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Guidelines for Handling Marine Turtles Hooked or Entangled in the Hawaii Longline Fishery: Results of an Expert Workshop Held in Honolulu, Hawaii March 15-17, 1995 (open access)

Guidelines for Handling Marine Turtles Hooked or Entangled in the Hawaii Longline Fishery: Results of an Expert Workshop Held in Honolulu, Hawaii March 15-17, 1995

This report provides a description of the findings that resulted from a workshop to develop guidelines for handling hooked and entangled turtles, hosted by the NMFS Honolulu Laboratory March 15-17, 1995.
Date: November 1995
Creator: Balazs, George H.; Pooley, Samuel G. & Murakawa, Shawn K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Habitat Modification and the Endangered Species Act: The Sweet Home Decision (open access)

Habitat Modification and the Endangered Species Act: The Sweet Home Decision

This report discusses the Endangered Species Act, the regulation of the Fish and Wildlife Service defining "harm" for purposes of the "take" prohibitions of the Endangered Species Act.
Date: July 6, 1995
Creator: Baldwin, Pamela
System: The UNT Digital Library
Longwall Gate Road Stability in a Steeply Pitching Thick Coal Seam with a Weak Roof (open access)

Longwall Gate Road Stability in a Steeply Pitching Thick Coal Seam with a Weak Roof

The U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) conducted ground pressure analysis of a wide abutment-type chain pillar in a two-entry gate road of a Western U.S. coal mine with an extremely weak immediate roof. About 15 m of fragile, low-strength mudstone lies between the seam and the lowest competent roof member. Three- and two-entry gate road designs with several pillar sizes and various secondary support systems have been employed to improve tailgate-entry stability, with varying results. This report discusses gate road layout and performance and secondary support effectiveness. The results of the pillar pressure study are compared to pillar loading predicted by a widely used pillar design method and to similar studies in other mines. A stability evaluation of the most recent longwall headgate, using the USBM Analysis of Longwall Pillar Stability (ALPS) method, indicates marginal stability in first-panel mining and instability in second-panel mining. The ALPS method and the USBM Coal Mine Roof Rating system are used to evaluate tailgate-mining stability of the previous gate roads and to determine pillar and entry width and top coal thickness criteria for tailgate stability in future panels.
Date: 1995
Creator: Barron, Lance R. & DeMarco, Matthew J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mineral and Energy Resources of the Roswell Resource Area, East-Central New Mexico (open access)

Mineral and Energy Resources of the Roswell Resource Area, East-Central New Mexico

The following report presents geological data taken from studies made on the mineral and energy resources in the surface and subsurface within the Roswell Resource Area in east-central New Mexico.
Date: 1995
Creator: Bartsch-Winkler, S. & Donatich, Alessandro J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature 1994 (open access)

Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature 1994

A report about nomenclature related to planets in the solar system. It contains detailed information about all names of topographic and albedo features on planets and satellites.
Date: 1995
Creator: Batson, Raymond M. & Russell, Joel F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crime Control Assistance Through the Byrne Programs (open access)

Crime Control Assistance Through the Byrne Programs

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Date: January 5, 1995
Creator: Bea, Keith
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Hawaiian Monk Seal on Laysan Island, 1991 (open access)

The Hawaiian Monk Seal on Laysan Island, 1991

This report presents the findings of an observational study on the Hawaiian monk seal on Laysan Island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands during March 31 to July 22 1991. The data collected focuses on haul-out, behavior, and reproductive patterns; population structure; and factors affecting survival.
Date: February 1995
Creator: Becker, Brenda L.; O'Brien, Kristen E.; Lombard, Karen B. & Laniawae, Leona P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Petrographic and Geochemical Analyses of Leach Samples from Artillery Peak, Mohave County, Arizona (open access)

Petrographic and Geochemical Analyses of Leach Samples from Artillery Peak, Mohave County, Arizona

Abstract: The first step in determining whether Mn can be recovered by in situ leaching is to develop and test a selective lixiviant. Two column leach tests and one core leach test were conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on Mn oxide ore using aqueous sulfur dioxide (SO2) as the lixiviant. The column tests showed that aqueous SO2 could selectively dissolve available Mn oxides from calcite-rich ore in a heap leach system. However, the core test showed that calcite gangue side reactions can have pronounced negative effects on the likelihood of successful in situ leaching of a calcite-rich ore with aqueous SO2. Petrographic and geochemical analyses showed that both Mn (IV, II) oxides and calcite were dissolved. The abundance of dissolved Ca caused precipitation of gypsum. Acid consumption by calcite dissolution caused a rise in pH that caused the S02/S species to shift to SO32- (sulfite), which hindered reductive dissolution of Mn oxide. Gypsum precipitation did not affect complete leaching of the rock fragments in the column tests; however, it plugged the natural permeability in the core. Manganese recoveries were high for the column tests and low for the core test.
Date: 1995
Creator: Brink, Susan E.; Blake, Rolland & Marozas, Dianne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Individual Transferable Quotas in Fishery Management (open access)

