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Millard Et Al. Pressure Dependence Of Magnesite Creep 2019 Geosciences.Pdf, Caleb Holyoke Sep 2019

Millard Et Al. Pressure Dependence Of Magnesite Creep 2019 Geosciences.Pdf, Caleb Holyoke

Caleb Holyoke

No abstract provided.


Effectiveness Of Four Water-Bearing Zones Of The Glacierized Basin In Meltwater Runoff Modeling, Umesh K. Haritashya Mar 2019

Effectiveness Of Four Water-Bearing Zones Of The Glacierized Basin In Meltwater Runoff Modeling, Umesh K. Haritashya

Umesh K. Haritashya

Meltwater runoff modeling from glacierized basins needs several input data, including total meltwater contributing area. This study utilizes optical remote sensing data to assess glacierized basins in the central Himalayas where snow and glaciers contribute substantially to the water resources. Result shows that there are four main water-bearing zones in the basin: (a) dry snow, (b) wet snow, (c) exposed glacial ice, and (d) debris-covered glacial ice, and it is possible to differentiate and map these zones and their spatio-temporal variations from satellite sensor data. These zones can then be incorporated in meltwater runoff modeling as separate entities because they …


Climate Change And The Global Pattern Of Moraine-Dammed Glacial Lake Outburst Floods, Stephan Harrison, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Christian Huggel, John Reynolds, Dan H. Shugar, Richard A. Betts, Neil Glasser, Umesh K. Haritashya, Jan Klimeš, Liam Reinhardt, Yvonne Schaub, Andy Wiltshire, Dhananjay Regmi, Vít Vilímek Mar 2019

Climate Change And The Global Pattern Of Moraine-Dammed Glacial Lake Outburst Floods, Stephan Harrison, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Christian Huggel, John Reynolds, Dan H. Shugar, Richard A. Betts, Neil Glasser, Umesh K. Haritashya, Jan Klimeš, Liam Reinhardt, Yvonne Schaub, Andy Wiltshire, Dhananjay Regmi, Vít Vilímek

Umesh K. Haritashya

Despite recent research identifying a clear anthropogenic impact on glacier recession, the effect of recent climate change on glacier-related hazards is at present unclear. Here we present the first global spatio-temporal assessment of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) focusing explicitly on lake drainage following moraine dam failure. These floods occur as mountain glaciers recede and downwaste. GLOFs can have an enormous impact on downstream communities and infrastructure. Our assessment of GLOFs associated with the rapid drainage of moraine-dammed lakes provides insights into the historical trends of GLOFs and their distributions under current and future global climate change. We observe a …


Evolution And Controls Of Large Glacial Lakes In The Nepal Himalaya, Umesh K. Haritashya, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Dan H. Shugar, Gregory J. Leonard, Katherine Strattman, C. Scott Watson, David Shean, Stephan Harrison, Kyle T. Mandli, Dhananjay Regmi Mar 2019

Evolution And Controls Of Large Glacial Lakes In The Nepal Himalaya, Umesh K. Haritashya, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Dan H. Shugar, Gregory J. Leonard, Katherine Strattman, C. Scott Watson, David Shean, Stephan Harrison, Kyle T. Mandli, Dhananjay Regmi

Umesh K. Haritashya

Glacier recession driven by climate change produces glacial lakes, some of which are hazardous. Our study assesses the evolution of three of the most hazardous moraine-dammed proglacial lakes in the Nepal Himalaya—Imja, Lower Barun, and Thulagi. Imja Lake (up to 150 m deep; 78.4 x 106 m3 volume; surveyed in October 2014) and Lower Barun Lake (205 m maximum observed depth; 112.3 x 106 m3 volume; surveyed in October 2015) are much deeper than previously measured, and their readily drainable volumes are slowly growing. Their surface areas have been increasing at an accelerating pace from a …


Supplemental Data For 'Evolution And Controls Of Large Glacial Lakes In The Nepal Himalaya', Umesh K. Haritashya, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Dan H. Shugar, Gregory J. Leonard, Katherine Strattman, C. Scott Watson, David Shean, Stephan Harrison, Kyle T. Mandli, Dhananjay Regmi Mar 2019

Supplemental Data For 'Evolution And Controls Of Large Glacial Lakes In The Nepal Himalaya', Umesh K. Haritashya, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Dan H. Shugar, Gregory J. Leonard, Katherine Strattman, C. Scott Watson, David Shean, Stephan Harrison, Kyle T. Mandli, Dhananjay Regmi

Umesh K. Haritashya

Supplementary data for the article "Evolution and Controls of Large Glacial Lakes in the Nepal Himalaya"


Deformation Of Fine-Grained Quartz Aggregates By Mixed Diffusion And Dislocation Creep, Junichi Fukuda, Caleb Holyoke, Andreas Kronenberg Dec 2017

Deformation Of Fine-Grained Quartz Aggregates By Mixed Diffusion And Dislocation Creep, Junichi Fukuda, Caleb Holyoke, Andreas Kronenberg

Caleb Holyoke

No abstract provided.


