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Modeling Wetland Loss In Coastal Louisiana: Geology, Geography, And Human Modifications, James H. Cowan Jr., R. Eugene Turner

Faculty Publications

Habitat change in coastal Louisiana from 1955/6 to 1978 was analyzed to determine the influence of geological and man-made changes on landscape patterns within 7.5 min quadrangle maps. Three quantitative analyses were used: principal components analysis, multiple regression analysis, and cluster analysis.

Regional differences in land loss rates reflect variations in geology and the deltaic growth/decay cycles, man-induced changes in hydrology (principally canal dredging and spoil banking), and land-use changes (principally urbanization and agricultural expansion). The coastal zone is not homogeneous with respect to these variables and the interaction between causal factors leading to wetland loss is therefore locally variable …

The Daily Egyptian, July 22, 1988, Daily Egyptian Staff

July 1988

No abstract provided.

Geotechnical And Groundwater Site Characterization On The Umtra Project, J. A. Caldwell, R. A. Rager, L. Coons

International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering

Reclamation of 24 inactive uranium mill tailngs piles involves remedial work to stabilize the piles for 1000 years. Site characterization of geotechnical and groundwater conditions at each site is undertaken prior to remedial action design. This paper describes the approach to UMTRA Project site characterization. A case history, Green River, is described. Details of site characterization costs for most sites are provided.

Hazardous Waste Disposal Site Hydrogeologic Characterization, S. M. Testa

International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering

A major hazardous waste disposal facility near Arlington, Oregon serving the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Alaska maintains numerous favorable environmental characteristics for siting of a hazardous waste disposal facility. The risk of contamination as a result of potential leakage from a waste management unit via primary pathways to surface water, groundwater or by direct contact and/or ingestion is thus reasonably low. However, these same characteristics which make the site most suitable for hazardous waste disposal often conflict with: 1) the demonstration of the groundwater monitoring system's ability to adequately perform immediate leak detection monitoring as mandated under the Resource Conservation …

A Study Of A Road Landslide In Puerto Rico, C. Rodriguez-Pérez, L. Vázquez Castillo, C. Rodriguez-Molina, A. Vázquez Castillo

International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering

Numerous landslides have plagued the construction of a 1.3 mile road sector in the mountainous region of central Puerto Rico. The area is underlain by a sequence of landslide deposits overlying a muddy limestone and hard overconsolidated clayey soils. Landslides have occurred in both cuts and fills that have delayed the road construction for a period of more than two years, bringing as a result, great economic losses for the Puerto Rico Highway Authority. The landslide trigger mechanism has been intimately related to high rainfall, commonly observed in this region. The geotechnical and geological studies performed previous to the construction …

Rock Mass Behaviour Assessment For Large Cavern In Rock, A. K. Dube, B. Singh

International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering

A large power house cavern (22m x 50m x 250m) is proposed to be excavated for installing a 1000 MW hydroelectric power plant for Tehri Dam Project. The gorge chosen for the dam is very narrow and the topography is rugged and inhospitable. This dampened the process of preconstruction investigations. A number of tunnels were constructed for various project structures in the vicinity of the cavern. This provided an excellent opportunity to study the rock mass behaviour. Tunnel closure and rock loads were monitored with the help of instruments. Deformation moduli were also determined for different rock grades with the …

Slope Stabilization Measures For Kirkwood Penstock, Early Intake, California, K. D. Weaver, D. J. Gross, L. T. Bauer

International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering

Kirkwood Penstock, located in a deep, steep-sided canyon near .Yosemite National Park, California, is an integral part of the Hetch Hetchy system, which conveys water from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the city of San Francisco, California. A heavy rainfall approximately 17 years following construction of the facility triggered settlement of the foundation. Measures undertaken to arrest this settlement included consolidation grouting, construction of facilities to divert surface runoff away from the penstock, and installation of a geomembrane to prevent infiltration of rainfall and snow melt in the vicinity of the penstock. No evidence of further settlement has been detected …

Study Of Some Debris Avalanches In Garwal Himalaya, India, H. C. Nainwal, Y. P. Sundriyal, C. Prasad

