Orbital-science investigation: Part K: geologic sketch map of the candidate Proclus Apollo landing site
Baerbel K. Lucchitta
1972, Book chapter, Apollo 15 preliminary science report (NASA SP-289)
A panoramic camera frame (fig. 25-69) was used as the base for a geologic sketch map (fig. 25-70) of an area near Proclus Crater. The map was prepared to investigate the usefulness of the Apollo 15 panoramic camera photography in large-scale geologic mapping and to assess the geologic value of...
Ground-water conditions in the central Virgin River basin, Utah
R.M. Cordova, G. W. Sandberg, Wilson McConkie
1972, Technical Publication 40
Water-rights problems have occurred in the central Virgin River basin and are expected to increase as development of the water resources increases. The Utah State Engineer needs a basic knowledge of ground-water conditions and of the relation of ground water to surface water as a first step to understanding and...
Lake Erie: Effects of exploitation, environmental changes and new species on the fishery resources
Wilbur L. Hartman
1972, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (29) 899-912
In no other lake as large as Lake Erie (surface area, 25,690 km2) have such extensive changes taken place in the drainage basin, the lake environment, and the fish populations over the last 100 years. Deforestation and prairie burning led to erosion and siltation of valuable spawning grounds. Marsh spawning...
Water resources data for California, 1971; Part 2: Water quality records
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1972, Water Data Report CA-71-2
Water-resources data for the 1971 water year for California include records of data for the chemical and physical characteristics of surface water. The distribution, type, and number of stations in each river or drainage basin are shown in figure 1. A few pertinent stations in bordering States are also included....
Water resources inventory of Connecticut Part 6: Upper Housatonic River basin
Michael A. Cervione Jr., David L. Mazzaferro, Robert T. Melvin
1972, Connecticut Water Resources Bulletin 21
The upper Housatonic River basin report area has an abundant supply of water of generally good quality, which is derived from precipitation on the area and streams entering the area. Annual precipitation has averaged about 46 inches over a 30-year period. Of this, approximately 22 inches of water is returned...
Ground control requirements for precision processing of ERTS images
Thomas C. Burger
1972, Report
When the first Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS-A) flies in 1972, NASA expects to receive and bulk-process 9,000 images a week. From this deluge of images, a few will be selected for precision processing; that is, about 5 percent will be further treated to improve the geometry of the scene,...
Surface-water investigations at Barrow, Alaska
Stanley H. Jones
1972, Report
The U.S. Public Health Service is currently developing plans for a long-term water supply and sewage treatment system for the village of Barrow, Alaska. To assist in planning, the U.S. Geological Survey was requested to initiate a cooperative streamflow data-collection program with the U.S. Public Health Service in June 1972...
A neutron activation analysis procedure for the determination of uranium, thorium and potassium in geologic samples
P. J. Aruscavage, Hugh T. Millard Jr.
1972, Journal of Radioanalytical Chemistry (11) 67-84
A neutron activation analysis procedure was developed for the determination of uranium, thorium and potassium in basic and ultrabasic rocks. The three elements are determined in the same 0.5-g sample following a 30-min irradiation in a thermal neutron flux of 2·1012 n·cm−2·sec−1. Following radiochemical separation, the nuclides239U...
Crust and mantle of the Gulf of Mexico
G. W. Moore
1972, Nature (238) 452-453
A SEEMING paradox has puzzled investigators of the crustal structure of the Gulf of Mexico since Ewing et al.1 calculated that a unit area of the rather thick crust in the gulf contains less mass than does a combination of the crust and enough of the upper mantle...
Microcrystalline sphalerite in resin globules suspended in Lake Kivu, East Africa
E.T. Degens, H. Okada, S. Honjo, J.C. Hathaway
1972, Mineralium Deposita (7) 1-12
The origin and chemical nature of micron-sized spheres found as suspended particles in Lake Kivu are examined. It can be shown that the hollow spheres, with a wall thickness of 500 Å, consist of a complex polymeric resinous material which has little functionality, except for hydroxyl...
The complex filling of alae crater, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
D. A. Swanson, W. A. Duffield, D. B. Jackson, D. W. Peterson
1972, Bulletin Volcanologique (36) 105-126
Since February 1969 Alae Crater, a 165-m-deep pit crater on the east rift of Kilauea Volcano, has been completely filled with about 18 million m3 of lava. The filling was episodic and complex. It involved 13 major periods of addition of lava to the crater, including spectacular...
