Papers by Stephen Mercado
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Our age's increasingly voluminous open-source intelligence (OSINT) sheds light on issues of the d... more Our age's increasingly voluminous open-source intelligence (OSINT) sheds light on issues of the day for all-source analysts, covert collectors, and policymakers, but have we done enough to exploit its potential? My short answer is "No," and here's why I think so. Collecting intelligence these days is at times less a matter of stealing through dark alleys in a foreign land to meet some secret agent than one of surfing the Internet under the fluorescent lights of an office cubicle to find some open source. The world is changing with the advance of commerce and technology. Mouse clicks and online dictionaries today often prove more useful than stylish cloaks and shiny daggers in gathering intelligence required to help analysts and officials understand the world. Combined with stolen secrets, diplomatic reports, and technical collection, open sources constitute what one former deputy director of intelligence termed the "intricate mosaic" of intelligence.1
The Dixon Island and Cleaverville formations, which are one of the best preserved Archean hydroth... more The Dixon Island and Cleaverville formations, which are one of the best preserved Archean hydrothermal sedimentary sequence in Mesoarchean in the world, to recognized detail stratigraphy and restored relatively deep ocean (immature island arc) environment (Kiyokawa et al. 2002). These formations contain 3.195±12Ma felsic tuff, affected less than prehnite-pumpellyite faces and well preserved more than 900 m thick stratigraphy. At
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