On conducting the modified ‘Slug’ test in tight formations
C.E. Neuzil
1982, Water Resources Research (18) 439-441
The method introduced by Bredehoeft and Papadopulos (1980) for conducting a modified ‘slug’ test in tight formations does not assure the condition of approximate equilibrium necessary at the start of the test. In addition, compressibility in the shut-in well can be significantly larger than the compressibility of water, which Bredehoeft...
Habitat models for land-use planning: assumptions and strategies for development
Adrian H. Farmer, Michael J. Armbruster, James W. Terrell, Richard L. Schroeder
1982, Book, Transactions of the Forty-seventh North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference: Population pressures and natural resource management needs
Wildlife managers have long recognized that management goals must be constrained by the availability and suitability of habitat. This recognition, combined with ever increasing land development pressures, has resulted in environmental legislation emphasizing systematic approaches to collection and analysis of habitat information. Wildlife planners have responded with a...
A late Pleistocene glacial chronology for the southern Brooks Range: Stratigraphic record and regional significance
T. D. Hamilton
1982, GSA Bulletin (93) 700-716
Radiocarbon dates from 11 measured sections in the Koyukuk region provide a chronology of the last Pleistocene glaciation. Glaciers were advancing strongly by 24,000 yr ago; they built moraines near the south flank of the Brooks Range, retreated briefly about 22,000 to 20,000 yr B.P., then readvanced at least one...
Ancient plate boundaries in the Bering Sea region
M. S. Marlow, Alan K. Cooper, David W. Scholl, H. McLean
1982, Geological Society, London, Special Publications (10) 201-211
Plate tectonic models of the Bering Sea suggest that the abyssal Bering Sea Basin is underlain by oceanic crust, a supposition supported by refraction and magnetic data. The oceanic crust is thought to be a remnant of the Kula(?) plate that was isolated within what is now the Bering...
Development and use of a habitat gradient model to evaluate wildlife habitat
Henry L. Short
1982, Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference (47) 57-72
Ecologists and wildlife managers are increasingly confronted with the problems of predicting the value of surface cover as wildlife habitat and developing management alternatives to offset wildlife values lost because of land-use change. These problems have become urgent and more acute because of increased demand for products from the land...
Impacts of acid precipitation on watershed ecosystems: an application of the Adaptive Environmental Assessment process
A.K. Andrews, G.T. Auble, R.A. Ellison, D. B. Hamilton, J. E. Roelle, D.R. Marmorek, L.O. Loucks
1982, Report, Developments in ecological modelling, 1: energy and ecological modelling
No abstract available....
The geology of Europa
Baerbel K. Lucchitta, Laurence A. Soderblom
1982, Book chapter, Satellites of Jupiter
The map units and lineations of Europa are detailed, and the geologic processes, and history, and thick and thin ice models of the satellite are discussed. It is concluded that Europa lacks evidence of a horizontally stratified crust; the geology appears characterized by disruption of the crust and intrusions into...
Results of a modeling workshop concerning economic and environmental trends and concomitant resource management issues in the Mobile Bay area
David B. Hamilton, Austin K. Andrews, Gregor T. Auble, Richard A. Ellison, Richard A. Johnson, James E. Roelle, Michael J. Staley
1982, Report
During the past decade, the southern regions of the U.S. have experienced rapid change which is expected to continue into the foreseeable future. Growth in population, industry, and resource development has been attributed to a variety of advantages such as an abundant and inexpensive labor force, a mild climate,...
The effect of exploitation on annual survival of mallard ducks: an ultrastructural model
David R. Anderson, K.P. Burnham
1982, Report, Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Biometric Conference
No abstract available....
Evaluation of AMOEBA: a spectral-spatial classification method
Susan K. Jenson, Thomas R. Loveland, J. Bryant
1982, Journal of Applied Photographic Engineering (8) 159-162
Muitispectral remotely sensed images have been treated as arbitrary multivariate spectral data for purposes of clustering and classifying. However, the spatial properties of image data can also be exploited. AMOEBA is a clustering and classification method that is based on a spatially derived model for image data. In an evaluation...
Modern shallow-water graded sand layers from storm surges, Bering Shelf: a mimic of Bouma sequences and turbidite systems
C.H. Nelson
1982, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology (52) 537-545
A sequence of graded sand layers, interbedded with mud, extends offshore over 100 km from the Yukon Delta shoreline across the flat, shallow (<20 m depth) epicontinental shelf of the northern Bering Sea, Alaska. Proximal graded sand beds on the delta-front platform near...
Application of automated image analysis to coal petrography
E. C. T. Chao, J.A. Minkin, C.L. Thompson
1982, International Journal of Coal Geology (2) 113-150
The coal petrologist seeks to determine the petrographic characteristics of organic and inorganic coal constituents and their lateral and vertical variations within a single coal bed or different coal beds of a particular coal field. Definitive descriptions of coal characteristics and...
Regional thermal-inertia mapping from an experimental satellite
K. Watson
1982, Geophysics (47) 1681-1687
A new experimental satellite has provided, for the first time, thermal data that should be useful in reconnaissance geologic exploration. Thermal inertia, a property of geologic materials, can be mapped from these data by applying an algorithm that has been developed using a new thermal model. A simple registration procedure...