Synchrotron Ftir Imaging Of Oh In Quartz Mylonites, Andreas Kronenberg, Hasnor Hasnan, Caleb Holyoke, Richard Law, Zhenxian Liu, Jay Thomas Dec 2016

Synchrotron Ftir Imaging Of Oh In Quartz Mylonites, Andreas Kronenberg, Hasnor Hasnan, Caleb Holyoke, Richard Law, Zhenxian Liu, Jay Thomas

Caleb Holyoke

No abstract provided.


Effects Of Changes In Moisture Source And The Upstream Rainout On Stable Isotopes In Precipitation – A Case Study In Nanjing, Eastern China, Y. Tang, H. Pang, W. Zhang, Y. Li, Shuang-Ye Wu, S. Hou Apr 2016

Effects Of Changes In Moisture Source And The Upstream Rainout On Stable Isotopes In Precipitation – A Case Study In Nanjing, Eastern China, Y. Tang, H. Pang, W. Zhang, Y. Li, Shuang-Ye Wu, S. Hou

Shuang-ye Wu

In the Asian monsoon region, variations in the stable isotopic composition of speleothems have often been attributed to the "amount effect". However, an increasing number of studies suggest that the "amount effect" in local precipitation is insignificant or even non-existent. To explore this issue further, we examined the variability of daily stable isotopic composition (δ18O) in precipitation from September 2011 to November 2014 in Nanjing, eastern China. We found that intra-seasonal variations of δ18O during summer were not significantly correlated with local rainfall amount but could be linked to changes in the moisture source location and rainout processes in the …


Reconstruction Of The Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) Palaeotopography In The Upper Yangtze Region, Linna Zhang, Junxuan Fan, Qing Chen, Shuang-Ye Wu Apr 2016

Reconstruction Of The Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) Palaeotopography In The Upper Yangtze Region, Linna Zhang, Junxuan Fan, Qing Chen, Shuang-Ye Wu

Shuang-ye Wu

Reconstruction of the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) palaeotopography in South China is important for understanding the distribution pattern of the Hirnantian marine depositional environment. In this study, we reconstructed the Hirnantian palaeotopography in the Upper Yangtze region based on the rankings of the palaeo-water depths, which were inferred according to the lithofacies and biofacies characteristics of the sections. Data from 374 Hirnantian sections were collected and standardized through the online Geobiodiversity Database. The Ordinary Kriging interpolation method in the ArcGIS software was applied to create the continuous surface of the palaeo-water depths, i.e. the Hirnantian palaeotopography. Meanwhile, the line transect analysis …


Transition From Contraction To Extension In The Northeastern Basin And Range: New Evidence From The Copper Mountains, Nevada, Jeffrey M. Rahl, Allen J. Mcgrew, Kenneth A. Foland Apr 2016

Transition From Contraction To Extension In The Northeastern Basin And Range: New Evidence From The Copper Mountains, Nevada, Jeffrey M. Rahl, Allen J. Mcgrew, Kenneth A. Foland

Allen J. McGrew

New mapping, structural analysis, and 40Ar/39Ar dating reveal an unusually well‐constrained history of Late Eocene extension in the Copper Mountains of the northern Basin and Range province. In this area, the northeast‐trending Copper Creek normal fault juxtaposes a distinctive sequence of metacarbonate and granitoid rocks against a footwall of Upper Precambrian to Lower Cambrian quartzite and phyllite. Correlation of the hanging wall with footwall rocks to the northwest provides an approximate piercing point that requires 8–12 km displacement in an ESE direction. This displaced fault slice is itself bounded above by another normal fault (the Meadow Fork Fault), which brings …


Prevailing Weather Conditions During Summer Seasons Around Gangotri Glacier, Pratap Singh, Umesh K. Haritashya, K. S. Ramasastri, Naresh Kumar Mar 2016

Prevailing Weather Conditions During Summer Seasons Around Gangotri Glacier, Pratap Singh, Umesh K. Haritashya, K. S. Ramasastri, Naresh Kumar