International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering

This study was carried out in the Alaknanda - Dhauliganga catchment area, located in the north and northeast of Joshimath in the Garfiwal Himalaya. The snow fields, cirques and the related glaciers are located above the altitude approximate 4000 meters, while the river valley have a mean altitude of around 2000 meters. The strategic roads viz. Joshimath-Badrinath and Joshimath-Nitipass pass through this area with a number of villages along with their cultivated land are located along the roads. These roads are often blocked on huge debris avalanches not only damage the road, but also the cultivated land and forests. The …

Subsidence Movements And Structural Damage Related To An Abandoned Coal Mine, Y. P. Chugh, K. Chandrashekhar, R. J. Missavage

International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering

An area in southwestern Illinois has been experiencing surface and subsurface movements with associated damage to surface structures. The area is underlain by an abandoned, partially extracted room-and-pillar underground coal mine. Instrumentation included TDR (Time Domain Reflectometry), Inclinometers, Sondex, Tiltplates, and precision land surveys. This paper presents the results of a 16-month cooperative study between the Department of Mining Engineering at SIUC and a local coal company.

Montana Kaimin, May 19, 1988, Associated Students Of The University Of Montana

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Stratigraphy, Petrology, And Depositional Environments Of The Jarvis Creek Coalfield, Alaska, M. Belowich

MIRL Report Publications

Jarvis Creek basin coals are subbituminous, low in ash, and increase upsection in moisture, most major oxides and trace elements, and vitrinite with subsequent liptinite and inertinite decreases. Sulfide mineral deposits east-southeast of the basin are responsible for the enrichment of the upper coals in sulfur and metals. Sandstones are quartzose, arkosic, and lithic in the lower, middle, and upper units respectively, and were derived from a recycled orogen provenance. Sediment transport was from the south at the base, shifting to an easterly source higher in the section. Deposition was by braided and meandering streams on mid and distal portions …

Perestroika And Priroda: Environmental Protection In The Ussr, Nicholas A. Robinson

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

Law Reform In Soviet Environmental Law, W. E. Butler

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

Exponent 1988-03-30, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

1988

No abstract provided.

Montana Kaimin, March 10, 1988, Associated Students Of The University Of Montana

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

The Westerner Vol. 8 No. 3, Western Michigan University

The Westerner (1980-1997)

• Executive keeps on challenging herself • Increase in research is paying big dividends • New assistant alumni director announced • Alpha Beta Epsilon plans fiftieth anniversary celebration • Regional alumni activities being held throughout Michigan • Pondering what really gives significance to our lives • Wolpe uses pay raise to help students prepare for politics • Different type of giving makes for successful annual event • Rogers establishes scholarship • The tales they could tell-and did • New board officers elected • Board shows its support for President Haenicke • Two trustees honored for their decades of service to …

A Checklist Of The Vascular Plants Of The House Range, Utah, Ronald J. Kass

Great Basin Naturalist

A checklist of the vascular plants of the House Range, Juab and Millard counties, Utah, is presented. A flora of 373 species and infraspecific taxa in 231 genera and 60 families are reported. The geology, physiography, climate, and plant communities are briefly discussed. Several endemics occur in the study area and a new taxon has been described.

The Daily Egyptian, January 20, 1988, Daily Egyptian Staff

January 1988

No abstract provided.

Annual Reports Of Town And School Officers Of Exeter, N.H. For The Town Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1987. School Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1988., Exeter Town Representatives

Exeter, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Leg 101--An Overview, James A. Austin Jr., Wolfgang Schlager, Amanda A. Palmer, Paul A. Comet, André Droxler, Gregor Eberli, Eric Fourcade, Raymond Freeman-Lynde, Craig S. Fulthorpe, Gill Harwood, Gerhard Kuhn, Dawn Lavoie, Mark Leckie, Allan J. Melillo, Arthur Moore, Henry T. Mullins, Christian Ravenne, William W. Sager, Peter Swart, Joost W. Verbeek, David K. Watkins, Colin Williams

