The late-Neoglacial histories of the Agassiz and Jackson glaciers, Glacier National Park, Montana.
P. E. Carrara, R. G. McGimsey
1981, Arctic and Alpine Research (13) 183-196
Twenty-one tree-ring stations, totaling 116 trees, were sampled at various localities within the forest trimlines fronting the Agassiz and Jackson glaciers, Glacier National Park, Montana. Tree ages within these zones became progressively younger from the region of the maximum late-Neoglacial position to the bases of the bedrock slopes on which...
Magneto-stratigraphic studies in Neogene deposits of Taylor Valley and McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
D. P. Elston, S.L. Bressler
1981, Journal Royal Society New Zealand (11) 481-486
Magnetic polarity and susceptibility zonations obtained from drill cores have served to refine temporal correlations in glaciogenic sections cored in eastern Taylor Valley. The zonations have led to a better understanding of the glacial and structural history for an interval of time that extends from the late Miocene (about 7...
Fission-track dating of apatite and zircon: An interlaboratory comparison
C. W. Naeser, R.A. Zimmermann, G. T. Cebula
1981, Nuclear Tracks (5) 65-72
Apatite and zircon separates from the Fish Canyon Tuff (K-Ar age, 27.9??0.7 Myr), San Juan Mtns., Colorado, have been given to over 50 laboratories for fission-track dating. Nineteen laboratories have reported fission-track ages that they have determined for apatites. Nine laboratories have reported their analysis of the zircons. The principal...
Paleoclimatic implications of Late Pleistocene marine ostracodes from the St. Lawrence lowlands.
T. M. Cronin
1981, Micropaleontology (27) 384-418
Using modern zoogeographic data and inferred temperature ranges for Champlain Sea ostracode species, bottom water paleotemperatures were estimated for three phases of deposition of this inland sea. The temporal distribution of these and other environmentally diagnostic species in Champlain Sea deposits reveals a significant local climatic change in the Champlain...
Rank of coal beds of the Narragansett basin, Massachusetts and Rhode Island
P.C. Lyons, H.B. Chase Jr.
1981, International Journal of Coal Geology (1) 155-168
Coal of the Narragansett basin generally has been considered to be anthracite and/or meta-anthracite. However, no single reliable method has been used to distinguish these two ranks in this basin. Three methods — chemical, X-ray, and petrographic — have been used...
Estimating usable resources from historical industry data
S.M. Cargill, D. H. Root, E. H. Bailey
1981, Economic Geology (76) 1081-1095
Historical production statistics are used to predict the quantity of remaining usable resources. The commodities considered are mercury, copper and its byproducts gold and silver, and petroleum; the production and discovery data are for the United States. The results of the study indicate that the cumulative return per unit of...
Issue in pollution control: interplant cost differences and economies of scale.
R.W. Pittman
1981, Land Economics (57) 1-17
Seeks evidence concerning the issues of the relative efficiencies of different institutional arrangements for pollution control and the implications of control requirements for economies of scale and barriers to entry. Data is derived from the estimation of a production function for 30 pulp and paper mills in Wisconsin and Michigan....
Ne matrix spectra of the sym-C6Br3F3+ radical cation
V.E. Bondybey, T.J. Sears, T.A. Miller, C. Vaughn, J.H. English, R.S. Shiley
1981, Chemical Physics (61) 9-16
The electronic absorption and laser excited, wavelength resolved fluorescence spectra of the title cation have been observed in solid Ne matrix and vibrationally analysed. The vibrational structure of the excited B2A2??? state shows close similarity to the parent compound. The X2E??? ground state structure is strongly perturbed and irregular owing...
Mt. St. Helens: evidence of increased magmatic gas component
R.E. Stoiber, S.N. Williams, L.L. Malinconico Jr., D. A. Johnston, T. J. Casadevall
1981, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (11) 203-212
This paper presents measurements of SO2 flux and ash leachate chemistry from Mt. St. Helens volcano during the period May 18 to July 22 which are in contrast to similar data from before May 18. Comparison of post-18 May SO2 data with similar data from other volcanoes leads to the...
Use of remote sensing for monitoring deforestation in tropical and subtropical latitudes
J. J. Talbot, Lawrence R. Pettinger
1981, Ciencia Interamericana (21) 63-71
Of the three types of remotely sensed data discussed here, Landsat data offers the greatest potential for monitoring broad changes in extensive tropical forest environments because of its low-cost, synoptic, repetitive coverage. Scientists from developing countries can choose from a variety of Landsat data classification techniques, thus enabling each country...
Allelic variability in species and stocks of Lake Superior ciscoes (Coregoninae)
Thomas N. Todd
1981, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (38) 1808-1813
Starch gel electrophoresis was used as a means of recognizing species and stocks in Lake Superior Coregonus. Allelic variability at isocitrate dehydrogenase and glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase loci was recorded for samples of lake herring (Coregonus artedii), bloater (C. hoyi), kiyi (C. kiyi), and shortjaw cisco (C. zenithicus) from five Lake Superior...
Water type and suitability of Oklahoma surface waters for public supply and irrigation, Part 3: Canadian, North Canadian, and deep fork river basins through 1979
Jerry D. Stoner
1981, Water-Resources Investigations Report 81-80
Water-quality data through 1979 in the Canadian, North Canadian, and Deep Fork River basins within Oklahoma were examined for water type and suitability for public water supply and irrigation use. Of 105 stations with available data, 47 stations or 45 percent were considered to have sufficient data for analysis. The...
New maps of Federal coal
R. G. Wayland
1981, Geological Society of America Bulletin (92) 542-550
Compilation and analysis of publicly available data on Federal coal are resulting in voluminous map sets showing coal isopachs, structure contours, and overburden isopachs on each known minable coal bed. As of the spring of 1981, there are available from the U.S. Geological...
