Boulder, Colo., USA New Geosphere articles posted online 16 July 2012 include additions to three themes: "Seeing the True Shape of Earth's Surface: Applications of Airborne and Terrestrial LiDAR in the Geosciences"; "Neogene Tectonics and Climate-Tectonic Interactions in the Southern Alaskan Orogen"; and "Origin and Evolution of the Sierra Nevada and Walker Lane." Locations studied include Baja California; Cofre de Perote volcano, Mexico; Mammoth Mountain and Long Valley, California, USA; the Sevier hinterland; and the Wrangell volcanic belt.
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Applications of airborne and terrestrial laser scanning to paleoseismology
David E. Haddad et al., School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA. Posted online 16 July 2012; doi: 10.1130/GES701.1.
Earthquakes that rupture Earth's topography can cause significant loss of human life and destruction to anthropogenic structures, such as schools, hospitals, and office buildings. Fortunately, these large earthquakes leave telltale marks about their sizes and distributions over geologic time. For example, large earthquakes can displace stream channels, river terraces, fluvial ridges, and even topple fragile geologic features. The purpose of this pa
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