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This area is located in the Montana part of the Powder River region, specifically within the Coistrip coal deposit as defined by Matson and Blumer, 1974. Forty of the samples (36 coal and 4 coal-associated rock) are from the Rosebud bed and 21 samples (all coal) are from the McKay bed. The McKay bed is between 5.5 and 18.6 m. below the Rosebud bed. The samples were collected from the Big Sky Mine and from 13 core holes in sec. 1, 2, and 27, T. 1 N., R. 41 E.; sec. 23 and 35, T. 2 N., R. 41 E.; and in sec. 1, 3, 5, 9, 15, and 16, T. 1 N., R. 40 E. The location of the sample collection area is shown in figure 1. Brief descriptions of all 61 samples are listed in table 1 and locations of sampling sites are shown in figure 2.</p><p>Estimated strippable coal resources for the Rosebud bed in this area exceed 1,305 metric tons (1,439 million short tons) (Matson and Blumer, 1974). There are currently no estimates of coal resources for the McKay bed from this area.</p><p>Analyses of samples D172034 through D172051 have previously been published in Swanson and others (1976) and are included here in order to provide a more complete data listing. For additional information on sulfur and trace element contents in the Rosebud and McKay coal beds, see Chadwick, Woodriff and others (1975) and Chadwick, Rice and others (1975).</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","doi":"10.3133/ofr791098","usgsCitation":"Affolter, R.H., and Hatch, J.R., 1979, Chemical analyses of coal and coal-associated rock samples from the Rosebud and McKay coal beds, Tongue River Member of the Fort Union Formation, Colstrip coal deposit, Rosebud County, Montana: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1098, 44 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr791098.","productDescription":"44 p.","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":403749,"rank":2,"type":{"id":11,"text":"Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1979/1098/report.pdf","linkFileType":{"id":1,"text":"pdf"}},{"id":141333,"rank":0,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1979/1098/report-thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"Montana","county":"Rosebud County","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -106.7,\n              45.8\n            ],\n            [\n              -106.5,\n              45.8\n            ],\n            [\n              -106.5,\n              45.9\n            ],\n            [\n              -106.7,\n              45.9\n            ],\n            [\n              -106.7,\n              45.8\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e49e2e4b07f02db5e4b19","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Affolter, Ronald H. affolter@usgs.gov","contributorId":659,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Affolter","given":"Ronald","email":"affolter@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"H.","affiliations":[{"id":165,"text":"Central Energy Resources Team","active":false,"usgs":true}],"preferred":false,"id":156411,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Hatch, Joseph R. 0000-0001-9257-0278 jrhatch@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9257-0278","contributorId":722,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Hatch","given":"Joseph","email":"jrhatch@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"R.","affiliations":[{"id":164,"text":"Central Energy Resources Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":156412,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2}]}}
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,{"id":70169247,"text":"70169247 - 1979 - Electrical measurements as stress-strain monitors","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-04-05T15:00:27","indexId":"70169247","displayToPublicDate":"1979-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1979","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1435,"text":"Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS)","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Electrical measurements as stress-strain monitors","docAbstract":"<p>Many of the measurements of phyiscal properties being made in earthquake prediction studies are based on the premise that these properties are influenced by stresses and strains, especially so near the failure point. Electrical properties of rocks are controlled by the fluid in the pores and cracks in the rocks. Because these regions are most influenced by stresses, one should expect electrical measurements to be sensitive measures of changing stresses and strains. Nevertheless, the strain changes we are dealing with are very small, and, consequently, we need very sensitive instruments to detect them. &nbsp;</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S Geological Survey","usgsCitation":"Madden, T.R., 1979, Electrical measurements as stress-strain monitors: Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS), v. 11, no. 1, p. 4-8.","productDescription":"5 p.","startPage":"4","endPage":"8","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":319270,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"11","issue":"1","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"56f3be41e4b0f59b85e02e78","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Madden, T. R.","contributorId":167750,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Madden","given":"T.","email":"","middleInitial":"R.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":623388,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}}
