The Pine Forest Mountains lie within the northern part of the Basin and Range province, near Denio, northwestern Nevada. They are tilted, fault block mountains composed in part of schists and quartzites of Triassic-Jurassic (?) age. In addition, they are intruded by Cretaceous diorites, granodiorites, and quartz monzonites which are...
The Glass Buttes volcanic complex is a cluster of bimodal (basalt-rhyolite), Miocene to Pleistocene age lava flows and domes located in Oregon's High Lava Plains province, a broad region of Cenozoic bimodal volcanism in south-central Oregon. The High Lava Plains is deformed by northwest-striking faults of the Brothers Fault Zone,...
Presentation as part of the "Archives Summit: Protocols for Native American Archival Materials" at the 2015 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums conference hosted by the Association for Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Washington DC, September 9, 2015.
In order to better understand the general problem of satellite cloud top height
retrievals for low clouds, observations made by NOAA research vessels in the
stratocumulus region in the southeastern Pacific during cruises in 2001 and 2003 to 2006
were matched with near-coincident retrievals from the Moderate Resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer...
The video "Harold Otley AV-Oral History 362" was filmed by Dorothea Purdy & Barbara Lofgren at the Harney County Library on June the 8th, 1994, in Burns, Oregon. A copy of the transcript is included.
This oral history is part of the Claire McGill Luce Western History Room at the...
The sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks of the
Callahan, California area formed on, or adjacent to, a Lower Paleozoic
island arc complex which has since been tectonically disrupted.
Sandstone, shale, lithic wacke, chert, banded quartzite, siliceous
mudstone, conglomerate, and limestone of the eastern Klamath belt
were deposited from the Middle...
The North Muddy Mountains are located in southern
Nevada, about 65 km northeast of Las Vegas and near the
eastern boundary of the Basin and Range province. The
north-south-trending range block is bounded on the east and
west, respectively, by east- and west-dipping, high-angle
normal faults. Sevier age contractional and...
To be competitive in domestic and international markets, manufacturing management is routinely faced with the decision to automate or replace existing production facilities with advanced manufacturing technologies. Installation of advanced manufacturing technologies requires high capital investment, and there is much evidence to suggest that automation for automation's sake has proven...
Several uranium anomalies, with concentrations of U₃0₈ that
average below 0.003 percent and reach maximums of 0.069 percent,
are associated with black, fossiliferous, pyritic parts of the Ordovician
Ledbetter Slate in northern Stevens County, Washington. The most
uraniferous parts of the slate occur in small (average of 5 by 30...
This PowerPoint presentation contains selected images pertaining to Animal Damage Management in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Viewers are welcome to use this PowerPoint or any images contained therein. The material has been assembled during much of the author’s career, so proper attribution would be appreciated when...
This research considers the availability of the appropriate geospatial data in support of
vulnerability mapping of the Oregon coast. An online experiment, Voicing Climate Concerns,
was developed to give community stakeholders, researchers and other interested parties the
opportunity to voice their concerns on climate change and their perceived vulnerability to...
A significant number of III users have implemented WebBridge as their OpenURL linking solution -- however a far fewer number have moved to integrate WebBridge into many of their other services like the catalog, ILL or beyond. This presentation will discuss two topics: first, how WebBridge can be used to...
The Middle and West Forks of Little Sheep Creek in the southern Tendoy Range have incised valleys across Cenozoic structural features exposing strata that range in age from the Mississippian to the Neoene. Paleozoic strata are 1,349 m thick and belong to the Mission Canyon Limestone, the Big Snowy, Amsden,...
This research considers the availability of the appropriate geospatial data in support of
vulnerability mapping of the Oregon coast. An online experiment, Voicing Climate Concerns,
was developed to give community stakeholders, researchers and other interested parties the
opportunity to voice their concerns on climate change and their perceived vulnerability to...
The Upper Ojai Valley is a tectonic depression between
opposing reverse faults, Its northern border is formed
by the active, north-dipping San Cayetano fault with 6.0
km of dip-slip displacement in the Silverthread oil field
and 2.6 km displacement west of Sisar Creek; the fault
dies out farther west in...
