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Review Of The Oligocene Cetacea, Frank C. Whitmore Jr., Albert E. Sanders

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Early in the Oligocene Epoch, Cetacea of the primitive suborder Archaeoceti had already declined sharply from their apparent abundance in Eocene seas. By the beginning of the Miocene, archaeocetes are known to have survived only in the northeast Atlantic and southwest Pacific Oceans. Concurrently with this decline, the first members of the suborders Odontoceti and Mysticeti appeared. They are known from only a few specimens, mostly in upper Oligocene deposits, on both coasts of North America, in Germany, Austria, Italy, the Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Australia, and New Zealand. Two important odontocete genera, Agorophius and Xenorophus, come from beds that are …

Nebraska Mineral Operations Review, 1975, Raymond R. Burchett, Duane A. Eversoll

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

During 1975, there were active in Nebraska 42 limestone quarries; 596 sand, gravel and silt or siltstone pits; 8 clay or shale pits; 22 sandstone pits; and 1 peat pit. These 669 mining operations disturbed 663 acres and restored 161 acres during the year.

Location Of Registered Irrigation Wells In Nebraska As Of 1976

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

The Mineral Industry Of Nebraska, William F. Keyes, Raymond R. Burchett

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Belmar Quadrangle, Keith 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° 15' — 41° 22'30"

101° 52'30" — 102° 00'

Scale 1:24,000

Completed August 14, 1975

High resolution .tif file attached below as supplemental file

Lemoyne Quadrangle, Nebraska--Keith County, 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic), Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

Lemoyne Quadrangle, Nebraska--Keith County

7.5 minute series (topographic), scale 1:24,000

101°45' to 101°52'30"

41°15' to 41°22'30"

Ogallala Outcrop (in pencil)

Completed August 14, 1975

Brule Nw Quadrangle, Keith 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° 07'30" — 41° 15'

101° 52'30" — 102° 00'

Scale 1:24,000

Completed August 14, 1975

High resolution .tif file attached below as supplemental file

Brule Ne Quadrangle, Keith 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° 07'30" — 41° 15'

101° 45' — 101° 52'30"

Scale 1:24,000

Completed July 12, 1975

High resolution .tif file attached below as supplemental file

Geochemistry Of The Cenozoic Volcanic Rocks Of Ross Island And Vicinity, Antarctica, S. S. Goldich, S. B. Treves, N. H. Suhr, J. S. Stuckless

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

The Cenozoic volcanic rocks of Ross Island and vicinity, Antarctica, are surface flows, tuffs, breccias, and small intrusives. The prominent rock is basanitoid. Alkali-basalt magma reached the surface over an appreciable length of time and was differentiated to produce a rock series: basanitoid → trachybasalt → phonolite. The alkalic, silica-undersaturated rocks are part of a larger petrologic province composed of volcanic centers in a belt nearly 2,000 km long roughly parallel to the Transantarctic Mountains. Two trends of magmatic differentiation are apparent. At depth the fractional crystallization of olivine, clinopyroxene, and opaque oxide minerals, all of which are abundant as …

Collecting Nebraska's Colorful Agates, Roger K. Pagian

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

The inexperienced gemstone collector may sometimes think of Nebraska as being a place Mother Natural forgot. Mother Nature, however, may be enjoying a little chuckle at the many gem collectors who drive right through Nebraska on their way to more exotic gem fields.

Pollution Abatement From Cattle Feedlots In Northeastern Colorado And Nebraska, L. K. Porter, F. G. Viets Jr., T. M. Mccalla, L. F. Elliott, F. A. Norstadt, H. R. Duke, N. P. Swanson, L. N. Mielke, G. L. Hutchinson., A. R. Mosier, G. E. Schuman, Lynn R. Shuyler, C. E. Evans

United States Environmental Protection Agency: Publications

Climatic factors, feedlot runoff, and organic material in the runoff were evaluated in experimental and commercial feedlots. The effects of slope, stocking rates, terraces, basins, and holding ponds were evaluated to obtain the best controls for containing runoff. In eastern Nebraska, 70 cm annual precipitation produces 23 cm of runoff; whereas, in northeastern Colorado, 37 cm annual precipitation gives only 5.5 cm of runoff. Large applications of runoff liquid, up to 91 cmon grass-Ladino and 76 cm on corn, in Nebraska did not decrease yields; however, in northeastern Colorado, the concentrated high-salt runoff required dilution before direct application to crops. …

Ogallala Quadrangle, Nebraska-Keith County, 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic) [Annotated], Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

