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Creator:: Smith, Robert Lloyd
Abstract:: The oceanic phenomenon of upwelling along the Oregon coast is examined. Upwelling in both the open ocean and coastal regions is discussed. An idealized model is used, envisaging the ocean off Oregon to consist of homogeneous surface and deep layers separated by a pycnocline. The equations of motion are solved...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Kulm, LaVerne D., 1936-
Abstract:: Three realms of deposition, Marine, Fluviatile, and Marine- Fluviatile, are recognized in Yaquina Bay, Oregon, on the basis of sediment texture and mineralogy. The Marine Realm extends 1.5 miles into the entrance of the estuary and is typified by normal marine salinity and vigorous tidal action. Sediments of this realm...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Lane, Robert Kenneth
Abstract:: The climate and the exchange of heat between atmosphere and ocean are examined in a region adjacent to Washington and Oregon, and in two sub-regions adjacent to Oregon. The sub-regions are chosen such that one contains the nearshore upwelling region and the other borders it on the seaward side. The...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Maloney, Neil Joseph
Abstract:: The continental terrace west of Oregon between 43° 50'N and 44° 40' N latitude is 50 to 55 miles wide. It consists of a continental shelf, 16 to 35 miles wide, and a continental slope, 16 to 37 miles wide. The eastern portion of the shelf is a smooth, sediment...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Neal, Victor Thomas
Abstract:: The probable pollution distribution and flushing times have been calculated for the Columbia River Estuary, a coastal plain estuary. The pollution distribution was determined by the fresh water fraction and by the diffusion equation. The flushing times were calculated by the modified tidal prism method and by the fraction of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Ingham, Merton C., 1930-
Abstract:: The principal salinity extrema and extremum surfaces of the world ocean are described by the analysis and plotting of data from 885 hydrographic stations in the three major oceans, the Southern Ocean, and the American Mediterranean Sea. The distributions of salinity, temperature, depth, and density along the extremum surfaces, plotted...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Runge, Erwin John
Abstract:: Sediments on the inner portion of the Oregon continental shelf consist of clean, well-sorted, detrital sand. This sand has an average median diameter of 2.53Φ (. 173 mm) and is both positively and negatively skewed. Deposits with median diameters in the coarse sand and gravel classes occur at depths of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Hebard, James Frank
Abstract:: Fifty-two one-meter plankton net samples from four stations off Newport, Oregon, were examined for composition and abundance of euphausiids and copepods. They provided data on dominance, species associations and environmental relationships. The euphausiid-copepod population off Oregon is composed of 12 numerically dominant species. These species occurred in most of the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Sarmah, Suryya Kanta
Abstract:: Fourier transformed amplitudes of the compressional waves recorded between 9° and 91° (about 1000 to 10,000 km) epicentral distance from Gnome, Shoal, Haymaker,and Bilby underground nuclear explosions have been compared with Fourier transformed amplitudes of P waves measured at distances between 9.0 and 1 3. 0 km from the explosions....
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Cutshall, N. H.
Abstract:: Radioactive chromium-51, a waste byproduct from operation of nuclear reactors at Hanford, Washington, has been followed down the Columbia River and into the Pacific Ocean. Chemical factors influencing the partitioning of ⁵¹Cr between solution and sediment have been considered. Chromium-5l, in a hexavalent oxyanion when introduced into the Columbia River,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Frederick, Lawrence Churchill
Abstract:: An investigation has been made of several physical parameters of the effluent plume of the Columbia River as it enters the Pacific Ocean. Radioactive material in trace amounts enters the Columbia River from the Hanford nuclear reactors at Richland, Washington. One of these nuclides, chromium -51, has been used to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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