Ground-water resources of Riverton irrigation project area, Wyoming, with a section on chemical quality of ground water
Donald Arthur Morris, O. M. Hackett, K.E. Vanlier, E. A. Moulder, W. H. Durum
1959, Water Supply Paper 1375
The Riverton irrigation project area is in the northwestern part of the Wind River basin in west-central Wyoming. Because the annual precipitation is only about 9 inches, agriculture, which is the principal occupation in the area, is dependent upon irrigation. Irrigation by surface-water diversion was begum is 1906; water is...
Ground-water conditions in the Avenal-McKittrick area, Kings and Kern Counties, California
Perry Rowley Wood, G. H. Davis
1959, Water Supply Paper 1457
No abstract available....
Stratigraphic sections, well logs, and soil-profile sections in the southern Carson Desert near Fallon, Nevada
Roger B. Morrison
1959, Open-File Report 59-87
No abstract available....
Life history of the sea lamprey of Cayugaf Lake, New York
Roland L. Wigley
1959, Fishery Bulletin of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 561-617
A life history study of the sea lamprey, Petromyson marinus Linnaeus, in Cayuga Lake, N.Y., was conducted during 1950, 1951, and 1952. One of the major objectives was to obtain biological data concerning this endemic stock of sea lampreys for comparison with the newly established stocks in the Great Lakes....
α-Radioactivity of cerium-142
F. E. Senftle, T. W. Stern, V. P. Alekna
1959, Nature (184) 630
JOHNSON AND NIER1 have measured the atomic masses of some of the rare-earth isotopes and have shown that the mass difference cerium-142—(barium-138 + helium-4) is equivalent to 1.68 ± 0.10 MeV. Similar results for the naturally occurring samarium and neodymium isotopes show that the α-active isotope of each element is the one...
Determination of chlorine in silicate rocks
L. C. Peck, E. J. Tomasi
1959, Analytical Chemistry (31) 2024-2026
In a rapid accurate method for the determination of chlorine in silicate rocks, the rock powder is sintered with a sodium carbonate flux containing zinc oxide and magnesium carbonate. The sinter cake is leached with water, the resulting solution is filtered, and the filtrate is acidified with nitric acid. Chlorine...
Semimicrodetermination of combined tantalum and niobium with selenous acid
F. S. Grimaldi, M. Schnepfe
1959, Analytical Chemistry (31) 1270-1272
Tantalum and niobium are separated and determined gravimetrically by precipitation with selenous acid from highly acidic solutions in the absence of complexing agents. Hydrogen peroxide is used in the preparation of the solution and later catalytically destroyed during digestion of the precipitate. From 0.2 to 30 mg., separately or in...
Magnetic susceptibility of tektites and some other glasses
F. E. Senftle, A. Thorpe
1959, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (17) 234-237
The magnetic susceptibility at several magnetic field strengths of about thirty tektites from various localities have been measured. The susceptibility ranges from 2 × 10−6 to about 7.9 × 10−6 e.m.u./g. Tektites from a given locality have similar susceptibilities. The intensity of magnetization of all the tektites measured is zero or very...
Magnetostriction and palæomagnetism of igneous rocks
John W. Graham, A. F. Buddington, James R. Balsley
1959, Nature (183) 1318
IN a recent communication, Stott and Stacey1 report on a “crucial experiment” from which they conclude: “This excellent agreement between the dip and the directions of artificial thermoremanent magnetization of the stressed and unstressed rocks indicates that large systematic errors due to magnetostriction are most improbable in igneous rocks of types...
Plasmoptysis and gelatin of erythrocytes in coagulation of blood of freshwater bony fishes
Ken Wolf
1959, Blood (14) 1339-1344
1. A clot-like material which results from very rapid plasmoptysis and hydrophyllic swelling of karyoplasm of erythrocytes from freshwater fish was reported. This attribute was found to a lesser degree in erythrocytes from an amphibian, but it was almost lacking in those of an aquatic reptile.2. Rapid clotting of fish...
The reclamation of Indian and Abrams creeks in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Robert E. Lennon, Phillip S. Parker
1959, Special Scientific Report - Fisheries 306
A complete program of stream reclamation was developed and applied on Indian and Abrams creeks in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A salt-resistivity technique was used to estimate the dilution and velocity of a toxicant in running water. Streamside toxicity trials on resident fishes established minimal, effective concentrations of the...
