Earthquakes, September-October 1988
W. J. Person
1989, Earthquakes & Volcanoes (USGS) (21) 85-88
There were no major earthquakes (7.0-7.9) during this reporting period. Earthquake-related deaths were reported from Czechoslovakia and injuries were reported from Algeria and Greece. In the United States a sharp earthquake occurred in eastern Kentucky, causing some minro damage. ...
The Resurrection Peninsula ophiolite
Steven W. Nelson, Marti L. Miller, Julie A. Dumoulin
Steven W. Nelson, Thomas D. Hamilton, editor(s)
1989, Book chapter, Guide to the ceology of the Resurrection Bay - Eastern Kenai Fjords area
The Resurrection Peninsula forms the east side of Resurrection Bay (fig. 3). Relief ranges from 437 m (1,434 ft) at the southern end of the peninsula to more than 1,463 m (4,800 ft) opposite the head of the bay. All rock units composing the informally named Resurrection Peninsula ophiolite of...
Paleomagnetic study of the Eastern Klamath terrane, California, and implications for the tectonic history of the Klamath Mountains Province
Edward A. Mankinen, William P. Irwin, C. Sherman Gromme
1989, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (94) 10444-10472
Paleomagnetic study of Permian through Jurassic volcanic and sedimentary strata of the Eastern Klamath terrane has shown the remanent magnetization of many of these rocks to be prefolding and most likely primary. Similarities in magnetic declinations recorded by coeval strata over a broad area are consistent with the hypothesis that...
Holocene sand shoals offshore of the Mississippi River delta plain
Shea Penland, John R. Suter, Randolph A. McBride, S. Jeffress Williams, Jack L. Kindinger, Ron Boyd
1989, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions (39) 471-480
Offshore of the Mississippi River delta plain lies a series of Holocene sand shoals marking the position of ancient submerged shorelines associated with younger shelf-phase delta plains. These submerged shorelines represent positions when sea level stood lower than present. Short periods of rapid sea level rise during the Holocene transgression,...
Impacts of exploratory drilling for oil and gas on the benthic environment of Georges Bank
J. M. Neff, Michael H. Bothner, N. J. Maciolek, J. F. Grassle
1989, Marine Environmental Research (27) 77-114
A 3-year monitoring program was performed to assess the impacts of exploratory drilling for oil and gas on the benthic environment of Georges Bank, an important commercial fishery region in the North Atlantic east of Massachusetts, USA. Surficial sediments were sampled for chemical and benthic infaunal analysis and bottom still...
Inner shelf deposits of the Louisiana-Mississippi-Alabama region, Gulf of Mexico
Jack L. Kindinger, Shea Penland, S. Jeffress Williams, John R. Suter
1989, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions (39) 413-420
The late Quaternary morphology, shallow stratigraphy and sediment distribution of the Louisiana-Mississippi-Alabama inner shelf region are the product of transgressive and regressive sedimentary processes. Shelf sedimentary facies were deposited by deltaic progradation, followed by shoreface erosion and submergence. This information is based on interpretations and synthesis of more than 4,160...
Depositional aspects and a guide to Paleocene coal-bearing sequences, Powder River Basin
Romeo M. Flores, Peter D. Warwick, Timothy A. Moore
Romeo M. Flores, Peter D. Warwick, Timothy A. Moore, Gary Glass, Archie Smith, Douglas J. Nichols, Jack A. Wolfe, Ronald W. Stanton, Jean Weaver, editor(s)
1989, Conference Paper, Tertiary and Cretaceous coals in the Rocky Mountains region: Casper, Wyoming to Salt Lake City, Utah June 29-July 8, 1989
The Paleocene coal-bearing sequences in the northern Powder River Basin are contained in the Tongue River Member of the Fort Union Formation and include anomalously thick (54 m) subbituminous coals. These thick coals have been the target of exploration and development for the past few decades. For the past decade,...
