Retention of mercury in the muscle of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) and rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris)
Percy W. Laarman, Wayne A. Willford, James R. Olson
1976, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (105) 296-300
Mercury-contaminated yellow perch (Perca flavescens) and rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris) were collected from Lake St. Clair and stocked in two earthen ponds in September 1970. Twenty-six months later, concentrations of total mercury in the fillets had declined 53% in the yellow perch and 59% in the rock bass; however, the...
Production of hybrid, androgenetic, and gynogenetic grass carp and carp
J.G. Stanley
1976, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (105) 10-16
Effects of inbreeding on rainbow trout populations
H. L. Kincaid
1976, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (105) 273-280
Geologic mapping and earthquakes in southeastern Idaho
L.B. Platt
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (8) 8-12
On April 14, 1973, a magnitude 4.75 earthquake occurred in Oneida County, Idaho. The intensity of ground motion was too slight to cause damage, and local interest in this event was so slight that it was not even noted in the weekly newspaper, the Idaho Enterprise, published in Malad City, the...
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...
Tragedy at Kilauea
D. A. Swanson, R.L. Christiansen
1976, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (8) 12-17
The following article is a reconstruction of events surrounding the deaths of a party of Hawaiian warriors in 1790 on Kilauea Volcano. It suggests that they were killed by a very hot, ash-free, base-surge cloud that rushed from the volcano. Much more recently than that, in the early morning hours of...
Energy-related research of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service on the Great Lakes
Thomas G. Yocom, Howard D. Tait
1976, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the Second Federal Conference on the Great Lakes
No abstract available....
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...
Electric power generation and its influence on Great Lakes fish
Thomas A. Edsall
1976, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the Second Federal Conference on the Great Lakes
No abstract available....
Ecology of mangroves in the Jewfish Chain, Exuma, Bahamas
L. V. Wilcox, Thomas G. Yocom, A. M. Forbes
1976, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the International Symposium on biology and management of mangroves
The structure and function of mangrove communities in the Jewfish Chain, Exumas, Bahamas, were investigated for 3-1/2 years. Mangrove vegetation in the Jewfish Chain is similar to that in all the Caribbean-Florida area; Rhizophora mangle L. dominates and is interspersed with Avicennia germinans (L.) Lamk. and Laguncularia racemosa (L.) Gaertn. There is no apparent zonation of...
Thermodynamics of Fe(II)Fe(III) oxide systems I. Hydrothermal Fe3O4
J.J. Bartel, E.F. Westrum Jr., J.L. Haas Jr.
1976, Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics (8) 575-581
The heat capacity of a hydrothermally-prepared polycrystalline sample of Fe3O4 was measured from 53 to 350 K, primarily to study the thermophysics of the Verwey transitions. Although the bifurcation of the transition was confirmed, the sample was found to contain traces of manganese. The observed transition temperatures of 117.0 and...
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....
Cardinal and mockingbird in Jamestown, North Dakota
Douglas H. Johnson, J.E. Johnson
1976, Prairie Naturalist (8) 60-60
Abstract has not been submitted...
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...
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...
Atlas of Rhode Island Salt Marshes
W. L. Halvorson, W.E. Gardiner
1976, Marine Memorandum 44
No abstract available at this time...
Rainbow trout growth in circular tanks: consequences of different loading densities
J.L. Brauhn, R.C. Simon, W.R. Bridges
1976, Technical Paper 86
No abstract available at this time...
Teton Dam flood of June 1976, Moody quadrangle, Idaho
William A. Harenberg, Bruce B. Bigelow
1976, Hydrologic Atlas 568
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...
Lithium, nature's lightest metal
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1976, Report
Female homogamety in grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) determined by gynogenesis
Jon G. Stanley
1976, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (33) 1372-1374
Gynogenesis occurred in eggs of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) treated with X-irradiated milt from goldfish (Carassius auratus). Gynogenetic offspring were females, which indicates functional female homogamety in grass carp. Five of these gynogenetic fish were used as an egg source for a second generation of artificially gynogenetic fish. The percentage...
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...
Utilization of satellite data for inventorying prairie ponds and lakes
E.A. Work, D.S. Gilmer
1976, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (42) 685-694
By using data acquired by LANDSAT-1 (formerly ERTS- 1), studies were conducted in extracting information necessary for formulating management decisions relating to migratory waterfowl. Management decisions are based in part on an assessment ofhabitat characteristics, specifically numbers, distribution, and quality of ponds and lakes in the prime breeding range. This...
Feeding ecology of breeding gadwalls on saline wetlands
J.R. Serie, G.A. Swanson
1976, Journal of Wildlife Management (40) 69-81
The feeding ecology of breeding gadwalls (Anas strepera) from saline wetlands in North Dakota was examined in relation to sex, pair mates, reproductive status, food availability, and wetland type during the spring and summer of 1971 and 1972. Esophagi of males and females contained 40.4 and 48.2 percent animal food,...
Avian botulism epizootiology on sewage oxidation ponds in Utah
Daniel W. Moulton, Wayne I. Jensen, Sondra K. Stewart
1976, Journal of Wildlife Management (40) 735-742
In the microenvironment concept of avian botulism epizootiology, it is hypothesized that invertebrate carcasses may serve both as a substrate for toxin production by Clostridium botulinum type C and as a vehicle for toxin transmission to water birds. We field-tested that hypothesis by attempting to induce botulism in wing-clipped mallard...
