Conservation notes: birds
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1959, Wildlife Leaflet 405
No abstract available....
Control of tree squirrels
U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
1959, Wildlife Leaflet 403
No abstract available....
Raccoons and their control
U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
1959, Wildlife Leaflet 401
No abstract available....
The reclamation of Indian and Abrams creeks in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Robert E. Lennon, Phillip S. Parker
1959, Special Scientific Report - Fisheries 306
A complete program of stream reclamation was developed and applied on Indian and Abrams creeks in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A salt-resistivity technique was used to estimate the dilution and velocity of a toxicant in running water. Streamside toxicity trials on resident fishes established minimal, effective concentrations of the...
Paper coal in Indiana
G.K. Guennel, R.C. Neavel
1959, Science (129) 1671-1672
The foliated, papery texture of the upper third of an 18-inch coal seam in a strip mine near Rockville, Indiana, is attributable to matted plant cuticle. The cuticles of pinnules, pinnae, and rachides resemble Sphenopteris bradfordii Arnold and thus differ from the lycopsid stem cuticles of the Russian paper coal....
Ecology, paleontology, and stratigraphy
H. S. Ladd
1959, Science (129) 69-78
Understanding of the habits of living organisms aids interpretations of fossiliferous sediments....
Magnetic susceptibility of tektites and some other glasses
F. E. Senftle, A. Thorpe
1959, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (17) 234-237
The magnetic susceptibility at several magnetic field strengths of about thirty tektites from various localities have been measured. The susceptibility ranges from 2 × 10−6 to about 7.9 × 10−6 e.m.u./g. Tektites from a given locality have similar susceptibilities. The intensity of magnetization of all the tektites measured is zero or very...
Climatology and the problems of western grasslands
Luna Bergere Leopold
Howard B. Sprague, editor(s)
1959, Conference Paper, Grasslands: A symposium presented at the New York meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sixty years after Coronado, Don Juan de Onate wrote the first reasonably good description of the High Plains. He was near the present site of Wichita, Kansas, in 1601, when he arrived a t a large rancheria, or temporary Indian camp, containing more than 5000 souls. Onate's account expressed wonderment...
Core logs from Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California
David V. Haines
1959, Bulletin 1045-E
Forty-one drill holes in the saline deposit on Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, Calif., were cored and logged. Drill holes averaged about 100 feet in depth; the majority are located around the margins of the dry lake. The saline deposit consists of an upper salt body about 39 square miles...
Geology, hydrology, and chemical character of ground waters in the Torrance-Santa Monica area, California
J. F. Poland, A. A. Garrett, Allen Sinnott
1959, Water Supply Paper 1461
No abstract available....
Modern instruments for surveying and mapping
G.D. Whitmore, M.M. Thompson, J. L. Speert
1959, Science (130) 1059-1066
New surveying systems utilizing photogrammetry and electronics speed production of topographic maps....
Life history of the sea lamprey of Cayuga Lake, New York
Roland L. Wigley
1959, Fishery Bulletin (59) 561-617
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fishery Bulletin no. 154...
Ground-water resources of the middle Big Wood River-Silver Creek area, Blaine County, Idaho
Rex Onis Smith
1959, Water Supply Paper 1478
No abstract available....
Stratigraphic sections, well logs, and soil-profile sections in the southern Carson Desert near Fallon, Nevada
Roger B. Morrison
1959, Open-File Report 59-87
No abstract available....
α-Radioactivity of cerium-142
F. E. Senftle, T. W. Stern, V. P. Alekna
1959, Nature (184) 630
JOHNSON AND NIER1 have measured the atomic masses of some of the rare-earth isotopes and have shown that the mass difference cerium-142—(barium-138 + helium-4) is equivalent to 1.68 ± 0.10 MeV. Similar results for the naturally occurring samarium and neodymium isotopes show that the α-active isotope of each element is the one...
New occurrences of ferroselite (FeSe2)
R. G. Coleman
1959, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (16) 296-301
Iron selenide from the uranium-vanadium ores of the Colorado Plateau was under investigation when ferroselite was described as a new mineral in Russia by Bur'yanova and Komkov (1955). Association of ferroselite with selenian pyrite and marcasite within discrete areas of these uranium-vanadium deposits suggests an unusual environment of formation. Its association...
Reconnaissance geology of the Birney-Broadus coal field, Rosebud and Powder River Counties, Montana
Walter Cyrus Warren
1959, Bulletin 1072-J
No abstract available....
Semimicrodetermination of combined tantalum and niobium with selenous acid
F. S. Grimaldi, M. Schnepfe
1959, Analytical Chemistry (31) 1270-1272
Tantalum and niobium are separated and determined gravimetrically by precipitation with selenous acid from highly acidic solutions in the absence of complexing agents. Hydrogen peroxide is used in the preparation of the solution and later catalytically destroyed during digestion of the precipitate. From 0.2 to 30 mg., separately or in...
Ground-water resources of Riverton irrigation project area, Wyoming, with a section on chemical quality of ground water
Donald Arthur Morris, O. M. Hackett, K.E. Vanlier, E. A. Moulder, W. H. Durum
1959, Water Supply Paper 1375
The Riverton irrigation project area is in the northwestern part of the Wind River basin in west-central Wyoming. Because the annual precipitation is only about 9 inches, agriculture, which is the principal occupation in the area, is dependent upon irrigation. Irrigation by surface-water diversion was begum is 1906; water is...
Determination of uranium in zircon
F. Cuttitta, G. J. Daniels
1959, Analytica Chimica Acta (20) 430-434
A routine fluorimetric procedure is described for the determination of trace amounts of uranium in zircon. It employs the direct extraction of uranyl nitrate with ethyl acetate using phosphate as a retainer for zirconium. Submicrogram amounts or uranium are separated in the presence of 100,000 times the amount of zirconium....
Resources, population growth, and level of living
V.E. McKelvey
1959, Science (129) 875-881
A society's wealth depends on the use it makes of raw materials, energy, and especially ingenuity....
Ground-water conditions in the Avenal-McKittrick area, Kings and Kern Counties, California
Perry Rowley Wood, G. H. Davis
1959, Water Supply Paper 1457
No abstract available....
Resistance to ulcer disease and furunculosis in eastern brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis
S. F. Snieszko, C. E. Dunbar, G. L. Bullock
1959, Progressive Fish-Culturist (21) 111-116
No abstract available....
Plasmoptysis and gelatin of erythrocytes in coagulation of blood of freshwater bony fishes
Ken Wolf
1959, Blood (14) 1339-1344
1. A clot-like material which results from very rapid plasmoptysis and hydrophyllic swelling of karyoplasm of erythrocytes from freshwater fish was reported. This attribute was found to a lesser degree in erythrocytes from an amphibian, but it was almost lacking in those of an aquatic reptile.2. Rapid clotting of fish...
Sources of hydrographic and meteorological data on the Great Lakes
Charles F. Powers, David L. Jones, John C. Ayers
1959, Special Scientific Report - Fisheries 314
No abstract available....