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A Report On Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs In Nebraska-- Their Biology, Behavior, Ecology, Management, And Responses To A Visual Barrier Fence, Nancy S. Foster Dec 1990

A Report On Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs In Nebraska-- Their Biology, Behavior, Ecology, Management, And Responses To A Visual Barrier Fence, Nancy S. Foster

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

I examined the effects of a visual barrier fence, which had a see-through visibility of 600/0, on the foraging, vigilance, and aggressive behaviors of adult female black-tailed prairie dogs from June through August 1990 in central Nebraska. I also examined changes in their home ranges and use of an area in response to this fence. Prairie dogs prefer an open view of their surroundings. Therefore, I expected animals near a visual barrier to spend more time in vigilance and aggression, and less time foraging. Adult female prairie dogs exposed to the visual barrier devoted more time to foraging and less …


Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1989, Michael J. Ellis, Gregory V. Steele, Perry B. Wigley Dec 1990

Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1989, Michael J. Ellis, Gregory V. Steele, Perry B. Wigley

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Oil And Gas Developments In North Mid-Continent In 1989., Shirley E. Paul, Bruce W. Netzler, Raymond R. Burchett, Paul H. Roberts, Robert Peters, Donivan L. Gordon, John H. Mossler Oct 1990

Oil And Gas Developments In North Mid-Continent In 1989., Shirley E. Paul, Bruce W. Netzler, Raymond R. Burchett, Paul H. Roberts, Robert Peters, Donivan L. Gordon, John H. Mossler

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Recent Secular Variations In The Extent Of Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover, David A. Robinson, Kenneth F. Dewey Sep 1990

Recent Secular Variations In The Extent Of Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover, David A. Robinson, Kenneth F. Dewey

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

Northern hemisphere snow cover during 1988 and 1989 was at its lowest extent since the advent of reliable satellite snow-cover monitoring 1972; running some 8-10% below the eighteen-year annual mean of 25.7 million km2 . Monthly minima for the period of record occurred six times during these two years. In general, the last nine years of the satellite record had less extensive cover than the 1972-80 interval. Negative anomalies during the 1980s were largest over Eurasia in all seasons, and in the Spring over North America. Hemispheric seasonal means for the most recent nine years were 3.7% to 8.4% …


Postulated Evolution Of Platte River And Related Drainages, V. L. Souders, J. B. Swinehart, V. H. Dreeszen Sep 1990

Postulated Evolution Of Platte River And Related Drainages, V. L. Souders, J. B. Swinehart, V. H. Dreeszen

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Interactions Between Plains Pocket Gophers And Two Varieties Of Dryland Alfalfa, James C. Luchsinger May 1990

Interactions Between Plains Pocket Gophers And Two Varieties Of Dryland Alfalfa, James C. Luchsinger

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

No abstract provided.


Evaluation Of Monofilament Lines To Prevent Damage By Birds, Danilo A. Aguero May 1990

Evaluation Of Monofilament Lines To Prevent Damage By Birds, Danilo A. Aguero

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

No abstract provided.


Bazile Triangle Groundwater Quality Study, David C. Gosselin Feb 1990

Bazile Triangle Groundwater Quality Study, David C. Gosselin

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Age Estimates And Uplift Rates For Late Pleistocene Marine Terraces' Southern Oregon Portion Of The Cascadia Forearc, Daniel R. Muhs, Harvey M. Kelsey, Gifford H. Miller, Geoge L. Kennedy, Joseph F. Whelan, Galan W. Mcinelly Jan 1990

Age Estimates And Uplift Rates For Late Pleistocene Marine Terraces' Southern Oregon Portion Of The Cascadia Forearc, Daniel R. Muhs, Harvey M. Kelsey, Gifford H. Miller, Geoge L. Kennedy, Joseph F. Whelan, Galan W. Mcinelly

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Marine terraces are prominent landforms along the southern Oregon coast, which forms part of the forearc region of the Cascadia subduction zone. Interest in the Cascadia subduction zone has increased because recent investigations have suggested that slip along plates at certain types of convergent margins is characteristically accompanied by large earthquakes. In addition, other investigations have suggested that convergent margins can be broadly classified by the magnitude of their uplift rates. With these hypotheses in mind, we generated new uranium series, amino acid, and stable isotope data for southern Oregon marine terrace fossils. These data, along with terrace elevations and …


