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Regional Structural Setting of Yucca Mountain, Southwestern Nevada
) i WM RECORD COPY I: // lt- USGS-OFR-84-854 - USGS-OFR-84-854 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY REGIONAL STRUCTURAL SETTING OF YUCCA MOUNTAIN, SOUTHWESTERN NEVADA, AND LATE CENOZOIC RATES OF TECTONIC ACTIVITY IN PART OF THE SOUTHWESTERN GREAT BASIN, NEVADA AND CALIFORNIA by U. J. Carr 06 : . , CD CD. Open-File Report 84-854 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Operations Office U.S. Department of Energy (Interagency Agreement DE-AI08-78ET44802) This report is preliminary and has not been reviewed for-conformity with U.S. Geological Survey editorial standards and stratigraphic nomenclature. Company names are for descriptive purposes only and do not constitute endorsement by the U.S. Geological Survey. Denver, Colorado 1984 ~~- ~ - ~~ ___~~~ Copies of this Open-File Report may be purchased from Open-File Services Secton Branch of Distribution U.S. Geological Survey Box 25425, Federal Center Denver, Colorado 80225 PREPAYMENT IS REQUIRED Price information will be published in the monthly listing 'New Publications of the Geological Survey" FOR ADDITIONAL ORDERING INFORMATION CALL: Commercial: (303) 236-7476 FTS: 776-7476 USGS-OFR-84-854 USGS-OFR-84-854 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Denver, Colorado REGIONAL STRUCTURAL SETTING OF YUCCA MOUNTAIN, SOUTHWESTERN NEVADA, AND LATE CENOZOIC RATES OF TECTONIC ACTIVITY IN PART OF THE SOUTHWESTERN GREAT BASIN, NEVADA AND CALIFORNIA by W. J. Carr CONTENTS Page Abstract................................................................... 1 Introduction.................................................................................................. 4 Structural-physiographic subsections of the southwestern Great Basin ....... 9 Walker Lane belt ........................................ ...... ** 9 Basin-range subsection ..................................................21 Inyo-Mono subsection ............................................................26 Boundary between Inyo-Mono and Walker Lane belt subsections ...... -
Introduction to Astronomy from Darkness to Blazing Glory
Introduction to Astronomy From Darkness to Blazing Glory Published by JAS Educational Publications Copyright Pending 2010 JAS Educational Publications All rights reserved. Including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Second Edition Author: Jeffrey Wright Scott Photographs and Diagrams: Credit NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USGS, NOAA, Aames Research Center JAS Educational Publications 2601 Oakdale Road, H2 P.O. Box 197 Modesto California 95355 1-888-586-6252 Website: http://.Introastro.com Printing by Minuteman Press, Berkley, California ISBN 978-0-9827200-0-4 1 Introduction to Astronomy From Darkness to Blazing Glory The moon Titan is in the forefront with the moon Tethys behind it. These are two of many of Saturn’s moons Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA 2 Introduction to Astronomy Contents in Brief Chapter 1: Astronomy Basics: Pages 1 – 6 Workbook Pages 1 - 2 Chapter 2: Time: Pages 7 - 10 Workbook Pages 3 - 4 Chapter 3: Solar System Overview: Pages 11 - 14 Workbook Pages 5 - 8 Chapter 4: Our Sun: Pages 15 - 20 Workbook Pages 9 - 16 Chapter 5: The Terrestrial Planets: Page 21 - 39 Workbook Pages 17 - 36 Mercury: Pages 22 - 23 Venus: Pages 24 - 25 Earth: Pages 25 - 34 Mars: Pages 34 - 39 Chapter 6: Outer, Dwarf and Exoplanets Pages: 41-54 Workbook Pages 37 - 48 Jupiter: Pages 41 - 42 Saturn: Pages 42 - 44 Uranus: Pages 44 - 45 Neptune: Pages 45 - 46 Dwarf Planets, Plutoids and Exoplanets: Pages 47 -54 3 Chapter 7: The Moons: Pages: 55 - 66 Workbook Pages 49 - 56 Chapter 8: Rocks and Ice: -
Stardust Sample Return
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Stardust Sample Return Press Kit January 2006 www.nasa.gov Contacts Merrilee Fellows Policy/Program Management (818) 393-0754 NASA Headquarters, Washington DC Agle Stardust Mission (818) 393-9011 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Vince Stricherz Science Investigation (206) 543-2580 University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. Contents General Release ............................................................................................................... 3 Media Services Information ……………………….................…………….................……. 5 Quick Facts …………………………………………..................………....…........…....….. 6 Mission Overview …………………………………….................……….....……............…… 7 Recovery Timeline ................................................................................................ 18 Spacecraft ………………………………………………..................…..……...........……… 20 Science Objectives …………………………………..................……………...…..........….. 28 Why Stardust?..................…………………………..................………….....………............... 31 Other Comet Missions .......................................................................................... 33 NASA's Discovery Program .................................................................................. 36 Program/Project Management …………………………........................…..…..………...... 40 1 2 GENERAL RELEASE: NASA PREPARES FOR RETURN OF INTERSTELLAR CARGO NASA’s Stardust mission is nearing Earth after a 2.88 billion mile round-trip journey -