Deep structure and evolution of the Carolina Trough
D. R. Hutchinson, J. A. Grow, Kim D. Klitgord, B.A. Swift
1982, Book chapter, Studies in continental margin geology
Multichannel seismic-reflection data together with two-dimensional gravity and magnetic models suggest that the crustal structure off North Carolina consists of normal continental crust landward of the Brunswick magnetic anomaly (BMA), rift-stage crust in the 80-km-wide zone between the BMA and the East Coast magnetic anomaly (ECMA), and normal oceanic crust...
The impact of entrainment and impingement on fish populations in the Hudson River estuary: Volume II: Impingement impact analyses, evaluations of alternative screening devices, and critiques of utility testimony relating to density-dependent growth, the age-composition of the striped bass Spawning stock, and the LMS Real-Time Life Cycle Model
L.W. Barnthouse, W. Van Winkle, J. Golumbek, G. F. Cada, C.P. Goodyear, S.W. Christensen, J.B. Cannon, D.W. Lee
1982, Report
No abstract available at this time...
Numerical models of hydrothermal circulation for the intrusion zone at an ocean ridge axis
P.L. Patterson, R.P. Lowell
Kent A. Fanning, Frank T. Manheim, editor(s)
1982, Book chapter, The dynamic environment of the ocean floor
No abstract available....
Holocene sedimentation in the shallow nearshore zone off Nauset Inlet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
D.G. Aubrey, D.C. Twichell, S.L. Pfirman
1982, Marine Geology (47) 243-259
Present conditions and sedimentary evolution of the shallow offshore region near Nauset Inlet on Cape Cod, Massachusetts were clarified using high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles, sidescan-sonar records, surface grab samples and current meter measurements. The study area contains three provinces: (1) a nearshore province (shallower than 18 m) with a relatively steep...
Identification of the Holocene-Pleistocene boundary in the Bering Sea by diatoms.
J.G. Baldauf
1982, Boreas (11) 113-118
The modern diatom flora from surface sediment of the Navarin Basin region of the Bering Sea is dominated by Denticulopsis seminae and Nitzschia oceanica. D. seminae, a north boreal species, is most abundant in the deeper waters of the slope-basin regions, whereas N. oceanica, an Arctic species associated with ice...
Population modeling for furbearer management
Douglas H. Johnson
G.C. Sanderson, editor(s)
1982, Book chapter, Midwest Furbearer Management. N. Central Sec., Central Mountains and Plains Sec., and KS.
The management of furbearers has become increasingly complex as greater demands are placed on their populations. Correspondingly, needs for information to use in management have increased. Inadequate information leads the manager to err on the conservative side; unless the size of the 'harvestable surplus' is known, the population cannot be...
Implications of the Precambrian lineaments on the Red Sea tectonics based on Landsat study of northeast Sudan
F. Ahmed
1982, Global Tectonics and Metallogeny (1) 326-335
Lineament analysis of a Landsat Imagery mosaic (scale 1:1,000,000) of northeast Sugdan indicate significant curvilinear as well as rectilinear fracture patterns of possible Precambrian age. Rectilinear features trend dominantly in N-S (± 10°), NNW and ENE, and less commonly in NW and EW directions. The Precambrian fractures closely match, and...
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....
Characterization of tropospheric desert aerosols at solar wavelengths by multispectral radiometry from Landsat
Joseph Otterman, R. S. Fraser, O. P. Bahethi
1982, Journal of Geophysical Research C: Oceans (87) 1270-1278
Characteristics of tropospheric desert aerosols are derived by comparing nadir spectral reflectivities computed from the radiative transfer models with reflectivities measured from Landsat. Over the ocean, reflectivities are compared, but over land the comparison is carried out by determining the ratios of the nadir reflectivity of the surface-atmosphere system over...
Optimal dynamic management of groundwater pollutant sources
Steven M. Gorelick, Irwin Remson
1982, Water Resources Research (18) 71-76
The linear programing-superposition method is presented for managing multiple sources of groundwater pollution over time. The method uses any linear solute transport simulation model to generate a unit source-concentration response matrix that is incorporated into a management model. This series of constraints indicates local solute concentration histories that will result...
Huge landslide blocks in the growth of piton de la fournaise, La réunion, and Kilauea volcano, Hawaii
Wendell A. Duffield, Laurent Stieltjes, Jacques Varet
1982, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (12) 147-160
Piton de la Fournaise, on the island of La Réunion, and Kilauea volcano, on the island of Hawaii, are active, basaltic shield volcanoes growing on the flanks of much larger shield volcanoes in intraplate tectonic environments. Past studies have shown that the average rate of magma production and the chemistry...
On the tectonics and metallogenesis of West Africa: a model incorporating new geophysical data
David A. Hastings
1982, Geoexploration (20) 295-327
The gold, diamond and manganese deposits of Ghana have attracted commercial interest, but appropriate geophysical data to delineate the tectonic setting of these and other deposits have been lacking until recently. Recent gravity surveys, however, now cover about 75% of the country. When used in a synthesis of the sometimes...