,{"id":70169258,"text":"70169258 - 1979 - The Parkfield prediction experiment","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-04-05T15:51:08","indexId":"70169258","displayToPublicDate":"1979-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1979","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1435,"text":"Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS)","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"The Parkfield prediction experiment","docAbstract":"<p>The San Andreas fault is part of the boundary between the Pacific and North American crustal plates. In California, movements of about 3 centimeters per year are currently taking place along the fault, although plat tectonic models suggest a faster rate of 5 cm/yr may be the average over a longer period of time and a broader area.</p>\n<p>There are two distinct ways in which movement &nbsp;on the San Andreas occurs. Along most of the fault, slip occurs during infrequent great earthquakes. Examples of these in historic time are the 1857 Fort Tejon and the 1906 San Francisco events. Along these portions of the fault, it appears that, during most of the intervening period between great earthquakes, no slip and few microearthquakes occurred. Strain appears to accumulate at shallow depths in a narrow (50 kilometer) zone adjacent to the fault.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Along a 200-km stretch in central California, however, continuous slip occurs with no observable accumulation of strain. Although there is a high level of microseismicity here, earthquakes larger than magnitude (M) 6 are unknown, and most of the slip occurs aseismically. (Several articles in the&nbsp;<i>Earthquake Information Bulletin&nbsp;</i>in 1978 have covered this topic.)</p>\n<p>At the northern end of this creeping zone, the microseismicity and the slip gradually taper to zero over a distance of about 100 km. This segment is the site of frequent earthquakes (every 5-10 years) having magnitudes of 5.5 and less. At the southern end, near the town of Parkfield, the transition occurs in about 40km. This zone is the site of recurring earthquakes of about magnitude 6.&nbsp;</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S Geological Survey","usgsCitation":"Lindh, A., Evans, P., Harsh, P., and Buhr, G., 1979, The Parkfield prediction experiment: Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS), v. 11, no. 6, p. 209-213.","productDescription":"5 p.","startPage":"209","endPage":"213","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":319262,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"California","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -120.39779663085936,\n              35.94966229235088\n            ],\n            [\n              -120.51109313964844,\n              35.884043325566886\n            ],\n            [\n              -120.29685974121094,\n              35.70916520463913\n            ],\n            [\n              -120.19180297851561,\n              35.78384180056804\n            ],\n            [\n              -120.39779663085936,\n              35.94966229235088\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"11","issue":"6","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"56f3be52e4b0f59b85e02f30","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Lindh, A.","contributorId":41591,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Lindh","given":"A.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":623401,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Evans, P.","contributorId":167755,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Evans","given":"P.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":623402,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Harsh, P.","contributorId":59175,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Harsh","given":"P.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":623403,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Buhr, G.","contributorId":167756,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Buhr","given":"G.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":623404,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4}]}}
,{"id":70169241,"text":"70169241 - 1979 - Monitoring seismic wave velocities in situ","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-03-31T16:51:55","indexId":"70169241","displayToPublicDate":"1979-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1979","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1435,"text":"Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS)","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Monitoring seismic wave velocities in situ","docAbstract":"<p>Beginning in the early 1960's, reports from the Soviet Union described travel-time anomalies of 5 to 20 percent preceding large earthquakes. In the early 970's, similar observations began to be reported outside the U.S.S.R. The most convincing were anomalously low values of the velocity ration, V<sub>p</sub>/V<sub>s</sub>, before four earthquakes of magnitudes 2.5 to 3.3 at Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y.; the anomalies were based on large amounts of high-quality data. In Japan, significant decreases were observed in the travel-time ratio, t<sub>s</sub>/t<sub>p</sub>, before two thrust-type earthquakes of magnitudes 6. and 5.3. Finally, there is the much discussed report of an anomaly before the magnitude 6.4 San Fernando, Calif., earthquake of 1971 and the implication that the change was caused principally by a decrease in the velocity of the primary (P) wave.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S Geological Survey","usgsCitation":"McEvilly, T., and Clymer, R., 1979, Monitoring seismic wave velocities in situ: Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS), v. 11, no. 6, p. 214-220.","productDescription":"7 p.","startPage":"214","endPage":"220","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":319277,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"11","issue":"6","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"56f3be47e4b0f59b85e02eb2","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"McEvilly, T.V.","contributorId":30631,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"McEvilly","given":"T.V.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":623379,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Clymer, R.","contributorId":167745,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Clymer","given":"R.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":623380,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2}]}}
