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Andrew spares Florida Coast |
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union,
Volume 73,
Issue 36,
1992,
Page 385-386
Susan Bush,
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When geologists heard of the intensity of Hurricane Andrew, which struck the Florida coast on August 25 and then moved on to southern Louisiana, they were expecting the same kinds of coastal damage that Hurricane Hugo brought to the Caribbean and Carolina shores in 1989. Both storms were category 4 hurricanes, having winds of 131–155 mph and surges of 13–18 feet. However, the coastal damage never materialized, leaving geologists to analyze the factors that lessened the impact of the storm. “For minimum coastal damage, you couldn't have designed a better storm,” said Orrin Pilkey, director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines (PSDS) in Durham, N.C. This was due in part to the nature of the storm itself and where it hit land, and in part to the regional geology, said Rob Thieler of PSDS. Despite the huge amounts of damage to buildings, there was virtually no evidence of coastal process destruction,
ISSN:0002-8606
DOI:10.1029/91EO00290
年代:1992
数据来源: WILEY
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ODP drilling at the East Pacific Rise |
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union,
Volume 73,
Issue 36,
1992,
Page 386-387
M. A. Storms,
D. H. Reudelhuber,
G. L. Holloway,
J. Allan,
R. Batiza,
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Understanding the origin of the ocean crust by scientific drilling at the axes of mid‐ocean ridges is a high priority in the Earth science community, as reflected in the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Long Range Plan, the Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES) Lithosphere Panel's White Paper, and several reports of the Ridge Inter‐Disciplinary Global Experiments (RIDGE) program. The ODP Long Range Plan provides for over a dozen drilling legs at and near mid‐ocean ridges prior to the year 2002, including a multileg drilling program at the East Pacific Rise (EPR).ODP Leg 142 (February–March 1992) was the first of this multi‐leg effort and was devoted primarily to continued testing and development of the engineering systems needed for successful drilling of bare rock at mid‐ocean ridges. At the same time, it was hoped that drilling would result in cores that could be used to study volcanic and hydrothermal processes, volcanic architecture, fluid flow, and other processes occurring at the acti
ISSN:0002-8606
DOI:10.1029/91EO00292
年代:1992
数据来源: WILEY
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AGU Congressional Fellow begins tenure |
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union,
Volume 73,
Issue 36,
1992,
Page 387-387
Anonymous,
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Valerie I. Lang was chosen as AGU's 1992–1993 Congressional Fellow. She was selected from a field of twenty‐three candidates by the Committee on Public Affairs during AGU's Spring Meeting in Montreal.Lang is currently a member of the technical staff of the Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, Calif. Her work involves experimental research in areas of ozone depletion chemistry and launch vehicle effects on the troposphere and stratosph
ISSN:0002-8606
DOI:10.1029/91EO00293
年代:1992
数据来源: WILEY
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