Monitoring St. Lawrence Island and Cape Thompson seabird populations
Scott A. Hatch, John F. Piatt, Brian S. Fadely, Bay D. Roberts
1990, Conference Paper, Alaska OCS region third information transfer meeting: Conference proceedings (OCS Study MMS 90-0041)
About 1.8 million seabirds of 12 species breed on St. Lawrence Island (Figure 1) - one of the largest aggregations of breeding seabirds in the subarctic Pacific. Colonies of least and crested auklets alone, totaling 1.5 million birds, contain a substantial proportion (perhaps 20%) of these species’ world populations. Large...
Procedures and rationale for marking sea otters captured and treated during the T/V Exxon Valdez oil spill
A.R. DeGange, T.D. Williams
Keith Bayha, Jennifer Kormendy, editor(s)
1990, Biological Report 90(12)
Four methods were used for marking sea otters (Enhydra lutris) captured and treated during the response to the T/V Exxon Valdez oil spill. Colored and numbered flipper tags were placed on each sea otter that was brought to the otter treatment centers. These tags allowed individual recognition and permitted the...
Will the 1990’s be a decade of increasingly destructive natural disasters?
P. L. Boulle
1990, Earthquakes & Volcanoes (USGS) (22) 173-175
Today, there is a considerable body of knowledge about natural hazards that laso enables us to devise effective means to limit the damage they cause. Yet, the reality of the situation is that disasters are increasing in number worldwide, and their social and economic impacts are becoming more nad more...
Geology of the fushun coalfield, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China
E. A. Johnson
1990, International Journal of Coal Geology (14) 217-236
The Fushun coalfield is located in Liaoning Province 45 km east of Shenyang in a relatively small east-west-trending exposure of Mesozoic and Cenozoic rocks surrounded by Precambrian terrane. The coal is included in a sequence of early Tertiary rocks consisting of...
Mass-marking of otoliths of lake trout sac fry by temperature manipulation
Roger A. Bergstedt, Randy L. Eshenroder, Charles Bowen, James G. Seelye, Jeffrey C. Locke
1990, American Fisheries Society Symposium (7) 216-223
The otoliths of 676,000 sac fry of lake trout Salvelinus namaycush in 1986, and of 1,100,000 in 1987, were marked by daily manipulation of water temperature. The fish were stocked into Lake Huron in the spring. Otolith marks consisted of groups of daily growth rings accentuated into recognizable patterns by...
Comparison of ground motion from tremors and explosions in deep gold mines
Art McGarr, J. Bicknell, J. Churcher, S. Spottiswoode
1990, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth (95) 21777-21792
Seismic body waves, from tamped chemical explosions, two with yields of 50 and one of 150 kg, were compared with corresponding data from three mining-induced tremors with a view to testing methods of discriminating between the two types of events. Detonated at depths of about 2 km, all three explosions...
Evolution of the Tertiary La Honda basin, central California
Richard G. Stanley
1990, Conference Paper, Geology and tectonics of the central California coastal region, San Francisco to Monterey: Camarillo, Calif., American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Pacific Section Guidebook
Tertiary strata of the La Honda basin are exposed in the Santa Cruz Mountains along the central California coast south of San Francisco. The basin fill has a composite thickness of more than 14,500 m and consists of sedimentary and volcanic rocks that in places rest on granitic basement...
Hydrocarbon-water interactions during brine migration: Evidence from hydrocarbon inclusions in calcite cements from Danish North Sea oil fields
J. Jensenius, R.C. Burruss
1990, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (54) 705-713
Crude oils in primary and secondary fluid inclusions in calcite from fractures in seven offshore oil fields associated with diapiric salt structures in the Danish sector of the North Sea were analyzed by capillary column gas chromatography and compared with crude oils produced from the same reservoirs. Oils from fluid...
Production of sulfur gases and carbon dioxide by synthetic weathering of crushed drill cores from the Santa Cruz porphyry copper deposit near Casa Grande, Pinal County, Arizona
M. E. Hinkle, J. L. Ryder, S. J. Sutley, T. Botinelly
1990, Journal of Geochemical Exploration (38) 43-67
Samples of ground drill cores from the southern part of the Santa Cruz porphyry copper deposit, Casa Grande, Arizona, were oxidized in simulated weathering experiments. The samples were also separated into various mineral fractions and analyzed for contents of metals and...
A dolomitized shelf edge hardground in the northern Gulf of Mexico - Reply
Lawrence J. Poppe, Ronald C. Circe, April K. Vuletich
1990, Sedimentary Geology (68) 309-310
We (Poppe et al., 1990) agree with Gerald Friedman that the anaerobic oxidation of methane is important to the early diagenetic cementation by carbonates, but we feel that a few points need clarification....
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay compared with gas chromatography/mass spectrometry for the determination of triazine herbicides in water
E. Michael Thurman, Michael Meyer, Michael Pomes, Charles A. Perry, A. Paul Schwab
1990, Analytical Chemistry (62) 2043-2048
No abstract available....
Adsorption of benzene, toluene, and xylene by two tetramethylammonium-smectites having different charge densities
Jiunn-Fwu Lee, Max M. Mortland, Cary T. Chiou, Daniel E. Kite, Stephen A. Boyd
1990, Clays and Clay Minerals (38) 113-120
A high-charge smectite from Arizona [cation-exchange capacity (CEC) = 120 meq/100 g] and a low-charge smectite from Wyoming (CEC = 90 meq/100 g) were used to prepare homoionic tetramethylammonium (TMA)-clay complexes. The adsorption of benzene, toluene, and o-xylene as vapors by the dry TMA-clays and as solutes from water by...
