Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey, 1971-1981
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1986, Report
This catalog is a list of books and maps published between 1971 and 1981. It supplements the past permanent catalogs "Publications of the Geological Survey, 1879-1961" and "Publications of the Geological Survey, 1962-1970." It also lists those reports in the 1879-1961 and 1962-70 catalogs that are out of stock and...
Guidelines to classification and nomenclature of Arabian felsic plutonic rocks
C.R. Ramsay, D. B. Stoeser, A.R. Drysdall
1986, Journal of African Earth Sciences (4) 13-20
Well-defined procedures for classifying the felsic plutonic rocks of the Arabian Shield on the basis of petrographic, chemical and lithostratigraphic criteria and mineral-resource potential have been adopted and developed in the Saudi Arabian Deputy Ministry for Mineral Resources over the...
Effect of seasonally changing tissue weight on trace metal concentrations in the bivalve Macoma balthica in San Francisco Bay
Daniel J. Cain, Samuel N. Luoma
1986, Marine Ecology Progress Series (28) 209-217
The influence of seasonal changes in the weight of soft tissues on temporal fluctuations in tissue concentrations of Cu and Zn was examined in 4 populations of the clam Macoma balthica sampled in San Francisco Bay for a period of 2 to 5 yr. Fluctuations in metal concentration expected from...
Processing techniques for the production of an experimental computer-generated shaded-relief map
Damon D. Judd
1986, American Cartographer (13) 72-79
An experimental computer-generated shaded-relief map of a topographic quadrangle of Nome, Alaska, at 1:1,000,000 scale was created to demonstrate current capabilities of map production. This paper describes the techniques used to produce the map product. The data consisted of forty-eight 1° by 1° blocks of resampled digital elevation model (DEM) data....
Contrasting magma types and steady-state, volume-predictable, basaltic volcanism along the Great Rift, Idaho
M. A. Kuntz, D.E. Champion, E.C. Spiker, R.H. Lefebvre
1986, Geological Society of America Bulletin (97) 579-594
The Great Rift is an 85-km-long, 2- to 8-km-wide volcanic rift zone in the Snake River Plain, Idaho. Three latest Pleistocene to Holocene basaltic lava fields, Craters of the Moon, Kings Bowl, and Wapi, are located along the Great Rift. The Craters of...
Status of fishery chemicals in 1985
R. A. Schnick, F. P. Meyer, D. F. Walsh
1986, Progressive Fish-Culturist (48) 1-17
A summary list of registered or approved products is provided for fishery uses, effective June 1985. The current status of efforts to register others and a discussion of the need for new products is presented....
Authors' reply
R.M. Hirsch, N.E. Peters
1986, Atmospheric Environment (20) 230-232
No abstract available....
Rare Plants of Point Reyes National Seashore
Ronilee A. Clark, Gary M. Fellers
1986, Technical Report CPSU/UCD 22
No abstract available at this time...
Alaska goose populations: Past, present and future
James G. King, Dirk V. Derksen
1986, Conference Paper, Transactions of the fifty-first North American wildlife and natural resources conference
Many people think Alaska remains a pristine wilderness and that wildlife populations are still at prehistoric levels. This very likely is not true for the 11 species and subspecies of geese that nest in Alaska. Large, widely dispersed populations of geese were observed near the turn of the century. Even...
Management recommendations for improving wildlife habitat degraded by man in the Black Mountains, Death Valley National Monument
C. L. Douglas
1986, Technical Report CPSU/UNLV 006/38
No abstract available at this time...
Extractable cadmium, mercury, copper, lead, and zinc in the lower Columbia River estuary, Oregon and Washington
Gregory J. Fuhrer
1986, Water-Resources Investigations Report 86-4088
No abstract available....
Use of spawner recruit relations to evaluate the effect of degraded environment and increased fishing on the abundance of fall run Chinook in several California streams
R.R. Reisenbichler
1986, Thesis
No abstract available ...
Louisiana hydrologic atlas map no. 2: Areal extent of freshwater in major aquifers of Louisiana
Charles W. Smoot
1986, Water-Resources Investigations Report 86-4150
The areal availability of freshwater (cl content < 250 mg/L) in 14 major aquifers in Louisiana was investigated. The depth of occurrence of fresh groundwater in Louisiana is variable. The aquifers were mapped to show their areal extent from the outcrop or subcrop to the downdip limit of freshwater. Water...
Description and generalized distribution of aquifer materials in the alluvial basins of Arizona and adjacent parts of California and New Mexico
Geoffrey W. Freethey
1986, Hydrologic Atlas 663
No abstract available....
Magnesioferrite from the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Caravaca, Spain
B.F. Bohor, E.E. Foord, R. Ganapathy
1986, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (81) 57-66
Magnesioferrite grading toward magnetite has been identified as a very small but meaningful constituent of the basal iron-rich portion of the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary clay at the Barranco del Gredero section, Caravaca, Spain. This spinel-type phase and others of the spinel group, found in K-T boundary clays at many widely...
