Catalog of maps
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1991, Report
This publication contains brief descriptions about the various types of maps made by the U.S. Geological Survey....
Visual geography
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, National Geographic Society, U.S. Department of the Interior
1991, Report
Maps are, among other things, a way of making geography visual. They are world views, ways of thinking, and ways of communicating. They depict our world and guide us through it. Visual Geography probes the essence of maps and mapmaking. It follows the story of cartography through the millennia, across...
Linear solvation energy relationships: "rule of thumb" for estimation of variable values
James P. Hickey, Dora R. Passino-Reader
1991, Environmental Science & Technology (25) 1753-1760
For the linear solvation energy relationship (LSER), values are listed for each of the variables (Vi/100, π*, &betam, αm) for fundamental organic structures and functional groups. We give the guidelines to estimate LSER variable values quickly for a vast array of possible organic compounds such as those found in the...
Catalog of cartographic data
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1991, Report
This publication contains brief descriptions of various cartographic products and formats used by the U.S. Geological Survey....
Post-column reaction for simultaneous analysis of chromatic and leuco forms of malachite green and crystal violet by high-performance liquid chromatography with photometric detection
J. L. Allen, J.R. Meinertz
1991, Journal of Chromatography (536) 217-222
The chromatic and leuco forms of malachite green and crystal violet were readily separated and detected by a sensitive and selective high-performance liquid chromatographic procedure. The chromatic and leuco forms of the dyes were separated within 11 min on a C18 column with a mobile phase of 0.05 M sodium...
Growth and overwinter survival of the Asiatic clam, Corbicula fluminea, in the St. Clair River, Michigan
John R. P. French III, Donald W. Schloesser
1991, Hydrobiologia (219) 165-170
We report the discovery in April 1986 of the first population of Asiatic clam, Corbicula fluminea, known to occupy a lotic environment in the Laurentian Great Lakes system. This population occupied a 3.8 km long sandy shoal in the discharge plume of a steam-electric power plant on the St. Clair...
Wisconsin: A summary of cooperative water-resources investigations 1991
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
1991, Report
The objectives of this study are to provide continuous discharge records for selected rivers at specific sites to supply the needs for regulation, analytical studies, definition of statistical properties, trends analysis, determination of the occurrence, and distribution of water in streams for planning. The project is also designed to determine...
Effects of resighting errors on capture-resight estimates for neck-banded Canada geese
Nondor T. Weiss, M.D. Samuel, D. H. Rusch, F. Dale Caswell
1991, Journal of Field Ornithology (62) 464-473
Biologists who study neck-banded Canada Geese (Branta canadensis) have used capture and resighting histories to estimate annual resighting rates, survival rates and the number of marked birds in the population. Resighting errors were associated with 9.4% (n = 155) of the birds from a sample of Canada Geese neckbanded in...
System for maintaining sediment suspensions during larval fish studies
E.W. Chilton II
1991, Progressive Fish-Culturist (53) 28-33
A new system was developed for maintaining suspensions of inorganic solids during laboratory studies on early life stages of fish. Microfine bentonite was successfully held in suspension in specially constructed units during a 21-d fishless test, a 28-d experiment with juvenile green sunfish (lepomis cyanellus), and four shorter experiments (5-9...
National Atlas maps
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1991, Report
The National Atlas of the United States of America was published by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1970. Its 765 maps and charts are on 335 14- by 19-inch pages. Many of the maps span facing pages. It's worth a quick trip to the library just to leaf through all...
Scientists consider welfare of fish in conference
H. G. Ketola
1991, Salmonid (15) 15-15
Geology of caves
I.M. Morgan
1991, Report
A cave is a natural opening in the ground extending beyond the zone of light and large enough to permit the entry of man. Occurring in a wide variety of rock types and caused by widely differing geological processes, caves range in size from single small rooms to intercorinecting passages...
Groundwater flow and solute movement to drain laterals, western San Joaquin Valley, California: 1. Geochemical assessment
S. J. Deverel, John L. Fio
1991, Water Resources Research (27) 2233-2246
A study was undertaken to quantitatively evaluate the hydrologic processes affecting the chemical and isotopic composition of drain lateral water in a drained agricultural field in the western San Joaquin Valley, California. The results elucidate the process of mixing of deep and shallow groundwater (below and within 6...
