• CONSTRAINTS FROM MOHO GEOMETRY AND CRUSTAL THICKNESS ON THE GEODYNAMIC ORIGIN OF THE VRANCEA SEISMOGENIC ZONE (ROMANIA) 

  Mucuta D.M.; Knapp C.C.; Knapp J.H. (2006)

  Reprocessing of industry deep seismic reflection data (Ramnicu Sarat and Braila profiles) from the SE Carpathian foreland of Romania provides important new constraints on geodynamic models for the origin of the intermediate ...
• NEW OBSERVATIONAL INFORMATION ON THE PRECURSORY ACCELERATING AND DECELERATING STRAIN ENERGY RELEASE 

  Papazachos C.B.; Karakaisis G.F.; Scordilis E.M.; Papazachos B.C. (2006)

  Recent reliable data are used to study the behavior of seismic activity before 46 strong shallow earthquakes (M ≥ 6.0), which correspond to five complete samples of mainshocks. These samples include 6 mainshocks (M = ...
• THE OCCURRENCE OF NORLUPANES AND BISNORLUPANES IN OILS OF TERTIARY DELTAIC BASINS 

  Curiale J.A. (2006)

  Lupanoid hydrocarbons are known to occur in several petroleum systems, and lupane (C30) has recently been confirmed to exist in several crude oils. In contrast, norlupanes (C29) and bisnorlupanes (C28) are rarely observed ...
• COVARYING SEDIMENTARY AND BIOTIC FLUCTUATIONS IN LOWER-MIDDLE EOCENE PYRENEAN DEEP-SEA DEPOSITS: PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS 

  Payros A.; Orue-Etxebarria X.; Pujalte V. (2006)

  Analyses of expanded (1975 to 3330 m thick) deep-marine Ypresian-Lutetian successions from the Pamplona and Basque basins (W Pyrenees) demonstrate a recurring pattern of coeval sedimentary and biotic changes: intervals ...
• AN OBSERVATIONAL TEST OF THE STRESS ACCUMULATION MODEL BASED ON SEISMICITY PRECEDING THE 1992 LANDERS, CA EARTHQUAKE 

  Levin S.Z.; Sammis C.G.; Bowman D.D. (2006)

  We test the Bowman and King [Bowman, D.D., King, G.C.P., 2001a, Accelerating seismicity and stress accumulation before large earthquakes. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28 (21), 4039-4042, Bowman, D.D., King, G.C.P., 2001b. Stress ...
• ON THE ROLE OF GRAIN TOPOLOGY IN DYNAMIC GRAIN GROWTH - 2D MICROSTRUCTURAL MODELING 

  Kellermann Slotemaker A.; de Bresser J.H.P. (2006)

  Microstructural modification processes like dynamic recrystallization and grain growth can have a major effect on the transient and (semi-)steady state flow behaviour of deforming materials. Work on metals and ceramics ...
• SEISMIC PROPERTIES OF THE UPPER MANTLE BENEATH LANZAROTE (CANARY ISLANDS): MODEL PREDICTIONS BASED ON TEXTURE MEASUREMENTS BY EBSD 

  Vonlanthen P.; Grobety B.; Kunze K.; Burlini L. (2006)

  We present a petrophysical analysis of upper mantle xenoliths, collected in the Quaternary alkali basalt fields (Series III and IV) from the island of Lanzarote. The samples consist of eight harzburgite and four dunite ...
• POLAR STRATIFICATION: A CRITICAL VIEW FROM THE SOUTHERN OCEAN 

  Hillenbrand C.-D.; Cortese G. (2006)

  Oceanic stratification represents an effective mechanism to reduce vertical mixing of the water column, thereby locking up carbon dioxide (CO2) in the deep sea and preventing air-sea exchange of CO2. It has been proposed ...
• RHYTIDOSTEID TEMNOSPONDYLS IN GONDWANA: A NEW TAXON FROM THE LOWER TRIASSIC OF BRAZIL 

  Dias-Da-Silva S.; Marsicano C.; Schultz C.L. (2006)

  A new South American Early Triassic stereospondyl is described and considered to represent a new taxon, Cabralia lavinai gen. et sp. nov. The material consists of two well-preserved skull fragments. According to recent ...
• PERMIAN GASTROPODS FROM THE KULOGORY FORMATION OF THE NORTHERN MOSCOW SYNECLISE 

  Mazaev A.V. (2006)

  Permian gastropods from the Kulogory Formation (Sakmarian) were studied based on the author's material and the collection of Yakowlew (Central Research Geological Prospecting Museum (TsNIGR Museum), St. Petersburg). ...
• SPATIAL VARIATIONS IN THE SIMILARITY OF EARTHQUAKE POPULATIONS: THE CASE OF THE 1997 COLFIORITO-SELLANO (NORTHERN APENNINES, ITALY) SEISMIC SEQUENCE 

