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An experiment with snake trapping

No abstract available.
Authors
L.M. Dargan, W. H. Stickel
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

An investigation of the bactericidal action and fish toxicity of two homologous series of quaternary ammonium compounds

Bacterial gill disease when uncontrolled causes heavy losses among hatchery fish. The disease is characterized by a proliferation of the gill epithelium overlaid with masses of myxobacteria. The characteristic hyperplasia probably causes death by preventing the proper interchange of gases between the water and the blood stream of the fish. A number of strains of myxobacteria differing primarily in
Authors
R.R. Rucker
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Western Fisheries Research Center

Analyses of Madison limestone, Wyoming, table and index map

No abstract available. 
Authors
C.F. Deiss

Annual runoff in the United States

The water that drains from the land into creeks and rivers is called runoff. Supplying many of our basic human needs for water, runoff occurs chiefly as a residual of rainfall after Nature’s take – that is, after the persistent demands of evaporation from land and transpiration from vegetation have been supplied.
Authors
Walter Basil Langbein
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Water Resources Mission Area, Utah Water Science Center

Antimony deposits of El Antimonio district, Sonora, Mexico

No abstract available.
Authors
Donald Edward White, Reinaldo Guiza

Application of Mesityl Oxide to the determination of Thorium

No abstract available.
Authors
Harry Levine, F. S. Grimaldi

Appplication of gamma-ray logs of oil wells to the discovery of radioactive ore

No abstract available.
Authors
Garland B. Gott

Areas and use of water by phreatophytes in the western United States

No abstract available.
Authors
Thomas William Robinson

Average annual runoff in the Wind River Basin in Wyoming

No abstract available.
Authors
Roy Edwin Oltman, Hubert Jerome Tracy

Bars for thirsty quail

No abstract available.
Authors
D.L. Allen
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Bedrock geology of the Mount Grace quadrangle, Massachusetts

No abstract available.
Authors
Jarvis B. Hadley

Bibliography of North American geology, 1946 and 1947

No abstract available.
Authors
Emma Mertins Thom, Marjorie Hooker, R.R. Dunaven
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