Geochemical exploration for mineralized breccia pipes in northern Arizona, U.S.A.
K. J. Wenrich
1986, Applied Geochemistry (1) 469-485
Thousands of solution-collapse breccia pipe crop out in the canyons and on the plateaus of northern Arizona. Over 80 of these are known to contain U or Cu mineralized rock. The high-grade U ore associated with potentially economic concentrations of Ag, Pb, Zn, Cu, Co and Ni in some of...
Spring and summer survival of female mallards from northcentral Minnesota
Ronald E. Kirby, Lewis M. Cowardin
1986, Journal of Wildlife Management (50) 38-43
Seasonal survival of 109 adult female mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) fitted with radio transmitters was evaluated in northcentral Minnesota during 1968-74. Survival rates for the 169-day breeding and postbreeding period were: 1.0 during nest initiation (36 days), 0.798 during incubation (28 days), 0.943 during brood rearing (51 days), 0.947 during molt...
Feeding ecology of sandhill cranes during spring migration in Nebraska
K. J. Reinecke, Gary L. Krapu
1986, Journal of Wildlife Management (50) 71-79
We studied the food habits of midcontinent sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) during spring 1978 and 1979 at their primary staging area along the Platte River and compared population food and foraging habitat requirements with availability. Crane diets varied among the 3 principal foraging habitats, but not between sexes, ages, or...
Winter ecology of bald eagles in southcentral Nebraska
G.R. Lingle, Gary L. Krapu
1986, Prairie Naturalist (18) 65-78
Approximately 200 bald eagles wintered along a 370-km section of the Platte and North Platte rivers in Nebraska during the winters of 1978-79 and 1979-80. A preponderance of the wintering eagles were adults, with the adult:subadult ratio highest during the harsh winter of 1978-79. Nocturnal roosts were located primarily in...
Mass balance and sliding velocity of the Puget lobe of the cordilleran ice sheet during the last glaciation
D. B. Booth
1986, Quaternary Research (25) 269-280
An estimate of the sliding velocity and basal meltwater discharge of the Puget lobe of the Cordilleran ice sheet can be calculated from its reconstructed extent, altitude, and mass balance. Lobe dimensions and surface altitudes are inferred from ice limits and flow-direction indicators. Net annual mass balance and total ablation...
Seismic Computerized Alert Network
Henry Spall, editor(s)
1986, Earthquakes & Volcanoes (USGS) (18) 153-153
In 1985 the USGS devised a model for a Seismic Computerized Alert Network (SCAN) that would use continuous monitoring of seismic data from existing types of instruments to provide automatic, highly-reliable early warnings of earthquake shaking. In a large earthquake, substantial damaging ground motions may occur at great distances from...
What won't Turnstones eat?
Robert E. Gill Jr.
1986, British Birds (79) 402-403
The Turnstone Arenaria interpres probably has one of the most varied diets of any wader species. Besides the 'normal' foods taken (see, e.g., Prater 1972, Nettleship 1973, Jones 1975), a considerable variety of 'unusual' foods and feeding behaviours has also been reported. Items taken include soap, gull excrement, dog food,...
Paleomagnetism of the Tertiary Clarno Formation of central Oregon and its significance for the tectonic history of the Pacific Northwest
C. Sherman Gromme, Myrl E. Beck Jr., Ray E. Wells, David C. Engebretson
1986, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (91) 14089-14103
The Clarno Formation, a mostly Eocene and partly early Oligocene sequence of andesitic lavas and volcaniclastic rocks, is the oldest Tertiary formation exposed in north central Oregon. Remanent magnetization directions at 46 sites in the lavas provide a paleomagnetic pole at 84°N, 278°E with a 95% confidence cone of 7°....
Relationship of grade, tonnage, and basement lithology in volcanic-hosted epithermal precious-and base-metal quartz-adularia-type districts
D.L. Mosier, Donald A. Singer, T. Sato, N.J. Page
1986, Mining Geology (36)
Examination of grades, tonnages, and basement rocks for 88 epithermal precious- and base-metal quartz-adularia-type districts in North, Central, and South America, and Japan reveals that the type of basement rock below the mineralized veins is useful for predicting grade and size of deposits. Epithermal districts overlying basement with salt and...
Application of the Flory-Huggins theory to the solubility of solids in glyceryl trioleate
Cary T. Chiou, Milton Manes
1986, Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions I (82) 243-246
The conventional thermodynamic deviation for ideal solid–liquid solubilities is modified by substituting the Flory–Huggins model for Raoult's law. A comparison of published data for eleven solides in glyceryl trioleate with the predictions of the conventional and modified equations shows that the significantly higher athermal solubilities from the modified...
