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Take-All Of Cereals And Cereal Seed Dressings, G D. Macnish Jan 1977

Take-All Of Cereals And Cereal Seed Dressings, G D. Macnish

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Take-all of cereals. Take-all surveys. Effect of nitrogen sources on take-all: 76LG25 Wheat, 77MT19 Wheat, 77JE31 Barley, 77MT17 Barley, 77LG20 Oats, 77JE5 Wheat, 77LG6 Wheat, 77E4 Wheat, 77ES6 Wheat, 77GE10 Wheat. Effect of rates of (NH4)2 SO4 and Na NO3 on take-all - 77E6 Wheat, 77ES Wheat. Effect of rates of (NH4)2 SO4 on take-all - 77LG7 Wheat, 77JE6 Wheat. Soil pH and take-all - 77LG25 Cleaning crops and take-all control - 76E6, 76N5, 76M47, 76A7, 76LG27. Spray-fallow and time of planting - 76GE35 9 76LG26, 76LG26, 76LG38. Effect of rates of sowing on take-all - 77JE7. Long term rotations …


Nitrogenous Fertilisers For Cereals - Results From 1977 Trials On Wheat, Oats And Barley, M. G. Mason Jan 1977

Nitrogenous Fertilisers For Cereals - Results From 1977 Trials On Wheat, Oats And Barley, M. G. Mason

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Rates of Nitrogen on Wheat, Oats and Barley - Soil Test. In this, the third year of this programme, 44 sites were selected and soil sampled during February - March. Thirty seven of these trials consisted of four replications on wheat only and the other seven consisted of three replications on wheat, oats and barley. All reps were soil sampled separately. In each rep. of the 37 trials, 20 samples were taken to 10 cm depth with pogo stick samplers. In the. other seven trials 50 samples per rep. were taken. In addition, from three holes at random across each …


Regional Tectonics And Seismicity Of Eastern Nebraska, Annual Report June 1977- May 1978, R. R. Burchett, D. G. Maroney Jan 1977

Regional Tectonics And Seismicity Of Eastern Nebraska, Annual Report June 1977- May 1978, R. R. Burchett, D. G. Maroney

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Nebraska Mineral Operations Review, 1976, Raymond R. Burchett, Duane A. Eversoll Jan 1977

Nebraska Mineral Operations Review, 1976, Raymond R. Burchett, Duane A. Eversoll

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

During 1976, there were active in Nebraska 41 limestone quarries; 592 sand, gravel and silt or siltstone pits; 8 clay or shale pits; 24 sandstone pits; and 1 peat pit. These 666 mining operations disturbed 820 acres and restored 78 acres during the year.


Water Resources Data For Nebraska Water Year 1976 Jan 1977

Water Resources Data For Nebraska Water Year 1976

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

Water resources data for the 1976 water year for Nebraska consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage and contents of lakes and reservoirs; and water levels and water quality in wells and springs. This report contains discharge records for 146 gaging stations; stage and contents for 9 lakes and reservoirs; water quality for 40 gaging stations, 18 ungaged stations, 27 partial-record flow stations, and 96 wells; and water levels for 66 observation wells. Also included are 114 crest-stage partial-record stations and 12 low-flow partialrecord stations. Additional water data were collected at various sites, not part …


Sarpy County, Gretna State Fish Hatchery Area (Schramm Park), R. K. Pabian Jan 1977

Sarpy County, Gretna State Fish Hatchery Area (Schramm Park), R. K. Pabian

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Jefferson County , Fairbury Area, R. K. Pabian Jan 1977

Jefferson County , Fairbury Area, R. K. Pabian

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Sarpy County, Gretna State Fish Hatchery Area, R. K. Pabian Jan 1977

Sarpy County, Gretna State Fish Hatchery Area, R. K. Pabian

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Jefferson County , Fairbury Area, R. K. Pabian Jan 1977

Jefferson County , Fairbury Area, R. K. Pabian

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Three-Dimensional Crust And Mantle Structure Of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, Willam L. Ellsworth, Robert Y. Koyanagi Jan 1977

Three-Dimensional Crust And Mantle Structure Of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, Willam L. Ellsworth, Robert Y. Koyanagi

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Teleseismic P wave arrival times recorded by a dense network of seismograph stations located on Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, are inverted to determine lateral variations in crust and upper mantle structure to a depth of 70 km. The crustal structure is dominated by relatively high velocities within the central summit complex and along the two radial rift zones, compared with the nonrift flank of the volcano. Both the mean crustal velocity contrast between summit and nonrift flank and the distribution of velocities agree well with results from crustal refraction studies. Comparison of the velocity structure with Bouguer gravity anomalies over the …


Petrology Of The Alaskites Of The Boulder Batholith, Montana, Kenneth C. Malick Jan 1977

Petrology Of The Alaskites Of The Boulder Batholith, Montana, Kenneth C. Malick

Theses and Dissertations

The Boulder batholith outcrops in the Northern Rookies of western Montana. It is exposed over an area of 5700 km^2 and extends about 112 km along the continental divide from Mullen Pass on the north to 32 km south of Butte. The Boulder batholith represents an invasion of the upper zones of the crust by a large volume of fluid granodioritic quartz monzonitic magma emplaced at the close of a main orogenic episode during late Cretaceous and Paleocene time.

