Channel changes of the Gila River in Safford Valley, Arizona, 1846-1970
D. E. Burkham
1972, Professional Paper 655-G
No abstract available....
Hydraulic tests in hole UAe-6h, Amchitka Island, Alaska
Wilbur C. Ballance
1972, Report
Inflatable straddle packers were used to isolate and test 14 intervals ranging from 39 to 258 meters (127 to 846 feet) each in hole UAe-6h. Packer seats were poor in part of the hole because of unstable wall conditions. Thus, some zones had to be tested several times. The static...
Imogolite and allophane formed in saprolite of basalt on Maui, Hawaii
K. Wada, T. Henmi, N. Yoshinaga, S. H. Patterson
1972, Clays and Clay Minerals (20) 375-380
Inorganic gel and allophane collected from basaltic saprolite on Maul, Hawaii, and studied by Patterson in I964 were reexamined. The main constituent of the gel is imogolite, and gibbsite and allophane are the minor constituents. Electron and X-ray diffraction patterns, DTA curve, and an infrared spectrum of the gel are...
Water inflow into hole UA-1, Amchitka Island, Alaska
Wilbur C. Ballance, W.A. Beetem
1972, Report
Chemical composition of water samples, temperature of inflow water, and theoretical calculations were compared to evaluate the water-contributing intervals to the zone to be mined--1,782.8 to 1,798.6 meters (5,849 to 5,901 feet)--in hole UA-1, Amchitka Island, Alaska. Chemical composition and temperature of inflow water indicated the contributing zones to have...
Some rates of geomorphological processes
Luna Bergere Leopold, William W. Emmett
1972, Geographia Polonica (23) 27-36
This brief report summarizes three sets of measurement data on certain processes.The first concerns the rate of movement of soil on hillslopes, especially by mass movement or slow gravitational creep. The results are abstracted from an unpublished manuscript by the junior author who reports on the measurements which Leopold began...
Destruction of the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and possibilities for its reconstruction
Stanford H. Smith
Remedios W. Moore, editor(s)
1972, Book chapter, Progress in fishery and food science
This paper is a review of the sequence of events within the Great Lakes and their drainage to provide a basis for interpreting probable cause-and-effect relations between events of settlement and changes in the ecosystem of the Great Lakes. Possibilities of restoration of the lakes are discussed. A plan to...
Ground-water outflow from Chino Basin, Upper Santa Ana Valley, southern California
James J. French
1972, Water Supply Paper 1999-G
Ground-water outflow from Chino basin was calculated ,by a direct method using the equation Q = PIA, in which Q is the quantity of ground-water outflow, P is the average coefficient of permeability of the sediments through which the flow occurs, I is the average hydraulic gradient, and A is...
Bedrock topography of the Connecticut River Valley near Greenfield, Massachusetts
Bruce P. Hansen
1972, Open-File Report 72-156
No abstract available....
Cloudburst floods in Utah, 1939-69
Elmer Butler, Ray E. Marsell
1972, Report
During 1939-69, 836 cloudburst floods were reported in Utah. The largest number was in 1965, when 88 floods were reported; 63 floods were reported in 1968, and 56 were reported in 1961. The smallest number of floods reported was three in 1944. In 1942, 1948, and 1950, six floods were...
Determination of nanogram amounts of bismuth in rocks by substoichiometric isotope dilution analysis
L. Paul Greenland, E.Y. Campbell
1972, Analytica Chimica Acta (60) 159-165
A rapid procedure suitable for the routine determination of 1–10 ng of bismuth in a silicate rock matrix is described. Results for the U.S. Geological Survey standard rocks are presented. Rocks and minerals are dissolved in hydrofluoric-perchloric acid in the presence of 207Bi tracer and the...
Inheritance study of five individual matings of channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus
C.J. Biggers, D. Tackett, B.A. Simco
1972, Conference Paper, ASB (Association of Southeastern Biologists) Bulletin
No abstract available at this time...
Population biology of alewives, Alosa pseudoharengus, in Lake Michigan, 1949-70
Edward H. Brown Jr.
1972, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (29) 477-500
Alewives were unknown in Lake Michigan before 1949, but became extremely abundant in the 1960s and soon exceeded the carrying capacity of the lake. In 1967 they were decimated by a lakewide mass mortality, and have since been less abundant as "adults" (≥120 mm long), although numerous young were produced in...
Factors of ecologic succession in oligotrophic fish communities of the Laurentian Great Lakes
Stanford H. Smith
1972, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (29) 717-730
Oligotrophic fish communities of the Great Lakes have undergone successive disruptions since the mid-1800s. Major contributing factors have been intensive selective fisheries, extreme modification of the drainage, invasion of marine species, and progressive physical–chemical changes of the lake environments. Lake Ontario was the first to be affected as its basin...
Effects of dressing and cooking on DDT concentrations in certain fish from Lake Michigan
Robert E. Reinert, Donald Stewart, Harry L. Seagran
1972, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (29) 525-529
Concentrations of DDT residues were highest in parts of the body with the highest oil content in four species of fish from Lake Michigan: yellow perch (Perca flavescens), bloater (Coregonus hoyi), lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), and coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). Dressing reduced the DDT residues and oil content by more...
