Teachers guide to geologic trails in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, Pennsylvania–New Jersey
Jack B. Epstein
2010, GSA Field Guides (16) 127-147
The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (DEWA) contains a rich geologic and cultural history within its 68,714 acre boundary. Following the border between New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the Delaware River has cut a magnificent gorge through Kittatinny Mountain, the Delaware Water Gap, to which all other gaps in the...
40Ar/39Ar dating of Silurian and late Devonian cleavages in lower greenschist-facies rocks in the Westminster terrane, Maryland, USA
R. P. Wintsch, Michael J. Kunk, Brian Mulvey, C. Scott Southworth
2010, GSA Bulletin (122) 658-677
40Ar/39Ar dating of muscovite, biotite, and K-feldspar combined with microstructural analysis of lower greenschist-facies, polymetamorphic, phyllitic rocks, and marbles were successfully used to decipher the thermal and tectonic histories of the Westminster and adjacent terranes in western Maryland. The presence of unreset detrital muscovite in some samples demonstrates that temperatures...
Vegetation of eastern Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Stephen S. Talbot, Wilfred B. Schofield, Sandra L. Talbot, Fred J.A. Daniels
2010, Botany (88) 366-388
Plant communities of Unalaska Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands of western Alaska, and their relationship to environmental variables, were studied using a combined Braun-Blanquet and multivariate approach. Seventy relevés represented the range of structural and compositional variation in the matrix of vegetation and landform zonation. Eleven major community types...
To reactivate or not to reactivate: nature and varied behavior of structural inheritance in the Proterozoic basement of the Eastern Colorado mineral belt over 1.7 billion years of earth history
Jonathan S. Caine, John Ridley, Zachary R. Wessel
2010, GSA Field Guides (18) 119-140
The eastern central Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado has long been a region of geologic interest because of Laramide-age hydrothermal polymetallic vein-related ores. The region is characterized by a well-exposed array of geologic structures associated with ductile and brittle deformation, which record crustal strain over 1.7 billion...
Real-time decision support systems: the famine early warning system network
Christopher C. Funk, James P. Verdin
2010, Book chapter, Satellite rainfall applications for surface hydrology
A multi-institutional partnership, the US Agency for International Development’s Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) provides routine monitoring of climatic, agricultural, market, and socioeconomic conditions in over 20 countries. FEWS NET supports and informs disaster relief decisions that impact millions of people and involve billions of dollars. In this...
Measuring sediment accretion in early tidal marsh restoration
John Y. Takekawa, Isa Woo, Nicole D. Athearn, Scott A. Demers, Rachel J. Gardiner, William M. Perry, Neil K. Ganju, Gregory Shellenbarger, David H. Schoellhamer
2010, Wetlands Ecology and Management
Sediment accretion is a critical indicator of initial progress in tidal marsh restoration. However, it is often difficult to measure early deposition rates, because the bottom surface is usually obscured under turbid, tidally-influenced waters. To accurately measure early sediment deposition in marshes, we developed an echosounder system consisting of a...
Historic and paleo-submarine landslide deposits imaged beneath Port Valdez, Alaska: Implications for tsunami generation in a glacial fiord
H. F. Ryan, H. J. Lee, Peter J. Haeussler, C. R. Alexander, Robert E. Kayen
David C. Mosher, R. C. Shipp, Lorena Moscardelli, Jason Chaytor, Christopher D. P. Baxter, Homa J. Lee, Roger Urgeles, editor(s)
2010, Book chapter, Submarine mass movements and their consequences
During the 1964 M9.2 great Alaskan earthquake, submarine-slope failures resulted in the generation of highly destructive tsunamis at Port Valdez, Alaska. A high-resolution, mini-sparker reflection profiler was used to image debris lobes, which we attribute to slope failures that occurred both during and prior to the 1964 megathrust event. In...
A methodology for the assessment of unconventional (continuous) resources with an application to the Greater Natural Buttes gas field, Utah
Ricardo A. Olea, Troy A. Cook, James L. Coleman
2010, Natural Resources Research (19) 237-251
The Greater Natural Buttes tight natural gas field is an unconventional (continuous) accumulation in the Uinta Basin, Utah, that began production in the early 1950s from the Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde Group. Three years later, production was extended to the Eocene Wasatch Formation. With the exclusion of 1100 non-productive (“dry”) wells,...
