A method and fortran program for quantitative sampling in paleontology
J.C. Tipper
1976, Computers & Geosciences (1) 195-201
The Unit Sampling Method is a binomial sampling method applicable to the study of fauna preserved in rocks too well cemented to be disaggregated. Preliminary estimates of the probability of detecting each group in a single sampling unit can be converted to estimates of the group's volumetric abundance by means...
Submarine geothermal resources
D.L. Williams
1976, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (1) 85-100
Approximately 20% of the earth's heat loss (or 2 ?? 1012 cal/s) is released through 1% of the earth's surface area and takes the form of hydrothermal discharge from young (Pleistocene or younger) rocks adjacent to active seafloor-spreading centers and submarine volcanic areas. This amount is roughly equivalent to man's...
A note on the effect of fault gouge thickness on fault stability
J. Byerlee, R. Summers
1976, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences & Geomechanics Abstracts (13) 35-36
At low confining pressure, sliding on saw cuts in granite is stable but at high pressure it is unstable. The pressure at which the transition takes place increases if the thickness of the crushed material between the sliding surfaces is increased. This experimental result suggests that on natural faults the...
Carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen isotope studies of the regional metamorphic complex at Naxos, Greece
R. O. Rye, R.D. Schuiling, D.M. Rye, J.B.H. Jansen
1976, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (40) 1031-1049
At Naxos, Greece, a migmatite dome is surrounded by schists and marbles of decreasing metamorphic grade. Sillimanite, kyanite, biotite, chlorite, and glaucophane zones are recognized at successively greater distances from the migmatite dome. Quartz-muscovite and quartz-biotite oxygen isotope and mineralogie temperatures range from 350 to 700°C.The metamorphic complex can be...
A study of alternative schemes for extrapolation of secular variation at observatories
L.R. Alldredge
1976, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors (11)
The geomagnetic secular variation is not well known. This limits the useful life of geomagnetic models. The secular variation is usually assumed to be linear with time. It is found that attenative schemes that employ quasiperiodic variations from internal and external sources can improve the extrapolation of secular variation at...
Glomerular mesangial fibrosis in hatchery-reared rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)
D.E. Hinton, R.T. Jones, R. L. Herman
1976, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (33) 2551-2559
Light and electron microscopic studies were performed on tissues of hatchery-reared rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) having a disease of currently unknown etiology with external symptoms of severe edema which causes increased mortality rate. Comparison with unaffected trout tissues revealed loss of cellularity in glomerular tufts with a replacement of mesangial...
Morphology of androgenetic and gynogenetic grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella (Valenciennes)
J.C. Stanley, D.E. Schultz
1976, Journal of Fish Biology (9) 523-528
Crosses between female carp x male grass carp resulted in androgenetic grass carp and hybrids. Fertilizing grass carp eggs with carp milt that had been irradiated with ultraviolet light for 15 min at 1.0 mW/cm2 produced gynogenetic grass carp. We compared the morphology of experimental progeny with that of the parental...
Antimycin: Uptake, distribution, and elimination in brown bullheads (Ictalurus nebulosus)
D.P. Schultz, P.D. Harman
1976, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (33) 1121-1129
Radioactive antimycin was readily taken up in bile and tissues of brown bullheads (Ictalurus nebulosus) exposed to 0.045 μg/ml of 14C-antimycin for as long as 48 h. Bile contained the most and blood the least radioactivity at all sampling periods. The highest concentration of 14C-antimycin in muscle was 0.12 μg/g, after 12 h of exposure. The...
Dissipation of residues of 2,4-D in water, hydrosoil, and fish
D.P. Schultz, E.O. Gangstad
1976, Journal of Aquatic Plant Management (14) 43-45
Abstract has not been submitted...
Capturing and marking howler monkeys for field behavioral studies
N.J. Scott Jr., A.F. Scott, L.A. Malmgren
1976, Primates (17) 527-533
Methods for capturing and marking howler monkeys for ecological studies are discussed. Systems for capturing and handling animals are compared. A dart with liquid Sernylan for capture and Sernylan or Ketamine as a holding drug was preferred to darts using powdered succinylcholine chloride (SCC) and ether. The effectiveness of both...
Avian botulism epizootiology on sewage oxidation ponds in Utah
Daniel W. Moulton, Wayne I. Jensen, Sondra K. Stewart
1976, Journal of Wildlife Management (40) 735-742
In the microenvironment concept of avian botulism epizootiology, it is hypothesized that invertebrate carcasses may serve both as a substrate for toxin production by Clostridium botulinum type C and as a vehicle for toxin transmission to water birds. We field-tested that hypothesis by attempting to induce botulism in wing-clipped mallard...
