Coal resource occurrence and coal development potential maps of the SW quarter of the Citadel Plateau 15-minute quadrangle, Moffat County, Colorado
Dames & Moore
1979, Open-File Report 79-1399
No abstract available....
Preliminary map of earthquake epicenters in Yellowstone Park and vicinity 1973-1978
Andrew M. Pitt
1979, Open-File Report 79-717
No abstract available....
A review of recent activity in the United States.
H.L. Cannon, W.L. Petrie
1979, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (288) 137-149
Either an overabundance or a deficiency of trace metals in the food chain can ultimately affect adversely the health of livestock and man. Increasing interest in the United States in the distribution of metals in the environment and in metal pollutants has led to widespread interdisciplinary research sponsored by governmental,...
Petrology, composition, and age of intrusive rocks associated with the Quartz Hill molybdenite deposit, southeastern Alaska
T. Hudson, James G. Smith, Raymond L. Elliott
1979, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (16) 1805-1822
A large porphyry molybdenum deposit (Quartz Hill deposit) was recently discovered in the heart of the Coast Range batholithic complex about 70 km east of Ketchikan, southeastern Alaska. Intrusive rocks associated with the mineral deposit form two composite epizonal to hypabyssal stocks and many dikes in country rocks. The stocks are...
U.S. Geological Survey core drilling on the Atlantic shelf
J.C. Hathaway, C. W. Poag, P. C. Valentine, R.E. Miller, D.M. Schultz, F.T. Manheim, F. A. Kohout, Michael H. Bothner, D.A. Sangrey
1979, Science (206) 515-527
The first broad program of scientific shallow drilling on the U.S. Atlantic continental shelf has delineated rocks of Pleistocene to Late Cretaceous age, including phosphoritic Miocene strata, widespread Eocene carbonate deposits that serve as reflective seismic markers, and several regional unconformities. Two sites, off Maryland and New Jersey, showed light...
Venus: Preliminary topographic and surface imaging results from the Pioneer Orbiter
G.H. Pettengill, P.G. Ford, W.E. Brown, W.M. Kaula, H. Masursky, E. Eliason, G.E. McGill
1979, Science (205) 90-93
Three large Venus surface features, identified previously in images obtained from Earth-based radar observations, are shown by the Pioneer Venus radar mapper to be elevated 5 to 10 kilometers above the surrounding terrain. Two of these features, one bright and the other dark, lie adjacent to each...
Gases in steam from Cerro Prieto geothermal wells with a discussion of steam/gas ratio measurements
N.L. Nehring, L.J.J. Fausto
1979, Geothermics (8) 253-255
As part of a joint USGS-CFE geochemical study of Cerro Prieto, steam samples were collected for gas analyses in April, 1977. Analyses of the major gas components of the steam were made by wet chemistry (for H2O,CO2,H2S and NH3) and by gas chromatography (He,H2,Ar,O2,N2 and hydrocarbons). The hydrocarbon gases in...
Some basic considerations in the design of hydrologic data networks
Marshall E. Moss
1979, Water Resources Research (15) 1673-1676
Two preeminent considerations of data network design are the random nature of the hydrologic phenomena and the uses that will be made of the data. Information distilled from the data is usually measured in a parametric statistical sense, although the data user is more concerned with the integrated measure of...
Regional and local networks of horizontal control, Cerro Prieto geothermal area
B.L. Massey
1979, Geothermics (8) 275-281
The Cerro Prieto geothermal area in the Mexicali Valley 30 km southeast of Mexicali, Baja California, is probably deforming due to (1) the extraction of large volumes of steam and hot water, and (2) active tectonism. Two networks of precise horizontal control were established in Mexicali Valley by the U.S....
Sewage contamination in the New York Bight. Coprostanol as an indicator
Patrick G. Hatcher, P.A. McGillivary
1979, Environmental Science & Technology (13) 1225-1229
No abstract available....
