Water-quality data for the American River basin, California, February-October 1979
J. M. Shay
1982, Open-File Report 82-363
Data were collected in the American River basin from February to October 1979 for use in assessing the water quality in the basin and developing land-use/water-quality relations. The basin covers 2,163 square miles of the western slope of the central Sierra Nevada. Basin headwaters are located primarily between Donner Summit...
Evaluation of 0.46- to 2.36-mu m multispectral scanner images of the east Tintic mining district, Utah, for mapping hydrothermally altered rocks
L. C. Rowan, A.B. Kahle
1982, Economic Geology (77) 441-452
Airborne multispectral scanner images recorded in the 0.46- to 2.36-mu m region for the East Tintic mining district, Utah, were evaluated to determine their usefulness for distinguishing six types of hydrothermally altered rocks from a wide range of sedimentary and igneous rock types. Limestone, dolomite, and argillaceous rocks were of...
Current-induced sediment movement in the deep Florida Straits: Observations
Mark Wimbush, Laszlo Nemeth, Barton Birdsall
Kent A. Fanning, Frank T. Manheim, editor(s)
1982, Book chapter, The dynamic environment of the ocean floor
No abstract available...
Map showing cumulative thickness of sandstone in the Fox Hills-Lower Hell Creek aquifer, Montana
Richard D. Feltis
1982, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-4043
No abstract available....
The impact of entrainment and impingement on fish populations in the Hudson River estuary : Volume III : An analysis of the validity of the utilities' stock recruitment curve-fitting exercise and "prior estimation of beta" technique
S.W. Christensen, C.P. Goodyear, B.L. Kirk
1982, Report
No abstract available at this time...
Alewives and rainbow smelt in Lake Huron: midwater and bottom aggregations and estimates of standing stocks
Ray L. Argyle
1982, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (111) 267-285
The continued availability of adequate amounts of forage fish, primarily alewives Alosa pseudoharengus and rainbow smelt Osmerus mordax, is critical to the success of ongoing programs aimed at rebuilding lake trout Salvelinus namaycush populations and maintaining other salmonid stocks in Lake Huron. These forage species are distributed at middepths as...
Simple, versatile microscope stage for the identification of pinned adult insects
J. H. Chandler Jr.
1982, Progressive Fish-Culturist (44) 80-81
No abstract available....
Detection of diethylnitrosamine in nitrate-rich water following treatment with Rhodamine flow tracers
S. L. Abidi
1982, Water Research (16) 199-204
Extremely carcinogenic diethylnitrosamine (DENA) was found to form in up to 75% yield from the reaction of nitrite with the two commonly used water tracing dyes. Rhodamine B and Rhodamine WT, DENA was detected at trace levels (0.13–7.02 μg −1) in river water samples after treatment with the dye and nitrite....
Earthquake engineering research program in Chile
G. R. Saragoni
1982, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (14) 22-25
Earthquake engineering research in Chile has been carried out for more than 30 years. Systematic research is done at the university of Chile in Santiago. Other universities such as the Catholic University, university of Concepcion, and the Federico Santa Maria Technical University have begun to teach and conduct research in...
Jack London and the San Francisco earthquake
J.S. Sachs
1982, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (14) 94-97
After it was over, it seemed to many, and especially to eyewitnesses like Jack London, that the earthquake and fire had devastated San Francisco. However people were confident that, like the phoeniz, San Francisco would rise from the ashes and regain her palce as the "Imperial City of the West." ...
A note on the Goodman Jack
H.S. Swolfs, J.D. Kibler
1982, Rock Mechanics Felsmechanik Mecanique des Roches (15) 57-66
A Note on the Goodman Jack. Reconnaissance experiments, performed to evaluate the practical utility of the hard-rock variety of the Goodman Jack 1, reveal that the Hustrulid-T* correction adequately reconciles the discrepancy between the measured and true deformation modulus of the rock mass in the range of 30 to50 gigapascals....
Toxicity of rotenone to selected aquatic invertebrates and frog larvae
J. H. Chandler, L. L. Marking
1982, Progressive Fish-Culturist (44) 78-80
No abstract available....
Gravity evidence for a shallow intrusion under Medicine Lake volcano, California
Carol A. Finn, D.L. Williams
1982, Geology (10) 503-507
A positive gravity anomaly is associated with Medicine Lake volcano, California. Trials with different Bouguer reduction densities indicate that this positive anomaly cannot be explained by an inappropriate choice of Bouguer reduction density but must be caused by a subvolcanic body. After separating...
