This work presents the application of radar interferometry to detect land subsidence associated with water pumping in El Paso, Texas and adjacent areas. Geological and hydrological information are compared with the radar ...

Lower Kane Cave is forming in the upper Mississippian Madison Limestone by sulfuric acid speleogenesis. The cave is located along the axialtrace of the Little Sheep Mountain anticline where the Paleozoic units have been ...

Cities and urban populations are growing at a high pace, but groundwater remains an underutilized resource in most urban areas. The general impacts of urban development on groundwater include overexploitation; subsidence; ...

Aeolian bedforms represent some of the most intricate land forms on the planet encompassing a variety of scales from wind ripples on the order of centimeters to desert sand seas comprising thousands of square kilometers. ...

The Zoeppritz equations used in a typical reflection amplitude versus source-receiver offset (AVO) study to calculate the reflection and transmission coefficients do not directly consider the fluids filling the pore space ...

The recent expansion of Juniperus ashei (Ashe juniper) on the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas has prompted studies on the impact the juniper expansion has had on the hydrologic regime of the region. This study addresses ...

The traditional roles of stable isotopes in paleontology are as indicators of diet or climate. An emerging field of paleontology and geochemistry is to use isotopes in order to make inferences about extinct and fossil ...

The Cripple Creek epithermal deposit is a historic gold camp located at the southern end of the Colorado Front Range in central Colorado. Mineralization in the Oligocene-aged alkaline volcanic center is characterized by ...