Nestling growth relationships of brown-headed cowbirds and dickcissels
Scott A. Hatch
1983, The Wilson Bulletin (95) 669-671
Data on nestling growth of brood parasites and their hosts are surprisingly few in the literature, Even the Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater), whose host relations have been studied in some other respects, has not been studied in any detail from this standpoint. This is particularly regrettable because the lack of...
Late Holocene ice wedges near Fairbanks, Alaska, USA: Environmental setting and history of growth
T. D. Hamilton, T. A. Ager, S.W. Robinson
1983, Arctic and Alpine Research (15) 157-168
Test trenches excavated into muskeg near Fairbanks in 1969 exposed a polygonal network of active ice wedges. The wedges occur in peat that has accumulated since about 3500 yr BP and have grown episodically as the permafrost table fluctuated in response to fires, other local site conditions and perhaps regional...
Paleohydraulic reconstruction of flash- flood peaks from boulder deposits in the Colorado Front Range
J. E. Costa
1983, Geological Society of America Bulletin (94) 986-1004
Nine watersheds in the Colorado Front Range with steep bedrock channels were used to test the accuracy of paleohydraulic reconstruction of large flash floods using boulder deposits. The nine basins consist of eight small ungauged basins ranging in size from 1.6 to 29...
An interpretation of carbon and sulfur relationships in Black Sea sediments as indicators of environments of deposition
J.S. Leventhal
1983, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (47) 133-137
Syngenetic iron sulfides in sediments are formed from dissolved sulfide resulting from sulfate reduction and catabolism of organic matter by anaerobic bacteria. It has been shown that in recent marine sediments deposited below oxygenated waters there is a constant relationship between reduced sulfur and organic carbon which is generally independent...
You asked for it! Proper use of fish culturists and biologists and some thoughts on fall activities
M. Martin
1983, Aquaculture Magazine (10) 38-40
Influence of the Onion Creek salt diapir on the late Cenozoic history of Fisher Valley, southeastern Utah
Steven M. Colman
1983, Geology (11) 240-243
More than 140 m of upper Cenozoic basin-fill sediments were deposited and then deformed in Fisher Valley between about 2.5 and 0.25 m.y. ago, in response to uplift of the adjacent Onion Creek salt diapir. In addition to these basin-fill sediments, minor amounts of eolian and fluvial sand were deposited...
U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LAND REMOTE SENSING ACTIVITIES.
Doyle G. Frederick
1983, Conference Paper
USGS uses all types of remotely sensed data, in combination with other sources of data, to support geologic analyses, hydrologic assessments, land cover mapping, image mapping, and applications research. Survey scientists use all types of remotely sensed data with ground verifications and digital topographic and cartographic data. A considerable amount...
Geochemistry of diverse basalt types from Loihi Seamount, Hawaii: Petrogenetic implications
F.A. Frey, D.A. Clague
1983, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (66) 337-355
The wide variety of basalt types, tholeiitic to basanite, dredged from Loihi Seamount have minor and trace element abundances that are characteristic of subaerial Hawaiian basalts, thereby confirming that Loihi Seamount is a manifestation of the Hawaiian “hot spot”. Within the Loihi sample suite there are well-defined positive correlations among...
FINDINGS ON THE USE OF LANDSAT-3 RETURN BEAM VIDICON IMAGERY FOR DETECTING LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGES.
Valerie A. Milazzo
1983, Conference Paper, Technical Papers of the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping
The spatial resolution of imagery from the return beam vidicon (RBV) camera aboard the Landsat-3 satellite suggested that such data might prove useful in inspecting land use and land cover maps. In this study, a 1972 land use and land cover map derived from aerial photographs is compared with a...
Clay mineral formation and transformation in rocks and soils
D. D. Eberl
1983, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (311) 241-257
Three mechanisms for clay mineral formation (inheritance, neoformation, and transformation) operating in three geological environments (weathering, sedimentary, and diagenetic-hydrothermal) yield nine possibilities for the origin of clay minerals in nature. Several of these possibilities are discussed in terms of the rock cycle. The mineralogy of clays neoformed in the weathering...
Evidence for a postglacial low relative sea-level stand in the drowned delta of the Merrimack River, Western Gulf of Maine
R. N. Oldale, L. E. Wommack, A.B. Whitney
1983, Quaternary Research (19) 325-336
A submerged delta of the Merrimack River, located offshore between Cape Ann, Massachusetts, and the New Hampshire border, indicates a postglacial low relative see-level stand of about -47 m. The low stand is inferred to date to 10,500 yr B.P., but a lack of age control makes this assignment uncertain....
Tin granites of Seward Peninsula, Alaska
T. Hudson, Joseph G. Arth
1983, Geological Society of America Bulletin (94) 768-790
Seven granite plutons, spatially and genetically related to tin metalization, are exposed in a 170-km-long belt across northwestern Seward Peninsula, Alaska. These plutons are cupolas and epizonal composite stocks that consist of several textural varieties of biotite granite, including medium- to coarse-grained seriate...
Maps for the nation: The current federal mapping establishment
Gary W. North
1983, Government Publications Review (10) 345-360
The U.S. Government annually produces an estimated 53,000 new maps and charts and distributes about 160 million copies. A large number of these maps are produced under the national mapping program, a decentralized Federal/State cooperative approach to mapping the country at standard scales. Circular A-16, issued by the Office of...
