Some aspects of the early history of seismology
J.S. Sachs
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 58-63
From the earliest times, people have been terrified yet fascinated by the workings of the Earth. Indeed records of earthquakes have been kept in China for over 3000 years and for 1500 years in Japan. because of the interior of the Earth is inaccessible, nothing about it could be known...
Physiological and biochemical aspects of ozone toxicity to rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)
Gary A. Wedemeyer, Nancy C. Nelson, William T. Yasutake
1979, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (36) 605-614
An acute toxicity curve for dissolved ozone (O3) in soft water at 10 °C, using 10–13-cm rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) as the test species was calculated. The 96-h LC50 (95%, confidence interval) was 9.3 (8.1–10.6) μg/L. The lethal threshold level was about 8 μg/L mandating that a conservative margin of safety be...
Derivation of linearized constitutive equations for plane-strain of an elastic-plastic (strain hardening) material
Arvid M. Johnson
1979, Open-File Report 79-433
The purpose of this report is to derive several of the basic equations for a paper on folding and folding of idealized rock (Johnson, 1979). That paper is based on constitutive equations for an ideal, strain-hardening material defined by Hill (1950, p. 30) and generalized to include Coulomb behavior and...
International Seismological Centre
H. Spall, A. Hughes
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 165-169
The International Seismological Centre had its origins when the British seismologist Professor John Milne returned to England from Japan in 1895 to retire at Shide on the Isle of Eight. In cooperation with the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Milne had set up a number of seismographic stations...
Earthquakes, September-October 1978
W. J. Person
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 71-73
The months of September and October were somewhat quiet seismically speaking. One major earthquake, magnitude (M) 7.7 occurred in Iran on September 16. In Germany, a magntidue 5.0 earthquake caused damage and considerable alarm to many people in parts of that country. In the United States, the largest earthquake occurred...
Upper Paleozoic carbonate bank in east-central Idaho: Snaky Canyon, Bluebird Mountain, and Arco Hills Formations, and their paleotectonic significance
Betty Skipp, R. D. Hoggan, D. L. Schleicher, R. C. Douglass
1979, Bulletin 1486
No abstract available....
Dispersal and migratory patterns of San Francisco Bay produced herons, egrets, and terns
Robert E. Gill Jr., L. Richard Mewaldt
1979, North American Bird Bander (4) 4-13
San Francisco Bay, California, including its fringing marshes, supports a large and diverse water related avifauna (Grinnell and Wythe 19271 Sibley 1952, Gill 1973, 1977). Certain of man's alterations of the Bay's shallower wetlands have resulted in increased habitat diversity which has allowed colonization by several species of birds including...
Forensic seismology
H. I. S. Thirlaway
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 156-164
Twenty years ago, politicians, concerned a the slow progress of negotiations to stop nuclear weapons testing, described the state of seismology as being in the equivalent of the Stone Age. this assessment spurred the beginning of research and development at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment near the village of Aldermaston,...
Modeling of rock friction 1. Experimental results and constitutive equations
James H. Dieterich
1979, Conference Paper, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth
Direct shear experiments on ground surfaces of a granodiorite from Raymond, California, at normal stresses of ??6 MPa demonstrate that competing time, displacement, and velocity effects control rock friction. It is proposed that the strength of the population of points of contacts between sliding surfaces determines frictional strength and that...
Illustrated field guide for the classification of sea lamprey attack marks on Great Lakes lake trout
Everett Louis King Jr., Thomas A. Edsall
1979, Special Publication 79-1
No abstract available....
Nesting ecology of Arctic loons
Margaret R. Petersen
1979, The Wilson Bulletin (91) 608-617
Arctic Loons were studied on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, from the time of their arrival in May to their departure in September, in 1974 and 1975. Pairs arrived on breeding ponds as soon as sufficient meltwater was available to allow their take-off and landing. Loons apparently do not initiate nests...
Population biology of plains cottonwood (Populus sargentii) in northeast Colorado. (Undergraduate honors thesis)
K. McEachern
1979, Thesis
No abstract available at this time...