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

During Leg 101, the inaugural leg of the Ocean Drilling Program, the JOIDES Resolution drilled 19 holes at 11 sites in the Bahamas. Grids of high-resolution seismic profiles provided information crucial for both site selection and regional stratigraphic interpretations. The first major scientific objective was to understand the long-term evolution of the bank-and-basin pattern that currently characterizes the Bahamas archipelago. Drilling and seismic surveys have indicated considerable platform expansion and retreat rather than stationary upward growth. Upbuilding in the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous was followed by drowning and retreat in the mid-Cretaceous and by renewed expansion in the Cenozoic. At Site …

Guidebook For Field Trips In Southwestern New Hampshire, Southeastern Vermont, And North-Central Massachusetts: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, 80th Annual Meeting, October 14, 15 And 16, 1988, Keene, New Hampshire, New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference (Neigc), Bothner, Wallace A.

Guidebooks

Geologic fieldtrips in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts

Guidebook For Field Trips In Southwestern New Hampshire, Southeastern Vermont, And North-Central Massachusetts: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, 80th Annual Meeting, October 14, 15 And 16, 1988, Keene, New Hampshire, New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference (Neigc), Bothner, Wallace A.

Trips

front matter

Stratigraphy And Structure Of The Fall Mountain And Skitchewaug Nappes, Southwestern New Hampshire, Chamberlain, C. Page, Thompson, James B. Jr., Allen, Tim

Trips

Guidebook for field trips in southwestern New Hampshire, southeastern Vermont, and north-central Massachusetts: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, 80th annual meeting, October 14, 15 and 16, 1988, Keene, New Hampshire: Trip A-2

Stratigraphy, Structure, And Metamorphism Of The 'Dorsal Zone,'" Central New Hampshire, J. Dykstra Eusden, Jr.

Trips

Guidebook for field trips in southwestern New Hampshire, southeastern Vermont, and north-central Massachusetts: New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, 80th annual meeting, October 14, 15 and 16, 1988, Keene, New Hampshire: Trip A-3

Review Of Hydrocarbon Producing Zones Near The Richton Dome High-Level Nuclear Waste Site, Perry County, Mississippi, Charles Swann, Katherine Walton

Open-File Reports

No abstract provided.

Assessment Of Non-Energy Minerals In The Exclusive Economic Zone, Offshore Mississippi, Robin Cranton

Open-File Reports

No abstract provided.

Perestroika And Priroda: Environmental Protection In The Ussr, Nicholas A. Robinson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This article reviews the initial Soviet decisions through 1988, applying perestroika to the problem of protecting priroda. Surveyed here is the scope of the ecological problems in the USSR and traditional responses, followed by an examination of the current Soviet policy to restructure its administrative and legal system for environmental protection. These initial reforms will not all result in a direct or immediate improvement of the Soviet environmental protection regime. For instance, the reforms also are stimulating the Soviet "not in my backyard" (NIMBY) phenomenon, or local opposition to the siting of developments ranging from electrical power plants, to facilities …

Lithostratigraphy Of The Jackson Gas Rock (Upper Cretaceous) In West Central Mississippi, Julie M. Mckibben

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Carbon And Oxygen Isotopic Study Of Archaean Stromatolites From Zimbabwe, Joseph Patrick Mcclory

Open Access Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Homestead Neighborhood And The Oregon Health Sciences University Background And Recommendations Report, Thomas Bizeau, Jim Crawford, Barton Delacy, Yousef Massoudifar, Tom Mcconnell, Foziah Rahman, Ezzat Rassoli, Barbara Sochacka

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Workshop Projects

The Homestead Neighborhood is located in southwest Portland. It was first studied as part of the Marquam Hill Plan in 1977. Since that time two major health providers, the Shriners and the Veterans Administration,have built new facilities on the hill. The Oregon Health Sciences University is now poised and ready for major expansion of its medical schools, hospital and research facilities. Meanwhile, area residents and property owners, have voiced concerns about increased traffic, and building density.

Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) contracted with the School of Urban and Public Affairs at Portland State University to draft a comprehensive neighborhood plan, …