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Limnology of Laguna Tortuguero, Puerto Rico

Description: Abstract: The principal chemical, physical and biological characteristics, as well as the hydrology of Laguna Tortuguero, Puerto Rico, were studied from 1974-75. The lagoon, with and area of 2.24 square kilometers and a volume of about 2.68 million cubic meters, contains about 5 percent of seawater. Drainage through a canal on the north side averages 0.64 cubic meters per second per day, flushing the lagoon about 7.5 times per year. Chloride and sodium are the principal ions in the water, rangi… more
Date: March 1978
Creator: Quiñones-Márquez, Ferdinand & Fusté, Luis A.
Location: None
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Puerto Rico Energy Center Study: Executive Study

Description: From background: The study is an outgrowth of investigations by the Atomic Energy Commission and the Office of Saline Water into the use of nuclear energy to supply heat for desalting seawater and for generating electricity, and of work on the energy center concept conducted at the AEC's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The bases for the study were set forth in a Memorandum of Understanding signed by Commissioner James T. Ramey of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Under Secretary David … more
Date: July 1970
Creator: Burns and Roe, Inc.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Puerto Rico Energy Center Study: Executive Summary

Description: From introduction: The scope of work of the study was to compile and analyze information on the resources and requirements of the southwestern, southeastern, and north-central coastal regions of the Commonwealth, and assess industrial and agricultural activities which in conjunction with the power and desalting plants, might comprise the energy center complex. The study was also to identify the need for any experimental, pilot or demonstration projects which benefit the practical application of… more
Date: July 1970
Creator: Burns and Roe
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Puerto Rico Energy Center Study: Site Selection Supplement

Description: From introduction: The PRWRA has contracted with the AEC to study the application of an Energy Center in Puerto Rico. The authority in turn has retained Burns and Roe, Inc. as a subcontractor and the Dow Chemical Company as a major sub-subcontractor to carry out this study.
Date: July 1970
Creator: Burns and Roe
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Puerto Rico Energy Center Study: Volume 1

Description: From introduction: The scope of work of the study was to compile and analyze information on the resources and requirements of the southwestern, southeastern, and north-central coastal regions of the Commonwealth, and assess industrial and agricultural activities which in conjunction with the power and desalting plants, might comprise the energy center complex. The study was also to identify the need for any experimental, pilot or demonstration projects which benefit the practical application of… more
Date: July 1970
Creator: Burns and Roe
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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State Compensatory Provisions for Occupational Diseases

Description: From Introduction: "This publication includes the laws of the States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Island through 1964. Only those portions of the workmen's compensation laws which apply to or are related to and deletions from the basic law have been incorporated into the text of the law, thus making it unnecessary to search out the various amendments made each year."
Date: 1967
Creator: Morgis, G. G.; Beauregard, Lena P. & Shoub, Earle P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Statistical Summary of Daily Values Data and Trend Analysis of Dissolved-Solids Data at National Stream Quality Accounting Network (NASQAN) Stations

Description: From abstract: A statistical summary of the available continuous and once-daily discharge, specific-conductance, dissolved oxygen, temperature, and pH data collected at NASQAN stations during the 1973-81 water years and documentation of the period of record on which the statistical calculations were based are presented.
Date: 1983
Creator: Wells, Frank C. & Schertz, Terry L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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United States Earthquakes, 1928

Description: Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1928. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1930
Creator: Heck, N. H. & Bodle, R. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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United States Earthquakes, 1929

Description: Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1929. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1931
Creator: Heck, N. H. & Bodle, R. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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United States Earthquakes, 1930

Description: Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1930. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1932
Creator: Neumann, Frank & Bodle, R. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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United States Earthquakes, 1931

Description: Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1931. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1932
Creator: Neumann, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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