National Cartographic Information Center Newsletter No. 6
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1977, Newsletter 6
As a rule we don't carry personnel information additions, subtractions, etc., in the newsletter. This is a technical publication, not a forum for office baseball league scores. Now, having got that disclaimer out of the way, we wanted to note that Dick Swinnerton, Chief of NCIC since the Center's inception...
Springs of Florida
Jack C. Rosenau, Glen L. Faulkner, Charles W. Hendry Jr., Robert W. Hull
1977, Bulletin 31
The first comprehensive report of Florida's springs, which contains both a story of the springs and a collection of facts about them, was published thirty years ago (Ferguson and others, 1947). Since then, much additional data on springs have been gathered and the current report, Springs of Florida, makes a...
Conversion factors: SI metric and U.S. customary units
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1977, Report
The policy of the U.S. Geological Survey is to foster use of the International System of Units (SI) which was defined by the 11th General Conference of Weights and Measures in 1960. This modernized metric system constitutes an international "language" by means of which communications throughout the world's scientific and...
Water and industry in the United States
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1977, Report
Man's economic and social progress depends on a plentiful and readily available supply of water. From his earliest days, man has found water to be an essential ingredient in improving his environment and the quality of life. Increased production of goods and continued introduction of new products have been accompanied...
United States Geological Survey Annual Report Fiscal Year 1976
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1977, Report
On July 4, 1976, the United States of America celebrated its Bicentennial. This report summarizes the progress made by the U.S. Geological Survey during the last year of the Bicentennial in collecting, analyzing, and publishing information about the Nation's mineral, water, and land resources and in supervising mineral operations authorized...
Renal excretion in channel catfish following injection of quinaldine sulphate or 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol
J. L. Allen, J. B. Hunn
1977, Journal of Fish Biology (10) 473-479
Channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus Rafinesque, injected intraperitoneally with 2-methyl-quinoline sulphate (QdSO4) or 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM) eliminate most of the dose of these compounds by extra-renal routes. Patterns of renal excretion of Na+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+, and Cl- (pEq kg-1 h-1) appeared to be associated with the 'stress' of the urine collection...
Save water, save money
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, VA Fairfax County
1977, Report
The United States uses huge quantities of water. In 1976, for example, it was estimated that for each person in the U.S., about 2,000 gallons of water were used daily in homes, offices, farms, and factories. This means that roughly 420 billion gallons of water were pumped, piped, or diverted...
You asked for it! Precautions on winter use of small fish ponds
M. Martin
1977, Commercial Fish Farmer and Aquaculture News (4) 25-25
Time-of-travel study, Black River from Lyons Falls to Dexter, New York
H.L. Shindel, L.A. Wagner
1977, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Report of Investigations RI-16
Time-of-travel and dye-dispersion studies of selected streams and lakes in the Oswego River basin, New York, 1967-75
H.L. Shindel, L.A. Wagner, P.H. Hamecher
1977, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Report of Investigations RI-17
Ground-water quality near the water table in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York
Julian Soren
1977, Long Island Water Resources Bulletin LIWR-8
Hydrogeologic data from investigation of water resources of the South Fork, Suffolk County, New York
Bronius Nemickas, E. J. Koszalka, D.E. Vaupel
1977, Long Island Water Resources Bulletin LIWR-7
Analog-model prediction of the hydrologic effects of sanitary sewerage in southeast Nassau and southwest Suffolk Counties, New York
G.E. Kimmel, H.F.H. Ku, A.W. Harbaugh, D.J. Sulam, R.T. Getzen
1977, Long Island Water Resources Bulletin LIWR-6
Effects of residues of polychlorinated biphenyl (Aroclor< 1254) on sensitivity of rainbow-trout to selected environmental contaminants
T.D. Bills, L. L. Marking, L.E. Olson
1977, Progressive Fish-Culturist (39) 150-150
No abstract available. ...
Rotational line crossing: An approach to the reduction of inbreeding accumulation in trout brood stocks
H. L. Kincaid
1977, Progressive Fish-Culturist (39) 179-181
A system is presented for maintaining trout brood stocks for long periods with levels of inbreeding accumulation lower than that experienced in random mating populations of equal size. The system requires the formation of three or more distinct breeding lines. Brood stock generations are advanced by a systematic mating scheme...
