Flow of lava into the sea, 1969–1971, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
James G. Moore, R. L. Phillips, R.W. Grigg, D. W. Peterson, Don Swanson
1973, GSA Bulletin (84) 537-546
Lava from the Mauna Ulu eruption on Kilauea Volcano entered the sea on the south coast of the Island of Hawaii three times from 1969 to 1971. Two of these flows were investigated underwater by divers, one while lava was actively flowing.The June 1969 flow entered the sea as a...
X-ray fluorescence determination of sodium in silicate standards using direct dilution and dilution fusion preparation techniques
B.P. Fabbi
1973, X-ray Spectrometry (2) 15-17
Direct dilution of a sample with an equal proportion of cellulose binder and dilution fusion of one part of sample with fourteen parts of LiBO2 flux has been used to prepare pelletized samples of silicate standards for determining sodium by X-ray fluorescence analysis. An RAP analysing crystal was used to disperse...
Chemical stability of preserved oligotrophic water samples
V. A. Adomaitis, J.A. Shoesmith, G.A. Swanson
1973, Proceedings of the North Dakota Academy of Science (26) 1-5
Tests were conducted to determine whether changes that may occur in the chemical characteristics of stored oligotrophic waters collected on 15 sites in northeastern Minnesota were affected by chloroforming. Chloroform was added on site to one of each pair of samples to stabilize the organic content of the water by...
Geologic bench marks by terrestrial photography
Harold E. Malde
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 193-206
A photograph made with a level camera, if taken at a known height above a permanent mark on the ground, can be later repeated with exactness for measurement of changes in terrain. Such a photograph is one of several means for establishing a geologic bench mark and is especially useful for monitoring the subtle...
Accessory apatite from hybrid granitoid rocks of the southern Snake Range, Nevada
Donald E. Lee, Robert E. Mays, Richard E. Van Loenen
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 89-98
Analytical data, optical properties, and unit-cell parameters are presented for 24 samples of accessory apatites recovered from hybrid granitoid rocks of the southern Snake Range, Nev. A complete chemical analysis is given for one. In the Snake Creek-Williams Canyonoutcrop area, where the hybrid rocks grade from granodiorite with 63 percent SiO2 to a...
The selenium content of U.S.G.S. standard rocks
M. M. Schnepfe, F.J. Flanagan
1973, Chemical Geology (12) 77-80
Selenium was determined in duplicate portions from three bottles of six U.S.G.S. standard rocks by a spect rofluorimetric procedure. The following averages, as p.p.m. Se, were obtained: PCC-1, 0.031; GSP-1, 0.088; BCR-1, 0.12; SCo-1, 0.91; MAG-1, 1.3; and SGR-1, 3.7. One-way analysis...
Age, growth, spawning season, and fecundity of the trout-perch (Percopsis omiscomaycus) in southeastern Lake Michigan
Robert House, LaRue Wells
1973, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (30) 1221-1225
Growth of trout-perch (Percopsis omiscomaycus) in the first 2 years of life was somewhat slower in southeastern Lake Michigan (average length at end of second year, 83 mm) than in Lower Red Lake, Minnesota (90 mm), but considerably faster than in Lake Superior (58 mm); size differences in later years...
Ultrafiltration by a compacted clay membrane-II. Sodium ion exclusion at various ionic strengths
B.B. Hanshaw, T.B. Coplen
1973, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (37) 2311-2327
Several recent laboratory studies and field investigations have indicated that shales and compacted clay minerals behave as semipermeable membranes. One of the properties of semipermeable membranes is to retard or prevent the passage of charged ionic species through the membrane pores while allowing relatively free movement of uncharged species. This...
Uranium concentration and distribution in six peridotite inclusions of probable mantle origin
E.L. Haines, R. E. Zartman
1973, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (20) 45-53
Fission-track activation was used to investigate uranium concentration and distribution in peridotite inclusions in alkali basalt from six localities. Whole-rock uranium concentrations range from 24 to 82 ng/g (1ng= 10−9g). Most of the uranium is uniformly distributed in the major silicate phases...
