Report of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, Volume V: Botany
Clarence King, Sereno Watson, Daniel C. Eaton
1871, Report, Professional Papers of the Engineer Department, U.S. Army, No. 18
The territory within which botanical collections have been nmade in connection with the United States Geological Survey of the 40th Parallel lies wholly within the limits of Northern Nevada and Utah. It forms a narrow tract at no point exceeding seventy miles in width, between the meridians of 111° and...
Tables of camps, distances, lines of march, etc.: Surveys and explorations in Nevada and Arizona
George Montague Wheeler
1871, Report
Report of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, Volume III: Mining industry
James D. Hague, Clarence King
1870, Report, Professional Papers of the Engineer Department, U.S. Army, No. 18
Preliminary Field Report of the United States Geological Survey of Colorado and New Mexico
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
1869, Report
SIR : In accordance with your instructions dated Washington, April 1, 1869, I have the honor to transmit my preliminary field report of the United States geological survey of Colorado and New Mexico, conducted by me, under your direction, during the past season. A portion of your instructions is as...
Second Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, embracing Wyoming
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
1868, Report, Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office for the year 1868
First Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, embracing Nebraska
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
1867, Report, Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office for the year 1867
Characterization of groundwater resources near the southeastern part of Puget Sound, Washington
W.B. Welch, A.J. Long, editor(s)
None, Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5026
More than 1 million people live within the active model area (AMA) in the southeastern part of the lowlands surrounding Puget Sound, or Puget Lowland, Washington, and groundwater is the source for approximately one-half of their public, domestic, and irrigation water demands. The 887-square-mile AMA, located in King and Pierce...
Comment on “Complex mixture toxicology: Evaluation of toxicity to freshwater aquatic receptors from biodegradation metabolites in groundwater at a crude oil release site, recent analogous results from other authors, and implications for risk management”
David C. Podgorski, Barbara A. Bekins
None, Aquatic Toxicology (265)
No abstract available....
Mapping world terrestrial ecosystems - GIS and cartographic approaches
Roger Sayre, Madeline T. Martin, Deniz Karagulle, Charlie Frye, Timothy Boucher, Nicholas Wolff
None, Conference Paper, AutoCarto 2020 presentations
No abstract available....
Early Paleozoic composite melange terrane, central Appalachian Piedmont, Virginia and Maryland; Its origin and tectonic history
Louis Pavlides
None, Book chapter
Two distinct types of mélange deposits, distinguished by their matrix, occur within a collage of thrust slices in the Piedmont of the central Appalachians. They crop out in a northeast-trending belt that extends...
Predicting species distributions: unifying model selection and scale optimization for multi-scale occupancy models
Bryan S. Stevens, Courtney J. Conway
None, Ecosphere (10)
Geographic distributions are a basic component of a species’ ecology, and predicting distributions is a fundamental task of conservation and resource management. Reliable prediction depends on identification of appropriate scales of effect for environmental data, and scale-optimization techniques are thus desirable to identify optimal scales for predictor variables. Recent statistical...
Detecting sulfamethoxazole and carbamazepine in groundwater: Is ELISA a reliable screening tool?
Aliesha L. Krall, Sarah M. Elliott, Melinda L. Erickson, Byron A. Adams
None, Environmental Pollution (234) 420-428
In recent years, numerous studies have reported the prevalence of organic micropollutants in natural waters. There is an increasing interest in assessing the occurrence and transport of these contaminants in groundwater because a large number of people in the United States rely on groundwater for their drinking water. However, commonly used mass-spectrometry-based...
Characterizing the interface between wild ducks and poultry to evaluate the potential of transmission of avian pathogens
Julien Cappelle, Nicolas Gaidet, S. A. Iverson, John Y. Takekawa, Scott H. Newman, Bouba Fofana, Marius Gilbert
None, International Journal of Health Geographics (10)
BackgroundCharacterizing the interface between wild and domestic animal populations is increasingly recognized as essential in the context of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) that are transmitted by wildlife. More specifically, the spatial and temporal distribution of contact rates between wild and domestic hosts is a key parameter for modeling...
Jared R. Morrow (October 8, 1959–October 7, 2010)
Christian Koeberl, John E. Warme, Charles Sandberg
None, Meteoritics & Planetary Science (MAPS) (46) 919-922
No abstract available....
Using indirect methods to constrain symbiotic nitrogen fixation rates: A case study from an Amazonian rain forest
C.C. Cleveland, B.Z. Houlton , C Neill, Sasha C. Reed, Y Wang, A.R. Townsend
None, Biogeochemistry (99) 1-13
Human activities have profoundly altered the global nitrogen (N) cycle. Increases in anthropogenic N have had multiple effects on the atmosphere, on terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems, and even on human health. Unfortunately, methodological limitations challenge our ability to directly measure natural N inputs via biological N fixation (BNF)-the largest natural source...
