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Approaches To The Synthesis Of Azabullvalene, Thomas Rudolph Steinheimer

Doctoral Dissertations

"Three approaches to the synthesis of the heretofore unknown azabullvalene, the pi electron equivalent heterocyclic congener of bullvalene itself, are described. Two of the schemes are based upon the assumption that the most convenient method for the introduction of the nitrogen atom is via thermal rearrangement of the appropriate azide.

The first involved the generation of the homobarrelene carbon skeleton and sub sequent decomposition of its azide. This compound arises formally as the product of the Diels-Alder addition of acetylene to the bicyclic valence isomer of tropyl azide (cyclohepta-1, 3, 5- trienyl-7-azide). In order to achieve this goal, Diels-Alder additions …

Petrography, Chemical Composition, And Stratigraphic Setting Of The Coals Of North-Central Missouri, William Keith Wedge

Doctoral Dissertations

"Under a grant from the National Air Pollution Control Administration, the Missouri Geological Survey undertook a core drilling program to learn more about the coals in north-central Missouri. The stratigraphic setting and chemical and petrographic characteristics of 43 complete samples of coal recovered from 13 diamond drill holes in the exploration program in north-central Missouri are major contributions of this study. These samples represent twelve different coal beds of the Atokan and Desmoinesian Series of the Pennsylvanian System of Missouri and range in thickness from 9.6 to 44.4 inches. They have an average thickness of 20.4 inches and a combined …

Seismic Refraction Study Of Post-Pliocene Stratigraphy, Dismal Swamp, Virginia, William Brian Fraser

OES Theses and Dissertations

This study examines Pliocene-Pleistocene lithostratigraphy and the Yorktown unconformity within the Dismal Swamp by means of remote sensing analysis, Wyrobek-Gardner seismic refraction profiling and split-spoon coring. Pre-Sangamon fluvial/tidal channel deposits are not present and the Yorktown unconformity dips irregularly southeastward at 0.35 meters/kilometer (2 feet/mile) from a high at 4 meters above sea level to a low of -1 meter (+12 to -2 ft) below sea level. The marker velocity for the Yorktown Formation is 1600 mps (5250 fps) and regression of seismic depths of the Yorktown Formation with corresponding split-spoon depths yields a high correlation. Short line upper layer …

Extension Of Belyaev-Zelivinski Method Of Rotation As Intrinsic Nuclear Excitation, Jeffrey W. Gray

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The method of Belyaev and Zelevinski for handling the rotational collective states of deformed nuclei has been extended. It is shown how a [J(J+1)]² term naturally occurs in the energy spectrum of a rotational band for even-even nuclei. This is accomplished by modifying the assumption that Belyaev and Zelevinski imposed on their |n> states. This leads to a definite relationship between the coefficient of the J(J+1) and [J(J+1)]² terms in the energy spectrum. This technique is applied to a single isolated j-level and to an arbitrary level scheme.

New Approaches To The Study Of The Circulation On The Continental Shelf, Paul V. Hyer

Reports

The current state of knowledge of continental shelf circulation is summarized . Existing data collections are reviewed for quality and quantity. Descriptions are given of possible advanced experiments utilizing remote sensing and buoy technology to study water exchanges between the shelf and Gulf Stream.

Bathymetry Of The Chesapeake Bay, Victor Goldsmith, Carolyn H. Sutton

Reports

Coordinates: W 77⁰30ʹ--W 75⁰30ʹ/N 39⁰30ʹ--N 37⁰.

Bathymetry based on depths from National Ocean Survey sounding sheets, contoured to mean low water datum.

Scale 1:224,700 at 37⁰ latitude.

Original chart size 141x80cm. | 55.5x31.5inches

Bathymetric Chart Series No. 2.

A Report On Salinity And Oxygen Values In The Great Wicomico River In 1971 And L972 With Comments On The Low Set, Dexter Haven

Reports

Our studies in the Great Wicomico River showed that in 1971°':·oystefr larvae did not strike during early July in the usual number. In looking for a reason, we began to take samples for dissolved oxygen beginning on 12 July 1971. · Our studies showed that DO was low at the bottom from at least 12 July to 27 July. Salinity, according to limited data, ,~ appeared about average for the· season. (...)

Relative Growth, Reproduction And Distribution Of The Rock Crab, Cancer Irroratus, In Chesapeake Bay During The Winter, Roy Tim Terretta

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Intrinsic And Environmental Factors On The Oxygen Consumption Of The Blue Crab, Callinectes Sapidus Rathbun, Chae E. Laird

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance In The Amorphous Transition Metal Vzr Alloy, Kwang Soo Han

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Inner Shelf Sediments Off Chesapeake Bay. Iii, Heavy Minerals, Bruce K. Goodwin, John B. Thomas

Reports

The heavy minerals in the sand sized fraction of 112 grab samples collected off the Virginia coast were analyzed for their variations in mineralogy. The main purpose was to characterize the heavy mineral suite and to delineate potentially important economic areas.

