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Full-Text Articles in Geology
Karst Occurrence In Kentucky, Randall L. Paylor, James C. Currens
Karst Occurrence In Kentucky, Randall L. Paylor, James C. Currens
Map and Chart--KGS
This map was compiled from a digital version of the 1:500,000-scale geologic map of Kentucky (Noger, M.C., comp., 1988, Geologic map of Kentucky: U.S. Geological Survey). The areas of potential karst development were delineated using stratigraphic units mapped on the geological map. The classification of the potential for karst development was based on the field experience of the authors and other data. A number of isolate carbonated unites that would not have otherwise been differentiated on the geologic map were newly digitized for this map.
At-Satellite Reflectance: A First Order Normalization Of Landsat 7 Etm+ Images, Chengquan Huang, Limin Yang, Collin Homer, Bruce K. Wylie, James E. Vogelmann, Thomas Defelice
At-Satellite Reflectance: A First Order Normalization Of Landsat 7 Etm+ Images, Chengquan Huang, Limin Yang, Collin Homer, Bruce K. Wylie, James E. Vogelmann, Thomas Defelice
Publications of the US Geological Survey
Regional Landsat applications often rely on clear and near cloud-free images. With the spectral value being represented by digital number (DN), however, such images contain substantial noises. A significant proportion of such noises can be normalized by converting the DN to at-satellite reflectance value. Being physically based and ready to automate, the conversion method can serve as a first order normalization of Landsat 7 images, making it possible to derive land surface information from such images more consistently.
A Strategy For Estimating Tree Canopy Density Using Landsat 7 Etm+ And High Resolution Images Over Large Areas, C. Huang, Limin Yang, Bruce K. Wylie, Collin Homer
A Strategy For Estimating Tree Canopy Density Using Landsat 7 Etm+ And High Resolution Images Over Large Areas, C. Huang, Limin Yang, Bruce K. Wylie, Collin Homer
Publications of the US Geological Survey
INTRODUCTION
The Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) consortium was initiated in early 1990s to address the need for consistently developed national and regional land cover data (Loveland and Shaw, 1996). Through this consortium, a 1992-vintage National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) was developed for the conterminous United States (Vogelmann et al., 2001), and a second generation National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD 2000) will be developed using 2000-vintage Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) images and ancillary data. The 2000 NLCD will consist of a suite of data layers relevant to many applications, including a tree canopy density layer describing percentage of …
Flow Through Well Screens As A Function Of Pump Intake Location, Kristjan F. Bekker
Flow Through Well Screens As A Function Of Pump Intake Location, Kristjan F. Bekker
Theses and Dissertations
Greater well efficiency and lower production costs may result from a knowledge of water flow through well screens. Current practice generally locates the intake of a pump in the cased section of the well above the screen. This work shows that placing the pump within the screen will increase well efficiency and therefore lower energy cost. This work also shows a correlation of increased well efficiency with respect to larger sand size, larger screen slot size, and lower flow rates.
A semicircular model based on the radial symmetry of a well and screen was used to simulate water flow from …
Longshore Sediment Transport As A Function Of Energy Dissipation, Ernest R. Smith, Ping Wang
Longshore Sediment Transport As A Function Of Energy Dissipation, Ernest R. Smith, Ping Wang
Geology Faculty Publications
Experiments to measure waves, currents, and sediment transport rate for two breaker types, plunging and spilling, were conducted in a large-scale three-dimensional physical model. It was found that there was a large difference in cross-shore distribution and total sediment transport rate between the two breaker types. Total transport rates compared to existing predictive equations. The equations generally did not predict the data well. With the exception of the Kamphuis (1991) equation, which included a dependence on wave period, the predictive equations did not differentiate between breaker types.