Groundwater flow and solute movement to drain laterals, western San Joaquin Valley, California: 2. Quantitative hydrologic assessment
John L. Fio, S. J. Deverel
1991, Water Resources Research (27) 2247-2257
Groundwater flow modeling was used to quantitatively assess the hydrologic processes affecting ground water and solute movement to drain laterals. Modeling results were used to calculate the depth distribution of groundwater flowing into drain laterals at 1.8 m (drain lateral 1) and 2.7 m (drain lateral 2) below land surface....
Water resources data, New Mexico, water year 1990
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1991, Water Data Report NM-90
This annual hydrologic data report of New Mexico is one of a series of annual reports that document hydrologic data gathered from the U.S. Geological Survey's surface- and ground-water data-collection networks in each State, Puerto Rico, and the Trust Territories. These records of streamflow, ground-water levels, and water quality provide the...
Burrowing mayfly nymphs in western Lake Erie, 1942-1944
Bruce A. Manny
1991, Journal of Great Lakes Research (17) 517-521
These data, collected during 1942-1944 by Dr. David C. Chandler, describe the density, biomass, and growth of a now extinct population of burrowing mayfly nymphs (primarily Hexagenia limbata) that lived in the sediments of western Lake Erie near South Bass Island. The growth dynamics of this population have not previously...
Books and the popularization of science
R. Buchanan
1991, Publishing Research Quarterly (7) 5-10
This article discusses best-selling science books, the characteristics of the audience for popular science books, and the role of books within science popularization and science education. Best-selling science books have been rare, but generally readable. Regional books, also important sources of scientific information, aim at much smaller, far more price-sensitive...
Geophysical studies of the West Antarctic rift system
John C. Behrendt, W.E. LeMasurier, A. K. Cooper, Franz Tessensohn, A. Trehu, D. Damaske
1991, Tectonics (10) 1257-1273
The West Antarctic rift system extends over a 3000 × 750 km, largely ice covered area from the Ross Sea to the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, comparable in area to the Basin and Range and the East African rift system. A spectacular rift shoulder scarp along which peaks reach...
Structure of the collision zone between Bougainville guyot and the accretionary wedge of the New Hebrides Island arc, southwest Pacific
Michael A. Fisher, J.-Y. Collot, E.L. Geist
1991, Tectonics (10) 887-903
Multichannel seismic reflection data show the structure that develops within an island arc-guyot collision zone. The Bougainville guyot fills the New Hebrides trench, stands about 3 km above the abyssal ocean plain, and is capped by a broad platform that is underlain by a parallel bedded sequence, probably lagoon and...
Michigan residents strongly support wolf restoration
L.D. Mech
1991, Endangered Species Technical Bulletin (16) 10
Determination of factors limiting the California condor
O. H. Pattee
1991, Endangered Species Technical Bulletin (16) 11-12
Methods for control of tick vectors of Lyme Borreliosis
T.G.T. Jaenson, D. Fish, H. S. Ginsberg, J.S. Gray, T.N. Mather, J. Piesman
1991, Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases (Suppl. 77) 151-157
During the IVth International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis in Stockholm, 1990, a workshop on control of Lyme disease vectors briefly reviewed: basic ecological principles for tick control; biocontrol of ticks; chemical control, including the use of repellents and use of permethrin-treated rodent nest material; tick control by habitat modification; and...
Increased population densities of Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) on Long Island, New York
H. S. Ginsberg, C.P. Ewing, A.F. O'Connell Jr., E.M. Bosler, James G. Daley, M. W. Sayre
1991, Journal of Parasitology (77) 493-495
Lone star ticks, Amblyomma americanum comprised a significantly greater proportion of total ticks flagged on eastern Long Island and Fire Island, New York, in 1986 and 1990 than in samples reported by other authors from the 1940s (when A. americanum was not collected by flagging or from hosts) and the...
Where have all the songbirds gone?
C.S. Robbins
1991, World & I (6) 332-339
Resting metabolic rate of golden eagles, bald eagles, and barred owls harnessed with a tracking transmitter or an equivalent load
J.A. Gessaman, M.R. Fuller, P.J. Pekins, G.E. Duke
1991, The Wilson Bulletin (103) 261-265