Performance and utility of satellite telemetry during field studies of free-ranging polar bears in Alaska
Gerald W. Garner, Steven C. Amstrup, David C. Douglas, Craig L. Gardner
Charles J. Amlaner Jr., editor(s)
1989, Conference Paper, Biotelemetry X: Proceedings of the 10th international symposium on biotelemetry
Satellite telemetry technology has been used during field studies of polar bears in Alaska since 1985. A total of 109 Platform Transmitter Terminals (PTT) have been deployed on free-ranging female polar bears that seasonally inhabit waters adjacent to the Alaskan coast. The PTTs transmitted locational and sensor data to TIROS-N...
Relationship between annual runoff and watershed area for the eastern United States
Barry P. Rochelle, M. Robbins Church, Warren A. Gebert, David J. Graczyk, William R. Krug
1988, Water Resources Bulletin (24) 35-41
As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's effort to determine the long-term effects of acidic deposition on surface water chemistry, annual runoff was estimated for about 1000 ungaged sites in the eastern U.S. using runoff contour maps. One concern in using contour maps was that a bias may be...
Characterization of an avian cholera epizootic in wild birds in western Nebraska
R. M. Windingstad, S.M. Kerr, R. M. Duncan, C. J. Brand
1988, Avian Diseases (32) 124-131
Avian cholera killed an estimated 2500 birds in western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming from 28 November 1985 to late January 1986. Wild mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) suffered the most losses. Other wild waterfowl, wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo), a few domestic fowl, and a bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) also died. Pasteurella multocida...
Tectonics of formation, translation, and dispersal of the Coast Range ophiolite of California
R. J. McLaughlin, M.C. Blake Jr., A. Griscom, C.D. Blome, B. Murchey
1988, Tectonics (7) 1033-1056
Data from the Coast Range ophiolite and its tectonic outliers in the northern California Coast Ranges suggest that the lower part of the ophiolite formed 169 to 163 Ma in a forearc or back arc setting at equatorial latitudes. Beginning about 156 Ma and continuing until 145 Ma, arc magmatism...
Effects of zinc smelter emissions on farms and gardens at Palmerton, PA
R. L. Chaney, W. N. Beyer, C.H. Gifford, L. Sileo
1988, Trace Substances in Environmental Health (22) 263-280
In 1979, before the primary Zn smelter at Palmerton was closed due to excessive Zn and Cd emissions and change in the price of Zn, we were contacted by a local veterinarian regarding death of foals (young horses) on farms near the smelter. To examine whether Zn or Cd contamination...
Length of stay and fat content of migrant semipalmated sandpipers in eastern Maine
P.O. Dunn, T.A. May, M.A. McCollough, M.A. Howe
1988, Condor (90) 824-835
Semipalmated Sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) stop at coastal staging areas in the Canadian maritime provinces and northeastern United States to replenish fat reserves before initiating a nonstop transoceanic flight of at least 3,200 km to wintering areas in South America. The relationship between estimated fat content at capture and length of...
Pennsylvanian to Jurassic eolian transportation systems in the western United States
F. Peterson
1988, Sedimentary Geology (56) 207-260
The direction of sediment transport in eolian sandstones of Pennsylvanian to Jurassic age was interpreted from crossbedding resultants (vector means) obtained from studies of eolian rocks in the western U.S., supplemented by data from the few eolian units of eastern North America. These were compiled from the published or...
The record of major quaternary sea-level changes in a large coastal plain estuary, Chesapeake Bay, Eastern United States
Steven M. Colman, R. B. Mixon
1988, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (68) 99-116
Seismic-reflection surveys of the Chesapeake Bay, combined with geologic mapping and analysis of boreholes on the Delmarva Peninsula, provide evidence of at least three generations of the Susquehanna River system and three generations of the Chesapeake Bay. The evidence for ancient courses of the Susquehanna River is preserved as three...