Comparison of estimators of standard deviation for hydrologic time series
Gary D. Tasker, Edward J. Gilroy
1982, Water Resources Research (18) 1503-1508
Unbiasing factors as a function of serial correlation, ρ, and sample size, n for the sample standard deviation of a lag one autoregressive model were generated by random number simulation. Monte Carlo experiments were used to compare the performance of several alternative methods for estimating the standard deviation σ of a lag one...
Bank stability and channel width adjustment, East Fork River, Wyoming
E.D. Andrews
1982, Water Resources Research (18) 1184-1192
Frequent surveys of eight cross sections located in self-formed reaches of the East Fork River, Wyoming, during the 1974 snowmelt flood showed a close relation between channel morphology and scour and fill. Those cross sections narrower than the mean reach width filled at discharges less than bankfull and scoured at...
Stream-grade variation and riparian-forest ecology along Passage Creek, Virginia
Cliff R. Hupp
1982, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (109) 488-499
Passage Creek, in northwestern Virginia, flows on relatively nonresistant shales, then cuts through a gorge underlain by resistant sandstone In the gorge, the stream gradient steepens, the size of bed material increases, a braided channel forms, and riparian-forest composition and growth form changes relative to areas outside the gorge Effects...
Space platform albedo measurements as indicators of change in arid lands
C.J. Robinove
1982, Advances in Space Research (2) 31-35
The change in albedo of arid lands is an indicator of changes in their condition and quality, including density of vegetative cover, erosion, deposition, surficial soil moisture, and man-made change. In general, darkening of an arid land surface indicates an increase in land quality while brightening indicates a decrease in...
Nocturnal activity and foraging of prairie raccoons (Procyon lotor) in North Dakota
Raymond J. Greenwood
1982, American Midland Naturalist (107) 238-243
Nocturnal activity and foraging of 39 radio-equipped raccoons (Procyon lotor) in eastern North Dakota were studied from April-July in 1974-1976. Sixteen of the raccoons were collected after foraging bouts for stomach content analysis. Raccoon activity consisted of running (13%), walking (49%) and local movement in confined areas (38%). Local movement...
Sample design for estimating change in land use and land cover ( Pennsylvania).
G.H. Rosenfield
1982, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (48) 793-801
The methodology of sample design which is applied to estimating change in land use and land cover is general and extendable to determination of change in any type of thematic mapping that is time variant. Land-use maps of the State of Pennsylvania at a scale of 1:250,000 were compiled circa...
Lignite and the Midway-Wilcox stratigraphic boundary, Alabama and Mississippi
C. R. Meissner Jr., S. E. Heermann
1982, Open-File Report 82-673
No abstract available....
Electric fences to reduce mammalian predation on waterfowl nests
J. T. Lokemoen, Harold A. Doty, D.E. Sharp, J.E. Neaville
1982, Wildlife Society Bulletin (10) 318-323
We evaluated electric fences as predator barriers to reduce high losses of waterfowl nests to mammalian predation at Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs). The work was done in 1978-81 on 3 paired sites in central North Dakota and western Minnesota. Resident mammalian predators were trapped from inside the exclosures. All 3...
Changes in vegetation and grazing capacity following honey mesquite control
Kirk C. McDaniel, John H. Brock, Robert H. Haas
1982, Journal of Range Management (35) 551-557
Honey mesquite kill and suppression, vegetation response, and changes in grazing use and capacity were evaluated following brush control in north-central Texas. Tree grubbing was most effective for eliminating honey mesquite, but because of soil and plant damage the treatment did not increase grazing capacity or improve range condition compared...
Oahu: perspective from space
Gary E. Johnson
1982, Journal of Geography (81) 30-32
Satellite remote sensing provides us with a unique perspective from space. This perspective is synoptic in nature and provides regional views of most of the land areas of the earth. The orbital characteristics of the Landsat system are such that repetitive imagery of the same area may be obtained. Because...
Evaluating the crop coefficient using spectral reflectance
J. L. Heilman, W. E. Heilman, Donald G. Moore
1982, Agronomy Journal (74) 967-971
A field study was conducted in four differentially irrigated plots of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) planted in Shiprock sandy loam (coarseloamy, mixed, mesic Typic Haplargid) to assess spectral reflectance for estimating the crop coefficient (Kc), defined here as the ratio of actual to potential evapotranspiration (ET). A bidirectional reflectance factor was...
Digital image film generation: from the photoscientist's perspective
John E. Boyd
1982, Journal of Applied Photographic Engineering (8) 15-22
The technical sophistication of photoelectronic transducers, integrated circuits, and laser-beam film recorders has made digital imagery an alternative to traditional analog imagery for remote sensing. Because a digital image is stored in discrete digital values, image enhancement is possible before the data are converted to a photographic image. To create...
