Glaciers: A water resource
Mark Meier, Austin Post
1995, Report
Most Americans have never seen a glacier, and most would say that glaciers are rare features found only in inaccessible, isolated wilderness mountains. Are they really so rare? Or are they really potentially important sources of water supply?...
Environmental contaminants in eggs of California least terns (Sterna antillarum browni)
Roger L. Hothem, Stephani G. Zador
1995, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (55) 658-665
A severe decline in the coastal breeding population of California least terns (Sterna antillarum browni) in California and Baja California (U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv. 1980) prompted both State and Federal governments to designate it an endangered species in 1970 (Massey 1974). Significant losses of nesting and feeding habitat have contributed...
Distribution of phytobenthos in the Yakima River basin, Washington, in relation to geology, land use and other environmental factors
Harry V. Leland
1995, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (52) 1108-1129
Benthic-algal distributions in the Yakima River, Washington, basin were, examined in relation to geology, land use, water chemistry, and stream habitat using indicator-species classification (TWINSPAN) and canonical correspondence analysis (CCA). Algal assemblages identified byTWINSPAN were each associated with a narrow range of water-quality conditions. In the Cascade geologic province,...
Aquifer test in a complex drift aquifer system, west-central Minnesota
G. N. Delin
1995, Hydrological Science and Technology (11) 1-13
No abstract available....
Outwash plains and thermokarst on Mars
F.M. Costard, J.S. Kargel
1995, Icarus (114) 93-112
The spatial distribution of different types of rampart craters on Mars suggests a hemispheric asymmetry in the distribution of ground ice. The northern plains, especially major topographic depressions near the terminations of outflow channels, have high percentages of rampart craters. Two of these basins, Acidalia and Utopia Planitiae, received extraordinarily...
Decline of northern pintails
Jay B. Hestback
Edward T. LaRoe, Gaye S. Farris, Catherine E. Puckett, Peter D. Doran, Michael J. Mac, editor(s)
1995, Book chapter, Our living resources: A report to the nation on the distribution, abundance, and health of U.S. plants, animals, and ecosystems
The size of the continental breeding population of northern pintail (Anas acuta) has greatly varied since 1955, with numbers in surveyed areas ranging from a high of 9.9 million to a low of 1.8 million in 1991. This variation results primarily from differences in the numbers of breeding pintails in...
Paleoecology of the Springfield Coal Member (Desmoinesian, Illinois Basin) near the Leslie Cemetery paleochannel, southwestern Indiana
Debra A. Willard, William A. DiMichele, Donald L. Eggert, James C. Hower, Carl B. Rexroad, Andrew C. Scott
1995, International Journal of Coal Geology (27) 59-98
The Springfield Coal Member (Carbondale Group, Petersburg Formation of Indiana) is split locally in Warrick and Gibson Counties, Indiana, by clastic rocks of the Folsomville Member (Carbondale Group, Petersburg Formation) that represent the Leslie Cemetery paleochannel, part of a large, interconnected paleochannel system...
Seabirds in Alaska
Scott A. Hatch, John F. Piatt
Edward T. LaRoe, Gaye S. Farris, Catherine E. Puckett, Peter D. Doran, Michael J. Mac, editor(s)
1995, Book chapter, Our living resources: A report to the nation on the distribution, abundance, and health of U.S. plants, animals, and ecosystems
About 100 million seabirds reside in marine waters of Alaska during some part of the year. Perhaps half this population is composed of 50 species of nonbreeding residents, visitors, and breeding species that use marine habitats only seasonally (Gould et al. 1982). Another 30 species include 40-60 million individuals that...
Information and technology report
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1995, Report
No abstract available....
Water quality and agricultural runoff: monitoring results from two Tennessee hydrologic unit areas
Tom D. Byl
1995, Proceedings of the annual meeting - Tennessee Forage and Grassland Council 23-28
Canada geese in North America
Donald H. Rusch, Richard E. Malecki, Robert E. Trost
Edward T. LaRoe, Gaye S. Farris, Catherine E. Puckett, Peter D. Doran, Michael J. Mac, editor(s)
1995, Book chapter, Our living resources: A report to the nation on the distribution, abundance, and health of U.S. plants, animals, and ecosystems
Canada geese (Branta canadensis) are probably more abundant now than at any time in history. They rank first among wildlife watchers and second among harvests of waterfowl species in North America. Canada geese are also the most widely distributed and phenotypically (visible characteristics of the birds) variable species of bird...
Geology, hydrology, and mechanics of a slow-moving, clay-rich landslide, Honolulu, Hawaii
Rex L. Baum, Mark E. Reid
William C. Haneberg, Scott A. Anderson, editor(s)
1995, Book chapter, Clay and shale slope instability
The Alani-Paty landslide has damaged streets, utilities, and homes built on a debris apron in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. Failure of weathered, crudely stratified, highly plastic, debris-apron deposits has created several similar landslides in southeastern Oahu. The Alani-Paty landslide affects about 60 residential lots. It is about 300 m long, 160...
