The Exclusive Economic Zone: an exciting new frontier
Bonnie A. McGregor, Terry W. Offield
1983, Report
A natural earthquake laboratory in Arkansas
A. C. Johnston
1983, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (15) 210-215
Seismological programs in Costa Rica
W. Montero
Henry Spall, editor(s)
1983, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (15) 11-15
At the beginning of the 1970's, a series of programs in seismology were initiated by different Costa Rican institutions, and some of these programs are still in the process of development. The institutions are Insituto Costaricense de Electricidad (ICE)- The Costa Rica Institute of Electricity La Universidad Nacional Autonoma (UNA)- The National...
Glaciers: clues to future climate?
Richard S. Williams Jr.
1983, Report
A glacier is a large mass of ice having its genesis on land and represents a multiyear surplus of snowfall over snowmelt. At the present time, perennial ice covers about 10 percent of the land areas of the Earth. Although glaciers are generally thought of as polar entities, they also...
Earthquakes; January-February 1983
W. J. Person
1983, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (15) 150-156
A minor earthquake occurred in western Nevada on January 9 at 6:59 a.m. PST. The magnitude 3.8 earthquake was located about 16 miles west of Carson City. MM IV effects were noted at Minden. On February 16 at 12:21 a.m. and February 23 at 3:10 a.m. PST, minor earthquakes occurred in...
Altitude of the top of the Matawan Group-Magothy Formation, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York
Richard K. Krulikas, E. J. Koszalka, Thomas P. Doriski
1983, Open-File Report 83-137
The Magothy aquifer, with its irregular surface and deeply eroded buried valleys, has become the major source of fresh water in most of Suffolk Country. With the availability of recent data from deep wells and test holes, refinement of the surface-altitude contours has been possible and resulted in substantial revision...
Measurement of the reaeration coefficients of the North Fork Licking River at Utica, Ohio by radioactive tracers
Janet Hren
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4192
Reaeration coefficients of the North Fork Licking River at Utica, Ohio were measured by the radioactive-tracer method. The tests were conducted on a 2.1-mile reach on September 23 and October 7, 1981, during low-flow conditions. Krypton-85 gas and tritium were the radioopactive tracers, which were used in conjunction with rhodamine-WT...
Ferruginous hawk populations and habitat use in North Dakota
David S. Gilmer, Robert E. Stewart
1983, Journal of Wildlife Management (47) 146-157
Ferruginous hawks (Buteo regalis) were studied in central North Dakota on a 1,259-km2 intensive study block and on a surrounding study area (16,519 km2) from 1977 to 1979. A total of 629 occupied nests was examined. Highest nest densities (0.08 nest/km2) were in the Missouri Coteau in 1979. Few nests...
Active submarine volcano sampled
B. Taylor
1983, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (15) 148-149
On June 4, 1982, two full dredge hauls of fresh lava were recovered from the upper flanks of Kavachi submarine volcano, Solomon Islands, in the western Pacific Ocean, from the water depths of 1,200 and 2,700 feet. the shallower dredge site was within 0.5 mile of the active submarine vent...
Research in seismology and earthquake engineering in Venezuela
L. Urbina, J. Grases
1983, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (15) 32-38
Venezuela has been affected by destructive earthquakes for the past four centuries. According to entries in the national seismic catalog, there have been about 180 earthquakes which have caused some type of damage to the country. The most catastrophic earthquake occurred on March 26, 1812, on the Bocono fault system...
Land application of wastewater and its effect on ground-water quality in the Livermore-Amador Valley, Alameda County, California
M. A. Sylvester
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-4100
Ground-water quality, ground-water level, and rainfall data collected during the 1975 water year through the 1980 water year were analyzed to determine the effects of land application of effluent from wastewater treatment plants on ground-water quality in the Livermore-Amador Valley. Annual rainfall varied markedly during the study: 1976 and 1977...
Was seismology lucky to acquire John Milne?
L. Herbert-Gustar, P. A. Nott
1983, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (15) 164-176
Archiving early seismological records at the California Institute of Technology
J. Goodstein
1983, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (15) 177-184
Improper use of regression equations in earth sciences
G. P. Williams
1983, Geology (11) 195-197
A regression equation used to estimate a variable is appropriately used only to estimate the dependent variable of that equation; the equation is inappropriately used when solved for an independent variable. Examples given here of this misuse of regression equations are based on...
