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A stochastic population model of mid-continental mallards A stochastic population model of mid-continental mallards

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Authors
Rolf R. Koford, J.R. Sauer, Douglas H. Johnson, J.D. Nichols, M.D. Samuel

Forum on land use and land Cover: Summary report Forum on land use and land Cover: Summary report

This report includes the agenda and abstracts of presentations from the Forum on Land Use and Land Cover Data, cohosted by the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), February 25-27,1992 at the USGS National Center in Reston, Virginia. The Forum was conducted under the auspices of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and was attended...
Authors
Water Resources Division U.S. Geological Survey

Use of D-C resistivity to map saline ground water Use of D-C resistivity to map saline ground water

It has been estimated in previous studies that 23 square miles of the Oxnard aquifer, a member of a multi-layered aquifer system beneath the Oxnard plain in Ventura County, California, has been contaminated as a result of seawater intrusion. To investigate this and other potential sources of saline water, a direct-current resistivity survey was made as an alternative to the costly and...
Authors
Christina L. Stamos, Steven K. Predmore, Adel A. R. Zohdy

E-4 Central Kentucky to the Carolina Trough E-4 Central Kentucky to the Carolina Trough

E-4 is one of eight Geodynamics transects that cross the Atlantic margin of North America between Georgia and Newfoundland. Five of the transects are in the United States and three are in Canada. Transect E-4, which is 110 km wide and more than 1,100 km long, extends from the stable North American craton just west of the Grenville front near Lexington, Kentucky southeastward across Cape...
Authors
Douglas W. Rankin, William P. Dillon, D.F.B. Black, S.E. Boyer, David L. Daniels, R. Goldsmith, J. A. Grow, J. Wright Horton, Deborah R. Hutchinson, Kim D. Klitgord, R. C. McDowell, D.J. Milton, J. P. Owens, Jeffrey D. Phillips, K.C. Bayer, John R. Butler, D.W. Elliott, Robert C. Milici
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