Lead concentration and isotopic composition in five peridotite inclusions of probable mantle origin
R. E. Zartman, F. Tera
1973, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (20) 54-66
The lead content of five whole-rock peridotite inclusions (four lherzolites and one harzburgite) in alkali basalt ranges from 82 to 570 ppb (parts per billion). Approximately 30–60 ppb of this amount can be accounted for by analyzed major silicate minerals (olivine ≤...
Pesticide mortality of young white-faced ibis in Texas
Edward L. Flickinger, D. L. Meeker
1972, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (8) 165-168
The combination of the symptoms observed in sick and dying birds and the high brain residues in the three birds collected dying, as well as in two of the four collected dead, implicate dieldrin as at least one of the causes of mortality of young ibis at the Lavaca Bay...
Residues of organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, and mercury and autopsy data for bald eagles, 1969 and 1970
Andre A. Belisle, William L. Reichel, Louis N. Locke, Thair Lamont, Bernard M. Mulhern, Richard M. Prouty, Robert B. DeWolf, Eugene Cromartie
1972, Pesticides Monitoring Journal (6) 133-138
Thirty-nine bald eagles found sick or dead in 13 States during 1969 and 1970 were analyzed for pesticide residues. Residues of DDE, dieldrin, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's), and mercury were detected in all bald eagle carcasses; DDD residues were detected in 38; DDT, heptachlor epoxide, and dichlorobenzophenone (DCBP) were detected less...
Geohydrologic summary of the Pearl River basin, Mississippi and Louisiana
Joseph W. Lang
1972, Water Supply Paper 1899-M
Fresh water in abundance is contained in large artesian reservoirs in sand and gravel deposits of Tertiary and Quaternary ages in the Pearl River basin, a watershed of 8,760 square miles. Shallow, water-table reservoirs occur in Quarternary deposits (Pleistocene and Holocene) that blanket most of the uplands in .the southern...
Map showing landslides and areas of potential landsliding in the Salina quadrangle, Utah
Paul L. Williams
1972, IMAP 591-L
The term “landslide” is broadly defined as any “downward and outward movement of slope-forming materials composed of natural rock, soils, artificial fills, or combinations of these materials. The moving mass may proceed by any one of three principal types of movement: falling, sliding, or flossing, or by their combinations” (Varnes,...
Effect of urban development on floods in the Piedmont Province of North Carolina
Arthur L. Putnam
1972, Open-File Report 72-304
This report relates peak discharges for recurrence intervals ranging up to 100 years to drainage area, stream length, stream slope, and percent of basin covered by impervious surfaced. The relations are based on analysis of flood information for approximately 200 sites, 42 of which are in metropolitan areas of the...
Geologic setting of the Apollo 15 samples
G.A. Swann, N. G. Bailey, R. M. Batson, V. L. Freeman, M. H. Hait, H. E. Holt, K.B. Larson, V. S. Reed, G. G. Schaber, R. L. Sutton, E.W. Wolfe, Keith A. Howard, H. G. Wilshire, J.W. Head, J.B. Irwin, D.R. Scott, W.R. Muehlberger, L. T. Silver, J. J. Rennilson
1972, Science (175) 407-415
The samples and photographs returned from the Apollo 15 site show that Hadley Delta is largely underlain by breccias whose clasts are mainly fragments of coarse-grained feldspathic rocks and nonmare-type basalt. Conspicuous sets of lineaments, visible in surface and orbital photographs of Mount Hadley and Hadley Delta, may represent systematic...
Structure of Sierra Madera, Texas, as a guide to central peaks of lunar craters
Keith A. Howard, Terry W. Offield, H. G. Wilshire
1972, GSA Bulletin (83) 2795-2808
Like hundreds of other lunar craters of probable impact origin, Copernicus contains central peaks presumed to expose rocks uplifted from beneath the crater floor. A possible analog of these peaks on Earth is the central uplift of the Sierra Madera cryptoexplosion structure, a probable impact scar (astrobleme) in stratified Permian...