Late Holocene ice wedges near Fairbanks, Alaska, USA: Environmental setting and history of growth
T. D. Hamilton, T. A. Ager, S.W. Robinson
1983, Arctic and Alpine Research (15) 157-168
Test trenches excavated into muskeg near Fairbanks in 1969 exposed a polygonal network of active ice wedges. The wedges occur in peat that has accumulated since about 3500 yr BP and have grown episodically as the permafrost table fluctuated in response to fires, other local site conditions and perhaps regional...
The fledging of common and thick-billed murres on Middleton Island, Alaska
Scott A. Hatch
1983, Journal of Field Ornithology (54) 266-274
Three species of alcids, Common and Thick-billed murres (Uria aalge and U. lomvia) and the Razorbill (Alca torda), have post-hatching developmental patterns intermediate to precocial and semi-precocial modes (Sealy 1973). The young leave their cliff nest sites at about one quarter of adult weight and complete their growth at sea....
New evidence for the age of the Gubik Formation Alaskan North Slope
C.A. Repenning
1983, Quaternary Research (19) 356-372
At several Alaskan North Slope localities south of the shore of the Arctic Ocean the Gubik Formation, herein regarded as latest Pliocene and Pleistocene in age, contains a marine unit at its base. Near Ocean Point and near Teshekpuk Lake this basal unit, or the lowest exposed marine unit, of...
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...
From the U.S. Department of Interior
G.S. Gutsell
1983, Trout Growers Creel (16) 12-13
Retention of infectious haematopoietic necrosis virus infectivity in fish tissue homogenates and fluids stored at three temperatures
J. Burke, D. Mulcahy
1983, Journal of Fish Diseases (6) 543-547
Pools of brain, kidney, spleen, liver and gut tissues from several rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri Richardson, and whole sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka (Walbaum), fry were homogenized with a known amount of infectious haematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV). Virus was also added to ovarian fluids and sera pooled from several rainbow trout....
Effect of temperature on production of tiger muskellunge in intensive culture
J. W. Meade, W. F. Krise, T. Ort
1983, Aquaculture (32) 157-164
Tiger muskellunge (Esox masquinony × E. lucius) juveniles were reared at constant temperatures in the temperature range 14–28°C. For fish 3–4 cm long, growth, production and feed conversion efficiency were greatest at 20–22°C. Survival was reduced and unaccountable mortality (cannibalism index) was greatest at 24°C. Growth per unit of temperature...
Origins of rainbow smelt in Lake Ontario
Roger A. Bergstedt
1983, Journal of Great Lakes Research (9) 582-583
The first rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) to enter Lake Ontario were probably migrants from an anadromous strain introduced into New York's Finger Lakes. Since the upper Great Lakes were originally stocked with a landlocked strain from Green Lake, Maine, subsequent migration to Lake Ontario from Lake Erie makes Lake Ontario...
Geological setting of oil shales in the Permian phosphoria formation and some of the geochemistry of these rocks
E. K. Maughan
1983, Conference Paper, Preprints Symposia
Recent studies of the Meade Peak and the Retort Phosphatic Shale Members of the Phosphoria Formation have investigated the organic carbon content and some aspects of hydrocarbon generation from these rocks. Phosphorite has been mined from the Retort and Meade Peak members in southeastern Idaho, northern Utah, western Wyoming and...
SPONTANEOUS COAL COMBUSTION; MECHANISMS AND PREDICTION.
James R. Herring, Fredrick J. Rich
1983, Conference Paper
Spontaneous ignition and combustion of coal is a major problem to the coal mining, shipping, and use industries; unintentional combustion causes loss of the resource as well as jeopardy to life and property. The hazard to life is especially acute in the case of underground coal mine fires that start...
ROLES OF REMOTE SENSING AND CARTOGRAPHY IN THE USGS NATIONAL MAPPING DIVISION.
Rupert B. Southard, John W. Salisbury
1983, Conference Paper, Technical Papers of the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping
The inseparable roles of remote sensing and photogrammetry have been recognized to be consistent with the aims and interests of the American Society of Photogrammetry. In particular, spatial data storage, data merging and manipulation methods and other techniques originally developed for remote sensing applications also have applications for digital cartography....