Hydrogeochemical effects of injecting wastes into a limestone aquifer near Pensacola, Florida
Donald A. Goolsby
1971, Groundwater (9) 13-19
Acidic industrial wastes have been injected into deep wells in a limestone aquifer near Pensacola, Florida, since 1963. Prior geohydrologic studies in the area had indicated that the limestone aquifer contained nonpotable water and was overlain by an extensive clay confining layer.Two injection wells are presently being used to inject...
Aeromagnetic study of the midcontinent gravity high of central United States
Elizabeth R. King, Isidore Zietz
1971, Geological Society of America Bulletin (82) 2187-2208
A composite map of detailed aeromagnetic surveys over the midcontinent gravity high provides coverage of the 600-mi-long buried belt of mafic rocks of the Keweenawan Series from their outcrop localities in Minnesota and Wisconsin through Iowa and Nebraska. A map of the subsurface extent of the mafic rocks, based on...
Genetic implications of the shapes of martian and lunar craters
R.J. Pike
1971, Icarus (15) 384-395
Craters on Mars and the Moon are alike in that larger craters differ in shape from smaller ones, and older craters differ in shape from younger ones. Smoothed depth-diameter curves for 41 large martian craters photographed by Mariner IV inflect at a crater...
A procedure for testing the antigenicity of vaccines for immunization of fish against Furunculosis
Jamieson E. Holway, G.W. Klontz
1971, Progressive Fish-Culturist 42-44
Furnunculosis, a bacterial disease caused by Aeromonas salmonicida, is potentially one of the most devastating diseases in trout and salmon hatcheries. The disease may be controlled by three methods. The most frequently used method of control has been drug therapy. Unfortunately, the bacteria often develop resistance to the...
Some Pb and Sr isotopic measurements on eclogites from the Roberts Victor mine, South Africa
W.I. Manton, M. Tatsumoto
1971, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (10) 217-226
Five nodules of eclogite, one nodule of garnet peridotite and one sample of kimberlite from the Roberts Victor mine were analyzed for concentrations of U, Th, Pb, Rb and Sr and isotopic compositions of Pb and Sr. In the eclogites, U content...
Geomagnetic polarity epochs: age and duration of the olduvai normal polarity event
C. S. Grommé, R. L. Hay
1971, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (10) 179-185
New data show that the Olduvai normal geomagnetic polarity event is represented in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, by rocks covering a time span of roughly from 0.1 to 0.2 my and is no older than 2.0 my. Hence the long normal polarity event...
Blood cell lineage in the sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus (Pisces: Petromyzontidae)
George W. Piavis, James L. Hiatt
1971, Copeia (1971) 722-728
Blood cell types of the sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, are described and identified and the lineage of mature circulating cells in peripheral blood is traced to blast cells in the hematopoietic fat body. The fat body appears to be the phylogenetic precursor of bone marrow in higher forms, since blood...
Geological provinces of the near side of the moon
J.F. McCauley, D.E. Wilhelms
1971, Icarus (15) 363-367
Systematic geologic mapping of the near side of the Moon has provided the basis for defining and delineating the major geological provinces of the near side. From the nature of the provinces and their distribution patterns a general historical sequence evolves. Five main...
Aeromagnetic and gravity investigations of the Coastal Area and Continental Shelf of Liberia, West Africa, and their relation to continental drift
John C. Behrendt, Cletus S. Wotorson
1970, GSA Bulletin (81) 3563-3574
An aeromagnetic survey has shown the existence of several basins in which magnetic basement depths are greater than 5 km on the continental shelf off Liberia. Magnetic diabase of 176 to 192 m.y. (Jurassic) in age intruding the Paleozoic (?) rocks and overlain by younger rocks onshore requires the distinction...
Toxicity of DDT to Japanese quail as influenced by body weight, breeding condition, and sex
C.D. Gish, N.J. Chura
1970, Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology (17) 740-751
Controlled experiments were utilized to simulate the stresses on wild birds of breeding condition and of weight loss due to migration. Light conditions in the laboratory were manipulated to produce Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) in breeding condition and not in breeding condition. Within each of these groups, some birds...
Passive immunization of pigeons against trichomoniasis
R. M. Kocan
1970, Journal of Protozoology (17) 551-553
Nonimmune homing pigeons Columba livia were infected with the Jones' Barn strain of Trichomonas gallinae and subsequently transfused with plasma from acute or chronically infected pigeons harboring one of 3 different strains of T. gallinae. The transfusions were either a single 2 ml dose given one day after inoculation or three 1 ml doses given 0,...
Head-scratching method of the Swainson's warbler
Brooke Meanley
1970, The Auk (87) 163-163
Ficken and Ficken (Auk, 85: 136, 1968) suggest that the "Head-scratching method may prove a valuable addition to the set of complex characters that can be used in defining genera," and that field observers should continue to fill gaps in our knowledge of this behavior. In the course of a...
Rapid changes in the head of the Rio Balsas Submarine Canyon system, Mexico
E. Reimnitz, M. Gutierrez-Estrada
1970, Marine Geology (8) 245-258
The investigation of a river delta and the heads of several nearby submarine canyons in western Mexico produced evidence for rapid changes in the configuration and depth of the nearshore portions of canyon tributaries. General scarcity of data on the rates of submarine...
