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Mineral Resources Of The Phipps-Death Hollow Instant Study Area, Garfield County, Utah, G. W. Weir, M. E. Lane, U.S. Geological Survey

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During 1979 and 1980 the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Mines conducted field studies to evaluate the mineral-resource potential of the Phipps-Death Hollow Instant Study Area, Garfield County, Utah. Field studies included geological mapping (Weir and Beard, 1981), geochemical sampling, and a search for mines, prospects and mineralized areas.

Mineral Resources Of The Escalante Canyon Instant Study Area, Garfield County, Utah, Gordon W. Weir, Michael E. Lane, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Bureau Of Mines

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During 1979 and 1980 the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Mines conducted field investigations to evaluate the mineral resources potential of the Escalante Canyon Instant Study Area, Garfield County, Utah. Field studies included geological mapping and reconnaissance (Weir and Beard, 1981), geochemical sampling, and a survey of known mines, prospects, and mineralized areas (Lane, 1981).

Hydrology Of The Ferron Sandstone Aquifer And Effects Of Proposed Surface-Coal Mining In Castle Valley, Utah, Gregory C. Lines, Daniel J. Morrissey, Thomas A. Ryer, Richard H. Fuller, U.S. Geological Survey

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Coal in the Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale of Cretaceous age has traditionally been mined by underground techniques in the Emery Coal Field in the southern end of Castle Valley in east-central Utah. However, approximately 99 million tons are recoverable by surface mining. Ground water in the Ferron is the sole source of supply for the town of Emery, but the aquifer is essentially untapped outside the Emery area. The Ferron Sandstone Member crops out along the eastern edge of Castle Valley and generally dips 2" to 10" to the northwest beneath the surface. Sandstones in the Ferron …

Off-Road Vehicular Destabilization Of Hillslopes: The Major Contributing Factor To Destructive Debris Flows In Ogden, Utah, 1979, John K. Nakata

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A severe rain storm on August 11 and 18, 1979, caused major flood damage in urban areas of east Ogden, Utah. At least 3.85 cm of rain fell in a 7 hour-period. The severity of damage was dramatically increased by water diverted from the Brigham-Ogden Canal, when it was clogged by a debris flow in the vicinity or Third, Taylor, and Polk Streets (Fig. 1). The purpose or this investigation is to ascertain the sequence of events that followed the storm, and to quantify the processes insofar as possible. An inspection of the area on September 21-25, 1979 , and …

Analyses Of Rock, Stream-Sediment, And Water Samples From The Vermilion Cliffs-Paria Canyon Instant Study Area, Coconino County, Arizona, And Kane County, Utah, Alfred L. Bush, Michael E. Lane, U.S. Geological Survey

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This open-file report contains the complete analyses of all rock, stream-sediment, and water samples collected and used by the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Mines in the preparation of Open-File Report 80-1056 (Bush and Lane, 1980). In the tables that follow, Qls indicates a landslipped mass of any form or origin, and only the abbreviated name of rock units is used.

Geophysical Measurements In The Beaver Basin, West-Central Utah; Part 1--Slingram, Magnetic, And Self-Potential Profiles, Vincent J. Flanigan, David L. Campbell, U.S. Geological Survey

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This report consists of figures showing profile locations (fig. 1, table 1) in the Beaver Basin, west-central Utah, and ground geophysical data collected in September 1980 along these traverses (figs. 2-11). These data consist of slingram electromagnetic (real and imaginary components at 222, 444, 888, 1777, and 3555 Hz), ground magnetic and self-potential measurements collected at 200-foot (61-m) intervals along about 8.8 miles (14.2 km) of survey line. Table 2 lists equipment used. The report contains data only, and no interpretations of the data are included.

Preliminary Hydrologic Evaluation Of The North Horn Mountain Coal-Resource Area, Utah, M. J. Graham, John E. Tooley, Don Price, U.S. Geological Survey

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North Horn Mountain is part of a deeply dissected plateau in central Utah which is characterized by deep, arrow, steep-walled canyons with local relief of more that 1,000 feet. Geologic units exposed in the North Hort Mountain area range in age from Late Cretaceous to Holocene and contain two mineable seams of Cretaceous coal. The area is in the drainage basin of the San Rafael River, in the Colorado River Basin. Runoff from the mountain is ephemeral. This runoff to the San Rafael River sis by way of Cottonwood and Ferron Creeks and represents less than 10 percent of their …

Geologic Map And Coal Sections Of The Red Point Quadrangle, Eugene G. Elllis, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Joseph R. Frank

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Red Point quadrangle, in Emery County in central Utah, was mapped in 1979 as a part of the U.S. Geological Survey's progress to evaluate lands in the public domain for potential coal leasing. Mapping was done using U.S. Forest Service color aerial photographs at a scale of 1:15,640 and U.S. Geological Survey black-and-white aerial photographs at a scale of 1:30,000. The quadrangle was mapped previously by Spicker (1931) at a scale of 1:62,500.

