The impact of wave loads and pore-water pressure generation on initiation of sediment transport
E.C. Clukey, F.H. Kulhawy, P.L.-F. Liu, G. B. Tate
1985, Geo-Marine Letters (5) 177-183
The build-up of pore-water pressure by waves can lead to sediment liquefaction and subsequent transport by traction currents. This process was investigated by measuring pore-water pressures both in a field experiment and laboratory wave tank tests. Liquefaction was observed in the wave tank tests. The results suggest that sand is...
A general earthquake-observation system (GEOS)
R. D. Borcherdt, Joe B. Fletcher, E.G. Jensen, G.L. Maxwell, J.R. VanSchaack, R.E. Warrick, E. Cranswick, M.J.S. Johnston, R. McClearn
1985, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (75) 1783-1825
Microprocessor technology has permitted the development of a General Earthquake-Observation System (GEOS) useful for most seismic applications. Central-processing-unit control via robust software of system functions that are isolated on hardware modules permits field adaptability of the system to a wide variety of active and passive seismic experiments and straightforward modification...
NATIONAL WATER INFORMATION SYSTEM OF THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
Melvin D. Edwards
1985, Conference Paper
National Water Information System (NWIS) has been designed as an interactive, distributed data system. It will integrate the existing, diverse data-processing systems into a common system. It will also provide easier, more flexible use as well as more convenient access and expanded computing, dissemination, and data-analysis capabilities. The NWIS is...
Thickness of ice on perennially frozen lakes
C.P. McKay, G.D. Clow, R.A. Wharton Jr., S. W. Squyres
1985, Nature (313) 561-562
The dry valleys of southern Victoria Land, constituting the largest ice-free expanse in the Antarctic, contain numerous lakes whose perennial ice cover is the cause of some unique physical and biological properties 1-3. Although the depth, temperature and salinity of the liquid water varies considerably from lake to lake, the...
Pollen analysis of a late pliocene and early pleistocene section from the Gubik Formation of Arctic Alaska
R.E. Nelson, L. D. Carter
1985, Quaternary Research (24) 295-306
A 14-m-thick section of marine and nonmarine sediments of the Gubik Formation of northern Alaska, exposed in bluffs near Ocean Point on the Colville River, has been studied by means of pollen analysis. Pollen from the marine sediments, of probable late Pliocene age, records a boreal forest of spruce and...
Interpretation with a Donnan-based concept of the influence of simple salt concentration on the apparent binding of divalent ions to the polyelectrolytes polystyrenesulfonate and dextran sulfate
J.A. Marinsky, Robert F. Baldwin, M.M. Reddy
1985, Journal of Physical Chemistry (89) 5303-5307
It has been shown that the apparent enhancement of divalent metal ion binding to polyions such as polystyrenesulfonate (PSS) and dextran sulfate (DS) by decreasing the ionic strength of these mixed counterion systems (M2+, M+, X-, polyion) can be anticipated with the Donnan-based model developed by one of us (J.A.M.)....
Research started to develop a columnaris vaccine
G. L. Bullock, J. P. McCraren
1985, Aquaculture Newsletter (Jan) 5-6
Mesothelioma in rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri Richardson
R. L. Herman
1985, Journal of Fish Diseases (8) 373-376
No abstract available....
Development of a columnaris disease vaccine
G. L. Bullock, J. P. McCraren
1985, Aquafarming Arkansas (3) 2-3
Development of a columnaris disease vaccine
G. L. Bullock, J. P. McCraren
1985, Farm Pond Harvest (19) 8-9
Managing mapping data using commercial data base management software.
A.A. Elassal
1985, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (51) 1133-1136
Electronic computers are involved in almost every aspect of the map making process. This involvement has become so thorough that it is practically impossible to find a recently developed process or device in the mapping field which does not employ digital processing in some form or another. This trend, which...
Resolving controls on epeiric sedimentation using trend surface analysis
W.L. Watney
1985, Journal of the International Association for Mathematical Geology (17) 427-454
An understanding of patterns of regional sedimentation is crucial to identifying trends of perspective petroleum reservoirs. The Upper Pennsylvanian, Missourian Kansas City Group consists of repetitions of widespread carbonate rock and shale. Each of four cyclothems chosen for subsurface study of western Kansas contains transgressive and regressive lithofacies with evidence...
EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF WEATHERING ON A 50-YEAR OLD RETORTED OIL-SHALE WASTE PILE, RULISON EXPERIMENTAL RETORT, COLORADO.
Michele L. Tuttle, Walter E. Dean, Daniel J. Ackerman
Gary James H., editor(s)
1985, Conference Paper, Oil Shale Symposium Proceedings
An oil-shale mine and experimental retort were operated near Rulison, Colorado by the U. S. Bureau of Mines from 1926 to 1929. Samples from seven drill cores from a retorted oil-shale waste pile were analyzed to determine 1) the chemical and mineral composition of the retorted oil shale and 2)...