Petrogenes1.S of Apollo 11 Basalts and Implications
PETROGENES1.S OF APOLLO 11 BASALTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LUNAR ORIGIN A, E. Rinqwood Department of Geophysics and Geochemistry Australian National University Canberra ABSTRACT The origin of Apollo 11 basalts is discussed in terms of two hypotheses: (i) formation by a small degree of partial melting in the lunar interior and (ii) formation by prolonged near-surface crystallization differentiation in a lava lake. The second hypoth- esis is rejected on the following grounds: Most Apollo 11 magmas are far removed from the plagioclase-pyroxene-ilmenite cotectic; fractional crystallization cannot explain the large variations in concentrations of incompatible trace elehents in conjunction with the small variations in major element compositions, particularly, _IMg ratios; experimentally determined partition coefficients show Fe Pack3 that the high abundances of Cr and V in Apollo 11 cannot be reconciled A with the previous separation of large quantities of ore minerals and pyroxenes. On the other hand, the major element and trace element jq contents of Apollo 11 rocks can be explained by partial melting of sovvromaterial which buffers the major element compositions and causes enrichments of incompatible elements according to the degree of partial melting( fiisk hypbthesis) Two alternative sources have been suggested for Apollo 11 basalts formed by partial melting: (i) unfractionated pyroxenite source region at depths of 200-600 km, (ii) fractionated source region with incompatible elements (e-g. Ba, U, rare 'earths) strongly enriched over chondritic abundances and containing plagioclase (approximate eucritic composition). Mass balance calculations'and plagioclase stability conditions show that the second hypothesis requires Apollo 1l.basalts to be generated by partial melting in the outer 150 km of the moon. -
Archons (Commanders) [NOTICE: They Are NOT Anlien Parasites], and Then, in a Mirror Image of the Great Emanations of the Pleroma, Hundreds of Lesser Angels
A R C H O N S HIDDEN RULERS THROUGH THE AGES A R C H O N S HIDDEN RULERS THROUGH THE AGES WATCH THIS IMPORTANT VIDEO UFOs, Aliens, and the Question of Contact MUST-SEE THE OCCULT REASON FOR PSYCHOPATHY Organic Portals: Aliens and Psychopaths KNOWLEDGE THROUGH GNOSIS Boris Mouravieff - GNOSIS IN THE BEGINNING ...1 The Gnostic core belief was a strong dualism: that the world of matter was deadening and inferior to a remote nonphysical home, to which an interior divine spark in most humans aspired to return after death. This led them to an absorption with the Jewish creation myths in Genesis, which they obsessively reinterpreted to formulate allegorical explanations of how humans ended up trapped in the world of matter. The basic Gnostic story, which varied in details from teacher to teacher, was this: In the beginning there was an unknowable, immaterial, and invisible God, sometimes called the Father of All and sometimes by other names. “He” was neither male nor female, and was composed of an implicitly finite amount of a living nonphysical substance. Surrounding this God was a great empty region called the Pleroma (the fullness). Beyond the Pleroma lay empty space. The God acted to fill the Pleroma through a series of emanations, a squeezing off of small portions of his/its nonphysical energetic divine material. In most accounts there are thirty emanations in fifteen complementary pairs, each getting slightly less of the divine material and therefore being slightly weaker. The emanations are called Aeons (eternities) and are mostly named personifications in Greek of abstract ideas. -
Xerox University Microfilms
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Virgo the Virgin