Annual Report Of Nebraska-1990, Karl E. Starch, Raymond R. Burchett Jan 1990

Annual Report Of Nebraska-1990, Karl E. Starch, Raymond R. Burchett

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Richardson County Test Hole Logs, Raymond R. Burchett, Frank A. Smith Jan 1990

Richardson County Test Hole Logs, Raymond R. Burchett, Frank A. Smith

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Annual Departures From Average Annual Precipitation In Nebraska, 1850-1989, Conservation And Survey Division Jan 1990

Annual Departures From Average Annual Precipitation In Nebraska, 1850-1989, Conservation And Survey Division

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Significant Rises And Declines In Nebraska Groundwater Levels (From Pre-Development As Of Fall 1989)/Registered Irrigation Wells In Nebraska (As Of January 1, 1990), Mark Burbach Jan 1990

Significant Rises And Declines In Nebraska Groundwater Levels (From Pre-Development As Of Fall 1989)/Registered Irrigation Wells In Nebraska (As Of January 1, 1990), Mark Burbach

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Nebraska Mineral Operations Review, 1989, Raymond R. Burchett, Duane A. Eversoll Jan 1990

Nebraska Mineral Operations Review, 1989, Raymond R. Burchett, Duane A. Eversoll

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Drying Out Wet Basements, Mark S. Kuzila Jan 1990

Drying Out Wet Basements, Mark S. Kuzila

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Annual Departures From Average Annual Precipitation In Nebraska, 1850-1989, Conservation Survey Division Jan 1990

Annual Departures From Average Annual Precipitation In Nebraska, 1850-1989, Conservation Survey Division

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Significant Rises And Declines In Nebraska Groundwater Levels (From Pre-Development As Of Fall 1988) /Registered Irrigation Wells In Nebraska (As Of January 1, 1989), Conservation Survey Division Jan 1990

Significant Rises And Declines In Nebraska Groundwater Levels (From Pre-Development As Of Fall 1988) /Registered Irrigation Wells In Nebraska (As Of January 1, 1989), Conservation Survey Division

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Location Of Registered Irrigation Wells In Nebraska As Of 1990. Jan 1990

Location Of Registered Irrigation Wells In Nebraska As Of 1990.

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Mineral Facts For Nebraska, Raymond R. Burchett Jan 1990

Mineral Facts For Nebraska, Raymond R. Burchett

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Sedimentary Paleoenvironments Of Fossil Platyrrhine Localities, Miocene Pinturas Formation, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Thomas Bown, Claudio N. Larriestra Jan 1990

Sedimentary Paleoenvironments Of Fossil Platyrrhine Localities, Miocene Pinturas Formation, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Thomas Bown, Claudio N. Larriestra

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

The Pinturas Formation is a pyroclastic and epiclastic aeolian deposit of Miocene age lying discordantly upon Jurassic rocks in the elevated Andean precordillera of northwest Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. The history of de\'elopment of the Pinturas Formation was significantly affected by the gradual, though sporadic, draping of this aeolian sediment across a profound, slowly filling paleotopography. The Pinturas depositional cycle consisted of: (1) minor aeolian deposition followed by soil formation, and (2) major aeolian deposition followed by intervals of regional erosion. Fluvial action seems to have been almost wholly confined to intraformational erosion, and two significant intraformational erosional unconformities divide …


Crustal Strain Near The Big Bend Of The San Andreas Fault: Analysis Of The Los Padres-Tehachapi Trilateration Networks, California, Donna Eberhart-Phillips, Michael Lisowski, Mark D. Zoback Jan 1990

Crustal Strain Near The Big Bend Of The San Andreas Fault: Analysis Of The Los Padres-Tehachapi Trilateration Networks, California, Donna Eberhart-Phillips, Michael Lisowski, Mark D. Zoback

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

In the region of the Los Padres-Tehachapi geodetic network, the San Andreas fault (SAF) changes its orientation by over 30 ° from N40 °W, close to that predicted by plate motion for a transform boundary, to N73 °W. The strain orientation near the SAF is consistent with right-lateral shear along the fault, with maximum shear rate of 0.38 ± 0.01 μrad/yr at N63 °W. In contrast, away from the SAF the strain orientations on both sides of the fault are consistent with the plate motion direction, with maximum shear rate of 0.19 ± 0.01 μrad/yr at N44 °W. The strain …