Simulation of the long term radiometric responses of the Terra MODIS and EO-1 ALI using Hyperion spectral responses over Railroad Valley Playa in Nevada (RVPN)
Taeyoung Choi, Xiaoxiong Xiong, Amit Angal, Gyanesh Chander
None, Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE 7862, Earth observing missions and sensors: Development, implementation, and characterization
The Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) Hyperion instrument provides 220 spectral bands with wavelengths between 400 and 2500 nm at 30 m spatial resolution, which covers a 7.5 km by 100 km area on the ground. The EO-1 spacecraft has another multispectral sensor called the Advanced Land Imager (ALI), which has 10...
Silurian-Devonian age and tectonic setting of the Connecticut Valley-Gaspé trough of Vermont using U-Pb SHRIMP analyses of detrital zircons
C. K. McWilliams, Gregory J. Walsh, Robert P. Wintsch
None, American Journal of Science (310) 325-363
U-Pb SHRIMP ages of detrital zircons from metasedimentary rocks of the Connecticut Valley-Gaspe' trough in Vermont corroborate a Silurian-Devonian age of deposition for these strata and constrain their provenances. Ages of randomly selected detrital zircons obtained from quartzites within the Waits River and Gile Mountain Formations range from Archean to...
New approaches to stability analysis of steep coastal bluffs
Brian D. Collins, Nicholas Sitar
None, Conference Paper, Proceedings of geocongress 2008
We present a discussion on the limitations and needed improvements for existing slope stability analysis methods to accurately model steep coastal bluff failures resulting from both direct wave action at the toe in weakly cemented sands and precipitation-induced seepage failures in moderately cemented sands. Using a case-study detailing over 5...
Modeling of wave driven circulation and water quality in nearshore environments
Craig Jones, Stephen J. Angster
None, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 2008 world environmental and water resources congress
In order to investigate the effects of nearshore discharges of water quality degrading substances and bacteria in coastal environments, models capable of predicting nearshore circulation due to local wave and tide conditions are required. One of the larger challenges to nearshore coastal modeling is accurately reproducing nearshore circulation due to...
Mantle xenocrysts from the Masontown, Pennsylvania (USA) kimberlite: An ordinary mantle with Si-enriched spinels
D.J. Schulze, B. Carter Hearn
None, Conference Paper
No abstract available. ...
Cross-borehole flow tests and insights into hydraulic connections in fractured mudstone and sandstone
John H. Williams, Pierre Lacombe, Carole D. Johnson, Frederick L. Paillet
None, Conference Paper, Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems
Cross-borehole flow tests provided insights into hydraulic connections in fractured and dipping mudstone and sandstone that were consistent with the lithostratigraphic and structural framework of a VOCcontaminated bedrock research site in west-central New Jersey. Two cross-borehole flow tests were completed. Each test involved measurement and analysis of transient flow in...
Dedication: David Joseph Morafka
R. W. Murphy, Kristin H. Berry
None, Journal of Arid Environments (67) 11-12
No abstract available....
Characterizing the two-dimensional thermal conductivity distribution in a sand and gravel aquifer
Jeff M. Markle, Robert A. Schincariol, J. H. Sass, John W. Molson
None, Soil Science Society of America Journal (70) 1281-1294
Both hydrologic and thermal transport properties play a significant role in the movement of heat through permeable sedimentary material; however, the thermal conductivity is rarely characterized in detailed spatial resolution. As part of a study of the movement of thermal plumes through a sand and gravel aquifer, we have constructed...
Scouting craton’s edge in Paleo-Pacific Gondwana
Carol A. Finn, John W. Goodge, Detlef Damaske, C. Mark Fanning
Dieter Karl Fütterer, Georg Kleinschmidt, Hubert Miller, Franz Tessensohn, editor(s)
None, Book chapter, Antarctica: Contributions to global earth sciences
The geology of the ice-covered interior of the East Antarctic shield is completely unknown; inferences about its composition and history are based on extrapolating scant outcrops from the coast inland. Although the shield is clearly composite in nature, a large part of its interior has been represented by a single...
Remnant damage from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
John Boatwright
Carol S. Prentice, Judith G. Scotchmoor, Eldridge M. Moores, Jon P. Kiland, editor(s)
None, Book chapter, 1906 San Francisco earthquake centennial field guides: Field trips associated with the 100th Anniversary Conference, 18–23 April 2006, San Francisco, California
This field trip consists of two stops at locations where it is possible to see damage from the 1906 earthquake and to gauge the intensity of the ground shaking that caused the damage. The first stop is at a cemetery in Colma, where the damage to monuments and headstones was...