An earth-science bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding area, 1981 supplement
Saudi Arabia. Deputy Ministry for Mineral Resources, U.S. Geological Survey Saudi Arabia Mission
1982, Book
An interagency report prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey Saudi Arabian Mission for the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia....
Status of water-resources projects in Minnesota, fiscal year 1982
M.D. Hein
1982, Report
No abstract available....
Organochlorine residues and shell thinning in Oregon seabird eggs
Charles J. Henny, Lawrence J. Blus, Richard M. Prouty
1982, Murrelet (63) 15-21
A single egg was collected at 62 nests of 10 seabird species from Oregon in 1979. The eggs were analyzed for organochlorine contaminants; contemporary shell thickness was compared with eggshells collected during earlier time periods. Concentrations of DDE and PCB's in 1979 were generally low with the most contaminated species...
Analysis of propeller wounds on manatees in Florida
Cathy A. Beck, Robert K. Bonde, Galen B. Rathbun
1982, Journal of Wildlife Management (46) 531-535
No abstract available. ...
Hematology of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus)
W. Medway, D.J. Black, G. B. Rathbun
1982, Veterinary Clinical Pathology (11) 11-15
Hemograms on blood obtained from 10 clinically normal West Indian Manatees (Trichechus manatus) were studied. The red cells were large and in lower number than in most terrestrial species. The manatee does not have a neutrophil as is present in most species, but it has a heterophil whose granules stain...
On conducting the modified ‘Slug’ test in tight formations
C.E. Neuzil
1982, Water Resources Research (18) 439-441
The method introduced by Bredehoeft and Papadopulos (1980) for conducting a modified ‘slug’ test in tight formations does not assure the condition of approximate equilibrium necessary at the start of the test. In addition, compressibility in the shut-in well can be significantly larger than the compressibility of water, which Bredehoeft...
Habitat models for land-use planning: assumptions and strategies for development
Adrian H. Farmer, Michael J. Armbruster, James W. Terrell, Richard L. Schroeder
1982, Book, Transactions of the Forty-seventh North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference: Population pressures and natural resource management needs
Wildlife managers have long recognized that management goals must be constrained by the availability and suitability of habitat. This recognition, combined with ever increasing land development pressures, has resulted in environmental legislation emphasizing systematic approaches to collection and analysis of habitat information. Wildlife planners have responded with a...
California's Central Valley wintering waterfowl: Concerns and challenges
David S. Gilmer, Michael R. Miller, Richard D. Bauer, John R. LeDonne
1982, Conference Paper, Transactions of the 47th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference
No abstract available....
Lumber spill in central California waters: Implications for oil spills and sea otters
G.R. VanBlaricom, R.J. Jameson
1982, Science (215) 1503-1505
A large quantity of lumber was spilled in the ocean off central California during the winter of 1978, and it spread through most of the range of the threatened California sea otter population within 4 weeks. The movement rates of lumber were similar to those of oil slicks observed elsewhere....
Mid-Paleozoic age of the Roberts thrust unsettled by new data from northern Nevada
Keith B. Ketner, Fred J. Smith Jr.
1982, Geology (10) 298-303
The Roberts thrust is a major thrust in Nevada on which Ordovician to Devonian siliceous facies rocks were carried more than 80 km eastward over contemporaneous carbonate facies. For more than two decades, a mid-Paleozoic age for this structure has been widely accepted. The bases for dating the thrust are...
Molecular size of aquatic humic substances
E.M. Thurman, R.L. Wershaw, Ronald L. Malcolm, D.J. Pinckney
1982, Organic Geochemistry (4) 27-35
Aquatic humic substances, which account for 30 to 50% of the organic carbon in water, are a principal component of aquatic organic matter. The molecular size of aquatic humic substances, determined by small-angle X-ray scattering, varies from 4.7 to 33 Å in their radius of gyration, corresponding to a molecular...
Use of blood levels to infer carcass levels of contaminants
Gary L. Hensler, William C. Stout
1982, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (11) 235-238
Inferences may be made about the carcass levels of a contaminant based on the contaminant level in blood samples. A method is given for comparing such populations that utilizes bivariate normal distributions and their principal axes, thereby avoiding a dilemma arising from the use of regression techniques. Confidence intervals and...
Ingestion of petroleum by breeding mallard ducks: Some effects on neonatal progeny
J. Gorsline, W. N. Holmes
1982, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (11) 147-153
Breeding female mallard ducks consuming petroleum-contaminated food show significant induced increases in the naphthalene-metabolizing properties of microsomes prepared from their livers. Food contaminated with South Louisiana crude oil was more potent than food contaminated with similar concentrations of Prudhoe Bay crude oil and in each instance food contaminated with 3%...
Age determination of late Pleistocene marine transgression in western Alaska
Barney J. Szabo
1982, Marine Geology (46) M1-M8
Dating molluscs from sediments representing the Kotzebuan marine transgression in Alaska yields an average uranium-series age of 104,000 ± 22,000 yrs B.P. This and other selected Pleistocene marine deposits of western Alaska are tentatively correlated with radiometrically dated units of eastern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada....
