Storm and flood of July 31-August 1, 1976, in the Big Thompson River and Cache la Poudre River basins, Larimer and Weld Counties, Colorado
Jerald F. McCain, R. R. Shroba
1979, Professional Paper 1115-A,B
PART A: Devastating flash floods swept through the canyon section of Larimer County in north-central Colorado during the night of July 31-August I, 1976, causing 139 deaths, 5 missing persons, and more than $35 million in total damages. The brunt of the storms occurred over the Big Thompson River...
Geology and phosphate resources of the Hawley Creek area, Lemhi County, Idaho
Peter Oberlindacher, Robert David Hovland
1979, Open-File Report 79-1283
Phosphate resources occur within the Retort Phosphatic Shale Member of the Permian Phosphoria Formation in the Hawley Creek area, near Leadore, in east-central Idaho. About 12 square miles (31 km2 ) of the Retort Member and enclosing rocks were mapped at a scale of 1:12,000 to evaluate the leasable Federal...
Post-orogenic peralkaline and calc-alkaline granites and associated mineralization of the Arabian Shield, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
D. B. Stoeser, James Earl Elliott
1979, Open-File Report 79-1323
Following a long period of island arc-like orogenic activity, post-orogenic granites of Pan-African age (670-550 m.y.) were emplaced throughout the Arabian Shield. Most of these rocks are typical subsolvus calc-alkaline biotite monzogranite. The early Pan-African granites are associated with widespread small tholeiitic gabbro intrusions, many of which are layered. The...
Distributary channels, sand lobes, and mesotopography of Navy Submarine Fan, California Borderland, with applications to ancient fan sediments
William Normark, D.J.W. Piper, Gordon R. Hess
1979, Sedimentology (26) 749-774
The deep-tow instrument package of Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides a unique opportunity to delineate small-scale features of a size comparable to those features usually described from ancient deep-sea fan deposits. On Navy Fan, the deep-tow side-scanning sonar readily detected steep channel walls and steps and terraces within channels. The...
Samarium-neodymium systematics in kimberlites and in the minerals of garnet lherzolite inclusions
A. R. Basu, M. Tatsumoto
1979, Science (205) 398-401
The initial ratios of neodymium-143 to neodymium-144 in kimberlites ranging in age between 90 × 106 to 1300 × 106 years from South Africa, India, and the United States are different from the corresponding ratios in the minerals of peridotite inclusions in the kimberlites but are identical to the...
Late Jurassic Independence dike swarm in eastern California
J.-H. Chen, James G. Moore
1979, Geology (7) 129-133
The Independence dike swarm in eastern California, more than 250 km long, extends from the eastern Sierra Nevada and Inyo Mountains through the Argus Range, Alabama Hills, and Spangler Hills to the Garlock fault, where it is offset 64 km before continuing into the Mojave Desert. The dike swarm includes...
Regional deformation of the Sierra Nevada, California, on conjugate microfault sets
J. P. Lockwood, James G. Moore
1979, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (84) 6041-6049
Strike slip microfaults are pervasive throughout the granitic rocks of the eastern Sierra Nevada. Offsets typically range from less than a millimeter to several tens of centimeters but exceed 100 m in some places. The spacing between microfaults varies from a few tens of centimeters to a few tens of...
Drug metabolism in birds
Huo Ping Pan, James R. Fouts
1979, Pharmacology (19) 289-293
Papers published over 100 years since the beginning of the scientific study of drug metabolism in birds were reviewed. Birds were found to be able to accomplish more than 20 general biotransformation reactions in both functionalization and conjugation. Chickens were the primary subject of study but over 30 species of...
Fatal suppurative nephritis caused by Pseudomonas in a chimpanzee
G. Migaki, D.M. Asher, H.W. Casey, Louis N. Locke, C.J. Gibbs, C. Gajdusek
1979, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (175) 957-959
Reports of nephritis in chimpanzees are relatively rare, compared with those in other nonhuman primates. McClure and Guilloud reported chronic pyelonephritis in a 35-year-old female chimpanzee; Schmidt and Butler reported glomerulonephritis in an 11-year-old female chimpanzee, and Kim reported on a 12-year-old male with subacute interstitial nephritis in a chimpanzee...
Rare earth abundances and Rb-Sr systematics of basalts, gabbro, anorthosite and minor granitic rocks from the Indian Ocean Ridge System, Western Indian Ocean
C. E. Hedge, K. Futa, C.G. Engel, R.L. Fisher
1979, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (68) 373-376
Basalts dredged from the Mid-Indian Ocean Ridge System have rare earth, Rb, and Sr concentrations like those from other mid-ocean ridges, but have slightly higher Sr87/Sr86 ratios. Underlying gabbroic complexes are similar to the basalts in Sr87/Sr86, but are poorer K, Rb, and in rare earths. The chemical and isotopic...
Vesicularity and CO2 in mid-ocean ridge basalt
James G. Moore
1979, Nature (282) 250-253
Vesicles and included CO2 are enriched in deep-sea basalts that are also enriched in light rare earth and incompatible elements. This enrichment probably results from a unique deep mantle origin of such melts but may have been modified by CO2 bubbles rising in shallow magma chambers....
