Limnological data for Donner Lake, California, May 1973 through December 1973
Alex E. Dong
1975, Report
Donner Lake is easily accessible to the metropolitan areas of Sacramento and San Francisco and is close to many recreational areas in the Sierra Nevada. The lake is used for recreation and is bordered by commercial establishments, summer vacation homes, and a large state campground. Domestic wastes around the lake...
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...
Utilization of Skylab (EREP) system for appraising changes in continental migratory bird habitat
E.A. Work Jr., D.S. Gilmer
1975, Technical Report CR-147542
The author has identified the following significant results. Surface water statistics using data obtained by supporting aircraft were generated. Signature extraction and refinement preliminary to wetland and associated upland vegetation recognition were accomplished, using a selected portion of the aircraft data. Final classification mapping and...
The determination of specific forms of aluminum in natural water
R.B. Barnes
1975, Chemical Geology (15) 177-191
A procedure for analysis and pretreatment of natural-water samples to determine very low concentrations of Al is described which distinguishes the rapidly reacting equilibrium species from the metastable or slowly reacting macro ions and colloidal suspended material. Aluminum is complexed with 8-hydroxyquinoline (oxine), pH is adjusted to 8.3 to...
Interstitial solutions and diagenesis in deeply buried marine sediments: Results from the Deep Sea Drilling Project
F.L. Sayles, F.T. Manheim
1975, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (39) 103-127
Through the Deep Sea Drilling Project samples of interstitial solutions of deeply buried marine sediments throughout the World Ocean have been obtained and analyzed. The studies have shown that in all but the most slowly deposited sediments pore fluids exhibit changes in composition upon burial. These changes can be grouped...
Hydrologic data of the coastal drainage basins of southeastern Massachusetts, Weir River, Hingham, to Jonas River, Kingston
John R. Williams, Richard E. Willey, Gary D. Tasker
1975, Massachusetts Hydrologic - Data Report 16
The principal basins are those of Weir River, James Brook, Bound Brook, North River, South River, and Jones River, all draining to Massachusetts Bay and Cape Cod Bay. These basins are bounded on the north by the Weymouth River basins, on the west by the Taunton River basin, and on...
Principal facts for gravity stations in the Rat Islands and Delarof Islands and Tanaga Island, Alaska
D.L. Healey
1975, Report
Gravity observations were made both east and west of the international dateline in the Aleutian Islands during 1970. A total of 280 gravity observations were made in the Rat Islands to the west and the Delarof Islands and Tanaga Island to the east. The principal facts and explanatory information for...
Water resources data Maryland and Delaware, water year 1971, Part 2. Water quality records
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1974, Water Data Report MD-DE-71-2
No abstract available....
Water resources data Maryland and Delaware, water year 1973, Part 1. Surface water records
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1974, Water Data Report MD-DE-73-1
No abstract available. ...
Developing a state water plan: Ground-water conditions in Utah, spring of 1974
Jerry C. Stephens, L.J. Bjorklund, E.L. Bolke, R. W. Mower, L. R. Herbert, R.M. Cordova, R.G. Butler, G. W. Sandberg, C.T. Sumison
1974, Cooperative Investigations Report 13
This report is the eleventh in a series of annual reports that describe ground-water conditions in Utah. Reports in this series, prepared cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Utah Division of Water Resources, provide data to enable interested parties such as legislators, administrators, and planners to keep abreast...
Limnological data from selected lakes in the San Francisco Bay region, California
Linda J. Britton, Rodger F. Ferreira, Robert C. Averett
1974, Open-File Report 3019-27
Limnological data were compiled on 21 lakes in the San Francisco Bay area. The data were obtained from regulating agencies and from recent surveys made by the U.S. Geological Survey. The history of each lake and of its respective regulating agency is presented, along with methods used for data collection...
Crest-stage gaging stations in Oregon: a compilation of peak data collected from October 1952 to September 1974
John Friday
1974, Report
A crest-stage gaging station provides an excellent means for determining peak water-surface elevations at a selected location on a stream channel. When related to streamflow, these data provide hydrologists with a knowledge of the flood experience of a drainage basin. If an adequate flood history is known, it is possible...
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...
Apollo 11 voice transcript pertaining to the geology of the landing site
N. G. Bailey, G. E. Ulrich
1974, Report
On July 20, 1969, America's Eagle touched down in southwestern Mare Tranquillitatis beginning man's firsthand exploration of the moon. This document is an edited record of the conversations between astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., at Tranquility Base, and Bruce McCandless at Mission Control in Houston during the...
Water resources data for California, 1973; Part 1: Surface water records; Volume 2: Northern Great Basin and Central Valley
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1974, Water Data Report CA-73-1-2
Surface-water records for the 1973 water year for California, including records of streamflow or reservoir storage at gaging stations, partial-record stations, and miscellaneous sites, are given in this report, Records for a few pertinent gaging stations in bordering States also are included, The records were collected and computed by the...
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...
Tour guide: John Wesley Powell Federal Building
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1974, Report
Data from 5,594 samples collected from 1931 through 2006 were used to describe naturally occurring fluoride concentrations in freshwater aquifers in Louisiana. Statistical analyses were used to summarize fluoride concentrations in the aquifers....
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;...
Water resources data for New Mexico, water year 1973; Part 1. Surface water records
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1974, Water Data Report NM-73-1
Surface-water records for the 1973 calendar year for New Mexico, including records of streamflow or reservoir storage at gaging stations, partial-record stations, and miscellaneous sites, are given in this report and their locations shown in figures 1, 2. Records for a 'few pertinent gaging stations in bordering States also are...
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...
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...
Optimal exploitation strategies for an animal population in a stochastic serially correlated environment
David R. Anderson
1974, Dissertation Abstracts International (35) 3107
Optimal exploitation strategies were studied for an animal population in a stochastic, serially correlated environment. This is a general case and encompasses a number of important cases as simplifications. Data on the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) were used to explore the exploitation strategies and test several hypotheses because relatively...
Progress report on the North American Breeding Bird Survey
C.S. Robbins, W.T. Van Velzen
1974, Acta Ornithologica (14) 170-191
The Breeding Bird Survey has been monitoring bird population changes in the U.S.A. and Canada since 1966. Each cooperator makes 50 3-minute stops at 0.8-km intervals along randomly selected roadside routes in 4 to 4 1/2 hours on one morning in June of each year. Data from the 1500 to...
Breeding red-winged blackbirds in captivity
C.J. Know, A.R. Stickley Jr.
1974, The Auk (91) 808-816
Ability to establish and maintain self-sustaining breeding colonies of captive Red-winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) would facilitate long-term studies designed to develop methods for alleviating blackbird depredations as well as provide basic life history data. To be most useful, the colonies should be established in pens near laboratory facilities; this frequently...
The breeding bird atlas of Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
M. K. Klimkiewicz, C.S. Robbins
1974, Acta Ornithologica (14) 446-458
A two-year Breeding Bird Atlas program for Montgomery County was undertaken by the Maryland Ornithological Society in 1971-1972. The county was divided into 65 5 km blocks and each block was assigned to an observer. Preliminary results show 46 to 93 species (mean 66) recorded per 5 km...
