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  Linking deep and shallow crustal processes during regional transtension in an exhumed continental arc, North Cascades, northwestern Cordillera (USA) 

  Miller, Robert B.; Gordon, Stacia M.; Bowring, Samuel; Doran, Brigid; McLean, Noah; Michels, Zachary; Shea, Erin; Whitney, Donna L. (2016)

  The North Cascades orogen (northwestern USA) provides an exceptional natural laboratory with which to evaluate potential temporal and kinematic links between processes operating at a wide range of crustal levels during ...
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  Discovery of alunite in Cross crater, Terra Sirenum, Mars: Evidence for acidic, sulfurous waters 

  Ehlmann, Bethany L.; Swayze, Gregg A.; Milliken, Ralph E.; Mustard, John F.; Clarks, Roger N.; Murchie, Scott L.; Breit, George N.; Wray, James J.; Gondet, Brigitte; Poulet, Francois; Carter, John; Calvin, Wendy M.; Benzel, William M.; Seelos, Kimberly D. (2016)

  Cross crater is a 65 km impact crater, located in the Noachian highlands of the Terra Sirenum region of Mars (30 degrees S, 158 degrees W), which hosts aluminum phyllosilicate deposits first detected by the Observatoire ...
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  Paleogeographic implications of late Miocene lacustrine and nonmarine evaporite deposits in the Lake Mead region: Immediate precursors to the Colorado River 

  Faulds, James E.; Schreiber, B. Charlotte; Langenheim, Victoria E.; Hinz, Nicholas H.; Shaw, Thomas H.; Heizler, Matthew T.; Perkins, Michael E.; El Tabakh, Mohamed; Kunk, Michael J. (2016)

  Thick late Miocene nonmarine evaporite (mainly halite and gypsum) and related lacustrine limestone deposits compose the upper basin fill in half grabens within the Lake Mead region of the Basin and Range Province directly ...
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  Opportunities in global mineral resources 

  Price, Jonathan G. (2019)

  The trends of increasing mineral production are likely to continue as global population and standards of living rise. Opportunities for exploration and metallurgical research are particularly interesting for certain mineral ...
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  Temperature and strain gradients through Lesser Himalayan rocks and across the Main Central thrust, south central Bhutan: Implications for transport-parallel stretching and inverted metamorphism 

  Long, Sean P.; Gordon, Stacia M.; Young, John P.; Soignard, Emmanuel (2016)

  In order to understand mass and heat transfer processes that operated during Himalayan orogenesis, we collected temperature, finite and incremental strain, and kinematic vorticity data through a 5 km thickness of Lesser ...
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  Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry of the Roberts Mountains allochthon: New insights into the early Paleozoic tectonics of western North America 

  Linde, Gwen M.; Trexler, James H.; Cashman, Patricia H.; Gehrels, George; Dickinson, William R. (2016)

  Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotope geochemistry provide new insights into the provenance, sedimentary transport, and tectonic evolution of the Roberts Mountains allochthon strata of north-central Nevada. ...
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  Climatic and societal impacts of a volcanic double event at the dawn of the Middle Ages 

  Toohey, Matthew; Kruger, Kirstin; Sigl, Michael; Stordal, Frode; Svensen, Henrik (2016)

  Volcanic activity in and around the year 536 CE led to severe cold and famine, and has been speculatively linked to large-scale societal crises around the globe. Using a coupled aerosol-climate model, with eruption parameters ...
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  Assessing the impact of vertical land motion on twentieth century global mean sea level estimates 

  Hamlington, B. D.; Thompson, P.; Hammond, William C.; Blewitt, G.; Ray, R. D. (2016)

  Near-global and continuous measurements from satellite altimetry have provided accurate estimates of global mean sea level in the past two decades. Extending these estimates further into the past is a challenge using the ...
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  The Tahoe-Sierra frontal fault zone, Emerald Bay area, Lake Tahoe, California: History, displacements, and rates 

  Schweickert, R. A.; Moore, J. G.; Lahren, Mary M.; Kortemeier, Winifred T.; Kitts, C.; Adamek, T. (2019)

  The location and geometry of the boundary between the Sierra Nevada microplate and the transtensional Walker Lane belt of the Basin and Range Province in the Lake Tahoe area have been debated. Two options are that the ...
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  Geologic framework of the northern Indo-Burma Ranges and lateral correlation of Himalayan-Tibetan lithologic units across the eastern Himalayan syntaxis 

  Haproff, Peter J.; Zuza, Andrew; Yin, An; Harrison, T. Mark; Manning, Craig E.; Dubey, Chandra S.; Ding, Lin; Wu, Chen; Chen, Jianlin (2019)

  The Cenozoic India-Asia collision generated both the east-trending Himalayan orogen and the north-trending Eastern and Western Flanking Belts located along the margins of the Indian subcontinent. Although the tectonic ...
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  Proof of concept: temperature-sensing waders for environmental sciences 

  Hut, Rolf; Tyler, Scott; van Emmerik, Tim (2016)

  A prototype temperature-sensing pair of waders is introduced and tested. The water temperature at the streambed is interesting both for scientists studying the hyporheic zone and for, e.g., fishers spotting good fishing ...
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  Structural reconstruction and age of an extensionally faulted porphyry molybdenum system at Spruce Mountain, Elko County, Nevada 

