The Talas-Fergana Fault, Kirghiz and Kazakh, USSR
R. E. Wallace
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (8) 4-13
The great Talas-Fergana fault transects the Soviet republic of Kirghiz in Soviet Central Asia and extends southeastward into China and northwestward into Kazakh SSR (figs. 1 and 2). This great rupture in the Earth's crust rivals the San Andreas fault in California; it is long (approximately 900 kilometers), complex, and...
Earthquake watch
M. Hill
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (8) 10-11
When the time comes that earthquakes can be predicted accurately, what shall we do with the knowledge? This was the theme of a November 1975 conference on earthquake warning and response held in San Francisco called by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Jack W. Carlson. Invited were officials of State...
Earthquake at 40 feet
G. J. Miller
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (8) 24-25
The earthquake that struck the island of Guam on November 1, 1975, at 11:17 a.m had many unique aspects-not the least of which was the experience of an earthquake of 6.25 Richter magnitude while at 40 feet. My wife Bonnie, a fellow diver, Greg Guzman, and I were diving at...
The 7.2 magnitude earthquake, November 1975, Island of Hawaii
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS)
The largest earthquake in over a century struck Hawaii the morning of November 29, 1975, at 4:48 AM HST. The earthquake was of magnitude 7.2 on the Richter scale. It was centered about 5 km beneath the Kalapana area on the southeastern coast of Hawaii, the largest island of the Hawaiian...
Earthquakes, November-December 1975
W. J. Person
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (8) 26-29
There were three significant earthquakes during the last 2 months of the year. Two major earthquakes, both magnitude 7.2 occurred, bringing the final major earthquake total for the year to 13, somewhat below the annual average which is about 18. One great earthquake (8.0 and above) per year is average....
Monitoring Mount Baker Volcano
S. D. Malone, D. Frank
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (8) 21-25
Hisotrically active volcanoes in the conterminous United States are restricted to the Cascade Range and extend to the Cascade Range and extend from Mount Baker near the Canadian border to Lassen Peak in northern California. Since 1800 A.D, most eruptive activity has been on a relatively small scale and has...
A revised “earthquake report” questionnaire
C. Stover, G. Reagor, R. Simon
1976, Seismological Research Letters (8) 18-22
The revised “Earthquake Report” questionnaire introduced here is designed to restrict the replies on the effects of earthquakes as closely as possible to a set of effects that can be evaluated by use of a computer program. Differences in intensity resulting from evaluation by different individuals using their own qualitative...
Earthquakes June-July 1976
W. J. Person
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (8) 31-33
This was a seismically active period, with one great earthquake, four major earthquakes, and several strong shocks worldwide. Many persons were killed and thousands were injured in three separate events-in West Irian (west New Guinea), in Bali, Indonesia, and in northeastern China. A great earthquake (one with a Richter magnitude 8.0...
Earthquake history of Oklahoma
C. A. von Hake
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (8) 28-30
The strongest and most widely felt earthquake in Oklahoma occurred on April 9, 1952. The intensity VII (Modified Mercalli Scale) tremor was felt over 362,000 sqaure kilometres. A second intensity VII earthquake, felt over a very small area, occurred in October 1956. In addition, 15 other shocks, intensity V or...
Training seismic research observatory station operators
C. R. Hutt
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (8) 13-17
Earthquake history of South Carolina
C. A. von Hake
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (8) 34-38
An estimated $23 million damage was caused by one of the great earthquakes in United States history in 1886. Charleston, S.C, and nearby cities suffered most of the damage, although points as far as 160 km away were strongly shaken. Many of the 20 earthquakes of intensity V or greater...
Earthquake history of Rhode Island
C. A. von Hake
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (8) 31-32
Only three shocks (intensity V or greater, Modified Moercalli Scale) have centered in Rhode Island, although several earthquakes in New England and the St.Lawerence Valley have been felt in the State....
Earthquake history of Oregon
C. A. von Hake
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (8) 30-33
Although situated between two States (California and Washington) that have has many violent earthquakes, Oregon is noticeably less active seismically. the greatest damage experienced resulted from a major shock near Olympia, Wash., in 1949. During the short history record available (since 1841), 34 earthquakes of intensity V, Modified Mercalli Scale,...
The Viking landing sites: Selection and certification
H. Masursky, N.L. Crabill
1976, Science (193) 809-812
During the past several years the Viking project developed plans to use Viking orbiter instruments and Earth-based radar to certify the suitability of the landing sites selected as the safest and most scientifically rewarding using Mariner 9 data. During June and July 1976, the Earth-based radar and orbital spacecraft observations...