Latitude 41° 07'30" to 41° 15'
Longitude 101° 37'30" to 101° 45'

Includes Lake McConaughy, Lake Ogallala, Kingsley Dam, North Platte and South Platte rivers, Town of Ogallala

Geological Survey map (1971), annotated for:

Areas disturbed during building of Kingsley Dam and associated features

alluvium and colluvium

sand and dune sand

loess

post-Ogallala and Ogallala gravels

Ogallala Formation

Brule (?) Formation

Volcanic ash

Started June 9, 1975; completed June 20, 1975

Microfossils From The Big Springs Limestone (Pennsylvanian) In Nebraska, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Sand-sized residues from partial acetic acid digestion of three samples of the Big Springs Limestone Member of the Lecompton Limestone (Pennsylvanian) from two localities in Cass County, Nebraska, have yielded sixteen genera of microfossils from five major groups of organisms and numerous other whole and partial fossils from seven other groups not identified to the genus level. These fossils include: Protozoa (fusulinids*); Porifera (one spicule type); Bryozoa (two undetermined genera); Brachiopoda (fragments); Gastropoda (two undetermined forms); Ostracoda (Bairdia*, Hollinella*, Moorites*, and one undetermined genus); Crinoidea (whole and partial ossicles*); Echinoidea (whole and partial spines and spine bases*); Holothuroidea (Achistrum …

Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1974, M.J. Ellis

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

Ellis, M.J. 1975. Groundwater Levels in Nebraska, 1974. Lincoln, Ne: Conservation and Survey Division in Cooperation with United States Geological Survey. pp. 86.

Groundwater Geology Of Banner County, Nebraska, Frank A. Smith, Vernon L. Souders

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Scimitar-Toothed Cats, Machairodus And Nimravides, From The Pliocene Of Kansas And Nebraska, Larry D. Martin, C. Bertrand Schultz

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

"Machairodus catocopis Cope" is shown to be a pseudaelurin cat belonging to the genus Nimravides Kitts. Nimravides thinobates (Macdonald) is a possible synonym of N. catocopis (Cope). Nimravides is compared with the Eurasian Machairodus-like cat, Dinofelis. Machairodus (Heterofelis) coloradensis is reported from the Kimball Formation, upper Pliocene (Kimballian) of Cheyenne County, Nebraska, and from the upper part of the Ash Hollow Formation, Pliocene (Hemphillian) of Sherman County, Nebraska. The Kimballian form is described as a new subspecies, Machairodus coloradensis tanneri.

The genus Machairodus has long been associated with the Hemphillian of North America and the …

A New Kimballian Peccary From Nebraska, C. Bertrand Schultz, Larry D. Martin

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

A new species of Pliocene peccary, Prosthennops (Macrogens) graffhami; is described from the Kimball Formation, Ogallala Group, Frontier County, Nebraska. This new species is the latest in geologic age and most advanced in the genus.

The remains of fossil vertebrates are generally rare in the upper part of the Ogallala group, and some have maintained that Hemphillian faunas such as Coffee Ranch and Smith County, Kansas, represent the latest Ogallala faunas. Later faunas than are typically considered as Hemphillian, containing more advanced forms, occur in the Kimball Formation and deposits of equivalent age. Known faunas which may …

Bears (Ursidae) From The Late Cenozoic Of Nebraska, C. Bertrand Schultz, Larry D. Martin

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

A ramus and partial premaxilla establish the presence of a new subspecies of Indarctos in the upper Pliocene (Kimball Formation, Ogallala Group) of Frontier County, Nebraska. An extremely large species of Agriotherium is represented by fragmentary remains from the middle Pliocene (middle part of Ash Hollow Formation, Ogallala Group) of Sherman County, Nebraska.

This study is part of a series of papers dealing primarily with the fauna of the Kimball formation in Nebraska (Barbour 1927, 1929; Barbour and Schultz, 1941; Schultz and Stout, 1948, 1961; Kent 1963, 1967; Tanner, 1967; Short, 1969; Martin and Tate, 1970; Schultz, Schultz, and Martin, …

Cenozoic Mammals From The Central Great Plains, C. Bertrand Schultz, Larry D. Martin, R. George Corner, Lloyd G. Tanner

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

Includes:

Part 1. Middle and Late Cenozoic Tapirs from Nebraska. By C. Bertrand Schultz, Larry D. Martin, and R. George Corner.