Minor and trace element geochemistry of volcanic rocks dredged from the Galapagos spreading center: Role of crystal fractionation and mantle heterogeneity
D.A. Clague, F.A. Frey, G. Thompson, S. Rindge
1981, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth (86) 9469-9482
A wide range of rock types (abyssal tholeiite, Fe-Ti-rich basalt, andesite, and rhyodacite) were dredged from near 95°W and 85°W on the Galapagos spreading center. Computer modeling of major element compositions has shown that these rocks could be derived from common parental magmas by successive degrees of fractional crystallization. However,...
Analysis of variance of thematic mapping experiment data.
G.H. Rosenfield
1981, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (47) 1685-1692
As an example of the methodology, data from an experiment using three scales of land-use and land-cover mapping have been analyzed. The binomial proportions of correct interpretations have been analyzed untransformed and transformed by both the arcsine and the logit transformations. A weighted analysis of variance adjustment has been used....
A transient laboratory method for determining the hydraulic properties of 'tight' rocks-I. Theory
P. A. Hsieh, J.V. Tracy, C. E. Neuzil, J.D. Bredehoeft, Stephen E. Silliman
1981, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences & Geomechanics Abstracts (18) 245-252
Transient pulse testing has been employed increasingly in the laboratory to measure the hydraulic properties of rock samples with low permeability. Several investigators have proposed a mathematical model in terms of an initial-boundary value problem to describe fluid flow in a transient pulse test. However, the solution of this problem...
A distribution-free alternative to least-squares regression and its application to Rb/Sr isochron calculations
R.G. Vugrinovich
1981, Journal of the International Association for Mathematical Geology (13) 443-454
A distribution-free estimator of the slope of a regression line is introduced. This estimator is designated Sm and is given by the median of the set of n(n - 1)/2 slope estimators, which may be calculated by inserting pairs of points (Xi, Yi)and (Xj, Yj)into the slope formula Si =...
Heavy metals and manganese oxides in the genesee watershed, New York state: Effects of geology and land use
P.R. Whitney
1981, Journal of Geochemical Exploration (14) 95-117
Manganese oxide coatings on gravels from 255 sites on tributary streams in the Genesee River Watershed were analyzed for Mn, Fe, Zn, Cd, Co, Ni, Pb, and Cu. The results were compared with data on bedrock geology, surficial geology and land use, using factor analysis and stepwise multiple regression. All...
Late Cenozoic stages and molluscan zones of the U.S. Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain
B. W. Blackwelder
1981, Journal of Paleontology, Supplement, Part II (55)
Pliocene to Holocene deposits of the U.S.Atlantic Coastal Plain from Maryland to Georgia are divided into four stages and four substages using molluscan biostratigraphic data. These divisions are the Wiltonian and Burwellian Stages (early Pliocene), Gouldian and Windyan Substages of the Colerainian Stage (late Pliocene to early Pleistocene), and Myrtlean...
Estimating bird damage from damage incidence in wine grape vineyards
R. W. DeHaven, R. L. Hothem
1981, American Journal of Enology and Viticulture (32) 1-4
Bird damage was measured during 1977 and 1978 at 32 wine grape vineyards in the San Joaquin Valley and North Coastal Region of California. Both the percentage bird loss (PBL) and the percentage of bunches damaged (BDI = bird damage incidence) were determined during 55 total-damage assessments, and the resulting...
An examination of techniques for reformatting digital cartographic data. Part 2: The vector-to raster process.
Donna J. Peuquet
1981, Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization (18) 21-33
Current graphic devices suitable for high-speed computer input and output of cartographic data are tending more and more to be raster-oriented, such as the rotating drum scanner and the color raster display. However, the majority of commonly used manipulative techniques in computer-assisted cartography and automated spatial data handling continue to...
Geochemical prospecting for hydrocarbons in the outer continental shelf, Southern Bering Sea, Alaska
K.A. Kvenvolden, T.M. Vogel, J.V. Gardner
1981, Journal of Geochemical Exploration (14) 209-219
This geochemical survey is based on 20 stations located on the outer continental shelf of the southern Bering Sea in an area of 30,000 km2 that includes St. George basin. Hydrocarbon gases from sediment samples recovered by gravity coring at each of the stations were analyzed by gas chromatography. Data are...
Sequential extraction techniques applied to a porphyry copper deposit in the basin and range province
L.H. Filipek, P. K. Theobald Jr.
1981, Journal of Geochemical Exploration (14) 155-174
Samples of minus-80-mesh (<180 μm) stream sediment, rock containing exposed fracture coatings, and jarosite and chrysocolla were collected from an area surrounding the North Silver Bell porphyry Cu deposit near Tucson, Arizona. The samples were subjected to a series of extractions in a scheme originally designed for use on...
Chrysophyte cysts as potential environmental indicators
D.P. Adam, A.D. Mahood
1981, Geological Society of America Bulletin (92) 839-844
Many Chrysophyte algae produce morphologically distinctive, siliceous, microscopic cysts during a resting stage of their life cycles; these cysts are often preserved in sediments. Scanning electron microscopy and Nomarski optics permit much more detailed observation of these cysts than was heretofore possible. We...
Remote sensing: a tool for park planning and management
William C. Draeger, Lawrence R. Pettinger
1981, Parks (6) 1-6
Remote sensing may be defined as the science of imaging or measuring objects from a distance. More commonly, however, the term is used in reference to the acquisition and use of photographs, photo-like images, and other data acquired from aircraft and satellites. Thus, remote sensing includes the use of such...
