Beach-cusp formation
A. H. Sallenger Jr.
1979, Marine Geology (29) 23-37
Field experiments on beach-cusp formation were undertaken to document how the cuspate form develops and to test the edge-wave hypothesis on the uniform spacing of cusps. These involved observations of cusps forming from an initially plane foreshore. The cuspate form was observed to be a product of swash modification of an...
Arsenic and fluoride in the upper madison river system: Firehole and gibbon rivers and their tributaries, yellowstone national park, wyoming, and southeast montana
J. M. Thompson
1979, Environmental Geology (3) 13-21
Chemical analyses of 21 water samples from the Firehole and Gibbon Rivers, which combine to form the Madison River, gave arsenic and fluoride values above the Environmental Protection Agency Interim Primary Drinking Water maximum contaminant levels (0.05 mg/l arsenic and 2.0 mg/l fluoride). On 18 October, 1975, during a period...
Uptake, metabolism, and elimination of the lampricide 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol by largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)
D.P. Schultz, P.D. Harman, C.W. Luhning
1979, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (27) 328-331
No abstract available....
Approximate water-level changes in wells in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers, 1977-79, and measured compaction, 1973-79, in Harris and Galveston Counties, Texas
R.K. Gabrysch
1979, Open-File Report 79-693
This report consists of: (1) Four maps that present data on water-level changes during 1977-79 in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers and; (2) one set of graphs that present data on the compaction of subsurface materials for 1973-79. During 1977-79, groundwater pumping decreased in Galveston County and southern Harris County,...
Plaque-forming cells and humoral antibody in rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) induced by immersion in a Yersinia ruckeri O-antigen preparation
D. P. Anderson, B.S. Roberson, O. W. Dixon
1979, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (36) 636-639
Rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) were exposed to the O-antigen of Yersinia ruckeri by various immunization regimens. The passive hemolytic plaque assay was used to show specific splenic plaque-forming cells (PFC) and passive hemagglutination demonstrated humoral antibody titers in fish injected with or immersed in the antigen preparations. Preceding antigen immersion with a...
Space, time, and the third dimension (model error)
Marshall E. Moss
1979, Water Resources Research (15) 1797-1800
The space-time tradeoff of hydrologic data collection (the ability to substitute spatial coverage for temporal extension of records or vice versa) is controlled jointly by the statistical properties of the phenomena that are being measured and by the model that is used to meld the information sources. The control exerted...
Fish viruses: A double-stranded RNA icosahedral virus from a North American cyprinid
J.A. Plumb, P.R. Bowser, J.M. Grizzle, A.J. Mitchell
1979, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (36) 1390-1394
A previously unreported virus disease of cultured golden shiners (Notemigonus crysoleucas) is described. The condition is called golden shiner virus (GSV) disease. The virus is icosahedral, measures approximately 70 nm, is ether and heat resistant, stable at pH 3, 7, and 10, and appears to have a double stranded RNA core....
Coal resource occurrence and coal development potential maps of the SW quarter of the Citadel Plateau 15-minute quadrangle, Moffat County, Colorado
Dames & Moore
1979, Open-File Report 79-1399
No abstract available....
Preliminary map of earthquake epicenters in Yellowstone Park and vicinity 1973-1978
Andrew M. Pitt
1979, Open-File Report 79-717
No abstract available....
[Book review] Role of the wolf in a deer decline in the Superior National Forest, by L. David Mech and Patrick D. Karns
R. J. Greenwood
1979, Prairie Naturalist (11) 64-64
Review of: Role of the Wolf in a Deer Decline in the Superior National Forest. Volume 148 of USDA Forest Service Research Paper. L. David Mech and Patrick D. Karns. North Central Forest Experiment Station, Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 1977. 23 pages....
Measured sections of Ordovician strata in east-central Kentucky
W. L. Peterson, W. C. Swadley
G. W. Weir, editor(s)
1979, Open-File Report 79-1664
No abstract available....
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....
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...
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...