Potentiometric surface of the Edwards-Trinity aquifer system and contiguous hydraulically connected units, west-central Texas, winter, 1974-75
Eve L. Kuniansky
1990, Water-Resources Investigations Report 89-4208
The potentiometric surface of the Edwards-Trinity aquifer system and contiguous hydraulically connected units (from December 1974 through February 1975) was mapped as part of the Edwards-Trinity Regional Aquifer-System Analysis (RASA) project. A major goal of the Edwards-Trinity RASA project is to understand and describe the regional flow system (Bush, 1986)....
Chemical results for bottom material for Department of the Interior irrigation drainage task group studies 1988-1989
T. F. Harms
1990, Open-File Report 90-50
No abstract available....
Postrelease monitoring of radio-instrumented sea otters in Prince William Sound
C. Monnett, L.M. Rotterman, C. Stack, Daniel H. Monson
Keith Bayha, Jennifer Kormendy, editor(s)
1990, Biological Report 90(12)
Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) that were captured in western Prince William Sound (PWS) or the Gulf of Alaska, treated, and held in captivity at the temporary rehabilitation centers established in response to the T/V Exxon Valdez oil spill were instrumented with radio transmitters, released into eastern PWS, and monitored by...
Seasonal movements of adult female polar bears in the Bering and Chukchi seas
Gerald W. Garner, Steven T. Knick, David C. Douglas
1990, Bears: Their Biology and Management (8) 219-226
Ten adult female polar bears (Ursus maritimus) were fitted with satellite telemetry collars during March 1986 in the Kotzebue Sound area of the Chukchi Sea. During March-April 1987, 2 of these bears were refitted with satellite telemetry collars and an additional 10 adult females were collared in the northern Bering...
Site 766
Leg 123 Shipboard Scientific Party
1990, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program: Initial Reports (123) 269-352
No abstract available....
Site 782
P.B. Fryer, J.A. Pearce, L.B. Stokking, J.R. Ali, R.J. Arculus, D.L. Ballotti, M.M. Burke, Giuliano Ciampo, J.A. Haggerty, R.B. Haston, Dietrich Heling, M.A. Hobart, Teruaki Ishii, L.E. Johnson, Yves Lagabrielle, F.W. McCoy, Hirokazu Maekawa, M. S. Marlow, G.J. Milner, M.J. Mottl, B.J. Murton, S.P. Phipps, C.A. Rigsby, K.L. Saboda, Bjorg Stabell, S.R. Van der Laan, Yulin Xu
1990, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the ocean drilling program
No abstract available ...
Site 765: Sedimentology
Leg 123 Shipboard Scientific Party
1990, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program: Initial Reports (123) 113
Various techniques were used to decipher the sedimentation history of Site 765, including Markov chain analysis of facies transitions, XRD analysis of clay and other minerals, and multivariate analysis of smear-slide data, in addition to the standard descriptive procedures employed by the shipboard sedimentologist. This chapter presents brief summaries of...
Site 765: Sediment Lithostratigraphy
Leg 123 Shipboard Scientific Party
1990, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program: Initial Reports (123) 76-94
A 935-m-thick succession of Quaternary through Lower Cretaceous sediments was recovered at Site 765 (Fig. 10). A single core of Quaternary sediment was obtained from Hole 765A; drilling terminated and a new hole was drilled in an attempt to establish the mud line. Quaternary through middle Miocene sediments were cored...
Summary of results from Leg 125
P.B. Fryer, J.A. Pearce, L.B. Stokking, J.R. Ali, R.J. Arculus, D.L. Ballotti, M.M. Burke, Giuliano Ciampo, J.A. Haggerty, R.B. Haston, Dietrich Heling, M.A. Hobart, Teruaki Ishii, L.E. Johnson, Yves Lagabrielle, F.W. McCoy, Hirokazu Maekawa, M. S. Marlow, G.J. Milner, M.J. Mottl, B.J. Murton, S.P. Phipps, C.A. Rigsby, K.L. Saboda, Bjorg Stabell, S.R. Van der Laan, Yulin Xu
1990, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the ocean drilling program
No abstract available ...
Shorebirds and herring roe in Prince William Sound, Alaska
David W. Norton, Stanley E. Senner, Robert E. Gill Jr., Philip D. Martin, J.M. Wright, Allan K. Fukuyama
1990, American Birds (44) 367-508
No abstract available....
Status of the greater flamingo in Haiti
J. A. Ottenwalder, C.A. Woods, G. B. Rathbun, J.B. Thorbjarnarson
1990, Colonial Waterbirds (13) 115-123
Although flamingos in Haiti can still be found in most areas of their historical range, survey results indicate that numbers have declined drastically over the last 50 years. The coastal mangrove lagoons between Grand Saline and Gonaïves, the inland lakes of Étang Saumâtre and Trou Caïman, and Ile de la...
Geology of the Blue Mountains region of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington: Cenozoic geology of the Blue Mountains region
G.W. Walker, editor(s)
1990, Professional Paper 1437
No abstract available....
Sago pondweed (Potamogeton pectinatus L.): A literature review
Harold A. Kantrud
1990, Resource Publication 176
Sago pondweed (Potamogeton pectinatus L.) is a submersed macrophyte of nearly cosmopolitan distribution. The plant is of worldwide importance as a waterfowl food but also can be a nuisance in irrigation canals and recreational areas. The plant reproduces by many different means, depending on habitat and environmental stress. Several genetic...
