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Irrigation Scheduling Of Corn Utilizing Infrared Thermometry, Kirk L. Clawson

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

No abstract provided.

Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1979, Martin S. Johnson, Darryll T. Pederson

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Ash Hollow Historical Park, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

Ash Hollow Creek is an intermittent stream forming a southern tributary to the North Platte River. The creek flows only in response to precipitation from locally heavy thunderstorms or to heavy runoff from melting snow in the spring. Western Nebraska has a semi-arid climate and receives less than 20 inches of rainfall per year. Vegetation in the park and surrounding area is typical of the short grass prairie of the Great Plains. Native short grasses grow abundantly on undisturbed tablelands, valley sides, and along principal flood plains of streams and rivers. Prickly pear, barrel cactus, yucca and sagebrush are common …

A Statistical Analysis Of The Quality Of Surface Water In Nebraska, R. A. Engberg

United States Geological Survey: Publications

This report provides descriptive statistics for 29 chemical or biological constituents for 109 stream sites in Nebraska sampled by the U.S. Geological Survey beginning in 1946. Also provided for each site are regression equations relating specific conductance to each of 12 chemical constituents and a regression equation relating specific conductance to stream discharge. The descriptive statistics are presented by river basins. Water leaving these basins that has the lowest mean specific conductance (266 umho/cm) is from the Niobrara River at Verdel, and water that has the highest (1,890 umho/cm) is from the South Platte River at Roscoe. Statewide, the principal …

Stress Measurements At Depth In The Vicinity Of The San Andreas Fault: Implications For The Magnitude Of Shear Stress At Depth, Mark D. Zoback, Hiroaki Tsukahara, Stephen Hickman

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Using the hydraulic fracturing technique, we have made a systematic series of in situ stress measurements in wells drilled near the San Andreas fault. In an attempt to provide constraints for the magnitude of shear stress on the San Andreas fault at depth we have measured both the variation of stress with distance from the fault in relatively shallow (~230 m) wells and the variation of stress with depth in a ~ 1 km-deep well located 4 km from the fault. The shallow wells are located along profiles roughly perpendicular to the fault in the western Mojave desert near Palmdale …

Configuration Of The Base Of The Principal Aquifer, Conservation And Survey Division, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

Conservation and Survey Division. Configuration of the Base of the Principal Aquifer. Map. No Scale. Base Principal Aquifer, 1980 Series. Lincoln: Conservation and Survey Division, University of Nebraska. Print. (date unknown, 1980?)

Collecting In Nebraska's Cretaceous Strata, H. M. Degraw, R. K. Pabian

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

State Of Stress In The Conterminous United States, Mary Lou Zoback, Mark D. Zoback

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Inferring principal stress directions from geologic data, focal mechanisms, and in situ stress measurements, we have prepared a map of principal horizontal stress orientations for the conterminous United States. Stress provinces with linear dimensions which range between 100 and 2000 km were defined on the  basis of the directions and relative magnitude of principal stresses. Within a given province, stress orientations appear quite uniform (usually within the estimated range of accuracy of the different methods used to determine  stress). Available data on the transition in stress direction between the different stress provinces indicate that these transitions can be abrupt, occurring …

The Process And Criteria For Siting Of Hazardous Waste Disposal Facilities In Nebraska, Conservation And Survey Division

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Nebraska Groundwater Level (Decline & Rise) And Location Of Registered Wells, 1980

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Nebraska County Map

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Collecting In Nebraska's Glacial Deposit, John Boellstorff

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Actinocyclus Ingens Var. Nodus : A New, Stratigraphically Useful Diatom Of The Circum-North Pacific, Jack G. Baldauf, John A. Barron

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Actinocyclus ingens var, nodus Baldauf, n, var., is a morphologically distinct variety of the Miocene diatom A. ingens Ranray. The last occurrence of this new taxon approximates the top of the lower Middle Miocene Denticula Iauta Zone in the circum-North Pacific. Its first occurrence appears to be in the lower part of the D. fauta zone and possibly lies close to the Lower Miocene-Middle Miocene boundary.

The Effect Of Dissolution Of Volcanic Glass On The Water Chemistry In A Tuffaceous Aquifer, Rainier Mesa, Nevada, Art F. White, Hans C. Claassen, Larry Benson

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Geochemistry of ground water associated with the Tertiary tuffs within Rainier Mesa, southern Nevada, was investigated to determine the relative importance of glass dissolution in controlling water chemistry. Water samples were obtained both from interstitial pores in core sections and from free-flowing fractures. Cation compositions showed that calcium and magnesium decreased as a function of depth in the mesa, as sodium increased. The maximum effect occurs within alteration zones containing clinoptilolite and montmorillonite, suggesting these minerals effectively remove bivalent cations from the system.