Umesh K. Haritashya

Meteorological data collected near the snout of the Gangotri Glacier suggest that the study area receives less rainfall. The average seasonal rainfall is observed to be about 260 mm. The rainfall distribution does not show any monsoon impact. Amount of seasonal rainfall is highly variable (131.4-368.8 mm) from year to year, but, in general, August had the maximum rainfall. A verage daily maximum and minimum temperatures were 14.7 and 4.1°C respectively, whereas average mean temperature was 9.4°C. July was recorded as the warmest month. During daytime, wind speed was four times higher than that at night-time. The average daytime and …


Multispectral Image Analysis Of Glaciers And Glacier Lakes In The Chugach Mountains, Alaska, Jeffrey Kargel, Matthew Beedle, Andrew Bush, Francisco Carreño, Elena Castellanos, Umesh Haritashya, Gregory Leonard, Javier Lillo, Ivan Lopez, Mark Pleasants, Edward Pollock, David Wolfe Mar 2016

Multispectral Image Analysis Of Glaciers And Glacier Lakes In The Chugach Mountains, Alaska, Jeffrey Kargel, Matthew Beedle, Andrew Bush, Francisco Carreño, Elena Castellanos, Umesh Haritashya, Gregory Leonard, Javier Lillo, Ivan Lopez, Mark Pleasants, Edward Pollock, David Wolfe

Umesh Haritashya

The Chugach Mountains contain the largest nonpolar alpine glaciers in the world and include a wide variety of glacier types: some are land terminating; some calve variously into tidewater, lakes, and rivers; some are heavily debris covered; some are surge-type, whereas others are neither debris covered nor surge type. Nearly all are retreating, thinning, or both, though some rare ones are advancing, and some are thickening at high elevations. To assist the further documentation of changes, we establish an inventory of glaciers in the eastern Chugach Mountains. Several case studies of diverse glacier types showcase remotesensing applications and are used …


Encyclopedia Of Snow, Ice And Glaciers, Vijay P. Singh, Pratap Singh, Umesh K. Haritashya Mar 2016

Encyclopedia Of Snow, Ice And Glaciers, Vijay P. Singh, Pratap Singh, Umesh K. Haritashya

Umesh K. Haritashya

The objective of this encyclopedia is to present the current state of scientific understanding of various aspects of earth’s cryosphere – snow, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, ice shelves, sea ice, river and lake ice, and permafrost – and their related interdisciplinary connections under one umbrella. Therefore, every effort has been made to provide a comprehensive coverage of cryosphere by including a broad array of topics, such as the atmospheric processes responsible for snow formation; snowfall observations; snow cover and snow surveys; transformation of snow to ice and changes in their properties; classification of ice and glaciers and their worldwide …


Dislocation Creep Of Dry Quartz, Rüdiger Kilian, Renee Heilbronner, Caleb Holyoke, Andreas Kronenberg, Holger Stünitz Dec 2015

Dislocation Creep Of Dry Quartz, Rüdiger Kilian, Renee Heilbronner, Caleb Holyoke, Andreas Kronenberg, Holger Stünitz

Caleb Holyoke

No abstract provided.


The Application And Analysis Of Midas/Gts In Landslide Control, Xiang Tao Aug 2015

The Application And Analysis Of Midas/Gts In Landslide Control, Xiang Tao

Innovative Research Publications IRP India

With the help of Midas/GTS software, we researched the landslide in mountain roads via analysis the force under its deadweight, understood the changes of the stress and strain and displacement of the slope, and analysis its force again that after joint the double-row anti-slide piles to the unstable area, until the slope reach a steady state at last, so as to attain the effect that prevent landslide disaster and deal with landslide event timely.


(U-Th)/He Chronologic Constraints On Secondary Fe-Oxide Mineralization In Southwestern New Mexico, Mike Channer, Alexis Ault Apr 2015

(U-Th)/He Chronologic Constraints On Secondary Fe-Oxide Mineralization In Southwestern New Mexico, Mike Channer, Alexis Ault

Mike Channer

Temporal constraints on fluid flow, mineralization, and brittle deformation are important for understanding a variety of upper-crustal processes. However, limited radioisotopic methods exist to directly date these processes. Hematite commonly co-precipitates with economically valuable mineral phases in hydrothermal ore deposits, such as copper, uranium, gold, and other rare-earth elements, and occurs in fracture systems and faults. Hematite is amenable to (U-Th)/He dating, and we will apply this method to two case studies in the Rio Grande rift, New Mexico. First, a suite of millimeter-thick hematite- and turgite-coated fracture surfaces cross-cut an ~54-60 Ma porphyritic rhyolite near Lordsburg in southwest New …


