Growth, age at metamorphosis, and sex ratio of northern brook lamprey in a tributary of southern Lake Superior
Harold A. Purvis
1970, Copeia (1970) 326-332
Growth was studied of five year classes of the northern brook lamprey, Ichthyomyzon fossor, collected from the Sturgeon River during intervals between treatment of the stream with a lampricide. Growth varied considerably among year classes. Larvae of the 1963 year class were slightly longer at age II and 30% longer...
Experimental hybridization among five species of lampreys from the Great Lakes
George W. Piavis, John H. Howell, Allen J. Smith
1970, Copeia (1970) 29-37
Experimental hybridization among five species of lampreys of the Upper Great Lakes routinely produced embryos through stage 8, and four crosses produced embryos to the larval stage. Three critical periods in the embryogenesis of hybrid lampreys were between stages 8 and 9, among stages 10, 11, and 12, and at...
Walleye fishery of Lake Erie in 1943-62 with emphasis on contributions of the 1942-61 year-classes
John W. Parsons
1970, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (27) 1475-1489
The commercial fishery for walleyes (Stizostedion vitreum vitreum) in Lake Erie virtually collapsed in the late 1950's. The extreme decline in production was attributed primarily to a succession of weak year-classes, caused by habitat deterioration (increased water temperatures, enrichment, and pollution) in western Lake Erie. Unusually high fishing intensity and...
Fin degeneration of young-of-the-year Alosa pseudoharengus (Clupeidae) in southern Lake Michigan
Edward H. Brown Jr., Carroll R. Norden
1970, Copeia (1970) 766-769
Young-of-the-year alewives, Alosa pseudoharengus, with extremely shortened caudal fins were observed at four locations in southern Lake Michigan between 1964 and 1968. Some of the fins appeared stunted or underdeveloped, but microscopic examination revealed a deterioration of the fins and not an ontogenetic abnormality. Deterioration of the caudal fin was...
UV identification and quantitative measurement of quinaldine residues in fish
J. L. Allen, J.B. Sills
1970, Journal of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (53) 1170-1171
A method for the confirmatory analysis of quinaldine residue in fish is described. The method utilizes the same extraction and cleanup procedure as the GLC method reported previously. The lower limit of sensitivity for quinaldine residue in fish muscle is 0.01 ppm. Identification is accomplished by comparing the UV spectra...
GLC determination of quinaldine residue in fish
J. L. Allen, J.B. Sills
1970, Journal of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (53) 20-23
A procedure for the determination of quinaldine residue in various fish tissues is described. Homogenized tissues are extracted with hexane-ethyl ether, the extracts are concentrated by partitioning through 0.1N sulfuric acid, and the residues are measured by alkali flame ionization gas chromatography. Muscle tissues containing from 0.01 to 10.0 ppm quinaldine...
Studies on the life history and development of Cuterebra polita (Diptera: Cuterebridae) in four species of rodents
K.J. Capelle
1970, Journal of Medical Entomology (7) 320-327
Cuterebra polita Coquillett is a primary parasite of the pocket gopher. Thomomys talpoides. in the western United States. It also occurs secondarily in other wild rodents that come into close contact with pocket gophers.Field studies disclosed pursuit, mating, and ovipositing at an aggregation site near Monte Cristo, Utah. Eggs were...
Waterfowl breeding habitat in agricultural and nonagricultural land in Manitoba
T.J. Dwyer
1970, Journal of Wildlife Management (34) 130-136
Waterfowl populations and habitat characteristics were examined on 33 potholes in each of two 16-square-mile study areas of agricultural and nonagricultural land in southwestern Manitoba. The agricultural land potholes, lacking in or incompletely surrounded by trees, received greater use by lesser scaup (Aythya affinis), canvasback (A. valisineria), redhead (A. americana),...
Body-scale relation and calculation of growth in fishes
Ralph Hile
1970, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (99) 468-474
Most calculations of fish growth from scale measurements are made from one of four types of curves: straight line through the origin (Dahl-Lea); straight line with intercept (Lee); logarithmic line (Monastyrsky); empirically derived curve (SegerstråYle). Occasionally, different curves are used for different length intervals of fish. Present understanding of the...
A new technique for pumping hydrogen gas
I. Friedman, K. Hardcastle
1970, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (34) 125-126
A system for pumping hydrogen gas without isotopic fractionation has been developed. The pump contains uranium metal, which when heated to about 80°C reacts with hydrogen to form UH3. The UH3 is heated to above 500°C to decompose the hydride and regenerate the hydrogen....
Middle Miocene hiatus in volcanic activity in the Great Basin area of the Western United States
E.H. McKee, D. C. Noble, M.L. Silberman
1970, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (8) 93-96
A summary of potassium-argon dates shows that a high level of igneous activity in the Great Basin and adjacent regions during middle Tertiary time (40 to 20 my ago) was followed by a...
Latitudinal gradients in tertiary molluscan faunas of the Pacific coast
W.O. Addicott
1970, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (8) 287-312
Tertiary molluscan faunas of the middle latitudes of the marginal eastern North Pacific are characterized by warm-water taxa whose descendants now live in more southerly latitudes. A series of profiles in which cumulative percentages of warm-water faunal elements are plotted against latitude show progressive northward decreases in the percentage of...
Chemical indicators of subsurface temperature applied to hot spring waters of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U.S.A.