Marine And Estuarine Sanctuaries - Proceedings, National Workshop On Sanctuaries (Washington, D.C.)

Reports

No abstract provided.

Oyster Spatfall On Shellstrings In Virginia Rivers: 1972 Annual Summary, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Reports

Oyster setting in Virginia river systems dipped to the lowest levels on record during 1972, according to scientists at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science who regularly monitor oyster grounds for set. A heavy set occurred on the seaside of Virginia's Eastern Shore and limited setting was observed in tributary rivers of the Mobjack Bay, but elsewhere the number of oysters setting on shellstrings and on the bottom in lower Chesapeake Bay in 1972 was far lower than for the previous year, and the lowest overall set ever recorded.

Evaluation Of Nitrate Content Of Ground Water In Hall County, Nebraska, Rauf Piskin

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.

Nebraska Groundwater Level (Decline & Rise), 1973

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.

Total Number Of Irrigation Wells Located In Nebraska Counties As Of 1973

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.

Topographic Regions Map

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.

Water Resources Data For Nebraska Part 2-Water Quality Records

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.

The Pierre-Niobrara Unconformity In Western Nebraska, Harold M. Degraw

Conservation and Survey Division

The Pierre-Niobrara unconformity, one of several significant unconformities in the Cretaceous System of the Western Interior region, has not generally been recognized. Detailed correlation of electric logs of a large number of wells in western Nebraska provides evidence of its existence. Isopach maps of the beds occupying three identifiable stratigraphic intervals - a redefined Niobrara Formation, an unnamed uppermost Niobrara unit, and an unnamed basal Pierre unit, which includes the Ardmore Bentonite - provide recognizable geologic patterns that permit reconstruction of the stages of development of the unconformity. The upper part of the Niobrara Formation has been truncated in several …

Heavy Minerals Of Glacial Sediments In The Area Of Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, Howard Hobbs

Theses and Dissertations

Pleistocene lithostratigraphic units containing glacial sediments in the Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, area and adjacent areas were studied to determine their heavy-mineral assemolages. Seventy-two samples of fine sand were studied by optical grain-count methods and 77 samples of fine sand were studied by x-ray diffraction methods. Most formations contain a hornblende-garnet-pyroxene-epidote assemblage; the Gervais Formation contains a pyroxene-hornblende assemblage. The mean proportion of the constituent minerals is different in each formation; however, there is overlap in the ranges of heavy mineral proportions among the formations. The Red Lake Falls Formation can be subdivided on the basis of garnet abundance.

Depositional Environments Of The Upper Part Of The Sentinel Butte Formation, Southeastern Mckenzie County, North Dakota, Robert Post Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

The depositional environments of a 40 meter thick interval in the upper part of the Sentinel Butte Formation in southeastern McKenzie County, North Dakota have been determined from the sedimentary structures, geometry, distribution of grain· sizes, and stratigraphic relations of cyclic lithostratigraphic units. The top of the study interval is the top of the upper yellow marker bed.

An elongate, tabular sand bed was studied in detail. It is 12 meters thick and 3 kilometers wide and it is interpreted to have been deposited by lateral accretion in a high-sinuosity stream. Paleo current indicators are parallel to the long axis …

Geology Of The Older Precambrian Rocks In The Vicinity Of Clear Creek And Zoroaster Canyon, Grand Canyon, Arizona, William S. Lingley Jr.

WWU Graduate School Collection

The Clear Creek-Zoroaster Canyon area is located in the east- central section of the Bright Angel Quadrangle (Maxson, 1968) roughly seven miles east northeast of Grand Canyon Village, Arizona. The boundaries of the present study area are shown in Figure 1. The study area extends from Mile 83.7 to Mile 86 on the Colorado River below Lee's Ferry, Arizona.

Older Precambrian rocks are exposed along the Inner Gorge of the Colorado River. They also crop out at Zoroaster Canyon, Clear Creek, and Cremation Creek. There are over 450 m of vertical exposure. Many outcrops are inaccessible due to steepness of …

Paleomagnetism Of Late Pleistocene Sediments, Puget Lowland, Washington, Kurt L. Othberg

WWU Graduate School Collection

Establishment of late Pleistocene geomagnetic polarity events would provide useful time indices for regional and interregional stratigraphic correlations. Development of a geomagnetic polarity scale tied to radiocarbon dating for the Puget Lowland helps to elucidate the possible occurrence of world-wide (dipole) reversed events during the last 50,000 years. Stability and reliability tests indicate that late Pleistocene sediments exposed in the Puget Lowland record valid paleomagnetic directions. Puget Lowland geomagnetic polarity for the interval 11,000 years to 30,000 years BP was normal except for a short reversed period between 20,000 years and 15,000 years BP. In addition to sampling errors and …

