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Fish diseases and parasites Fish diseases and parasites

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Authors
J. Plumb, G. L. Hoffman

Foreword Foreword

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Authors
C.S. Robbins

Mineral resource models and the Alaskan Mineral Resource Assessment Program Mineral resource models and the Alaskan Mineral Resource Assessment Program

The least exacting demand that can be made of any model is that it serves as a device whereby we can predict actual physical happenings. Another demand which could be made is that the physical happenings predicted be in some way relevant to man, either by allowing him to anticipate future uncontrollable events or by demonstrating the possible consequences of various decisions. To date...
Authors
Donald A. Singer

Peritidal lithologies of Cambrian carbonate islands, Carrara Formation, southern Great Basin Peritidal lithologies of Cambrian carbonate islands, Carrara Formation, southern Great Basin

The Carrara Formation is a heterogeneous sequence of quartzites, siltstones, shales, limestones, dolostones, and mixed terrigenous-carbonate rocks. It is Early and Middle Cambrian in age (Stewart, 1970; Palmer, 1971). Figure 32-1 illustrates the general distribution of Carrara lithologies along a transect approximately normal to depositional strike (Fig. 32-2). The formation contains...
Authors
Robert B. Halley

Pollutants and toxins Pollutants and toxins

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Authors
B.F. Grant, C. Boyd
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