Coseismic Stress Changes Induced By The 1989 Loma Prieta, California Earthquake, Andrew J. Michael, William L. Ellsworth, David H. Oppenheimer Jan 1990

Coseismic Stress Changes Induced By The 1989 Loma Prieta, California Earthquake, Andrew J. Michael, William L. Ellsworth, David H. Oppenheimer

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Earthquake focal mechanisms from before and after the 1989 Loma Prieta, California earthquake are used to infer the coseismic stress change. Before the main shock, most earthquakes correspond to right lateral slip on planes sub-parallel to the San Andreas fault, and imply a generally N-S most compressionsal stress axis anda vertical intermediate stress axis. Aftershocks within the main shock rupture zone, however, display almost every style and orientation of faulting, implying an extremely heterogeneous stress field. This suggests that the main shock relieved most, if not all, of the shear stress acting on its fault plane. Aftershocks that lie on …


The October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake And Its Aftershocks: Geometry Of The Sequence From High-Resolution Locations, Lynn D. Dietz, William L. Ellsworth Jan 1990

The October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake And Its Aftershocks: Geometry Of The Sequence From High-Resolution Locations, Lynn D. Dietz, William L. Ellsworth

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Hypocenters of the Loma Prieta sequence form a dipping zone that rises from the mainshock hypocenter and is parallel to the mainshock nodal plane. Most aftershocks cluster around the perimeter of the zone, surrounding a relatively aseismic center which approximates the region of mainshock rapture. At its southeastern end, the dipping aftershock zone warps into a vertical surface that corresponds to the San Andreas fault. In the central and northwestern parts of the zone at depths above -10 km, the aftershocks define numerous disjoint fault structures. The large component of reverse-slip observed in this event agrees with a simple model …


Phytoplankton Dynamics In Three Rocky Mountain Lakes, Colorado, U.S.A., Diane M. Mcknight, Richard L. Smith, J. Platt Bradbury, Jill S. Baron, Sarah Spaulding Jan 1990

Phytoplankton Dynamics In Three Rocky Mountain Lakes, Colorado, U.S.A., Diane M. Mcknight, Richard L. Smith, J. Platt Bradbury, Jill S. Baron, Sarah Spaulding

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

In 1984 and 1985 seasonal changes in phytoplankton were studied in a system of three lakes in Loch Vale, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Three periods were evident: (1) A spring bloom, during snowmelt, of the planktonic diatom Asterionella Formosa, (2) a mid- summer period of minimal algal abundance, and (3) a fall bloom of the blue-green alga Oscillatoria limnetica. Seasonal phytoplankton dynamics in these lakes are controlled partially by the rapid flushing rate during snowmelt and the transport of phytoplankton from the highest lake to the lower lakes by the stream, Icy Brook. During snowmelt, the A. …


Annual Installation Of Irrigation Wells In Nebraska Through 1989, Conservation Survey Division Jan 1990

Annual Installation Of Irrigation Wells In Nebraska Through 1989, Conservation Survey Division

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Significant Rises And Declines In Nebraska Groundwater Levels (From Pre-Development As Of Fall 1989)/Registered Irrigation Wells In Nebraska (As Of January 1, 1990), Mark Burbach Jan 1990

Significant Rises And Declines In Nebraska Groundwater Levels (From Pre-Development As Of Fall 1989)/Registered Irrigation Wells In Nebraska (As Of January 1, 1990), Mark Burbach

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


35th Annual Midwest Groundwater Conference Program With Abstracts, P. B. Wigley, K. E. Stork, D. C. Gosselin Jan 1990

35th Annual Midwest Groundwater Conference Program With Abstracts, P. B. Wigley, K. E. Stork, D. C. Gosselin

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1989, Michael J. Ellis, Gregory V. Steele, Perry B. Wigley Jan 1990

Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1989, Michael J. Ellis, Gregory V. Steele, Perry B. Wigley

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Resource Notes-Academic Year 1989-90 Jan 1990

Resource Notes-Academic Year 1989-90

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Nebraska Map Of Counties, Conservation Survey Division Jan 1990

Nebraska Map Of Counties, Conservation Survey Division

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.