Fluctuations in the fisheries of State of Michigan waters of Green Bay
Ralph Hile, George F. Lunger, Howard J. Buettner
1953, Fishery Bulletin of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (54) 1-34
Green Bay, traditionally a major center of production, has assumed in recent years a position of overwhelming dominance in the commercial fisheries of the State of Michigan waters of Lake Michigan. Within the 4-year period 1945-1948 the commercial take in State of Michigan waters of Green Bay increased from 3,317,000...
Lake fisheries need lamprey control and research
James W. Moffett
1953, The Fisherman (21) 10-11
Since 1921, when the first sea lamprey was recorded from Lake Erie, concern about this parasite in the Great Lakes above Niagara Falls, where previously it had never occurred, grew successively. At first, the concern was shared only in scientific circles, but as the parasite continued its persistent and...
Ground-water conditions in artesian aquifers in Brown County, Wisconsin
William James Drescher
1953, Water Supply Paper 1190
The principal water-bearing rocks underlying Brown County, Wis., are thick sandstone units of Cambrian and Ordovician age. Other aquifers include limestone and dolomite of Ordovician age, dolomite of Silurian age, and sands and gravel of Pleistocene and Recent age. Underlying the water-bearing formations are crystalline rocks of pre-Cambrian age which...
The effects of DDT upon the survival and growth of nestling songbirds
Robert T. Mitchell, H.P. Blagbrough, R.C. VanEtten
1953, Journal of Wildlife Management (17) 45-54
No abstract available. ...
Mica deposits of the southeastern Piedmont, Part 5, Shelby-Hickory district, North Carolina; Part 6, Outlying deposits in North Carolina
W. R. Griffitts, J.C. Olson
1953, Professional Paper 248-D
No abstract available....
Abbreviations used in publications of the United States Geological Survey
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1953, Report
The use of abbreviations in publications of the Geological Survey is determined by several forces working in different directions. Pulling in the direction of greater condensation and the freer use of abbreviations and symbols is the desire to achieve greater economy in publications. Working in the opposite direction is the...
The use of soils and paleosols for interpreting geomorphic and climatic history of arid regions
John Miller, Luna Bergere Leopold
1953, Research Council of Israel Special Publication 2
The study of modern surface soils, and ancient weathering zones, which occur either buried or as surface relicts, has contributed materially to understanding the complex events of the glacial and post-glacial period both in glaciated areas and in regions not influenced by glaciation. Most work of this kind in the...
Geology and water resources of Smith Valley, Lyon and Douglas Counties, Nevada
Omar J. Loeltz, Thomas E. Eakin
1953, Water Supply Paper 1228
No abstract available....
Relation of suspended-sediment concentration to channel scour and fill
Luna Bergere Leopold, Thomas Maddock Jr.
1953, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the fifth Hydraulics Conference, June 9-11, 1952, arranged by the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research
It is known that during the passage of a flood the channel of an alluvial stream scours and fills with considerable rapidity. Though such changes may be random, it seems more likely that there is a definite pattern of channel change directly related both to discharge and to the sediment...
Lake Bonneville: Geology of northern Utah Valley, Utah
C. B. Hunt, H.D. Varnes, H. E. Thomas
1953, Professional Paper 257-A
Lake Bonneville was a vast Pleistocene lake that covered 20,000 square miles in northwestern Utah and had a maximum depth of about 1,000 feet. It was a body of water comparable in size to modern Lake Michigan.Surveys of the unconsolidated deposits in the Lake Bonneville basin utilize the same methods...
Native and contaminated ground waters in the Long Beach-Santa Ana area, California
Arthur M. Piper, A. A. Garrett
1953, Water Supply Paper 1136
No abstract available....
Mica deposits of the southeastern Piedmont, Part 3, Ridgeway-Sandy Ridge district, Virginia and North Carolina; Part 4, Outlying deposits in Virginia
W. R. Griffitts, R. H. Jahns, R. W. Lemke
1953, Professional Paper 248-C
No abstract available....
Floods of 1950 in southwestern Oregon and northwestern California
C. G. Paulsen
1953, Water Supply Paper 1137-E
No abstract available....
