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Gemstones Gemstones
Part of the 2003 industrial minerals review. Supply and demand data for gemstones are provided. Industry developments and the outlook for 2004 are discussed.
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D.W. Olson
Pesticide compounds in streamwater in the Delaware River Basin, December 1998-August 2001 Pesticide compounds in streamwater in the Delaware River Basin, December 1998-August 2001
During 1998-2001, 533 samples of streamwater at 94 sites were collected in the Delaware River Basin in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Delaware as part of the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program. Of these samples, 531 samples were analyzed for dissolved concentrations of 47 pesticide compounds (43 pesticides and 4 pesticide degradation products); 70...
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R. Edward Hickman
Voices of New World Parrots Voices of New World Parrots
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Mary Gustafson
Peru: The ecotravellers' wildlife guide Peru: The ecotravellers' wildlife guide
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Matthew Perry
A passion for wildlife: The history of the Canadian Wildlife Service A passion for wildlife: The history of the Canadian Wildlife Service
This intimate historical account was contracted in 1996 by Environment Canada to naturalist-writer Burnett, who interviewed more than 120 present and former Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS) employees of the 1947–1997 period. Each of the 10 chapters addresses a major topic, followed by a brief account of the chief activities of a five-year period. For example, chapter 1 is on “The Genesis...
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Chandler S. Robbins
Generalized estimators of avian abundance from count survey data Generalized estimators of avian abundance from count survey data
I consider modeling avian abundance from spatially referenced bird count data collected according to common protocols such as capture?recapture, multiple observer, removal sampling and simple point counts. Small sample sizes and large numbers of parameters have motivated many analyses that disregard the spatial indexing of the data, and thus do not provide an adequate treatment of...
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J. Andrew Royle
Foreword: Ornithological nomenclature Foreword: Ornithological nomenclature
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R.C. Banks
Modeling birds: an overview Modeling birds: an overview
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Jeff S. Hatfield
Mineral resource of the month: copper Mineral resource of the month: copper
Beryllium metal is lighter than aluminum and stiffer than steel. These and other properties, including its strength, dimensional stability, thermal properties and reflectivity, make it useful for aerospace and defense applications, such as satellite and space-vehicle structural components. Beryllium’s nuclear properties, combined with its low density, make it useful as a neutron...
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Daniel L. Edelstein
Coring the Chesapeake Bay impact crater Coring the Chesapeake Bay impact crater
In July 1983, the shipboard scientists of Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 95 found an unexpected bonus in a core taken 150 kilometers east of Atlantic City, N.J. At Site 612, the scientists recovered a 10-centimeter-thick layer of late Eocene debris ejected from an impact about 36 million years ago. Microfossils and argon isotope ratios from the same layer reveal that the ejecta were part...
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C. Wylie Poag
The Homestead kimberlite, central Montana, USA: Mineralogy, xenocrysts, and upper-mantle xenoliths The Homestead kimberlite, central Montana, USA: Mineralogy, xenocrysts, and upper-mantle xenoliths
The Homestead kimberlite was emplaced in lower Cretaceous marine shale and siltstone in the Grassrange area of central Montana. The Grassrange area includes aillikite, alnoite, carbonatite, kimberlite, and monchiquite and is situated within the Archean Wyoming craton. The kimberlite contains 25-30 modal% olivine as xenocrysts and phenocrysts in a matrix of phlogopite, monticellite...
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Hearn B. Carter