Individual Transferable Quotas in Fishery Management

This report discusses individual transferable quota (ITQ), which is an allocated privilege of landing a specified portion of the total annual fish catch in the form of quota shares.
Date: September 25, 1995
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Waterford Quadrangle, Virginia and Maryland, and the Virginia Part of the Point of Rocks Quadrangle (open access)

Geology of the Waterford Quadrangle, Virginia and Maryland, and the Virginia Part of the Point of Rocks Quadrangle

The following report analyzes the geology of the Waterford quadrangle and the Virginia part of the Point of Rocks quadrangle.
Date: 1995
Creator: Burton, William C.; Froelich, Albert J.; Pomeroy, John S. & Lee, K. Y.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carbon Dioxide in Mississippian Rocks of the Paradox Basin and Adjacent Areas, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona (open access)

Carbon Dioxide in Mississippian Rocks of the Paradox Basin and Adjacent Areas, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona

From abstract: This report is about six gas samples that were obtained from the Mississippian Leadville Limestone in the McElmo field, Colorado, and the Lisbon field, Utah. These samples were recorded to contain a high reading of carbon dioxide and the report investigates these results.
Date: 1995
Creator: Cappa, James A. & Rice, Dudley D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of Pre-Pennsylvanian Rocks in the Paradox Basin and Adjacent Areas, Southeastern Utah and Southwestern Colorado (open access)

Geology of Pre-Pennsylvanian Rocks in the Paradox Basin and Adjacent Areas, Southeastern Utah and Southwestern Colorado

From abstract: This report is about the geology of pre-Pennsylvanian rocks in the Paradox basin and its adjacent areas--such as the Mississippian strata, the Upper Devonian rocks, and the Upper Cambrian--in southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado.
Date: 1995
Creator: Condon, Steven M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Institute for Global Environmental Change. Final Report (open access)

National Institute for Global Environmental Change. Final Report

Over the past decade or so the evolution and equilibria of persistent decks of stratocumulus climatologically clinging to the edge of summertime subtropical highs has been an issue of increased scientific inquiry. The particular interest in the microphysical structure of these clouds stems from a variety of hypotheses which suggest that anthropogenic influences or biogenic feedbacks may alter the structure of these clouds in a manner which may be climatically significant. Most hypotheses regarding boundary layer influences on climate have been formulated by an examination of the solution space of simple models. The earliest hypothesis of this sort (and the one on the most solid footing) is due to Twomey (1974), who posited that enhanced concentrations of CCN could lead to enhanced droplet reflectivity and enhanced albedos in clouds of modest optical depths. In low lying clouds where the albedo effect dominates, the climate sensitivity to a robust perturbation in cloud albedo may be significant. One of the primary objectives of this current research has been to explore the hypothesis of Twomey. The basic approach was to couple radiative calculations with detailed representations of the droplet spectra. The detailed representation of the droplet spectra was generated by the Large Eddy …
Date: March 9, 1995
Creator: Cotton, W.R.; Stevens, B.; Duda, D.; Richardson, W. & Feingold, G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fluvial Architecture of the Lower Cretaceous Lakota Formation, Southwestern Flank of the Black Hills Uplift, South Dakota (open access)

Fluvial Architecture of the Lower Cretaceous Lakota Formation, Southwestern Flank of the Black Hills Uplift, South Dakota

From introduction This report describes large-scale depositional units referred to as architectural elements, interpreted from outcrops of three distinct fluvial sandstone units of the Lakota Formation in the southwestern Black Hills area of Custer and Fall River Counties, South Dakota. These fluvial deposits formed near the end of an episode of continental deposition that began when the Jurassic Sundance sea regressed from the region and ended when the Early Cretaceous Skull Creek sea encroached from the north in Albian time.
Date: 1995
Creator: Dahlstrom, David J. & Fox, James E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Base- and Precious-Metal Concentrations of Early Proterozoic Massive Sulfide Deposits in Arizona- Crustal and Thermochemical Controls of Ore Deposition (open access)

Base- and Precious-Metal Concentrations of Early Proterozoic Massive Sulfide Deposits in Arizona- Crustal and Thermochemical Controls of Ore Deposition

