Blood indicators of seasonal metabolic patterns in captive adult gray wolves
U.S. Seal, L.D. Mech
1983, Journal of Wildlife Management (47) 704-715
Blood samples and physical data were collected weekly from a colony of gray wolves (Canis lupus) maintained under natural weather arid light conditions. Sampling over 33 continuous months indicated that hemoglobin, hematocrit, red blood cells, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), and thyroxine exhibited consistent circannual patterns of variation in both...
Late Wisconsin mountain glaciation in the western United States
S.C. Porter, Kenneth L. Pierce, T. D. Hamilton
1983, Book chapter, Late-Quaternary environments of the United States
No abstract available....
Environmental contaminant hazards to Attwater's greater prairie-chickens
Edward L. Flickinger, Douglas M. Swineford
1983, Journal of Wildlife Management (47) 1132-1137
The Attwater's greater prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri) was declared an endangered species in 1966 and exists only on the upper Gulf Coast prairie of southeast Texas. Since 1975, total numbers have declined from 2,240 to 1,456 in 1981 (Jurries 19679; W. Shifflett, Manager Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge [APCNWR],...
Organochlorine pesticides and PCB's: A continuing problem for the 1980s
W. James Fleming, D. R. Clark Jr., Charles J. Henny
1983, Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference (48) 186-199
In general. decreases in OC contamination in North America are unmistakable. This is documented by the NPMP. but. more importantly. it is borne out by improvements in the reproduction and population status of the brown pelican. bald eagle, peregrine falcon, and osprey. However, some OC contamination still persists, and several...
Organochlorine residues and shell characteristics of roseate tern eggs, 1981
T. W. Custer, I.C.T. Nisbet, A. J. Krynitsky
1983, Journal of Field Ornithology (54) 394-400
Roseate Terns (Sterna dougallii) breed in two areas in the Western Hemisphere: in northeastern North America between Long Island, New York, and Nova Scotia, and around the Caribbean Sea from the Florida Keys and the Bahamas to the Netherlands Lesser Antilles (Bent 1921, Bond 1956, Nisbet 1980). Both populations are...
Clutch size, reproductive success, and organochlorine contaminants in Atlantic coast black-crowned night-herons
Thomas W. Custer, Gary L. Hensler, T. Earl Kaiser
1983, The Auk (100) 699-710
In 1979, we gathered clutch-size and reproductive-success data on Black-crowned Night-Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) nesting in three New England and two North Carolina colonies. In 1975, we gathered similar data from one of the New England and one of the North Carolina colonies. Latitudinal differences in clutch initiation were not evident....
Effects on wildlife from use of endrin in Washington State orchards
L. J. Blus, Charles J. Henny, T. E. Kaiser, R. A. Grove
1983, Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference (48) 159-174
No abstract available....
Parathion alters incubation behavior of laughing gulls
Donald H. White, C. A. Mitchell, E. F. Hill
1983, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (31) 93-97
One member of each pair of incubating laughing gulls at 9 nests was trapped, orally dosed with either 6 mg/kg parathion in corn oil or corn oil alone, and marked about the neck with red dye. Each nest was marked with a numbered stake and the treatment was recorded. A...
Relationships of environmental contaminants to reproductive success in red-breasted mergansers (Mergus serrator) from Lake Michigan
G. H. Heinz, S. D. Haseltine, W. L. Reichel, Gary L. Hensler
1983, Environmental Pollution (Series A) (32) 211-232
In 1977 and 1978, we studied red-breasted mergansers Mergus serrator nesting on islands in northwestern Lake Michigan to determine whether environmental contaminants were having effects on reproduction. Seventeen contaminants were measured in randomly chosen eggs from 206 nests under study. Using a variety of statistical approaches, we looked for effects of individuals...
Effects of heptachlor on American kestrels in the Columbia Basin, Oregon
Charles J. Henny, L. J. Blus, C. J. Stafford
1983, Journal of Wildlife Management (47) 1080-1087
Wheat seeds treated with heptachlor to control wireworms (Ctenicara pruinina) resulted in American kestrels (Falco sparverius) in the Columbia Basin accumulating residues of heptachlor epoxide (HE) that reduced productivity and caused some adult mortality. The kestrel is more sensitive to HE residues in eggs than the Canada goose (Branta...
Contaminants in greater snow geese and their eggs
J. R. Longcore, J.D. Heyland, A. Reed, P. Laporte
1983, Journal of Wildlife Management (47) 1105-1109
No abstract available....
Jiddah and vicinity, ... Saudi Arabia : 1:25,000-scale topographic maps
Saudi Arabia. Deputy Ministry for Mineral Resources, Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1983, Report
Contents: SP-2B2. Al Kurāʻ SW --SP-3B2. Al Kurāʻ --SP-4B2. ʻUsfān SW --SP-5B2. Ra's Abḩur --SP-6B2. Buraymān --SP-7B2. Jabal Ţanḑub NW --SP-8B2. Buraymān SW --SP-9B2. Jiddah north --SP-10B2. Jabal Ţanḑub --SP-11B2. Jiddah south --SP-12B2. Jabal al Ḩamrāʼ --SP-13B2. Jazīrat Ghurāb --<br...
