New concepts regarding the production of waterfowl and other game birds in areas of diversified agriculture
H.K. Nelson, Harold F. Duebbert
1974, Book chapter
Many concepts regarding breeding ecology of waterfowl and the influences of environmental factors on annual production have changed in the past 20 years. These influences are especially pronounced in the prairie region of central North America where agriculture becomes more intensive each year. The principal task assigned to this Research...
Nesting cover: a critical need for prairie ducks
Harold F. Duebbert
1974, Naturalist (25) 25-27
Abstract has not been submitted...
Ground-water resources of Grimes County, Texas
E. T. Baker Jr., C.R. Follett, G.D. McAdoo, C.W. Bonnet
1974, Texas Water Development Board Report 186
No abstract available....
Ground-water resources of Brazos and Burleson Counties, Texas
C.R. Follett
1974, Texas Water Development Board Report 185
No abstract available....
Breeding bird populations of selected grasslands in east-central North Dakota -- 1974 - Kentucky bluegrass prairie and mixed prairie I-V, VII
Douglas H. Johnson
1974, American Birds (28) 1030-1031
Abstract has not been submitted...
Erosion by catastrophic floods on Mars and Earth
V.R. Baker, D.J. Milton
1974, Icarus (23) 27-41
The large Martian channels, especially Kasei, Ares, Tiu, Simud, and Mangala Valles, show morphologic features strikingly similar to those of the Channeled Scabland of eastern Washington, produced by the catastrophic breakout floods of Pleistocene Lake Missoula. Features in the overall pattern include the...
Social behavior of breeding gadwalls in North Dakota
T.J. Dwyer
1974, The Auk (91) 375-386
Responses of duck pairs encountering other ducks were categorized by McKinney (1965a) as displays, attack, escape and avoidance, sexual pursuit, and sociability. Gadwalls (Anas strepera) show all these responses on the breeding grounds, and characteristic behavior patterns occur depending on the reproductive state of the birds involved. The responses of...
The regolith at the Apollo 15 site and its stratigraphic implications
M. H. Carr, C.E. Meyer
1974, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (38) 1183-1197
Regolith samples from the Apollo 15 landing site are described in terms of two major fractions, a homogeneous glass fraction and a non-homogeneous glass fraction. The proportions of different components in the homogeneous glass fraction were determined directly by chemical analyses of individual...
New seismic study begins in Puerto Rico
Arthur C. Tarr
1974, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (6) 23-26
A new seismological project is now underway in Puerto Rico to provide information needed for accurate assessment of the island's seismic hazard. The project should also help to increase understanding of the tectonics and geologic evolution of the Caribbean region. The Puerto Rico Seismic Program is being conducted by the...
Ground nesting of bald eagles near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
R.G. Bromley, D.L. Trauger
1974, Canadian Field-Naturalist (88) 73-75
No abstract available....
Effect of Temperature on survival of Aeromonas liquefaciens, Aeromonas salmonicida, Chondrococcus columnaris, and Pseudomonas fluorescens
A. J. Ross, Cathy A. Smith
1974, Progressive Fish-Culturist (36) 51-52
Effect of nitrogen supersaturated water on coho and chinook salmon
Robert R. Rucker, Paul M. Kangas
1974, Progressive Fish-Culturist (36) 152-156
Appraising volcanic hazards of the Cascade Range of the northwestern United States
D. R. Crandell, D. R. Mullineaux
1974, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (6) 3-10
Seismic risk maps
David M. Perkins
Robert Mallis, editor(s)
1974, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (6) 10-15
What is the possibility that an earthquake will occur near you? Have you ever wondered what the chances were that an earthquake could affect you at home or at work? Perhaps you are planning to move to a part of the country subject to frequent earthquakes. How do you determine...
Prolonged incubation behavior by a marbled godwit
K.F. Higgins
1974, The Auk (91) 167-167
On 9 May 1972 I flushed a Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa) from a nest containing four eggs in a large field of mulched wheat stubble in northwestern Stutsman County, North Dakota. I revisited the nest on 31 May and on 7, 9, 12, 15, 16, 20, and 21 June, and...
Comparison of elemental accumulation rates between ferromanganese deposits and sediments in the South Pacific Ocean
T. Kraemer, J.C. Schornick
1974, Chemical Geology (13) 187-196
Rates of accumulation of Fe and Mn, as well as Cu, Ni, Co, Pb, Zn, Hg, U and Th have been determined for five ferromanganese deposits from four localities in the South Pacific Ocean.Manganese is accumulating in nodules and crusts at a rate roughly equivalent to that found...
An attempt to age mallards using eye lens proteins
Charles J. Henny, J. Larry Ludke
1974, Journal of Wildlife Management (38) 138-141
An analysis of insoluble protein content of eye lenses from 59 known-age mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) indicated a slight increase between 8-9 months and 7 years of age. Nearly a complete overlapping of the insoluble protein content of individuals of different ages was apparent showing that the technique cannot be used...
Fish Immunology, Chapter 4: Techniques used in immunology of fishes
D. P. Anderson
1974, Book chapter, Disease of Fishes
No abstract available ...
Effect of sonic boom on fish
R.R. Rucker
1974, Report
No abstract available ...
Seismicity and earthquake hazards of the Wasatch Front, Utah
H. Spall
1974, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (6) 12-17
The impressive topographic break at the base of the Wasatch Range immediately east of Salt Lake City, Utah, marks the location where Mormon colonizer Brigham Young said in 1847. "This is the place" Actually, "the place" is termed the Wasatch Front because the Wasatch Range to the east, which rises...
Earthquake prediction; new studies yield promising results
R. Robinson
1974, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (6) 14-17
On Agust 3, 1973, a small earthquake (magnitude 2.5) occurred near Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondack region of northern New York State. This seemingly unimportant event was of great significance, however, because it was predicted. Seismologsits at the Lamont-Doherty geologcal Observatory of Columbia University accurately foretold the time, place,...
Laboratory experiments duplicate conditions in the Earth’s crust
L. Peselnick, James H. Dieterich, R.M. Stewart
1974, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (6) 10-15
An experimental device that simulates conditions in the Earth's crust at depths of up to 30 kilometers has been constructed by geophysicists working at the U.S Geological Survey laboratories in Menlo Park, California. A high pressure "bomb" is being used to experimentally measure the velocity of seismic waves in different...
The California geodimeter network; measuring movement along the San Andreas Fault
J.C. Savage
1974, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (6) 3-7
Following the great California earthquake of 1906 H. F. Reid, a contemporary seismologist, proposed the elastic rebound theory which in effect says that earthquake potential arises from the accumulation of elastic strain within the Earth's crust, just as the stretching of a rubberband creates the potential for violent rebound upon...
Searching for prehistoric earthquakes in lake sediments
J. Sims
1974, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (6) 3-9
How often do major earthquakes occur? Do they follow regular patterns of recurrence, and if so, what is the length of the recurrence interval? These questions are of obvious importance to populations located in regions where earthquakes are a commonplace occurrence. They are also relevant questions in regions that are...
Hydrologic data for Little Elm Creek, Trinity River Basin, Texas, 1972
B.B. Hampton
1974, Report
The U.S. Soil Conservation Service is actively engaged in the installation of flood- and soil-erosion reducing measures in Texas under the authority of "The Flood Control Act of 1936 and 1944" and "Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act" (Public Law 566), as amended. The Soil Conservation Service has found a...