Eight alaskite bodies were chosen for sampling from previous field experience and from geologic maps published by the U.S.O.S. Textural descriptions, …


Malacostracan Crustacea From The Sundance Formation (Jurassic) Of Wyoming, Elizabeth M. Herrick Jan 1977

Malacostracan Crustacea From The Sundance Formation (Jurassic) Of Wyoming, Elizabeth M. Herrick

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Lower Mississippian Sedimentation In Northwestern Montana, Forest E. Haines Jan 1977

Lower Mississippian Sedimentation In Northwestern Montana, Forest E. Haines

Doctoral Dissertations

"Thirty-three measured sections, nine with thin sections and insoluble residues, were studied to determine the depositional history of the Allan Mountain Limestone and the lower member of the Castle Reef Dolomite of the Madison Group in northwestern Montana.

The Allan Mountain base is a fossiliferous limestone, herein named the Brownback Gulch Member, which thickens and becomes cherty to the southwest where the section at Lone Butte resembles that of the Bridger Range Waulsortian-type reefs. A crinoidal lag deposit marks a dis- conformity at the top. In the overlying silty limestone member a thin black shale (Unit 1) grades into normal …


Geology Of The Southern Half Of The Stoutland, Missouri Quadrangle, Chester Encell Nichols Jan 1977

Geology Of The Southern Half Of The Stoutland, Missouri Quadrangle, Chester Encell Nichols

Doctoral Dissertations

"The dissertation area lies on the western flank of the Ozark uplift between Lebanon and Camdenton, Missouri. In the northwestern corner of the study area a portion of the Decaturville cryptoexplosive structure is exposed. The dominant structure outside the disturbed zone is a northwest-trending asymmetrical anticline with a subsidiary normal fault dipping southwest on the steeper southwest limb.

The area is mapped in considerable detail in order to describe subtle structural features. To overcome a problem of poor exposures, new key beds are defined which greatly increase structural control. Significant structures recognized as a result are the Dry Auglaize anticline, …


Geology Of The Al-Khums Area Northwestern Libya With Emphasis On The Stratigraphy And Biostratigraphy Of The Al-Khums Formation, Mostafa Juma Salem Jan 1977

Geology Of The Al-Khums Area Northwestern Libya With Emphasis On The Stratigraphy And Biostratigraphy Of The Al-Khums Formation, Mostafa Juma Salem

Doctoral Dissertations

"The dissertation represents a geologic study of an area bordering the Mediterranean Sea in northwestern Libya. About 1200 km2 were mapped and 28 stratigraphic sections were prepared.

The bedrock consists of 16 stratigraphic units of Mesozoic and Cenozoic age having a combined maximum thickness of about 750 meters. The oldest unit exposed, the Abu Shaybah Formation, is a redbed sequence of Triassic and Jurassic age. These beds are unconformably separated from Cretaceous carbonates (Garian Limestone, Ain Tobi Formation, and Gezzar Dolomite). These units in turn are overlain by the Miocene Al-Khums Formation. Younger Quaternary units consist of nearshore marine …


Geologic Factors Influencing Speleogenesis In The Capitan Reef Complex, New Mexico And Texas, David Henry Jagnow Jan 1977

Geologic Factors Influencing Speleogenesis In The Capitan Reef Complex, New Mexico And Texas, David Henry Jagnow

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

The purpose of this thesis is to determine the geologic factors that have influenced speleogenesis (origin of caves) in the Capitan reef complex (Permian) exposed along the northeast prong of the Guadalupe Mountains of New Mexico and Texas. This study of 52 caves included mapping caves, joints, and cross sections, determining stratigraphic position, generating joint rose diagrams, and photographing the geologic and hydrologic controls on speleogenesis.

