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Association and determinacy in geomorphology

You find a rock. It looks like an ordinary piece of flint, broken and rough. On a part of it is a patina whose soft grey color contrasts with the shiny brownish surfaces of conchoidal fracture. You could have found this rock in nearly any kind of an environment almost anyplace in the world. There is nothing distinctive about it.You hand this same piece of rock to a colleague and ask what he can ma
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Luna Bergere Leopold, Walter Basil Langbein

Food-habits procedures

No abstract available.
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A. C. Martin, L.J. Korschgen
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Measuring hunting and other mortality

No abstract available.
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A. D. Geis, R.D. Taber
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

The Northeastern states as a separate waterfowl management unit

No abstract available.
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W.F. Crissey
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Wildlife management concepts compatible with mosquito suppression

No abstract available.
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P. F. Springer
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Wildlife studies, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, 1961-62

No abstract available.
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J.B. DeWitt, W. H. Stickel, P. F. Springer
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Field Trip 2: San Francisco to Monterey via California Highways 1, 5, 17 and connecting routes

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E. E. Brabb, O.E. Bowen, E.W. Hart
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

Geology of the northern Santa Cruz Mountains, California

No abstract available.
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J.C. Cummings, R.M. Touring, E. E. Brabb
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

Diatremes and uranium deposits in the Hopi Buttes, Arizona

The Hopi Buttes diatremes erupted in a shallow lake that was filled in as volcanic activity progressed in Pliocene time. At the end of the period of volcanism the landscape included low lava domes capping some of the diatremes, a few flows, and numerous craters of the maar type, surrounded by rims of volcanic debris with gentle exterior slopes that merged with the surrounding plain. Erosion, proba
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker, C. H. Roach, F. M. Byers

Effects on wildlife

No abstract available.
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J.B. DeWitt, D.G. Crabtree, R.B. Finley, J.L. George
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Future demands for wildlife and fishing

No abstract available.
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J.L. Buckley
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Introductory remarks

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C. M. Herman
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center