Obtaining accurate estimates of animal abundance is made difficult by the fact that most
animal species are detected imperfectly. Early attempts at building likelihood models that
account for unknown detection probability impose a simplifying assumption unrealistic for
many populations, however: no births, deaths, migration or emigration can occur in the...
The spatial distribution and geologic histories of submarine volcanoes provide insight into submarine eruptive behavior, deep earth processes and plate tectonics. This dissertation examines the evolution of individual submarine volcanic edifices as well as linear trails of seamounts at three spatial and temporal scales.
In order to understand constructive and...
This thesis is an effort to formalize and document some of the changes occuring in the Warwar Valley of Gongola State, Nigeria, West Africa. The documentation will comprise a photographic study over time accompanied by an ethnographic narrative. Information gathered from photographic images, field notes and the anthropological record will...
In 1978, a ten year project was begun to examine
the synecological effects of livestock grazing riparian
ecosystems. A multitude of biotic arid physical factors,
many which were unique to riparian ecosystems, interacted
to form a complex and diverse riparian ecosystem.
A total of 256 stands of vegetation representing 60...
The Middle Fork John Day Basin in Northeastern Oregon is prime habitat for spring Chinook salmon and Steelhead trout. In 2008, a major tributary supporting rearing habitat, Big Boulder Creek, was restored to its historic mid-valley channel along a 1 km stretch of stream 800 m upstream of the mouth....
The oldest strata present in the Swales Mountain area
are part of the Roberts Mountains allochthon. These include
the western-facies Ordovician Vinini Formation and unnamed
transitional-facies Devonian limestones. The Vinini Formation
comprises dark cherts and black to brown shales
deposited in a deep-water oceanic environment. The Devonian
limestones include numerous...
Lipid biomarkers in sediments are widely used to infer environmental conditions that have
occurred in the geological past, but these reconstructions require a careful consideration of the
biotic and abiotic processes that degrade and alter the lipid biomarker compositions before
and after deposition. In this paper, we use alkenones produced...
This thesis is an effort to formalize and document some of the changes occuring in the Warwar Valley of Gongola State, Nigeria, West Africa. The documentation will comprise a photographic study over time accompanied by an ethnographic narrative. Information gathered from photographic images, field notes and the anthropological record will...
Pressurized liquid extraction (PLE) was evaluated as a method for extracting semivolatile organic compounds (SOCs) from air sampling media; including quartz fiber filter (QFF), polyurethane foam (PUF), and a polystyrene divinyl benzene copolymer (XAD-2). Hansen solubility parameter plots were used to aid in the PLE solvent selection in order to...
'Library groupware' - a set of networked tools supporting information management for individuals and for distributed groups - is a new class of service we may choose to provide in our libraries. In its simplest form, library groupware would help people manage information as they move through the diversity of...
A composite 732-rn thick section in Germany Creek of middle Eocene upper McIntosh and lower Cowlitz Formations, as well as the lower Grays River Volcanics, was studied using bio-, magneto- and lithostratigraphy to construct a sequence stratigraphic framework and assess hydrocarbon exploration potential. The upper McIntosh Formation forms a complete...
The Upper Cretaceous to Eocene Montgomery Creek
Formation is exposed between the Klamath and Cascade
Mountains in the vicinity of Big Bend and Montgomery
Creek, northern California.
The formation is divided into a northern and a
southern section. The rocks consist of a basal conglomerate
succeeded by feldspathic to lithic...
The Central Oregon High Cascade Range is an anomalously mafic segment of the
Cascade Arc due to ongoing intra-arc extension, which allows most magmas to traverse
the crust without stalling and evolving to more evolved compositions. North Sister, a
composite volcano in this arc segment, has produced a seemingly monotonous...
The Coyote Hills are located about 46 kilometers north-northwest
of Lakeview, Oregon, within the Basin and Range physiographic province.
These hills represent a complex volcanic center of bimodal
calc-alkaline igneous activity.
The oldest rocks recorded in the Tertiary succession are horn-blende-
bearing andesite and aphanitic basalt flows, laharic breccias,
conglomerates,...