Comparisons are made between compositions of ground waters found within Rainier Mesa that apparently have not reacted …

Teleseismic Evidence For A Low-Velocity Body Under The Coso Geothermal Area, P. Reasenberg, W. Ellsworth, A. Walter

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Teleseismic P wave arrivals were recorded by a dense array of seismographs tations located in the Coso geothermal area, California. The resulting pattern of relative residuals reveals an area showing approximately 0.2-s excess travel time that migrates with changing source azimuth, suggesting that the area is the 'delay shadow' produced by a deep, low-velocity body. Inversion of the relative residual data for three-dimensional velocity structure determines the lateral variations in velocity to a depth of 22.5 km beneath the array. An intense low-velocity body, which coincides with the surface expressions of late Pleistocene rhyolitic volcanism, high heat flow, and hydrothermal …

Faulting Patterns In North-Central Nevada And Strength Of The Crust, Mary Lou Zoback, Mark D. Zoback

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

NNE normal fault trends characterize much of the northern Basin and Range province. These faults make sharp bends to NNW and ENE trends in north- central Nevada in the vicinity of a mid-Miocene rift characterized by a zone of diabase dike swarms, graben-filling flows, and a coinciding aeromagnetic anomaly. Despite a roughly 45 ° change in the least principal stress direction since mid-Miocene time, pre-existing NNW- and ENE-trending faults in the vicinity of the rift accommodated the extension whereas regionally, major crustal blocks were faulted along a NNE trend, approximately perpendicular to the modern least principal stress direction. An assumed …

Annual Departures From Average Annual Precipitation In Nebraska, 1850-1979, Conservation Survey Division

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Nebraska Mineral Operations Review, 1979, Raymond R. Burchett, Duane A. Eversoll

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Geology And Groundwater Supplies Of Box Butte County, Nebraska, 1979, V. L. Souders, F. A. Smith, J. B. Swinehart

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Ash Hollow Historical Park, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

About Ash Hollow Historical Park in Nebraska (United States).

Collecting In Western Nebraska's Cenozoic Strata, J. B. Swinehart

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Geology Along The Republican River Valley Near Red Cloud, Nebraska, R. K. Pabian, J. B. Swinehart

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1979, Martin S. Johnson, Darryll T. Pederson

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Effects Of No-Tillage Fallow As Compared To Conventional Tillage In A Wheat-Fallow System, C. R. Fenster, G. A. Peterson

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The benefits of reducing tillage by use of herbicides for weed control emphasizes why research was started to study a fallow system where all tillage was replaced by herbicides. Wheat planting was then the only soil disturbing operation. Objectives of the research were to compare the effects of no-tillage (chemical), stubble-mulch and plow (bare fallow) systems of fallow on: 1. Grain yield. 2. Grain protein. 3. Residue retention. 4. Soil nitrate-nitrogen accumulation. 5. Soil water accumulations during fallow. Data presented are in the form of a progress report. These experiments will continue.

Distributional And Dimensional Patterns Of Muskrat Burrows, James G. Bruner

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

No abstract provided.

Environmental And Physiological Effects On The Carbon Exchange Rate And Water Use Efficiency Of Alfalfa, Dennis D. Baldocchi

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

No abstract provided.

Distribution Of Phytoplankton In Nebraska Lakes, F. A. Morris, M. K. Morris, W. D. Taylor, L. R. Williams, S. C. Hern, V. W. Lambou

United States Environmental Protection Agency: Publications

Protection of the environment requires effective regulatory actions which are based on ssound technical and scientific information. This information must include the quantitative description and linking of pollutant sources, transport mechanisms, interactions, and resulting effects on man and his environment. Because of the complexities involved, assessment of specific pollutants in the environment requires a total systems approach which transcends the media of air, water, and land. The Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory-Las Vegas contributes to the formation and enhancement of a sound monitoring data base for exposure assessment through programs designed to:

• develop and optimize systems and strategies for monitoring …

Broadwater Ne Quadrangle, Morrill County, Nebraska, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

7.5' topgraphic quadrangle showing exposures of bedrock formations and other geologic information.

41° 37'30" — 41° 45'

102° 45' — 102° 52'30"

Scale 1:24,000

Completed June 6, 1979

High resolution .tif file attached below as supplemental file

Interpretive Study And Numerical Model Of The Hydrogeology Upper Big Blue Natural Resources District., Ralph E. Cady, Marilyn H. Ginsberg

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Changing Fields: Agricultural Land Use Changes In Nebraska 1925-1974, Donald A. Wilhite

National Drought Mitigation Center: Faculty Publications

The series of graphs and maps which follow illustrate agricultural land use changes in Nebraska from 1925 to 1974. With these graphs and maps, the major agronomic crops of corn (dryland and irrigated), wheat, sorghum and soybeans are analyzed. The purpose of this analysis is to provide a pictorial history of Nebraska's ever-changing cropping system and, hopefully, to stimulate ideas and discussion with regard to trends and future directions. The Nebraska Water Resources Center is deeply interested in both the past and the future of Nebraska's agriculture because of the demands which agriculture places on the state's water resources. An …