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Results of the Third Joint US-USSR Bering & Chukchi Seas Expedition (BERPAC), Summer 1988

No abstract available.
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J. F. Turner, H.J. O'Connor, Y.A. Izrael, A.V. Tsyban
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

The Ecology of Tijuana Estuary: A National Estuarine Research Reserve

No abstract available at this time
Authors
J. Zedler, C. Nordby, B. Kus
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Western Ecological Research Center (WERC)

Use of D-C resistivity to map saline ground water

It has been estimated in previous studies that 23 square miles of the Oxnard aquifer, a member of a multi-layered aquifer system beneath the Oxnard plain in Ventura County, California, has been contaminated as a result of seawater intrusion. To investigate this and other potential sources of saline water, a direct-current resistivity survey was made as an alternative to the costly and time-consumi
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Christina L. Stamos, Steven K. Predmore, Adel A. R. Zohdy

Paleocene-Eocene boundary: Sedimentation in the Potomac River Valley, Virginia and Maryland: field trip guidebook

No abstract available.
Authors
Thomas G. Gibson, Laurel M. Bybell
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Florence Bascom Geoscience Center

E-4 Central Kentucky to the Carolina Trough

E-4 is one of eight Geodynamics transects that cross the Atlantic margin of North America between Georgia and Newfoundland. Five of the transects are in the United States and three are in Canada. Transect E-4, which is 110 km wide and more than 1,100 km long, extends from the stable North American craton just west of the Grenville front near Lexington, Kentucky southeastward across Cape Fear, Nort
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Douglas W. Rankin, William P. Dillon, D.F.B. Black, S.E. Boyer, David L. Daniels, R. Goldsmith, J. A. Grow, J. Wright Horton, Deborah R. Hutchinson, Kim D. Klitgord, R. C. McDowell, D. J. Milton, J. P. Owens, Jeffrey D. Phillips, K.C. Bayer, John R. Butler, D.W. Elliott, Robert C. Milici
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Riparian ecosystems: critical resources under Russian invasion

No abstract available.
Authors
F.L. Knopf

Instream flow needs below peaking hydroelectric projects

No abstract available.
Authors
Robert T. Milhous

A water budget approach to instream flow maintenance

No abstract available.
Authors
T.J. Waddle

Proceedings of the Second National U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Geographic Information Systems Workshop, June 10-13, 1991

No abstract available.
Authors
F. D'Erchia

Application of GIS to evaluate Sandhill Crane nest site characteristics

No abstract available.
Authors
B.W. Baker, W.L. Mangus

International Lake and Watershed Liming Practices

No abstract available.
Authors
Harvey Olem, R. Kent Schreiber, Robert W. Brocksen, Donald B. Porcella

Wetland development and management alternatives for the proposed Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge

No abstract available.
Authors
David B. Hamilton, J. E. Roelle