A description and analysis of the damage resulting from seismic vibration, ground cracks, and especially landlsides in Alaska's largest city.

A graphical summary of climatic conditions in a rregion of varied physiography and rapid urbanization.

Nomenclature, lithology, and stratigraphic relations of a sequence of ash-flow tuffs, flows, and breccia.

A geologic review, commemorating John Wesley Powell's historic explorations among the lofty peaks and deep canyons of the Uinta Mountains.

Hitler's Nazis as well as the Allies knew that Greenland's white expanse was a virtual weather factory that played a key role in the day-to-day weather of the North Atlantic shipping lanes and the battlefields of western Europe. Ironically, few people today even realize that American troops were stationed in Greenland during World War II or what obscure role these troops played.

An introduction to the story of a great earthquake--its geologic setting and effects, the field investigations, and the public and private reconstruction efforts.

A study of the hydrology and geology of the basin and the effects of physical and cultural environments on the water supply.