Possible Sources For Nickel And Chromium In The Middle Part Of The Fillmore Formation In West-Central Utah, Rachel Nyznyk, Benjamin Dattilo Jul 2014

Possible Sources For Nickel And Chromium In The Middle Part Of The Fillmore Formation In West-Central Utah, Rachel Nyznyk, Benjamin Dattilo

Benjamin F. Dattilo

Nickel and chromium are not commonly found in carbonate or mixed carbonate depositional environments. All lithologies from a 100-meter section in the middle part of the Lower Ordovician Fillmore Formation at a single locality, the “Pyramid Section”, contain anomalous levels of nickel and chromium. Preliminary data has also shown that there is significantly more nickel in the matrix of two FPCs (range of 0.22 – 0.24 ppm) from the pyramid section than found in the other lithologies at that section (0.05 – 0.10 ppm). However, at a separate locality, “Section C”, in the lower part of the Fillmore Formation neither …


Provenance, Sorting, And Secular Variation In Late Cambrian And Early Ordovician Carbonate Flat-Pebble Conglomerates In West-Central Utah, Rachel Nyznyk, Benjamin Dattilo, Kevin Evans Jul 2014

Provenance, Sorting, And Secular Variation In Late Cambrian And Early Ordovician Carbonate Flat-Pebble Conglomerates In West-Central Utah, Rachel Nyznyk, Benjamin Dattilo, Kevin Evans

Benjamin F. Dattilo

Flat-pebble conglomerates (FPCs) are deposits that include tabular clasts of carbonate facies in shallow marine successions. They are common features in Cambrian and Ordovician successions and are more rarely preserved in post-Ordovician strata. Traditional interpretations suggest they are storm deposits, but more recently, they have interpreted as cycle caps and products of sea-level change. Examining FPCs in detail may further our understand of possible origins, including major Earth events such as meteorite impacts, seismic events, superstorms, slope failures, and mass wasting events. This study, which is in its initial phase, examines FPCs based on intrinsic features and seeks to document …


The Great American Carbonate Bank In The Miogeocline Of Western Central Utah: Tectonic Influences On Sedimentation., James Miller, Kevin Evans, Benjamin Dattilo Jul 2014

The Great American Carbonate Bank In The Miogeocline Of Western Central Utah: Tectonic Influences On Sedimentation., James Miller, Kevin Evans, Benjamin Dattilo

Benjamin F. Dattilo

No abstract provided.


Using The Longitudinal River Profile Of The Rio San Jose And 40ar/39ar Dating Of Late-Cenozoic Basalts To Test Models For Mantle-Driven Uplift Across The Jemez Lineament, New Mexico, Mike Channer, Jason Ricketts, Matt Zimmerer, Matt Heizler, Karl Karlstrom Dec 2013

Using The Longitudinal River Profile Of The Rio San Jose And 40ar/39ar Dating Of Late-Cenozoic Basalts To Test Models For Mantle-Driven Uplift Across The Jemez Lineament, New Mexico, Mike Channer, Jason Ricketts, Matt Zimmerer, Matt Heizler, Karl Karlstrom

Mike Channer

Mantle-driven differential uplift has been proposed to contribute to dynamic typography in the western United States. Neogene and ongoing mantle flow is postulated to be driven by upper mantle convection and to cause subtle broad-scale differential uplift that affects surface topography. This study focuses on the possible connection between mantle convection and surface topography along the Jemez lineament in New Mexico and is motivated by tomographic images from the EarthScope experiment that show this zone is underlain by low-velocity mantle that potentially could drive uplift. To test this possible connection, we constructed a longitudinal profile of the Rio San Jose …


Evolution Of The Stress And Strain Fields In The Eastern Cordillera, Colombia, Obi Egbue, James N. Kellogg Dec 2013

Evolution Of The Stress And Strain Fields In The Eastern Cordillera, Colombia, Obi Egbue, James N. Kellogg

James N Kellogg

This work integrates stress data from Global Positioning System measurements and earthquake focal mechanism solutions, with new borehole breakout and natural fracture system data to better understand the complex interactions between the major tectonic plates in northwestern South America and to examine how the stress regime in the Eastern Cordillera and the Llanos foothills in Colombia has evolved through time. The dataset was used to generate an integrated stress map of the northern Andes and to propose a model for stress evolution in the Eastern Cordillera. In the Cordillera, the primary present-day maximum principal stress direction is WNW-ESE to NW-SE, …


Rheology Of Magnesite, Caleb Holyoke, Andreas Kronenberg, Julie Newman, Christopher Ulrich Dec 2013

Rheology Of Magnesite, Caleb Holyoke, Andreas Kronenberg, Julie Newman, Christopher Ulrich

Caleb Holyoke

No abstract provided.


