473
It is necessary to measure the achievable resolution of any airborne sensor that is to be used for metric purposes. Laboratory calibration facilities may be inadequate or inappropriate for determining the resolution of non-photographic sensors such as optical-mechanical scanners, television imaging tubes, and linear arrays. However, large target arrays imaged...
Mineral composition of small-grain cultivars from a uniform test plot in South Dakota
J. A. Erdman, R.C. Moul
1982, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (30) 169-174
Seventy-five cultivated varieties (cultivars) of hard red spring wheat (HRS), hard red winter wheat (HRW), durum wheat, oats, and barley were harvested in 1974 from a small-grain trial plot in Harding County, SD, just north of Buffalo. Analysis of the grains reported here includes crude protein for only the wheat...
Three FORTRAN programs for finite-difference solutions to binary diffusion in one and two phases with composition-and time-dependent diffusion coefficients
R.F. Sanford
1982, Computers & Geosciences (8) 235-263
Geological examples of binary diffusion are numerous. They are potential indicators of the duration and rates of geological processes. Analytical solutions to the diffusion equations generally do not allow for variable diffusion coefficients, changing boundary conditions, and impingement of diffusion fields. The three programs presented here are based on Crank-Nicholson...
Contemporary block tectonics: California and Nevada
D.P. Hill
1982, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth (87) 5433-5450
Well-determined fault plane solution and the gross pattern of late-Cenozoic faulting in California and Nevada show a systematic relation between the orientation of fault planes and slip directions. In general, normal faults have northerly strikes, reverse faults have easterly strikes, and dextral and sinstral strike slip faults have northwesterly and...
The effect of sulfate on aluminum concentrations in natural waters: some stability relations in the system Al2O3-SO3-H2O at 298 K
D. Kirk Nordstrom
1982, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (46) 681-692
While gibbsite and kaolinite solubilities usually regulate aluminum concentrations in natural waters, the presence of sulfate can dramatically alter these solubilities under acidic conditions, where other, less soluble minerals can control the aqueous geochemistry of aluminum. The likely candidates include alunogen, Al2(SO4)3 · 17H2O, alunite, KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6, jurbanite, Al(SO4)(OH) · 5H2O, and...
Obtaining maps and data from the U.S. Geological Survey
Cheryl A. Hallam
1982, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (7) 283-294
The U.S. Geological Survey produces a variety of resource information for the United States. This includes many data bases of particular interest to planners such as land use and terrain information prepared by the National Mapping Division, water quantity and quality data collected by Water Resources Division, and coal resource...
An automatic optimum kernel-size selection technique for edge enhancement
Pat S. Chavez Jr., Brian P. Bauer
1982, Remote Sensing of Environment (12) 23-38
Edge enhancement is a technique that can be considered, to a first order, a correction for the modulation transfer function of an imaging system. Digital imaging systems sample a continuous function at discrete intervals so that high-frequency information cannot be recorded at the same precision as lower frequency data. Because...
Biostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of Miocene- Pliocene hemipelagic limestone: Kingshill Seaway, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.
B. H. Lidz
1982, Journal of Foraminiferal Research (12) 205-233
The Kingshill Limestone and younger carbonate rocks constitute the central portion of St. Croix, forming the remains of an ancient seaway that was flanked by emergent highlands. The seaway has been filled with thick epipelagic sediments alternating with carbonate turbidites and ash falls and capped with shallow-water reefal and terrigenous...
Stream-grade variation and riparian-forest ecology along Passage Creek, Virginia
Cliff R. Hupp
1982, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (109) 488-499
Passage Creek, in northwestern Virginia, flows on relatively nonresistant shales, then cuts through a gorge underlain by resistant sandstone In the gorge, the stream gradient steepens, the size of bed material increases, a braided channel forms, and riparian-forest composition and growth form changes relative to areas outside the gorge Effects...
