Records of wells, drillers' logs, water-level measurements, and chemical analyses of ground water in Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Waller Counties, Texas, 1966-74
W. L. Naftel, Kenneth D. Vaught, Bobbie Fleming
1976, Texas Water Development Board Report 201
No abstract available....
Records of wells, drillers' logs, water-level measurements, and chemical analyses of ground water in Chambers, Liberty, and Montgomery Counties, Texas, 1966-74
W. L. Naftel, Bobbie Fleming, Kenneth D. Vaught
1976, Texas Water Development Board Report 202
No abstract available....
Conditions in the deeper parts of the hot spring systems of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Alfred Hemingway Truesdell, Robert O. Fournier
1976, Open-File Report 76-428
Yellowstone thermal areas are scattered over an area of nearly 50 x 60 kilometers (Fig. 1) and contain waters of diverse compositions. This has lead to the implicit assumption that Yellowstone consisted of discrete hydrothermal systems (e.g., Fournier and Truesdell, 1970). It is the purpose of this paper to suggest...
Age of the Hawaiian-Emperor bend
G. B. Dalrymple, D.A. Clague
1976, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (31) 313-329
40Ar/39Ar age data on alkalic and tholeiitic basalts from Diakakuji and Kinmei Seamounts in the vicinity of the Hawaiian-Emperor bend indicate that these volcanoes are about 41 and 39 m.y. old, respectively. Combined with previously published age data on Yuryaku and Ko¯ko Seamounts, the new data indicate that the best...
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...
A magnetic method for determining the geometry of hydraulic fractures
J.D. Byerlee, M.J.S. Johnston
1976, Pure and Applied Geophysics PAGEOPH (114) 425-433
We propose a method that may be used to determine the spatial orientation of the fracture plane developed during hydraulic fracture. In the method, magnetic particles are injected into the crack with the fracturing fluid so as to generate a sheet of magnetized material. Since the magnetization of a body...
Concentration and mineralogical residence of elements in rich oil shales of the Green River Formation, Piceance Creek basin, Colorado, and the Uinta Basin, Utah - A preliminary report
G. A. Desborough, Janet K. Pitman, C. Huffman Jr.
1976, Chemical Geology (17) 13-26
Ten samples from drillcore of two rich oil-shale beds from the Parachute Creek Member of the Eocene Green River Formation, Piceance Creek basin, Colorado, and Uinta Basin, Utah, were analyzed for 37 major, minor, and trace elements. For 23 of these elements, principal mineralogical residence is established or suggested and...
Studies of quaternary saline lakes-II. Isotopic and compositional changes during desiccation of the brines in Owens Lake, California, 1969-1971
I. Friedman, G.I. Smith, Kenneth G. Hardcastle
1976, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (40) 501-511
Owens Lake is an alkaline salt lake in a closed basin in southeast California. It is normally nearly dry, but in early 1969, an abnormal runoff from the Sierra Nevada flooded it to a maximum depth of 2·4 m. By late summer of 1971, the lake was again nearly dry...
Vitamin E and selenium interrelations in the diet of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): Gross, histological and biochemical deficiency signs
Hugh A. Poston, G. F. Combs Jr., Louis Leibovitz
1976, Journal of Nutrition (106) 892-904
Either simultaneous or separate dietary deficiencies of vitamin E and selenium in Atlantic salmon during first 4 weeks of feeding caused twice the mortality shown in fish fed both supplemental vitamin E (0.5 IU/g dry diet) and selenium (0.1 µg/g). Subsequent dietary repletion with both vitamin E and selenium significantly...
Comparison of techniques for stabilizing hemoglobins of rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) during frozen storage
G. L. Reinitz
1976, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part B: Comparative Biochemistry (55) 357-358
1. The stability of hemoglobin of rainbow trout under frozen conditions in oxyform, carboxyform, and cyanometform was examined.2. Carboxyhemoglobin retained its original electrophoretic banding pattern after 14 days of frozen storage, whereas oxyform and cyanometform hemoglobins did not.3. Banding patterns changed in some samples in all treatment groups after 21...
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...
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...
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...
The national coal-resources data system of the U.S. geological survey
M.D. Carter
1976, Computers & Geosciences (2) 331-340
The National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS) was designed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to meet the increasing demands for rapid retrieval of information on coal location, quantity, quality, and accessibility. An interactive conversational query system devised by the USGS retrieves information from the data bank through a standard...
Oroville earthquakes: Normal faulting in the Sierra Nevada foothills
C. G. Bufe, F.W. Lester, K.M. Lahr, J.C. Lahr, L. C. Seekins, Thomas C. Hanks
1976, Science (192) 72-74
Aftershocks of the Oroville, California, earthquake of 1 August 1975 define a 16- by 12-kilometer fault plane striking north-south and dipping 60 degrees to the west to a depth of 10 kilometers. Focal mechanisms from P-wave first motions indicate normal faulting with the western, Great Valley side downdropped relative to...
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...
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...
Extended cabfac and Qmodel computer programs for Q-mode factor analysis of compositional data
J.E. Klovan, A.T. Miesch
1976, Computers & Geosciences (1) 161-178
The computer program CABFAC for Q-mode factor analysis of geologic data has been extended for use with data having constant row-sums. Another program, QMODEL, reads an output file from CABFAC and can be used to develop a variety of Q-mode models. The models serve to reproduce estimates of the original...
Aseismic uplift in Southern California
Robert O. Castle, Jack P. Church, Michael R. Elliot
1976, Science (192) 251-253
Preliminary examination of the historic geodetic record has disclosed crustal uplift of 0.15 to 0.25 meter that apparently began around 1960 and has since grown to include at least 12,000 square kilometers of southern California. This uplift extends at least 150 kilometers west-northwestward along the San Andreas Fault from Cajon...
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...
Qal’eh hasan ali maars, central Iran
D.J. Milton
1976, Bulletin Volcanologique (40) 201-208
A group of craters 120 km southeast of Kerman, the largest 1200 m across and 300 m deep, are typical maars, excavated depression with rims of bedded pyroclastic debris. Most of the crater rims are composed entirely of country rock clasts, but the largest crater yields tephrite, composed of phenocrysts...
Instrumental activation analysis of coal and fly ash with thermal and epithermal neutrons and short-lived nuclides
E. Steinnes, J.J. Rowe
1976, Analytica Chimica Acta (87) 451-462
Instrumental neutron activation analysis is applied to the determination of about 25 elements in coals and fly ash by means of nuclides with half-lives of less than 48 h ; thermal and epithermal irradiations are used. The results indicate that epithermal activation is preferable for twelve of the elements (Ga,...
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...
The February 1969 east rift eruption of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Donald A. Swanson, D. B. Jackson, R. Y. Koyanagi, T. L. Wright
1976, Professional Paper 891
No abstract available....
Hydrologic data for Cow Bayou, Brazos River Basin, Texas, 1974
J. K. VanZandt
1976, Report
No abstract available....
