• TRANSPRESSION AND STRAIN PARTITIONING IN THE CARIBBEAN ISLAND-ARC: FABRIC DEVELOPMENT, KINEMATICS AND AR-AR AGES OF SYNTECTONIC EMPLACEMENT OF THE LOMA DE CABRERA BATHOLITH, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 

  Escuder Viruete J.; Contreras F.; Stein G.; Urien P.; Joubert M.; Ullrich T.; Mortensen J.; Pérez-Estaún A. (2006)

  An integrative structural and geochronologic study of the Loma de Cabrera batholith (LCB, Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic) and its country rocks reveals the interplay of deformation, metamorphism and plutonism ...
• GEOLOGY AND TIMING OF DEXTRAL STRIKE-SLIP SHEAR ZONES IN DANMARKSHAVN, NORTH-EAST GREENLAND CALEDONIDES 

  Sartini-Rideout C.; Gilotti J.A.; McClelland W.C. (2006)

  The North-East Greenland eclogite province is divided into a western, central and eastern block by the sinistral Storstrømmen shear zone in the west and the dextral Germania Land deformation zone in the east. A family of ...
• A GEOCHEMICAL APPLICATION OF THE ITRAX SCANNER TO A SEDIMENT CORE CONTAINING EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SAPROPEL UNITS 

  Thomson J.; Croudace I.W.; Rothwell R.G. (2006)

  The ITRAX micro-X-ray fluoresence (XRF) core scanner has been applied in a sediment geochemistry investigation. The core sections selected contain examples of the organic-rich sedimentary units (sapropels) that form ...
• THERMAL HISTORIES FROM THE CENTRAL ALBORZ MOUNTAINS, NORTHERN IRAN: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF DEFORMATION IN NORTHERN IRAN 

  Guest B.; Grove M.; Axen G.J.; Lam P.S.; Stockli D.F.; Hassanzadeh J. (2006)

  We integrate new and existing thermochronological, geochronological, and geologic data from the western and central Alborz Mountains of Iran to better constrain the late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of northern Iran in the ...
• THE CHANGING SHAPES OF ACTIVE VOLCANOES: HISTORY, EVOLUTION, AND FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR VOLCANO GEODESY 

  Poland M.; Hamburger M.; Newman A. (2006)
• UNREST AT THE CAMPI FLEGREI CALDERA (ITALY): A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF SOURCE PARAMETERS FROM GEODETIC DATA INVERSION 

  Gottsmann J.; Rymer H.; Berrino G. (2006)

  We have analysed the deformation documented during unrest at the Campi Flegrei caldera, Italy, between 1981 and 2001. Via inverse modelling, we constrain the location, geometry and size of the source responsible for the ...
• USE OF PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION TO ESTIMATE A FLOOD WAVE: POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS TO REMOTE SENSING OF RIVERS 

  Roux H.; Dartus D. (2006)

  In this paper, the potential for identifying discharge and/or flood hydrograph from remotely sensed data is explored. The parameter identification process is based on the minimization of the difference between the solution ...
• THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY AND GROWTH OF FORCED FOLDS ABOVE SAUCER-SHAPED IGNEOUS SILLS 

  Hansen D.M.; Cartwright J. (2006)

  Forced folds formed at the seabed immediately overlying shallow (<1 km) saucer-shaped sills along the ne atlantic margin during early paleogene. examples of this sill-fold relationship are exceptionally well imaged by ...
• CHARACTERIZING AN UNSTABLE MOUNTAIN SLOPE USING SHALLOW 2D AND 3D SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY 

  Heincke B.; Maurer H.; Green A.G.; Spillmann T.; Willenberg H.; Burlini L. (2006)

  As transport routes and population centers in mountainous areas expand, risks associated with rockfalls and rockslides grow at an alarming rate. As a consequence, there is an urgent need to delineate mountain slopes ...
• WATER IN THE LOWER CRUSTAL GRANULITE XENOLITHS FROM NUSHAN, EASTERN CHINA 

  Xia Q.K.; Yang X.Z.; Sheng Y.M.; Hao Y.T.; Deloule E. (2006)

  Nominally anhydrous clinopyroxene (cpx), orthopyroxene (opx), and plagioclase (pl) from 10 lower crustal granulite (two-pyroxene granulite and hypersthene granulite) xenoliths in Cenozoic basalts from the Nushan volcano, ...
• HEADS AND TAILS: 30 MILLION YEARS OF THE AFAR PLUME 

  Furman T.; Rooney T.; Bryce J.; Hanan B.; Yirgu G.; Ayalew D. (2006)