,{"id":70169181,"text":"70169181 - 1979 - Earthquakes; May-June 1979","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-03-29T15:35:04","indexId":"70169181","displayToPublicDate":"1979-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1979","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1435,"text":"Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS)","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Earthquakes; May-June 1979","docAbstract":"<p>The months of May and June were somewhat quiet, seismically speaking. There was one major earthquake in the South Pacific on MAy 1. The most destructive earthquake, causing loss of life, was in Indonesia on May 30.</p>\n<p>In the United States, the largest earthquakes were in Alaska but caused no damage. Some minor damage was reported from earthquakes in California.&nbsp;</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S Geological Survey","usgsCitation":"Person, W., 1979, Earthquakes; May-June 1979: Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS), v. 11, no. 6, p. 236-238.","productDescription":"3 p.","startPage":"236","endPage":"238","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":319315,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"11","issue":"6","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"56f3be3fe4b0f59b85e02e6b","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Person, W. J.","contributorId":91472,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Person","given":"W. J.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":623295,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}}
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,{"id":70169182,"text":"70169182 - 1979 - Earthquakes; March-April, 1979","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-03-29T15:38:19","indexId":"70169182","displayToPublicDate":"1979-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1979","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1435,"text":"Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS)","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Earthquakes; March-April, 1979","docAbstract":"<p>This was a moderately active period, seismically speaking. Three major earthquakes having magnitudes (M) ranging from 7.0 to 7.9 to only one major quake during the first 2 months of the year. Major earthquakes struck in Mexico, Indonesia, and Yugoslavia. The Yugoslavian earthquake caused considerable damage and loss of life.</p>\n<p>In the United States, a number of earthquakes were experienced, the most damaging one in southern California on March 15. The aftershocks continued in southeastern Alaska but caused no additional damage.&nbsp;</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S Geological Survey","usgsCitation":"Person, W., 1979, Earthquakes; March-April, 1979: Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS), v. 11, no. 5, p. 183-186.","productDescription":"4 p.","startPage":"183","endPage":"186","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":319314,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"11","issue":"5","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"56f3be3fe4b0f59b85e02e61","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Person, W. J.","contributorId":91472,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Person","given":"W. J.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":623296,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}}
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,{"id":70140088,"text":"70140088 - 1979 - Coccolith and silicoflagellate stratigraphy, northern mid-Atlantic Ridge and Reykjanes Ridge, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 49","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2015-02-03T11:34:26","indexId":"70140088","displayToPublicDate":"1979-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1979","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1997,"text":"Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Coccolith and silicoflagellate stratigraphy, northern mid-Atlantic Ridge and Reykjanes Ridge, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 49","docAbstract":"<p>Leg 49 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project recovered 192 cores at eight drilling sites, 407 through 414 (Figure 1). Light-microscope techniques were used to study the cocoliths, silicoflagellates, and sponge spicules of 120 samples from these cores. The cocolith zonation of the samples follows Bukry (1975a), and is summarized in Figure 2. Silicoflagellate zonation, summarized in Figure 3, is explained in the text. Siliceous sponge spicules are common in many samples and are briefly discussed and illustrated. One new silicoflagellate, <i>Distephanus sulcatus</i>, from the Plicene of Site 407, is described.