Water resources data: Tennessee
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1983, Report, U.S. Geological Survey water-supply paper
No abstract available....
Atmospheric deposition: Sample handling, storage, and analytical procedures for chemical characterization of event-based samples in North Dakota
R. L. Houghton, Mary E. Berger, Nancy Zander, Sandra K. Dutchek
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4205
The North Dakota atmospheric-deposition network uses HASL-type collectors to sample wet and dry deposition on an event basis for analysis of 8 principal mineral, 3 nutrient, and 15 trace constituents. Comparison of the compositions of wet deposition collected in adjacent collectors sampled on weekly and event bases indicates that weekly...
Distribution and abundance of waterfowl and submerged aquatic vegetation in Chesapeake Bay
R. E. Munro, Matthew C. Perry
1983, Project Summary EPA 600/S3-82-082
No abstract available....
Water resources data: Puerto Rico
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1983, Report, U.s. Geological Survey water-data report
No abstract available....
Eolian sand bodies of the world
E. D. McKee
1983, Developments in Sedimentology (38) 1-25
This chapter examines the eolian sand bodies of the world. Analyses regarding grain size and sorting distribution at Great Sand Dunes indicate that the higher dunes contain much more fine-grained sand and much less medium-grained sand than do the lower dunes, and, in addition, they are definitely better sorted. Cross-stratification...
Water resources data: Oregon
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1983, Report, U.S. Geological Survey water-supply paper
No abstract available....
Water resources data: Oklahoma
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1983, Report, U.S. Geological Survey water-supply paper
No abstract available....
Generalized structural, lithologic, and physiographic provinces in the fold and thrust belts of the United States: Exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii
Kenneth C. Bayer
1983, Report
No abstract available....
A tale of two plutons: petrographic and mineralogic constraints on the petrogenesis of the Red Lake and Eagle Peak plutons, central Sierra Nevada, California
J.H. Noyes, D. R. Wones, F.A. Frey
1983, Journal of Geology (91) 353-379
The two plutons are similar in age (K/Ar, 87-89 m.y.) and range in composition from granodiorite to granite. The Red Lake pluton is equigranular, has a locally greisened marginal zone, and shows only minor mineralogical and chemical zoning, whereas the Eagle Peak pluton is mineralogically, compositionally and texturally zoned, with...
Groundwater resources of the Dallas-Monmouth area, Polk, Benton, and Marion counties, Oregon
William Young
1983, Report
No abstract available....
Anaerobic oxalate degradation: Widespread natural occurrence in aquatic sediments
Richard L. Smith, Ronald S. Oremland
1983, Applied and Environmental Microbiology (46) 106-113
Significant concentrations of oxalate (dissolved plus particulate) were present in sediments taken from a diversity of aquatic environments, ranging from 0.1 to 0.7 mmol/liter of sediment. These included pelagic and littoral sediments from two freshwater lakes (Searsville Lake, Calif., and Lake Tahoe, Calif.), a hypersaline, meromictic,...
Late Holocene ice wedges near Fairbanks, Alaska, USA: Environmental setting and history of growth
T. D. Hamilton, T. A. Ager, S.W. Robinson
1983, Arctic and Alpine Research (15) 157-168
Test trenches excavated into muskeg near Fairbanks in 1969 exposed a polygonal network of active ice wedges. The wedges occur in peat that has accumulated since about 3500 yr BP and have grown episodically as the permafrost table fluctuated in response to fires, other local site conditions and perhaps regional...
Improper use of regression equations in earth sciences
G. P. Williams
1983, Geology (11) 195-197
A regression equation used to estimate a variable is appropriately used only to estimate the dependent variable of that equation; the equation is inappropriately used when solved for an independent variable. Examples given here of this misuse of regression equations are based on...
Archiving early seismological records at the California Institute of Technology
J. Goodstein
1983, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (15) 177-184
Geologic map of the Mitten Lake, Half Dome Crag, Hyde Creek, East Glacier Park, Big Rock, and Magee Range quadrangles, Pondera and Glacier Counties, Montana
Melville Rhodes Mudge, R.L. Earhart, W. J. Perry Jr., R. G. Bohannon
1983, Open-File Report 82-1030
No abstract available....
