Paleozoic rocks on the Alaska Peninsula: A section in The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1978
Robert L. Detterman, James E. Case, Frederic H. Wilson
1979, Circular 804-B
Two small areas of middle Paleozoic limestone were discovered near Gertrude Creek, 16 km north of Becharof Lake on the Alaska Peninsula, during reconnaissance flying as part of the Alaska Mineral Resource Assessment Program (AMRAP) for the Alaska Peninsula. Previously, the only known occurrence of Paleozoic rocks on the Alaska...
Drug metabolism in birds
Huo Ping Pan, James R. Fouts
1979, Pharmacology (19) 289-293
Papers published over 100 years since the beginning of the scientific study of drug metabolism in birds were reviewed. Birds were found to be able to accomplish more than 20 general biotransformation reactions in both functionalization and conjugation. Chickens were the primary subject of study but over 30 species of...
A selected bibliography of remote sensing applications to soil science
Thomas R. Loveland, Daniel B. Carter, William C. Draeger
1979, Report
The bibliography contains approximately 200 references dealing with the application of remote sensing technology to the identification and analysis of soils. The scientific papers and reports listed describe procedures and methods used in data collection and include specific applications of those data to soil studies. Most citations discuss current work...
Modeling of rock friction 2. Simulation of preseismic slip
James H. Dieterich
1979, Conference Paper, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth
The constitutive relations developed in the companion paper are used to model detailed observations of preseismic slip and the onset of unstable slip in biaxial laboratory experiments. The simulations employ a deterministic plane strain finite element model to represent the interactions both within the sliding blocks and between the blocks...
Earthquakes; January-February, 1979
W. J. Person
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 143-147
The first major earthquake (magnitude 7.0 to 7.9) of the year struck in southeastern Alaska in a sparsely populated area on February 28. On January 16, Iran experienced the first destructive earthquake of the year causing a number of casualties and considerable damage. Peru was hit by a destructive earthquake...
Some aspects of the early history of seismology
J.S. Sachs
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 58-63
From the earliest times, people have been terrified yet fascinated by the workings of the Earth. Indeed records of earthquakes have been kept in China for over 3000 years and for 1500 years in Japan. because of the interior of the Earth is inaccessible, nothing about it could be known...
Dispersal and migratory patterns of San Francisco Bay produced herons, egrets, and terns
Robert E. Gill Jr., L. Richard Mewaldt
1979, North American Bird Bander (4) 4-13
San Francisco Bay, California, including its fringing marshes, supports a large and diverse water related avifauna (Grinnell and Wythe 19271 Sibley 1952, Gill 1973, 1977). Certain of man's alterations of the Bay's shallower wetlands have resulted in increased habitat diversity which has allowed colonization by several species of birds including...
Low-flow characteristics of streams in the Trempealeau-Black River basin, Wisconsin
B. K. Holmstrom
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-9
Lov-flov characteristics of streams in the Trempealeau-Black River "basin are presented. Included are estimates of low-flow frequency and flow duration at 9 gaging stations, and low-flow frequency characteristics at 20 low-flow partial-record stations and 119 miscellaneous sites. Ten equations are provided to estimate low-flow characteristics at ungaged sites and at sites...
Modeling of rock friction 1. Experimental results and constitutive equations
James H. Dieterich
1979, Conference Paper, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth
Direct shear experiments on ground surfaces of a granodiorite from Raymond, California, at normal stresses of ??6 MPa demonstrate that competing time, displacement, and velocity effects control rock friction. It is proposed that the strength of the population of points of contacts between sliding surfaces determines frictional strength and that...
Annoucement of compounds registered for fishery uses
Rosalie A. Schnick, Fred P. Meyer, Harry D. Van Meter
1979, Progressive Fish-Culturist (41) 36-37
No abstract available. ...
An apparatus for the continuous generation of stock solutions of hydrophobic chemicals
W.H. Gingerich, W.K. Seim, R.D. Schonbrod
1979, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (23) 685-689
No abstract available....
Chemical analyses of coal from the Knobloch and Flowers-Goodale beds, Tongue River Member of the Fort Union Formation, Otter Creek EMRIA study site, Powder River County, Montana
Ronald H. Affolter, Joseph R. Hatch, Edward J. McKay
1979, Open-File Report 79-859
No abstract available....
Coal resource occurrence and coal development potential maps of the southeast quarter of the Citadel Plateau 15-minute quadrangle, Moffat County, Colorado
Dames & Moore
1979, Open-File Report 79-1400
No abstract available....