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"National Science Foundation","doi":"10.2973/dsdp.proc.49.118.1979","usgsCitation":"Bukry, D., 1979, Coccolith and silicoflagellate stratigraphy, northern mid-Atlantic Ridge and Reykjanes Ridge, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 49: Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 49, p. 551-581, https://doi.org/10.2973/dsdp.proc.49.118.1979.","productDescription":"31 p.","startPage":"551","endPage":"581","numberOfPages":"31","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":488332,"rank":2,"type":{"id":40,"text":"Open Access Publisher Index Page"},"url":"http://doi.org/10.2973/dsdp.proc.49.118.1979","text":"Publisher Index Page"},{"id":297716,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"},{"id":297715,"rank":1,"type":{"id":15,"text":"Index Page"},"url":"https://www.deepseadrilling.org/49/dsdp_toc.htm"}],"otherGeospatial":"Atlantic Ocean","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -62.22656249999999,\n              15.368949896534705\n            ],\n            [\n              -62.22656249999999,\n              67.23806155909902\n            ],\n            [\n              4.306640625,\n              67.23806155909902\n            ],\n            [\n              4.306640625,\n              15.368949896534705\n            ],\n            [\n              -62.22656249999999,\n              15.368949896534705\n            ]\n          ]\n        ]\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","volume":"49","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"54dd2b5ee4b08de9379b3349","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Bukry, David 0000-0003-4540-890X","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4540-890X","contributorId":30980,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Bukry","given":"David","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":539773,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}}
,{"id":33580,"text":"b1486 - 1979 - Upper Paleozoic carbonate bank in east-central Idaho: Snaky Canyon, Bluebird Mountain, and Arco Hills Formations, and their paleotectonic significance","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2023-08-29T18:45:14.09972","indexId":"b1486","displayToPublicDate":"1979-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1979","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":18,"text":"Report"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":5,"text":"USGS Numbered Series"},"seriesTitle":{"id":306,"text":"Bulletin","code":"B","active":false,"publicationSubtype":{"id":5}},"seriesNumber":"1486","title":"Upper Paleozoic carbonate bank in east-central Idaho: Snaky Canyon, Bluebird Mountain, and Arco Hills Formations, and their paleotectonic significance","docAbstract":"<p>No abstract available.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Geological Survey","doi":"10.3133/b1486","usgsCitation":"Skipp, B., Hoggan, R.D., Schleicher, D.L., and Douglass, R.C., 1979, Upper Paleozoic carbonate bank in east-central Idaho: Snaky Canyon, Bluebird Mountain, and Arco Hills Formations, and their paleotectonic significance: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1486, iii, 78 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/b1486.","productDescription":"iii, 78 p.","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":61464,"rank":2,"type":{"id":11,"text":"Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1486/report.pdf","linkFileType":{"id":1,"text":"pdf"}},{"id":163030,"rank":1,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1486/report-thumb.jpg"},{"id":420253,"rank":3,"type":{"id":36,"text":"NGMDB Index Page"},"url":"https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_92700.htm","linkFileType":{"id":5,"text":"html"}}],"country":"United States","state":"Idaho","geographicExtents":"{\n  \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n  \"features\": [\n    {\n      \"type\": \"Feature\",\n      \"properties\": {},\n      \"geometry\": {\n        \"coordinates\": [\n          [\n            [\n              -114,\n              44.5\n            ],\n            [\n              -114,\n              43.411\n            ],\n            [\n              -112.5,\n              43.411\n            ],\n            [\n              -112.5,\n              44.5\n            ],\n            [\n              -114,\n              44.5\n            ]\n          ]\n        ],\n        \"type\": \"Polygon\"\n      }\n    }\n  ]\n}","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e4a24e4b07f02db60e61c","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Skipp, Betty","contributorId":51268,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Skipp","given":"Betty","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":211589,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Hoggan, R. D.","contributorId":104954,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Hoggan","given":"R.","email":"","middleInitial":"D.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":211591,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Schleicher, D. L.","contributorId":86009,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Schleicher","given":"D.","email":"","middleInitial":"L.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":211590,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Douglass, R. C.","contributorId":43827,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Douglass","given":"R.","email":"","middleInitial":"C.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":211588,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4}]}}
