United States Geological Survey YearbookThe Survey, 1984 - Geology |
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... flow , virtually all the ice seen in the June 5 photograph had calved off and been replaced by new ice by September 4. ( Photographs by Robert M. Krimmel , Water Resources Division , U.S. Geological Survey . ) As the Nation's principal ...
... flow , virtually all the ice seen in the June 5 photograph had calved off and been replaced by new ice by September 4. ( Photographs by Robert M. Krimmel , Water Resources Division , U.S. Geological Survey . ) As the Nation's principal ...
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... flow in the pipeline or pumping of the wells can have serious economic consequences . And the iceberg problem is likely to get worse before it gets better . Why is this happening ? It is because the nearby Columbia Glacier is begin ...
... flow in the pipeline or pumping of the wells can have serious economic consequences . And the iceberg problem is likely to get worse before it gets better . Why is this happening ? It is because the nearby Columbia Glacier is begin ...
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... flow to the terminus can match the rate of ice discharge from the terminus ; the glacier is stable . On the other hand , when a glacier ends in deep water , the rate of discharge of icebergs is very high and cannot be matched by ice flow ...
... flow to the terminus can match the rate of ice discharge from the terminus ; the glacier is stable . On the other hand , when a glacier ends in deep water , the rate of discharge of icebergs is very high and cannot be matched by ice flow ...
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... flow of 39 feet per day , so the calving in midglacier was averag- ing 89 lineal feet of glacier ice removed each day . As the glacier is more than 1,000 feet thick at the terminus , this is a huge volume of ice discharged each day ...
... flow of 39 feet per day , so the calving in midglacier was averag- ing 89 lineal feet of glacier ice removed each day . As the glacier is more than 1,000 feet thick at the terminus , this is a huge volume of ice discharged each day ...
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... flow direction of mineralizing fluids . They record the paleothermal anomaly well beyond the zone of visibly altered rock through subtle differences in temper- ature and fluid composition relative to those of the fluid inclusions in the ...
... flow direction of mineralizing fluids . They record the paleothermal anomaly well beyond the zone of visibly altered rock through subtle differences in temper- ature and fluid composition relative to those of the fluid inclusions in the ...
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