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Residues of petroleum hydrocarbons in tissues of sea turtles exposed to the IXTOC I oil spill

Sea turtles found dead when the Ixtoc I oil spill reached Texas waters were necropsied and tissues were analyzed for residues of petroleum hydrocarbons. Two of the three turtles were in poor flesh, but had no apparent oil-caused lesions. There was evidence of oil in all tissues examined and indications that the exposure had been chronic. Comparisons with results of studies done on birds indicate c
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R.J. Hall, A. A. Belisle, L. Sileo

Industrial effluents as a source of mercury contamination in terrestrial riparian vertebrates

Eight species of piscivorous and insectivorous birds and one species of bat collected along Virginia's North Fork of the Holston River contained elevated mercury residues. The ubiquitous occurrence of mercury in riparian insectivores implicates aquatic insects as a vehicle for spreading mercury contamination from one ecosystem to another and expands the ecological ramifications of mercury-contamin
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G. V. N. Powell

World geoscience literature and translation

No abstract available.
Authors
Maura Connor, Frank T. Manheim

Manganese-phosphorite deposits of the Blake Plateau (Western North-Atlantic Ocean)

No abstract available.
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Frank T. Manheim, P. Popenoe, William Siapno, C. Lane

A stratigraphic framework for Cretaceous and Paleogene margins along the South Carolina and Georgia coastal sediments

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Gregory Gohn, Laurel M. Bybell, Raymond A. Christopher, James P. Owens, Charles C. Smith

Validation of Blackites trochos

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Laurel M. Bybell

Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of lower Paleozoic, upper Cretaceous, and lower Tertiary rocks in U.S. Geological Survey New Madrid test wells, Southeastern Missouri

The paleontology and biostratigraphy of Tertiary, Cretaceous, and Paleozoic rocks in the upper Mississippi embayment are incompletely known because marine fossils are only locally present in these rocks. This study concerns material from two U.S. Geological Survey test wells drilled in New Madrid County, southeastern Missouri, as part of earthquake hazard studies in the northern Mississippi Embaym
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N. O. Frederiksen, Laurel M. Bybell, R. A. Christopher, A. J. Crone, L. E. Edwards, T. G. Gibson, J. E. Hazel, J. E. Repetski, D. P. Russ, C. C. Smith, L. W. Ward

Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the eastern Gulf Coast

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N. O. Frederiksen, T. G. Gibson, Laurel M. Bybell

Paleocene to middle Eocene stratigraphy of Alabama

No abstract available.
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T. G. Gibson, E. A. Mancini, Laurel M. Bybell

Marine geologic studies of the inner continental shelf off Massachusetts

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C. J. O'Hara, R. N. Oldale, O.C. Farquhar