Speculations on processes responsible for mesoscale current lineations on the continental shelf, southern California
Herman A. Karl
1980, Marine Geology (34) M9-M18
A side-scan sonar survey of San Pedro shelf, California, reveals areas of mesoscale current lineations oriented approximately north-northeast in water depths of 20-25 m. Widths of sand ribbons range from 40 to 120 m and intervening erosional furrows, from 15 to 50 m. A conceptual model shows that the scale...
Regional tilt patterns of Late Cenozoic basin-range fault blocks, western United States.
John H. Stewart
1980, Geological Society of America Bulletin (91) 460-464
The pattern of tilt domains is characterized by transverse zones or boundaries, parallel to the extension direction, and by antiformal (tilts away from) and synformal (tilts toward) boundaries at right angles to the extension direction. Tilting of ranges averages about 15o to 20o in Nevada and Utah and indicates extension...
Evaluation of organic matter, subsurface temperature and pressure with regard to gas generation in low-permeability Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary sandstones in Pacific Creek area, Sublette and Sweetwater Counties, Wyoming.
B. E. Law, C. W. Spencer, N. H. Bostick
1980, Mountain Geologist (17) 23-35
The onset of overpressuring occurs at c.3,500 m, near the base of the U. Cretaceous Lance Formation. The development of overpressuring may involve several processes; however, interpretation of the available information indicates that active generation of large amounts of wet gas is one of the more important processes. The present...
The age curves of sulfur and oxygen isotopes in marine sulfate and their mutual interpretation
George E. Claypool, William T. Holser, Isaac R. Kaplan, Hitoshi Sakai, Israel Zak
1980, Chemical Geology (28) 199-260
Three hundred new samples of marine evaporite sulfate, of world-wide distribution, were analyzed for δ34S, and 60 of these also for δ18O in the sulfate ion. Detailed δ34S age curves for Tertiary—Cretaceous, Permian—Pennsylvanian, Devonian, Cambrian and Proterozoic times document large variations in δ34S. A summary curve forδ18O also shows definite...
Effects of sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) control in the Great Lakes on aquatic plants, invertebrates and amphibians
P.A. Gilderhus, B. G. H. Johnson
1980, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (37) 1895-1905
The chemicals 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM) or a combination of TFM and 2a??,5-dichloro-4a??-nitrosalicylanilide (Bayer 73) have been used to control the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) in the Great Lakes for about 20 yr. These chemicals cause some mortalities of Oligochaeta and Hirudinea, immature forms of Ephemeroptera (Hexagenia sp.), and certain Trichoptera, Simuliidae,...
Thickness change involved in the peat-to- coal transformation for a bituminous coal of Cretaceous age in central Utah
Thomas A. Ryer, A.W. Langer
1980, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology (50) 987-992
The ratio of the thicknesses of a layer of peat and the coal bed formed from that peat has been calculated for a bituminous coal bed in central Utah. The method used involves comparison of the thickness of peat eroded by a laterally...
Development of sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) larvicides
John H. Howell, John J. Lech, John L. Allen
1980, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (37) 2103-2107
Larvicides are used to control sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) in the Great Lakes. These larvicides are useful because they are more toxic to sea lamprey than fish species found in the same habitat. The lampricides come from two classes of chemical compounds: (1) halonitrophenols, and (2) halonitrosalicylanilides. Selectivity of the...
Travel time variation on backcountry trails
J. W. van Wagtendonk, J.M. Benedict
1980, Journal of Leisure Research (12) 99-106
Numerous interrelated factors influence the travel times of hikers and riders on backcountry trails. This study sought to quantify those factors which were thought to be most important in affecting trail speeds. The travel times of 897 backpacking parties, 634 day hiking parties, and 111 riding parties were obtained from...
Eruptions on Mount Etna during 1979
J. Guest, J. Murray, C. Kilburn, R. Lopes
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 154-160
Tremors from earthquakes and blasting in the Powder River basin of Wyoming and Montana
C.H. Miller, F. W. Osterwald
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 212-219
Coal in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana (fig. 1) is greatly in demand. It can be economically mined from the surface, and the land is much easier to reclaim than land above underground mines that has been damaged by subsidence or by underground fires. Exploitation of the...
