Generalized structural, lithologic, and physiographic provinces in the fold and thrust belts of the United States: Exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii
Kenneth C. Bayer
1983, Report
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The fledging of common and thick-billed murres on Middleton Island, Alaska
Scott A. Hatch
1983, Journal of Field Ornithology (54) 266-274
Three species of alcids, Common and Thick-billed murres (Uria aalge and U. lomvia) and the Razorbill (Alca torda), have post-hatching developmental patterns intermediate to precocial and semi-precocial modes (Sealy 1973). The young leave their cliff nest sites at about one quarter of adult weight and complete their growth at sea....
Pacific Coast Caspian Terns: Dynamics of an expanding population
Robert E. Gill Jr., L. Richard Mewaldt
1983, The Auk (100) 369-381
Nesting distribution, age-related seasonal movements, survivorship, and mechanisms of population expansion in Pacific Coast Caspian Terns (Sterna caspia) were examined primarily through analysis of 412 recoveries of birds banded as juveniles between 1935 and 1980. Since the beginning of this century, the population has shifted from nesting in numerous small...
Yellow birds stand out in a crowd
Colleen M. Handel, Robert E. Gill Jr.
1983, North American Bird Bander (8) 6-9
Highly visible auxiliary markers, such as neck collars, nasal saddles, patagial tags, and leg streamers, are used regularly and effectively with banding in studying migration and distribution of large birds (e.g. waterfowl, birds of prey, wading birds). Simply stated, a large bird can accommodate a marker that is large enough...
Memorial to a Black Turnstone: An examplar of breeding and wintering site fidelity
Robert E. Gill Jr., Colleen M. Handel, Leonard A. Shelton
1983, North American Bird Bander (8) 98-101
Most of us who have banded long-distance migrants are aware, through recaptures of individuals, of the high degree of site fidelity exhibited by many bird species. It is not uncommon for a bander to have a marked bird remain in the vicinity of its banding site throughout a season and...
Use of nearshore and estuarine areas by gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) in the eastern Bering Sea
Robert E. Gill Jr., John D. Hall
1983, Arctic (36) 275-281
During spring aerial surveys of the coast of the southeastern Bering Sea significant numbers of gray whales were seen in nearshore waters along the north side of the Alaska Peninsula. Many (50-80%) of these animals were observed surfacing with mud trails or lying on their sides, characteristics both associated with...
Mechanism and ecological significance of sperm storage in the Northern Fulmar with reference to its occurrence in other birds
Scott A. Hatch
1983, The Auk (100) 593-600
Sperm-storage glands were found in the uterovaginal (UV) region of the oviduct in Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis), Horned Puffins (Fratercula corniculata), and Leach's Storm-Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) collected before or shortly after egg laying. Previously described only in domestic Galliformes, UV sperm-storage glands may prove to be a common feature of...
Calculation of a velocity distribution from particle trajectory end-points.
Lowell A. Rasmussen
1983, Journal of Glaciology (29) 203-214
The longitudinal component of the velocity of a particle at or near a glacier surface is considered, its position as a function of time being termed its trajectory. Functional relationships are derived for obtaining the trajectory from the spatial distribution of velocity and for obtaining the velocity...
Structure and petrology of the La Perouse gabbro intrusion, Fairweather Range, southeastern Alaska
R. A. Loney, G. R. Himmelberg
1983, Journal of Petrology (24) 377-423
The middle Tertiary La Perouse gabbro intrusion occurs in a Mesozoic metamorphic terrane (Chugach terrane) in the Fairweather Range, southeastern Alaska. The intrusion is 12 km wide and 27 km long, and has an exposed cumulate layering thickness of about 6000 m. The contact consists of biotite and hornblende...
Late Holocene ice wedges near Fairbanks, Alaska, USA: Environmental setting and history of growth
T. D. Hamilton, T. A. Ager, S.W. Robinson
1983, Arctic and Alpine Research (15) 157-168
Test trenches excavated into muskeg near Fairbanks in 1969 exposed a polygonal network of active ice wedges. The wedges occur in peat that has accumulated since about 3500 yr BP and have grown episodically as the permafrost table fluctuated in response to fires, other local site conditions and perhaps regional...
Palaeomagnetism of lower cretaceous tuffs from Yukon-Kuskokwim delta region, western Alaska
B.R. Globerman, R. S. Coe, J. M. Hoare, J. Decker
1983, Nature (305) 516-520
During the past decade, the prescient arguments1-3 for the allochthoneity of large portions of southern Alaska have been corroborated by detailed geological and palaeomagnetic studies in south-central Alaska 4-9 the Alaska Peninsula10, Kodiak Island11,12 and the Prince William Sound area13 (Fig. 1). These investigations have demonstrated sizeable northward displacements for...
Plutonic rocks of Jurassic age in the Alaska-Aleutian Range batholith: Ghemical variation and polarity
B.I. Reed, A.T. Miesch, M. A. Lanphere
1983, Geological Society of America Bulletin (94) 1232-1240
Plutonic rocks of Jurassic age exposed on the eastern, or Pacific, side of the Alaska–Aleutian Range batholith represent the roots of a magmatic arc generally considered to have been generated in response to northwest-directed subduction. These rocks form a compositionally continuous calc-alkaline suite...