  Primitive recent mafic lavas from the Main Ethiopian Rift provide insight into the structure, composition and long-term history of the Afar plume. Modern rift basalts are mildly alkalic in composition, and were derived by ...
• THE PETROLEUM GENERATION POTENTIAL AND EFFECTIVE OIL WINDOW OF HUMIC COALS RELATED TO COAL COMPOSITION AND AGE 

  Petersen H.I. (2006)

  A worldwide data set of more than 500 humic coals from the major coal-forming geological periods has been used to analyse the evolution in the remaining (Hydrogen Index, HI) and total (Quality Index, QI) generation potentials ...
• ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS FOR TRANSPORT OF DECAYING SOLUTES IN RIVERS WITH TRANSIENT STORAGE 

  De Smedt F. (2006)

  Analytical solutions are presented for solute transport in rivers including the effects of transient storage and first order decay. The solute transport model considers an advection-dispersion equation for transport in the ...
• A VOLCANO BURSTING AT THE SEAMS: INFLATION, FAULTING, AND ERUPTION AT SIERRA NEGRA VOLCANO, GALÁPAGOS 

  Chadwick W.W.; Geist D.J.; Jónsson S.; Poland M.; Johnson D.J.; Meertens C.M. (2006)

  The results of geodetic monitoring since 2002 at Sierra Negra volcano in the Galápagos Islands show that the filling and pressurization of an ~2-km-deep sill eventually led to an eruption that began on 22 October 2005. ...
• LATE JURASSIC-MIOCENE EVOLUTION OF THE OUTER CARPATHIAN FOLD-AND-THRUST BELT AND ITS FOREDEEP BASIN (WESTERN CARPATHIANS, POLAND) 

  Oszczypko N. (2006)

  The Outer Carpathian Basin domain developed in its initial stage as a Jurassic-Early Cretaceous rifted passive margin that faced the eastern parts of the oceanic Alpine Tethys. Following closure of this oceanic basin during ...
• PETROGRAPHY, PALYNOLOGY, AND PALEOECOLOGY OF THE LOWER PENNSYLVANIAN BON AIR COAL, FRANKLIN COUNTY, CUMBERLAND PLATEAU, SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE 

  Shaver S.A.; Saussy F.L.; Eble C.F.; Hower J.C. (2006)

  Stratigraphy, palynology, petrography, and geochemistry of the Bon Air coal from the Armfield, Dotson, Rutledge, and Shakerag mine sites of Franklin County, Tennessee suggest that Bon Air seams at all sites were small (≤ ...
• APPLICATION OF TRISHEAR FAULT-PROPAGATION FOLDING TO ACTIVE REVERSE FAULTS: EXAMPLES FROM THE DALONG FAULT, GANSU PROVINCE, NW CHINA 

  Gold R.D.; Cowgill E.; Wang X.-F.; Chen X.-H. (2006)

  Determining accurate fault slip rates at 1 ka to 1 Ma timescales requires well-constrained palinspastic reconstructions of dateable geomorphic and/or geologic markers. Although general kinematic models have been developed ...
• TIMING AND MECHANISM OF FORMATION AND EXHUMATION OF THE NORTHERN QAIDAM ULTRAHIGH-PRESSURE METAMORPHIC BELT 

  Zhiqin X.; Jingsui Y.; Cailai W.; Haibing L.; Jianxin Z.; Xuexiang Q.; Shuguang S.; Haijun Q. (2006)

  The Qilian Caledonian orogenic belt on the north margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau were formed by convergence and collision of the Alxa terrain, Qilian terrain and Qaidam terrain. The 350-km-long, WNW-ESE-trending North ...
• ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION OF NUTRIENT RETENTION AND MANAGEMENT FOR A LOWLAND RIVER-LAKE SYSTEM 

  Kneis D.; Bronstert A.; Knoesche R. (2006)

  In the context of the European Water Framework Directive, we studied the possible impact of reduced emissions on phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations in a lowland river-lake system (Havel River, Germany). As a prerequisite, ...
• UTILIZING A P-BAND SCATTEROMETER TO ASSESS SOIL WATER SATURATION PERCENT OF A BARE SANDY SOIL 

  Blumberg D.G.; Ronen G.; Ben-Asher J.; Freilikher V.; Vulfson L.D.; Kotlyar A.L. (2006)

  A scatterometer operating in P-band at 441 MHz was used to estimate soil water content. This letter describes encouraging results of experiments that were undertaken in Israel at Yotvata and Ashalim experimental farms. The ...

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