Cartographic research 1977
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1978, Report
Two major subjects of the current research of the Topographic Division as reported here are related to policy decisions affecting the National Mapping Program of the Geological Survey. The adoption of a metric mapping policy has resulted in new cartographic products with associated changes in map design that require new...
Hydrologic appraisal of the water resources of the Homer-Preble Valley, New York
William Buller
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-94
Water resources of Homer-Preble Valley, 1 to 2 miles wide and 9 miles long, in central New York, were appraised because the area is expected to undergo considerable residential development in the near future. The main source of water supply to the residents of the area is the glacial-outwash aquifer....
Principal facts and profiles of gravity data from parts of Meade, Pennington, Haakon, and Jackson Counties, South Dakota
Donald L. Peterson, Jerry H. Hassemer
1978, Open-File Report 78-198
No abstract available....
Underway seismic data collected on U.S.G.S. Cruise S6-77, southeastern Bering Sea
James V. Gardner, T.L. Vallier
1978, Open-File Report 78-322
No abstract available....
The marine geology of the eastern Santa Barbara Channel, with particular emphasis on the ground water basins offshore from the Oxnard Plain, Southern California
H. Gary Greene, Stephen C. Wolf, Ken G. Blom
1978, Open-File Report 78-305
Marine geophysical investigations provide new data concerning the stratigraphy, tectonic and sedimentary history, and the ground water geology of the southeastern Santa Barbara Channel region. The offshore stratigraphy identified in seismic reflection profiles includes a succession of Neogene to Quaternary strata. The middle Miocene Conejo volcanics form an acoustical basement...
Seasonal trends in summer diet of the lapland longspur near Barrow Alaska USA
T. W. Custer, F.A. Pitelka
1978, The Condor (80) 295-301
Contents of lapland longspur [Calcarius lapponicus] stomachs and esophagi were sampled near Barrow, Alaska [USA], from May-Aug. in 1969, 1971, 1972 and 1973. Data from stomach contents were corrected for differential digestion of prey items. Longspurs shifted seasonally from larval to adult arthropods and back to larvae, responding to changes...
Use of Landsat data to assess waterfowl habitat quality
J. Colwell, D.S. Gilmer, E.A. Work, D.L. Rebel, N.E.G. Roller
1978, Report
No abstract available at this time...
Use of Landsat data to assess waterfowl habitat quality
J.E. Colwell, D.S. Gilmer, E.A. Work Jr., D. Rebel
1978, Report
This report is a discussion of the feasibility of using Landsat data to generate information of value for effective management of migratory waterfowl. Effective management of waterfowl includes regulating waterfowl populations through hunting regulations and habitat management. This report examines the ability to analyze annual production by monitoring the number...
Evaluation of an aerial survey of Pacific walruses
J. A. Estes, James R. Gilbert
1978, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (35) 1130-1140
An aerial survey of Pacific walruses (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) was evaluated to determine the reliability of estimates of population abundance. The probability of detecting groups of walruses on the pack ice remained uniform to at least 0.93 km from the flight line, whereas the probability of detection decreased significantly beyond 0.23 km...
Dislocation substructure of mantle-derived olivine as revealed by selective chemical etching and transmission electron microscopy
S. H. Kirby, M.W. Wegner
1978, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals (3) 309-330
Cleaved and mechanically polished surfaces of olivine from peridotite xenoliths from San Carlos, Arizona, were chemically etched using the techniques of Wegner and Christie (1974). Dislocation etch pits are produced on all surface orientations and they tend to be preferentially aligned along the traces of subgrain boundaries, which are approximately...
Transient creep and semibrittle behavior of crystalline rocks
N.L. Carter, S. H. Kirby
1978, Pure and Applied Geophysics PAGEOPH (116) 807-839
We review transient creep and semibrittle behavior of crystalline solids. The results are expected to be pertinent to crystalline rocks undergoing deformation in the depth range 5 to 20 km, corresponding to depths of focus of many major earthquakes. Transient creep data for crystalline rocks at elevated temperatures are analyzed...
Hydrologic Unit Map-1978, state of South Dakota
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1978, Hydrologic Unit 41
This map and accompanying table show Hydrologic Unites that are basically hydrographic in nature. The Cataloging Unites shown supplant the Cataloging Units previously depicted n the 1974 State Hydrologic Unit Map. The boundaries as shown have been adapted from the 1974 State Hydrologic Unit Map, "The Catalog of Information on...
The crystal structure and thermal history of orthopyroxene from lunar anorthosite 15415
H. T. Evans Jr., Huebner J. Stephen, J.A. Konnert
1978, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (37) 476-484
A single crystal of untwinned orthopyroxene from lunar anorthosite sample 15415, with composition (Mg1.14Fe0.80Mn0.02Ca0.04)(Si1.97Al0.03)O6, has a unit cell in space groupPbca witha = 18.310(15)Å,b = 8.904(10)Å,c = 5.214(7)Å, containing 2 formula units. A set of 742 counter-measured intensity data made with MoKα radiation has been used to refine the crystal structure in isotropic thermal mode...
Comparison of a few recording current meters in San Francisco Bay, CA
R. T. Cheng
1978, Conference Paper, Proceedings, Conference on Current Measurements
A team of research scientists in the U.S. Geological Survey uses San Francisco Bay, California, as an outdoor laboratory to study complicated interactions of physical, chemical, and biological processes which take place in an estuarine environment. A current meter comparison study was conceived because of the need to select a...
