Geologic history of Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1976, Report
Cape Cod, a sandy peninsula built mostly during the Ice Age, juts into the Atlantic Ocean like a crooked arm. Because of its exposed location, Cape Cod was visited by many early explorers. Although clear-cut evidence is lacking, the Vikings may have sighted this land about 1,000 years ago. It...
Monitoring the breeding habitats of migratory waterfowl
D.S. Gilmer, A.T. Klett, E.A. Work
1976, Book chapter, ERTS-1: a new window on our planet.
No abstract available at this time...
Combating waterfowl diseases
Milton Friend
1976, Ducks Unlimited (40) 44-46
No abstract available....
Antimycin: Uptake, distribution, and elimination in brown bullheads (Ictalurus nebulosus)
D.P. Schultz, P.D. Harman
1976, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (33) 1121-1129
Radioactive antimycin was readily taken up in bile and tissues of brown bullheads (Ictalurus nebulosus) exposed to 0.045 μg/ml of 14C-antimycin for as long as 48 h. Bile contained the most and blood the least radioactivity at all sampling periods. The highest concentration of 14C-antimycin in muscle was 0.12 μg/g, after 12 h of exposure. The...
Geohydrology and water supply, Shemya Island, Alaska
Alvin John Feulner, Chester Zenone, K. M. Reed
1976, Open-File Report 76-82
Sheyma Island, Alaska, was occupied as a military base in 1942. Since that time, potable water has been supplied by streams, lakes, wells, and in the late 1950's, a gallery system. The island is a low-lying, wave-cut platform composed of pyroclastic and volcanic rocks with some intrusives. Bedrock is overlain...
Change in methylene blue active substances and chloride levels in streams in Suffolk County, New York, 1961-1976
Stephen E. Ragone, August A. Guerrera, W.J. Flipse Jr.
1976, Open-File Report 76-600
Since 1961, concentrations of methylene blue active substances and chloride were measured in samples collected at 67 sampling stations on 44 streams in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. Changes in the concentrations of these constituents and calculated chloride/methylene blue active substances ratios are reported. Although many factors--the 1962 to...
Residual magnetic intensity map, Coso Hot Springs, California
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1976, Open-File Report 76-698
No abstract available....
Mixing of carbonate waters
T.M.L. Wigley, Niel Plummer
1976, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (40) 989-995
When mineral solutions of different compositions are mixed, the molalities and activities of individual ions in the mixture are often non-linear functions of their end-member values. This non-linearity is particularly significant in determining mineral saturation levels. Mixtures of saturated solutions may be either...
Turbidity distribution in the Atlantic Ocean
Stephen Eittreim, E. M. Thorndike, L. Sullivan
1976, Deep-Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts (23) 1115-1127
The regional coverage of Lamont nephelometer data in the North and South Atlantic can be used to map seawater turbidity at all depths. At the level of the clearest water, in the mid-depth regions, the turbidity distribution primarily reflects the pattern of productivity in the surface waters. This suggests that...
Geochemical controls on lead concentrations in stream water and sediments
J.D. Hem
1976, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (40) 599-609
The equilibrium distribution of lead in solution and adsorbed on cation exchange sites in sediment theoretically may be calculated from equations representing selectivities of substrate for lead over H+, Ca2+ and Na+, and the stabilities of lead solute species. Such calculations include consideration of total concentrations of major ions, cation exchange...
Submarine geothermal resources
D.L. Williams
1976, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (1) 85-100
Approximately 20% of the earth's heat loss (or 2 ?? 1012 cal/s) is released through 1% of the earth's surface area and takes the form of hydrothermal discharge from young (Pleistocene or younger) rocks adjacent to active seafloor-spreading centers and submarine volcanic areas. This amount is roughly equivalent to man's...
Search for organic and volatile inorganic compounds in two surface samples from the chryse planitia region of Mars
K. Biemann, John Oro, P. Toulmin III, Leslie E. Orgel, A.O. Nier, D.M. Anderson, P.G. Simmonds, D. Flory, A.V. Diaz, D.R. Rushneck, J.A. Biller
1976, Science (194) 72-76
Two surface samples collected from the Chryse Planitia region of Mars were heated to temperatures up to 500??C, and the volatiles that they evolved were analyzed with a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer. Only water and carbon dioxide were detected. This implies that organic compounds have not accumulated to the extent that...
Exchange of Na+ and K+ between water vapor and feldspar phases at high temperature and low vapor pressure
R.O. Fournier
1976, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (40) 1553-1561
In order to determine whether gas (steam) containing a small amount of dissolved alkali chloride is effective in promoting base exchange of Na+ and K+ among alkali feldspars and coexisting brine or brine plus solid salt, experiments were carried out at 400–700°C and steam densities ranging down to less than 0.05. For...
Indexes associated with information theory in water quality
S.M. Zand
1976, Journal of the Water Pollution Control Federation (48) 2026-2031
In many biological studies of water quality, a diversity index is calculated in 'bits per individual' by using Shannon's Approximation to Brillouin's Formula. Difficulties associated with such use of Shannon's Formula and its associated parameters are discussed. Recent research has indicated that diversity indexes can be improved if (a) biological...
Foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the shelf edge: a key to late Quaternary paleoenvironments
C. Wylie Poag, B.R. Sidner
1976, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (19) 17-37
Foraminiferal assemblages in eight piston cores from West Flower Garden Bank at the edge of the Texas continental shelf contain a nearly complete record of late Quaternary paleoclimatic and geologic events. The faunas are divisible into three distinct successive biofacies on the basis of both planktonic and benthic foraminifers: the...
Hydrogen and oxygen isotope exchange reactions between clay minerals and water
J. R. O’Neil, Y.K. Kharaka
1976, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (40) 241-246
The extent of hydrogen and oxygen isotope exchange between clay minerals and water has been measured in the temperature range 100–350° for bomb runs of up to almost 2 years. Hydrogen isotope exchange between water and the clays was demonstrable at...
Studies of quaternary saline lakes-II. Isotopic and compositional changes during desiccation of the brines in Owens Lake, California, 1969-1971
I. Friedman, G.I. Smith, Kenneth G. Hardcastle
1976, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (40) 501-511
Owens Lake is an alkaline salt lake in a closed basin in southeast California. It is normally nearly dry, but in early 1969, an abnormal runoff from the Sierra Nevada flooded it to a maximum depth of 2·4 m. By late summer of 1971, the lake was again nearly dry...
Carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen isotope studies of the regional metamorphic complex at Naxos, Greece
R. O. Rye, R.D. Schuiling, D.M. Rye, J.B.H. Jansen
1976, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (40) 1031-1049
At Naxos, Greece, a migmatite dome is surrounded by schists and marbles of decreasing metamorphic grade. Sillimanite, kyanite, biotite, chlorite, and glaucophane zones are recognized at successively greater distances from the migmatite dome. Quartz-muscovite and quartz-biotite oxygen isotope and mineralogie temperatures range from 350 to 700°C.The metamorphic complex can be...
Land use and land cover map for Cartersville, Georgia
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1976, Open-File Report 76-130
No abstract available....
Map showing ground-water conditions in the Aravaipa Valley area, Graham and Pinal Counties, Arizona-1975
J. A. Gould, R. P. Wilson
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-107
This hydrologic map of the Aravaipa Valley area includes about 500 sq mi in southeastern Arizona. Development of the ground-water resources is small, and pumpage is estimated to be less than 3,000 acre-ft annually for irrigation, livestock, and domestic uses. Hydrographs of the water level in selected wells show no...
Teton Dam flood of June 1976, Rexburg quadrangle, Idaho
W. A. Harenberg, B. B. Bigelow
1976, Hydrologic Atlas 569
The failure of the Teton Dam caused extreme flooding along the Teton River, Henrys Fork, and Snake River in southeastern Idaho on June 5-8, 1976. No flooding occurred downstream from American Falls Reservoir. The inundated areas and maximum water-surface elevations are shown in a series of 17 hydrologic atlases. The...
Teton Dam flood of June 1976, St. Anthony quadrangle, Idaho
Cecil A. Thomas, Herman A. Ray, Howard F. Matthai
1976, Hydrologic Atlas 566
The failure of the Teton Dam caused extreme flooding along the Teton River, Henrys Fork, and Snake River in southeastern Idaho on June 5-8, 1976. No flooding occurred downstream from American Falls Reservoir. The inundated areas and maximum water-surface elevations are shown in a series of 17 hydrologic atlases. The...
Teton Dam flood of June 1976, Moody quadrangle, Idaho
William A. Harenberg, Bruce B. Bigelow
1976, Hydrologic Atlas 568
The failure of the Teton Dam caused extreme flooding along the Teton River, Henrys Fork, and Snake River in southeastern Idaho on June 5-8, 1976. No flooding occurred downstream from American Falls Reservoir. The inundated areas and maximum water-surface elevations are shown in a series of 17 hydrologic atlases. The...
Teton Dam flood of June 1976, Menan Buttes quadrangle, Idaho
Cecil A. Thomas, Herman A. Ray, William A. Harenberg
1976, Hydrologic Atlas 570
The failure of the Teton Dam caused extreme flooding along the Teton River, Henrys Fork, and Snake River in southeastern Idaho on June 5-8, 1976. No flooding occurred downstream from American Falls Reservoir. The inundated areas and maximum water-surface elevations are shown in a series of 17 hydrologic atlases. The...
Teton Dam flood of June 1976, Newdale quadrangle, Idaho
Herman A. Ray, Howard F. Matthai, Cecil A. Thomas
1976, Hydrologic Atlas 565
The failure of the Teton Dam caused extreme flooding along the Teton River, Henrys Fork, and Snake River in southeastern Idaho on June 5-8, 1976. No flooding occurred downstream from American Falls Reservoir. The inundated areas and maximum water-surface elevations are shown in a series of 17 hydrologic atlases. The...
