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Foreign literature and translations in earth science

More than 50 percent of the total abstracted geologic literature is in Russian, followed by English at about 30 percent, and French, German, and Japanese from about 8 to 2 percent. Communist Chinese publications ceased as a result of the Cultural Revolution and have not resumed. Less than 2 percent of American earth scientists read and use Russian literature in the original to any significant exte
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Frank T. Manheim

EROS — New observation vantage points and processes

The EROS Program objective is to utilize aircraft and spacecraft remote-sensing technology as complementary parts of integrated data collection, processing, and dissemination systems to support resources research and management functions of the Department of the Interior. The Program develops and coordinates research in the applications of new sensors for resources applications in cooperation with
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Raymond W. Fary

Application of remote sensing techniques for appraising changes in wildlife habitat

An attempt was made to investigate the potential of airborne, multispectral, line scanner data acquisition and computer-implemented automatic recognition techniques for providing useful information about waterfowl breeding habitat in North Dakota. The spectral characteristics of the components of a landscape containing waterfowl habitat can be detected with airborne scanners. By analyzing these sp
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Harvey K. Nelson, Albert T. Klett, John E. Johnston

Satellite relay telemetry of seismic data in earthquake prediction and control

The Satellite Telemetry Earthquake Monitoring Program was started in FY 1968 to evaluate the applicability of satellite relay telemetry in the collection of seismic data from a large number of dense seismograph clusters laid out along the major fault systems of western North America. Prototype clusters utilizing phone-line telemetry were then being installed by the National Center for Earthquake R
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Wayne H. Jackson, Jerry P. Eaton

The Everglade kite

No abstract available.
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P.W. Sykes

Aspects of oil and gas operations on federal and Indian lands of interest to engineers

It is always enjoyable to attend any meeting of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. I am happy to have this opportunity to speak to you because I believe that petroleum engineers can benefit from a better understanding of the Mineral Leasing Act and the regulations that implement the act insofar as these affect or influence your work. The regulations that implement the leasing act are commonly kno
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Charles J. Curtis

Origin of the lunar regolith at Tranquillity Base

No abstract available.
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker, M. H. Hait, Gordon Alfred Swann, D. L. Schleicher, G. G. Schaber, R. L. Sutton, D. H. Dahlen, E. N. Goddard, A. C. Waters

DDE and DDD residues correlated with mortality of experimental birds

Nearly everywhere in nature are found DDE and DDD, which are metabolites of DDT, and they often become concentrated through food chains. DDD is also a commercial insecticide. large amounts of both are frequently found in birds, but the significance of these amounts has puzzled many owrkers. Studies at Clear Lake, California1 gave some data on DDD danger levels, but less is known of DDE, the memb
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William H. Stickel, Lucille F. Stickel, Francis B. Coon

Hydrologic research on instrumented watersheds

The successful research man is the one who asks himself the right question. Research must go on primarily in the mind and only secondarily in the physical and biological world. It is only too easy to confuse the choice of a proper tool and the choice of a proper question. Some tools are quite unsuited to certain questions and some questions cannot be answered without the appropriate tool.There has
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Luna Bergere Leopold