Petrogenesis Of The Granitic Rocks Of Part Of The Upper Granite Gorge, Grand Canyon, Arizona, Michael B. Walen

WWU Graduate School Collection

The study area extends from Phantom Creek to Crystal Creek, a distance of approximately 10 miles along the Colorado River. The units exposed are the Precambrian Vishnu Schist granitic to granodioritic units in Phantom Canyon, Trinity Canyon, and near Crystal Creek, and pegmatites and aplites. The Vishnu Schist is composed mostly of quartzo-feldspathic schists. The assemblage quartz-oligoclase-muscovite-biotite-sillimanite-K-feldspar indicates metamorphic conditions in the upper amphibolite facies between Phantom Creek and Mile 95. Between Mile 95 and Crystal Creek, assemblages indicate lower amphibolite to greenschist facies conditions.

The Phantom Granitic Complex consists of granodioritic and quartz monzonitic units. The presence of a …

Stratigraphic Comparison Of The Precambrian Wyman And Johnnie Formations In The Western Great Basin, California, Johnnie Nathan Moore

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The Precambrian Johnnie Formation in the Death Valley area and to the south is separable into two facies. The southern facies contains six distinct members: the transitional, quartzite, lower carbonate-bearing, siltstone, upper carbonate-bearing, and Rainstorm members. Dolomite, quartzite, and mudstone characterize the southern facies, as does the presence of the Johnnie oolite. To the north the Johnnie oolite pinches out and the amount of mudstone in the formation increases. The dominantly mudstone northern facies contains local gray limestone lenses closely similar to limestone in the Wyman Formation in the White-Inyo Mountains. Generally outcrops of the northern facies of the Johnnie …

Recherches Sur Les Grégarines (Gregarinida: Stenophoridae) Du Diplopode Troglobie Typhloiulus Bureschi Verhoeff En Bulgarie, Vassil Golemansky, Dimitar Taschev

International Journal of Speleology

A study of the parasitic fauna, particularly the Gregarines, found in a troglobitic diplopod Typhloiulus bureschi Verhoeff, one of the Iulidae from Bulgarian caves is presented. Data on morphology and taxonomy of the Eugregarines are included. There is a description of a new species, Stenophora typhloiuli. This species is compared with other species of the genus Stenophora.

The Evolution Of The Eastern North American Isopods Of The Genus Asellus (Crustacea: Asellidae) Part Ii, Laurence E. Fleming

International Journal of Speleology

This paper is the second in the three part series dealing with the evolution of the North American isopods of the genus Asellus. The generic status of Asellus is discussed with emphasis placed on the newly proposed genera of Henry and Magniez (1968). Use is made of comparative anatomical and where feasible statistical methods during this investigation. The first, shorter portion of the study deals with the presentation of evidence supporting the viewpoint that if "Pseudobaicalasellus” is to be considered a valid genus then it must include the members of the Cannulus Group of Steeves (1965). The …

Feeding Behavior Of The Salamander Gyrinophilus Porphyriticus In Caves, David C. Culver

International Journal of Speleology

The feeding responses of salamander larvae (Gyrinophilus porphyriticus) from caves in the Powell Valley in Virginia were investigated in the laboratory. The larvae locate prey by mechanoreception and capture the prey by a rapid sucking action, much like cave-limited salamanders do. Feeding success is greater with the isopod Asellus recurvatus (about 90 per cent) than with the amphipod Crangonyx antennatus (about 50 per cent), and this largely accounts for the higher frequency of A. recurvatus taken in choice experiments. G. porphyriticus readily ingested the unfamiliar isopod Lirceus usdagalun, but it took four weeks before it was digested …

Les Populations Naturelles De Stanasellus Virei Dollfus (Crustacé Asellote Troglobie), Guy Magniez

International Journal of Speleology

Many cavernicolous and phreatic localities are known for the species Stenasellus virei. Some of these, which harbor a rather abundant population have been studied for several years. The endemic populations from permanent waters of some fossil karstic systems seem to have an abnormal composition. They include especially large individuals (juvenile stages being rare). They differ from the phreatic populations, which exhibit a normal distribution in size groups with a normal percentage of juveniles. These differences in the structure of populations may result from physical differences between the habitat in free waters of caves and in phreatic water, and from …

Le Deuxième Colloque International Sur Les Genres Niphargus Et Gammarus - Lyon, 1973 Compte-Rendu De Travail Pour Niphargus, R. Ginet

International Journal of Speleology

Following the First Colloquium held at Verona in 1969, it was planned to hold at Lyon in July, 1973, the Second International Colloquium dealing with the genus Niphargus and also with the genus Gammarus. As subject matter in discussions dealing with the first of these genera, the meeting was devoted mainly the balancing the various viewpoints (based on the European approach) and initiating a collective study of the systematics of these hypogean Amphipoda. The systematics are currently quite confused. Several modifications of the propositions of the Colloquium at Verona (published in 1972) were discussed. A third Colloquium, with the same …