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Correlations and problems in belt series stratigraphy, Northern idaho and western Montana

A continuous strip of geologic maps has recently been completed along the Idaho-Montana state line between Clark Fork, Idaho, and Superior, Montana. New stratigraphic and petrographic information provides the basis for stratigraphic correlations and for the interpretation of facies changes in this part of the basin of deposition of the Precambrian Belt Series. Identification of facies changes is a
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J. E. Harrison, A.B. Campbell

Relation between the crystal content and the chemical composition of welded tuffs

No abstract available. 
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Donald W. Peterson, Ralph Jackson Roberts

Ash-flow problems — a synthesis based on field and laboratory studies

No abstract available. 
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Robert L. Smith

Insecticides: effects on cutthroat trout of repeated exposure to DDT

Cutthroat trout were periodically exposed to p, pp-DDT, in acetone solution or in the food. Excessive mortality occurred only in lots treated with high concentrations of DDT, probably as a result of decreased resistance to nonspecific stressors. Surviving fish in these lots were significantly larger than those in the control lot, or in the lots treated with low concentrations of DDT. The number an
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Don Allison, Burton J. Kallman, Oliver B. Cope, Charles C. Van Valin

Early pennsylvanian currents in the southern Appalachian Mountains

Measurement of more than 1200 cross-beds in lower Pennsylvanian sandstones of the southern Appalachian Mountains reveals a broad pattern of sediment transport to the southwest and west. Most of the sand appears to have been derived from the east and to have moved south-westward parallel to the axis of the Appalachian geosyncline. The pattern has a similar alignment to that in the Illinois basin, b
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J. Schlee

Television — A new tool for the ground‐water geologist

The television camera has become a tool of the ground‐water geologist, enabling him to examine visually the inside of a well deep below the land surface. Using the camera, the rocks can be viewed in place. Of great importance to the ground‐water studies in coastal Georgia, the camera enables the geologist to see the important water‐bearing zones in a limestone aquifer, and to recognize cracks and
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J.T. Callahan, R. L. Wait, M.J. McCollum

Recharge rates of principal aquifers in Lake County, Indiana

The upper 350 to 400 feet of rocks underlying Lake County, Indiana, form a single but complex hydrologic system. The rock units composing this system consist (in ascending order) of dolomite, clay till (unit 4), glaciofluvial sand (unit 3), clay till (unit 2), and lacustrine sand, silt, and clay (unit 1). The dolomite and unit 3 form the principal aquifers and the clay tills, units 4 and 2, the co
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J.S. Rosenshein

Reductive dechlorination of DDT to DDD by yeast

Labeled DDD [ 1,1-dichlor-o-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)-ethane] was formed from C14-labeled DDT in the presence of yeast. The formation of DDD from DDE [1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis (p-chlorophenyl)-ethylene] was not observed, indicating that a reductive dechlorination of DDT occurs.
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Burton J. Kallman, Austin K. Andrews

Sinuosity of alluvial rivers on the great plains

Data on the morphologic and sediment characteristics of stable alluvial rivers of the Great Plains were collected at 50 cross sections. The channel patterns of these rivers were classified into five types: tortuous, irregular, regular, transitional, and straight. Because no clear demarcation existed between each of the types, the pattern of the rivers was described by sinuosity, a ratio of channel
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S. A. Schumm

Origin of precambrian iron formations

A statistical study of the chemical composition of the Precambrian iron formations of the Canadian Shield affords a new approach to the origin of these unusual formations. The average total iron content of 2,200 samples from the literature and from unpublished mining company analyses is 26.7 percent Fe. The average Fe content for 16 iron formations in the United States and Canada ranges from 24.5
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H. Lepp, S. S. Goldich

Origin of some intermittent ponds on quartzite ridges in western North Carolina

Several intermittent ponds and closed depressions as much as 200 feet wide occur on the crests of ridges in gently dipping Cambrian(?) quartzites in the southeastern foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Morganton, North Carolina. The unconsolidated fill and debris in the ponds consists of clayey sand and saprolite with accessory minerals that could have been derived entirely from the quartzi
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John C. Reed, Bruce H. Bryant, John T. Hack