North Carolina rivers

Clam, Rangia cuneata, Neuse River, North Carolina, 1965-67, soft parts before Chinese nuclear tests in May and December 1966 vs. posttest ... 

Microorganisms readily able to degrade hydrocarbons were found in the Neuse River estuary in North Carolina. Although the estuary was relatively free of hydrocarbon contamination, 63% of the bacteria and 71% of the fungi isolated from surface water samples were able to utilize kerosene as the sole carbon source (Buckley et al. 1976). Weathered kerosene (volatile components were allowed to escape prior to testing) was spiked with four marker hydrocarbons, and the degradation of the markers was monitored. 

Factory-style animal farms are a growing trend that began about 20years ago. This article explores the impact that such farming has had on the rivers and estuaries of North Carolina, the state that is the second-largest pork producer in the United States. 

Ill the United Slates, common corundum is found in New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Virginia. North Carolina. South Carolina and Georgia sapphires of gem quality near Helena. Montana, associated with alluvial gold in the Missouri River. From the crystalline limestones and schists of the islands of Naxos and Samos in the Grecian archipelago most of the emery of commerce comes. Other deposits are near Ephesus in the Middle East, and in the mwn of Chester in Massachusetts. The word corundum conies from the Hindu, kurand emery is derived from the Greek name for this substance. 

Boyer, J. N., R. R. Christian, and D. W. Stanley. 1993. Patterns of phytoplankton primary productivity in the Neuse River estuary, North Carolina, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series 97 287-297. 

A mean value of 3 x 10-10 m-1 for Kr was deduced by Shinn et al. (1983) from measurements of airborne Pu over a bare field near the Savannah River Processing Plant. Here the activity median aerodynamic diameter was 3 //m. The main reason why Kr measured in Nevada and North Carolina was much lower than Kr measured at Maralinga and Monte Bello is the effect of ageing on the characteristics of the deposited material. 

Balthis, W.L., Hyland, J.L., Scott, G.I., Fulton, M.H., Bearden, D.W. and Greene, M.D. (2002) Sediment quality of the Neuse River estuary, North Carolina an integrated assessment of sediment contamination, toxicity, and condition of benthic fauna, Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Stress and Recovery 9, 213-225. 

Allen M.R. (1985) The origin of dolomites in the phosphatic sediments of the Miocene Pungo River Formation North Carolina. M.S. thesis, Duke Univ., Durham, North Carolina. 

Pinckney, J.L., Paerl, H.W., Harrington, M.B., and Howe, K.E. (1998) Annual cycles of phytoplankton community-structure and bloom dynamics in the Neuse River estuary, North Carolina. Mar. Biol. 131, 371-381. 

Reckhow, K.H., and Gray, J. (2000) Neuse River Estuary modeling and monitoring project stage 1 stage 1 executive summary and long-term modeling recommendations. Report no. 325-A of the Water Resources Research Institute, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. 

Tester, P.A., Geesey, M.E., Guo, C., Paerl, H.W., and Millie, D.F. (1995) Evaluating phytoplankton dynamics in the Newport River estuary (North Carolina, USA.) by HPLC-derived pigment profiles. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 124, 237-245. 

Synthetic organic chemicals have been isolated by either resin adsorption or direct methylene chloride liquid—liquid extraction. Analyses for 48 distinct chemical entities in river water from a river located in North Carolina s Piedmont area were carried out. The river was sampled at three locations several times during a 13-month period (41). Most frequendy included among the 48 chemicals found were atrazine, methyl atraton (triazine herbicides), dimethyl dioxane, 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene, tributylphosphate, triethylphosphate, trimethylindolinone, and tris(chloropropyl) phosphate. Many of these chemicals are indigenous to industrial and agricultural activities in Piedmont. The concentrations were in the ng/L to mg/L range. 

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters. There, on the borders of a creek that runs into the Yadkin River, in a cabin that was chinked with red mud, I came into the world a subject of King George the Third, in that part of his realm known as the province of North Carolina. 

WhitaU, D. R., and Paerl, H. W. (2001). Atmospheric poUutants and trace gases spatiotemporal variability of wet atmospheric nitrogen deposition to the Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina. J. Environ. Qual. 30, 1508—1515. 

Neuse River Estuary North Carolina croatan... 

Figure 11.3 Low oxygen, hypoxic (less than 2 mg O2) conditions in the bottom waters of the N-enriched, entrophic Nense River Estuary, located in coastal North Carolina (upper left hand side). Upper right hand side shows the lateral extent of hypoxia along the central channel of the estuary during summer (data from the Neuse River Monitoring and Modeling Program, www.marine.unc.edu/neuse/modmon, see Buzzelli et al., 2002). The lower part of this figure shows hoth the spatial and temporal extent of hypoxia in this estuary (adapted from Buzzelli etal.,2002).

Harrington, M. B. (1999). Responses of Natural Phytoplankton Communities from the Neuse River Estuary, NC to Changes in Nitrogen Supply and Incident Irradiance. MSc. Thesis. Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. 89pp. 

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