Subduction zones: Not relevant to present-day problems of waste disposal
E. A. Silver
1972, Nature (239) 330-331
SUBDUCTION zones are considered to be sites of disposal for vast areas of the Earth's surface1, while new surface is generated simultaneously at rise crests2. Bostrom and Sherif3 suggest that the world's industrial and domestic waste be dumped into subduction zones at deep sea trenches to allow...
Uranium-series dating of bone from the Isimila prehistoric site, Tanzania
F.C. Howell, G.H. Cole, M.R. Kleindienst, Barney J. Szabo, K.P. Oakley
1972, Nature (237) 51-52
EXCAVATIONS in 1957 and 1958 at the Isimila prehistoric site, in Tanzania1, sampled Acheulian occurrences in horizons at various levels in the Isimila Beds which are approximately 18 m thick. No significant breaks were observed in the sedimentary sequence, although there are numerous local hiatuses....
Metamorphic assemblages and the direction of flow of metamorphic fluids in four instances of serpentinization
I. Barnes, John B. Rapp, J. R. O’Neil, R.A. Sheppard, A. J. Gude III
1972, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (35) 263-276
Fluids related to Serpentinization are of at least three types. The first reported (Barnes and O'Neil, 1969) is a fluid of local meteoric origin, the chemical and thermodynamic properties of which are entirely controlled by olivine, orthopyroxene, brucite, and serpentine reactions. It is a Ca+2-OH−1 type and...
A new species of warbler (Parulidae) from Puerto Rico
C. B. Kepler, K.C. Parkes
1972, The Auk (89) 1-18
The West Indies are among the best known of the world's tropical regions, and our knowledge of the distribution of indigenous land birds in the Greater Antilles has been thought to be nearly complete (Bond, 1956). The last new species from the Antilles were described in 1927, the results...
Endangered birds in Hawaii
W. Banko
1972, 'Elepaio (33) 11-13
No abstract available....
25th winter bird-population study. 9. Upland tulip-tree--maple--oak forest
C.S. Robbins
1972, American Birds (26) 665
Thirty-sixth breeding bird census. 6. Upland tulip tree-maple-oak forest
C.S. Robbins
1972, American Birds (26) 944-945
Reproductive patterns in captive American kestrels (sparrow hawks)
Richard D. Porter, Stanley N. Wiemeyer
1972, Condor (74) 46-53
Female kestrels acquired in Florida in winter as full-grown birds began laying eggs a month later than did those acquired as nestlings from northeastern United States. Egg laying dates of the two groups did not overlap in 1966 through 1968. The later nesting Florida-wintering females may have nested in captivity...
Effect of Hygromycin-B on pigeons (Columba livia) with and without Trichomonas gallinae
R. M. Kocan
1972, Avian Diseases (16) 714-717
Hygromycin-B was administered in varied quantities to pigeons harboring nonvirulent Trichomonas gallinae and to pigeons free of T. gallinae. Both groups responded identically with large yellow caseous lesions in the upper digestive tract which superficially resembled canker (trichomoniasis). No mycotic association with the lesions could be established in...
A bibliography of Oregon ornithology (1935-1970) with a cross-referenced list of the birds of Oregon
J. M. Scott, T.W. Haislip, M. Thompson
1972, Northwest Science (46) 122-129
No abstract available....
An unusual fatality of a yearling Canada goose
I.B. Tarshis
1972, Jack-Pine Warbler (49) 128
No abstract available....
Pesticide mortality of young white-faced ibis in Texas
Edward L. Flickinger, D. L. Meeker
1972, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (8) 165-168
The combination of the symptoms observed in sick and dying birds and the high brain residues in the three birds collected dying, as well as in two of the four collected dead, implicate dieldrin as at least one of the causes of mortality of young ibis at the Lavaca Bay...
Proceedings of the eighty-ninth stated meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union
Richard C. Banks
1972, The Auk (89) 156-170
The Eighty-ninth Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union was held 30 August-3 September 1971 at Seattle, Washington, under the sponsorship of the University of Washington. Business sessions and social activities were held in the Student Union Building and the University Tower Hotel; papers sessions were held in the...
Use of banding data in migratory game bird research and management
A. D. Geis
1972, Special Scientific Report - Wildlife 154
