Topographic mapping of the Moon
S.S.C. Wu
1985, Earth, Moon and Planets (32) 165-172
Contour maps of the Moon have been compiled by photogrammetric methods that use stereoscopic combinations of all available metric photographs from the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions. The maps utilize the same format as the existing NASA shaded-relief Lunar Planning Charts (LOC-1, -2, -3, and -4), which have a...
Crustal structure of the southern Calaveras fault zone, central California, from seismic refraction investigations
Peter Blumling, Walter D. Mooney, William H. K. Lee
1985, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (75) 193-209
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake on 6 August 1979, within the Calaveras fault zone, near Coyote Lake of west-central California, motivated a seismic-refraction investigation in this area. A northwest-southeast profile along the fault, as well as two fan profiles across the fault were recorded to examine the velocity structure of this...
ART AND SCIENCE OF IMAGE MAPS.
Richard D. Kidwell, Joseph A. McSweeney
1985, Conference Paper, Technical Papers of the American Society of Photogrammetry, Annual Meeting
The visual image of reflected light is influenced by the complex interplay of human color discrimination, spatial relationships, surface texture, and the spectral purity of light, dyes, and pigments. Scientific theories of image processing may not always achieve acceptable results as the variety of factors, some psychological, are in part,...
SCHLUMBERGER SOUNDING RESULTS OVER THE NEWBERRY VOLCANO AREA, OREGON.
Robert J. Bisdorf
1985, Conference Paper, Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council
Schlumberger soundings were made in the Newberry volcano area of Oregon to categorize the electrical properties of possible Cascade geothermal systems. An east-west geoelectric cross section constructed from the interpreted soundings shows a low-resistivity zone in the caldera, that corresponds to the increase in thermal gradient observed in a U....
Selected characteristics of limestone and dolomite reservoirs in the United States
James W. Schmoker, Katherine B. Krystinik, Robert B. Halley
1985, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (69) 733-741
Data from the United States Oil and Gas File (TOTL) developed by the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, are used to characterize the lithology, location (state and basin), geologic age, year of discovery, depth to top of pay, porosity, permeability, water saturation, volume of crude oil and nonassociated gas originally...
Carbonate concretions: an ideal sedimentary host for microfossils
C.D. Blome, N. R. Albert
1985, Geology (13) 212-215
Microfossils extracted from carbonate concretions tend to be better preserved, more abundant and diverse, and more likely to retain delicate and fragile structures than those extracted from the surrounding rocks. Enhanced preservation correlates with early diagenetic concretion formation at or near the sediment-water...
Benthic fluxes in San Francisco Bay
Douglas E. Hammond, C. Fuller, D. Harmon, Blayne Hartman, M. Korosec, L.G. Miller, R. Rea, S. Warren, W. Berelson, S.W. Hager
1985, Hydrobiologia (129) 69-90
Measurements of benthic fluxes have been made on four occasions between February 1980 and February 1981 at a channel station and a shoal station in South San Francisco Bay, using in situ flux chambers. On each occasion replicate measurements of easily measured substances such as radon, oxygen, ammonia, and silica...
Determination of elastic wave velocity and relative hypocenter locations using refracted waves. I. Methodology
Kaye M. Shedlock, Lucile M. Jones, Xiufang Ma
1985, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (75) 427-439
An arrival time difference method utilizing refracted arrivals from earthquakes in a homogeneous, layered earth model has been developed for the simultaneous determination of near-source (in situ) velocity and relative locations of earthquakes. The method is particularly applicable when analyzing data from arrays in which most of the recording stations...
Increased benthic grazing: An alternative explanation for low phytoplankton biomass in northern San Francisco Bay during the 1976-1977 drought
F.H. Nichols
1985, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (21) 379-388
Among the consequences of extremely low river flow into northern San Francisco Bay during a two-year drought were (1) a gradual increase in salinity, (2) an unusual decline in chlorophyll a concentration, and (3) the upstream migration of estuarine benthic invertebrates to the normally brackish area of the bay. Total abundance in...
Elemental X-ray mapping of agglutinated foraminifer tests: A non- destructive technique for determining compositional characteristics.
R.F. Commeau, Leslie A. Reynolds, C. W. Poag
1985, Micropaleontology (31) 380-386
The composition of agglutinated foraminiferal tests vary remarkably in response to local substrate characteristics, physiochemical properties of the water column and species- dependant selectivity of test components. We have employed a technique that combines a scanning electron microscope with an energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer system to identify major and minor...
Toxicity of the lampricides 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM) and 2',5-dichloro-4'-nitrosalicylanilide (Bayer 73) to eggs and nymphs of the mayfly (Hexagenia sp.)
T.D. Bills, L. L. Marking, J.J. Rach
1985, Technical Report 47
Eggs and nymphs of mayflies (Hexagenia sp.) were exposed to the lampricides 3-trifluoromethyl-4- nitrophenol (TFM) and 2',5-dichloro-4'-nitrosalcylanilide (Bayer 73) and to a mixture of 98% TFM and 2% Bayer 73 (TFM-2B) to determine the sensitivity of various life stages to these compounds. Some eggs and newly hatched...
