The location of Meteor Crater is shown on nearly all highway maps of Arizona. It lies 6 mi (9.7 km) south of 1-40 between Flagstaff and Winslow in northern Arizona; the turnoff from 1-40, 34 mi (55 km) east of Flagstaff, is well marked by signs along the highway. Access to the crater is by a paved road that leads directly to a visitor center and museum on the rim of the crater. Qualified scient...

We report the first X-ray detection of the radio pulsar PSR B1757−24 using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The image reveals point-source emission at the pulsar position, consistent with being magnetospheric emission from the pulsar. In addition, we detect a faint tail extending nearly 20 east of the pulsar, in the same direction and with comparable morphology to the pulsar’s well-studied radio ...

The US contribution to the ITASE program obtained shallow and deep radar profiles along its thousands of km of traverse during 1999–2003 over West Antarctica, and along its 1200 km traverse behind the Transantarctic Mountains in East Antarctica during 2006–2007. I discuss the shallow profiles, which used short-pulse radar operating at 400 MHz to profile depths of 56–135 m in West Antarctica, an...

Damavand volcano is located 60 km to the East North- East of Tehran. It is a dormant stratovolcano outcrop in the Alborz Mountains of northern Iran and is the highest mountain (5670 m) in the Middle East and West Asia. Mazandaran Province, one of the most populous provinces by population density, Semnan and Gorgan provinces further east are neighbours of the Damavand. Volcanism in Damavand goes...

Damavand is a large dormant stratovolcano in the Alborz Mountains of northern Iran located in one of the most populous provinces, which could be adversely affected by tephra fall from Damavand. The youngest known eruption is a lava flow on the western flanks with an age of 7.3 ka. The volcanic products are predominantly porphyritic trachyandesite. Three major young pumice deposits, named here a...

The Murray Geological Basin is a large but relatively shallow Cenozoic sedimentary basin, extending over 300,000 km of south-eastern Australia (Figure 4.1). Some 23,000 km of the Murray Geological Basin occurs within 150 km of Broken Hill (Figure 3.1), with the north-west margin of the basin adjacent to the fractured rock uplands where Broken Hill is located (Figure 4.2). Contours for the base ...

The Savanna racer snake Erythrolamprus aenigma is found in northern Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela. Here I present the first records of this species eastern Colombia, extending known distribution more than 1000 km east its nearest range.

An integrated-optic dispersion compensator that uses chirped waveguide gratings is designed and fabricated. The 7-mm-long chirped grating is realized by a recently proposed method of curving a waveguide through a uniform grating. At 800 nm, the fabricated device exhibits a reflection bandwidth in excess of 0.5 nm and a nearly quadratic phase response corresponding to a fiber dispersion–length p...