Effect of temperature on production of tiger muskellunge in intensive culture
J. W. Meade, W. F. Krise, T. Ort
1983, Aquaculture (32) 157-164
Tiger muskellunge (Esox masquinony × E. lucius) juveniles were reared at constant temperatures in the temperature range 14–28°C. For fish 3–4 cm long, growth, production and feed conversion efficiency were greatest at 20–22°C. Survival was reduced and unaccountable mortality (cannibalism index) was greatest at 24°C. Growth per unit of temperature...
Water resources and potential hydrologic effects of oil-shale development in the southeastern Uinta Basin, Utah and Colorado
K.L. Lindskov, Briant A. Kimball
1983, Open-File Report 83-216
No abstract available. ...
Lake phosphorus loading form septic systems by seasonally perched groundwater
R. J. Gilliom, C.R. Patmont
1983, Journal of the Water Pollution Control Federation (55) 1297-1305
The movement of effluent phosphorus (P) from old septic systems by seasonally perched groundwater was investigated. A previous study indicated a correlation between P loadings and the presence of old homes. Water samples were taken from shallow wells installed 10 to 50 m downgradient from seven septic systems 20 to...
Hole-to-surface resistivity measurements
J.J. Daniels
1983, Geophysics (48) 87-97
Hole-to-surface resistivity measurements over a layered volcanic tuff sequence illustrate procedures for gathering, reducing, and interpreting hole-to-surface resistivity data. The magnitude and direction of the total surface electric field resulting from a buried current source is calculated from orthogonal potential difference measurements for a grid of closely spaced stations. A...
Gas-film coefficients for streams
R. E. Rathbun, D. Y. Tai
1983, Journal of Environmental Engineering (109) 1111-1127
Equations for predicting the gas-film coefficient for the volatilization of organic solutes from streams are developed. The film coefficient is a function of windspeed and water temperature. The dependence of the coefficient on windspeed is determined from published information on the evaporation of water from a canal. The dependence of...
Geological setting of oil shales in the Permian phosphoria formation and some of the geochemistry of these rocks
E. K. Maughan
1983, Conference Paper, Preprints Symposia
Recent studies of the Meade Peak and the Retort Phosphatic Shale Members of the Phosphoria Formation have investigated the organic carbon content and some aspects of hydrocarbon generation from these rocks. Phosphorite has been mined from the Retort and Meade Peak members in southeastern Idaho, northern Utah, western Wyoming and...
Thermal decarboxylation of acetic acid: Implications for origin of natural gas
Y.K. Kharaka, W.W. Carothers, R.J. Rosenbauer
1983, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (47) 397-402
Laboratory experiments on the thermal decarboxylation of solutions of acetic acid at 200°C and 300°C were carried out in hydrothermal equipment allowing for on-line sampling of both the gas and liquid phases for chemical and stable-carbon-isotope analyses. The solutions had ambient pH values between 2.5 and 7.1; pH values and...
Palaeomagnetism of lower cretaceous tuffs from Yukon-Kuskokwim delta region, western Alaska
B.R. Globerman, R. S. Coe, J. M. Hoare, J. Decker
1983, Nature (305) 516-520
During the past decade, the prescient arguments1-3 for the allochthoneity of large portions of southern Alaska have been corroborated by detailed geological and palaeomagnetic studies in south-central Alaska 4-9 the Alaska Peninsula10, Kodiak Island11,12 and the Prince William Sound area13 (Fig. 1). These investigations have demonstrated sizeable northward displacements for...
Mineral discrimination using a portable ratio-determining radiometer
G. Whitney, M. J. Abrams, Alexander F.H. Goetz
1983, Economic Geology (78) 688-698
The instrument has ten bands in the visible and near-infrared portion of the spectrum (0.5-2.4 mu m). Measurements and statistical analyses were performed on 66 samples, which were characterized by microscopic and X-ray diffraction analyses. On the ability to discriminate between 16 mineralogical groups, 91 percent classification accuracy was achieved....
The compositionally zoned eruption of 1912 in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Katmai National Park, Alaska
W. Hildreth
1983, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (18) 1-56
On June 6–8, 1912, ∼ 15 km3 of magma erupted from the Novarupta caldera at the head of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes (VTTS), producing ∼ 20 km3 of air-fall tephra and 11–15 km3 of ash-flow tuff within ∼ 60 hours. Three discrete periods of ash-fall at Kodiak correlate, respectively, with Plinian...
