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Reproductive performance was measured for 126 days in twelve pairs of ring doves (Streptopelia risoria) fed a diet containing 40 ppm of p,p'-DDE and in twelve other pairs given untreated food. The DDE-treated doves took an average of 2 1/2 times longer to renest than controls, produced 13·5% fewer eggs/clutch, had 10% thinner eggs, and experienced twice as great mortality of young; all these diffe

Black duck (Anas rubripes) hens fed 10 ppm dry weight (approximately 3 ppm wet weight) of p,p'-DDE in the diet laid eggs with shells 22 percent thinner at the equator, 30 percent thinner at the cap, and 33 percent thinner at the apex than those of controls. Natural incubation increased shell cracking more than fourfold as compared with mechanical incubation. Hens removed cracked eggs from nests, a

The interstitial waters from the sediments cored on Leg 14 exhibit characteristic compositional trends with three important exceptions. At most of the sites, the changes in Na and Cl are very small while enrichment of Ca and Sr and depletion of Mg and SO4 is typical of patterns observed in similar types of sediment recovered on previous legs. At Sites 139 and 140, off the African coast, and Site 1

With the exception of Site 114, all interstitial waters in Leg 12 showed marked increases in calcium, which can be attributed to diagenetic dissolution and recrystallization of calcium carbonate, especially coccolith and foraminiferal tests. Magnesium loss may be due to either or both replacement of iron in clays or the dolomitization of calcium carbonate. The lowest sample from Site 113, on the m

The sediments cored at Sites 98, 99 and 100 are predominantly biogenic; those cored at Sites 101 through 106 are composed mainly of terrigenous material. As reported previously, most constituents in pore waters from the biogenic oozes exhibit minor changes in chemistry relative to sea water. In the terrigenous-hemipelagic sediments interstitial solutions initially of sea water composition have und

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Analyses of about 200 surface water samples collected during late fall 1966 show that concentrations of suspended matter greater than 1 mg/liter were restricted to within a few kilometers off Florida, but extended more than 100 km off Louisiana and Texas. Suspensates from areas farther than 100 km from shore contained mainly combustible organic matter, part of which was attributable to living plan

The chemistry of the pore fluids obtained on Leg 9 is remarkable primarily in its constancy. Excepting silicon and strontium, only at one site do the concentrations of the major and minor constituents deviate notably from sea water concentrations (see Tables 1 and 2). The trends, or lack of them, seen in these samples have been discussed previously and only references will be given here. The const

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