Hydrogeology of stratified-drift aquifers and water quality in the Nashua Regional Planning Commission Area, south-central New Hampshire
K. W. Toppin
1987, Water-Resources Investigations Report 86-4358
The Nashua Regional Planning Commission area in south-central New Hampshire is a 12-community area that is experiencing increases in population and in demands for water supply. The study area is underlain by 129 sq mi (40% of the area) of stratified drift which, where sufficiently saturated and permeable, form the...
Fish suffer stress, why?
G. L. Rumsey
1987, Salmonid (11) 7-8
Dipigmented skin lesions (stripedness) in channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
N. C. Parker, Gerald T. Klar
1987, Aquaculture (60) 117-120
A pigmentation anomaly appearing as white stripes or spots in one group of channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, was found to be a non-inheritable trait. We suspect, therefore, that the depigmentation was induced by environmental conditions or by a pathogen, but tests for bacterial and viral agents were negative....
Stocking rates for catfish culture
M. Martin
1987, Farm Pond Harvest (21) 17-18, 26
Rare Plants at Point Reyes National Seashore
Ronilee A. Clark, Gary M. Fellers
1987, Fremontia (15) 13-16
Stochastic model for the long-term transport of stored sediment in a river channel
Harvey M. Kelsey, Roland Lamberson, Mary Ann Madej
1987, Water Resources Research (2) 1738-1750
We develop a stochastic model for the transport of stored sediment down a river channel. The model is based on probabilities of transition of particles among four different sediment storage reservoirs, called active (often mobilized), semiactive, inactive, and stable (hardly ever mobilized). The probabilities are derived from computed sediment residence...
Use of tree aggregations in forest ecology and management
N.L. Stephenson
1987, Environmental Management (11) 1-5
Two recent studies using tree aggregations to analyze forest age-structure stability and past forest structure are flawed. A better understanding of aggregation dynamics is needed before aggregation analysis is used in forest management....
Developing a state water plan: Ground-water conditions in Utah, spring of 1987
Dale E. Wilberg, G. J. Smith, D. Michael Roark, Patrick M. Lambert, V.L. Jensen, Gail E. Cordy, Carole B. Burden, Michael Enright, D. C. Emett, Susan A. Thiros, G. W. Sandberg, R. W Puchta, L. R. Herbert
1987, Cooperative Investigations Report 27
This is the twenty-fourth in a Series of annual reports that describe ground-water Conditions in Utah. Reports in the series, prepared cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Utah Division of Water Resources, provide data to enable interested parties to keep abreast of changing ground-water conditions.This report, like...
Recognition of Macluritella (Gastropoda) from the Upper Cambrian of Missouri and Nevada
E. L. Yochelson, B.L. Stinchcomb
1987, Journal of Paleontology (61) 56-61
Open-coiled euomphalacean gastropods have been identified for the first time in the Upper Cambrian Eminence Dolomite of Missouri. These gastropods have a triangular whorl profile and are conspecific with Hyolithes walcotti described from the Upper Cambrian of Nevada. That species is questionably reassigned to the gastropod genus Macluritella,...
Effect of urbanization on the water resources of eastern Chester County, Pennsylvania
R. A. Sloto
1987, Water-Resources Investigations Report 87-4098
The effects of human activity on the water resources of a 207-square-mile area of eastern Chester County was evaluated. The most serious consequence of urbanization is the contamination of ground water by volatile organic compounds, which were detected in 39 percent of the 70 wells sampled. As many as nine...
Ground-water resources of the Laura area, Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands
S. N. Hamlin, S. S. Anthony
1987, Water-Resources Investigations Report 87-4047
The water system that supplies the heavily populated Dalap-Uliga-Darrit (DUD) area of Majuro atoll, Marshall Island, relies almost entirely upon airstrip catchment of rain water. Droughts cause severe water supply problems and water rationing is required, even during periods of normal rainfall. The Laura area contains a substantial lens of...
Geochemistry of metal-rich brines from central Mississippi Salt Dome basin, U.S.A.
Y.K. Kharaka, A.S. Maest, W.W. Carothers, LeRoy M. Law, P. J. Lamothe, T. L. Fries
1987, Applied Geochemistry (2) 543-561
Oil-field brines are the most favored ore-forming solutions for the sediment-hosted Mississippi Valley-type ore deposits. Detailed inorganic and organic chemical and isotope analyses of water and gas samples from six oil fields in central Mississippi, one of the very few areas...
Three volcanoes erupt in Alaska
T. P. Miller
1987, Earthquakes & Volcanoes (USGS) (19) 192-198
Alaska has over 40 historically active volcanoes and normally averages one eruption a year. Alaskan volcanoes were unusually active in 1986. Augustine, Pavlof, and Akutan volcaneos all erupted vigorously; at one time in April, all three were erupting. ...