Most Guadalupe caves are strongly controlled by vertical joints that parallel or are nearly perpendicular to the reef escarpment. East of Rattlesnake Canyon, caves generally develop along joint swarms that parallel the reef escarpment; …


Recherches Sur Les Ostracodes Entocytheridae. Données Sur Sphaeromicola Cebennica Juderthiei Nov. Ssp. Et Sphaeromicola Cirolanae Rioja, Dan L. Danielopol Jan 1977

Recherches Sur Les Ostracodes Entocytheridae. Données Sur Sphaeromicola Cebennica Juderthiei Nov. Ssp. Et Sphaeromicola Cirolanae Rioja, Dan L. Danielopol

International Journal of Speleology

Sphaeromicola cebennica juberthiei n. ssp., a cavernicolous ostracod found in the South of France (Système de Cent Fons and Avencas, Herault), is described here. The new subspecies differs from Sph. cebennica cebennica (found in a cave from Ardèche) by the smaller carapace and a reduced distal bristle on the ‘finger” of the male copulatory organ. The affinities and differences between the European Sphaeromicola and Sph. cirolanae from Mexico are discussed. The genus Sphaeromicola is divided into two groups of species: the group topsenti and the group cirolanae. Some observations on the mating process of Sph. Cebennica juberthiei are presented. …


Paleozoology Of Cores From The Tyler Formation (Pennsylvanian) In North Dakota, U.S.A., James C. Grenda Jan 1977

Paleozoology Of Cores From The Tyler Formation (Pennsylvanian) In North Dakota, U.S.A., James C. Grenda

Theses and Dissertations

A well-preserved fauna from the Tyler Formation was studied in cores from 34 wells drilled for oil in Billings, Golden Valley, McKenzie, Slope, and Stark Counties. Forty-four species of invertebrates, eleven form-species of conodonts, at least three types of fish, and at least four genera of plants· are present. Invertebrate species include 1 bryozoan, 15 brachiopods, 14 bivalves, 2 gastropods, 2 cephalopods, 2 annelids, 2 branchiopoda, at least 2 ostracodes, 2 malacostracans, 1 insect, and 1 echinoderm. Chordates include 1 "nonmarine" shark, at least 1 paleoniscoid fish, and 1 possible crossopterygian fish. A new genus and species of eocarid malacostracan …


Nouvelles Données Sur L'Écologie Et La Biogéographie De Niphargus Nadarini Alouf (Crustacés, Amphipodes), N. J. Alouf Jan 1977

Nouvelles Données Sur L'Écologie Et La Biogéographie De Niphargus Nadarini Alouf (Crustacés, Amphipodes), N. J. Alouf

International Journal of Speleology

Some new samples made between 1971 and 1975 show that the area of extension of Niphargus nadarini Alouf is the Biqa’s plain. New data about the ecology of this species is given.


Variation Among Populations Of The Troglobitic Amphipod Crustacean Crangonyx Antennatus Packard Living In Different Habitats I. Morphology, Gary W. Dickson Jan 1977

Variation Among Populations Of The Troglobitic Amphipod Crustacean Crangonyx Antennatus Packard Living In Different Habitats I. Morphology, Gary W. Dickson

International Journal of Speleology

Populations of the troglobitic (i.e., obligatory cavernicole) amphipod Crangonyx antennatus living in two distinct aquatic habitats were examined for possible morphological variation. Collections were made seasonally for one year in six Lee Co., Virginia caves, three with mud-bottom pools and three with small gravel-bottom streams. Environmental parameters thought to influence population variation were recorded for each of the six caves. Body length of mature amphipods was found to be greater in the mud-bottom pool habitats, whereas stream amphipods possessed more first antennal segments per unit body length. Variation was also observed in integument coloration; stream amphipods were characterized by a …


Stenasellus Escolai N. Sp., Crustacea Isopoda Asellota Des Eaux Souterraines D'Espagne Méridionale, Guy Magniez Jan 1977

Stenasellus Escolai N. Sp., Crustacea Isopoda Asellota Des Eaux Souterraines D'Espagne Méridionale, Guy Magniez

International Journal of Speleology

This new species was captured in the phreatic waters of Guadalquivir valley, where it lives together with another, very small-sized Stenasellid: St. bragai Magniez, previously described. It belongs to the phyletic line of St. breuili Racovitza, which colonizes the subterranean waters of the Iberic peninsula.


Nitrobacter In Mammoth Cave, C. B. Fliermans, E. L. Schmidt Jan 1977

Nitrobacter In Mammoth Cave, C. B. Fliermans, E. L. Schmidt

International Journal of Speleology

Mammoth Cave, a large limestone cavern in Mammoth Cave National Park in the Central Kentucky karst, was first mined for saltpetre in 1808 and was a major source of nitrates used in the manufacture of gunpowder during the War of 1812. The mechanism of saltpetre formation is unknown, although hypotheses encompassing both biotic and abiotic functions have been suggested. Present studies were conducted in various saltpetre caves using species specific fluorescent antibodies in order to determine if the chemoautotroph, Nitrobacter, were present. Population densities and species distribution of Nitrobacter were studied in relation to chemical and physical parameters for …


A Sedimentological Study Of Modern And Ancient Lacustrine Environments At Michael Bay, Lake Huron, Lindsay D. Nakashima Jan 1977

A Sedimentological Study Of Modern And Ancient Lacustrine Environments At Michael Bay, Lake Huron, Lindsay D. Nakashima

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Modern and ancient environments associated with Lakes Algoma and Huron were studied according to attributes of stratigraphy, sediment texture, parameters, sediment size distribution, bedforms, and primary sedimentary structures. Results from a computation of wave refraction diagrams and from an examination of the wave climate characteristics indicate that the modern embayment is low energy.