Application of a new Raman microprobe spectrometer to nondestructive analysis of sulfate and other ions in individual phases in fluid inclusions in minerals
G.J. Rosasco, E. Roedder
1979, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (43) 1907-1915
Rosascoet al. (1975), reported the first successful application of laser-excited Raman spectroscopy for the identification and nondestructive partial analysis of individual solid, liquid, and gaseous phases in selected fluid inclusions. We report here the results of the application of a new instrument, based on back-scattering, that eliminates many of...
An evaluation of the zircon method of isotopic dating in the Southern Arabian Craton
J.A. Cooper, J. S. Stacey, D.G. Stoeser, R.J. Fleck
1979, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (68) 429-439
A zircon study has been made on eleven samples of igneous rocks from the Saudi Arabian Craton. Ages of sized and magnetic fractions of zircon concentrates show variable degrees of discordance which seem to result from a very young disturbance that produces linear arrays in the Concordia plot. Model age...
Low-velocity impact craters in ice and ice-saturated sand with implications for Martian crater count ages
S.K. Croft, S. W. Kieffer, T.J. Ahrens
1979, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth (84) 8023-8032
We produced a series of decimeter-sized impact craters in blocks of ice near 0°C and −70°C and in ice-saturated sand near −70°C as a preliminary investigation of cratering in materials analogous to those found on Mars and the outer solar system satellites. The projectiles used were standard 0.22 and 0.30...
Plaque-forming cells and humoral antibody in rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) induced by immersion in a Yersinia ruckeri O-antigen preparation
D. P. Anderson, B.S. Roberson, O. W. Dixon
1979, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (36) 636-639
Rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) were exposed to the O-antigen of Yersinia ruckeri by various immunization regimens. The passive hemolytic plaque assay was used to show specific splenic plaque-forming cells (PFC) and passive hemagglutination demonstrated humoral antibody titers in fish injected with or immersed in the antigen preparations. Preceding antigen immersion with a...
Fish viruses: A double-stranded RNA icosahedral virus from a North American cyprinid
J.A. Plumb, P.R. Bowser, J.M. Grizzle, A.J. Mitchell
1979, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (36) 1390-1394
A previously unreported virus disease of cultured golden shiners (Notemigonus crysoleucas) is described. The condition is called golden shiner virus (GSV) disease. The virus is icosahedral, measures approximately 70 nm, is ether and heat resistant, stable at pH 3, 7, and 10, and appears to have a double stranded RNA core....
Influence of dietary zinc on cataracts in rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)
H. G. Ketola
1979, Journal of Nutrition (109) 965-969
The purpose of this study was to determine the cause of lens cataracts in hatchery trout fed diets containing white fish meal. After preliminary investigations, three experiments were conducted with fry of rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) that were fed practical-type diets containing either 40% herring meal (control diet) or 40%...
Uranium transport in the Walker River Basin, California and Nevada
L. V. Benson, D. L. Leach
1979, Journal of Geochemical Exploration (11) 227-248
During the summer of 1976 waters from tributaries, rivers, springs and wells were sampled in the Walker River Basin. Snow and sediments from selected sites were also sampled. All samples were analyzed for uranium and other elements. The resulting data provide an understanding of the transport of uranium within...
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....
[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...
Derivation of linearized constitutive equations for plane-strain of an elastic-plastic (strain hardening) material
Arvid M. Johnson
1979, Open-File Report 79-433
The purpose of this report is to derive several of the basic equations for a paper on folding and folding of idealized rock (Johnson, 1979). That paper is based on constitutive equations for an ideal, strain-hardening material defined by Hill (1950, p. 30) and generalized to include Coulomb behavior and...
Environmental pollutants and eggshell thickness: Anhingas and wading birds in the eastern United States
Harry M. Ohlendorf, Erwin E. Klaas, T. Earl Kaiser
1979, Special Scientific Report - Wildlife 216
No abstract available....
The Survey’s first venture into seismology
M. C. Rabbitt
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 50-52
The occurrence of two small but widely felt earthquakes in the Eastern United States in 1884 led an editor of the research journal Science to suggest, in the October 3 issue of the magazine, that an "earthquake club" be formed. Its purpose was so that observers and students of "this branch...
Aeromagnetic map of the Wallace-Flathead area, Montana
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1979, Open-File Report 79-713
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....