  Alberti M. (2006)

  The spatial properties of events in the 1997 Colfiorito-Sellano seismic sequence (Northern Apennines, Italy) were investigated using coherence, a parameter derived from seismic moment tensors that quantifies the kinematic ...
• COMPOSITION, LATTICE PARAMETERS, AND ROOM TEMPERATURE ELASTIC CONSTANTS OF NATURAL SINGLE CRYSTAL XENOTIME FROM NOVO HORIZONTE 

  Mogilevsky P.; Parthasarathy T.A.; Meisenkothen F.; Zaretsky E.B. (2006)

  The composition, lattice parameters, and elastic constants of natural single crystal YPO4 xenotime from Novo Horizonte (Brazil) were determined using EPMA, XRD, and the pulse-echo technique. The composition indicates a 24% ...
• EVOLUTION OF DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AFTER THE END OF MESSINIAN SALINITY CRISIS IN NIJAR BASIN (SE BETIC CORDILLERA) 

  Bassetti M.A.; Miculan P.; Sierro F.J. (2006)

  The Messinian succession is exceptionally well preserved in the intramontane sedimentary basin of Nijar in the Internal Betic Cordillera (SE Spain). Gypsum-olistostromes and large slabs of the Azagador Member are unconformably ...
• CONTRASTING STERANE SIGNATURES IN NEOPROTEROZOIC MARINE ROCKS OF AUSTRALIA BEFORE AND AFTER THE ACRAMAN ASTEROID IMPACT 

  McKirdy D.M.; Webster L.J.; Arouri K.R.; Gostin V.A.; Grey K. (2006)

  Organic matter preserved in marine mudstones from three late Neoproterozoic depocentres - the Officer and Amadeus Basins and the Adelaide Fold Belt - was examined using standard microscopic and geochemical methods, including ...
• TRANSALP - CROSS-LINE RECORDING DURING THE SEISMIC REFLECTION TRANSECT IN THE EASTERN ALPS 

  Millahn K.; Lüschen E.; Gebrande H. (2006)

  Cross-line recording formed a companion experiment of the TRANSALP seismic reflection transect through the Eastern Alps, conducted by partner institutions from Austria, Germany and Italy in three field campaigns in the ...
• DEEP SEISMIC REFLECTIVITY BENEATH AN INTRACRATONIC BASIN: INSIGHTS INTO THE BEHAVIOR OF THE UPPERMOST MANTLE BENEATH THE ILLINOIS BASIN 

  Okure M.S.; McBride J.H. (2006)

  Reflectivity images of the lower crust and uppermost mantle beneath the Paleozoic Illinois basin have been derived from reprocessing of several hundred kilometers of industry seismic reflection data using extended vibroseis ...
• MICROBIAL CARBONATE ABUNDANCE COMPARED WITH FLUCTUATIONS IN METAZOAN DIVERSITY OVER GEOLOGICAL TIME 

  Riding R. (2006)

  Secular variation in microbial carbonate abundance may be reflected by stromatolite morphotype diversity and reefal microbial carbonate abundance. These datasets reveal long-term changes over the past 3000 Myr that include ...
• TRANSALP - DEEP CRUSTAL VIBROSEIS AND EXPLOSIVE SEISMIC PROFILING IN THE EASTERN ALPS 

  Lüschen E.; Gebrande H.; Borrini D.; Lammerer B.; Millahn K.; Neubauer F.; Nicolich R. (2006)

  The TRANSALP consortium, comprising institutions from Italy, Austria and Germany, carried out deep seismic reflection measurements in the Eastern Alps between Munich and Venice in 1998, 1999 and 2001. In order to complement ...
• ITATODON TATARINOVI (TEGOTHERIIDAE, MAMMALIA), A DOCODONT FROM THE MIDDLE JURASSIC OF WESTERN SIBERIA AND PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF DOCODONTA 

  Averianov A.O.; Lopatin A.V. (2006)

  Itatodon tatarinovi Lopatin et Averianov, 2005 is represented by two lower molars and a lower molar fragment from the upper part of the Itat Formation (Bathonian Stage) of the Berezovskii quarry (southern Krasnoyarsk ...
• THE AKCHAGYLIAN FLORA AND VEGETATION OF THE UDMURTIAN KAMA RIVER REGION 

  Pisareva V.V. (2006)

  A paleobotanical study of Akchagylian deposits exposed by a borehole in the Udmurtian Kama River Region was performed. The characteristics of the vegetation cover of the Early, Middle, and Late Akchagylian are provided. ...

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