The chemical composition of lakes in the north‐central United States
Eville Gorham, Walter E. Dean, J.E. Sanger
1983, Limnology and Oceanography (28) 287-301
Lake waters of the north‐central U.S.A. are classified into five groups, based on increasing specific conductivity and changes in ionic composition from east to west, from Wisconsin through Minnesota to North and South Dakota. The most dilute group of waters has specific conductivities <29 µmhos · cm−1 at 25°C; the most concentrated...
Wandering terranes in southern Alaska: The Aleutia Microplate and implications for the Bering Sea
Michael S. Marlow, Alan K. Cooper
1983, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (88) 3439-3446
Paleomagnetic and geological data suggest that much of southern Alaska is a collage of tectonostratigraphic terranes which originated in Mesozoic time at paleolatitudes far south of their present position. The time of ‘docking’ of the terranes against cratonic Alaska is critical to defining their amalgamated size and extent during their...
Use of pine nuts by grizzly and black bears in the Yellowstone area
Katherine C. Kendall
1983, Bears: Their Biology and Management (5) 166-173
The large seeds (pine nuts) of whitebark pine are commonly eaten in the spring (March-May) and fall (September-November) by grizzly and black bears in Yellowstone National Park and adjacent areas (Craighead and Craighead 1972, Blanchard 1978, Mealey 1980) and western Montana (Tisch 1961; J. Sumner and J. J. Craighead, unpubl....
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...
Eastern Devonian shales: Organic geochemical studies, past and present
Irving A. Breger, Patrick G. Hatcher, L.A. Romankiw, F.P. Miknis
1983, Conference Paper, Preprints Symposia
The Eastern Devonian shales are represented by a sequence of sediments extending from New York state, south to the northern regions of Georgia and Alabama, and west into Ohio and to the Michigan and Ilinois Basins. Correlatives are known in Texas. The shale is regionally known by a number of...
LITHOLOGIC MAPPING USING LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER DATA.
M. H. Podwysocki, J.W. Salisbury, O. D. Jones, D.L. Mimms
1983, Conference Paper
The paper is in abstract form. It discusses the Landsat-4 Thematic Mapper (TM), with its new near infrared bands centered at 1. 65 mu m and 2. 20 mu m and spatial resolution of 30 m, which has been used to distinguish rocks containing minerals having ferric-iron absorption bands in...
Hydrology of area 6, Eastern Coal Province, Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania
W. W. Staubitz, John R. Sobashinski
1983, Open-File Report 83-33
No abstract available....
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...
Hydrogeologic and water-quality characteristics of the Prairie du Chien-Jordan aquifer, Southeast Minnesota
J. F. Ruhl, R. J. Wolf, D. G. Adolphson
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4045
Quality of water in the Prairie du Chien-Jordan aquifer is generally good, except for some localized contamination, Coal-tar derivatives that contaminate the aquifer in St. Louis Park, a western suburb in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area, pose the most serious threat to water quality. High hardness and iron concentration limit...
Cenozoic structural history of selected areas in the eastern Great Basin, Nevada-Utah
R. Ernest Anderson
1983, Open-File Report 83-504
The Confusion Range structural trough (CRST) of west-central Utah predates the Oligocene rocks that are exposed along it. The northern part of the axial region of the CRST is complicated by structures that include reverse faults and associated folds, a large-amplitude mushroom fold, and belts of sharply flexed to overturned...
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...
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...
Geologic map of the Mitten Lake, Half Dome Crag, Hyde Creek, East Glacier Park, Big Rock, and Magee Range quadrangles, Pondera and Glacier Counties, Montana
Melville Rhodes Mudge, R.L. Earhart, W. J. Perry Jr., R. G. Bohannon
1983, Open-File Report 82-1030
No abstract available....
Ground water in the northeast part of Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base, Bagdad area, California
J. H. Koehler
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4053
The hydrologic characteristics of the Bagdad area, in the northeast part of Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base, were investigated to determine the feasibility of obtaining a supply of ground water. Five test holes were drilled and three of these were completed with 6-inch casings. Ground water in the eastern part...
Structure, burial history, and petroleum potential of frontal thrust belt and adjacent foreland, southwest Montana
W. J. Perry Jr., B. R. Wardlaw, N. H. Bostick, E. K. Maughan
1983, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (67) 725-743
The frontal thrust belt in the Lima area of southwestern Montana consists of blind (nonsurfacing) thrusts of the Lima thrust system beneath the Lima anticline and the Tendoy thrust sheet to the west. The Tendoy sheet involves Mississippian through Cretaceous rocks of the southwest-plunging nose of the Mesozoic Blacktail-Snowcrest uplift...
