Earthquake studies on Canada’s west coast; Pacific Geoscience Centre
G. C. Rogers, Robin P. Riddihough
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 175-179
On a global scale, Canada's west coast lies within the zone of a seismicity that stretches around the Pacific Ocean. In plate tectonic terms, it is dominated by the same right-lateral shearing between the Pacific and American plates that is responsible for the seismicity of California. However, in southern British...
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...
Earthquake predictions using seismic velocity ratios
R. W. Sherburne
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 18-21
Since the beginning of modern seismology, seismologists have contemplated predicting earthquakes. The usefulness of earthquake predictions to the reduction of human and economic losses and the value of long-range earthquake prediction to planning is obvious. Not as clear are the long-range economic and social impacts of earthquake prediction to a...
Soviet prediction of a major earthquake
D.W. Simpson
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 234-235
On November 1, 1978, a magnitude 7 earthquake occurred north of the Pamir Mountains near the Tadjiskistan-Kirghizia border, 150 kilometers east of Garm in Soviet Central Asia. Although the earthquake was felt in Tashkent, Dushanbe, and the Fergana Valley, the epicentral area was uninhabited at that time of year, and...
Earthquake prediction research at the Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
H. Spall
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 95-101
The Seismological Laboratory at the California Institute of Techonology (Caltech) was founded in 1928 as a result of a study by the Carnegie Institue of Washington. The study was based primarily on a 1916 report by H. O. Wood which recommended that a network of seismic stations be established in...
Earthquake research in the Soviet Union
H. Spall
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 22-25
Henry Spall talked recently with Robert L. Wesson, the new Chief, Office of Earthquake Studies at the U.S Geological Survey National Center, Reston, Va. Wesson has spent altogether almost 1 year in the U.S.S.R, and 6 months of that time in the Garm area of Soviet Tadzhikistan in 1974. ...
Predicting rock bursts in mines
H. Spall
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 89-94
In terms of lives lost, rock bursts in underground mines can be as hazardous as earthquakes on the surface. So it is not surprising that fo the last 40 years the U.S Bureau of Mines has been using seismic methods for detecting areas in underground mines where there is a...
Sociological aspects of earthquake prediction
H. Spall
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 102-105
Henry Spall talked recently with Denis Mileti who is in the Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo. Dr. Mileti is a sociologst involved with research programs that study the socioeconomic impact of earthquake prediction. ...
Space techniques for measuring crustal deformation
H. Spall
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 9-17
Forensic seismology
H. I. S. Thirlaway
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 156-164
Twenty years ago, politicians, concerned a the slow progress of negotiations to stop nuclear weapons testing, described the state of seismology as being in the equivalent of the Stone Age. this assessment spurred the beginning of research and development at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment near the village of Aldermaston,...
International Seismological Centre
H. Spall, A. Hughes
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 165-169
The International Seismological Centre had its origins when the British seismologist Professor John Milne returned to England from Japan in 1895 to retire at Shide on the Isle of Eight. In cooperation with the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Milne had set up a number of seismographic stations...
Geohydrologic impacts of coal development in the Narragansett Basin, Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Michael H. Frimpter, Anthony Maevsky
1979, Water Supply Paper 2062
The hydrologic impacts of possible coal mining in the 900-square-mile Carboniferous Narragansett Basin in southeastern New England are described. Geophysical tests and hydrologic observations were made in thirteen 3-inch-diameter test holes which were 330 to 1,500 feet deep. Fractures and lithology, including graphite and coal, were identified and located from...
[Delta]34S values of selected sulfides from the Camp Smith uranium prospect and Phillips Mine massive sulfide deposit and their bearing on the genesis of the deposits
Richard I. Grauch, Joseph F. Whelan
1979, Open-File Report 79-829
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,...
Drainage areas of the Twelvepole Creek basin, West Virginia; Big Sandy River basin, West Virginia; Tug Fork basin, Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia
M.W. Wilson
1979, Open-File Report 79-746
This report lists in tabular form: 61 drainage areas in the Twelvepole Creek basin, of West Virginia, 11 drainage areas of the Big Sandy River basin within West Virginia, and 210 drainage areas in the Tug Fork basin of Virginia, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Drainage areas were compiled in a...
Derivation of linearized constitutive equations for plane-strain of an elastic-plastic (strain hardening) material
Arvid M. Johnson
1979, Open-File Report 79-433
The purpose of this report is to derive several of the basic equations for a paper on folding and folding of idealized rock (Johnson, 1979). That paper is based on constitutive equations for an ideal, strain-hardening material defined by Hill (1950, p. 30) and generalized to include Coulomb behavior and...
Data on ground-water resources of the Spring Mountains area, Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada
William D. Nichols, Louise E. Davis
1979, Open-File Report 79-1638
This report lists data on ground-water levels for 16 wells and discharge for 18 springs in the Spring Mountain area of the Tolyabe National Forest. Water levels in wells ranged from 325 to 519 feet below land surface. The highest spring discharge listed is 107 gallons per minute. In addition,...
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....
Chemical analyses of coal and coal-associated rock samples from the Rosebud and McKay coal beds, Tongue River Member of the Fort Union Formation, Colstrip coal deposit, Rosebud County, Montana
Ronald H. Affolter, Joseph R. Hatch
1979, Open-File Report 79-1098
As part of a continuing program by the U.S. Geological Survey to collect and chemically analyze representative samples of U.S. coals, 61 coal and coal-associated rock samples were collected from the Rosebud and McKay beds in the Paleocene Tongue River Member of the Fort Union Formation in Rosebud County, Montana....
Chemical analyses of coal from the Knobloch and Flowers-Goodale beds, Tongue River Member of the Fort Union Formation, Otter Creek EMRIA study site, Powder River County, Montana
Ronald H. Affolter, Joseph R. Hatch, Edward J. McKay
1979, Open-File Report 79-859
No abstract available....
Stratigraphic sections of Jurassic San Rafael Group and adjacent rocks in Delta, Mesa, and Montrose Counties, Colorado
James Clifton Wright, Dayton Delbert Dickey
1979, Open-File Report 79-250
No abstract available....
Digital model of the Bayou Bartholomew alluvial aquifer stream system, Arkansas
J.E. Reed, Matthew E. Broom
1979, Open-File Report 79-685
A digital model of the Bayou Bartholomew aquifer-stream system in Arkansas was calibrated for the purpose of predicting hydrologic responses to stresses of water development. The simulated-time span for model calibration was from 1953 to 1970, during which time the system was stressed largely by ground- and surface-water diversions for...
Reconnaissance study of Upper Cretaceous to Miocene stratigraphic units and sedimentary facies, Kodiak and adjacent islands, Alaska, with a section on sedimentary petrography
Tor Helge Nilsen, George William Moore, Gary R. Winkler
1979, Professional Paper 1093
No abstract available....
Environmental pollutants and eggshell thickness: Anhingas and wading birds in the eastern United States
Harry M. Ohlendorf, Erwin E. Klaas, T. Earl Kaiser
1979, Special Scientific Report - Wildlife 216
No abstract available....
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....
