West Virginia Geological Survey's role in siting fluidized bed combustion facilities
C.J. Smith, Hobart M. King, K. C. Ashton, D.S. Kirstein, G.H. McColloch
1989, Conference Paper
A project is presented which demonstrates the role of geology in planning and siting a fluidized bed combustion facility. Whenever a project includes natural resource utilization, cooperation between geologists and design engineers will provide an input that could and should save costs, similar to the one stated in our initial...
Petrologic evolution of divergent peralkaline magmas from the Silent Canyon caldera complex, southwestern Nevada volcanic field
D.A. Sawyer, K. A. Sargent
1989, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth (94) 6021-6040
The Silent Canyon volcanic center consists of a buried Miocene peralkaline caldera complex and outlying peralkaline lava domes. Its location has been corroborated by geophysical data and more than 50 drill holes. Two widespread ash flow sheets, the Tub Spring and overlying Grouse Canyon members of the Miocene Belted Range...
Sedimentology and paleontology of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, Bedrock, Colorado
R. F. Dubiel, S.C. Good, J.M. Parrish
1989, Mountain Geologist (26) 113-126
Describes a reddish-brown sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone, with minor amounts of siliciclastic-, carbonate-, and chert-pebble conglomerate, and green mudstone. Deposition occurred in continental environments. Lithofacies, trace fossils, and invertebrate and vertebrate fossils indicate that the Late Triassic climate was tropical monsoonal until the close of Chinle deposition when drier seasons...
Speciation and equilibrium relations of soluble aluminum in a headwater stream at base flow and during rain events
Douglas A. Burns
1989, Water Resources Research (25) 1653-1665
In a small watershed in the Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, the short-term dynamics of soluble aluminum in stream water sampled during rain events differed significantly from stream water sampled during base flow conditions. Three fractions of dissolved aluminum were measured. The inorganic monomeric fraction made up approximately two thirds of...
A terracing operator for physical property mapping with potential field data
L. Cordell, A. E. McCafferty
1989, Geophysics (54) 621-634
The terracing operator works iteratively on gravity or magnetic data, using the sense of the measured field's local curvature, to produce a field comprised of uniform domains separated by abrupt domain boundaries. The result is crudely proportional to a physical-property function defined in one (profile case) or two (map case)...
Radiometric calibration of Landsat Thematic Mapper multispectral images
P.S. Chavez Jr.
1989, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (55) 1285-1294
A main problem encountered in radiometric calibration of satellite image data is correcting for atmospheric effects. Without this correction, an image digital number (DN) cannot be converted to a surface reflectance value. In this paper the accuracy of a calibration procedure, which includes a correction for atmospheric scattering, is tested....
Thermal stresses due to cooling of a viscoelastic oceanic lithosphere
R.P. Denlinger, W. Z. Savage
1989, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth (94) 744-752
Theories based upon thermal contraction of cooling oceanic lithosphere provide a successful basis for correlating seafloor bathymetry and heat flow. The horizontal components of the contraction of the lithosphere as it cools potentially give rise to large thermal stresses. Current methods to calculate these stresses assume that on the time...
The Alabama, U.S.A., seismic event and strata collapse of May 7, 1986
L.T. Long, C.W. Copeland
1989, Pure and Applied Geophysics PAGEOPH (129) 415-421
On May 7, 1986, the residents of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, felt a seismic event of local magnitude 3.6 that occurred at the same time as a rock burst and roof collapse in an active longwall coal mine. Visual inspection of the seismograms reveals a deficiency in energy at frequencies above 20...
Removing volatile contaminants from the unsaturated zone by inducing advective air-phase transport
A. L. Baehr, G.E. Hoag, M.C. Marley
1989, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology (4) 1-26
Organic liquids inadvertently spilled and then distributed in the unsaturated zone can pose a long-term threat to ground water. Many of these substances have significant volatility, and thereby establish a premise for contaminant removal from the unsaturated zone by inducing advective air-phase transport...
100 years of sedimentation study by the USGS
G. Douglas Glysson
1989, Conference Paper
On January 15, 1889, the U.S. Geological Survey began collecting sediment data on the Rio Grande at Embudo, New Mexico. During the past 100 years the U.S. Geological Survey's Water Resources Division (WRD) has collected daily sediment data at more than 1,200 sites. Projects have addressed the problems associated with...
Classification of lung cancer patients and controls by chromatography of modified nucleosides in serum
John E. McEntire, Kenneth C. Kuo, Mark E. Smith, David L. Stalling, Jack W. Richens Jr., Robert W. Zumwalt, Charles W. Gehrke, Ben W. Papermaster
1989, Cancer Research (49) 1057-1062
A wide spectrum of modified nucleosides has been quantified by high-performance liquid chromatography in serum of 49 male lung cancer patients, 35 patients with other cancers, and 48 patients hospitalized for nonneoplastic diseases. Data for 29 modified nucleoside peaks were normalized to an internal standard and analyzed by discriminant analysis...
Hydrologic effects on water level changes associated with episodic fault creep near Parkfield, California
E.A. Roeloffs, S.S. Burford, F. S. Riley, A.W. Records
1989, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth (94) 12387-12402
As part of the Parkfield, California, earthquake prediction experiment, water level is monitored in a well 460 m from the main trace of the San Andreas fault on Middle Mountain, in the preparation zone of the anticipated Parkfield earthquake. The well configuration allows water level to be monitored in two...