Annotated list of the fishes of the Lake Ontario watershed
Edwin J. Crossman, Harry D. Van Meter
1979, Technical Report 36
This annotated list of the fishes of Lake Ontario and its watershed is based on published distribution records, museum collections, and reports of fish surveys that confirm the occurrence of fish species dating back to the 1850's. It includes 130 forms (129 spp. + the hybrid splake), 20 of which...
Trace element and strontium isotope characteristics of volcanic rocks from Isla Tortuga: A young seamount in the Gulf of California
Rodey Batiza, K. Futa, C. E. Hedge
1979, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (43) 269-278
Isla Tortuga is a small isolated central volcano which is located near an actively spreading trough in the Gulf of California. The basalt lavas from Tortuga which have the highest Mg/Fe and Ni contents have trace element abundances and ratios and87Sr/86Sr...
Status and nesting of the yellow-billed cuckoo in Puerto Rico
Cameron B. Kepler, Angela K. Kepler
1978, The Auk (95) 417-419
Knowledge of the status of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) in the Greater Antilles has been clouded by the bird's elusive behavior and spotty distribution on the islands, and by a major movement of North American migrants through the area to and from their wintering grounds in South America. Although...
Distribution and abundance patterns of the palila on Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Charles van Riper III, J. Michael Scott, D.M. Woodside
1978, The Auk (95) 518-527
Censuses of the known geographical range of the rare and endangered Palila were conducted in January (nonbreeding season) and September (breeding season) 1975. The habitat (mamane and naio forest of Mauna Kea, Hawaii) was divided into five major areas, with each analyzed for vegetational composition, phenology of the predominant tree...
Endangered Florida everglade kite
P.W. Sykes Jr.
H.W. Kale II, editor(s)
1978, Book chapter, Rare and Endangered Biota of Florida, Volume Two: Birds
Status undetermined: Black rail
P.W. Sykes Jr.
H.W. Kale II, editor(s)
1978, Book chapter, Rare and Endangered Biota of Florida, Volume Two: Birds
The geochemical nature of the Archean Ancient Gneiss Complex and Granodiorite Suite, Swaziland: A preliminary study
D.R. Hunter, F. Barker, Hugh T. Millard Jr.
1978, Precambrian Research (7) 105-127
The Ancient Gneiss Complex (AGC) of Swaziland, an Archean gray gneiss complex, lies southeast and south of the Barberton greenstone belt and includes the most structurally complex and highly metamorphosed portions of the eastern Kaapvaal craton. The AGC is not precisely dated but apparently is older than 3.4 Ga. The...
Distribution and character of upper Mesozoic subduction complexes along the west coast of North America
D. L. Jones, M.C. Blake Jr., E. H. Bailey, R. J. McLaughlin
1978, Tectonophysics (47) 207-222
Structurally complex sequences of sedimentary, volcanic, and intrusive igneous rocks characterize a nearly continuous narrow band along the Pacific coast of North America from Baja California, Mexico to southern Alaska. They occur in two modes: (1) as complexly folded but coherent sequences of graywacke and argillite that locally exhibit blueschist-grade...
Correlation and zonation of miocene strata along the atlantic margin of North America using diatoms and silicoflagellates
W.H. Abbott
1978, Marine Micropaleontology (3) 15-34
Six Atlantic Miocene siliceous microfossil zones are proposed based on onshore and offshore samples from the United States Atlantic Margin. Diatoms and silicoflagellates are used to establish the zones. These zones are from oldest to youngest: 1. Zone I Actinoptychus heliopelta Concurrent Range Zone - Early Miocene 2. Zone II...
Tin and related elements in sediments and beach sands from Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey
J. A. Domenico, W.C. Overstreet, A.E. Hubert, R. B. Tripp
1978, Open-File Report 79-1188
Sixty samples of sediments from stream beds, outwash plains, and beaches were collected in Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey by Fred L. Klinger,U.S. Bureau of Mines, as part of the field work undertaken by the National Geographic-Smithsonian Pyrotechnological Expedition of 1968. Facilities for the analysis of the samples for tin and...
Capture locations of rare fish in the Upper Colorado River system
Timothy W. Joseph
1978, FWS/OBS 78/32
Impact of coastal processes on resource development with an example from Icy Bay, Alaska
Bruce F. Molnia
1978, Open-File Report 79-1693
The coastline of Alaska is dynamic and continually readjusting to changes in the many processes that operate in the coastal zone. Because of this dynamic nature, special consideration must be made in planning for development, and. caution must be exercised in site selection for facilities to be emplaced in the...
A summary of niobium and rare earth localities from Ha'il and other areas in western Saudi Arabia: a preliminary study
John J. Matzko, Mohammed Ibne Naqvi
1978, Open-File Report 78-773
Investigations in 1965 located veins containing radioactive material in the Halaban Group on the east side of a granite pluton at Jabal Aja near Ha'il. Later study extended the known area of radioactivity to a total length of about 30 km. Mineralogic studies indicated that the samples were low in...
Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina
Gwendolyn Werth Luttrell
1978, Open-File Report 78-152
Gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, pyrite, tin, cobalt, molybdenum, tungsten, barite, and rare-earths have been mined in North Carolina. Gold, with by-product silver, occurs in veins and mineralized shear zones in metamorphic rocks of the Piedmont province and in placers derived from these deposits. Copper occurs with complex sulfide ores...
