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...
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...
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...
Automation in photogrammetry: Recent developments and applications (1972-1976)
M.M. Thompson, E.M. Mikhail
1976, Photogrammetria (32) 111-145
An overview of recent developments in the automation of photogrammetry in various countries is presented. Conclusions regarding automated photogrammetry reached at the 1972 Congress in Ottawa are reviewed first as a background for examining the developments of 1972-1976. Applications are described for each country reporting significant developments. Among fifteen conclusions...
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...
Capturing and marking howler monkeys for field behavioral studies
N.J. Scott Jr., A.F. Scott, L.A. Malmgren
1976, Primates (17) 527-533
Methods for capturing and marking howler monkeys for ecological studies are discussed. Systems for capturing and handling animals are compared. A dart with liquid Sernylan for capture and Sernylan or Ketamine as a holding drug was preferred to darts using powdered succinylcholine chloride (SCC) and ether. The effectiveness of both...
Intrinsic germanium detector used in borehole sonde for uranium exploration
F. E. Senftle, R.M. Moxham, A.B. Tanner, G. R. Boynton, P. W. Philbin, J.A. Baicker
1976, Nuclear Instruments and Methods (138) 371-380
A borehole sonde (~1.7 m long; 7.3 cm diameter) using a 200 mm2 planar intrinsic germanium detector, mounted in a cryostat cooled by removable canisters of frozen propane, has been constructed and tested. The sonde is especially useful in measuring X- and low-energy gamma-ray spectra (40–400 keV). Laboratory tests in...
Observations of eruption clouds from Sakura-zima volcano, Kyushu, Japan from Skylab 4
J. D. Friedman, G. Heiken, D. Randerson, D.S. McKay
1976, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (1) 305-329
Hasselblad and Nikon stereographic photographs taken from Skylab between 9 June 1973 and 1 February 1974 give synoptic plan views of several entire eruption clouds emanating from Sakura-zima volcano in Kagoshima Bay, Kyushu, Japan. Analytical plots of these stereographic pairs, studied in combination with meteorological data, indicate that the eruption...
Turbidity distribution in the Atlantic Ocean
Stephen Eittreim, E. M. Thorndike, L. Sullivan
1976, Deep-Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts (23) 1115-1127
The regional coverage of Lamont nephelometer data in the North and South Atlantic can be used to map seawater turbidity at all depths. At the level of the clearest water, in the mid-depth regions, the turbidity distribution primarily reflects the pattern of productivity in the surface waters. This suggests that...
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...
Salt-load computations - Colorado River, Cameo, Colorado, to Cisco, Utah
Robert Brennan, Richard Ural Grozier
1976, Report
No abstract available....
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...
Mixing of carbonate waters
T.M.L. Wigley, Niel Plummer
1976, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (40) 989-995
When mineral solutions of different compositions are mixed, the molalities and activities of individual ions in the mixture are often non-linear functions of their end-member values. This non-linearity is particularly significant in determining mineral saturation levels. Mixtures of saturated solutions may be either...
Duck nesting in fields of undisturbed grass-legume cover
Harold F. Duebbert, J. T. Lokemoen
1976, Journal of Wildlife Management (40) 39-49
A study of dabbling duck (Anatinae) nesting was conducted during 1971-73 on nine 12- to 54-ha Cropland Adjustment Program fields in the prairie pothole region of north-central South Dakota. The tall, dense vegetation was comprised of introduced cool-season grasses and legumes, primarily smooth bromegrass (Bromus inermis), intermediate wheatgrass (Agropyron intermedium),...
Physiological response to hooking stress in hatchery and wild rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)
R.S. Wydoski, Gary Wedemeyer, N. C. Nelson
1976, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (105) 601-606
This study evaluated the physiological response of rainbow trout to hooking stress after being played under standardized conditions (0–5 min) and estimated the time needed for recovery (to 72 h). Plasma osmolality and chloride measurements were used to evaluate osmoregulatory disturbances and gill ion-exchange function, and plasma glucose was used...
Teton Dam flood of June 1976, St. Anthony quadrangle, Idaho
Cecil A. Thomas, Herman A. Ray, Howard F. Matthai
1976, Hydrologic Atlas 566
The failure of the Teton Dam caused extreme flooding along the Teton River, Henrys Fork, and Snake River in southeastern Idaho on June 5-8, 1976. No flooding occurred downstream from American Falls Reservoir. The inundated areas and maximum water-surface elevations are shown in a series of 17 hydrologic atlases. The...
The zonal distribution of selected elements above the Kalamazoo porphyry copper deposit, San Manuel district, Pinal County, Arizona
M.A. Chaffee
1976, Journal of Geochemical Exploration (5) 145-165
There may be many as-yet-undiscovered porphyry copper deposits that exist as blind deposits deep within exposed rock bodies. The Kalamazoo porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit is a blind deposit present at depths up to at least 1,000 m (about 3,200 ft) that contains zoning features common to many of the known...
Geologic map of the Lake City Caldera area, western San Juan Mountains, southwestern Colorado
Peter W. Lipman
1976, IMAP 962
No abstract available....
Rapid determination of nanogram amounts of tellurium in silicate rocks
L. P. Greenland, E.Y. Campbell
1976, Analytica Chimica Acta (87) 323-328
A hydride-generation flameless atomic-absorption technique is used to determine as little as 5 ng g-1 tellurium in 0.25 g of silicate rock. After acid decomposition of the sample, tellurium hydride is generated with sodium borohydride and the vapor passed directly to a resistance-heated quartz cell mounted in an atomic-absorption spectrophotometer. Analyses...
Teton Dam flood of June 1976, Menan Buttes quadrangle, Idaho
Cecil A. Thomas, Herman A. Ray, William A. Harenberg
1976, Hydrologic Atlas 570
The failure of the Teton Dam caused extreme flooding along the Teton River, Henrys Fork, and Snake River in southeastern Idaho on June 5-8, 1976. No flooding occurred downstream from American Falls Reservoir. The inundated areas and maximum water-surface elevations are shown in a series of 17 hydrologic atlases. The...
Hydrologic studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in oil-shale areas of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, 1976
U.S. Geological Survey
1976, Report
No abstract available....
Hydrologic data for urban studies in the San Antonio, Texas, metropolitan area, 1974
Victor Gonzalez
1976, Report
No abstract available....
Radiocarbon dates from Alaska, Yukon Territory, and British Columbia
Frederic H. Wilson, M. Springer Young
1976, Report
No abstract available....
Disharmony of the spheres: Recent trends in planetary surface nomenclature
R.J. Pike
1976, Icarus (27) 577-583
Inadvisable departures from tradition in naming newly mapped features on Mars, Mercury, and the Moon have been implemented and proposed since 1970. Functional need for place names also has become confused with cartographic convenience. Much of the resulting new nomenclature is neither unique, efficient, nor imaginative. The longstanding classical orientation...