Virgo the Virgin Virgo is one of the constellations of the zodiac, the group tion Virgo itself. There is also the connection here with of 12 constellations that lies on the ecliptic plane defined “The Scales of Justice” and the sign Libra which lies next by the planets orbital orientation around the Sun. Virgo is to Virgo in the Zodiac. The study of astronomy had a one of the original 48 constellations charted by Ptolemy. practical “time keeping” aspect in the cultures of ancient It is the largest constellation of the Zodiac and the sec- history and as the stars of Virgo appeared before sunrise ond - largest constellation after Hydra. Virgo is bordered by late in the northern summer, many cultures linked this the constellations of Bootes, Coma Berenices, Leo, Crater, asterism with crops, harvest and fecundity. Corvus, Hydra, Libra and Serpens Caput. The constella- tion of Virgo is highly populated with galaxies and there Virgo is usually depicted with angel - like wings, with an are several galaxy clusters located within its boundaries, ear of wheat in her left hand, marked by the bright star each of which is home to hundreds or even thousands of Spica, which is Latin for “ear of grain”, and a tall blade of galaxies. The accepted abbreviation when enumerating grass, or a palm frond, in her right hand. Spica will be objects within the constellation is Vir, the genitive form is important for us in navigating Virgo in the modern night Virginis and meteor showers that appear to originate from sky. Spica was most likely the star that helped the Greek Virgo are called Virginids. -
DMAAC – February 1973
LUNAR TOPOGRAPHIC ORTHOPHOTOMAP (LTO) AND LUNAR ORTHOPHOTMAP (LO) SERIES (Published by DMATC) Lunar Topographic Orthophotmaps and Lunar Orthophotomaps Scale: 1:250,000 Projection: Transverse Mercator Sheet Size: 25.5”x 26.5” The Lunar Topographic Orthophotmaps and Lunar Orthophotomaps Series are the first comprehensive and continuous mapping to be accomplished from Apollo Mission 15-17 mapping photographs. This series is also the first major effort to apply recent advances in orthophotography to lunar mapping. Presently developed maps of this series were designed to support initial lunar scientific investigations primarily employing results of Apollo Mission 15-17 data. Individual maps of this series cover 4 degrees of lunar latitude and 5 degrees of lunar longitude consisting of 1/16 of the area of a 1:1,000,000 scale Lunar Astronautical Chart (LAC) (Section 4.2.1). Their apha-numeric identification (example – LTO38B1) consists of the designator LTO for topographic orthophoto editions or LO for orthophoto editions followed by the LAC number in which they fall, followed by an A, B, C or D designator defining the pertinent LAC quadrant and a 1, 2, 3, or 4 designator defining the specific sub-quadrant actually covered. The following designation (250) identifies the sheets as being at 1:250,000 scale. The LTO editions display 100-meter contours, 50-meter supplemental contours and spot elevations in a red overprint to the base, which is lithographed in black and white. LO editions are identical except that all relief information is omitted and selenographic graticule is restricted to border ticks, presenting an umencumbered view of lunar features imaged by the photographic base. -
The Multidimensional Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Twentieth Century, Volume 1
THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL GUIDE TO SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, VOLUME 1 EDITED BY NAT TILANDER 2 Copyright © 2010 by Nathaniel Garret Tilander All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted by any means—whether auditory, graphic, mechanical, or electronic—without written permission of both publisher and author, except in the case of brief excerpts used in critical articles and reviews. Unauthorized reproduction of any part of this work is illegal and is punishable by law. Cover art from the novella Last Enemy by H. Beam Piper, first published in the August 1950 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, and illustrated by Miller. Image downloaded from the ―zorger.com‖ website which states that the image is licensed under a Creative Commons Public Domain License. Additional copyrighted materials incorporated in this book are as follows: Copyright © 1949-1951 by L. Sprague de Camp. These articles originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction. Copyright © 1951-1979 by P. Schuyler Miller. These articles originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction. Copyright © 1975-1979 by Lester Del Rey. These articles originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction. Copyright © 1978-1981 by Spider Robinson. These articles originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction. Copyright © 1979-1999 by Tom Easton. These articles originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction. Copyright © 1950-1954 by J. Francis McComas. These articles originally appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction. Copyright © 1950-1959 by Anthony Boucher. These articles originally appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction. Copyright © 1959-1960 by Damon Knight. These articles originally appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction. -
The Observer, November
