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USGS Borehole Temperature Logs from Arctic Alaska, pre-1989

Project Bibliography


Brewer, M.C. (1958): Some results of geothermal investigations of permafrost, Am. Geophys. Union Trans., vol. 39, 19-26.

Deming, D., J.H. Sass, A.H. Lachenbruch, and R.F. De Rito (1992): Heat flow and subsurface temperature as evidence for basin-scale groundwater flow, North Slope of Alaska, Geol. Soc. America Bull., vol. 104, 528-542.

Gold, L.W. and A.H. Lachenbruch (1973): Thermal conditions in permafrost - a review of North American literature, in Permafrost: The North American Contribution to the Second International Conference, National Academy of Sciences, 3-23.

Lachenbruch, A. H. (1957): Thermal effects of the ocean on permafrost, Geol. Soc. America Bull., vol. 68, 1515-1530.

Lachenbruch, A. H. (1968): Permafrost, in Fairbridge, R. W., ed., The Encyclopedia of Geomorphology, New York, Reinhold Book Corp., Earth Sciences Series, vol. 3, 833-839.

Lachenbruch, A. H. (1994): Permafrost, the active layer, and changing climate, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-694, 43 pp.

Lachenbruch, A.H. and M.C. Brewer (1959): Dissipation of the temperature effect of drilling a well in Arctic Alaska, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1083-C, 109 pp.

Lachenbruch, A.H., M.C. Brewer, G.W. Greene, and B.V. Marshall (1962): Temperatures in permafrost, in Temperature - Its Measurement and Control in Science and Industry, Reinhold Pub. Co., vol. 3, 791-803.

Lachenbruch, A.H., Cladouhos, T.T., and Saltus, R.W., 1988, Permafrost Temperature and the Changing Climate: in "Permafrost", vol. 3, Fifth International Conference on Permafrost, Senneset, Kaare (ed.), Tapir Publishers, Trondheim, Norway, 9-17.

Lachenbruch, A.H., S.P. Galanis, Jr., and T.H. Moses, Jr. (1987): A thermal cross section for the permafrost and hydrate stability zones in the Kuparuk and Prudhoe Bay oil fields, in Gallaway, J.P. and T.D. Hamilton, eds., Geological studeis in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey during 1987, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1016, 48-51.

Lachenbruch, A.H., G.W. Greene, and B.V. Marshall (1966): Permafrost and the geothermal regimes, in Wilimovsky, N.J. and J.N. Wolfe, eds., Environment of the Cape Thompson Region, Alaska, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, USAEC Division of Technical Information, Report PNE-48b, 149-163.

Lachenbruch, A.H., and B.V. Marshall (1969): Heat flow in the Arctic, ARCTIC, vol. 22, 300-311.

Lachenbruch, A.H. and B.V. Marshall (1986): Changing climate: geothermal evidence from permafrost in the Alaskan Arctic, Science, vol. 234, 689-696.

Lachenbruch, A.H., J.H. Sass, L.A. Lawver, M.C. Brewer, G.V. Marshall, R.J. Munroe, J.P. Kennelly, Jr., S.P. Galanis, Jr., and T.H. Moses, Jr. (1982): Temperature and depth of permafrost on the arctic slope of Alaska, in Gryc, G., ed., Geology and Exploration of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, 1974-1982, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1399, 645-656.

Lachenbruch, A.H., J.H. Sass, L.A. Lawver, and M.C. Brewer (1987): Temperature and depth of permafrost on the Alaskan arctic slope, in Tailleur, I. and P. Weimer, eds., Alaskan North Slope Geology, Bakersfield, Calif., Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, vol. 2, 545-558.

Lachenbruch, A.H., J.H. Sass, B.V. Marshall, and T.H. Moses, Jr. (1982): Thermal regime of permafrost at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 82-535.

Lachenbruch, A.H., J.H. Sass, B.V. Marshall, and T.H. Moses, Jr. (1982): Permafrost, heat flow and the geothermal regime at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, J. Geophys. Res., vol. 87, 9301-9316.


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