Why Windspeeds Increase On High Mountain Slopes At Night, United States Department Of Agriculture, Forest Service

Forestry

The purpose of this report is to explain the windspeed increase on mountain slopes at night. Additional work is required to determine such things as the frequency of the winds, the area affected, seasonal variation, and the effect on fire behavior. Also, additional studies are needed to develop the type of procedures required to forecast these nocturnal mountain winds.

Visual Impacts Of Forest Management Activities: Findings On Public Preferences, United States Department Of Agriculture, Forest Service

Forestry

A major concern of forest land managers is the visual impact that activities such as timber harvest, road building, and mining have on the forest landscape. Management of the visual resource is a regular part of planning on National Forests, and many other public and private forest land managers are increasing their efforts to protect and enhance this resource. The Forest Residue and Harvesting Research Program at the Intermountain Station includes studies of the impact of harvest and roading activities on visual quality. Preliminary results were reported earlier (Schweitzer, Ullrich, and Benson 1976). This report updates earlier findings and presents …

Interior West Watershed Management, United States Department Of Agriculture, Forest Service

Water

Habitat type classification systems are reviewed for potential use in watershed management. Information on climate, soils, and vegetation related to the classifications are discussed. Possible cooperative applications of vegetation and habitat type classifications to watershed management are explored.

Theoretical Predictions For Ion Composition In The High-Latitude Winter F-Region For Solar Minimum And Low Magnetic Activity, Jan Josef Sojka, W. John Raitt, Robert W. Schunk

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We combined a simple plasma convection model with an ionospheric-atmospheric density model in order to study the ion composition in the high-latitude winter F-region at solar minimum for low geomagnetic activity. Our numerical study produced time-dependent, 3-dimensional, ion density distributions for the ions NO+, O2 +, N2 +, O+, N+, and He+. We covered the high-latitude ionosphere above 54°N magnetic latitude and at altitudes between 160 and 800 km for a time period of 1 complete day. From our study we found the following (1) The ion composition exhibits a significant variation with latitude, local time, altitude, and universal time. …

A Theoretical Study Of The High-Latitude Winter F Region At Solar Minimum For Low Magnetic Activity, Jan Josef Sojka, W. J. Raitt, Robert W. Schunk

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We combined a simple plasma convection model with an ionospheric-atmospheric composition model in order to study the high-latitude winter F region at solar minimum for low magnetic activity. Our numerical study produced time dependent, three-dimensional ion density distributions for the ions NO+, O2 +, N2 +, O+, N+, and He+. We covered the high-latitude ionosphere above 54°N magnetic latitude and at altitudes between 160 and 800 km for a time period of one complete day. The main result we obtained was that high-latitude ionospheric features, such as the ‘main trough,’ the ‘ionization hole,’ the ‘tongue of ionization,’ the ‘aurorally produced …

Songbird Populations And Clearcut Harvesting Of Aspen In Northern Utah, Norbert V. Debyle

Aspen Bibliography

No abstract provided.

The Economic Importance Of International Assistance Activities At Utah State University, E. Boyd Wennergren, Maria Lourdes Del Rosario Juan

Economic Research Institute Study Papers

In 1951, Utah State University became one of the first four Land Grant Universities to participate in U.S. technical assistance programs directed to the developing nations of the world. Since that early program in Iran, USU Faculty have assisted in comparable developmental activites in many parts of the world. In the process, USU has attained a premier reputation for the high quality of its faculty and program achievements.

Buzzer 1981, Utah State University

USU Buzzer Yearbook

1981 yearbook for Utah State University. Published from 1909-1971 with single issues in 1978 and 1981.

First Year Final Report: The Ecology Of The Desert Bighorn Sheep In Southeastern Utah, Michael M. King, Gar W. Workman

Elusive Documents

No abstract provided.

Final Environmental Impact Statement, U.S. Department Of Housing And Urban Development

Elusive Documents

No abstract provided.

Present Utilization Of Species In The Boreal Mixedwood Forests In Ontario: Industrial Perspective, M.A. Opper

Aspen Bibliography

Yields per unit area are higher from boreal mixedwood stands than from black spruce stands. In addition, mixedwood stands are attractive for the logging industry because of high-value products, year-round logging, and economies in road access. Major unresolved problems in boreal mixedwood stands are lack of markets for hardwood species and increased hardwood components and balsam fir in succeeding stands.

An Examination Of The Leaf Quaking Adaptation And Stomatal Distribution In Populus-Tremuloides, J.W. Rushin, J.E. Anderson

Aspen Bibliography

The leaves of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) have a flattened petiole that allows them to quake (oscillate and roll) under low wind velocities. It was hypothesized that this adaptation might enable the plant to respond to windy conditions that would increase transpirational losses. No effects of wind with or without leaf quaking on stomatal resistance were observed under controlled conditions in the field. If wind and leaf quaking affect stomatal resistance, such effects must be small in comparison to those caused by other factors such as leaf water potential and ambient humidity.

