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Remanent magnetization of rocks of latest Cretaceous and earliest Tertiary age from drill core at York Canyon, New Mexico

At the end of 1980, seven complete cores were recovered from a 30-m (100-ft) interval in the Raton Formation at York Canyon, New Mexico. The interval cored spans the palynologically defined Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, which is marked by a distinctive noble metal–bearing claystone in the Raton basin. Azimuthal orientation of the cores can be recovered both from the average directions of the most
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Charles L. Pillmore, Edward W. Peacock

Passive margins: U.S. Geological Survey Line 19 across the Georges Bank basin

Georges Bank is a shallow part of the Atlantic continental shelf southeast of New England (Emery and Uchupi, 1972, 1984). This bank, however, is merely the upper surface of several sedimentary basins overlying a block-faulted basement of igneous and metamorphic crystalline rock. Sedimentary rock forms a seaward-thickening cover that has accumulated in one main depocenter and several ancillary depr
Authors
Kim D. Klitgord, John S. Schlee, John A. Grow

Fitting straight lines in the earth sciences

No abstract available. 
Authors
B.M. Troutman, G. P. Williams

Isolation of organic acids from large volumes of water by adsorption on macroporous resins

Adsorption on synthetic macroporous resins, such as the Amberlite XAD series and Duolite A-7, is routinely used to isolate and concentrate organic acids from forge volumes of water. Samples as large as 24,500 L have been processed on site by using these resins. Two established extraction schemes using XAD-8 and Duolite A-7 resins are described. The choice of the appropriate resin and extraction sc
Authors
George R. Aiken

A system for acquiring physiological and environmental telemetry data

No abstract available.
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P.W. Howey, T.E. Strikwerda, S. Mantel, M.R. Fuller, G.F. Gee, S.S. Klugmann, W.S. Segar, F.P. Ward

An outbreak of eastern equine encephalitis virus in captive whooping cranes

No abstract available.
Authors
J. W. Carpenter, F. J. Dein, G.G. Clark