Simulation of solute transport in a mountain pool-and-riffle stream: A transient storage model
Kenneth E. Bencala, Roy A. Walters
1983, Water Resources Research (19) 718-724
The physical characteristics of mountain streams differ from the uniform and conceptually well- defined open channels for which the analysis of solute transport has been oriented in the past and is now well understood. These physical conditions significantly influence solute transport behavior, as demonstrated by a transient storage model simulation...
VARIATIONS IN MINERAL MATTER CONTENT OF A PEAT DEPOSIT IN MAINE RESTING ON GLACIO-MARINE SEDIMENTS.
Cornelia C. Cameron, Paul Schruben
1983, Conference Paper, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Report) LA
The Great Heath, Washington County, Maine, is an excellent example of a multidomed ombrotrophic peatland resting on a gently undulating surface of glacio-marine sediments and towering above modern streams. A comprehensive study sponsored by the Geological Survey of Maine in cooperation with the U. S. Geological Survey included preparation of...
Inbreeding in fish populations used for aquaculture
Harold L. Kincaid
1983, Aquaculture (33) 215-227
The theoretical causes of inbreeding depression are reviewed. Studies to measure depression at a series of inbreeding levels in rainbow trout populations using the method of inbred-outbred half-sib families are discussed. While the actual depression estimates varied widely between populations and inbreeding levels, significant levels of depression were found in...
Statistical averaging of marine magnetic anomalies and the aging of oceanic crust
R.J. Blakely
1983, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth (88) 2289-2296
Visual comparison of Mesozoic and Cenozoic magnetic anomalies in the North Pacific suggests that older anomalies contain less short-wavelength information than younger anomalies in this area. To test this observation, magnetic profiles from the North Pacific are examined from crust of three ages: 0–2.1, 29.3–33.1, and 64.9–70.3 m.y, B.P. For...
The effect of variable spring water conditions on mallard reproduction
Gary L. Krapu, Albert T. Klett, Dennis G. Jorde
1983, The Auk (100) 689-698
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) breeding densities in the prairie pothole habitat of eastern North Dakota during 1961-1980 varied from 2.28 birds/km2 in 1977 to 9.47 birds/km2 in 1963 and were correlated with pond abundance (r = 0.543, P < 0.05). The number of basins used by pairs declined with drought, as did home-range size. Nesting activity...
Relationship of two lacustrine ostracode species to solute composition and salinity: Implications for paleohydrochemistry ( Limnocythere sappaensis/staplini)
R. M. Forester
1983, Geology (11) 435-438
Nonmarine ostracode species are indicative of the physical and chemical nature of lacustrine environments. Although salinity has traditionally been regarded as one of the more important parameters that affect the occurrence patterns of lacustrine ostracodes, examination of the solute composition and salinities of...
The nature of carbon dioxide waters in Snaefellsnes, western Iceland
S. Arnorsson, I. Barnes
1983, Geothermics (12) 171-176
Over 20 occurrences of thermal and non-thermal waters rich in carbon dioxide are known in the Snaefellsnes Peninsula of western Iceland. On the basis of the thermal, chemical and isotopic characteristics of these waters, and hydrological considerations, it is concluded that they represent meteoric waters which have seeped to variable...
Sorption of radium-226 from oil-production brine by sediments and soils
E. R. Landa, D.F. Reid
1983, Environmental Geology (5) 1-8
The sorption of226Ra from oil-production brine by soils and sediments was investigated. Sorption was rapid, and the percentage sorbed increased with brine dilution. Greatest removals of226Ra from sediments in the laboratory occurred with alkaline DTPA, HCl, and BaCl2, with lesser removals using CaCl2 and NaCl solutions. Digestion of sediments with...
Distribution of differentiated tholeiitic basalts on the lower east rift zone of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii: A possible guide to geothermal exploration
R. B. Moore
1983, Geology (11) 136-140
Geologic mapping of the lower east rift zone of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, indicates that more than 100 eruptions have extruded an estimated 10 km3 of basalt during the past 2,000 yr. Six eruptions in the past 200 yr have extruded about 1 km3. The...
Strangways Crater, Northern Territory, Australia: Siderophile element enrichment and lithophile element fractionation
J. W. Morgan, G.A. Wandless
1983, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth (88) A819-A829
The Strangways Crater, Northern Territory, Australia (15°12′S, 133°35′E), has a central core, about 10 km in diameter, of shocked granitic gneiss and amphibolite, and some remnants of a melt rock sheet, surrounded by outer rings of quartzite and siltstone to a diameter of 20–25 km. Seven samples of melt rock...
Gravity studies in the Cascade Range
Carol A. Finn, David Williams
1983, Conference Paper, Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council
A compatible set of gravity data has been compiled for the entire Cascade Range. From this data set a series of interpretive color gravity maps have been prepared, including a free air anomaly map, Bouguer anomaly map at a principle, and an alternate reduction density, and filtered and derivative versions...
Temporal patterns of seed use and availability in a guild of desert ants
Patricia Mehlhop, Norman J. Scott Jr.
1983, Ecological Entomology (8) 69-85
1Temporal patterns of seed use were studied from late winter to autumn in three species of seed-harvesting ants in the Sonoran Desert. Measures of effective foraging activity, dietary niche breadth and dietary niche overlaps were obtained each month and were tested for correlation with estimates of the...