Aspen leaves are hypostomatal with stomata …

Radar Measurements Of High-Latitude Ion Composition Between 140 And 300 Km Altitude, J. D. Kelly, Vincent B. Wickwar

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The Chatanika radar has been used to measure the ratio of atomic (O⁺) ions to molecular (O₂ ⁺, NO⁺) ions in the high-latitude ionosphere. The radar results agreed well with simultaneous in situ rocket data, giving confidence in the radar method of deducing ion composition. Measurements made over long periods of time show seasonal variations, diurnal variations, and variations due to auroral processes. The transition altitude, where the number densities of atomic and molecular ions are equal, is a convenient parameter for describing the composition variation with altitude or ‘composition altitude profile.’ The transition …

An Intense Wave/Particle Event In The Auroral Ionosphere, A. D. Johnstone, Jan Josef Sojka, W. Gibbons, B. K. Madahar, L.J. C. Woolliscroft

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An intense burst of VLF waves, at frequencies just above the local proton gyrofrequency, was observed shortly after each of two intense bursts of field‐aligned suprathermal electrons (E < 250eV) by instruments carried on a sounding rocket flown in diffuse aurora. If the two phenomena are associated with each other, the implication is that the electron acceleration occurred nearby, in a relatively small volume.

Journal Of Mormon History Vol. 8, 1981

Journal of Mormon History

• --Return to Carthage: Writing the History of Joseph Smith's Martyrdom

Dean C. Jessee, 3

• --Heber J. Grant and the Utah Loan and Trust Company

Ronald W. Walker, 21

• --Charles B. Thompson and the Issues of Slavery and Race

Newell G. Bringhurst, 37

• --"Between Two Fires": Women on the "Underground" of Mormon Polygamy

Kimberly Jensen James, 49

• --Some Comparative Perspectives on the Early Mormon Movement and the Church-State Question, 1830-1845

John F. Wilson, 63

• --Bearding Leone and Others in the Heartland of Mormon Historiography

Mario S. De Pillis, 79

Aspen Management For Fuelwood, Walter W. Pierson

Aspen Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Auroral Plasma Lines: A First Comparison Of Theory And Experiment, E. S. Oran, Vincent B. Wickwar, W. Kofman, A. Newman

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In this preliminary report on low-energy (0.3 to 3 eV) secondary electrons in the auroral E layer (90 to 150 km), we compare intensities of plasma lines observed with the Chatanika radar to theoretical predictions obtained from a detailed numerical model. The model calculations are initiated with a flux of energetic auroral primary electrons which enter the atmosphere and lose energy to electrons, ions, and neutrals through a combination of elastic and inelastic collisions. This flux is chosen in order that the total calculated ionization rate matches one that is deduced from the radar measurements. From these same calculations the …

Plasma Density Features Associated With Strong Convection In The Winter High-Latitude F Region, Jan Josef Sojka, W. John Raitt, Robert W. Schunk

All Physics Faculty Publications

We combined a simple plasma convection model with an ionospheric-atmospheric composition model in order to study the plasma density features associated with strong convection in the winter high-latitude F region. Our numerical study produced time-dependent, three-dimensional, ion density distributions for the ions NO+, O2 +, N2 +, O+, N+, and He+. We covered the high-latitude ionosphere above 42° N magnetic latitude and at altitudes between 160 and 800 km for a time period of one complete day. From our study, we found the following: (1) For strong convection, the electron density exhibits a significant variation with altitude, latitude, longitude, and …

Reduction Of N-Protected Amino Acids To Amino Alcohols And Subsequent Re-Oxidation To Original N-Protected Amino Acids, Val S. Goodfellow

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

For the synthesis of certain molecules of interest in Dr. Richard Olsen's laboratory it was necessary to produce N-protected a-amino alcohols from N-protected amino acids and subsequently, after further synthesis steps, to oxidize the hydroxyl functionalities of these molecules back to carboxylic acids. A number of methods are known for the reduction of carboxylic acids to alcohols; several methods are also reported in the chemical literature for the oxidation of alcohols to carboxylic acids. The problem in finding a suitable general method, is that the amino acid side chains affect the re activity and chemistry differently in each specific case. …

Televised Trials: Past And Present, Grant Greer

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

In the early fifties, the television media sought to cover criminal trials with television cameras. A few states allowed some television coverage, but they were a minority. One of these states, Texas, made constitutional history when it allowed the television coverage of the criminal trial of Billie Estes in 1962. The case had been appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, where his conviction had been reversed because of the television coverage of his trial. The Supreme Court's holding in that case had been rather ambiguous because one justice in the five - man majority, while agreeing with the …

Big Desert Grazing, Final Environmental Impact Statement, United States Department Of Interior, Bureau Of Land Management, Idaho

Range Management Plans (ID)

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes to implement a grazing management program on 1,162,000 acres of public land in Bingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte and Power counties in eastern Idaho.  This statement analyzes the economic, social and environmental effects of the proposed action and four alternatives.  The proposal and alternatives analyze different levels of vegetative allocations to wildlife, livestock and other uses.  It analyzes alternative methods by which livestock grazing would be managed as well as necessary support facilities (such as, water developments, fencing, brush control and revegetation projects).  Alternative Four of the Big Desert grazing statement is selected as …

Recent Auroral Measurements Using A Field-Widened Interferometer Spectrometer, A. J. Steed, D. J. Baker, B. Y. Bertschi, A. T. Stair Jr.

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

No abstract provided.