Paleolimnology of Lake Tubutulik, an iron-meromictic Eocene Lake, eastern Seward Peninsula, Alaska
Kendall A. Dickinson
1988, Sedimentary Geology (54) 303-320
Sideritic lacustrine mudstone was found in drill core from a uranium deposit in the Death Valley area in the eastern part of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. The precursor sediments for this rock were deposited in an unusual “iron-meromictic” Eocene lake, herein named Lake Tubutulik, which occupied part of the Boulder...
Biological measurements and related chemical features in Soviet and United States regions of the Bering Sea
T.E. Whitledge, R.R. Bidigare, Stephan O. Zeeman, R. N. Sambrotto, Pasquale F. Roscigno, Paul R. Jensen, James M. Brooks, Charles Trees, Denise M. Veldt
1988, Continental Shelf Research (8) 1299-1319
The U.S. results of a joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. expedition to the Bering Sea in 1984 investigated the chemical and biological interactions in the south, east, north and west regions. The nutrients, phytoplankton biomass and primary productivity were enhanced near the ends of a north-south transect of stations. The southern end of...
Glaciers of Antarctica
Charles Swithinbank, Trevor J. Chinn, Richard S. Williams Jr., Jane G. Ferrigno
Richard S. Williams Jr., Jane G. Ferrigno, editor(s)
1988, Professional Paper 1386-B
Of all the world's continents Antarctica is the coldest, the highest, and the least known. It is one and a half times the size of the United States, and on it lies 91 percent (30,109,800 km3) of the estimated volume of all the ice on Earth. Because so little is...
Habitat Suitability Index Models: American eider (breeding)
A. K. Blumton, Ray B. Owen Jr., William B. Krohn
1988, FWS/OBS 82/10.149
INTRODUCTION The common eider (Somateria mollissima) consists of five subspecies; four are found in North America (Palmer 1976). Six management populations of common eiders have recently been defined in eastern Canada and the United States (Reed and Erskine 1986). The American edier (S. mollissima dresseri), of which three populations are recognized...
Map of fault scarps formed in unconsolidated sediments, Tooele 1 degree by 2 degrees quadrangle, northwestern Utah
T. P. Barnhard, R.L. Dodge
1988, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 1990
This report is one of a series of studies of western Utah (Anderson and Bucknam, 1979; Bucknam and Anderson, 1979b), eastern Nevada (Barnhard, 1985), and central Nevada (Wallace, 1979) that shows the distribution, relative age, and amount and extent of surface rupture on Quaternary fault scarps. Previous paleoseismicity studies in...
Water resources data for Oregon, water year 1986. Volume 1: Eastern Oregon
C.W. Alexander, P. R. Boucher, R. L. Moffatt, M.L. Smith
1988, Water Data Report OR-86-1
No abstract available....
Reinterpreted geologic map and fossil data, Charley River quadrangle, east-central Alaska
J. H. Dover, R. T. Miyaoka
1988, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 2004
No abstract available....
Water resources data, New York, water year 1987, volume 1, eastern New York, excluding Long Island
G.D. Firda, Richard Lumia, P. M. Burke
1988, Water Data Report NY-87-1
No abstract available. ...
Mineral resources and resource potential map of the Pyramid Peak Roadless Area, Riverside County, California
J.P. Calzia
1988, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 1999
The Pyramid Peak Roadless Area is underlain by mid-Cretaceous plutonic rocks (granite, granodiorite, and tonalite) that intrude metasedimentary rocks of the Desert Divide Group. The granodiorite grades eastward into strongly deformed mylonitic rocks mapped as part of the Santa Rosa mylonite zone. Metasedimentary rocks, orthogneiss, and anatexites of the Palm...
Mines, prospects, and mineral sites, wilderness and RARE II areas, White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire
G. C. Gazdik, Gazdik Harris, R. A. Welsh, V. P. Girol
1988, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 1594-E
The Wilderness Act (Public Law 88-577, September 3, 1964) and related acts require the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Mines to survey certain areas on Federal lands to determine their mineral value, if any, that may be present. Results must be made available to the public and...
