NEW STUDIES OF URBAN FLOOD FREQUENCY IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES.
Vernon B. Sauer
1986, Transportation Research Record 10-15
Five reports dealing with flood magnitude and frequency in urban areas in the southeastern United States have been published during the past 2 years by the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS). These reports are based on data collected in Tampa and Tallahassee, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; and several cities in Alabama...
Gas analyses from the Pu'u O'o eruption in 1985, Kilauea volcano, Hawaii
L. P. Greenland
1986, Bulletin of Volcanology (48) 341-348
Volcanic gas samples were collected from July to November 1985 from a lava pond in the main eruptive conduit of Pu'u O'o from a 2-week-long fissure eruption and from a minor flank eruption of Pu'u O'o. The molecular composition of these gases is consistent with thermodynamic equilibrium at a temperature...
An integrated system for treating nitrogen supersaturated water
V. K. Dawson, L. L. Marking
1986, Progressive Fish-Culturist (48) 281-284
Groundwater is commonly supersaturated with nitrogen and must be treated before it is used for culturing fish–especially sensitive species such as lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). We treated water with an integrated system that passed water through a packed column aerator, then through a vacuum degasser,...
Role of replacement in the genesis of anorthosite in the Boehls Butte area, Idaho
Anna Hietanen
1986, Geological Society of Finland, Bulletin (58) 71-79
In the Boehls Butte area, Idaho, three large and numerous small lenses of layered to massive anorthosite consisting of two, and locally three, types of plagioclase and minor hornblende and micas occur in aluminum silicate-rich garnet mica schist. In most of this anorthosite, andesine megacrysts with bytownite inclusions are embedded...
Mycoplasma contamination in fish cell lines: An evaluation of detection by differential incorporation of 3H-uridine and 14C-uracil
C. L. Schultz, B. C. Lidgerding, P. E. McAllister, F. M. Hetrick
1986, Journal of Fish Diseases (9) 117-122
Differential incorporation of uridine and uracil was used to assay for mycoplasma contamination in five fish cell lines: bluegill fry (BF-2), chinook salmon embryo (CHSE-214), epithelioma papillosum cyprini (EPC), fathead minnow (FHM) and rainbow trout gonad (RTG-2). The method was not suitable for monitoring BF-2, CHSE-214, FHM, and RTG-2 cell...
Preliminary appraisal of ground water in and near the ancestral Missouri River Valley, northeastern Montana
G. W. Levings
1986, Water-Resources Investigations Report 86-4138
A preliminary appraisal was conducted in and near the ancestral Missouri River valley in northeastern Montana to describe the groundwater resources and to establish a data base for the area. The data base then could be used for future evaluation of possible changes in water levels or water quality. In...
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,...
Patterns and causes of change in a cliff swallow colony during a 17-year period
Gary L. Krapu
1986, Prairie Naturalist (18) 109-114
The number of cliff swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonata) nests at a farmstead in southeastern North Dakota increased at an average annual rate of 87% with house sparrow (Passer domesticus) removal during 1957-60 and 1970-72. Harassment of nesting cliff swallows by house sparrows, adult swallow mortality from cold weather in late May,...
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...
Minerals, lands, and geology for the common defence and general welfare, Volume 3, 1904-1939 : A history of geology in relation to the development of public-land, federal-science, and mapping policies and the development of mineral resources in the United States from the 25th to the 60th year of the U.S. Geological Survey
Mary C. Rabbitt
1986, Book
Mrs. Rabbitt's third volume covers the years 1904 to 1939, from the beginning of the conservation movement under Theodore Roosevelt to the beginning of World War II. From a national perspective, these were years of great development and change in the use of energy, trouble in the coal industry, and...
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 ...
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...
Determination of total, commonality, and uniqueness of interpreted structural elements from remotely sensed data in Alaska
G.H. Rosenfield
1986, Mathematical Geology (18) 161-179
Statistical analysis is conducted to determine the unique value of real- and synthetic-aperture side-looking airborne radar (SLAR) to detect interpreted structural elements. SLAR images were compared to standard and digitally enhanced Landsat multispectral scanner (MSS) images and to aerial photographs. After interpretation of the imagery, data were cumulated by total...
Summary of pre-1980 tephra-fall deposits erupted from Mount St. Helens, Washington State, USA
D. R. Mullineaux
1986, Bulletin of Volcanology (48) 17-26
Mount St. Helens has been a prolific source of tephra-fall deposits for about 40 000 years. These tephra deposits (1) record numerous explosive eruptions, (2) form important regional time-stratigraphic marker beds, and (3) record repeated changes in composition within and between eruptive periods. Recognized tephra strata record more than 100...
Danburite in evaporites of the Paradox basin, Utah.
