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Northern East Pacific Rise: Magnetic anomaly and bathymetric framework
The oceanic crust in the eastern Pacific between 7°N and 30°N and east of 127°W contains a fairly complete history of the spreading centers associated with the East Pacific Rise since 25 m.y. B.P. (late Oligocene). In this paper, we have summarized the seafloor spreading magnetic-anomaly data and the bathymetric data that reflect the record of this tectonic history. The well-defined magnetic linea
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Kim D. Klitgord, Jacqueline Mammerickx
Paleo-oceanography of the Norwegian Sea during the past 130,000 years: Coccolithophorid and foraminferal data
Faunal, floral and sedimentological properties of Norwegian Sea core V27-86 were examined in order to reconstruct the paleo-oceanographic history of this region. Downcore variations in the relative abundance of three microfossil groups and several sediment properties exhibit three different climate response patterns (CRP). Each pattern is judged to represent the response of a different part of the
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P.E. Belanger
The dynamic environment of the ocean floor
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Co-rich ferromanganese deposits in the marginal seamount regions of the Central Pacific Basin, results of the Midpac 1981
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P. Halbach, Frank T. Manheim, Peter Otten
Response of common grackles to dietary concentrations of four organophosphate pesticides
Behavioral and physiological responses of common grackles to dietary concentrations of dicrotophos, fenitrothion, fenthion, and methyl parathion suggest mortality was largely due to pesticide-induced anorexia. Mortality was dose related, though consumption of treated diets was reduced such that birds on different geometrically arranged concentrations of the same pesticide ingested about the same a
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Christian E. Grue
Effects of chronic exposure to simazine on the cladoceran, Daphnia pulex
The effects of chronic exposure to simazine, an s-triazine herbicide, on the cladoceranDaphnia pulex were evaluated under laboratory conditions. The daphnids were exposed to simazine concentrations corresponding to previously calculated 48-hr LC5 and LC20 values and the effects on survival, growth, reproduction, and behavior were monitored daily for 26 days. Survival ofD. pulex in 20 mg/L simazine
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K. M. Fitzmayer, J. G. Geiger, Michael J. Van Den Avyle
Fish culture: an annotated bibliography of publications of the National Fisheries Center, Leetown, 1972-1980
This is an annotated bibliography of the publications authored or co-authored by the staff of the National Fisheries Center - Leetown (NFC-L) from 1972 through 1980. It includes publications from NFC-L staff at the Fish Farming Experimental Station, Stuttgart, AR; the Fish Genetics Laboratory, Beulah, WY; the Hagerman Field Station of the Tunison Laboratory of Fish Nutrition, Hagerman, ID; the Na
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Joyce A. Mann, Violet J. Catrow, Lora C. McKenzie, Faye V. Engle
A simple demonstration of the relationship between classification and canonical variates analysis
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Byron K. Williams
Reoccurrence of caribou in Minnesota
At least two caribou (Rangifer tarandus) were observed in Cook Co. of northeastern Minnesota from October 1980 through April 1981. This is the first record of caribou in the area since 1924. The nearest records of this species were 224 km NE of the present sightings, and the closest known established population of caribou is 240 km away.
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L. David Mech, Michael E. Nelson, H. F. Drabik
Anticholinesterase poisoning of birds: Field monitoring and diagnosis of acute poisoning
Organophosphorus and carbamate pesticides are cholinesterase (ChE) inhibiting chemicals that have been responsible for avian die-offs. Identification of chemicals implicated in these die-offs is difficult and sometimes conclusions are solely circumstantial. However, when marked depression (inhibition) of brain ChE activity accompanies organophosphorus or carbamate residues in body tissues or inges
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E. F. Hill, W. J. Fleming
Measurements of fall migrant peregrine falcons from Texas and New Jersey
Three subspecies of Peregrine Falcons (Falco peregrinus) breed in North America: F. p. anatum, formerly bred in all eco-geographic regions of North America south of the Arctic tundra, except for the immediate vicinity of the northwest Pacific Coast; F. p. tundrius breeds in the Arctic tundra; and F. p. pealei, a relatively sedentary form, occupies the region of the northwest Pacific coast excluded
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C. J. Henny, W.S. Clark
Unweathered and weathered aviation kerosine: Chemical characterization and effects on hatching success of duck eggs
Unweathered crude and refined oils are known to be very toxic to the embryos of aquatic birds (ALBERS 1977, 19781 SEARO et ale 1978, WHITE et al. 1979, McGILL & RICHMOND 1979, and others) but the toxicity of weathered petroleum is not as well established. The toxicity of Prudhoe Bay crude oil and No. 2 fuel oil to embryos of mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) decreased only after 3 weeks and 2 wee
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P.H. Albers, M. L. Gay