The Duke Point-Kulleet Bay area is located on the southeast
coast of Vancouver Island, B.C., approximately 60 miles northwest
of Victoria, B.C. and 25 miles west, across the Strait of Georgia,
from Vancouver, B.C. Approximately 2500 feet of Late Cretaceous
sedimentary rocks of the Nanaimo Group are exposed within the...
An important step in the design of digital networks lies in the derivation of the switching formulas which describe the combinational logic networks in the system. In most large systems the number of gates and the number of connections are major factors that affect the cost of the system. An...
The recent increase in awareness of the seismic hazards in Oregon has led to a concern regarding the safety of Oregon State University buildings. While the decision has been made to initiate the seismic rehabilitation of campus facilities, the question of which buildings pose the greatest hazards, and are therefore...
At least 105% nearly east-west extension of late Cenozoic age has been accommodated by down-to-the-east normal and oblique-slip faults in the central Wassuk Range. One northwest striking, right-lateral strike-slip fault probably contributes an additional component of WNW-ESE slip. Movement on the normal and oblique-slip faults in this area tilt the...
The middle Eocene Tillamook Volcanics form the oldest rock unit in the Elsie-lower Nehalem River area. K-Ar age determinations and age constraints imposed by foraminiferal and calcareous nannofossil assemblages of overlying sedimentary strata indicate an absolute age of about 42 Ma for the uppermost Tillamook Volcanics. Major oxide values indicate...
The history of fire between 1850 and 1977 in a portion of the
Willamette National Forest in-the central Western Cascades of Oregon was
documented using historical sources. Three types of records were
available: (1) records and writings not primarily concerned with fire
but yielding information about fire in context with...
In schools at every level, teachers and administrators are under pressure to demonstrate how effective they are by showing exactly what it is their students are learning. These pressures have fueled campus-wide assessment efforts at schools across North America. Librarians at Oregon State University saw this as an opportunity to...
Accurate chromosome segregation and cell cleavage are critical to maintaining genomic integrity. Both events involve the spindle apparatus, but the exact mechanics is as puzzling as the contradicting models proposed in the last two centuries. In this dissertation, current prevailing models of chromosome segregation and cell cleavage are tested using...
Surface and subsurface mapping are combined to determine the
geologic history along the San Gabriel fault near the town of Castaic.
Palomas Gneiss, Whitaker Granodiorite, and Pelona Schist are basement
terranes encountered in the subsurface. West of the San
Gabriel fault, basement is unconformably overlain by marine middle
to late...
The North Muddy Mountains are located in southern
Nevada, about 65 km northeast of Las Vegas and near the
eastern boundary of the Basin and Range province. The
north-south-trending range block is bounded on the east and
west, respectively, by east- and west-dipping, high-angle
normal faults. Sevier age contractional and...
The middle to upper Eocene Tillamook Volcanics form the volcanic core or basement rocks in the Rock Creek-Green Mountain area. They consist of a thick sequence of high TiO2 tholeiitic basalt, basaltic andesite, and andesite subaerial flows and breccias. Detailed mapping, petrography, major oxide plots, magnetic polarity, and radiometric age...
The objective of this research is to use a three-dimensional (3D) analysis
method to include 'system effects' directly in the design of light-frame roof truss
assemblies. The goal of this study is to develop an improved and practical method to
determine the structural performance of 3D roof truss assemblies used...
Presentation about the future of online public access catalogs. I discuss whether or not the catalog; or, more specifically, the local OPAC, has a future and the other search and discovery tools the OPAC is competing with. I also review short-term and long-term changes that are necessary for OPACs to...
The Nanga Parbat-Haramosh massif (NPHM) is a unique structural
and topographic high in the northwestern corner of the Himalayan
convergence zone. Previously, the NPHM was thought to be bounded by
the MMT, a thrust along which the Kohistan-Ladakh island arc was
obducted onto the northern margin of fridia. This study...
