Major Land Resource Areas (MLRA)
Adapted from U.S. Soil Conservation Service
1970, Report
This is a polygon coverage of the Land Resource Regions and Major Land Resource Areas of the conterminous United States. Land resource regions are geographic areas that are characterized by a particular pattern of soils, climate, water resources and land uses. (USDA, Soil Conservation Service, 1981). Major land...
Static and kinetic friction of granite at high normal stress
James D. Byerlee
1970, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences & Geomechanics Abstracts (7) 577-582
Frictional sliding on ground surfaces of granite, angle of sliding planes 30° and 45°, was investigated as a function of confining pressure. Over the normal stress range of 2–12 kb, the static frictional shear stress τs follows the relationship τs = 0·5 + 0· σn and the kinetic frictional...
Jurassic (callovian) paleotemperatures from Scotland
F.C. Tan, J.D. Hudson, M.L. Keith
1970, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (9) 421-426
Isotopic paleotemperature analyses of belemnites and ammonites from the Belemnite Sands and Oxford Clay of Staffin Bay, Isle of Skye, are presented. Ammonites are depleted in18O compared with co-existing belemnites, which give mean temperatures of around 22°C, consistent with the Skye belemnite...
Serum protein changes in immune and nonimmune pigeons infected with various strains of Trichomonas gallinae
R.M. Kocan, Carlton M. Herman
1970, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (6) 43-47
Serum protein changes were studied in immune and nonimmune pigeons infected with three different strains of Trichomonas gallinae. Strain I (nonvirulent) produced no change in the relative concentration of serum components. Strains II (oral canker) and III (Jones' Barn) produced decreases in albumin and alpha globulins, and increases in beta and...
Quality of surface water in the Bear River basin, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho
K.M. Waddell
1970, Utah Basic-Data Release 18
Water-quality data have been collected intermittently at several sites in the Bear River basin since 1947. Because the Bear River flows through three States - Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho - water-quality programs have been confined for the most part within State boundaries. In 1967, the U.S. Geological Survey, as a...
Isotopic investigations of xenoliths and host basalts from the Honolulu volcanic series
J. R. O'Neil, Carl E. Hedge, E.D. Jackson
1970, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (8) 253-257
Oxygen, carbon and strontium isotope ratios point to a ground-water origin for the carbonates found in Hawaiian Volcanic Series rocks. Strontium isotope ratios in the xenoliths and host basalts indicate a genetic relationship between them....
GLC determination of quinaldine residue in fish
J. S. Allen, J.B. Sills
1970, Journal of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists (53) 20-23
A procedure for the determination of quinaldine residue in various fish tissues is described. Homogenized tissues are extracted with hexane-ethyl ether, the extracts are concentrated by partitioning through 0.1N sulfuric acid, and the residues are measured by alkali flame ionization gas chromatography. Muscle tissues containing from 0.01 to 10.0 ppm quinaldine...
Determination of niobium in rocks by an isotope dilution spectrophotometric method
L. Paul Greenland, E.Y. Campbell
1970, Analytica Chimica Acta (49) 109-114
Rocks and minerals are fused with sodium peroxide in the presence of carrierfree 95Nb. The fusion cake is leached with water and the precipitate dissolved in hydrofluoric-sulfuric acid mixture. Niobium is extracted into methyl isobutyl ketone and further purified by ion exchange. The amount of niobium...
Use of microearthquakes in the study of the mechanics of earthquake generation along the San Andreas fault in central California
J. P. Eaton, W.H.K. Lee (compiler), L. C. Pakiser
1970, Tectonophysics (9) 259-282
A small, dense network of independently recording portable seismograph stations was used to delineate the slip surface associated with the 1966 Parkfield-Cholame earthquake by precise three dimensional mapping of the hypocenters of its aftershocks. The aftershocks were concentrated in a very narrow vertical zone beneath or immediately adjacent to the...
Thermal features at Volcanoes in the cascade range, as observed by aerial infrared surveys
R.M. Moxham
1970, Bulletin Volcanologique (34) 77-106
There have been no substantial changes in the thermal patterns at the summit of Mount Rainier in the period September 1964–September 1966, within the detection limits of the infrared instrumentation. Some differences in radiance are attributed to differences in snow cover. The highest apparent temperature is at a snow-free area...
Causes of bald eagle mortality, 1960-1965
Nancy C. Coon, Louis N. Locke, Eugene Cromartie, W.L. Reichel
1970, Journal of Wildlife Diseases (6) 72-76
No abstract available....
Effects of oil development in Arctic America
J. Michael Reed
1970, Biological Conservation (2) 273-277
Large and important discoveries of petroleum were made in northern Alaska in 1968. The reserves were estimated then to be perhaps as much as ten thousand million barrels. Subsequent exploration has shown the resources to be much greater than was estimated earlier. Many...