Thermal areas on Kilauea and Mauna Loa Volcanoes, Hawaii
Thomas J. Casadevall, Richard W. Hazlett
1983, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (16) 173-188
Active thermal areas are concentrated in three areas on Mauna Loa and three areas on Kilauea. High-temperature fumaroles (115-362°C) on Mauna Loa are restricted to the summit caldera, whereas high-temperature fumaroles on Kilauea are found in the upper East Rift Zone (Mauna Ulu summit fumaroles, 562°C), middle East Rift Zone...
Isotopic evidence from the eastern Canadian shield for geochemical discontinuity in the proterozoic mantle
L.D. Ashwal, J. L. Wooden
1983, Nature (306) 679-680
Most workers agree that Proterozoic anorthosite massifs represent the crystallization products of mantle-derived magmas1,2, although the composition of the parental melts is a major unsolved petrological problem 3. As mantle-derived rocks, the massifs can be used as geochemical probes of their late Precambrian upper mantle sources. We report here Nd...
The saltwater-freshwater interface in the Tertiary limestone aquifer, southeast Atlantic outer-continental shelf of the U.S.A.
R.H. Johnston
1983, Journal of Hydrology (61) 239-249
Hydrologic testing in an offshore oil well abandoned by Tenneco, Inc., determined the position of the saltwater-freshwater interface in Tertiary limestones underlying the Florida-Georgia continental shelf of the U.S.A. Previous drilling (JOIDES and U.S.G.S. AMCOR projects) established the existence of freshwater far offshore in this area. At the Tenneco well...
Eruptive history of Mount Mazama and Crater Lake Caldera, Cascade Range, U.S.A.
C. R. Bacon
1983, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (18) 57-115
New investigations of the geology of Crater Lake National Park necessitate a reinterpretation of the eruptive history of Mount Mazama and of the formation of Crater Lake caldera. Mount Mazama consisted of a glaciated complex of overlapping shields and stratovolcanoes, each of which was probably active for a comparatively short...
Hydrology of the Ferron Sandstone aquifer and effects of proposed surface-coal mining in Castle Valley, Utah, with a section on stratigraphy and a section on leaching of overburden
Gregory C. Lines, Daniel J. Morrissey, Thomas A. Ryer, Richard H. Fuller
1983, Water Supply Paper 2195
Coal in the Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale of Cretaceous age has traditionally been mined by underground techniques in the Emery Coal Field in the southern end of Castle Valley in east-central Utah. However, approximately 99 million tons are recoverable by surface mining. Ground water in the Ferron...
Crustal structure beneath the southern Appalachians: Nonuniqueness of gravity modeling
Deborah R. Hutchinson, John A. Grow, Kim D. Klitgord
1983, Geology (11) 611-615
Gravity models computed for a profile across the long-wavelength paired negative-positive Bouguer anomalies of the southern Appalachian Mountains show that the large negative anomaly can be explained by a crustal root zone, whereas the steep gradient and positive anomaly east of the root may be explained equally well by three...
Assessment of water quality in canals of eastern Broward County, Florida, 1969-74
Bradley G. Waller, Wesley L. Miller
1982, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-3
An intensive water-quality monitoring program was started in 1969 to determine the effects of man-induced contaminants on the water quality in the primary canal system of eastern Broward County, Florida. This report covers the first 6 years of the program and provides a data base that can be used to...
Effects of land use on ground-water quality in the East Everglades, Dade County, Florida
B.G. Waller
1982, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-4093
Groundwater quality characteristics of the Biscayne aquifer from September 1978 through June 1979 were determined for seven land use areas within the East Everglades in Dade County, Florida. Four agricultural areas, two low-density residential areas, and Chekika Hammock State Park were investigated. The effects of land use on the groundwater...
Effects of land use on surface-water quality in the East Everglades, Dade County, Florida
Bradley G. Waller
1982, Water-Resources Investigations Report 81-59
Water-quality characteristics were determined at five developed areas in the East Everglades, Dade County, Florida, during the 1978 wet season (June through October). These areas are designated as: Coopertown; Chekika Hammock State Park; residential area; rock-plowed tomato field; and Cracker Jack Slough agricultural area. Data from the developed areas were...
Water resources inventory of Connecticut Part 10: Lower Connecticut River basin
Lawrence A. Weiss, James W. Bingham, Mendall P. Thomas
1982, Connecticut Water Resources Bulletin 31
The lower Connecticut River basin study area in south-central Connecticut includes 639 square miles and is drained principally by the Connecticut River and by seven smaller streams that flow directly to Long Island Sound between the West River on the west and the Connecticut River on the east. The population...