State of stress in the lithosphere: Inferences from the flow laws of olivine
S. H. Kirby
1977, Pure and Applied Geophysics PAGEOPH (115) 245-258
The experimental flow data for rocks and minerals are reviewed and found to fit a law of the form {Mathematical expression} where {Mathematical expression} This law reduces to the familiar power-law stress dependency at low stress and to an exponential stress dependency at high stress. Using the material flow law...
The origin of garnet in the anorthosite-charnockite suite of the Adirondacks
J. M. McLelland, P.R. Whitney
1977, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (60) 161-181
Detailed analysis of textural and chemical criteria in rocks of the anorthosite-charnockite suite of the Adirondack Highlands suggests that development of garnet in silica-saturated rocks of the suite occurs according to the reaction: {Mathematical expression}, where ?? is a function of the distribution of Fe and Mg between the several...
Shear and tension hydraulic fractures in low permeability rocks
P. Solberg, D. Lockner, J. Byerlee
1977, Pure and Applied Geophysics PAGEOPH (115) 191-198
Laboratory hydrofracture experiments were performed on triaxially stressed specimens of oil shale and low-permeability granite. The results show that either shear or tension fractures could develop depending on the level of differentials stress, even in specimens containing preexisting fractures. With 1 kb of confining pressure and differential stress greater than...
The stress state near Spanish Peaks, colorado determined from a dike pattern
O.H. Muller, D. D. Pollard
1977, Pure and Applied Geophysics PAGEOPH (115) 69-86
The radial pattern of syenite and syenodiorite dikes of the Spanish Peaks region is analysed using theories of elasticity and dike emplacement. The three basic components of Ode??'s model for the dike pattern (a pressurized, circular hole; a rigid, planar boundary; and uniform regional stresses) are adopted, but modified to...
Earthquake stress drops, ambient tectonic stresses and stresses that drive plate motions
Thomas C. Hanks
1977, Pure and Applied Geophysics PAGEOPH (115) 441-458
A variety of geophysical observations suggests that the upper portion of the lithosphere, herein referred to as the elastic plate, has long-term material properties and frictional strength significantly greater than the lower lithosphere. If the average frictional stress along the non-ridge margin of the elastic plate is of the order...
Fluid inclusion geothermometry
C.G. Cunningham
1977, Geologische Rundschau (66) 1-9
Fluid inclusions trapped within crystals either during growth or at a later time provide many clues to the histories of rocks and ores. Estimates of fluid-inclusion homogenization temperature and density can be obtained using a petrographic microscope with thin sections, and they can be refined using heating and freezing stages....
Examination of the Chayes-Kruskal procedure for testing correlations between proportions
J.O. Kork
1977, Mathematical Geology (9) 543-562
The Chayes-Kruskal procedure for testing correlations between proportions uses a linear approximation to the actual closure transformation to provide a null value, pij, against which an observed closed correlation coefficient, rij, can be tested. It has been suggested that a significant difference between pij and rij would indicate a nonzero...
The thermal and deformational history of apollo 15418, A partly shock-melted lunar breccia
Gordon L. Nord Jr., J.M. Christie, J.S. Lally, A.H. Heuer
1977, The Moon (17) 217-231
A thermal and mechanical history of lunar gabbroic anorthosite 15418 (1140g) has been deduced from petrographic examination of both exterior and interior thin sections and electron microprobe analysis and transmission electron microscopy of interior thin sections. We suggest that the rock underwent two major shock events - an early brecciation...
Oxygen and hydrogen isotope compositions as indicators of granite genesis in the New England Batholith, Australia
J. R. O’Neil, S.E. Shaw, R.H. Flood
1977, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (62) 313-328
Oxygen and hydrogen isotope studies of a number of granite suites and mineral separates from the New England Batholith indicate that ??O18 can be used to discriminate the major granite protoliths. The granite suites previously subdivided on the basis of mineralogical and geochemical criteria into S-type (sedimentary) and I-type (igneous)...
Abundance coefficients, a new method for measuring microorganism relative abundance
R. M. Forester
1977, Mathematical Geology (9) 619-633
A new method of measuring the relative abundance of microorganisms by using a set of interrelated coefficients, termed 'abundance coefficients' or 'AC', is proposed. These coefficients provide a means of recording abundance for geometric density categories, and each density measurement represents an approximation of the Poisson parameter ??t. The AC...