Limnology and fish ecology of sockeye salmon nursery lakes of the world
Wilbur L. Hartman, R.L. Burgner
1972, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (29) 699-715
Many important, recently glaciated oligotrophic lakes that lie in coastal regions around the northern rim of the Pacific Ocean produce anadromous populations of sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka. This paper describes the limnology and fish ecology of two such lakes in British Columbia, five in Alaska, and one in Kamchatka. Then...
Chemical and bacteriological quality of water at selected sites in the San Antonio area, Texas, August 1968-April 1972
R.D. Reeves, Jack Rawson, J.F. Blakey
1972, Report
No abstract available....
Survey for infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN) virus in Washington salmon
Donald F. Amend, James W. Wood
1972, Progressive Fish-Culturist (34) 143-147
A virus disease of juvenile sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) has been a problem in Washington hatcheries since first reported by Rucker [9] in 1953. Presumably, the same disease has occurred in Oregon, and it is now referred to as the Oregon, and it is now referred to as the Oregon...
Imaging experiment: The Viking Mars orbiter
M. H. Carr, W.A. Baum, G.A. Briggs, H. Masursky, D.W. Wise, D. R. Montgomery
1972, Icarus (16) 17-33
The general objectives of the Imaging Experiment on the Viking Orbiter are to aid the selection of Viking Lander sites, to map and monitor the chosen sites during lander operations, to aid in the selection of future landing sites, and to extend our...
The apollo 15 lunar samples: A preliminary description
P.W. Gast, W.C. Phinney, M.B. Duke, L. T. Silver, N.J. Hubbard, G.H. Heiken, P. Butler, D.S. McKay, J.L. Warner, D.A. Morrison, F. Horz, J. Head, G.E. Lofgren, W.I. Ridley, A.M. Reid, H. Wilshire, J.F. Lindsay, W.D. Carrier, P. Jakes, M.N. Bass, P.R. Brett, E.D. Jackson, J.M. Rhodes, B.M. Bansal, J.E. Wainwright, K.A. Parker, K.V. Rodgers, J.E. Keith, R.S. Clark, E. Schonfeld, L. Bennett, Martha M. Robbins, W. Portenier, D.D. Bogard, W.R. Hart, W.C. Hirsch, R.B. Wilkin, E.K. Gibson, C.B. Moore, C.F. Lewis
1972, Science (175) 363-375
Samples returned from the Apollo 15 site consist of mare basalts and breccias with a variety of premare igneous rocks. The mare basalts are from at least two different lava flows. The bulk chemical compositions and textures of these rocks confirm the previous conclusion that the lunar maria consist of...
Oil development and conservation in Arctic America
J. C. Reed
1972, Biological Conservation (4) 369-371
As in his earlier article to which reference is made, the author stresses the need for more background information and a much greater research effort before problems of environmental protection from oil developments in northern Alaska can be effectively tackled. Meanwhile, there...
Mass spectrometric analysis of organic compounds, water and volatile constituents in the atmosphere and surface of Mars: The Viking Mars Lander
Duwayne M. Anderson, K. Biemann, Leslie E. Orgel, John Oro, Tobias Owen, Garson P. Shulman, Priestley Toulmin III, H. C. Urey
1972, Icarus (16) 111-138
An experiment centering around a mass spectrometer is described, which is aimed at the identification of organic substances present in the top 10 cm of the surface of Mars and an analysis of the atmosphere for major and minor constituents as well as isotopic abundances. In addition, an indication of...
Properties of carbonate rocks related to SO2 reactivity
R.H. Borgwardt, R.D. Harvey
1972, Environmental Science & Technology (6) 350-360
No abstract available....
Silicate melt inclusions and glasses in lunar soil fragments from the Luna 16 core sample
E. Roedder, P.W. Weiblen
1972, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (13) 272-285
More than 2000 fragments were studied microscopically, and electron microprobe analyses were made of 39 selected areas, from a few square mm of polished surface, through 75- to 425-μm fragments of lunar soil from two samples of the Luna 16 core. The...
The martian atmosphere: Mariner 9 television experiment progress report
C.B. Leovy, G.A. Briggs, A.T. Young, B.A. Smith, James B. Pollack, E.N. Shipley, R.L. Wildey
1972, Icarus (17) 373-393
Atmospheric phenomena appearing in the Mariner 9 television pictures are discussed in detail. The surface of the planet was heavily obscured by a global dust storm during the first month in orbit. Brightness data during this period can be fitted by a semi-infinite...
Microcoulometric measurement of water in minerals
M. Cremer, H.N. Elsheimer, E.E. Escher
1972, Analytica Chimica Acta (60) 183-192
A DuPont Moisture Analyzer is used in a microcoulometric method for determining water in minerals. Certain modifications, which include the heating of the sample outside the instrument, protect the system from acid gases and insure the conversion of all hydrogen to water vapor. Moisture analyzer...