Fluid inclusion studies of vein, pipe, and replacement deposits, northwestern San Juan Mountains, Colorado
J. Thomas Nash
1975, Economic Geology (70) 1448-1462
Base and precious metal ores valued in excess of $300 million have been mined from vein, pipe, and replacement deposits located on the northwest side of, and structurally related to, the middle Tertiary Silverton caldera. A belt of normal faults radial to the caldera contains veins which have been mined...
The distribution of seepage within lakebeds
M.S. McBride, H.O. Pfannkuch
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 505-512
The mutual exchange of water between lakes and contiguous permeable ground-water bodies, which are thin relative to the diameter of the lakes, was modeled digitally. A significant rate of seepage was found to extend only a relatively short distance from shore, thus forming a narrow band around the lake's perimeter....
Effects of lowering interior canal stages on salt-water intrusion into the shallow aquifer in southeast Palm Beach County, Florida
Larry F. Land
1975, Open-File Report 75-74
Land in southeast Palm Beach County is undergoing a large-scale change in use, from agricultural to residential. To accommodate residential use, a proposal has been made by developers to the Board of the Lake Worth Drainage District to lower the canal stages in the interior part of the area undergoing...
Notes on the origin of Colluma Crater, Bolivia
Sam Rosenblum, Reed J. Anderson
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 31-38
Colluma Crater, on the semiarid Altiplano (high plain) of western Bolivia, is an oval structure having overall dimensions of 6.7 km by 6.0 km. The structure has two almost concentric cuestaform rims (the inner rim is 3.6 km by 3.1 km) composed of poorly consolidated clastic sediments that dip outward....
Preliminary description and interpretation of cores and radiographs from Clear Lake, Lake County, California: Core 7
John D. Sims, Michael J. Rymer
1975, Open-File Report 75-144
Clear Lake, California is located in the California Coast Ranges about 120 km north of San Francisco and is the largest freshwater lake wholly within California. The lake basin is tectonically controlled (Anderson, 1936; Brice, 1953, Sims and Rymer, 1974) and the area seismically active (Coffman and von Hake, 1973).Interest...
Mineral resource models and the Alaskan Mineral Resource Assessment Program
Donald A. Singer
W. A. Vogely, editor(s)
1975, Book chapter, Mineral materials modeling A state-of-the-art review
The least exacting demand that can be made of any model is that it serves as a device whereby we can predict actual physical happenings. Another demand which could be made is that the physical happenings predicted be in some way relevant to man, either by allowing him to anticipate...
Determining earthquake recurrence intervals from deformational structures in young lacustrine sediments
John D. Sims
1975, Tectonophysics (29) 141-152
Examination of the silty sediments in the lower Van Normal reservoir after the 1971 San Fernando, California earthquake revealed three zones of deformational structures in the 1-m-thick sequence of sediments exposed over about 2 km2 of the reservoir bottom. These zones are correlated with moderate earthquakes that shook the San Fernando...
Mercury distribution in ancient and modern sediment of northeastern Bering Sea
C.H. Nelson, D.E. Pierce, Kam Leong, F.F.H. Wang
1975, Marine Geology (18) 91-104
Reconnaissance sampling of surface and subsurface sediment to a maximum depth of 80 m below the sea floor shows that typical values of 0.03 p.p.m. and anomalies of 0.2-1.3 p.p.m. mercury have been present in northeastern Bering Sea since Early Pliocene time. Values are highest in modern beach (maximum 1.3...
Trace element evaluation of a suite of rocks from Reunion Island, Indian Ocean
R. A. Zielinski
1975, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (39) 713-734
Reunion Island consists of an olivine-basalt shield capped by a series of flows and intrusives ranging from hawaiite through trachyte. Eleven rocks representing the total compositional sequence have been analyzed for U, Th and REE. Eight of the rocks (group 1) have positive-slope, parallel, chondrite-normalized REE fractionation patterns. Using a...
A high 87Sr 86Sr mantle source for low alkali tholeiite, northern Great Basin
R. K. Mark, Hu C. Lee, H. R. Bowman, F. Asaro, E.H. McKee, R.R. Coats
1975, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (39) 1671-1678
Olivine tholeiites, the youngest Tertiary units (about 8–11 m.y. old) at five widely spaced localities in northeastern Nevada, are geologically related to the basalts of the Snake River Plain, Idaho, to the north and are similar in major element and alkali chemistry to mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) and island arc...
Duck plague: carrier state and gross pathology in black ducks
Jorge E. Ossa
1975, Thesis
Duck plague (UP) is a highly fatal disease of ducks, geese, and swans (family Anatidae), produced by a reticulo-endotheliotrophic virus classified as a member of the Herpesvirus group. The disease was recognized in Europe in 1949. On the American continent, the disease was first diagnosed in the United States in...
Thin-section electron microscopy of mature Myxosoma cerebralis (Myxosporidea) spores
P.D. Lunger, B.L. Rhoads, K. Wolf, M.E. Markiw
1975, Journal of Parasitology (61) 476-480
The morphology of purified, mature Myxosoma cerebralis spores was examined by thin-section electron microscopy. Surface architecture corresponded closely to that described in an earlier scanning electron microscopy study of this organism (Lom and Hoffman, 1971). A uniformly thick spore wall is composed of finely granular, electron-lucent material. Intrawall "valvoplasm" at...
