The Big Bonanza copper mine, Latouche Island, Alaska

Big Plateaus of Big Data on the Big Island

In ancient texts, 40 was a magic number. It meant a “lot” or “a long time.” 40 years represented the time it took for a new generation to arise. A look back at 40 years of VLDB suggests that this applies to database researchers as well – the young researchers of the early VLDBs are now the old folks of the database world, and a new generation is creating afresh. Over this period many plateaus o...

Text Mine Your Big Data

Text Mine Your Big Data

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Petrography and Geochemistry of the Crawfish Inlet and Krestof Island Plutons, Baranof Island, Alaska

The Sanak-Baranof plutonic belt (SBPB) includes a series of biotite tonalite, granodiorite, and granite neartrench plutons that intrude the Campanian to Eocene flysch of the Chugach-Prince William terrane (CPW) for 2100 km along the southern Alaskan margin (Hudson et al., 1979; Hill et al., 1981; Bradley et al., 2003; Haeussler et al., 2003). SBPB intrusions have been interpreted to be the resu...