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Determining instream flows for flushing of fines and channel maintenance: a review

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Authors
Robert T. Milhous

Physical Habitat Simulation and the moveable bed

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Authors
Robert T. Milhous, J.B. Bradley

Comparison of minimum instream flow needs

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Authors
Robert T. Milhous

An overview of environmental surveillance of waste management activities at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

The Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL), in southeastern Idaho, is a principal center for nuclear energy development for the Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Nuclear Navy. Fifty-two reactors have been built at the INEL, with 15 still operable. Extensive environmental surveillance is conducted at the INEL by DOE's Radiological Environmental Sciences Laboratory (RESL), and the U.S.
Authors
T.H. Smith, E.W. Chew, T.G. Hedahl, L. J. Mann, T.F. Pointer, G.B. Wiersma

A visitors guide to Mount Rainier glaciers

No abstract available.
Authors
Carolyn L. Driedger

An annotated checklist of mammals of Point Reyes National Seashore

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Authors
Gary M. Fellers, John Dell'Osso

Florida Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis plumberis Ridgway) Revised Recovery Plan

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Authors
L.E. Williams, A. Sprunt, T. Martin, P.W. Sykes

Minerals, lands, and geology for the common defence and general welfare, Volume 3, 1904-1939 : A history of geology in relation to the development of public-land, federal-science, and mapping policies and the development of mineral resources in the United

Mrs. Rabbitt's third volume covers the years 1904 to 1939, from the beginning of the conservation movement under Theodore Roosevelt to the beginning of World War II. From a national perspective, these were years of great development and change in the use of energy, trouble in the coal industry, and a great expansion in the oil industry. They were also years in which the public perceived for the fi
Authors
Mary C. Rabbitt

Rates of chemical weathering of rocks and minerals

Researchers in geomorphology, geochemistry, quaternary geology, soil science, and mineralogy will welcome this volume, the first to focus exclusively on rates of silicate chemical weathering. Consisting largely of previously unpublished data from six countries, the volume examines the latest experimental, modelling, and field results.New information is presented on topics of current research inter

The venomous reptiles of Arizona

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Authors
C.H. Lowe, C. R. Schwalbe, T.B. Johnson