Classification of native vegetation at the Woodworth Station, North Dakota
M.I. Meyer
1985, Prairie Naturalist (17) 167-175
Native prairie areas on the Woodworth Station were sampled, classified, described, and mapped. Transect sites were selectively located along different soil moisture gradients. Data were collected from 292 plots using a modified Braun-Blanquet cover estimation technique. Trees and tall shrubs (over 2 m) were not sampled because they made up...
Fish cell lines: establishment of a cell line from American shad
B. C. Lidgerding
1985, Conference Paper, In Vitro
No abstract available at this time...
Time budgets of northern pintails wintering in the Sacramento Valley, California
M. R. Miller
1985, Wildfowl (36) 53-64
No abstract available....
Prairie gully erosion in the Redwood Creek basin, California
T. Walter
1985, Research Report 16
No abstract available at this time...
An assessment of the near-surface accuracy of the international geomagnetic reference field 1980 model of the main geomagnetic field
N.W. Peddie, A.K. Zunde
1985, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors (37) 1-4
The new International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) model of the main geomagnetic field for 1980 is based heavily on measurements from the MAGSAT satellite survey. Assessment of the accuracy of the new model, as a description of the main field near the Earth's surface, is important because the accuracy of...
An oxygen buffer for some peraluminous granites and metamorphic rocks.
E. Zen
1985, American Mineralogist (70) 65-73
The mineral assemblage biotite-garnet-muscovite-magnetite-quartz and its sub-sets are common in many peraluminous granites, schists and gneisses. If the biotite and garnet are reasonably iron-rich, then the system is a useful buffer for fO2. Available thermochemical data indicate that, in T-fO2 space, the buffer curve is located between the hematite-magnetite curve...
SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE METHOD TO MEASURE ACID DEPOSITION EFFECTS ON BUILDING STONE.
Marguerite J. Kingston, Cathy M. Ager
1985, Conference Paper, Technical Papers of the American Society of Photogrammetry, Annual Meeting
As part of the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP), the U. S. Geological Survey is cooperating with other agencies to test the effects of acid deposition on building stone. A 10-year test-site study has been organized for the purpose of correlating possible stone deterioration with environmental factors. In Summer...
Application of the 1:2,000,000-scale data base: A National Atlas sectional prototype
Donna M. Dixon
1985, Conference Paper, Technical Papers of the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping
A study of the potential to produce a National Atlas sectional prototype from the 1:2,000,000-scale data base was concluded recently by the National Mapping Division, U. S. Geological Survey. This paper discusses the specific digital cartographic production procedures involved in the preparation of the prototype map, as well as the...
Quantification of transit losses, and its effects on surface-water resources, Arkansas River basin, Colorado
Russell K. Livingston
1985, Conference Paper
Colorado Water Law enables downstream water users to use natural river channels to convey water from upstream storage reservoirs to downstream canals, provided an equitable charge is made for transit loss. Charging a variable transit-loss rate for delivery of winter water stored in Pueblo Reservoir has resulted in better management...
A study of the depth of weathering and its relationship to the mechanical properties of near-surface rocks in the Mojave Desert
D.J. Stierman, J. H. Healy
1985, Pure and Applied Geophysics PAGEOPH (122) 425-439
Weathered granite extends 70 m deep at Hi Vista in the arid central Mojave Desert of southern California. The low strength of this granite is due to the alteration of biotite and chlorite montmorillonite. Deep weathering probably occurs in most granites, although we cannot rule out some anomalous mechanisms at...
Organic geochemical characterization of the New Albany Shale group in the Illinois Basin
I.-M. Chou, D. R. Dickerson
1985, Organic Geochemistry (8) 413-420
Benzene extractable aliphatic hydrocarbons from the New Albany Shale in the Illinois Basin were characterized by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, and the total organic matter of the shale was characterized by solid state carbon-13 cross polarization magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance. Core samples from a northwest-trending cross-section of...
Spectral fingerprinting of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in high-volume ambient air samples by constant energy synchronous luminescence spectroscopy
M.J. Kerkhoff, T. M. Lee, E.R. Allen, D.A. Lundgren, J.D. Winefordner
1985, Environmental Science & Technology (19) 695-699
No abstract available....
Early Tertiary marine fossils from northern Alaska: Implications for Arctic Ocean paleogeography and faunal evolution
L. Marincovich Jr., E. M. Brouwers, L. D. Carter
1985, Geology (13) 770-773
Marine mollusks and ostracodes indicate a post-Danian Paleocene to early Eocene (Thanetian to Ypresian) age for a fauna from the Prince Creek Formation at Ocean Point, northern Alaska, that also contains genera characteristic of the Cretaceous and Neogene-Quaternary. The life-association of heterochronous taxa...
Interannual streamflow variability in the United States based on principal components
Harry F. Lins
1985, Water Resources Research (21) 691-701
Interannual modes of streamflow variation at 106 locations across the United States during the period 1931–1978 are defined by using principal components. Five statistically significant components are found to account for more than 56% of the total streamflow variance. The first principal component represents a nationwide tendency for either above-...