The Nanga Parbat-Haramosh massif (NPHM) is a north-south trending
structural and topographic high, which interrupts the east-west trend
of the Himalaya in northern Pakistan. Previously, the massif was
thought to be bounded by the Main Mantle thrust (MMT), a north-dipping
thrust along which the Kohistan-Ladakh arc was thrust south over...
Lipid biomarkers in sediments are widely used to infer environmental conditions that have
occurred in the geological past, but these reconstructions require a careful consideration of the
biotic and abiotic processes that degrade and alter the lipid biomarker compositions before
and after deposition. In this paper, we use alkenones produced...
Mycobacterium avium is an intracellular pathogen that is associated with disseminated
infection, especially in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). It
appears that patients with AIDS acquire M. avium mostly through the intestinal tract,
and that bacteria enter the intestinal wall at the terminal ileum. Previous studies have
found that...
The schist of Skookum Gulch (SSG) is an informal name applied to
a fault-bounded melange composed mainly of schistose metamorphic
rocks and less abundant sedimentary and igneous rocks located in the
eastern Klamath Mountains of northern California. The SSG features
outcrops of lawsonite+sodic amphibole blueschist and epidote+sodic
amphibole rocks transitional...
The oldest strata present in the Swales Mountain area
are part of the Roberts Mountains allochthon. These include
the western-facies Ordovician Vinini Formation and unnamed
transitional-facies Devonian limestones. The Vinini Formation
comprises dark cherts and black to brown shales
deposited in a deep-water oceanic environment. The Devonian
limestones include numerous...
The Pleistocene Carpinteria basin is an east-trending
northward-verging, faulted syncline containing up to
1220m of partially intertonguing Santa Barbara and
Casitas Formations deposited on previously folded pre-
Pleistocene strata with up to 80° discordance. Structures
subcropping against the unconformity indicate most
of the deformation in the Santa Ynez Range prior...
To quantify the distribution and abundance of the riparian-associated vertebrate
community, I surveyed streams in four basins in the Oregon Coast Range, 1992-1994. I
observed mostly birds with fewer observations of mammals. Belted Kingfishers (Ceryle
alcyon), American Dippers (Cinclus mexicanus), Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias),
and Mallards (Anus plalyrhynchos) comprised...
The Russell Ranch oil field is located in the southern Coast
Ranges west of Bakersfield, California. Detailed subsurface
mapping shows that a northwest-oriented right-lateral wrench-fault
system was active from possibly latest Oligocene to Pliocene time.
The effects of Quaternary thrusting were superimposed on, and influenced
by, structures associated with the...
The Autographa californica M nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcMNPV) sulfhydryl oxidase Ac92 is essential for production of infectious virions. Ac92 also interacts with human p53 and enhances human p53-induced apoptosis in insect cells, but it is not known whether any relationship exists between Ac92 and native p53 homologs from insect hosts of AcMNPV....
Concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs),
pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons were measured in 136 fish from 14 remote
lakes in 8 western U.S. National Parks/Preserves between
2003 and 2005 and compared to human and wildlife contaminant
health thresholds. A sensitive (median detection limit, -18
pg/g wet...
Roberta Hall was part of an OSU [Oregon State University team that made exchange visits with women scholars in Nepal from 1995 through 1997. She spent Jan.-March of 1997 in Nepal and brought back extensive notes from observations and interviews; a bibliography on prehistory, current environmental problems, and women’s concerns;...
Submarine volcanic eruptions can result in both real and apparent changes in marine algal communities, e.g., increases in phytoplankton biomass and/or growth rates that can cover thousands of square kilometers. Satellite ocean color monitoring detects these changes as increases in chlorophyll and particulate backscattering. Detailed, high resolution analysis is needed...
Face checking in decorative maple veneered plywood panels is a significant
problem for hardwood plywood manufacturers, furniture makers, cabinetmakers, and consumers. Efforts made by panel producers and researchers to minimize checking conducted to-‐date have been limited, and produced contradictory results. In this study the impact of four manufacturing factors believed...
Fault zones are potential paths for release of radioactive nuclides from radioactive-waste
repositories in granitic rock. This research considers detailed maps of en echelon fault zones
at two sites in southern Sweden, as a basis for analyses of how their internal geometry can
influence groundwater flow and transport of radioactive...
