... intensity precipitation. * Corresponding author email: [email protected] Radar Rainfall Rain Gauge Rainfall Intensity Soil Slip Debris Flow A summer rainstorm in 2012 triggered a soil slip that mobilized into a debris flow near Mount Le Conte (Mt. LeConte) in the Great Smoky...

.... Louderback Secretary. Davidson appointed a committee of nine to organize the Society. A subcommittee composed of Louderback, McAdie, and Joseph N. LeConte drew up articles of incorporation, a constitution, and bylaws. These were approved at the first regular meeting of the Society on 20 November 1906...

... for an observatory at Lake Tahoe. As a result of a disagreement with the donor, the trustees all resigned. Lick then had another deed of trust prepared which he signed September 21, 1875, designating Mount Hamilton as the site, and providing for the transfer of ownership of the completed observatory to the Regents...

... between 30 and 40°. However, Gilbert did not refer to any form of extension. Davis (1922) , who was collegially close to Gilbert, thought the latter would have invoked extension in his professional paper had he been able to finish it. A similar story was presented by Joseph LeConte. LeConte studied...

... of 1840. There followed four years of touring the English cities, at times barn-storming with a traveling Indian show, often with compatriots and family, even Catlin himself dressed as a Brave, executing presumed Indian dances. But debts were mounting while audiences diminished, and in 1845 the Company...

... on the north slopes of Mount Lyell (blue patches). Based on glacial striations (dark blue arrows), Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) glacier flow was from south to north in Lyell Canyon and from east to west through Tuolumne Meadows (blue arrows). Abrasion, quarrying, and melt-water erosion operate in concert...

... sense of Bay Area chaotic Franciscan rocks is conveyed. To the south, across the Coast Ranges along section CD ( Figures 2 , 3 and 4 ), Tyson described a series of folded Franciscan rocks and the general antiformal structure of Mount Diablo, to which he attributed a volcanic origin...

..., and therefore the National Park Service, was established there were twelve national parks that the National Park Service began to manage. Of these twelve parks, four had existing glaciers (Yosemite, Mount Rainier, Glacier, and Rocky Mountain), four had been extensively glaciated in the last ice age (Yellowstone...

... , Carnegie Institution of Washington , Publication No. 87. LeConte Joseph 1878 . On the Structure and Origin of Mountains , Am. Jour. Sci. , ser. 3, Vol. XVI , 101 . LeConte Joseph...

..., for example, the maps and tables tend to exaggerate the density distribution of both shocks and loci of origin in the district near to and to the southwest of the business center of Los Angeles, owing to the close proximity of the stations at Pasadena and Mount Wilson and the number of near-by small shocks...

... coast of Alaska between McCarty Fiord (McCarty Glacier of Kenai Fjords National Park, located on the Kenai Peninsula) on the west, to the Stikine River (LeConte Glacier in the Tongass National Forest) to the east. Viens determined that Alaska’s sixty tidewater glaciers had an area of nearly 27,000 km 2...

...Figure 1. Mount Whitney, California. This view of the mountain was taken in February of 1915 by Professor J. N. LeConte. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey. ...

... was done aboard the University of California, Davis, research vessel, John LeConte, with Bob Richards as skipper in 1999 and 2004, and Brant Allen, in 2005. Duane Champion aided with the dredging, and James Howle, Winifred Kortemeier, Chris Lopez, and Jessica Muehlberg helped with the submersible...

... Service, where it has been archived since 1988 under the name “MOUNT LECONTE, TN US” with the Network ID “GHCND:USC00406328.” The official station location is 35.655° latitude, −83.4411° longitude, and at 1,979.1-m elevation. The daily rainfall from January 2012 to August 2012 was used to identify...

... traveling with him, Joseph Le Conte, shared in Agassiz’s hypothesis that the Florida peninsula was of relatively recent origin, not only primarily created by “the work of corals still living in the vicinity”, but also aided by sediment brought by the Gulf Stream ( Leconte 1857 , p. 46). Among other...

..., Mass. Lawson, A. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . University of California, Berkeley, Cal. LeConte, J . N . University of California, Berkeley, Cal. Ledyard, B. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garden City Bank Bldg., San Jose, Cal. Lees, James H. State House, Des Moines, Ia. Leib, S. F...

.... Lawrence, Samuel C. 7 Rural Ave., Medford, Mass. Lawson, A. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . University of California, Berkeley, Cal. LeConte, J . N . University of California, Berkeley, Cal. Ledyard, B. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garden City Bank Bldg., San Jose, Cal. Lees, James H. State House, Des...

... 28th St., Los Angeles, Cal. Lawrence, Samuel C. 7 Rural Ave., Medford, Mass. Lawson, A. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . University of California, Berkeley, Cal. LeConte, J . N . University of California, Berkeley, Cal. Ledyard, B. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . Garden City Bank Bldg., San Jose, Ca?: Leib, S.F...

... having permitted any one race of her animals to become extinct” (Jefferson 1787 as excerpted in Waldstreicher 2002 , p. 116). Later, as evidence for the extinction of species mounted, Jefferson would withdraw his opinion. Nevertheless it is noteworthy that a person of such high standing as Jefferson...