Concretionary manganese-iron oxides in streams and their usefulness as a sample medium for geochemical prospecting
G.A. Nowlan
1976, Journal of Geochemical Exploration (6) 193-210
Correlation studies of 400 samples of sieved stream sediments and 325 samples of fluvial, concretionary Mn-Fe oxides from Maine resulted in the separation of elements into the following categories: (1) elements not scavenged by Mn-Fe oxides — B, Cr, K, Mg, Rb, Sc, Ti, V, and Zr; (2) elements...
Alternate drop pulse polarography
J. H. Christie, Larry L. Jackson, R. A. Osteryoung
1976, Analytical Chemistry (48) 242-247
The new technique of alternate drop pulse polarography is presented. An experimental evaluation of alternate drop pulse polarography shows complete compensation of the capacitative background due to drop expansion. The capillary response phenomenon was studied in the absence of faradaic reaction and the capillary response current was found to depend...
Evidence of the impacting body of the Ries crater - the discovery of Fe-Cr-Ni veinlets below the crater bottom
Goresy A. El, E. C. T. Chao
1976, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (31) 330-340
Fe-Cr-Ni particles and veinlets have been discovered in the top 15 m of the compressed zone with abundant shatter cones below the bottom of the Ries crater. The metallic particles are less than a few microns across. They occur in various minerals along healed intergranular and locally in intragranular microfractures...
Indexes associated with information theory in water quality
S.M. Zand
1976, Journal of the Water Pollution Control Federation (48) 2026-2031
In many biological studies of water quality, a diversity index is calculated in 'bits per individual' by using Shannon's Approximation to Brillouin's Formula. Difficulties associated with such use of Shannon's Formula and its associated parameters are discussed. Recent research has indicated that diversity indexes can be improved if (a) biological...
Selected hydrologic data, Uinta Basin area, Utah and Colorado
J. W. Hood, J. C. Mundorff, Don Price
1976, Utah Basic-Data Release 26
The Uinta Basin area in northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado covers an area of slightly more than 10,000 mi2 (25,900 km2). More than 95 percent of the basin is in Utah, thus most of the data in this report apply to Utah. Most of the water wells are concentrated in...
Discovery of natural resources
P. W. Guild
1976, Science (191) 708-713
Mankind will continue to need ores of more or less the types and grades used today to supply its needs for new mineral raw materials, at least until fusion or some other relatively cheap, inexhaustible energy source is developed. Most deposits being mined today were exposed at the surface or...
Chemical and physical data for the Flaming Gorge Reservation area, Utah and Wyoming, 1973-75
E.L. Bolke
1976, Utah Basic-Data Release 27
This report presents the basic data that were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey during a study of the chemical quality of water in Flaming Gorge Reservoir. An interpretive report will follow. The basic data were collected from the reservoir during the period August 1973 to October 1975. The reservoir...
Fine structure of an unidentified protozoon in the epithelium of rainbow trout exposed to water with Myxosoma cerebralis
S.B. Daniels, R. L. Herman, C.N. Burke
1976, Journal of Protozoology (23) 402-410
An intracellular protozoon was discovered in the epithelium of young rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) exposed for as short a time as 1 hr to water known to contain infective stages of Myxosoma cerebralis. Light- and electron-microscopic examination of this tissue revealed what appeared to be a proliferative stage (presumptive schizont) of a...
Optimum level of dietary biotin for growth, feed utilization, and swimming stamina of fingerling lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush)
H. A. Poston
1976, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (33) 1803-1806
Triplicate lots of fingerling lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) held at 9 C for 20 wk were fed a semipurified basal diet supplemented with 1% spray-dried egg white or d-biotin at concentrations of 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, or 5.0 ppm. Trout fed the basal diet, either alone or with egg white, grew more slowly and...
Glomerular mesangial fibrosis in hatchery-reared rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)
D.E. Hinton, R.T. Jones, R. L. Herman
1976, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (33) 2551-2559
Light and electron microscopic studies were performed on tissues of hatchery-reared rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) having a disease of currently unknown etiology with external symptoms of severe edema which causes increased mortality rate. Comparison with unaffected trout tissues revealed loss of cellularity in glomerular tufts with a replacement of mesangial...
Movements of burros in Death Valley: the Wildrose-Emigrant areas
C. L. Douglas, C. Norment
1976, Technical Report CPSU/UNLV 006/07
No abstract available at this time...