Field Trip Guide (For The Nebraska Well Drillers Association) Western Nebraska Geology, J. Cannia, D. Weinert, D. Brost, C. Miller, D. Carlson
Field Trip Guide (For The Nebraska Well Drillers Association) Western Nebraska Geology, J. Cannia, D. Weinert, D. Brost, C. Miller, D. Carlson
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
Resource Notes-Academic Year 2000-01
Resource Notes-Academic Year 2000-01
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
Post-Glacial Sedimentation In A River -Dominated Epicontinental Shelf: The Yellow Sea Example, Jing-Pu Liu
Post-Glacial Sedimentation In A River -Dominated Epicontinental Shelf: The Yellow Sea Example, Jing-Pu Liu
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The North Yellow Sea (NYS) and South Yellow Sea (SYS), stretching from the Bohai Sea in the north to the East China Sea (ECS) in the south, represents an end member of modern epicontinental seas. Because of its shallow depths, the Yellow Sea was entirely exposed subaerially during the last glacial maximum. The new post-glacial sea-level curve derived from an extensive local dataset shows a series of rapid flooding events (12--45 mm/y), separated by a series of slow rises (2--6 mm/y). By about 15 ka, sea level had reached -100 m, and seawater entered the SYS. A rapid rise during …
Palaeoecology Of The Middle Cambrian Raymond Quarry Fauna, Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Matthew Galen Devereux
Palaeoecology Of The Middle Cambrian Raymond Quarry Fauna, Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Matthew Galen Devereux
Digitized Theses
An assemblage if over 9000 systematically collected fossils from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale was analyzed in order to resolve the palaeoecology. Sediment and fossil evidence both show that the constituent fauna was largely autochthonous. The 'standing crop' of organisms preserved with each burial event was affected by variable taphonomic factors both laterally and temporally, but information loss appears to have been minimized. An autecological review of the trophic nucleus provides new insights with regard to behavior of the organisms, including life habits and feeding strategies. Unlike their modern representatives, priapulid worms (or at least Ottoia) appear to have …
Adams County Test Hole Logs, Perry B. Wigley
Adams County Test Hole Logs, Perry B. Wigley
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
Logan County Test Hole Logs, Perry B. Wigley
Logan County Test Hole Logs, Perry B. Wigley
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
Saunders County Test Hole Logs, Raymond R. Burchett, Scott E. Summerside
Saunders County Test Hole Logs, Raymond R. Burchett, Scott E. Summerside
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
Geology Of The Cooper Mountain Pluton, North Cascade Mountains, Washington Based On Magnetic Fabrics, Magnetic Remanence And Petrography, Tammy C. Fawcett
Geology Of The Cooper Mountain Pluton, North Cascade Mountains, Washington Based On Magnetic Fabrics, Magnetic Remanence And Petrography, Tammy C. Fawcett
WWU Graduate School Collection
A study of the 48 Ma Cooper Mountain pluton (CMP) in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington using anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) defined the orientation of magnetic fabrics. Fabrics in limited areas at the margins of the CMP tend to be parallel to the pluton margin and are therefore interpreted to be emplacement-related. The fabrics in the interior of the body, throughout the bulk of the pluton, are discordant with respect to the NW pluton margin. The fabric is manifest by NW-striking, moderately to steeply dipping foliation and NW-SE trending, moderately to shallowly plunging lineation, approximately parallel to regional …
Changes In Mirror Lake, Northwestern Washington, As A Result Of The Diversion Of Water From The Nooksack River, Karel Tracy
Changes In Mirror Lake, Northwestern Washington, As A Result Of The Diversion Of Water From The Nooksack River, Karel Tracy
WWU Graduate School Collection
Mirror Lake, a small lake in northwest Washington, has been used as a settling pond for water diverted from the Middle Fork of the Nooksack River since 1962. In this thesis, I combine bathymetric data and sediment sampling to document the changes in sedimentation that have resulted from this diversion, and compare these results to a previous study conducted in 1991.
To document the change in the bathymetry of Mirror Lake since 1991, I surveyed the lake in the summer of 2000 using a theodolite and sonar depth gauge. I compared a contour map generated from this survey to the …
Late Pleistocene Littoral Deposits In The Deming Sand At Bellingham Bay, Washington, And Their Implications For Relative Sea Level Changes, Stacy J. (Stacy Joanna) Weber
Late Pleistocene Littoral Deposits In The Deming Sand At Bellingham Bay, Washington, And Their Implications For Relative Sea Level Changes, Stacy J. (Stacy Joanna) Weber
WWU Graduate School Collection
Recent mass wasting of sea cliffs along Bellingham Bay in Northwest Washington has exposed late Pleistocene littoral deposits in the Deming sand, which is underlain by Kulshan glaciomarine drift (gmd) and overlain by Bellingham glaciomarine drift (Easterbrook 1963). Marine shells in the Kulshan gmd were dated at 12,210 ± 80 14C-yrs B. P. and marine shells in the Deming sand were dated at 11,760 ± 85 and 11,685 ± 85 14C-yrs B. P. Marine shells in the Bellingham gmd were dated at 12,150 + 210 14C-yrs B. P.