Striped bass fingerling mortality involves multiple factors
R. L. Herman
1985, Fish Health News (14) iii-v
Trondhjemite and metamorphosed quartz keratophyre tuff of the Ammonoosuc volcanics (Ordovician), western New Hampshire and adjacent Vermont and Massachusetts
G. W. Leo
1985, Geological Society of America Bulletin (96) 1493-1507
The Ammonoosuc Volcanics and equivalent rocks of Ordovician age are exposed in the Oliverian domes along the Bronson Hill anti-clinorium (BHA) between northern New Hampshire and southern Connecticut. In western New Hampshire and adjacent Vermont and Massachusetts, the Ammonoosuc lithology consists of a...
Estimating neighborhood variability with a binary comparison matrix.
D.L. Murphy
1985, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (51) 667-674
A technique which utilizes a binary comparison matrix has been developed to implement a neighborhood function for a raster format data base. The technique assigns an index value to the center pixel of 3- by 3-pixel neighborhoods. The binary comparison matrix provides additional information not found in two other neighborhood...
Foreshocks and time-dependent earthquake hazard assessment in southern California
Lucile M. Jones
1985, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (75) 1667-1679
The probability that an earthquake in southern California (M ≧ 3.0) will be followed by an earthquake of larger magnitude within 5 days and 10 km (i.e., will be a foreshock) is 6 ± 0.5 per cent (1 S.D.), and is not significantly dependent on the magnitude of the possible...
A reconnaissance Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, U-Pb, and K-Ar study of some host rocks and ore minerals in the West Shasta Cu- Zn district, California
R. W. Kistler, E.H. McKee, K. Futa, Z. E. Peterman, R. E. Zartman
1985, Economic Geology (80) 2128-2135
The Copley Greenstone, Balaklala Rhyolite, and Mule Mountain stock in the West Shasta Cu-Zn district, California, have Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, U-Pb, and K-Ar systematics that indicate they are a cogenetic suite of ensimatic island-arc rocks about 400 m.y. Pervasive alteration and mineralization of these rocks, for the most part, was syngenetic...
Culturing Selenastrum capricornutum (Chlorophyta) in a synthetic algal nutrient medium with defined mineral particulates
James S. Kuwabara, J.A. Davis, Cecily C.Y. Chang
1985, Hydrobiologia (124) 23-271
Algal nutrient studies in chemically-defined media typically employ a synthetic chelator to prevent iron hydroxide precipitation. Micronutrient-particulate interactions may, however, significantly affect chemical speciation and hence biovailability of these nutrients in natural waters. A technique is described by which Selenastrum capricornutum Printz (Chlorophyta) may be cultured in a medium where...
CROSS-SHORE TRANSPORT OF BIMODAL SANDS.
Bruce M. Richmond, Sallenger Jr.
Billy L. Edge, editor(s)
1985, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the Coastal Engineering Conference
Foreshore sediment level and sediment size were monitored as part of an extensive nearshore processes experiment - DUCK 82. Changes in foreshore texture were compared with computed values of onshore transported material based on current measurements from the surf zone and sediment transport theory. Preliminary results indicate reasonable agreement between...
Comparative study of aggregations under different dependency assumptions for assessment of undiscovered recoverable oil resources in the world
R. A. Crovelli
1985, Journal of the International Association for Mathematical Geology (17) 367-374
The U.S. Geological Survey assessed all significant sedimentary basins in the world for undiscovered conventionally recoverable crude-oil resources. Probabilistic methodology was applied to each basin assessment to produce estimates in the form of probability distributions. Basin probability distributions were computer aggregated to produce resource estimates for the entire world. Aggregation...
Lognormal field size distributions as a consequence of economic truncation
E. D. Attanasi, L.J. Drew
1985, Journal of the International Association for Mathematical Geology (17) 335-351
The assumption of lognormal (parent) field size distributions has for a long time been applied to resource appraisal and evaluation of exploration strategy by the petroleum industry. However, frequency distributions estimated with observed data and used to justify this hypotheses are conditional. Examination of various observed field size distributions across...
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....
Pyrolysis-mass spectrometry/pattern recognition on a well-characterized suite of humic samples
P. MacCarthy, S.J. DeLuca, K.J. Voorhees, Ronald L. Malcolm, E.M. Thurman
1985, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (49) 2091-2096
A suite of well-characterized humic and fulvic acids of freshwater, soil and plant origin was subjected to pyrolysis-mass spectrometry and the resulting data were analyzed by pattern recognition and factor analysis. A factor analysis plot of the data shows that the humic acids and fulvic acids can be segregated into...
Simulation of ground-water flow in southeastern Oahu, Hawaii
P. R. Eyre
1985, Groundwater (23) 325-330
On the leeward side of southeastern Oahu, Hawaii, near-vertical dikes have intruded the gently dipping and highly permeable lava flows of the Koolau mountain. These dikes bound the study area on the north and west and internally divide it into the Waialae and Wailupe-Hawaii Kai...
