Lithium, nature's lightest metal
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1976, Report
Energy utilization by a desert lizard (Uta stansburiana)
F.B. Turner, P.A. Medica, B.W. Kowalewsky
1976, Monograph 1
No abstract available at this time...
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...
Movements of desert bighorn sheep in the River Mountains of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area
D.M. Leslie, C. L. Douglas
1976, Technical Report CPSU/UNLV 010/02
No abstract available at this time...
Geologic history of Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1976, Report
Cape Cod, a sandy peninsula built mostly during the Ice Age, juts into the Atlantic Ocean like a crooked arm. Because of its exposed location, Cape Cod was visited by many early explorers. Although clear-cut evidence is lacking, the Vikings may have sighted this land about 1,000 years ago. It...
Is there a periodicity in the occurrence of earthquakes?
R.N. Hunter
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (8) 4-7
Various periodicities have been suspected in earthquake activity, but none has yet been proved. In his classic text on seismology, K.E Bullen remarked that small but discernable "trigger" forces, such as tidal effects, temperature changes or barometric changes, have been thought to act as "last straw" phenomena when the earthquake...
Training seismic research observatory station operators
C. R. Hutt
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (8) 13-17
Radiocarbon dates from Alaska, Yukon Territory, and British Columbia
Frederic H. Wilson, M. Springer Young
1976, Report
No abstract available....
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....
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...
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...
The sound of an earthquake
D.P. Hill
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (8) 15-18
Historical accounts of earthquakes often include references to sounds which accompany earthquakes. ...
The San Francisco cow; did she or didn’t she?
M. Hill
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (8) 19-23
No one has suggested that Mr. Shafter's nameless cow was the cause of the 1906 earthquake, but she has been the source of as persistent a rumor as Mrs. Murphy's Chicago cow. Since 1906, "the cow that fell in the crack" has been a favorite subject of humorous speculation. large...
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...
Ground-water discharge from the Edwards and associated limestones, San Antonio area, Texas, 1975
R. A. Rappmund
1976, Edwards Underground Water District Bulletin 35
No abstract available....
The area of influence of an exploratory hole
D.A. Singer, L. J. Drew
1976, Economic Geology (71) 642-647
A method is presented for calculating the area of influence of exploratory drill holes by using the size and shape of resource targets. The solution presented is for elliptical and circular targets, but the method is applicable to any shaped target. The degree to which points have been explored depends...
The freshwater mussel (Anodonta sp.) as an indicator of environmental levels of 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM)
A.W. Maki, L.D. Geissel, H.E. Johnson
1976, Investigations in Fish Control 70
Abstract not submitted to date...
Q-mode factor analysis of compositional data
A.T. Miesch
1976, Computers & Geosciences (1) 147-159
An extended form of the method of Q-mode factor analysis may be used if the rows of the data matrix sum to a constant. The constant row-sum provides a means for scaling the factor model to conform to the units of the original data in such forms as proportions, percentages,...
Determination of lead in rocks by radiometric isotope dilution and substoichiometric extraction
Philip Aruscavage
1976, Analytica Chimica Acta (82) 343-348
A rapid procedure is described for the determination of lead in rocks by an isotope-dilution substoichiometric method. After the sample has been digested with acid in the presence of 210Pb tracer, the lead is separated by dithizone extractions. After the lead has been back-extracted into aqueous solution, it is reacted with...
Effect of pH on exchange-adsorption or precipitation of lead from landfill leachates by clay minerals
R. A. Griffin
1976, Environmental Science & Technology (10) 1256-1261
No abstract available....
Carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen isotope studies of the regional metamorphic complex at Naxos, Greece
R. O. Rye, R.D. Schuiling, D.M. Rye, J.B.H. Jansen
1976, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (40) 1031-1049
At Naxos, Greece, a migmatite dome is surrounded by schists and marbles of decreasing metamorphic grade. Sillimanite, kyanite, biotite, chlorite, and glaucophane zones are recognized at successively greater distances from the migmatite dome. Quartz-muscovite and quartz-biotite oxygen isotope and mineralogie temperatures range from 350 to 700°C.The metamorphic complex can be...
A relationship between avian carcasses and living invertebrates in the epizootiology of avian botulism
Ruth M. Duncan, Wayne I. Jensen
1976, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (12) 116-126
A survey of the sources of Clostridium botulinum type C toxin possibly utilized as food by aquatic birds in an epizootic area of avian botulism in northern Utah showed that living aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates normally found in close association with dead, decomposing birds commonly carried the toxin. Of 461 samples associated...
Late Pleistocene and Holocene depositional trends, processes, and history of Astoria deep-sea fan, Northeast Pacific
H. Nelson
1976, Marine Geology (20) 129-173
The asymmetrical Astoria Fan (110 × 180 km) developed off the Columbia River and Astoria submarine canyon during the Pleistocene. Morphology, stratigraphy, and lithology have been outlined for a Pleistocene turbidite, and a Holocene hemipelagic sedimentary regime to generate geologically significant criteria for comparison with ancient equivalent deposits. Both gray...
RESIN, a FORTRAN IV program for determining the area of influence of samples or drill holes in resource target search
D.A. Singer
1976, Computers & Geosciences (2) 249-260
A FORTRAN IV program that calculates the area of influence of drill holes or samples with respect to the size and shape of elliptical or circular resource targets is presented. Program options include determination of the degree to which areas within a region have been explored and estimation of probabilities...
Morphologic interpretation of fertile structures in glossopterid gymnosperms
J. M. Schopf
1976, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology (21) 25-64
The problem of determining affinity among glossopterid gymnosperms is beset by deficiencies in preservation, natural dissociation of parts, and scarcity of features assuredly critical for morphologic comprarison. The glossopterids probably are not a very heterogeneous group of plants, but this is difficult to prove. The Gondwana glacial "hiatus" has resulted...