,{"id":70185410,"text":"70185410 - 1979 - Nesting ecology of Arctic loons","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2018-07-15T11:03:19","indexId":"70185410","displayToPublicDate":"1979-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1979","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3783,"text":"The Wilson Bulletin","printIssn":"0043-5643","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Nesting ecology of Arctic loons","docAbstract":"<p><span>Arctic Loons were studied on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, from the time of their arrival in May to their departure in September, in 1974 and 1975. Pairs arrived on breeding ponds as soon as sufficient meltwater was available to allow their take-off and landing. Loons apparently do not initiate nests immediately after their arrival, even when nest-sites are available. Delayed egg-laying may be dependent on a period of yolk formation. Delaying yolk formation until after arrival on nest ponds is an adaptation by loons to the variable time suitable habitat becomes available for nesting. Predation of eggs by Glaucous Gulls, Long-tailed and Parasitic jaegers and foxes varied in relation to the location of the nest-site, and the availability of alternate prey. Hatching success was the lowest recorded for Arctic Loons (5%) in 1974, when eggs of both loons and Cackling Geese were taken in large numbers by predators. Hatching success increased to 32% in 1975 when an abundance of tundra voles was observed. No loon eggs hatched after the hatching of the Cackling Goose eggs when this alternate prey was no longer available. Nests destroyed by foxes were predominantly along shorelines, and those by gulls and jaegers were predominantly on islands. Nest-site selection by Arctic Loons may reflect an adaptive response to varying selective pressures by their predators.</span></p>","language":"English","publisher":"Wilson Ornithological Society","usgsCitation":"Petersen, M.R., 1979, Nesting ecology of Arctic loons: The Wilson Bulletin, v. 91, no. 4, p. 608-617.","productDescription":"10 p.","startPage":"608","endPage":"617","costCenters":[{"id":114,"text":"Alaska Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":337985,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"},{"id":337984,"rank":1,"type":{"id":15,"text":"Index Page"},"url":"https://wjoonline.org/?code=wors-site","text":"Journal's Homepage"}],"country":"United States","state":"Alaska","otherGeospatial":"Clarence Rhode National Wildlife Range, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta","volume":"91","issue":"4","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"58d23b9be4b0236b68f829b7","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Petersen, Margaret R. 0000-0001-6082-3189 mrpetersen@usgs.gov","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6082-3189","contributorId":167729,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Petersen","given":"Margaret","email":"mrpetersen@usgs.gov","middleInitial":"R.","affiliations":[{"id":117,"text":"Alaska Science Center Biology WTEB","active":true,"usgs":true}],"preferred":true,"id":685497,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}}
,{"id":1000247,"text":"1000247 - 1979 - PCBs and DDE in commercial fish feeds","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2016-03-14T08:57:40","indexId":"1000247","displayToPublicDate":"1979-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1979","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":3196,"text":"Progressive Fish-Culturist","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"PCBs and DDE in commercial fish feeds","docAbstract":"<p>Three commercial fish feeds were analyzed for PCBs and p,p' DDE and were reported in dry weight concentrations. In various sizes of Oregon Moist Pellets, concentrations of PCBs ranged from less than 0.10 to 0.30 I?g/g and those of p,p' DDE from less than 0.01 to 0.47 I?g/g. In Silver Cup, concentrations of PCBs were 0.06 to 0.07 I?g/g, and p,p' DDE, 0.01 to 0.06 I?g/g. Nauplii of brine shrimp (Artemia salina) contained 0.14 I?g/g PCB and 0.03 I?g/g p,p' DDE.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"Taylor & Francis","doi":"10.1577/1548-8659(1979)41[210:PADICF]2.0.CO;2","usgsCitation":"Mac, M.J., Nicholson, L., and McCauley, C., 1979, PCBs and DDE in commercial fish feeds: Progressive Fish-Culturist, v. 41, no. 4, p. 210-211, https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1979)41[210:PADICF]2.0.CO;2.","productDescription":"2 p.","startPage":"210","endPage":"211","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","costCenters":[{"id":324,"text":"Great Lakes Science Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":132767,"rank":0,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"41","issue":"4","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e4ae4e4b07f02db689f0d","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Mac, Michael J.","contributorId":16772,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Mac","given":"Michael","email":"","middleInitial":"J.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":308285,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Nicholson, L.W.","contributorId":76696,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Nicholson","given":"L.W.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":308287,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"McCauley, C.A.","contributorId":54951,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"McCauley","given":"C.A.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":308286,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3}]}}
,{"id":1001512,"text":"1001512 - 1979 - Mate preference in wild and domesticated (game-farm) mallards: II. Pairing success","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2017-09-14T10:01:05","indexId":"1001512","displayToPublicDate":"1979-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1979","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":770,"text":"Animal Behaviour","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Mate preference in wild and domesticated (game-farm) mallards: II. Pairing success","docAbstract":"Experiments were designed to determine whether assortative mating occurs in wild and game-farm mallard strains (Anas platyrhynchos). Mallard males of either strain raised with females of their own strain courted females of their own strain more than females of the opposite strain, and these males were only successful in pairing with females of their own strain. Males raised with females of the opposite strain courted wild and game-farm females with equal intensity. They were successful in pairing with females of either strain. While this study does not settle