Part 2. Stratigraphic Occurrences of Teleoceras, with a New Kimballian Species from Nebraska. By Lloyd G. Tanner.

Part 3. A New Kimballian Peccary from Nebraska. By C. Bertrand Schultz and Larry D. Martin.

Part 4. Bears (Ursidae) from the Late Cenozoic of Nebraska. By C. Bertrand Schultz and Larry D. Martin.

Part 5. Scimitar-toothed Cats, Machairodus and Nimravides, from the Pliocene of Kansas and Nebraska. By Larry D. Martin and C. Bertrand Schultz.

84 pp

The Effect Of Microcrack Dilatancy On The Permeability Of Westerly Granite, Mark D. Zoback, James D. Byerlee

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Permeability and volumetric strain were measured under constant confining pressure and pore pressure as a function of increasing and decreasing differential stress. Permeability was found to increase appreciably during dilatancy. Our results have also shown that permeability and dilatant volume changes are not unique functions of differential stress and that permeability changes with differential stress are not uniquely dependent upon dilatant volume changes. Most significant, however, is that if dilatancy-fluid diffusion occurs in situ, our results indicate that microcrack dilatancy is not a reasonable physical mechanism
to account for such a phenomenon.

Rates Of Water Entry Into The Subsoil Of Several Soil Series In Nebraska, David T. Lewis

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

Rates of water entry were measured for 11 soil series representing many of the soils in parts of Nebraska where urban growth is most intensive. The wetting procedure in making the tests is critical and a 24 hour wetting time as usually recommended is not adequate for all soils if the percolation test is made during a dry season. Rates of water entry differed among soils even though a large amount of variation was evident within the same soil series. Statistical analysis showed a highly significant negative relationship between both clay content and bulk density and rates of water entry. …

Middle And Late Cenozoic Tapirs From Nebraska, C. Bertrand Schultz, Larry D. Martin, R. George Corner

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

The distribution and evolution of Late Cenozoic tapirs are discussed and the forms present in Nebraska are reported. Two new species are described from the Ogallala Pliocene of Nebraska, ?Tapirus johnsoni and ?T. simpsoni. Tapirs are known in Nebraska from the Early Oligocene through the Middle Pleistocene. The northern limit of the distribution of the tapirs contracts gradually southward in North America throughout the Tertiary, and even during the Pleistocene interglacials Nebraska must have been near the northern limit of their range.

Stratigraphic Occurrences Of Teleoceras With A New Kimballianspecies From Nebraska, Lloyd G. Tanner

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum (1924–2023)

Study of Teleoceras remains in the University of Nebraska State Museum indicates that this specialized, short-limbed rhinoceros inhabited the Central Great Plains from Early through Late Pliocene. Previously thought to have become extinct at the end of the middle Pliocene, this genus is now known from the very latest Pliocene. A new species, Teleoceras schultzi, is described from the Kimball Formation, Ogallala Group, Frontier County, Nebraska.

Nebraska Groundwater Level (Decline & Rise), 1975

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Location Of Registered Irrigation Wells In Nebraska As Of 1975

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

1974 Nebraska Mining Operations Review, R R. Burchette

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Land Use And River Seepage On Groundwater Quality In Hall County, Nebraska, Roy F. Spalding

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Cyclic Differential Stress On Dilatancy In Westerly Granite Under Uniaxial And Triaxial Conditions, Mark D. Zoback, James D. Byerlee

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Laboratory experiments have been performed on samples of Westerly granite in which the differential stress was repeatedly cycled to 85% of the intact sample strength. The experiments have shown that under uniaxial conditions the onset of dilatancy is reduced to fairly low stress; however, under triaxial conditions dilatancy can be an apparently stable process, and the onset of dilatancy is not affected by the repeated cycling. Thus the implication for midcrustal earthquakes is that the onset of dilatancy repeatedly occurs at relatively high stress levels. For example, our results indicate that at typical focal depths of 2.5 and 10 km …

Urban Geology Of Madison County, Indiana: Special Report 10, William J. Wayne

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

During recent years many of the population centers of Indiana have undergone growth that has resulted in expansion of urban uses into land that has been largely rural. As a result of that expansion, conflicts have arisen between expanding urban uses and the agricultural and mineral resource uses of land that lies near the centers of population. In addition, uncontrolled use of flood plains, steep slopes, and areas of soft sediments and high water tables has caused inconvenience and financial loss to individuals and industries that unknowingly have built structures in those places. Generally, these situations have developed as a …

Meet Your Earthwatching Task Force, Jay Fussell

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.