Lunar regolith at Tranquillity Base
E.M. Shoemaker, M. H. Hait Jr., G.A. Swann, D. L. Schleicher, D.H. Dahlem, G. G. Schaber, R. L. Sutton
1970, Science (167) 452-455
The regolith at Tranquillity Base is a layer of fragmental debris that ranges in thickness from about 3 to 6 meters. The thickness of the regolith and the exposure histories of its constituent fragments can be related, by means of a relatively simple model, to the observed crater distribution....
Morphology of certain viruses of Salmonid fishes. II. In vivo studies of infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus
Donald F. Amend, Velma C. Chambers
1970, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (27) 1385-1388
Juvenile sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) were injected with the infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN) virus, and tissue samples from the anterior kidney, spleen, liver, intestine, and pyloric caeca of moribund fish were prepared for electron microscopy. Bullet-shaped virus particles measuring 158 × 90 mμ were observed in the hematopoietic tissues of the anterior kidney...
The floor of central San Francisco Bay
P.R. Carlson, T.R. Alpha, D. S. McCulloch
1970, Mineral Information Service (23) 97-107
Low-flow characteristics of Iowa streams through 1966
Albert J. Heinitz
1970, Iowa Natural Resources Council Bulletin 10
No abstract available....
Distribution of placer gold in the Sixes River, southwestern Oregon: A preliminary report
Sam Boggs Jr., Ewart Merlin Baldwin
1970, Bulletin 1312-I
No abstract available....
A new technique for pumping hydrogen gas
I. Friedman, Kenneth G. Hardcastle
1970, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (34) 125-126
A system for pumping hydrogen gas without isotopic fractionation has been developed. The pump contains uranium metal, which when heated to about 80°C reacts with hydrogen to form UH3. The UH3 is heated to above 500°C to decompose the hydride and regenerate the hydrogen....
Lunar soil: Size distribution and mineralogical constituents
M.B. Duke, C.C. Woo, M. L. Bird, G.A. Sellers, R. B. Finkelman
1970, Science (167) 648-650
The lunar soil collected by Apollo 11 consists primarily of submillimeter material and is finer in grain size than soil previously recorded photographically by Surveyor experiments. The main constituents are fine-grained to glassy rocks of basaltic affinity and coherent breccia of undetermined origin. Dark glass, containing abundant nickel-iron spheres, coats...
Caldera collapse in the Galápagos Islands, 1968
T. Simkin, K.A. Howard
1970, Science (169) 429-437
The summit caldera of Isla Fernandina, a large, uninhabited basaltic shield volcano, was further enlarged by 1 to 2 km3 in June 1968. A small quake and large vapor cloud on 11 June were followed 4 hours later by a remarkable volcanic ash cloud and, after another hour, by a...
Fin degeneration of young-of-the-year Alosa pseudoharengus (Clupeidae) in southern Lake Michigan
Edward H. Brown Jr., Carroll R. Norden
1970, Copeia (1970) 766-769
Young-of-the-year alewives, Alosa pseudoharengus, with extremely shortened caudal fins were observed at four locations in southern Lake Michigan between 1964 and 1968. Some of the fins appeared stunted or underdeveloped, but microscopic examination revealed a deterioration of the fins and not an ontogenetic abnormality. Deterioration of the caudal fin was...
Structure and mineralization of Precambrian rocks in the Galena-Roubaix district, Black Hills, South Dakota
Richard W. Bayley
1970, Bulletin 1312-E
No abstract available....
Experimental hybridization among five species of lampreys from the Great Lakes
George W. Piavis, John H. Howell, Allen J. Smith
1970, Copeia (1970) 29-37
Experimental hybridization among five species of lampreys of the Upper Great Lakes routinely produced embryos through stage 8, and four crosses produced embryos to the larval stage. Three critical periods in the embryogenesis of hybrid lampreys were between stages 8 and 9, among stages 10, 11, and 12, and at...
Let's Sing 'Auld Lang Syne' for the Upper Brandywine: Or, to continue with Burns, how the best laid environmental schemes of men "gang aft a-gley"
Luna Bergere Leopold
1970, Natural History (79) 5-15
Perhaps the most lamentable mistake that one can make is to be right too soon. This was the story of the Brandywine Plan, an attempt to organize local people for the permanent protection of the environmental amenities of their own land.The Upper East Branch of Brandywine Creek drains a rolling...
Cummingtonite: A reversible, nonquenchable transition from P21/m to C2/m symmetry
C.T. Prewitt, James J. Papike, M. Ross
1970, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (8) 448-450
Cummingtonite from the Gouverneur, New York, talc district (Sample No. U.S.N.M. 115046) with the composition, (Ca0.36Na0.06Mn0.96Mg0.57) Mg5Si8O22 (OH)2, unit cell parametersa = 9.550 ± 0.001, b = 18.007 ± 0.003, c = 5.298 ± 0.001Å, β = 102°39′ ± 1′, and space...
