The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has published probabilistic earthquake hazard maps for the United States based on current knowledge of past earthquake activity and geological constraints on earthquake potential. These maps for the central and eastern United States assume standard site conditions with Swave velocities of 760 m/s in the top 30 m. For urban and infrastructure planning and long-t...

Geologic maps are products of complex analyses and interpretations, and as such, contain a certain amount of uncertainty. Unfortunately, it is difficult to estimate the uncertainty within a geologic map. Much of this difficulty is due to the lack of a clear framework for describing the sources of uncertainty within the map and poor awareness, within the mapping community, of methods capable of ...

Introduction Geologic mapping of planetary surfaces provides information on the nature, sequence, and distribution of material units, from which one can assemble a geologic history [1]. With this goal in mind, the Galileo SSI camera acquired an important dataset of images of Europa at a resolution suitable for geologic reconnaissance and mapping. We performed mapping and analysis of pole-to-pol...

Bacterial extracellular proteases are important for bacterial nutrition and marine sedimentary organic nitrogen degradation. However, only a few proteases from marine sedimentary bacteria have been characterized. Some subtilases have a protease-associated (PA) domain inserted in the catalytic domain. Although structural analysis and deletion mutation suggests that the PA domain in subtilases is...

Viruses profoundly influence benthic marine ecosystems by infecting and subsequently killing their prokaryotic hosts, thereby impacting the cycling of carbon and nutrients. Previously conducted studies, based on different methodologies, have provided widely differing estimates of the relevance of viruses on benthic prokaryotes. There has been no attempt so far to compare these independent appro...

Semantic Web technologies bring innovative ideas to computer applications in geoscience. As an essential part of the Semantic Web, ontologies are increasingly discussed in the geoscience community, in which geologic time scale is one of the topics that have received the most discussion and practices. This paper aims to carry out a review of the recent progress on geologic time ontologies, discu...

the altitude to which the past glaciers had been extended during the last glacial period in dinevar basin, western iran, can be estimated based on glacier-geomorpic evidence such as cirques, u-shaped valleys, and the moraines in lowlands. this study estimates the elevation of snowline during this period for the basin as the objective of the research. topographic and geologic maps, landsat image...

Abstract Loose sand, blown away from source regions by winds, is transported across Mars's surface into sand sheets and dunes accumulates within topographic sinks. In the absence of plate tectonics, impact craters constitute a dominant sink for windblown sediments on Mars today. We analyzed volume all mapped eolian sands in martian >1 km diameter to reveal spatiotemporal patterns sedimen...