Late Cretaceous sedimentary marine and deltaic rocks of
Gabriola Island were mapped and studied during the summer of 1971.
Cretaceous strata constitute all the exposed outcrops on the island,
which is the northernmost of the Gulf Island chain of British Columbia.
The upper four formations of the Nanaimo Group are...
A composite 732-rn thick section in Germany Creek of middle Eocene upper McIntosh and lower Cowlitz Formations, as well as the lower Grays River Volcanics, was studied using bio-, magneto- and lithostratigraphy to construct a sequence stratigraphic framework and assess hydrocarbon exploration potential. The upper McIntosh Formation forms a complete...
This thesis is an effort to formalize and document some of the changes occuring in the Warwar Valley of Gongola State, Nigeria, West Africa. The documentation will comprise a photographic study over time accompanied by an ethnographic narrative. Information gathered from photographic images, field notes and the anthropological record will...
This thesis is an effort to formalize and document some of the changes occuring in the Warwar Valley of Gongola State, Nigeria, West Africa. The documentation will comprise a photographic study over time accompanied by an ethnographic narrative. Information gathered from photographic images, field notes and the anthropological record will...
This thesis is an effort to formalize and document some of the changes occuring in the Warwar Valley of Gongola State, Nigeria, West Africa. The documentation will comprise a photographic study over time accompanied by an ethnographic narrative. Information gathered from photographic images, field notes and the anthropological record will...
This thesis is an effort to formalize and document some of the changes occuring in the Warwar Valley of Gongola State, Nigeria, West Africa. The documentation will comprise a photographic study over time accompanied by an ethnographic narrative. Information gathered from photographic images, field notes and the anthropological record will...
Dataset for a paper presented at iPres 2017 conference, 25–29 September 2017, Kyoto, Japan. The paper uses a collective case study to reveal similarities and differences in operations and service models of nine distributed digital preservation services.
Natural disasters including hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, and fires often involve substantial physical and mental impacts on affected populations and thus are public health priorities. Limited research shows that vulnerable populations such as the low-income, socially isolated migrant and seasonal farmworkers (MSFW) are particularly susceptible to the effects of natural...
Six early to middle Tertiary geologic units crop out in the
Saddle and Humbug Mountain area. They include the late Eocene to
early Miocene Oswald West muds tones, the lower Silver Point and
the upper Silver Point tongues of the middle Miocene Astoria Formation,
and the middle Miocene Depoe Bay...
We present an approach for generating a character’s response in anticipation of
an impending impact. Protective anticipatory movement is built upon several
simple actions that have been identified as response mechanisms in monkeys
and in humans. These actions are parameterized by a model of the interaction
based on the approaching...
This set of presentations was used in July-August, 2007, to train staff at Oregon State University in the application of the Library of Congress Classification system and related shelflisting practices. The presentations cover basic notation, cuttering, geographic cutters, special formats such as continuing resources, congresses, and biographies, and many other...
Many different models and mechanisms of water imbibition into soil have been described in the literature. Theoretical equations based on those models exist to predict how water will flow in porous media. These models can be useful, but have their weaknesses. Research on imbibition and infiltration into soils has mostly...
Surface and subsurface data indicate that Cretaceous strata
in the southern Ventura basin are part of the northward prograding
Chatsworth submarine fan. The fan extends westward as far as
Trancas Beach in the Santa Monica Mountains and wells in the
Oxnard Plain and on Oak Ridge. The eastern edge of...
The Upper Ojai Valley is a tectonic depression between
opposing reverse faults, Its northern border is formed
by the active, north-dipping San Cayetano fault with 6.0
km of dip-slip displacement in the Silverthread oil field
and 2.6 km displacement west of Sisar Creek; the fault
dies out farther west in...
Context: Retrospective exposure assessment in population-based case-control studies poses a major challenge
due to the wide range of occupations and industries involved. The FINJEM is a generic job-exposure
matrix developed in Finland which represents a potentially cost effective exposure assessment tool.
While FINJEM has been used in several studies outside...