The OBSERVER The Newsletter of the Twin City Amateur Astronomers, Inc. November 2001 Volume 26, Number 11 Adventures in Meteor Hunting — Duane Yockey In This Issue: REETINGS to my brother and and binoculars just in case the meteors sister sky watchers, didn't live up to their billing. Saturday G was clear here in central Illinois, and • Meteor Hunting Adventures ...1 when I got back from a Duane shows that he has the The long awaited day play at Illinois State right stuff as he tears after the of the Leonid meteor University around Leonids and finds them! shower arrived Satur- 10:30 p.m. the sky was day. I was really still showing lots of • TCAA Calendar ........................1 looking forward to stars. I called Laura Use our calendar to mark going out to the (my oldest daughter), your calendar. observatory with who said the skies were other Twin City clear down in southern • TCAA Annual Holiday Bash....3 Amateur Indiana and I could Party like it’s, um, 2001, at Astronomers and see- drive down there, if the Vic & Cindy’s! ............................ ing the "show" from clouds rolled in (ha, 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. ha). I assured her that • Club Notes................................4 early Sunday morn- the sky would cooper- Wow, it’s been a busy month! ing. So I packed my ate, and it was looking car early with a lawn good then, and I wished • Software Review: DSE ...........5 chair and threw in my her good luck (if she And just think, if you never telescope, star charts turn to page 5, you’ll never know continued on next page what DSE stands for.. -
A Spectroscopy Study of Nearby Late-Type Stars, Possible Members of Stellar Kinematic Groups
Astronomy & Astrophysics manuscript no. 14948 c ESO 2018 June 11, 2018 A spectroscopy study of nearby late-type stars, possible members of stellar kinematic groups ⋆ ⋆⋆ J. Maldonado1, R.M. Mart´ınez-Arn´aiz2 , C. Eiroa1, D. Montes2, and B. Montesinos3 1 Universidad Aut´onoma de Madrid, Dpto. F´ısica Te´orica, M´odulo 15, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus de Cantoblanco, E-28049 Madrid, Spain, 2 Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Dpto. Astrof´ısica, Facultad Ciencias F´ısicas, E-28040 Madrid, Spain 3 Laboratorio de Astrof´ısica Estelar y Exoplanetas, Centro de Astrobiolog´ıa, LAEX-CAB (CSIC-INTA), ESAC Campus, P.O. BOX 78, E-28691, Villanueva de la Ca˜nada, Madrid, Spain Received ; Accepted ABSTRACT Context. Nearby late-type stars are excellent targets for seeking young objects in stellar associations and moving groups. The origin of these structures is still misunderstood, and lists of moving group members often change with time and also from author to author. Most members of these groups have been identified by means of kinematic criteria, leading to an important contamination of previous lists by old field stars. Aims. We attempt to identify unambiguous moving group members among a sample of nearby-late type stars by studying their kinematics, lithium abundance, chromospheric activity, and other age-related properties. Methods. High-resolution echelle spectra (R ∼ 57000) of a sample of nearby late-type stars are used to derive accurate radial velocities that are combined with the precise Hipparcos parallaxes and proper motions to compute galactic-spatial velocity components. Stars are classified as possible members of the classical moving groups according to their kinematics. -
Paul Scherrer Institute Scientific Report 1998. Volume V
ETOf-C//—^ fo / PAUL S CHER HER INSTITUT ISSN 1423-7342 March 1999 i J i I i i i i PSI • Scientific Report 1998 / Volume V General Energy Photo Cover View along the tubing system of a prototype Condensation Interface which was developed for the on-line measurement of heavy metal concentrations in hot gases. See article by Ch. Ludwig, S. Stuck! and A.J. Schuler Photo: Armin Muller, RSI PAULSCHERRER INSTITUT ISSN 1423-7342 March 1999 Scientific Report 1998 Volume V General Energy ed. by: Christina Daum and Jakob Leuenberger CH-5232 Villigen PSI Switzerland Phone: 056/310 21 11 Telefax: 056/310 21 99 http://www1.psi.ch/www_f5_hn/f5_home.html DISCLAIMER Portions of this document may be illegible in electronic image products. Images are produced from the best available original document. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 A. Wokaun Renewable Energies and Materials Cycles 3 The Influence of Chlorine on the Fate and Activity of Alkali Metals during the Gasification of 4 Wood R. Struis, C. von Scala, A. Schuler, S. Stuck! On-Board Conversion of Methanol to Dimethyl Ether as an Alternative Diesel Fuel 6 H. Armbruster, G. Heinzelmann, R. Struis, S. Stuck! Solar Thermal Production of Zinc: Program Strategy 8 A. Steinfeld, A. Weidenkaff, S. Moeller, R. Palumbo Economic Evaluation of the Solar Thermal Co-Production of Zinc, Synthesis Gas, and 10 Hydrogen A. Steinfeld, I. Spiewak (EC Joint Research Centre, Spain) Solar Production of Catalytic Filamentous Carbon by Thermal Decomposition of Hydro- 12 carbons and Carbon Monoxide V.A. Kirillov, G.G. Kuvshinov, Yu.l.