Stress, fracture, and fluid-flow analysis using acoustic and electrical image logs in hot fractured granites of the Coso geothermal field, California, U.S.A.
Nicholas C. Davatzes, Stephen H. Hickman
M. Poppelreiter, C. Garcia-Carballido, M. Kraaijveld, editor(s)
2010, Book chapter, Dipmeter and borehole image log technology
Acoustic and electrical image logs in fractured granitic rocks penetrated by U.S. Navy well 58A-10, Coso Wash, in the eastern margin of the Coso geothermal field, California, were compared to evaluate their relative ability to characterize fractures and fault rock textures and to measure stress orientations from borehole failure. Electrical...
Establishing a nationwide baseline of historical burn-severity data to support monitoring of trends in wildfire effects and national fire policies
Brian Schwind, Brad Quayle, Jeffery C. Eidenshink
2010, General Technical Report PNW-GTR-802
There is a need to provide agency leaders, elected officials, and the general public with summary information regarding the effects of large wildfires. Recently, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC), which implements and coordinates National Fire Plan (NFP) and Federal Wildland Fire Management Policies adopted a strategy to monitor the...
The Mt. Lewis fault zone: Tectonic implications for eastern San Francisco Bay
Janet Watt, David A. Ponce, Robert W. Simpson, Russell W. Graymer, Robert C. Jachens, Carl M. Wentworth
2010, Book, Special report (California Geological Survey)
No abstract available...
The New Albany shale in Illinois: Emerging play or prolific source
Joan Crockett, David E. Morse
2010, Oil & Gas Journal (108) 72-79
The New Albany shale (Upper Devonian) in the Illinois basin is the primary hydrocarbon source rock for the basins nearly 4 billion bbl of oil production to date. The gas play is well-established in Indiana and Western Kentucky. One in-situ oil producing well was reported in a multiply competed well...
Mineralogical and chemical characteristics of some natural jarosites
George A. Desborough, Kathleen S. Smith, Heather Lowers, Gregg A. Swayze, Jane M. Hammarstrom, Sharon F. Diehl, Reinhard W. Leinz, Rhonda L. Driscoll
2010, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (74) 1041-1056
This paper presents a detailed study of the mineralogical, microscopic, thermal, and spectral characteristics of jarosite and natrojarosite minerals. Systematic mineralogic and chemical examination of a suite of 32 natural stoichiometric jarosite and natrojarosite samples from diverse supergene and hydrothermal environments indicates that there is only limited solid solution between...
Caution on the use of liquid nitrogen traps in stable hydrogen isotope-ratio mass spectrometry
Tyler B. Coplen, Haiping Qi
2010, Analytical Chemistry (82) 7849-7851
An anomalous stable hydrogen isotopic fractionation of 4 ‰ in gaseous hydrogen has been correlated with the process of adding liquid nitrogen (LN2) to top off the dewar of a stainless-steel water trap on a gaseous hydrogen-water platinum equilibration system. Although the cause of this isotopic fractionation is unknown, its...
Individual and colony-specific wintering areas of Pacific northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis)
Scott A. Hatch, Verena A. Gill, Daniel M. Mulcahy
2010, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (67) 386-400
Seabird mortality associated with longline fishing in the eastern Bering Sea occurs mainly from September to May, with northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) comprising the majority (60%) of the bycatch. Along the west coast of North America, winter dieoffs of fulmars may be increasing in frequency and magnitude, the most severe...
Landscape characteristics affecting streams in urbanizing regions of the Delaware River Basin (New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, U.S.)
K. Riva-Murray, R. Riemann, P. Murdoch, J.M. Fischer, R. Brightbill
2010, Landscape Ecology (25) 1489-1503
Widespread and increasing urbanization has resulted in the need to assess, monitor, and understand its effects on stream water quality. Identifying relations between stream ecological condition and urban intensity indicators such as impervious surface provides important, but insufficient information to effectively address planning and management needs in such areas. In...
Mapping irrigated lands at 250-m scale by merging MODIS data and National Agricultural Statistics
Md Shahriar Pervez, Jesslyn F. Brown
2010, Remote Sensing (2) 2388-2412
Accurate geospatial information on the extent of irrigated land improves our understanding of agricultural water use, local land surface processes, conservation or depletion of water resources, and components of the hydrologic budget. We have developed a method in a geospatial modeling framework that assimilates irrigation statistics with remotely sensed parameters...
