Analytical multicollimator camera calibration
W.P. Tayman
1978, Photogrammetria (34) 179-197
Calibration with the U.S. Geological survey multicollimator determines the calibrated focal length, the point of symmetry, the radial distortion referred to the point of symmetry, and the asymmetric characteristiecs of the camera lens. For this project, two cameras were calibrated, a Zeiss RMK A 15/23 and a Wild RC 8....
Map showing copper determined by atomic absorption in stream sediments, Ketchikan and Prince Rupert quadrangles, Alaska
Richard D. Koch, Raymond L. Elliott, M. J. Diggles
1978, Open-File Report 78-73-C
No abstract available....
Orthogonal mapping: A computer program for quantifying shape differences
T. Huffman, R. A. Christopher, J. E. Hazel
1978, Computers & Geosciences (4) 121-130
Quantitative differences in the shape of two or more objects can be obtained by Orthogonal Mapping provided coincidental or analogous points can be identified on each object. The least-squares difference between each set of analogous points is determined by use of a projective transformation of a set of measured points...
Continuous strain measurements near the San Andreas Fault
M. Johnston
1978, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (10) 187-191
Changes in the state of stress in the Earth's crust produces corresponding changes in the state of strain and may result, as a consequence, in damaging earthquakes. Monitoring ground strain can, therefore, help us in understanding how stress changes occur and when they are likely to lead to this kind...
Quality of water in Pascagoula and Escatawpa Rivers, Jackson County, Mississippi
Gene A. Bednar
1978, Open-File Report 78-913
The chemical and physical properties and the range of concentrations of most constituents in water in the Pascagoula and Escatawpa Rivers during the period May 17-19, 1977, varied rapidly between high and low tides, primarily as the result of interactions of freshwater inflow with highly mineralized Gulf waters. The water...
Paleomagnetic evidence for a Late Cretaceous deformation of the Great Valley Sequence, Sacramento Valley, California
Edward A. Mankinen
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 383-390
Paleomagnetic samples from five localities within the Great Valley sequence range in age from Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous. All samples possess normal polarity, and alternating-field demagnetization experiments show that the remanence was acquired after the sequence was folded. A mean paleomagnetic pole position determined from 17 demagnetized samples is...
Tectonomagnetic effects
M. Johnston
1978, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (10) 82-87
Measurements of the actual stress within the Earth and its changes with time are very difficult. It is much easier to monitor the direct effects of this stress, such as ground strain, or the indirect effects, such as changes in resistivity, strain, changes in seismic velocity or changes in magnetic...
Studies on vertical and horizontal transmission of duck plague virus in apparently healthy waterfowl
Elizabeth C. Burgess
1978, Thesis
Healthy waterfowl were found to be carriers of duck plague (DP) virus. Black ducks (Anas rubripes) and Canada geese (Branta canadensis) surviving a natural outbreak of DP at Coloma, Wisconsin, in 1973 yielded DP virus in cloacal swabs taken four years postinfection. Experimental infection of previously unexposed mallard ducks (Anas...
Tiltmeter studies in earthquake prediction
M. Johnston
1978, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (10) 182-186
Our knowledge is still very limited as to the way in which the Earth's surface deforms around active faults and why it does so. By far the easiest method of providing clues to the mechanisms involved is to record the associated pattern of tilt of the Earth's surface. tilt measurements give...
Selected ground-water data, Bonneville Salt Flats and Pilot Valley, western Utah
Gregory C. Lines
1978, Utah Basic-Data Release 30
This report contains ground-water data collected at wells and springs on the Bonneville Salt Flats and in Pilot Valley, western Utah. Most of the data were collected during a study of the hydrology and surface morphology of these two salt-crust areas during the period July 1975 - June 1977. The...
Selected uranium and uranium-thorium occurrences in New Hampshire
Wallace A. Bothner
1978, Open-File Report 78-482
Secondary uranium mineralization occurs in a northwest-trending fracture zone in the Devonian Concord Granite in recent rock cuts along Interstate Highway 89 near New London, New Hampshire. A detailed plane table map of this occurrence was prepared. Traverses using total gamma ray scintillometers throughout the pluton of Concord Granite identified...
Hydrologic Unit Map-1978, state of South Dakota
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1978, Hydrologic Unit 41
This map and accompanying table show Hydrologic Unites that are basically hydrographic in nature. The Cataloging Unites shown supplant the Cataloging Units previously depicted n the 1974 State Hydrologic Unit Map. The boundaries as shown have been adapted from the 1974 State Hydrologic Unit Map, "The Catalog of Information on...