Potentials and limits for the use of ozone as a fish disease control agent
Gary A. Wedemeyer, Nancy C. Nelson, T. Yasutake
1979, Ozone: Science and Engineering (1) 295-318
Ozone and chlorine inactivation curves were determined in three types of freshwater at 20 C for the destruction of the fish pathogens Aeromonas salmonicida the etiologic agent of furunculosis, and Yersinia ruckeri the enteric redmouth bacterium (ERM). Ozone and chlorine inactivation curves were also obtained in the same water types at 10 C for...
The geochemistry of the Fox Hills-Basal Hell Creek Aquifer in southwestern North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota
Donald C. Thorstenson, Donald W. Fisher, Mack G. Croft
1979, Water Resources Research (15) 1479-1498
The Late Cretaceous Fox Hills Formation and the basal portion of the overlying Hell Creek Formation constitute an important aquifer in the Fort Union coal region. Throughout most of southwestern North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota the aquifer is at depths ranging from 1000 to 2000 ft, except for exposures...
New host and geographical records for the leech Acanthobdella peledina Grube 1851 (Hirudinea, Acanthobdellidae)
A. K. Hauck, Michael J. Fallon, Carl V. Burger
1979, Journal of Parasitology (65) 989-989
A total of four leeches (Acanthobdella peledina), parasitizing four specimens of the least cisco (Coregonus sardinella), were found during July and August 1977. The hosts and parasites were collected during a fishery survey by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the North Slope waters of Naval Petroleum Reserve, Alaska....
Illustrated field guide for the classification of sea lamprey attack marks on Great Lakes lake trout
Everett Louis King Jr., Thomas A. Edsall
1979, Special Publication 79-1
No abstract available....
Barometric fluctuations in wells tapping deep unconfined aquifers
Edwin P. Weeks
1979, Water Resources Research (15) 1167-1176
Water levels in wells screened only below the water table in unconfined aquifers fluctuate in response to atmospheric pressure changes. These fluctuations occur because the materials composing the unsaturated zone resist air movement and have capacity to store air with a change in pressure. Consequently, the translation of any pressure...
The flow mechanism in the Chalk based on radio-isotope analyses of groundwater in the London Basin
R.A. Downing, F.J. Pearson, D. B. Smith
1979, Journal of Hydrology (40) 67-83
14C analyses of groundwaters from the Chalk of the London Basin are re-interpreted and the age of the groundwater is revised. Radio-isotope analyses are used to examine the flow mechanism in the aquifer. The evidence supports the view that a network of micro-fissures and larger intergranular pores in the matrix...
Uptake, metabolism, and elimination of the lampricide 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol by largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)
D.P. Schultz, P.D. Harman, C.W. Luhning
1979, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (27) 328-331
No abstract available....
Trace element and strontium isotope characteristics of volcanic rocks from Isla Tortuga: A young seamount in the Gulf of California
Rodey Batiza, K. Futa, C. E. Hedge
1979, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (43) 269-278
Isla Tortuga is a small isolated central volcano which is located near an actively spreading trough in the Gulf of California. The basalt lavas from Tortuga which have the highest Mg/Fe and Ni contents have trace element abundances and ratios and87Sr/86Sr...
Amino-acid racemizarion in Quaternary shell deposits at Willapa Bay, Washington
K.A. Kvenvolden, D.J. Blunt, H.E. Clifton
1979, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (43) 1505-1520
Extents of racemization (dl">dl ratios) of amino acids in fossil Saxidomus giganteus (Deshayes) and Ostrea lurida Carpenter were measured on shell deposits exposed at 21 sites on the east side of Willapa Bay, Washington. Amino acids from Saxidomus show less variability in <span...
Black shale - Its deposition and diagenesis.
H. A. Tourtelot
1979, Clays and Clay Minerals (27) 313-321
Black shale is a dark-colored mudrock containing organic matter that may have generated hydrocarbons in the subsurface or that may yield hydrocarbons by pyrolysis. Many black shale units are enriched in metals severalfold above expected amounts in ordinary shale. Some black shale units have served as host rocks for syngenetic...
[Delta]34S values of selected sulfides from the Camp Smith uranium prospect and Phillips Mine massive sulfide deposit and their bearing on the genesis of the deposits
Richard I. Grauch, Joseph F. Whelan
1979, Open-File Report 79-829
No abstract available....
U-Th-Pb geochronology of the Massabesic Gneiss and the granite near Milford, South-Central New Hampshire: New evidence for avalonian basement and taconic and alleghenian disturbances in Eastern New England
J. N. Aleinikoff, R. E. Zartman, J.B. Lyons
1979, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (71) 1-11
U-Th-Pb systematics for zircon and monazite from Massabesic Gneiss (paragneiss and orthogneiss) and the granite near Milford, New Hampshire, were determined. Zircon morphology suggests that the paragneiss may be volcaniclastic (igneous) in origin, and thus the age data probably record the date (minimum of 646 m.y.) at which the rock...