Cenozoic silicoflagellates from offshore Guatemala, Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 495
David Bukry
1982, Initial Reports of the D.S.D.P. (67) 425-445
Diverse lower Miocene to Pleistocene silicoflagellate assemblages occur at Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 495, but many samples are dominated by one or two taxa. Low-latitude zonation can be applied throughout. Cool-indicating Distephanus speculum s. ampl. is only abundant in the upper Miocene; however, relative paleotemperature values (Ts) suggest temperature...
Survival of duck plague virus in water from Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge, South Dakota
Ken Wolf, C.N. Burke
1982, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (18) 437-440
An isolant of duck plague herpesvirus from the Lake Andes Refuge outbreak was seeded in raw and filter-decontaminated water from two locations on the refuge, held at 4 C, and assayed for infectivity intermittently over a period of 2 mo. From an initial level of about 105 PFU per ml, infectivity...
Comment and Reply on ‘Geochemistry of amino acids in sediments from Clear Lake, California’: REPLY
D. Blunt, Keith A. Kvenvolden, John D. Sims
1982, Geology (10) 125-126
No abstract available....
Paleomagnetic study of some Cretaceous and Tertiary sedimentary rocks of the Klamath Mountains province, California
Edward A. Mankinen, William P. Irwin
1982, Geology (10) 82-87
Paleomagnetic investigation of Cretaceous outliers and Tertiary sedimentary strata of the Klamath Mountains province, and of onlapping Cretaceous strata, has shown the rocks to be largely remagnetized. Samples studied are from the Upper Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous Great Valley sequence, Upper Cretaceous Hornbrook Formation, Eocene Montgomery Creek Formation, and Oligocene(?)...
A new look at the Saturn system: The Voyager 2 images
B.A. Smith, L. Soderblom, R. Batson, P. Bridges, J. Inge, H. Masursky, E. Shoemaker, R. Beebe, J. Boyce, G. Briggs, A. Bunker, S.A. Collins, C.J. Hansen, T. V. Johnson, J.L. Mitchell, R.J. Terrile, A.F. Cook II, J. Cuzzi, James B. Pollack, G. E. Danielson, A.P. Ingersoll, M. E. Davies, G.E. Hunt, D. Morrison, Tobias Owen, C. Sagan, J. Veverka, R. Strom, V.E. Suomi
1982, Science (215) 504-537
Voyager 2 photography has complemented that of Voyager I in revealing many additional characteristics of Saturn and its satellites and rings. Saturn's atmosphere contains persistent oval cloud features reminiscent of features on Jupiter. Smaller irregular features track out a pattern of zonal winds that is symmetric about...
A late Pleistocene glacial chronology for the southern Brooks Range: Stratigraphic record and regional significance
T. D. Hamilton
1982, GSA Bulletin (93) 700-716
Radiocarbon dates from 11 measured sections in the Koyukuk region provide a chronology of the last Pleistocene glaciation. Glaciers were advancing strongly by 24,000 yr ago; they built moraines near the south flank of the Brooks Range, retreated briefly about 22,000 to 20,000 yr B.P., then readvanced at least one...
Deforestation and increased flooding of the upper Amazon
C.F. Nordin, R.H. Meade
1982, Science (215) 426-427
No abstract available....
Diverse basalt types from Loihi seamount, Hawaii
James G. Moore, D. A. Clague, W. R. Normark
1982, Geology (10) 88-92
Loihi seamount is the southeasternmost active volcano in the Hawaiian-Emperor volcanic chain. The seamount is considered representative of the early phase of Hawaiian volcanism because of its youth, small size, and location near the melting anomaly. Seventeen dredge stations recovered transitional basalt, alkalic basalt, and basanite, in addition to the...
Ancient plate boundaries in the Bering Sea region
M. S. Marlow, Alan K. Cooper, David W. Scholl, H. McLean
1982, Geological Society, London, Special Publications (10) 201-211
Plate tectonic models of the Bering Sea suggest that the abyssal Bering Sea Basin is underlain by oceanic crust, a supposition supported by refraction and magnetic data. The oceanic crust is thought to be a remnant of the Kula(?) plate that was isolated within what is now the Bering...
Iron in spodumene of different mineral assemblages in black hills Pegmatites, South Dakota
J.J. Norton
1982, Economic Geology (77) 702-708
No abstract available....
Deep artesian aquifers of Sanibel and Captiva Islands, Lee County, Florida
D. H. Boggess, T.H. O’Donnell
1982, Open-File Report 82-253
Sanibel and Captiva Islands, two of the barrier islands off the lower west coast of Florida, have a resident population of about 6,000 and an additional 6,000 visitors during the peak of the tourist season. Rapid growth and extensive development in recent years have imposed progressively greater stress on the...