Seismological medals
P. Schmidt
1987, Earthquakes & Volcanoes (USGS) (19) 205-211
Few studies have attempted to describe the large numbers of medals that have been struck to commemorate important seismological events. I was intrigued by these medals on the occasion of the transfer of the coin and medal collection from the Freiberg Military Academy to the special reserve of the University...
Volcanic ash clouds; a continuing threat to international aviation
H. Scarone
1987, Earthquakes & Volcanoes (USGS) (19) 65-73
There was no warning. The British Airqays Boeing 747 was making its usual flight from Kuala Lumpur to Perth, Asutralia, that nihgt, late in June 1982. Altitude:12,000 metres (37,000 feet). Time about 23:00 UTC. Suddenly, an acrid odour began to pervade the aircraft, an eerie bluish glow lit up the edges...
Ground-water flow and shallow-aquifer properties in the Rio Grande inner valley south of Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico
K. D. Peter
1987, Water-Resources Investigations Report 87-4015
The purpose of this investigation was to describe the water table configuration and its temporal variations, estimate aquifer properties, and evaluate the interaction of groundwater and surface water in the inner valley of the Rio Grande in southern Albuquerque, New Mexico, where groundwater contamination is a continuing concern. The upper...
System designed for issuing landslide alerts in the San Francisco Bay area
D. Finley
1987, Earthquakes & Volcanoes (USGS) (19) 171-173
A system for forecasting landslides during major storms has been developed for the San Francisco Bay area by the U.S Geological Survey and was successfully tested during heavy storms in the bay area during February 1986. Based on the forecasts provided by the USGS, the National Weather Service (NWS) included...
An interview with Bruce A. Bolt
H. Spall
1987, Earthquakes & Volcanoes (USGS) (19) 93-101
Professor Bruce Bolt was educated in Australia and first came to the United States in 1960 on a Fulbright Fellowship to the Lamont Geological Observatory of Columbia University. In 1963 he was appointed Director of the Seismographic Stations at the University of California at Berkeley. In June 1988, he steps...
Devastating tsunami inspires efforts to reduce future tsunami destruction
P. A. Lockridge
1987, Earthquakes & Volcanoes (USGS) (19) 60-64
The beacon from landmark Scotch Cap lighthouse pierced the moonless night of April 1, 1946, in Alaska's remote Aleutain Island chain. In the reinforced concrete lighthouse, five men were engaged in various support operations connected with the maintenance of the 80,000 candlepower beam. Perched atop a building constructed 5 years...
NCEER seminars on earthquakes
J. Pantelic
1987, Earthquakes & Volcanoes (USGS) (19) 178-179
In May of 1986, the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER) in Buffalo, New York, held the first seminar in its new monthly forum called Seminars on Earthquakes. The Center's purpose in initiating the seminars was to educate the audience about earthquakes, to facilitate cooperation between the NCEER and...
Picture windows of opportunity
S. Matt
1987, Earthquakes & Volcanoes (USGS) (19) 174-177
We hate to say that we need a moderate earthquake every once in a while, but experience shows that it surely helps to sell all kinds of seismic safety programs It took the 933 Long Beach earthquake to get the Field Act passed in California requiring the strengthening of our public schools. It...
Aquifer response to recharge and pumping San Bernardino ground-water basin, California
W. F. Hardt, J. R. Freckleton
1987, Water-Resources Investigations Report 86-4140
No abstract available....
Preliminary geologic map of the Butte 1 degree by 2 degrees quadrangle, western Montana
C. A. Wallace, R. G. Schmidt, D. J. Lidke, M. R. Waters, J. E. Elliott, A. B. French, J. W. Whipple, S. E. Zarske, M. J. Blaskowski, B. A. Heise, R. A. Yeoman, J.M. O’Neill, D. A. Lopez, G. D. Robinson, M. R. Klepper
1987, Open-File Report 86-292
No abstract available....
Environmental pollutant and necropsy data for ospreys from the eastern United States, 1975-1982
Stanley N. Wiemeyer, Shelia K. Schmeling, Allen Anderson
1987, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (23) 279-291
Twenty-three ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) found dead or moribund in the eastern United States during 1975–1982 were necropsied and selected tissues were analyzed for organo-chlorines and metals. Major causes or factors contributing to death were trauma, impact injuries, and emaciation. DDE was detected in 96% of the osprey carcasses, DDD in...
A Pennsylvanian-age terrestrial storm deposit: using plant fossils to characterize the history and process of sediment accumulation
C. Wnuk, H.W. Pfefferkorn
1987, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology (57) 212-221
A thin black shale overlying the B-coal underclay (in the Middle Pennsylvanian post-Pottsville strata of the Bernice Basin) contains a compression flora composed of large, prostrate, unidirectionally oriented lycopod trunks and randomly oriented pteridosperm stems. Analyses of modern log accumulations indicate that unidirectional...