Immunologic status of mourning doves following an epizootic of trichomoniasis
R. M. Kocan, S.R. Amend
1972, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (8) 176-180
An epizootic of trichomoniasis in mourning doves at the Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge began in 1969 and continued into 1970. The disease was seen in 16% of the adults and 2% of the immatures in 1970, but only one immature bird out of 37 surveyed (3%) carried Trichomonas gallinae. Challenge...
Mariner 9 television reconnaissance of Mars and its satellites: Preliminary results
H. Masursky, R. M. Batson, J.F. McCauley, L.A. Soderblom, R.L. Wildey, M. H. Carr, D.J. Milton, D.E. Wilhelms, B.A. Smith, T.B. Kirby, J.C. Robinson, C.B. Leovy, G.A. Briggs, T. C. Duxbury, C.H. Acton Jr., B. C. Murray, J.A. Cutts, R.P. Sharp, S. Smith, R.B. Leighton, C. Sagan, J. Veverka, M. Noland, J. Lederberg, E. Levinthal, James B. Pollack, J.T. Moore Jr., W.K. Hartmann, E.N. Shipley, G. De Vaucouleurs, M. E. Davies
1972, Science (175) 294-305
At orbit insertion on 14 November 1971 the Martian surface was largely obscured by a dust haze with an extinction optical depth that...
Interstitial water studies on small core samples, Leg 9
F.L. Sayles, L.S. Waterman, F.T. Manheim
1972, Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (9) 845-855
The chemistry of the pore fluids obtained on Leg 9 is remarkable primarily in its constancy. Excepting silicon and strontium, only at one site do the concentrations of the major and minor constituents deviate notably from sea water concentrations (see Tables 1 and 2). The trends, or lack of them,...
Graphical methods for representing form and stability of aqueous metal ions
J.D. Hem
1972, Chemical Geology (9) 119-132
The equilibrium distributions of solute species of aluminum at 25°C and one atmosphere pressure are shown graphically in systems containing fluoride, as functions of the total dissolved aluminum and fluoride. The predominant form of complex and degree of complexing are also shown...
Occurrence of chromian, hercynitic spinel ("pleonaste") in Apollo-14 samples and its petrologic implications
E. Roedder, P.W. Weiblen
1972, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (15) 376-402
Many isolated grains of a reddish pleonaste-type spinel occur in fines and metabreccia samples, particularly 14 319. Electron microprobe analyses (104) of spinels and their associated phases include 58 of pleonaste which show Mg/(Mg + Fe) 0.44–0.62 and Cr/(Cr + Al) 0.017–0.134...
Imaging experiment: The Viking Lander
T.A. Mutch, A.B. Binder, F.O. Huck, E.C. Levinthal, E. C. Morris, C. Sagan, A.T. Young
1972, Icarus (16) 92-110
The Viking Lander Imaging System will consist of two identical facsimile cameras. Each camera has a high-resolution mode with an instantaneous field of view of 0.04°, and survey and color modes with instantaneous fields of view of 0.12°. Cameras are positioned one meter...
Seasonal population characteristics of the opossum shrimp, Mysis relicta, in southeastern Lake Michigan, 1970-71
James B. Reynolds, G.M. DeGraeve
1972, Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Great Lakes Research (15) 117-131
This study of depth distribution, abundance, growth, reproduction and standing crop of the opossum shrimp, Mysis relicta, in southeastern Lake Michigan was based on monthly samples collected from August 1970 through July 1971 (except February and March). Population density was usually low at 10-20 fathoms, moderate at 25-30 fathoms and...
Limnology and fish ecology of sockeye salmon nursery lakes of the world
Wilbur L. Hartman, R.L. Burgner
1972, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (29) 699-715
Many important, recently glaciated oligotrophic lakes that lie in coastal regions around the northern rim of the Pacific Ocean produce anadromous populations of sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka. This paper describes the limnology and fish ecology of two such lakes in British Columbia, five in Alaska, and one in Kamchatka. Then...