Earthquakes; May-June 1979
W. J. Person
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 236-238
The months of May and June were somewhat quiet, seismically speaking. There was one major earthquake in the South Pacific on MAy 1. The most destructive earthquake, causing loss of life, was in Indonesia on May 30. In the United States, the largest earthquakes were in Alaska but caused no damage....
The role of stress in fish disease
F. P. Meyer
J.A. Plumb, editor(s)
1979, Book chapter, Principal diseases of farm-raised catfish
Abstract not submitted to date...
Fish diseases
F. P. Meyer
O.H. Siegmund, editor(s)
1979, Book chapter, The Merck Veterinary Manual
Abstract not submitted to date...
Earthquakes; March-April, 1979
W. J. Person
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 183-186
This was a moderately active period, seismically speaking. Three major earthquakes having magnitudes (M) ranging from 7.0 to 7.9 to only one major quake during the first 2 months of the year. Major earthquakes struck in Mexico, Indonesia, and Yugoslavia. The Yugoslavian earthquake caused considerable damage and loss of life. In...
Biotransformation of selected chemicals by fish
J. L. Allen, V. K. Dawson, J. B. Hunn
M. A. Q. Khan, J.J. Lech, J.J. Menn, editor(s)
1979, Book chapter, Pesticide and xenobiotic metabolism in aquatic organisms
Abstract not submitted to date...
Earthquake predictions using seismic velocity ratios
R. W. Sherburne
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 18-21
Since the beginning of modern seismology, seismologists have contemplated predicting earthquakes. The usefulness of earthquake predictions to the reduction of human and economic losses and the value of long-range earthquake prediction to planning is obvious. Not as clear are the long-range economic and social impacts of earthquake prediction to a...
Geomagnetic paleointensities by the Thelliers' method from submarine pillow basalts: Effects of seafloor weathering
Sherman Gromme, Edward A. Mankinen, Monte Marshall, Robert S. Coe
1979, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (84) 3553-3575
Measurements of geomagnetic paleointensity using the Thelliers' double‐heating method in vacuum have been made on 10 specimens of submarine pillow basalt obtained from 7 fragments dredged from localities 700,000 years old or younger. In the magnetic minerals, the titanium/iron ratio parameter x and the cation deficiency (oxidation) parameter x were determined by X‐ray diffraction...
Sociological aspects of earthquake prediction
H. Spall
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 102-105
Henry Spall talked recently with Denis Mileti who is in the Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo. Dr. Mileti is a sociologst involved with research programs that study the socioeconomic impact of earthquake prediction. ...
Predicting rock bursts in mines
H. Spall
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 89-94
In terms of lives lost, rock bursts in underground mines can be as hazardous as earthquakes on the surface. So it is not surprising that fo the last 40 years the U.S Bureau of Mines has been using seismic methods for detecting areas in underground mines where there is a...
Earthquake research in the Soviet Union
H. Spall
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 22-25
Henry Spall talked recently with Robert L. Wesson, the new Chief, Office of Earthquake Studies at the U.S Geological Survey National Center, Reston, Va. Wesson has spent altogether almost 1 year in the U.S.S.R, and 6 months of that time in the Garm area of Soviet Tadzhikistan in 1974. ...
Earthquake prediction research at the Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
H. Spall
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 95-101
The Seismological Laboratory at the California Institute of Techonology (Caltech) was founded in 1928 as a result of a study by the Carnegie Institue of Washington. The study was based primarily on a 1916 report by H. O. Wood which recommended that a network of seismic stations be established in...
Earthquake studies on Canada’s west coast; Pacific Geoscience Centre
G. C. Rogers, Robin P. Riddihough
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 175-179
On a global scale, Canada's west coast lies within the zone of a seismicity that stretches around the Pacific Ocean. In plate tectonic terms, it is dominated by the same right-lateral shearing between the Pacific and American plates that is responsible for the seismicity of California. However, in southern British...
Records of prehistoric earthquakes in sedimentary deposits in lakes
J. Sims
Henry Spall, editor(s)
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 228-233
Historic records of earthquakes are too short to allow a true assessment of their recurrence intervals. Methods are needed, therefore, that will enable the seismicity of an area to be evaluated beyond the limit of historic records. One place where a record of ancient seismic activity might be preserved is in...