The Paleogene California River: Evidence of Mojave-Uinta paleodrainage from U-Pb ages of detrital zircons
S.J. Davis, W.R. Dickinson, G. E. Gehrels, J.E. Spencer, T.F. Lawton, A.R. Carroll
2010, Geology (38) 931-934
U-Pb age spectra of detrital zircons in samples from the Paleogene Colton Formation in the Uinta Basin of northeastern Utah and the Late Cretaceous McCoy Mountains Formation of southwestern Arizona (United States) are statistically indistinguishable. This finding refutes previous inferences that arkosic detritus of the Colton was derived from cratonic...
The influence of maximum magnitude on seismic-hazard estimates in the Central and Eastern United States
C.S. Mueller
2010, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (100) 699-711
I analyze the sensitivity of seismic-hazard estimates in the central and eastern United States (CEUS) to maximum magnitude (mmax) by exercising the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) probabilistic hazard model with several mmax alternatives. Seismicity-based sources control the hazard in most of the CEUS, but data seldom provide an objective basis...
Whole-rock Pb and Sm-Nd isotopic constraints on the growth of southeastern Laurentia during Grenvillian orogenesis
C. M. Fisher, S. L. Loewy, C. F. Miller, P. Berquist, W. R. Van Schmus, R. D. Hatcher Jr., J. L. Wooden, P. D. Fullagar
2010, Geological Society of America Bulletin (122) 1646-1659
The conventional view that the basement of the southern and central Appalachians represents juvenile Mesoproterozoic crust, the final stage of growth of Laurentia prior to Grenville collision, has recently been challenged. New whole-rock Pb and Sm‑Nd isotopic data are presented from Mesoproterozoic basement in the southern and central Appalachians and...
Relative vulnerability of public supply wells to VOC contamination in hydrologically distinct regional aquifers
Leon J. Kauffman, Francis H. Chapelle
2010, Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation (30) 54-63
A process-based methodology was used to compare the vulnerability of public supply wells tapping seven study areas in four hydrologically distinct regional aquifers to volatile organic compound (VOC) contamination. This method considers (1) contributing areas and travel times of groundwater flowpaths converging at individual supply wells, (2) the oxic and/or...
Intrinsic controls on the range of volumes, morphologies, and dimensions of submarine lobes
A. Prelat, J.A. Covault, D.M. Hodgson, A. Fildani, S.S. Flint
2010, Sedimentary Geology (232) 66-76
Submarine lobe dimensions from six different systems are compared: 1) the exhumed Permian Fan 3 lobe complex of the Tanqua Karoo, South Africa; 2) the modern Amazon fan channel-mouth lobe complex, offshore Brazil; 3) a portion of the modern distal Za??re fan, offshore Angola/Congo; 4) a Pleistocene fan of the...
Rift-related volcanism and karst geohydrology of the southern Ozark Dome
Richard W. Harrison, David J. Weary, Randall C. Orndorff, John E. Repetski, Herbert A. Pierce, Gary R. Lowell
Kevin R. Evans, James S. Aber, editor(s)
2010, Book chapter, From Precambrian rift volcanoes to the Mississippian Shelf margin: Geological field excursions in the Ozark Mountains
This field trip examines the geology and geohydrology of a dissected part of the Salem Plateau in the Ozark Plateaus province of south-central Missouri. Rocks exposed in this area include karstified, flat-lying, lower Paleozoic carbonate platform rocks deposited on Mesoproterozoic basement. The latter is exposed as an uplift located about...
Book review: Hollowed ground—Copper mining and community building on Lake Superior, 1840s–1990s
Klaus J. Schulz
2010, Economic Geology (105) 1351-1354
In 1843, six years before the Forty-niners headed west for the goldfields of California, the United States’ first great mineral rush began to a land that was, as Patrick Henry told Congress, “beyond the most distant wilderness and remote as the moon.” He was referring to the Keweenaw Peninsula of...
Three-dimensional benchmark for variable-density flow and transport simulation: matching semi-analytic stability modes for steady unstable convection in an inclined porous box
Clifford I. Voss, Craig T. Simmons, Neville I. Robinson
2010, Hydrogeology Journal (18) 5-23
This benchmark for three-dimensional (3D) numerical simulators of variable-density groundwater flow and solute or energy transport consists of matching simulation results with the semi-analytical solution for the transition from one steady-state convective mode to another in a porous box. Previous experimental and analytical studies of natural convective flow in an...