  Pape, James R.; Seedorff, Eric; Baril, Tyler C.; Thompson, Tommy B. (2016)

  This study integrates a cross-sectional restoration of normal faults and porphyry-related hydrothermal alteration zones with six new U-Pb zircon dates to constrain the ages of mineralization and large-magnitude Cenozoic ...
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  Three-dimensional geologic mapping to assess geothermal potential: examples from Nevada and Oregon 

  Siler, Drew L.; Faulds, James E.; Hinz, Nicholas H.; Dering, Gregory M.; Edwards, Joel H.; Mayhew, Brett (2019)

  Geologic structure plays an important role in controlling fluid flow in geothermal systems. In particular, very complex structural settings, consisting of many closely spaced and intersecting faults, host many geothermal ...
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  Probing the Volcanic-Plutonic Connection and the Genesis of Crystal-rich Rhyolite in a Deeply Dissected Supervolcano in the Nevada Great Basin: Source of the Late Eocene Caetano Tuff 

  Watts, Kathryn E.; John, David A.; Colgan, Joseph P.; Henry, Christopher D.; Bindeman, Ilya N.; Schmitt, Axel K. (2016)

  Late Cenozoic faulting and large-magnitude extension in the Great Basin of the western USA has created locally deep windows into the upper crust, permitting direct study of volcanic and plutonic rocks within individual ...
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  Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling 

  Fan, Ying; Clark, M.; Lawrence, D. M.; Swenson, S.; Band, L. E.; Brantley, Susan L.; Brooks, Paul D.; Dietrich, W. E.; Flores, A.; Grant, G. W.; Kirchner, J. W.; Mackay, D. S.; McDonnell, Jeffrey J.; Milly, P. C. D.; Sullivan, P. L.; Tague, C.; Ajami, H.; Chaney, N.; Hartmann, A.; Hazenberg, P.; McNamara, James P.; Pelletier, Jon; Perket, J.; Rouholahnejad-Freund, E.; Wagener, T.; Zeng, X.; Beighley, E.; Buzan, J.; Huang, M.; Livneh, B.; Mohanty, B. P.; Nijssen, B.; Safeeq, M.; Shen, C.; van Verseveld, W.; Volk, J.; Yamazaki, D. (2019)

  Earth System Models (ESMs) are essential tools for understanding and predicting global change, but they cannot explicitly resolve hillslope-scale terrain structures that fundamentally organize water, energy, and biogeochemical ...
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  Continental rupture and the creation of new crust in the Salton Trough rift, Southern California and northern Mexico: Results from the Salton Seismic Imaging Project 

  Han, Liang; Hole, John A.; Stock, Joann M.; Fuis, Gary S.; Kell, Annie M.; Driscoll, Neal W.; Kent, Graham M.; Harding, Alistair J.; Rymer, Michael J.; Gonzalez-Fernandez, Antonio; Lazaro-Mancilla, Octavio (2016)

  A refraction and wide-angle reflection seismic profile along the axis of the Salton Trough, California and Mexico, was analyzed to constrain crustal and upper mantle seismic velocity structure during active continental ...
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  Use of Distributed Temperature Sensing Technology to Characterize Fire Behavior 

  Cram, Douglas; Hatch, Christine E.; Tyler, Scott; Ochoa, Carlos (2016)

  We evaluated the potential of a fiber optic cable connected to distributed temperature sensing (DTS) technology to withstand wildland fire conditions and quantify fire behavior parameters. We used a custom-made 'fire cable' ...
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  End-member identification and spectral mixture analysis of CRISM hyperspectral data: A case study on southwest Melas Chasma, Mars 

  Liu, Yang; Glotch, Timothy D.; Scudder, Noel A.; Kraner, Meredith L.; Condus, Thomas; Arvidson, Raymond E.; Guinness, Edward A.; Wolff, Michael J.; Smith, Michael D. (2016)

  We present spectral unmixing results over the southwest Melas Chasma region, where a variety of hydrated minerals were identified. We use the Discrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer radiative transfer model to simultaneously ...
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  3D geophysical inversion modeling of gravity data to test the 3D geologic model of the Bradys geothermal area, Nevada, USA 

  Witter, Jeffrey B.; Siler, Drew L.; Faulds, James E.; Hinz, Nicholas H. (2016)

  Three-dimensional geophysical inversion modeling of gravity data has been performed to test the validity of a 3D geologic model constructed for the Bradys geothermal area. Geophysical modeling was implemented in three ...
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  Mapping high-resolution soil moisture and properties using distributed temperature sensing data and an adaptive particle batch smoother 

  Dong, Jianzhi; Steele-Dunne, Susan C.; Ochsner, Tyson E.; Hatch, Christine E.; Sayde, Chadi; Selker, John; Tyler, Scott; Cosh, Michael H.; van de Giesen, Nick (2016)

  This study demonstrated a new method for mapping high-resolution (spatial: 1 m, and temporal: 1 h) soil moisture by assimilating distributed temperature sensing (DTS) observed soil temperatures at intermediate scales. In ...

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