A sediment texture comparison between modern and ancient environments indicates that higher energy pervailed in the ancient environment relative to the present day environment. The cobble and gravel sediments as well as an extensive belt of foredunes preserved in the ancient environment are evidence of this high …


Groundwater In The Wheatbelt, E P. O'Driscoll Dec 1976

Groundwater In The Wheatbelt, E P. O'Driscoll

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

In general six factors affect the occurence of groundwater; rainfall, topography, rock type, rock structurs, vegetation, and local evaporation.

Variation in even one of these can affect the potential yield of a bore or well, the groundwater salinity, and even whether any groundwater occurs at all.


Ecology Of Suspected Damaging Coyotes And Their Interactions With Domestic Poultry And Livestock, William F. Andelt Dec 1976

Ecology Of Suspected Damaging Coyotes And Their Interactions With Domestic Poultry And Livestock, William F. Andelt

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

No abstract provided.


Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1975, Michael J. Ellis, Darryll T. Pederson Dec 1976

Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1975, Michael J. Ellis, Darryll T. Pederson

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Petrology Of The Rockport Quarry Limestone (Middle Devonian Traverse Group) Alpena, Presque Isle And Montmorency Counties, Michigan, Charles Willard Cookman Dec 1976

Petrology Of The Rockport Quarry Limestone (Middle Devonian Traverse Group) Alpena, Presque Isle And Montmorency Counties, Michigan, Charles Willard Cookman

Masters Theses

The basal unit of the dominantly carbonate Traverse Group, the Bell Shale, is gradationally overlain by the Rockport Quarry Limestone which has a thickness of approximately 14 m. The Rockport Quarry Limestone is composed of a dark unrestricted marine subtidal organic-mud packstone facies, comprised of an algal-mat-bearing coral packstone subfacies and a shallower water crinoid-bryozoan grainstone subfacies; a shoal forming stromatoporoid biolithite facies; and a lagoonal micrite facies comprised of a subtidal dense subfacies containing gastropods, ostracods, and calcispheres, and an Intertidal to supratidal fenestral subfacies. The local facies tract reconstructed for the Rockport Quarry Limestone is interpreted to be …


The Glacial Geology Of Mckenzie County, North Dakota, Clark Fulton Dec 1976

The Glacial Geology Of Mckenzie County, North Dakota, Clark Fulton

Theses and Dissertations

Fourteen lithostratigraphic units composed of windblown, glacial, lake, slopewash, and stream sediment were distinguished in McKenzie County, The units were mapped using aerial photographs, topographic maps, and soil maps combi11ed with field e:xaminations of sediment outcrops. Eight of the units have been formally named and described in earlier studies. Four of them, however, have not been a"~ previously named and formally described .a.nu assigned names in this study. Two other units are described, but because of their limited exposure, are not assigned a formal lithostratlgraphic name. The oldest sediment exposed in the county was deposited during the Paleocene and the …


Chlorine Distribution In The Idaho Batholith, Laurence Stewart Istas Nov 1976

Chlorine Distribution In The Idaho Batholith, Laurence Stewart Istas

Dissertations and Theses

Chlorine is thought to play a major role in the mobilization and concentration of base metals in the formation of ore deposits. The regional distribution of chlorine in the Idaho Batholith was studied to see if this could be related to mineralization or metallic provinces. One hundred forty-eight whole-rock samples, mineral separates, and standards were analyzed for chlorine by x-ray fluorescence.

The expected concentration of chlorine in the biotite fraction was not found. The chlorine was not significantly water leachable from the whole rock samples following normal grinding. The Idaho Batholith as a source for mineralizing chlorine was not established. …


Long-Distance Turbidite Correlations In The Horseshoe Abyssal Plain, William H. Hoyt Nov 1976

Long-Distance Turbidite Correlations In The Horseshoe Abyssal Plain, William H. Hoyt

Geology Theses and Dissertations

Few studies on modern abyssal plain turbidites have attempted to assess the lateral extent of individual units and few have therefore been able to provide any information on the evolution of turbidity deposits across long abyssal plain distances. In the 4755 m-deep Horseshoe Abyssal Plain, ten distinct lithologic units (six of these Iberian Peninsula-derived turbidites) were delineated in nine piston cores on the basis of stratigraphic position, thickness (range of 20 cm to greater than 500 cm), color, sediment type, sedimentary structures, x-ray mineralogy, and the ubiquitous presence of units in all abyssal plain and supplying canyon piston cores. In …