Analysis of mixed-layer clay mineral structures
W. F. Bradley
1953, Conference Paper, Analytical Chemistry
Among the enormously abundant natural occurrences of clay minerals, many examples are encountered in which no single specific crystallization scheme extends through a single ultimate grain. The characterization of such assemblages becomes an analysis of the distribution of matter within such grains, rather than the simple identification of mineral species....
The movement of tagged lake trout in Lake Superior, 1950-52
Paul H. Eschmeyer, Russell Daly, Leo F. Erkkila
1953, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (82) 68-77
A total of 733 native lake trout was tagged at two widely separated localities in Lake Superior; subsequent recaptures numbered 155 fish (21.1 percent) during the year following marking. In October 1950, 116 large lake trout (average total length, 27.3 inches) were tagged near Keweenaw Point, Michigan. Fifteen...
Technique for the application of a streamer-type fish tag
Leonard S. Joeris
1953, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (82) 42-47
Principal features of the technique are: attachment of the plastic tag by means of a nylon-thread loop prepared in advance of field work; use of a curved surgical needle with cutting edge and a split eye for application of the tag. The procedures for splitting the needle's eye and for...
Ultraviolet spectrophotometric determination of tantalum with pyrogallol
J. I. Dinnin
1953, Analytical Chemistry (25) 1803-1807
In a search for a more rapid method for the determination of tantalum in rocks and minerals, an intensive study was made of the tantalum-pyrogallol reaction recommended by Platanov and Krivoshlikov, and a better modified spectrophotometric procedure is given. The improved method consists in measuring the absorbancy of the tantalum-pyrogallol...
The effect of ether anesthesia on fin-clipping rate
Paul H. Eschmeyer
1953, Progressive Fish-Culturist (15) 80-82
As part of an experimental program to learn the effects of stocking lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in Lake Superior, 141, 392 fingerlings were marked at the Charlevoix (Michigan) Station of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in October 1952. The adipose fin was removed from all fish, the right pelvic...
Mica deposits of the southeastern Piedmont, Part 9, Thomaston-Barnesville district, Georgia; Part 10, Outlying deposits in Georgia
E. W. Heinrich, M. R. Klepper, R. H. Jahns
1953, Professional Paper 248-F
No abstract available....
Semiquantitative spectrographic method for analysis of minerals, rocks, and ores
C. L. Waring, C. S. Annell
1953, Analytical Chemistry (25) 1174-1179
The quantity and complex nature of materials received for analysis in the spectrographic laboratories of the U. S. Geological Survey have emphasized the need for a spectrographic method to determine a maximum number of elements in a limited time with a reasonable degree of accuracy. The semiquantitative method described determines...
Method for determination of small amounts of rare earths and thorium in phosphate rocks
C. L. Waring, H. Mela Jr.
1953, Analytical Chemistry (25) 432-435
In laboratory investigations, interest developed in the possible rare-earth content of phosphate samples from Florida and the northwestern United States. Because of the difficulty of making chemical determinations of traces of individual rare earths, a combined chemical-spectrographic method was investigated. After removal of iron by the extraction of the chloride...
Quercetin as colorimetric reagent for determination of zirconium
F. S. Grimaldi, C. E. White
1953, Analytical Chemistry (25) 1886-1890
Methods described in the literature for the determination of zirconium are generally designed for relatively large amounts of this element. A good procedure using colorimetric reagent for the determination of trace amounts is desirable. Quercetin has been found to yield a sensitive color reaction with zirconium suitable for the determination...
Mica deposits of the southeastern Piedmont, Part 7, Hartwell district, Georgia and South Carolina; Part 8, Outlying deposits in South Carolina
W. R. Griffitts, J.C. Olson
1953, Professional Paper 248-E
No abstract available....
Mica deposits of the southeastern Piedmont, Part 11, Alabama district
E. W. Heinrich, J.C. Olson
1953, Professional Paper 248-G
No abstract available....
Geochemical studies of clay minerals III. The determination of free silica and free alumina in montmorillonites
Margaret D. Foster
1953, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (3) 143-154
Determination of free silica by the method proposed made possible the derivation of logical formulas for several specimens of montmorillonites for which the formulas could not be derived from the analyses alone. Other montmorillonites, for which logical formulas could be derived from their analyses, were found to contain small amounts...