History of fish toxicants in the United States
K.B. Cumming
1975, Special Publication 4
Many bodies of water have been overrun with fish species that are undesirable for the well-being of endemic aquatic biota and are of little or no interest to anglers. This situation has resulted from the transplanting of fish, creation of new waters, increasing fishing pressure and changing water quality. Although...
Ground-water data in the Harrisburg-Halsey area, central Willamette Valley, Oregon
F. J. Frank, Nyra A. Johnson
1975, Report
THE HARRISBURG-HALSEY AREA COVERS ABOUT 350 SQUARE MILES IN THE CENTRAL WILLAMETTE VALLEY, OREG., AND IS PART OF A BROAD ALLUVIAL PLAIN THAT LIES BETWEEN THE CASCADE AND COAST RANGES IN THE CENTRAL PART OF THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY. MOST OF...
Modes of fossil preservation
J. M. Schopf
1975, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology (20) 27-53
The processes of geologic preservation are important for understanding the organisms represented by fossils. Some fossil differences are due to basic differences in organization of animals and plants, but the interpretation of fossils has also tended to be influenced by modes of preservation....
Inhibition of salt water survival and Na-K-ATPase elevation in steelhead trout (Salmo gairdneri) by moderate water temperatures
B.L. Adams, W.S. Zaugg, L. R. McLain
1975, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (104) 766-769
The steelhead trout metamorphosis from a freshwater parr to a sea water-tolerant smolt possessing the migration tendency was evaluated at six different growth temperatures ranging from 6 to 15 C during January through July. The highest temperature where a transformation was indicated was 11.3 C. By April fish reared at...
Earthquake history of New Mexico
C. A. von Hake
1975, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (7) 23-26
Most of New Mexico's historical seismcity has been concentrated in the Rio Grande Valley between Socorro and Albuquerque. About half of the earthquakes of intensity V or greater (Modified Mercalli intensity) that occurred in teh State between 1868 and 1973 were centered in this region. ...
Improved digital filters for evaluating Fourier and Hankel transform integrals
Walter L. Anderson
1975, Report
New algorithms are described for evaluating Fourier (cosine, sine) and Hankel (J0,J1) transform integrals by means of digital filters. The filters have been designed with extended lengths so that a variable convolution operation can be applied to a large class of integral transforms having the same...
Digital-model study of ground-water hydrology, Columbia Basin Irrigation Project Area, Washington
H.H. Tanaka, A. J. Hansen Jr., J.A. Skrivan
1974, Water Supply Bulletin 40
Since 1952 water diverted from the Columbia River at Grand Coulee Dam has been used to irrigate parts of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project area in eastern Washington, and as a result ground-water levels generally have risen in the area. The rapid increases in ground-water inflow, outflow, and storage from...
Application of digital modeling to the prediction of radioisotope migration in ground water
J.B. Robertson
1974, Conference Paper, Isotope Techniques in Groundwater Hydrology
Recently developed numerical techniques have been adapted to the solution of transient radioactive solute migration problems in groundwater....
Water resources inventory of Connecticut Part 5: lower Housatonic River basin
William E. Wilson, Edward L. Burke, Chester E. Thomas Jr.
1974, Connecticut Water Resources Bulletin 19
The 557 square miles of the lower Housatonic River basin in western Connecticut include the basins of two major tributaries, the Pomperaug and Naugatuck Rivers. Nearly all water is derived from precipitation, which averaged 47 inches per year during 1931-60, In this period an additional 570 billion gallons of water...
Shore zone land use and land cover: Central Atlantic Regional Ecological Test Site
R. Dolan, B.P. Hayden, C.L. Vincent
1974, Natural Resources Report 8
Anderson's 1972 United States Geological Survey classification in modified form was applied to the barrier-island coastline within the CARETS region. High-altitude, color-infrared photography of December, 1972, and January, 1973, served as the primary data base in this study. The CARETS shore zone studied was divided into six distinct geographical regions;...
Presentation and interpretation of chemical data for igneous rocks
T. L. Wright
1974, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (48) 233-248
Arguments are made in favor of using variation diagrams to plot analyses of igneous rocks and their derivatives and modeling differentiation processes by least-squares mixing procedures. These methods permit study of magmatic differentiation and related processes in terms ofall of the chemical data available. Data are presented as they are reported...
A comparison of infrared, radar, and geologic mapping of lunar craters
T.W. Thompson, H. Masursky, R.W. Shorthill, G.L. Tyler, S.H. Zisk
1974, The Moon (10) 87-117
Between 1000 and 2000 infrared (eclipse) and radar anomalies have been mapped on the nearside hemisphere of the Moon. A study of 52 of these anomalies indicates that most are related to impact craters and that the nature of the infrared and radar responses is compatible...
Capture-recapture analysis of a wintering black-capped chickadee population in Connecticut, 1958-1993
C.S. Robbins
1974, American Birds (28) 273-274
We investigated the dynamics of a wintering population of Black-capped Chickadees (Parus atricapillus) using data from a long-term capture-recapture study. Goodness-of-fit and likelihood-ratio tests indicated that the standard Jolly-Seber model was inadequate for the data, so we explored different parameterizations of a model in which survival probability for new captures...