Microstructural Evolution During Strain Localization In Dolomite Aggregates, Caleb Holyoke, Julie Newman, Andreas Kronenberg Dec 2013

Microstructural Evolution During Strain Localization In Dolomite Aggregates, Caleb Holyoke, Julie Newman, Andreas Kronenberg

Caleb Holyoke

No abstract provided.


Ar-40/Ar-39 Evidence For Middle Proterozoic (1300-1500 Ma) Slow Cooling Of The Southern Black Hills, South Dakota, Midcontinent, North America: Implications For Early Proterozoic P-T Evolution And Posttectonic Magmatism, Daniel Holm, Peter Dahl, Daniel R. Lux Oct 2013

Ar-40/Ar-39 Evidence For Middle Proterozoic (1300-1500 Ma) Slow Cooling Of The Southern Black Hills, South Dakota, Midcontinent, North America: Implications For Early Proterozoic P-T Evolution And Posttectonic Magmatism, Daniel Holm, Peter Dahl, Daniel R. Lux

Peter Dahl

Ar-40/Ar-39 total gas and plateau dates from muscovite and biotite in the southern Black Hills, South Dakota, provide evidence for a period of Middle Proterozoic slow cooling. Early Proterozoic (1600-1650 Ma) mica dates were obtained from metasedimentary rocks located in a synformal structure between the Harney Peak and Bear Mountain domes and also south of Bear Mountain. Metamorphic rocks from the dome areas and undeformed samples of the similar to 1710 Ma Harney Peak Granite (HPG) yield Middle Proterozoic mica dates (similar to 1270-1500 Ma). Two samples collected between the synform and Bear Mountain dome yield intermediate total gas mica …


Selected Drillhole Data (Dogm), Emery County, Ut, David J. Richey Dec 2012

Selected Drillhole Data (Dogm), Emery County, Ut, David J. Richey

David J Richey

Compiled formation tops data for selected oil and gas exploration drill holes in Emery County, Utah. Data was downloaded from [http://oilgas.ogm.utah.gov/index.htm].


Reversible Water Weakening Of Quartz, Caleb Holyoke, Andreas Kronenberg Dec 2012

Reversible Water Weakening Of Quartz, Caleb Holyoke, Andreas Kronenberg

Caleb Holyoke

No abstract provided.


High Pressure Deformation Experiments Using Solid Confining Media And Griggs Piston-Cylinder Methods: Appraisal Of Stress And Deformation In Talc Assemblies, Eric Stewart, Caleb Holyoke, Andreas Kronenberg Dec 2012

High Pressure Deformation Experiments Using Solid Confining Media And Griggs Piston-Cylinder Methods: Appraisal Of Stress And Deformation In Talc Assemblies, Eric Stewart, Caleb Holyoke, Andreas Kronenberg

Caleb Holyoke

No abstract provided.


Dislocation Creep Of Polycrystalline Dolomite, Caleb Holyoke, Andreas Kronenberg, Julie Newman Dec 2012

Dislocation Creep Of Polycrystalline Dolomite, Caleb Holyoke, Andreas Kronenberg, Julie Newman

Caleb Holyoke

No abstract provided.


Hydrolytic Weakening Of Olivine At Mantle Pressure: Evidence Of [100](010) Slip System Softening From Single-Crystal Deformation Experiments, Jennifer Girard, Jiuhua Chen, Paul Raterron, Caleb Holyoke Dec 2012

Hydrolytic Weakening Of Olivine At Mantle Pressure: Evidence Of [100](010) Slip System Softening From Single-Crystal Deformation Experiments, Jennifer Girard, Jiuhua Chen, Paul Raterron, Caleb Holyoke

Caleb Holyoke

No abstract provided.


Applicability Of The Eshelby Formalism To Viscous Power-Law Materials: A Numerical Validation, Zhenyu Zhong Nov 2012

Applicability Of The Eshelby Formalism To Viscous Power-Law Materials: A Numerical Validation, Zhenyu Zhong

Zhenyu Zhong

Fabric is important for the interpretation of tectonic evolutions. In the process of extrapolating small-scale fabric to tectonics, modeling frameworks are needed. Neither the early kinematic models nor the contemporary computational geodynamics are able to capture the complexities of the fabric development in natural deformation systems. Eshelby proposed a formalism in micro-mechanics, and it is now well understood that this formalism works well for the linear viscous deformations. However, given that most of the natural rocks are power-law materials, the Eshelby Formalism cannot be directly applied to geological problems. This problem was largely solved when Lebensohn and Tom (1993, Acta …