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Progress report on the study of Great Lakes trout

Abstract has not been submitted
Authors
John Van Oosten
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

Progress report, investigations of fluvial sediments of the Niobrara River near Cody, Nebraska

Comparison of sediment concentrations at a naturally contracted section on the Niobrara River near Cody, Nebraska, with those measured at the regular gaging station one quarter mile upstream, indicates that approximately 50 percent of the sediment is transported as bed load at the regular gaging station. The bed load percentage varied from 24 to 68 for the 34 determinations available, without sign
Authors
Eugene Frank Serr

Progress report: chemical character of surface waters in the Devils Lake Basin, North Dakota

Devils Lake in northeastern North Dakota was at one time the most popular summer resort in the state. With decline in lake level the lake has become a shallow body pf vary saline water, which scenic value and recreational appeal completely destroyed. Under the Missouri River development program, it is proposed to restore the lake level to an altitude of 1,425 feet by diversion of Missouri River wa
Authors
Herbert A. Swenson

Public water supplies in southern Texas

This report gives a summarized description of the public water supplies in 42 counties of southern Texas, extending from the Rio Grande northward to the northern boundaries of Kinney, Uvalde, Bandera, Kendall, and Hays Counties and eastward to the eastern boundaries of Caldwell, Gonzales, DeWitt, Victoria, and Calhoun Counties. It gives the available data as follows for each of the 114 communities
Authors
W. L. Broadhurst, R.W. Sundstrom, J.H. Rowley
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center

Quail studies on a river floodplain

No abstract available.
Authors
W. Rosene
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Quality of surface waters of the United States, 1946

No abstract available.
Authors
C. G. Paulsen

Quality of water of the Gila River basin above Coolidge Dam, Arizona

No abstract available.
Authors
John David Hem

Quicksilver deposits of Chile

No abstract available.
Authors
James Franklin McAllister, Hector Flores Williams, Carlos F. Ruiz

Raccoons of North and Middle America

The raccoons, genus Procyon, colloquially known as “coons,” belong to the carnivorous family Procyonidae, which also includes the American genera Nasua, Nasuella, Bassaricyon, and Potos, and the Old World genera Ailurus and Ailuropoda of the subfamily Ailurinae. The members of the Procyon lotor group (subgenus Procyon), with a transcontinental range from southern Canada to Panama, except in parts
Authors
Edward A. Goldman, Hartley H.T. Jackson

Radioactive ilmenite, Virginia Claim, Hillsboro Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico

No abstract available.
Authors
Herman L. Bauer

Radioactivity and mineralogy of placer concentrates from the Fortymile district, Alaska

No abstract available.
Authors
Mary G. White

Radioactivity at the Armentrout Property Erbacon, Webster County, West Virginia

No abstract available.
Authors
Donald Albert Brobst
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