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Review of paleomagnetic data from the Klamath Mountains, Blue Mountains, and Sierra Nevada; Implications for paleogeographic reconstructions Review of paleomagnetic data from the Klamath Mountains, Blue Mountains, and Sierra Nevada; Implications for paleogeographic reconstructions

Paleomagnetic studies of the Klamath Mountains, Blue Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and northwestern Nevada pertain mostly to Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks, but some data also are available for Permian and Triassic rocks of the region. Large vertical-axis rotations are indicated for rocks in many of the terranes, but few studies show statistically significant latitudinal displacements. The...
Authors
Edward A. Mankinen, William P. Irwin

Ross Sea Ross Sea

Eight short-wavelength, seismically defined penetrative structures having associated 1- to 5-km-wide magnetic anomalies (Table A. 12.1) in the western Ross Sea (Figure A. 12.1) are interpreted as volcanic in origin. Modeled anomalies fitted to the observed data and constrained by 24-fold seismic reflection profiles support the interpretation of these submarine volcanoes. Anomaly a...
Authors
J. C. Behrendt

South Florida rockland South Florida rockland

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Authors
J.R. Snyder, Alan Herndon, W.B. Robertson

Stress and acclimation Stress and acclimation

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Authors
Gary Wedemeyer, B.B. Barton, D.J. McLeay

The aggregative response of common murres and Atlantic puffins to schools of capelin The aggregative response of common murres and Atlantic puffins to schools of capelin

I studied the aggregative responses of Common Murres and Atlantic Puffins to schools of capelin during three summers (1982-1984) at Witless Bay, Newfoundland, by conducting hydroacoustic surveys for capelin in synchrony with seabird censuses. Murres and puffins foraged offshore prior to the arrival inshore of spawning schools of capelin. Both species were abundant during peak periods of...
Authors
John F. Piatt

Viable populations Viable populations

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Authors
P. A. Buckley, W. Ehorn, M. Gilpin, J. Hamrick, C. Schonewald-Cox, M. Shaffer, T. Simons
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