Fossiliferous Kulshan glaciomarine drift is overlain by 11.5 m …
A Pebble Count Comparison And Rock Magnetism Provenance Study Of Sumas Outwash, Jeff Laub
A Pebble Count Comparison And Rock Magnetism Provenance Study Of Sumas Outwash, Jeff Laub
WWU Graduate School Collection
The Sumas Stade, the last of the Fraser Glaciation advances, occurred between 12,000 and 10,000 14C years B.P. This study combines previous mapping (Easterbrook, 1976; Haugerud, written communication, 1999) with three new tests to establish a chronology for events of the Sumas Stade. Comparison of compositions of pebbles from Sumas outwash using multivariate statistics such as hierarchical clustering and k-means clustering revealed three major groups of late Sumas outwash and one earlier deposit. Magnetic susceptibility and Curie temperature analysis determined a general British Columbia provenance for the Sumas outwash. Flow direction measurements substantiated this determination. Taken together, these tests …
Petrology And Geochemistry Of Mafic Lavas Near Glacier Peak, North Cascades, Washington, Dylan D. (Dylan Douglas) Taylor
Petrology And Geochemistry Of Mafic Lavas Near Glacier Peak, North Cascades, Washington, Dylan D. (Dylan Douglas) Taylor
WWU Graduate School Collection
Major element, trace element, and mineral compositions have been determined for four Quaternary mafic monogenetic cinder cones and flows south of Glacier Peak, a dacitic stratovolcano in the northern Cascade arc. The flows are the Whitechuck basalt, and the basaltic andesites of Indian Pass, Lightning Creek, and Dishpan Gap. Whitechuck has high concentrations of AI2O3 (≥ 18 wt.%) and low concentrations of K2O (≤ 0.45 wt.%) and shares similar trace element characteristics with high alumina olivine tholeiites reported in the central and southern Cascades. The three basaltic andesites are calc-alkaline. Indian Pass and Lighting Creek …
Laboratory Denitrification Using Sediments From The Elk Valley Aquifer, Alison E. Kammer
Laboratory Denitrification Using Sediments From The Elk Valley Aquifer, Alison E. Kammer
Theses and Dissertations
An experiment was conducted to determine if a decrease in the content of sulfides related to denitrification could be measured in the laboratory using sediments of the Elk Valley Aquifer in eastern North Dakota. The experiment entailed analyzing sediments for sulfides and solid organic carbon and isolating them in sample containers with a nitrate solution to determine if a measurable decrease in these components could be observed.
Previous denitrification studies in the Elk Valley Aquifer showed an increase in sulfate in conjunction with a decrease in the concentration of nitrate. Sulfate is a by product of autotrophic denitrification where sulfide …
Seismicity And Velocity Structure Of Loihi Seamount From The 1996 Earthquake Swarm, Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach, F. K. Duennebier
Seismicity And Velocity Structure Of Loihi Seamount From The 1996 Earthquake Swarm, Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach, F. K. Duennebier
Geology Faculty Publications
The largest earthquake swarm yet recorded on Loihi submarine volcano took place in July and August of 1996. The swarm consisted of two phases of seismic activity and was associated with the formation of a pit crater and additional faulting of Loihi’s summit platform. The first phase of activity was comprised of predominantly high-frequency events scattered over the southern flanks of the volcano. Following a day of seismic quiescence, the second phase of activity began, consisting of lower-frequency earthquakes with strong T-phases. The phase 2 events took place beneath Loihi’s summit, presumably marking the formation of the pit crater, Pele’s …
Graptolite Macroevolution: Phylogenetic Analysis And Testing Foundation Hypotheses Of Directional Change, Daniel Goldman
Graptolite Macroevolution: Phylogenetic Analysis And Testing Foundation Hypotheses Of Directional Change, Daniel Goldman
Daniel Goldman
Funding agency: National Science Foundation Amount: $117,107.00 Year: 2001/4 yrs
Geomagnetic Field Behavior Before And After The Kauai Reverse-Normal Polarity Transition, Scott Bogue
Geomagnetic Field Behavior Before And After The Kauai Reverse-Normal Polarity Transition, Scott Bogue
Scott Bogue
New paleomagnetic results from 4 m.y. old lava flows from Kauai, Hawaii, suggest that strong poloidal field is associated with an unusual state of the geodynamo that follows attempts at polarity reversal (successful or not). The new data comprise 50 paleomagnetic sites from superposed lava flows occurring just below and above the Kauai reverse-normal polarity transition. A composite record of 45 distinct field determinations was constructed by combining sites that record similar ancient field and correlating them to previously published results from Kauai. Of the 45 data, 25 include paleointensity estimates derived from double-heating experiments. A comparison of the composite …
Karst Genetic Model For The French Bay Breccia Deposits, San Salvador, Bahamas, Lee J. Florea, John Mylroie, Jim Carew
Karst Genetic Model For The French Bay Breccia Deposits, San Salvador, Bahamas, Lee J. Florea, John Mylroie, Jim Carew
Lee J Florea, PhD, P.G.
No abstract provided.