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Schubert, G.

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River Meander Studies

The feasibility of using satellite television photography of geomorphological indices to obtain a correlation between a stream meander power spectrum and stream discharge frequency distribution is considered. Water resources assessment includes information on the average rainfall over large drainage basins and calculations relating flow measurements to geographical areas. Photoelectric optical scanning techniques provide a digitized procedure for locating and following river meander curve points.

Schubert, G.↗

Induced and permanent magnetism on the moon - Structural and evolutionary implications.

It is shown that the moon possesses an extraordinary response to induction from the solar wind due to a combination of a high interior electrical conductivity together with a relatively resistive crustal layer into which the solar wind dynamic pressure forces back the induced field. The dark side response, devoid of solar wind pressure, is approximately that expected for the vacuum case. These data permit an assessment of the interior conductivity and an estimate of the thermal gradient in the crustal region. The discovery of a large permanent magnetic field at the Apollo 12 site corresponds approximately to the paleomagnetic residues discovered in both Apollo 11 and 12 rock samples. The implications regarding an early lunar magnetic field are discussed and it is shown that among the various conjectures regarding the early field the most prominent are either an interior dynamo or an early approach to the earth though no extant model is free of difficulties.

Sonett, C. P.↗

Stability of rotating stars. III

Differentially rotating stellar interiors nonaxisymmetric perturbation stability in toroidal and poloidal magnetic fields

Fricke, K.↗

Phase change instability in the mantle

Earth upper mantle phase change instability, discussing temperature gradient, transformation influence on fluid, olivine-spinel phase flow patterns and tectonics

Oxburgh, E. R.↗

The early despinning of the sun

Mass loss role in early despinning of sun without magnetic field braking effect, considering present surface vs core rotating velocity

Schubert, G.↗

Lunar rivers.

Lunar sinuous rills origin, suggesting surface erosion by water rivers released from permafrost ice cover during meteoritic impact

Lingenfelter, R. E.↗