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Drawn to the Sea: Charles Bradford Hudson (1865-1939), Artist, Author, Army Officer, with Special Notice of His Work for the United States Fish Commission and Bureau of Fisheries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The biography of Charles Bradford Hudson that follows this preface had its seeds about 1965 when I (VGS) was casually examining the extensive files of original illustrations of fishes stored in the Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History ...
Murphy, Kristin A., Springer, Victor G.
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A Review of the South Pacific Tuna Baitfisheries: Small Pelagic Fisheries Associated with Coral-Reefs [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
A review is given of current information concerning small pelagic fishes exploited for tuna bait in the South Pacific. These fishes are usually caught over or near coral reefs using light attraction and lift nets.
Dalzell, P., Lewis , A. D.
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Seismicity in the South Fossa Magna and the northern margin of the Philippine Sea plate.

open access: yesJournal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), 1990
Recently, an idea was proposed that the eastern Japan Sea deformation zone represents a nascent convergent zone between the North American and Eurasian plates. This supposed convergent plate boundary extends southwards through the Fossa Magna, a colliding sector, to the Suruga Bay forming a triple junction near Mt.
openaire   +2 more sources

Seismic activity around shallow plate boundary near westernmost Nankai Trough revealed by ocean bottom seismometer observation

open access: yesEarth, Planets and Space
The Nankai Trough region has a history of devastating earthquakes. The Hyuga-nada region is situated in the westernmost Nankai Trough and has not experienced an earthquake exceeding magnitude 8.
Ching-Yu Hu   +6 more
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Relative Uplift Rates Along the Central Mindoro Fault, Philippines

open access: yesGeoHazards
The Central Mindoro Fault (CMF) is a major active oblique, sinistral strike-slip fault within the Philippine archipelago that accommodates the oblique convergence between the Philippine Sea Plate (PSP) and the Sunda Plate (SP).
Jeremy Rimando, Rolly Rimando
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Structural variation in the incoming Philippine Sea plate along the Nankai Trough [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The next large-thrust earthquake along the Nankai Trough, southwest Japan is concerned to occur within this century. Nonvolcanic deep low-frequency tremors and earthquakes are observed around the down-dip limit of the coseismic rupture zone of the last ...
FUJIE, GO   +13 more
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Conservation of amphibians and reptiles in Indonesia: issues and problems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Indonesia is an archipelagic nation comprising some 17,000 islands of varying sizes and geological origins, as well as marked differences in composition of their floras and faunas.
Erdelen, Walter R., Iskandar, Djoko T.
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Shape of the ocean surface and implications for the Earth's interior: GEOS-3 results [PDF]

open access: yes
A new set of 1 deg x 1 deg mean free air anomalies was used to construct a gravimetric geoid by Stokes' formula for the Indian Ocean. Utilizing such 1 deg x 1 deg geoid comparisons were made with GEOS-3 radar altimeter estimates of geoid height.
Bodine, J. H.   +3 more
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Adams County in The Splendid Little War, April through August 1898

open access: yes, 1998
The Spanish American War lasted less than four months (April 25 to August 13, 1898). For the entire war, American casualties totaled less than 2,000 men, among them 345 killed or mortally wounded. Many more, however, died of disease (about 2000).
Smith, Timothy H.
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Plate Puzzle [PDF]

open access: yes
This activity was designed to help students develop a better understanding of the Earth's plates and their distribution. They will explore plate motions and the interactions of the plates along the plate boundaries by re-assembling a map of the earth ...
Larry Braile, Sheryl Braile
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