MONTANA RAINFALL

Tobacco Root Mountains, Montana

Meta-ultramafi c rocks occur as small (2 to 100 m long), podiform bodies in all three major Precambrian rock suites of the Tobacco Root Mountains of southwest Montana. Most samples consist of a randomly oriented, coarse-grained assemblage of orthopyroxene, olivine, and magnesiohornblende ± spinel, partially replaced by a fi ne-grained assemblage that may include anthophyllite, talc, cummingtoni...

Deadly radon in montana?

Noting a negative correlation between average radon levels and lung cancer mortality in Montana counties, Hart (2011) “questions the notion that radon is deadly in Montana.” Results from a much larger ecological study of the correlation between county radon levels and lung cancer mortality across the whole United States were published in the 1990s (Cohen 1990, 1995). Like Hart, Cohen found an i...

Deadly radon in montana?

Phonetic structures of Montana Salish

Montana Salish is an Interior Salishan language spoken on the Flathead reservation in Northwest Montana by an estimated population of about 40 speakers. This paper describes the basic phonetic characteristics of the language based on data from five speakers. Montana Salish contains a number of typologically unusual consonant types. including glottalized sonorants, prestopped laterals, and a ser...

Artificial Rainfall

In many regions of the world traditional sources and supplies of groundwater, rivers and reservoirs are either inadequate or under stress from increasing demands on water from changes in land use and growing population. The ability to influence and modify cloud microstructure in certain cloud systems has been demonstrated and verified in laboratory, modeling, and observational studies. Cloud se...