Mars synthetic topographic mapping
S.S.C. Wu
1978, Icarus (33) 417-440
Topographic contour maps of Mars are compiled by the synthesis of data acquired from various scientific experiments of the Mariner 9 mission, including S-band radio-occulation, the ultraviolet spectrometer (UVS), the infrared radiometer (IRR), the infrared interferometer spectrometer (IRIS) and television imagery, as well as Earth-based radar information collected at Goldstone,...
Distinctive sedimentary features of cold-climate eolian deposits, North Park, Colorado
Thomas S. Ahlbrandt, S. Andrews
1978, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (25) 327-351
Cold-climate eolianites contain diagnostic sedimentary features that contrast with the sedimentary features of warm-climate eolianites. Distinctive tensional, compressional, and dissipation sedimentary structures related to freezing, thawing and snow melting characterize eolian dune-sand deposits in North Park, Colorado. The North Park dunes have few of the characteristics considered to be diagnostic...
Prediction of capacity factors for aqueous organic solutes adsorbed on a porous acrylic resin
E.M. Thurman, Ronald L. Malcolm, G. R. Aiken
1978, Analytical Chemistry (50) 775-779
The capacity factors of 20 aromatic, allphatic, and allcycllc organic solutes with carboxyl, hydroxyl, amine, and methyl functional groups were determined on Amberlite XAD-8, a porous acrylic resin. The logarithm of the capacity factor, k', correlated inversely with the logarithm of the aqueous molar solubility with significance of less than...
Induction of auroral zone electric currents within the Alaska pipeline
W.H. Campbell
1978, Pure and Applied Geophysics PAGEOPH (116) 1143-1173
The Alaskar pipeline is a highly conducting anomaly extending 800 miles (1300 km) from about 62?? to 69?? geomagnetic latitude beneath the most active regions of the ionospheric electrojet current. The spectral behavior of the magnetic field from this current was analyzed using data from standard geomagnetic observatories to establish...
Uranium-isotope variations in groundwaters of the Floridan aquifer and Boulder Zone of south Florida
J.B. Cowart, M. I. Kaufman, J.K. Osmond
1978, Journal of Hydrology (36) 161-172
Water samples from four wells from the main Floridan aquifer (300-400 m below mean sea level) in southeast Florida exhibit 234U 233U activity ratios that are significantly lower than the secular equilibrium value of 1.00. Such anomalous values have been observed previously only in waters from sedimentary aquifers in the...
Time-dependence of sea-ice concentration and multiyear ice fraction in the Arctic Basin
P. Gloersen, H.J. Zwally, A.T.C. Chang, D.K. Hall, W. J. Campbell, R.O. Ramseier
1978, Boundary-Layer Meteorology (13) 339-359
The time variation of the sea-ice concentration and multiyear ice fraction within the pack ice in the Arctic Basin is examined, using microwave images of sea ice recently acquired by the Nimbus-5 spacecraft and the NASA CV-990 airborne laboratory. The images used for these studies were constructed from data acquired...
The relationship of morphology, structure, and lithology to the emplacement of the Hot Creek rhyolite flow, Long Valley, California
Thomas J. Holecek
1978, Open-File Report 79-668
No abstract available....
Distribution and relations of 4- to 10-km-diameter craters to global geologic units of Mars
C.D. Condit
1978, Icarus (34) 465-478
By correlating the 1:25,000,000 geologic map of Mars of Scott and Carr (1977) with 4- to 10-km-diameter crater density data from Mariner 9 images, the average crater density for 23 of the equatorial geologic-geomorphic units on Mars was computed. The correlation of these two data sets was accomplished by digitizing...
Use of Landsat data to assess waterfowl habitat quality
J. Colwell, D.S. Gilmer, E.A. Work, D.L. Rebel, N.E.G. Roller
1978, Report
No abstract available at this time...
Oblique map of the Kayak Trough
Tau Rho Alpha
1978, Open-File Report 78-464
No abstract available....
You asked for it! Water conservation, reuse and use
Dewey L. Tackett
1978, Commercial Fish Farmer and Aquaculture News (4) 48-49
Myxosoma cerebralis: Detection of circulating antibodies in infected rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)
B.R. Griffin, E.M. Davis
1978, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (35) 1186-1190
Circulating antibody against spores of Myxosoma cerebralis has been detected for the first time in rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) affected with whirling disease. An indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT) was employed for detection of trout immunoglobulin. Most sera of fish from an infected experimental group were found to give a positive reaction...
Net energy maintenance requirements of salmonids as measured by direct calorimetry: Effect of body size and environmental temperature
R. R. Smith, G. L. Rumsey, M. L. Scott
1978, Journal of Nutrition (108) 1017-1024
Most studies of metabolic rates and energy requirements in aquatic animals have been conducted using indirect methods wherein heat production estimates were based on O2 consumed and CO2 produced. The purpose of the present study was to determine the feasibility of direct calorimetry as a method for measuring heat production of fish...