Early Tertiary age of pitchstone in the northern Black Hills, South Dakota
J. A. Redden, J. D. Obradovich, C. W. Naeser, R. E. Zartman, J.J. Norton
1983, Science (220) 1153-1154
A block of pitchstone in the northern Black Hills, South Dakota, is Paleocene in age, according to potassium-argon dating of biotite and fission-track dating of zircon in the sample. These data invalidate published suggestions that the age is much younger. The pitchstone is not extrusive in its present position but...
Solubility of crude oil in methane as a function of pressure and temperature
Leigh C. Price, L.M. Wenger, T. Ging, C.W. Blount
1983, Organic Geochemistry (4) 201-221
The solubility of a 44° API (0.806 sp. gr.) whole crude oil has been measured in methane with water present at temperatures of 50 to 250°C and pressures of 740 to 14,852 psi, as have the solubilities of two high molecular weight petroleum distillation fractions at temperatures of 50 to...
Ground-water contamination by organic bases derived from coal-tar wastes
Wilfred E. Pereira, Colleen E. Rostad, John R. Garbarino, Marc F. Hult
1983, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (2) 283-294
A fluid sample from a shallow aquifer contaminated by coal-tar wastes was analyzed for organic bases. The sample consisted of a mixture of aqueous and oily-tar phases. The phases were separated by centrifugation and filtration. Organic bases were isolated from each phase by pH adjustment and solvent extraction. Organic bases...
Tertiary marine pelecypods of California and Baja California; Nuculidae through Malleidae
Ellen James Moore
1983, Professional Paper 1228-A
No abstract available....
The acute oral toxicity, repellency, and hazard potential of 998 chemicals to one or more species of wild and domestic birds
E. W. Schafer Jr., W. A. Bowles Jr., J. Hurlbut
1983, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (12) 355-382
The acute oral toxicity, repellency, and hazard potential of 998 chemicals to one or more of 68 species of wild and domestic birds was determined by standardized testing procedures. Red winged blackbirds were the most sensitive of the bird species tested on a large number of chemicals, and an index...
Deep structure of northern Mississippi embayment
A. Ginzburg, Walter D. Mooney, A.W. Walter, W. J. Lutter, J. H. Healy
1983, AAPG Bulletin (67) 2031-2046
In September 1980, the U. S. Geological Survey conducted a seismic refraction investigation of the northern Mississippi Embayment. During the investigation, 34 shots from nine shotpoints were recorded along a series of profiles. The profiles were parallel to and across an inferred Precambrian rift zone which is outlined by a...
Norwegian remote sensing experiment in a marginal ice zone
B. Farrelly, J.A. Johannessen, E. Svendsen, K. Kloster, I. Horjen, C. Matzler, J. Crawford, R. Harrington, L. Jones, C. Swift, V.E. Delnore, D. Cavalieri, P. Gloersen, S.V. Hsiao, O.H. Shemdin, T.W. Thompson, R.O. Ramseier, O.M. Johannessen, W. J. Campbell
1983, Science (220) 781-787
The Norwegian Remote Sensing Experiment in the marginal ice zone north of Svalbard took place in fall 1979. Coordinated passive and active microwave measurements were obtained from shipborne, airborne, and satellite instruments together with in situ observations. The obtained spectra of emissivity (frequency range, 5 to 100 gigahertz) should improve...
An earth-science bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding area, 1982 supplement
Saudi Arabia. Deputy Ministry for Mineral Resources, U.S. Geological Survey Saudi Arabia Mission
1983, Book
An interagency report prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey Saudi Arabian Mission for the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia....
Distribution and origin of sulfur in Colorado oil shale
John R. Dyni
1983, Conference Paper, Oil Shale Symposium Proceedings
The sulfur content of 1,225 samples of Green River oil shale from two core holes in the Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado, ranges from nearly 0 to 4.9 weight percent. In one core hole, the average sulfur content of a sequence of oil shale 555 m thick, which represents nearly the...
Geochemistry of deep-sea manganese nodules; organic involvement
1983, Conference Paper, Cameron volume on unconventional mineral deposits
No abstract available....
Organic Geochemistry of Sediments Recovered by DSDP/IPOD Leg 75 from under the Benguela Current
P.A. Meyers, S. Brassell, A.Y. Huc, E.J. Barron, R.E. Boyce, Walter E. Dean, W.W. Hayes, Barbara H. Keating, C.L. McNulty, R.E. Schallreuter, Jean-Claude Sibuet, J.C. Steinmetz, D.A.V. Stow, Herbert Stradner
1983, Book, Coastal Upwelling Its Sediment Record
No abstract available....
Digital spatial data handling techniques applied to the development of quantitative geologic models
K.-M. Walker
1983, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment
No abstract available....
Asteroid and comet bombardment of the Earth
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
1983, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences (11) 461-494
No abstract available....
