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Tadpole edema virus: pathogenesis and growth studies and additional sites of virus infected bullfrog tadpoles Tadpole edema virus: pathogenesis and growth studies and additional sites of virus infected bullfrog tadpoles
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K. Wolf, G. L. Bullock, C. E. Dunbar, M. C. Quimby
The peregrine falcon in Baja California and the Gulf of California The peregrine falcon in Baja California and the Gulf of California
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R.C. Banks
Tissue residues of dieldrin in relation to mortality in birds and mammals Tissue residues of dieldrin in relation to mortality in birds and mammals
An experiment was performed with Coturnix to learn what residue levels were indicative of death from dieldrin poisoning. Birds were fed diets containing 250, 50, 10, and 2 ppm dieldrin for periods up to 158 days. The dieldrin was 95% pure HEOD, which is 1,2,3,4,10,10-hexachloro-6, 7.epoxy. l,4,4a,5,6,7,8,8a-octahydro-l,4-endo,exo-5,8- dimethanonaphthalene. When half of a group was dead...
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W. H. Stickel, L.F. Stickel, J. W. Spann
Paleomagnetism, potassium-argon ages, and geology of rhyolites and associated rocks of the Valles Caldera, New Mexico Paleomagnetism, potassium-argon ages, and geology of rhyolites and associated rocks of the Valles Caldera, New Mexico
Paleomagnetic and potassium-argon studies support geologic evidence that the lower member of the Bandelier Tuff was deposited 1.4 m.y. ago. The upper member erupted about 1.0 m.y. ago and was followed by caldera collapse which formed the 12- to 14-mile diameter Valles Caldera. Postcaldera activity which resulted in the eruption of rhyolite domes and pyroclastic material, has occurred at...
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Richard R. Doell, G. Brent Dalrymple, Robert L. Smith, Roy A. Bailey
Chapter 3: Television observations from Surveyor VII Chapter 3: Television observations from Surveyor VII
Surveyor VII, the last spacecraft of the Surveyor series, successfully landed at 01:05:36 GMT, January 10, 1968, on the outer rim flank of the large crater Tycho, in the southern part of the Moon. The spacecraft landed about 30 hours after local lunar sunrise and transmitted about 21,000 pictures during the remainder of the first lunar day of operation. On January 22, after local sunset...
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker, R. M. Batson, H. E. Holt, E. C. Morris, J. J. Rennilson, E. A. Whitaker
Chapter IX: Lunar theory and processes Chapter IX: Lunar theory and processes
Whereas the previous Surveyor missions were undertaken to examine mare surfaces as potential landing areas for the Apollo Program, the primary objective of the Surveyor VII mission, based on purely scientific motivations, was to explore a contrasting highland region and, specifically, to determine the chemistry of the highland material for comparison with the Surveyor V and VI chemical...
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D. E. Gault, J. B. Adams, R. J. Collins, G. P. Kuiper, H. Masursky, J. A. O’Keefe, R. A. Phinney, Eugene Merle Shoemaker
Chapter 3: Television observations from Surveyor VI Chapter 3: Television observations from Surveyor VI
Surveyor VI landed on the lunar surface at 01:01:05 GMT on day 314 (November 10, 1967) in the southwestern part of Sinus Medii near the center of the visible face of the Moon. Over 30,000 pictures were transmitted from the spacecraft during the first lunar day of operation. The number of pictures taken by Surveyor VI almost equals the total number of pictures returned from the previous...
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E. C. Morris, R. M. Batson, H. E. Holt, J. J. Rennilson, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, E. A. Whitaker
Metamorphosed precambrian silicic volcanic rocks in central Arizona Metamorphosed precambrian silicic volcanic rocks in central Arizona
Silicic volcanic rocks — dacite, rhyolite, and quartz porphyry — constitute about 35 percent of the Yavapai Supergroup, an older Precambrian sequence in central Arizona. In addition, the series contains about 30 percent pillow and amygdaloidal basalt, 5 percent andesitic rocks, and the remainder is mixed andesitic and silicic-bedded tuffaceous rock. The Yavapai Supergroup is divided into...
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C.A. Anderson
Geology, paleomagnetism, and potassium-argon ages of basalts from Nunivak Island, Alaska Geology, paleomagnetism, and potassium-argon ages of basalts from Nunivak Island, Alaska
Geologic mapping, paleomagnetic stratigraphy, and potassium-argon dating were used to determine the time and volume relations of tholeiitic and alkalic basalt on Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea near the coast of Alaska. Volcanism on Nunivak Island occurred in distinct episodes separated by quiet intervals that lasted from 1.6 to 0.6 m.y. During the past 6 m.y., tholeiitic basalt was...
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J. M. Hoare, William H. Condon, Allan Cox, G. Brent Dalrymple
Flow Structure and Composition of the Southern Coulee, Mono Craters, California—A Pumiceous Rhyolite Flow Flow Structure and Composition of the Southern Coulee, Mono Craters, California—A Pumiceous Rhyolite Flow
The Southern Coulee is the southernmost and largest of the four Recent pumiceous rhyolitic coulees, or stubby flows, of the Mono Craters, eastern California. It is one of the youngest volcanic deposits of the Mono Craters and is largely bare and uneroded. The coulee is 3.6 km long and averages 1.2 km in width and 75 m in thickness. It was protruded from a north-trending fissure beneath...
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R. A. Loney
Chapter 9: Theory and processes relating to the lunar maria from the surveyor experiments Chapter 9: Theory and processes relating to the lunar maria from the surveyor experiments
Prior to the Surveyor missions, there were three principal theories about the chemical constitution of the lunar maria: that the maria were (1) chondritic, (2) basaltic, or (3) silicic. Three types of materials recovered on Earth were suspected of coming from the maria: (1) chondritic meteorites, (2) basaltic achondrites, and (3) tektites. The Surveyor chemists have now spoken: Turkevich
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J. A. O’Keefe, J. B. Adams, D. E. Gault, J. Green, G. P. Kuiper, Harold Masursky, Robert A. Phinney, Eugene Merle Shoemaker