the question of possible gene flow between these two mallard populations, it does indicate that there is a potential barrier to panmixia.","largerWorkType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"largerWorkTitle":"Animal Behaviour","largerWorkSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"language":"English","usgsCitation":"Cheng, K., Shoffner, R., Phillips, R., and Lee, F., 1979, Mate preference in wild and domesticated (game-farm) mallards: II. Pairing success: Animal Behaviour, v. 27, no. 2, p. 417-425.","productDescription":"9 p.","startPage":"417","endPage":"425","costCenters":[{"id":480,"text":"Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":128838,"rank":0,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"27","issue":"2","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e4a27e4b07f02db60fe9d","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Cheng, K.M.","contributorId":99082,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Cheng","given":"K.M.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":311159,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1},{"text":"Shoffner, R.N.","contributorId":90670,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Shoffner","given":"R.N.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":311158,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":2},{"text":"Phillips, R.E.","contributorId":51241,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Phillips","given":"R.E.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":311157,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":3},{"text":"Lee, F.B.","contributorId":30174,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Lee","given":"F.B.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":311156,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":4}]}}
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,{"id":800000,"text":"800000 - 1979 - Minerals, lands, and geology for the common defence and general welfare, Volume 1, Before 1879 : A history of public lands, federal science and mapping policy, and development of mineral resources in the United States","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2018-09-21T11:10:25","indexId":"800000","displayToPublicDate":"1979-01-01T00:00:00","publicationYear":"1979","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":4,"text":"Book"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":15,"text":"Monograph"},"title":"Minerals, lands, and geology for the common defence and general welfare, Volume 1, Before 1879 : A history of public lands, federal science and mapping policy, and development of mineral resources in the United States","docAbstract":"<p>This volume, the first of a four-volume study, is concerned with events in the United States before the establishment of the U.S. Geological Survey, during the years in which geology evolved as a science and began to influence economic development and national policy. Subsequent volumes continue the story but focus on the Survey and its role in the events and developments of later years. The method of analysis demonstrates that knowledge of the Earth and its history, processes, and resources has provided a basis for intelligent economic development; also that geologists very soon realized that uncontrolled development of the land and other natural resources could not continue, that some limitations must be made on man's use of the Earth. The Geological Survey was established when public awareness of the need for balance between development and conservation of our resources was becoming evident. That balance is even more necessary now and in the future for the \"general welfare\" and \"common defence\" of the Nation. We can be grateful for the wisdom of our Founding Fathers in providing for publicly supported studies in earth science and engineering by well-trained and motivated scientists and engineers. Such studies, undertaken objectively in the search for facts, can continue to be of great value in the formulation and execution of wise policies to protect our environment and to maintain that balance between development and conservation of the natural resources.</p>","language":"English","publisher":"U.S. Government Printing Office","publisherLocation":"Washington, D.C.","usgsCitation":"Rabbitt, M.C., 1979, Minerals, lands, and geology for the common defence and general welfare, Volume 1, Before 1879 : A history of public lands, federal science and mapping policy, and development of mineral resources in the United States, v. 1, x, 331 p.","productDescription":"x, 331 p.","numberOfPages":"341","onlineOnly":"N","additionalOnlineFiles":"N","costCenters":[{"id":366,"text":"Library","active":true,"usgs":true},{"id":37226,"text":"Core Science Analytics, Synthesis, and Libraries","active":true,"usgs":true}],"links":[{"id":126103,"rank":0,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/book/1979/rabbitt-vol1/report-thumb.jpg"},{"id":91250,"rank":300,"type":{"id":11,"text":"Document"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/book/1979/rabbitt-vol1/report.pdf","text":"Report","size":"103.76 MB","linkFileType":{"id":1,"text":"pdf"},"description":"Report"},{"id":19870,"rank":100,"type":{"id":15,"text":"Index Page"},"url":"https://www.archive.org/details/historyv1","linkFileType":{"id":5,"text":"html"}}],"volume":"1","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationStatus":"PW","scienceBaseUri":"4f4e49fae4b07f02db5f3e93","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Rabbitt, Mary C.","contributorId":94242,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Rabbitt","given":"Mary","email":"","middleInitial":"C.","affiliations":[{"id":595,"text":"U.S. Geological Survey","active":false,"usgs":true}],"preferred":false,"id":308003,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}}
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