The structure and origin of the large submarine canyons of the Bering Sea
D.W. Scholl, E. C. Buffington, D.M. Hopkins, T. R. Alpha
1970, Marine Geology (8) 187-210
Three exceptionally large and long submarine canyons — Bering, Pribilof, and Zhemchug — incise the continental slope underlying the southeastern Bering Sea. Bering Canyon, the world's longest known slope valley, is approximately 400 km long and has a volume of 4,300 km3. The volume of Pribilof Canyon is 1,300 km3 and...
Hydrology of the Upper Malad River basin, southeastern Idaho
Edward J. Pluhowski
1970, Water Supply Paper 1888
The report area comprises 485 square miles in the Basin and Range physiographic province. It includes most of eastern' Oneida County and parts of Franklin, Bannock, and Power Counties of southeastern Idaho. Relief is about 5,000 feet; the floor of the Malad Valley is at an average altitude of about...
Annotated bibliography on artificial recharge of ground water, 1955-67
Donald C. Signor, Douglas J. Growitz, William Kam
1970, Water Supply Paper 1990
Artificial ground-water recharge has become more important as water use by agriculture, industry, and municipalities increases. Water management agencies are increasingly interested in potential use of recharge for pollution abatement, waste-water disposal, and re-use and reclamation of locally available supplies. Research projects and theoretical analyses of operational recharge systems show...
Geohydrology of the Cross-Florida Barge Canal area, with special reference to the Ocala vicinity
Glen L. Faulkner
1970, Open-File Report 70-121
The Cross-Florida Barge Canal route commences at Palatka on the St. Johns River, about 75 miles upstream from the Atlantic Ocean, and extends 110 miles southwestward across Peninsular Florida into deep water in the Gulf of Mexico near Yankeetown. The canal will be equipped with five locks, each 600 feet...
Using radar imagery for crop discrimination: a statistical and conditional probability study
R. M. Haralick, F. Caspall, D.S. Simonett
1970, Remote Sensing of Environment (1) 131-142
A number of the constraints with which remote sensing must contend in crop studies are outlined. They include sensor, identification accuracy, and congruencing constraints; the nature of the answers demanded of the sensor system; and the complex temporal variances of crops in large areas. Attention is then focused on several...
The airborne infrared scanner as a geophysical research tool
Jules D. Friedman
1970, Optical Spectra (4) 35-44
The infrared scanner is proving to be an effective anomaly-mapping tool, albeit one which depicts surface emission directly and heat mass transfer from depths only indirectly and at a threshold level 50 to 100 times the normal conductive heat flow of the earth. Moreover, successive terrain observations are affected by...
Volcanic history of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, as indicated by potassium-argon dating
Peter W. Lipman, Thomas A. Steven, Harald H. Mehnert
1970, GSA Bulletin (81) 2329-2352
Volcanic rocks in the San Juan Mountains constitute the largest erosional remnant of a once nearly continuous volcanic field that extended over much of the southern Rocky Mountains and adjacent areas in Oligocene and later time. Recent regional studies have shown that the gross petrologic evolution throughout the San Juan...
Quartz gabbro and anorthositic gabbro: Markers of offset along the San Andreas fault in the California Coast Ranges
Donald C. Ross
1970, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America (81) 3647-3661
Large-scale lateral movement on the San Andreas fault zone is suggested by the distribution of gabbroic rocks that may be slivered remnants of oceanic crust. Distinctive and unusual hornblende quartz gabbro and anorthositic gabbro that are virtually identical both petrographically and chemically are exposed at Logan and Gold Hill in...
Woodcock feeding habits as related to summer field usage in central Maine
W.B. Krohn
1970, Journal of Wildlife Management (34) 769-775
In 1968 and 1969, 60 American woodcock (Philohela minor) were collected before and after alighting on summer fields in central Maine. A comparison of stomach contents from these birds showed that woodcock fed prior to entering fields at dusk. No evidence was found to indicate that any substantial amount of...
Brines and interstitial brackish water in drill cores from the deep Gulf of Mexico
F.T. Manheim, F.L. Sayles
1970, Science (170) 57-61
Marked increases in interstitial salinity occur in two drill holes located in the Gulf of Mexico at a water depth of more than 3500 meters. The increases probably arose through diffusion of salt from buried evaporites. In one hole, however, brackish water was encountered on penetrating the oil-permeated cap rock...
Seismic refraction study of crustal structure in the western United States
Claus Prodehl
1970, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America (81) 2629-2645
A network of 64 seismic-refraction profiles recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey in California and Nevada and adjacent areas of Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona from 1961 to 1963 was re-interpreted. From record sections compiled for all profiles, a basic travel-time diagram can be derived. In addition to the first...
The Uralides and the motion of the Russian and Siberian Platforms
Warren B. Hamilton
1970, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America (81) 2553-2576
The Uralides—the late Precambrian and Paleozoic orogenic terrane between the Russian and Siberian Platforms—in part are exposed in the Ural Mountains, in the central Soviet Arctic, along the west edge of the Siberian Platform, and in southern Siberia and Kazakhstan, and in part are buried beneath the fill of the...