O. B. Raup, B.M. Madsen
1986, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology (56) 248-251
Danburite (CaB 2 Si 2 O 8 ) has been found as nodules in Pennsylvanian age marine evaporites of the Paradox basin, Utah. Originally danburite had been known as a high-temperature mineral that occurs at numerous localities in igneous and metamorphic rocks. Since its discovery in water-insoluble residues from...
Biomass and productivity of three phytoplankton size classes in San Francisco Bay
B.E. Cole, J. E. Cloern, A.E. Alpine
1986, Estuaries (9) 117-126
The 5-22 mu m size accounted for 40-50% of annual production in each embayment, but production by phytoplanton >22 mu m ranged from 26% in the S reach to 54% of total phytoplankton production in the landward embayment of the N reach. A productivity index is derived that predicts daily...
Algal growth response to particle-bound orthophosphate and zinc
James S. Kuwabara, J.A. Davis, Cecily C.Y. Chang
1986, Limnology and Oceanography (31) 503-511
Effects of Zn (0-1 mu M total Zn(II)) and orthophosphate (8-12 mu M total P) additions on growth indices for the chlorophyte Selenastrum capricornutum were examined in a medium containing 50 mg liter-1 colloidal titania. Over the Zn(II) concentration range used, detrimental growth and yield effects were observed. Addition of...
Movement and fate of detergents in groundwater: A field study
E.M. Thurman, L.B. Barber Jr., D. LeBlanc
1986, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology (1) 143-161
The major cations, anions, and detergents in a plume of contaminated groundwater at Otis Air Base on Cape Cod (Mass., U.S.A.) have moved approximately 3.5 km down gradient from the disposal beds. We hypothesize that the detergents form two distinct plumes, which consist of alkyl benzene sulfonates (ABS) detergents and...
Estimation of distributional parameters for censored trace level water quality data: 2. Verification and applications
Dennis R. Helsel, Robert J. Gilliom
1986, Water Resources Research (22) 147-155
Estimates of distributional parameters (mean, standard deviation, median, interquartile range) are often desired for data sets containing censored observations. Eight methods for estimating these parameters have been evaluated by R. J. Gilliom and D. R. Helsel (this issue) using Monte Carlo simulations. To verify those findings, the same methods are...
Manganese biogeochemistry in a small Adirondack forested lake watershed
James B. Shanley
1986, Water Resources Research (22) 1647-1656
In September and October 1981, manganese (Mn) concentrations and pH were intensively monitored in a small forested lake watershed in the west-central Adirondack Mountains, New York, during two large acidic storms (each ∼5 cm rainfall, pH 4.61 and 4.15). The data were evaluated to identify biogeochemical pathways of Mn and to assess...
Eureka Quartzite in Mexico? - Tectonic implications
K. B. Ketner
1986, Geology (14) 1027-1030
At Cerro Cobachi, 90 km east of Hermosillo, Sonora, an Ordovician to Permian miogeoclinal assemblage and an Ordovician to Permian siliceous deep-water assemblage were juxtaposed by thrust faulting between mid-Permian and latest Cretaceous time. Both assemblages resemble counterparts in the Great Basin. One...
Research on polar bears in Alaska, 1983-1985
Steven C. Amstrup
1986, Conference Paper, Polar bears: Proceedings of the ninth working meeting of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group
Research on the ecology and status of polar bear populations in Alaska has continued since 1967. Research was a joint U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Alaska Department of Fish and Game effort until passage of the Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1972, and has been largely a Federal effort since then....
THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ASPECTS OF ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION.
James R. O’Neil
1986, Reviews in Mineralogy (16) 1-40
Essential to the interpretation of natural variations of light stable isotope ratios is knowledge of the magnitude and temperature dependence of isotopic fractionation factors between the common minerals and fluids. These fractionation factors are obtained in three ways: (1) Semi-empirical calculations using spectroscopic data and the methods of statistical mechanics....
Optical reflection from planetary surfaces as an operator-eigenvalue problem
R.L. Wildey
1986, Earth, Moon and Planets (36) 103-116
The understanding of quantum mechanical phenomena has come to rely heavily on theory framed in terms of operators and their eigenvalue equations. This paper investigates the utility of that technique as related to the reciprocity principle in diffuse reflection. The reciprocity operator is shown to be unitary and Hermitian; hence,...
Solid and fluid inclusions in mantle xenoliths: An analytical dilemma?
J.S. Noller
1986, Geology (14) 437-440
Two Cr-diopside Iherzolite xenoliths with kaersutite selvages, from Dish Hill, California, contain four types of solid and fluid inclusions that can be used to discriminate between actual mantle processes and processes acting upon a fragment of mantle as it is entrained and carried to the earth surface. On the basis...