New potassium-argon data on the age of mineralization and metamorphism in the Willow Creek mining district, southern Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska
Miles L. Silberman, Bela Csejtey Jr., James G. Smith, Marvin A. Lanphere, Frederic H. Wilson
1978, Circular 772-B
The now largely abandoned Willow Creek mining district, southern Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska, produced nearly $18,000,000 in gold and minor silver between 1909 and the early 1950's. Mineralized quartz veins, which contain gold and silver along with minor quantities of base metals (in pyrite, galena, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, molybdenite, and arsenopyrite), cut...
Geomagnetic paleointensities from radiocarbon‐dated lava flows on Hawaii and the question of the Pacific nondipole low
Robert S. Coe, Sherman Gromme, Edward A. Mankinen
1978, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (83) 1740-1756
Radiocarbon ages have been published for nine basaltic lava flows on the island of Hawaii; the ages range from 2600 to somewhat older than 17,900 years B.P. By using the Thelliers' method in vacuum, geomagnetic paleointensity values were obtained from eight of the lavas; the ninth proved unsuitable. The paleointensities...
Identification and significance of accessory minerals from a bituminous coal
R. B. Finkelman, R.W. Stanton
1978, Fuel (57) 763-768
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) has been used to study the in situ accessory minerals in polished blocks and pellets of petrographically analysed samples of the Waynesburg coal (hvb). Individual grains from the low-temperature ash (LTA) of the same coal were also studied. The visual resolution of the SEM permitted the detection...
Microwave remote sensing of sea ice in the AIDJEX Main Experiment
W. J. Campbell, J. Wayenberg, J.B. Ramseyer, R.O. Ramseier, M.R. Vant, R. Weaver, A. Redmond, L. Arsenaul, P. Gloersen, H.J. Zwally, T.T. Wilheit, T.C. Chang, D. Hall, L. Gray, D.C. Meeks, M.L. Bryan, F.T. Barath, C. Elachi, F. Leberl, Tom Farr
1978, Boundary-Layer Meteorology (13) 309-337
During the AIDJEX Main Experiment, April 1975 through May 1976, a comprehensive microwave sensing program was performed on the sea ice of the Beaufort Sea. Surface and aircraft measurements were obtained during all seasons using a wide variety of active and passive microwave sensors. The surface program obtained passive microwave...
Time-dependence of sea-ice concentration and multiyear ice fraction in the Arctic Basin
P. Gloersen, H.J. Zwally, A.T.C. Chang, D.K. Hall, W. J. Campbell, R.O. Ramseier
1978, Boundary-Layer Meteorology (13) 339-359
The time variation of the sea-ice concentration and multiyear ice fraction within the pack ice in the Arctic Basin is examined, using microwave images of sea ice recently acquired by the Nimbus-5 spacecraft and the NASA CV-990 airborne laboratory. The images used for these studies were constructed from data acquired...
The moon: Composition determined by nebular processes
J. W. Morgan, J. Hertogen, E. Anders
1978, The Moon and the Planets (18) 465-478
The bulk composition of the Moon was determined by the conditions in the solar nebula during its formation, and may be quantitatively estimated from the premise that the terrestrial planets were formed by cosmochemical processes similar to those recorded in the chondrites. The calculations are based on the Ganapathy-Anders 7-component...
Applications of the VLF induction method for studying some volcanic processes of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii
C.J. Zablocki
1978, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (3) 155-195
The very low-frequency (VLF) induction method has found exceptional utility in studying various volcanic processes of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii because: (1) significant anomalies result exclusively from ionically conductive magma or still-hot intrusions (> 800??C) and the attendant electrolytically conductive hot groundwater; (2) basalt flows forming the bulk of Kilauea have...
Induction of auroral zone electric currents within the Alaska pipeline
W.H. Campbell
1978, Pure and Applied Geophysics PAGEOPH (116) 1143-1173
The Alaskar pipeline is a highly conducting anomaly extending 800 miles (1300 km) from about 62?? to 69?? geomagnetic latitude beneath the most active regions of the ionospheric electrojet current. The spectral behavior of the magnetic field from this current was analyzed using data from standard geomagnetic observatories to establish...
Revised values for the Gibbs free energy of formation of [Al(OH)4 aq-], diaspore, boehmite and bayerite at 298.15 K and 1 bar, the thermodynamic properties of kaolinite to 800 K and 1 bar, and the heats of solution of several gibbsite samples
B. S. Hemingway, R. A. Robie, J.A. Kittrick
1978, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (42) 1533-1543
Solution calorimetric measurements compared with solubility determinations from the literature for the same samples of gibbsite have provided a direct thermochemical cycle through which the Gibbs free energy of formation of [Al(OH)4 aq−] can be determined. The Gibbs free energy of formation of [Al(OH)4 aq−] at 298.15 K is −1305...
Velocity anomalies: An alternative explanation based on data from laboratory experiments
D.A. Lockner, J.D. Byerlee
1978, Pure and Applied Geophysics PAGEOPH (116) 765-772
Locations and velocities were calculated for microseisms occurring in samples of rock subjected to triaxial loading and injection of pore fluid. This was accomplished by analyzing arrival times of acoustic emission using an automatic first arrival picker. Apparent velocity anomalies were observed prior to both failure of intact samples and...
Conceptual models in exploration geochemistry-The Basin and Range Province of the Western United States and Northern Mexico
T.G. Lovering, J. H. McCarthy Jr.
1978, Journal of Geochemical Exploration (9) 113-276
This summary of geochemical exploration in the Basin and Range Province is another in the series of reviews of geochemical-exploration applications covering a large region; this series began in 1975 with a summary for the Canadian Cordillera and Canadian Shield, and was followed in 1976 by a similar summary for...