Earthquakes; July-August, 1978
W. J. Person
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 26-29
Earthquake activity during this period was about normal. Deaths from earthquakes were reported from Greece and Guatemala. Three major earthquakes (magnitude 7.0-7.9) occurred in Taiwan, Chile, and Costa Rica. In the United States, the most significant earthquake was a magnitude 5.6 on August 13 in southern California. ...
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...
Earthquakes; January-February, 1979
W. J. Person
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 143-147
The first major earthquake (magnitude 7.0 to 7.9) of the year struck in southeastern Alaska in a sparsely populated area on February 28. On January 16, Iran experienced the first destructive earthquake of the year causing a number of casualties and considerable damage. Peru was hit by a destructive earthquake...
Amino-acid racemizarion in Quaternary shell deposits at Willapa Bay, Washington
K.A. Kvenvolden, D.J. Blunt, H.E. Clifton
1979, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (43) 1505-1520
Extents of racemization (dl">dl ratios) of amino acids in fossil Saxidomus giganteus (Deshayes) and Ostrea lurida Carpenter were measured on shell deposits exposed at 21 sites on the east side of Willapa Bay, Washington. Amino acids from Saxidomus show less variability in <span...
Allantoinase in lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush): In vitro effects of PCBs, DDT and metals
Dora R. May Passino, Carol A. Cotant
1979, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C: Comparative Pharmacology (62) 71-75
1. Allantoinase, an enzyme in the purine-urea cycle, was found in livers of Salvelinus namaycush (Osteichthyes: Salmoniformes).2. The enzyme was active from pH 6.6 to 8.2 at 37°C and from pH 7.4 to 9.0 at 10°C and had an Arrhenius energy was activation of 11.0 kcal/mol and a temperature quotient...
Recent developments in uranium exploration using the U.S. Geological Survey's mobile helium detector
G.M. Reimer, E.H. Denton, I. Friedman, J. K. Otton
1979, Journal of Geochemical Exploration (11) 1-12
A mobile mass spectrometer to measure He concentrations has been developed by the U.S. Geological Survey. This instrument has been tested in areas of known uranium deposits, and He anomalies have been found in both soil gas and water. A gas sample is collected in a hypodermic syringe, injected into...
Ethyl-p-aminobenzoate (Benzocaine): efficacy as an anesthetic for five species of freshwater fish
V. K. Dawson, P.A. Gilderhus
1979, Investigations in Fish Control 87
Ethyl-p-aminobenzoate (benzocaine) was tested for its efficacy as an anesthetic for rainbow trout (Salmo gairdnerii, brown trout (Salmo truttas, northern pike (Esox lucius). carp (Cyprinus carpio), and largemouth bass (Mieropterus salmoidesi. Since benzocaine is not water soluble, it was applied with acetone as a carrier. Concentrations of 100 to 200...
Modification of a commercial micrometer hanging mercury drop electrode
J. E. Bonelli, H. E. Taylor, R. K Skogerboe
1979, Analytical Chemistry (51) 2412-2413
U.S. Geological Survey...
Physical stratigraphy and trilobite biostratigraphy of the Carrara Formation (Lower and Middle Cambrian) in the southern Great Basin
Allison R. Palmer, Robert B. Halley
1979, Professional Paper 1047
No abstract available....
Population biology of plains cottonwood (Populus sargentii) in northeast Colorado. (Undergraduate honors thesis)
K. McEachern
1979, Thesis
No abstract available at this time...
The Yellow Dog peridotite and a possible buried igneous complex of lower Keweenawan age in the northern peninsula of Michigan
John S. Klasner, David W. Snider, W.F. Cannon, John F. Slack
1979, Michigan Geological Survey Report of Investigation 24
Partly serpentinized peridotite of early Keweenawan age crops out in two places along a 20-kilometer-long zone of positive aeromagnetic anomalies in northern Marquette County, Michigan. Most of the area is mantled by Pleistocene drift with few bedrock exposures.Petrographic and electron microprobe studies show that the peridotite was originally a plagioclase...