Toxicity of five forest insecticides to cutthroat trout and two species of aquatic invertebrates
D. F. Woodward, W.L. Mauck
1980, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (25) 846-854
The Northern Rocky Mountain region has had scattered infestation of the western spruce budworm Christoneura occidentalis since the early 1900's (U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (USDA) 1976b). On the basis of aerial surveys in 1975, TUNNOCK et al. (1976), estimated that budworm defoliation occurred on 2,278,804 acres of six National Forests...
Earthquake alarm; operating the seismograph station at the University of California, Berkeley
B. Stump
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 88-97
Earthquakes; a new unit in environmental education
R. D. Collyer
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 188-189
Andrija Mohorovicic
W.E. Bonini, R.R. Bonini
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 108-112
Charles F. Richter; an interview
H. Spall
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 4-8
Charles F. Richter, renowned seismologist, is a professor emeritus at the California Institue of techonology (Caltech). He is best known to the public for the Richter magnitude scale; but he is equally recognized in the scientific community for many other contributions to seismology including his books Elementary Seismology (1958) and...
Earthquakes; March-April 1980
W. J. Person
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 228-231
Two of the three major (7.0-7.9) earthquakes during this reporting period occurred in the South Pacific on March 8 and April 13. The third, in the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, on March 23, was the first major earthquake of the year in the United States. In the State of Washington,...
Jupiter and the Voyager mission
L. Soderblom
Henry Spall, editor(s)
1980, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (12) 128-130
In 1977, the United States launched two unmanned Voyager spacecraft that were to take part in an extensive reconnaissance of the outer planets over a 12-year period visiting the environs of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Their first encounter was with the complex Jupiter planetary system 400 million miles away....
About forty last-glacial Lake Missoula jokulhlaups through southern Washington
R. B. Waitt Jr.
1980, Journal of Geology (88) 653-679
The rhythmic Touchet Beds in the Walla Walla and lower Yakima valleys resulted from many separate backfloodings by hydraulically ponded glacial Lake Missoula water. At least once this episodic lake briefly contained half the of water that catastrophically drained the largest glacial Lakes Missoula. Evidence that the...
Accuracy of an estuarine hydrodynamic model using smooth elements
Roy A. Walters, Ralph T. Cheng
1980, Water Resources Research (16) 187-195
A finite element model which uses triangular, isoparametric elements with quadratic basis functions for the two velocity components and linear basis functions for water surface elevation is used in the computation of shallow water wave motions. Specifically addressed are two common uncertainties in this class of two-dimensional hydrodynamic models: the...
The behavior of 14C and 13C in estuarine water: Effects of In situ CO2 production and atmospheric exchange
Elliott C. Spiker
1980, Radiocarbon (22) 647-654
The effects of nonconservative sources (inputs) and sinks (outputs) of carbon are indicated by the behavior of Δ14C and δ13C of the total dissolved inorganic carbon (ΣCO2) in San Francisco Bay and Chesapeake Bay. Isotopic distributions and model calculations indicate that in North San Francisco Bay the net CO2 flux to...
Calculation of estuarine residual currents using the finite element method
R. A. Walters, R. T. Cheng
1980, Conference Paper, Third International Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems
No abstract available....
Publications of the Geological Survey 1962-1970
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1980, Report
This permanent catalog is a list of books and maps that were published between 1962 and 1970. It supplements another permanent catalog "Publications of the Geological Survey, 1879-1961."...
Notes on sedimentation activities calendar year 1979
U.S. Interagency Advisory Committee on Water Data- Subcommittee on Sedimentation
1980, Report
This report is a digest of information furnished by Federal Agencies on sedimentation investigations, both ongoing and planned. Included in the report are a review of important findings, new methodologies, new publications, laboratory and other research activities, and other pertinent information. The material is organized on the basis of the...
Publications of the Geological Survey, 1879-1961
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1980, Report
This permanent catalog is a list of books and maps that were published between 1879 and 1961. It supplements another permanent catalog "Publications of the Geological Survey, 1962-1970."...
Effect of leaching on apparent digestion coefficients of feedstuffs for salmonids
R. R. Smith, M. C. Peterson, A. C. Allred
1980, Progressive Fish-Culturist (42) 195-199
Fecal excretions were collected from rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) in metabolism chambers. In this method of collection the daily excretion is suspended in about 1 L of water. Aliquots of the suspension were separated into solid and liquid fractions by settling, centrifuging, or filtering. Solid and liquid fractions and the...