Infection and mortality in captive wild-trapped canvasback ducks
R. M. Kocan, Matthew C. Perry
1976, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (12) 30-33
Fungal, bacterial and malarial infections, as well as malnutrition caused heavy mortality in a group of wild-trapped canvasbacks (Aythya valisineria) held in 10 × 3 × 2 m open water pens. Deaths occurred between 21 and 158 days after confinement and were associated...
An acute septicaemic disease of brown trout (Salmo trutta) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) caused by a Pasteurella-like organism
T. Hastein, G. L. Bullock
1976, Journal of Fish Biology (8) 23-26
Ulcerations of the skin associated with haemorrhagic petechiae of liver and kidneys, were the main signs of disease affecting salmon and brown trout in Norway. A death rate of 15–20% was estimated for the 5 month period of mid-March-August, although mortalities occurred throughout the year. Bacteriological examinations, involving 36 isolates,...
A relationship between avian carcasses and living invertebrates in the epizootiology of avian botulism
Ruth M. Duncan, Wayne I. Jensen
1976, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (12) 116-126
A survey of the sources of Clostridium botulinum type C toxin possibly utilized as food by aquatic birds in an epizootic area of avian botulism in northern Utah showed that living aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates normally found in close association with dead, decomposing birds commonly carried the toxin. Of 461 samples associated...
Female homogamety in grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) determined by gynogenesis
Jon G. Stanley
1976, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (33) 1372-1374
Gynogenesis occurred in eggs of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) treated with X-irradiated milt from goldfish (Carassius auratus). Gynogenetic offspring were females, which indicates functional female homogamety in grass carp. Five of these gynogenetic fish were used as an egg source for a second generation of artificially gynogenetic fish. The percentage...
Diseases: A threat to our waterfowl
Milton Friend
1976, Ducks Unlimited (40) 36-37
No abstract available....
An outbreak of erysipelas in eared grebes (Podiceps nigricollis)
Wayne I. Jensen, Sally E. Cotter
1976, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (12) 583-586
An outbreak of erysipelas killed an estimated 5,000 aquatic birds on Great Salt Lake (Utah) in late November, 1975. Although several thousand ducks and gulls were using the lake, at least 99 percent of the victims were eared grebes. A hypothetical explanation for the selective mortality is offered....
Combating waterfowl diseases
Milton Friend
1976, Ducks Unlimited (40) 44-46
No abstract available....
Fine structure of an unidentified protozoon in the epithelium of rainbow trout exposed to water with Myxosoma cerebralis
S.B. Daniels, R. L. Herman, C.N. Burke
1976, Journal of Protozoology (23) 402-410
An intracellular protozoon was discovered in the epithelium of young rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) exposed for as short a time as 1 hr to water known to contain infective stages of Myxosoma cerebralis. Light- and electron-microscopic examination of this tissue revealed what appeared to be a proliferative stage (presumptive schizont) of a...
Utilization of satellite data for inventorying prairie ponds and lakes
E.A. Work, D.S. Gilmer
1976, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (42) 685-694
By using data acquired by LANDSAT-1 (formerly ERTS- 1), studies were conducted in extracting information necessary for formulating management decisions relating to migratory waterfowl. Management decisions are based in part on an assessment ofhabitat characteristics, specifically numbers, distribution, and quality of ponds and lakes in the prime breeding range. This...
Reproduction by Uta stansburiana in southern Nevada
P.A. Medica, F.B. Turner
1976, Journal of Herpetology (10) 123-128
Optimum level of dietary biotin for growth, feed utilization, and swimming stamina of fingerling lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush)
H. A. Poston
1976, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (33) 1803-1806
Triplicate lots of fingerling lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) held at 9 C for 20 wk were fed a semipurified basal diet supplemented with 1% spray-dried egg white or d-biotin at concentrations of 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, or 5.0 ppm. Trout fed the basal diet, either alone or with egg white, grew more slowly and...
Let us face the truth: Or a new look at diseases of fishes
S. F. Snieszko
1976, Fisheries (1) 17-18
No abstract available....
Lithium, nature's lightest metal
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1976, Report
Geologic history of Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1976, Report
Cape Cod, a sandy peninsula built mostly during the Ice Age, juts into the Atlantic Ocean like a crooked arm. Because of its exposed location, Cape Cod was visited by many early explorers. Although clear-cut evidence is lacking, the Vikings may have sighted this land about 1,000 years ago. It...