Biological science report
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1995, Report
No abstract available....
Deep tunnel detection using crosshole radar tomography
Ken Hauser, Michael Jackson, John Lane, Richard Hodges
1995, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the symposium on the Application of geophysics to engineering and environmental problems: SAGEEP '95
As part of continuing research aimed at the detection of subsurface tunnels and voids, the U.S. Bureau of Mines recently completed a cooperative study with the U.S. Geological Survey at a surface gold mine in the Black Hills mining district of South Dakota. The occurrence of older, poorly mapped mine workings in...
Effect of predation by Sacramento squawfish (Ptychocheilus grandis) on habitat choice of California roach (Lavinia symmetricus) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in artificial streams
Larry R. Brown, Anne M. D. Brasher
1995, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (52) 1639-1646
We studied the effects of predatory Sacramento squawfish (Ptychocheilus grandis) on habitat choice of juvenile California roach (Lavinia symmetricus), adult roach, and juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in artificial streams. In single-prey trials, the proportion of fish found in pool habitat declined in the presence of squawfish for juvenile roach...
Tertiary volcanic rocks from the southern Pannonian Basin, Croatia
Jakob J. Pamic, Edwin H. McKee, Thomas D. Bullen, Marvin A. Lanphere
1995, International Geology Review (37) 259-283
The Tertiary volcanic rocks of the southern part of the Pannonian Basin are related to a sequence of tectonic events that occurred along the northern margin of the Dinarides when subduction ceased and after uplift of the region in middle Eocene time. The oldest rocks are andesites and dacites erupted...
Seagrass distribution in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Lawrence R. Handley
1995, Book chapter, Our living resources: A report to the nation on the distribution, abundance, and health of U.S. plants, animals, and ecosystems
Seagrass ecosystems are widely recognized as some of the most productive benthic habitats in estuarine and nearshore waters of the gulf coast. Seagrass meadows provide food for wintering waterfowl and important spawning and foraging habitat for several species of commercially important finfish and shellfish. Physical structure provided by...
Land subsidence in drained histosols and highly organic mineral soils of California
Stuart Rojstaczer, Steven J. Deverel
1995, Soil Science Society of America Journal (59) 1162-1167
This study was conducted to determine historical trends in subsidence in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and their environmental controls. In the western Delta, average subsidence rates were 2.3 cm yr-1 from 1910 to 1.5 cm yr-1 from 1952 to 1988. Spatially variability in subsidence was correlated with organic matter content...
Geohydrologic framework, historical development of the ground-water system and general hydrologic and water-quality condiitons in 1990, south San Francisco Bay and peninsula area, California
John L. Fio, David A. Leighton
1995, Water Supply Paper 2467
No abstract available....
Disease considerations for waterfowl managers
Milton Friend
1995, Report, Waterfowl habitat restoration enhancement and management in the Atlantic Flyway
No abstract available....
Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)
J. E. Austin, M. R. Miller
A. Poole, F. Gill, editor(s)
1995, Book chapter, The Birds of North America
The Northern Pintail is a medium-sized dabbling duck of slender, elegant lines and conservative plumage coloration. It is circumpolar in distribution and abundant in North America, with core nesting habitat in Alaska and the Prairie Pothole Region of southern Canada and the northern Great Plains. Breeders favor shallow wetlands interspersed...
Applications of the transient tracers tritium/helium-3, and chlorofluorocarbons for tracing and age-dating yound ground water: Field examples from the USA and Germany
S. Drenkard, Niel Plummer, Eurybiades Busenberg, P. Schlosser, M. Stute, H. Dorr
1995, Book chapter, Contaminated soil '95: Soils & environment
The transient tracers tritium/helium-3 (3H/3He) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFC-11, CFC-12, CFC-113) are well suited for tracing and age-dating young ground water. Their detection in ground water indicates waters recharged within the past 30 (3H/3He, CFC-113) to 50 (CFC-11, CFC-12) years, or ground water mixtures that contain at least a portion of...
Interpreting spatial profiles of concentration in acid mine drainage streams
R. E. Broshears, Briant A. Kimball, Robert L. Runkel
W. R. Hotchkiss, J. S. Downey, E. D. Gutentag, editor(s)
1995, Book chapter, Water resources at risk, Denver, Colorado
No abstract available. ...
Bibliography of reports from the Volcano Hazards Program, Water Resources Division, 1980-1994
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1995, Open-File Report 95-131
No abstract available....
Preliminary development of the LBL/USGS three-dimensional site-scale model of Yucca Mountain, Nevada
1995, Book
A three-dimensional model of moisture flow within the unsaturated zone at Yucca Mountain is being developed at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). This site-scale model covers and area of about 34 km2 and is bounded by major faults to the north, east and...