Petrologic constraints on rift-zone processes - Results from episode 1 of the Puu Oo eruption of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii
M.O. Garcia, R.A. Ho, J.M. Rhodes, E.W. Wolfe
1989, Bulletin of Volcanology (52) 81-96
The Puu Oo eruption in the middle of Kilauea volcano's east rift zone provides an excellent opportunity to utilize petrologic constraints to interpret rift-zone processes. Emplacement of a dike began 24 hours before the start of the eruption on 3 January 1983. Seismic and geodetic evidence indicates that the dike...
Side-scan sonar mapping of lake trout spawning habitat in northern Lake Michigan
Thomas A. Edsall, Thomas P. Poe, Robert T. Nester, Charles L. Brown
1989, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (9) 269-279
Native stocks of lake trout Salvelinus namaycush were virtually or completely extirpated from the lower four Great Lakes by the early 1960s. The failure of early attempts to reestablish self-sustaining populations of lake trout was attributed partly to the practice of stocking hatcheryreared juveniles at locations and over substrates that had...
Comparison of two methods for shipping green eggs of rainbow trout
J.R. Crowther
1989, The Anal Fin (12) 1-2
Abstract has not been submitted...
Determination of arsenic and selenium in whole fish by continuous-flow hydride generation atomic absorption spectrophotometry
W. G. Brumbaugh, M.J. Walther
1989, Journal of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (72) 484-486
A combined wet chemical and dry ash digestion and use of a continuous- flow hydride generator coupled with a flame-heated quartz cell enabled the simple, precise, and highly automated atomic absorption determination of arsenic and selenium in tissues of whole fish. Percent relative standard deviation averaged 4% for each element;...
Body composition and weight dynamics of wintering greater white-fronted geese
Craig R. Ely, Dennis G. Raveling
1989, Journal of Wildlife Management (53) 80-87
Adult greater white-fronted geese (Anser albifrons frontalis) wintering in southern Oregon and California increased or maintained body weight in autumn, lost weight from autumn through winter, and rapidly increased in weight before spring migration in late April. We documented significant annual differences in body weights for both sexes. We related...
An 'HMO' for Channel Islands National Park
G.E. Davis, W. L. Halvorson
1989, A'lul'quoy (2) 14-14
No abstract available....
Use of spring scales for weighing live fish in the field
Mark R. Jennings
1989, North American Journal of Fisheries Management (9) 509-511
Diurnal and seasonal patterns of colony attendance in the Northern Fulmar, Fulmarus glacialis
Scott A. Hatch
1989, Canadian Field-Naturalist (103) 248-260
The annual cycle of Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) in the western Gulf of Alaska includes about six months from mid-April to mid-October when birds are associated with land at the Semidi Islands. The pre-laying stage in five years was marked by recurrent peaks in attendance that included...
Effects of fire in the Northern Great Plains
Kenneth F. Higgins, Arnold D. Kruse, James L. Piehl
1989, Report
This publication is a review of selected literature about prescribed burning in the Northern Great Plains (NGP) for management of wildlife. It also will be useful to other resource managers and researchers and to persons interested in the NGP. It is more 'descriptive' than 'interpretative.'The publication is a joint effort...
Development of a benthic invertebrate objective for mesotrophic Great Lakes waters
Trefor B. Reynoldson, Donald W. Schloesser, Bruce A. Manny
1989, Journal of Great Lakes Research (15) 669-686
A biological indicator of mesotrophic conditions should (1) provide an appropriate and interpretable objective; (2) be achievable if corrective measures are taken (i.e., it should be within the expected environmental range of the system); and (3) allow measurement of progress toward the objective. Historical data from the Great Lakes suggest...
Beyond the Kubler index
D. D. Eberl, B. Velde
1989, Clay Minerals (24) 571-577
The value of peak width at half-height for the illite 001 XRD reflection is known as the Kubler index or the illite ‘crystallinity’ index. This measurement, which has been related to the degree of metamorphism of very low-grade, pelitic rocks, is a function of at least two crystal-chemical factors: (1)...
Early Cretaceous vein-related garnet granulite in Fiordland, southwest New Zealand: a case for infiltration of mantle-derived CO2-rich fluids
J.Y. Bradshaw
1989, Journal of Geology (97) 697-717
Regionally extensive two-pyroxene granulite facies orthogneisses of Early Cretaceous age in Fiordland, southwest New Zealand, are criss-crossed by garnet-bearing feldspathic veins (and dikes) having associated marginal reaction zones of garnet granulite. The two-pyroxene granulites resulted from fluid-absent meta-morphism of a suite of...
Winter survival of female American black ducks on the Atlantic coast
Michael J. Conroy, Gary R. Costanzo, Daniel B. Stotts
1989, Journal of Wildlife Management (53) 99-109
We used radio telemetry to monitor the winter survival and cause-specific mortality of 227 female American black ducks (Anas rubripes) captured in New Jersey and Virginia, 1983-85. Mean survival rate for 19 December-15 February was 0.65. Survival from hunting and nonhunting risk was 0.84 and 0.78, respectively. Causes of nonhunting...