R.O. Fournier, A.H. Truesdell
1970, Geothermics (2) 529-535
Under favorable conditions the chemistry of hot springs may give reliable indications of subsurface temperatures and circulation patterns. These chemical indicators can be classified by the type of process involved:IndicatorDominant ProcessThe silica...
Strontium isotopes in some Cenozoic lavas from Oregon and Washington
C. E. Hedge, R.A. Hildreth, W.T. Henderson
1970, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (8) 434-438
The87Sr/86Sr ratios have been determined in 22 volcanic rocks from Oregon and Washington. The emphasis of the study was on andesites and dacites, but several basalts were included. Most of the samples have a very limited range in strontium isotopic composition...
Strontium isotopes in Quaternary basalts of southeastern California
Z. E. Peterman, I. S. E. Carmichael, A. L. Smith
1970, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (7) 381-384
Strontium isotopic variations (87Sr/86Sr of 0.7029 to 0.7052) in Quaternary basalts of southeastern California, USA, are not readily explained by assimilation of crustal material similar to that contained as xenoliths in the basalt. Isotopic differences between chrome diopside (0.7016) and olivine...
Atmospheric collection of debris from the Revelstoke and Allende fireballs
M. H. Carr
1970, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (34) 689-700
In two separate events, Revelstoke and Allende, the air through which a fireball had been observed to pass was sampled for meteoritic debris. Particulate matter was collected on fibrous filters, which were mounted on aircraft and flown downwind from the site of the...
Analytical sensitivities and energies of thermal-neutron-capture gamma rays
D. Duffey, A. El-Kady, F. E. Senftle
1970, Nuclear Instruments and Methods (80) 149-171
A table of the analytical sensitivities of the principal lines in the thermal-neutron-capture gamma ray spectrum has been compiled for most of the elements. In addition a second table of the full-energy, single-escape, and double-escape peaks has been compiled according to energy for...
Cummingtonite: A reversible, nonquenchable transition from P21/m to C2/m symmetry
C.T. Prewitt, J. J. Papike, M. Ross
1970, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (8) 448-450
Cummingtonite from the Gouverneur, New York, talc district (Sample No. U.S.N.M. 115046) with the composition, (Ca0.36Na0.06Mn0.96Mg0.57) Mg5Si8O22 (OH)2, unit cell parametersa = 9.550 ± 0.001, b = 18.007 ± 0.003, c = 5.298 ± 0.001Å, β = 102°39′ ± 1′, and space...
Paleomagnetic secular variation study of lavas from the Massif central, France
Richard R. Doell
1970, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (8) 352-362
The angular standard deviation of virtual geomagnetic poles determined from a paleomagnetic study of 31 Brunhes-age lava flows from France has been obtained. The value, referred to the axial dipole (geographic axis), is 15.2° with 95% confidence limits of 18.4° and 12.9°....
Lithium metaborate flux in silicate analysis
C.O. Ingamells
1970, Analytica Chimica Acta (52) 323-334
Lithium metaborate is an effective flux for silicates and other rock-forming minerals. The glass resulting from fusion is mechanically strong, reasonably nonhygroscopic, and is readily soluble in dilute acids. These characteristics lead to its use in X-ray spectrography and in methods which require whole-rock solutions,...
Photogeologic and thermal infrared reconnaissance surveys of the Los Negritos-Ixtlan de los Hervores geothermal area, Michoacan, Mexico
Valle R. Gomez, J. D. Friedman, S.J. Gawarecki, C.J. Banwell
1970, Geothermics (2)
New techniques, involving interpretation of panchromatic, ektachrome and ektachrome infrared aerographic photogaphs and thermographic infrared imagery recording emission from the earth's surface in middle and far infrared wavelengths (3–5μm and 8–14μm), are being introduced in geothermal investigations in Mexico to identify outstanding structural and geologic features in a rapid and...
Sources of geochemical standards-II
F.J. Flanagan
1970, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (34) 121-125
A revised and enlarged list of rock, mineral, ore, industrial product, counting, and isotopic standards of interest to those in geochemistry and geology is presented. Samples in process are also included. Sources from which the samples may be obtained are listed.<ul id="issue-navigation" class="issue-navigation...
Winds over saltcedar
T. E. A. Van Hylckama
1970, Agricultural Meteorology (7) 217-233
An analysis of hourly wind speeds above and within a stand of saltcedar near Buckeye, Arizona, reveals that in 90% of all observed cases, the wind profiles above the stand can be represented by the simple logarithmic equation: uz=u*k1n">uz=u*k1n (zz0)">zz0) where...
The determination of low levels of cobalt-60 in environmental waters by liquid scintillation counting
H.C. Claassen
1970, Analytica Chimica Acta (52) 229-235
A method for determination of cobalt-60 in waters at levels greater than 0.5 pCi per sample is presented. A modification of the method may be used to analyze fluvial sediments and soils. After the cobalt has been separated, first as the hydroxide and then as...
Geothermal resources of the northern gulf of Mexico basin
P.H. Jones
1970, Geothermics (2) 14-26
Published geothermal gradient maps for the northern Gulf of Mexico basin indicate little or no potential for the development of geothermal resources. Results of deep drilling, from 4000 to 7000 meters or more, during the past decade however, define very sharp increases in geothermal gradient which are associated with the...