Detection of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus in river water and demonstration of waterborne transmission
Daniel M. Mulcahy, Ronald J. Pascho, C.K. Jenes
1983, Journal of Fish Diseases (6) 321-330
In a study of the possible role of waterborne infectious haematopoietic necrosis virus in transmission of the disease among spawning sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum), both infection rates and virus titres were higher in fish held at high density in a side channel than in fish in the adjacent river....
Retention of infectious haematopoietic necrosis virus infectivity in fish tissue homogenates and fluids stored at three temperatures
J. Burke, D. Mulcahy
1983, Journal of Fish Diseases (6) 543-547
Pools of brain, kidney, spleen, liver and gut tissues from several rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri Richardson, and whole sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum), fry were homogenized with a known amount of infectious haematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV). Virus was also added to ovarian fluids and sera pooled from several rainbow trout....
Nestling growth relationships of brown-headed cowbirds and dickcissels
Scott A. Hatch
1983, The Wilson Bulletin (95) 669-671
Data on nestling growth of brood parasites and their hosts are surprisingly few in the literature, Even the Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater), whose host relations have been studied in some other respects, has not been studied in any detail from this standpoint. This is particularly regrettable because the lack of...
Expendable bubble tiltmeter for geophysical monitoring
J.A. Westphal, M.A. Carr, W.F. Miller, D. Dzurisin
1983, Review of Scientific Instruments (54) 415-418
An unusually rugged highly sensitive and inexpensive bubble tiltmeter has been designed, tested, and built in quantity. These tiltmeters are presently used on two volcanoes and an Alaskan glacier, where they continuously monitor surface tilts of geological interest. This paper discusses the mechanical, thermal, and electric details of the meter,...
The compositionally zoned eruption of 1912 in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Katmai National Park, Alaska
W. Hildreth
1983, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (18) 1-56
On June 6–8, 1912, ∼ 15 km3 of magma erupted from the Novarupta caldera at the head of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes (VTTS), producing ∼ 20 km3 of air-fall tephra and 11–15 km3 of ash-flow tuff within ∼ 60 hours. Three discrete periods of ash-fall at Kodiak correlate, respectively, with Plinian...
Correlation of Alaskan varve thickness with climatic parameters, and use in paleoclimatic reconstruction
J.A. Perkins, J.D. Sims
1983, Quaternary Research (20) 308-321
The thickness of varves in the sediments of Skilak Lake, Alaska, are correlated with the mean annual temperature (r = 0.574), inversely correlated with the mean annual cumulative snowfall (r = -0.794), and not correlated with the mean annual precipitation (r = 0.202) of the southern Alaska climatological division for...
Diatom evidence on Wisconsin and Holocene events in the Bering Sea
C. Sancetta, S.W. Robinson
1983, Quaternary Research (20) 232-245
Previous work on surface (modern) sediments has defined diatom species which appear to be good indicators of various oceanographic/ecologic conditions in the North Pacific Ocean and marginal seas. Three long cores from the eastern and northern sides of the Aleutian Basin show changes in species assemblage which can be interpreted...
New evidence for the age of the Gubik Formation Alaskan North Slope
C.A. Repenning
1983, Quaternary Research (19) 356-372
At several Alaskan North Slope localities south of the shore of the Arctic Ocean the Gubik Formation, herein regarded as latest Pliocene and Pleistocene in age, contains a marine unit at its base. Near Ocean Point and near Teshekpuk Lake this basal unit, or the lowest exposed marine unit, of...
Tin granites of Seward Peninsula, Alaska
T. Hudson, Joseph G. Arth
1983, Geological Society of America Bulletin (94) 768-790
Seven granite plutons, spatially and genetically related to tin metalization, are exposed in a 170-km-long belt across northwestern Seward Peninsula, Alaska. These plutons are cupolas and epizonal composite stocks that consist of several textural varieties of biotite granite, including medium- to coarse-grained seriate...
Observations of emperor geese feeding at Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
Margaret R. Petersen
1983, The Condor (85) 367-368
Estuaries along the north side of the Alaska Peninsula provide essential habitat for most of the American population of Emperor Goose (Chen canagica) during migration (Petersen and Gill 1982). Most of the population passes through Nelson Lagoon in spring and fall, with over 40,000 birds recorded there (Gill et al...
Seabirds between Alaska and Hawaii
Patrick J. Gould
1983, The Condor (85) 286-291
Seabirds were observed between Alaska and Hawaii along 158°W longitude from 24 October to 6 November 1976. Their distributions and abundances corresponded remarkably well to oceanographic regions. Indices of seabird density dropped in a series of plateaus from 44 birds/km2 in the Alaska Current System to less than 1 bird/km2...
Populations and habitat use of marine birds in the Semidi Islands, Alaska
Scott A. Hatch, Martha A. Hatch
1983, Murrelet (64) 39-46
About one-quarter of the resident seabirds in the Gulf of Alaska breed on the Semidi Islands. In terms of biomass, the proportion is closer to one-third. The most abundant birds are Common and Thick-billed Murres, with a combined population exceeding 1 million birds. Hundreds of thousands of Horned Puffins breed...
An isolated population of small Canada geese on Kaliktagik Island, Alaska
Scott A. Hatch, Martha A. Hatch
1983, Wildfowl (34) 130-136
Recently we discovered that a small form of the Canada Goose Branta canadensis breeds on Kaliktagik Island, one of the Semidi Islands, about 80 km south of the Alaska Peninsula near longitude 157°W (Figure 1). The unexpected occurrence of geese on this oceanic island and the possibility that they are...