The electrical resistivity meter in fishery investigations
Robert E. Lennon
1959, Special Scientific Report - Fisheries 287
A portable resistivity (or conductivity) meter is easily used in fishery investigations to obtain rapid and precise measurements of the electrical resistance (or conductance) of waters. These measurements can be used to estimate the total dissolved solids content of waters, to facilitate the selection of appropriate gear for efficient electrofishing,...
Resistance to ulcer disease and furunculosis in eastern brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis
S. F. Snieszko, C. E. Dunbar, G. L. Bullock
1959, Progressive Fish-Culturist (21) 111-116
No abstract available....
Fluctuations in the population of yellow perch, Perca flavescens(Mitchill), in Saginaw Bay Lake Huron
Salah El-Din El-Zarka
1959, Fishery Bulletin (59) 365-415
SUMMARY: The value of a line of traps as a measure of relative abundance of small mammals was studied by field trials on Peromyscus leucopus populations. Comparisons were made between the numbers of mice captured by a line of live traps and the numbers captured in intensive live...
Burrowing activities of the larval lamprey
Philip J. Sawyer
1959, Copeia (1959) 256-257
Since the appearance in 1950 of Applegate's work on the sea lamprey in Michigan (U. S. Fish and Wildl. Serv., Spec. Sci. Rept.; Fish, No. 55) and the subsequent development of means to...
Life history of the sea lamprey of Cayuga Lake, New York
Roland L. Wigley
1959, Fishery Bulletin (59) 561-617
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fishery Bulletin no. 154...
Fish mycobacteriosis (Tuberculosis)
T. J. Parisot, J.W. Wood
1959, Fishery Leaflet 494
The etiologic agent for the bacterial disease, "fish tuberculosis" (more correctly "mycobacteriosis"), was first observed in carp in 189& from a pond in France. Subsequently similar agents have been isolated from or observed in fish in fresh water, salt water, and brackish water, in fish in aquaria, hatcheries, and natural...
Sources of hydrographic and meteorological data on the Great Lakes
Charles F. Powers, David L. Jones, John C. Ayers
1959, Special Scientific Report - Fisheries 314
No abstract available....
Determination of uranium in zircon
F. Cuttitta, G. J. Daniels
1959, Analytica Chimica Acta (20) 430-434
A routine fluorimetric procedure is described for the determination of trace amounts of uranium in zircon. It employs the direct extraction of uranyl nitrate with ethyl acetate using phosphate as a retainer for zirconium. Submicrogram amounts or uranium are separated in the presence of 100,000 times the amount of zirconium....
New occurrences of ferroselite (FeSe2)
R. G. Coleman
1959, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (16) 296-301
Iron selenide from the uranium-vanadium ores of the Colorado Plateau was under investigation when ferroselite was described as a new mineral in Russia by Bur'yanova and Komkov (1955). Association of ferroselite with selenian pyrite and marcasite within discrete areas of these uranium-vanadium deposits suggests an unusual environment of formation. Its association...
Paleotectonic maps of the Triassic system
Edwin Dinwiddie McKee, Steven S. Oriel, Keith Brindley Ketner, Marjorie Elizabeth MacLachlin, June Waterman Goldsmith, James Crawford MacLachlan, Melville R. Mudge
1959, IMAP 300
No abstract available....
Climatology and the problems of western grasslands
Luna Bergere Leopold
Howard B. Sprague, editor(s)
1959, Conference Paper, Grasslands: A symposium presented at the New York meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sixty years after Coronado, Don Juan de Onate wrote the first reasonably good description of the High Plains. He was near the present site of Wichita, Kansas, in 1601, when he arrived a t a large rancheria, or temporary Indian camp, containing more than 5000 souls. Onate's account expressed wonderment...
Some preliminary notes on the ground water in the Columbia River basalt
R. C. Newcomb
1959, Northwest Science (33) 1-18
The Columbia River basalt carries groundwater by percolation, largely along tabular interflow zones of variable permeability and continuity. At various places the water occurs under perched, unconfined, and confined conditions; at some places it occurs under all three conditions at different depths. Both initial and tectonic structural features, such as...
Core logs from Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California
David V. Haines
1959, Bulletin 1045-E
Forty-one drill holes in the saline deposit on Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, Calif., were cored and logged. Drill holes averaged about 100 feet in depth; the majority are located around the margins of the dry lake. The saline deposit consists of an upper salt body about 39 square miles...
Reconnaissance geology of the Birney-Broadus coal field, Rosebud and Powder River Counties, Montana
Walter Cyrus Warren
1959, Bulletin 1072-J
No abstract available....