Late Eocene- Oligocene magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy at South Atlantic DSDP site 522
R.Z. Poore, L. Tauxe, S.F. Percival Jr., John L. LaBrecque
1982, Geology (10) 508-511
Upper Eocene to lowest Miocene sediments recovered at Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Site 522 in the South Atlantic Ocean allow direct calibration of magnetostratigraphy and calcareous plankton biostratigraphy. The results from Site 522 show that the Eocene/Oligocene boundary occurs in the reversed...
An equation correlating the solubility of quartz in water from 25° to 900°C at pressures up to 10,000 bars
Robert O. Fournier, Robert W. Potter II
1982, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (46) 1969-1973
The solubility of quartz in water from 25° to 900°C at specific volume of the solvent ranging from about 1 to 10 and from 300° to 600°C at specific volume of the solvent ranging from about 10 to 100 is given by an empirically derived equation of the form: log m = A + B(log V)...
Sources, sinks and storage of river sediments in the Atlantic drainage of the United States
R.H. Meade
1982, Journal of Geology (90) 235-252
The history of sediment and its movement in the Atlantic drainage demonstrate some of the difficulties of modeling sediment on a river-basin scale. Soil erosion was accelerated by a factor of at least 10 when European settlers cleared forests and planted crops. Although increasing soil-conservation practice and decreasing crop farming...
Comparison of platinum, palladium, and rhodium distributions in some layered intrusions with special reference to the late differentiates (upper zone) of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa
N.J. Page, G. Von Gruenewaldt, J. Haffty, P. J. Aruscavage
1982, Economic Geology (77) 1405-1418
The Stillwater, Fiskenaesset, and Bushveld Complexes are all composed of layered ultramafic and mafic rocks in which the cumulus phases generally appear in a regular order, which have similar petrologic and chemical characteristics, which are all Precambrian in age, and which contain platinum-group elements that vary widely in their abundances...
Upper crustal structure of the Mount Hood, Oregon, region as revealed by time term analysis
W.M. Kohler, J. H. Healy, S.S. Wegener
1982, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth (87) 339-355
Seismic refraction data with a dense areal distribution were collected to study the seismic structure of Mount Hood and the surrounding region. This area is typical of Cascade volcanoes and is geologically quite complex. The prime goals of this project were to search for velocity variations in the upper crustal...
Miocene volcanism and deformation in the western Cordillera and high plateaus of south-central Peru
E.H. McKee, D. C. Noble
1982, Geological Society of America Bulletin (93) 657-662
New radiometric ages on tuffs from south-central Peru support the postulated flare-up of volcanic activity during early Miocene time. In the region of Huancavelica, Julcani, and Lircay, lower Miocene rocks lie on folded strata of pre-Cenozoic age; the absence of units of Eocene...
Mapping of ultramafic rocks in a heavily vegetated terrain using Landsat data
G. L. Raines, J. C. Wynn
1982, Economic Geology (77) 1755-1761
No abstract available....
Storage, migration, and eruption of magma at Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, 1971-1972
W. A. Duffield, R.L. Christiansen, R. Y. Koyanagi, D. W. Peterson
1982, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (13) 273-307
The magmatic plumbing system of Kilauea Volcano consists of a broad region of magma generation in the upper mantle, a steeply inclined zone through which magma rises to an intravolcano reservoir located about 2 to 6 km beneath the summit of the volcano, and a network of conduits that carry...
Periodic climate change on Mars: Review of evidence and effects on distribution of volatiles
M. H. Carr
1982, Icarus (50) 129-139
The polar regions of Mars preserve, in both their layering and their topography, a record of recent climate changes. Because of the coincidence of the growth of the northern seasonal cap with global dust storms, dust may be currently accumulating on...
Active diapirism and slope steepening, northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope
R. G. Martin, A.H. Bouma
1982, Marine Geotechnology (5) 63-91
Large diapiric and nondiapiric masses of Jurassic salt and Tertiary shale underlie the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope and adjacent outer continental shelf. Local steepening of the sea floor in response to the vertical growth of these structures is a serious concern to those involved in the site selection...