A report about early proterozoic massive sulfide deposits associated with submarine mafic to felsic metavolcano rocks are present throughout central, west-central, and northwestern Arizona. Also, production data for copper, lead, zinc, gold, and silver for most of the known deposits and prospects in 13 metallic mineral districts are summarized.
Date: 1995
Creator: DeWitt, Ed
System: The UNT Digital Library
Area Adjacent to the Turkey Creek Caldera, Cochise County, Arizona: Analytic Data and Geologic Sample Catalog (open access)

Area Adjacent to the Turkey Creek Caldera, Cochise County, Arizona: Analytic Data and Geologic Sample Catalog

From introduction: This report supplements similar reports prepared for the four 7.5-minute quadrangles that cover the Turkey Creek caldera and geologic map of the caldera.
Date: 1995
Creator: Du Bray, Edward A. & Pallister, John S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Field Demonstration of Two Pneumatic Backfilling Technologies (open access)

Field Demonstration of Two Pneumatic Backfilling Technologies

Abstract: This U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) report summarizes a field demonstration of pneumatic backfiling technologies conducted at the abandoned Hillside Coal and Iron Slope in Vandling, PA. Researchers demonstrated tro pneumatic backfilling technologies recently developed under the USBM's Abandoned Mine Reclamation Research Program, the Pneumatic Pipefeeder and the High-Efficiency Ejector. Both systems had previously been evaluated at the USBM's subsidence abatement investigation laboratory near Fairchance, PA. The objective of the demonstration was to fill 100% of the abandoned tunnel with backfill stone to prevent further subsidence. The Pneumatic Pipefeeder was used for 21 days, at a rate of 63 to 124 t/d (69 to 136 st/d), to fill 88% of the tunnel. The High-Efficiency Ejector was used for 2 days, at a rate of 125 to 132 t/d (138 to 146 st/d) to fill the remaining 12% of the tunnel. The backfill placed by both systems was tightly compacted. The major problem encountered was wear on the polyethylene pipeline from the abrasion of the high-velocity backfill. The use of heavier steel pipe minimized the problem. A cost analysis for the entire project is given.
Date: 1995
Creator: Dyni, Robert C.; Burnett, Mackenzie & Philbin, David
System: The UNT Digital Library
Edwards Underground Water District Annual Report 1995 (open access)

Edwards Underground Water District Annual Report 1995

Annual report of the Edwards Underground Water District describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year {{{year}}}. -- add specifics as appropriate
Date: September 30, 1995
Creator: Edwards Underground Water District (Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Geologic, Geochemical, and Isotopic Studies of a Carbonate- and Siliciclastic-Hosted Pb-Zn Deposit at Lion Hill, Vermont (open access)

Geologic, Geochemical, and Isotopic Studies of a Carbonate- and Siliciclastic-Hosted Pb-Zn Deposit at Lion Hill, Vermont

A report about the potential for Irish-type Pb-Zn deposits in a platform rocks of western Vermont; however, at Lion Hill they contain enrichments of Pb, Zn, and Cu rather than a Pb, Zn, and Ag association.
Date: 1995
Creator: Foley, Nora K.; Clark, Sandra H. B.; Woodruff, Laurel G. & Mosier, Elwin L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shorter Contributions to the Stratigraphy and Geochronology of Upper Cretaceous Rocks in the Western Interior of the United States (open access)

Shorter Contributions to the Stratigraphy and Geochronology of Upper Cretaceous Rocks in the Western Interior of the United States

The following report presents measured sections and lithostratigraphic correlations of the units in the order to document a syntectonic unconformity in order to understand the tectonic history of the area.
Date: 1995
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Property Taxes, 1982-93 (open access)

Texas Property Taxes, 1982-93

Report that discusses the Texas property tax and its affect on the property owners, while looking at it comparatively with other states.
Date: March 1995
Creator: Gilliland, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Rural Land Prices, 1993-94 (open access)

Texas Rural Land Prices, 1993-94

Technical report that analyzes the general trends of the Texas Land Markets from 1993-94.
Date: July 1995
Creator: Gilliland, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Geochemical Survey of the Valdez 1° x 3° Quadrangle, South-Central Alaska (open access)

Geochemical Survey of the Valdez 1° x 3° Quadrangle, South-Central Alaska

The following report follows a geochemical survey and its findings in the Valdez quadrangle in south-central Alaska.
Date: 1995
Creator: Goldfarb, Richard J.; Borden, J. Carter & Winkler, Gary R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The National Guard, State Defense Forces, And the Militias: Official and Unofficial Status (open access)

The National Guard, State Defense Forces, And the Militias: Official and Unofficial Status

This short report discusses the differences between state militias (e.g. state Army National Guard and Air National Guard units), state military forces with no federal connections, and private organizations that claim to be state militias but which are not sanctioned by the state.
Date: May 9, 1995
Creator: Goldich, Robert L.
System: The UNT Digital Library