Roland Blake /

"Author's definitive edition."

The lyrical poems of William Blake.

Introduction.--Early poems.--Songs of innocence.--Songs of experience.--Poems from the Rossetti ms.--Poems from the Pickering ms.--Poems from letters.--Epigrams, quatrains and couplets.--Poems from the "Prophetic books".

The sanity of William Blake /

Mode of access: Internet.

William Blake; a study of his life and art work,

"Books on Blake": p. xi-xii.

Letter to the Rev. Mr. Blake.

Mode of access: Internet.

Oceanic ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures.

Published at the joint expense of the Smithsonian institution and the United States National museum.

1994 Ice Hockey Team

Top Row: head trainer Rick Bancroft asst. equip. mngr. Josh Richelew, student equip. mngr J.B. Adkins, equip. mngr. Ian Hume, student equip. mngr. T.C. Wingrove, student trainer Jason Hedges, student equip. mngr. Jason Ostrem

Third Row: Blake Sloan, Brendan Morrsion, Peter Bourke, Warren Luhning, Jason Botterill, Chris Fescoln, Mike Legg, Karonld Schock, John Madden

Second Row: John Arnold, Anton Fedorov, Rick Willis, Ryan Sittler, Al Loges, Drew Denzin, Steve Halko, Mark Sakala, Kevin Hilton, Ron Sacka

Front Row: Chris Gordon, asst. coach Mel Pearson, Tim Hogan, Mike Knuble, Mike Stone, Brian Wiseman, David Oliver, Alan Sinclair, head coach Red Berenson, Steve Shields

Lives of eminent persons, consisting of Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Mahomet, Wolsey, Sir E. Coke, Lord Somers, Caxton, Blake, Adam Smith, Niebuhr, Sir C. Wren, and Michael Angelo.

The "Life of Sir Isaac Newton" is substantially a translation from that in the "Biographie universelle", by M. Biot. cf. note at head of article.

Memoir of Samuel Blake /

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Observations and rare earth element composition of manganese nodules during Atlantis cruise AT266, Blake Plateau

An area of about 22,000 km² on the northern Blake Plateau, off the coast of South Carolina, contains an estimated 2 billion metric tons of phosphorite concretions, and about 1.2 billion metric tons of mixed ferromanganese-phosphorite pavement. Other offshore phosphorites occur between the Blake Plateau and known continental deposits, buried under variable thicknesses of sediments. The phosphorite resembles other marine phosphorites in composition, consisting primarily of carbonate-fluorapatite, some calcite, minor quartz and other minerals. The apatite is optically pseudo-isotropic and contains about 6% [CO3]**2- replacing [PO4]**3- in its structure. JOIDES drillings and other evidence show that the phosphorite is a lag deposit derived from Miocene strata correlatable with phosphatic Middle Tertiary sediments on the continent. It has undergone variable cycles of erosion, reworking, partial dissolution and reprecipitation. Its present form varies from phosphatized carbonate debris, loose pellets, and pebbles, to continuous pavements, plates, and conglomeratic boulders weighing hundreds of kilograms. No primary phosphatization is currently taking place on the Blake Plateau. The primary phosphate-depositing environment involved reducing conditions and required at least temporary absence of the powerful Gulf Stream current that now sweeps the bottom of the Blake Plateau and has eroded away the bulk of the Hawthorne-equivalent sediments with which the phosphorites were once associated.

Chemical composition of oxide-phosphorite pavement from the Blake Plateau under various preparation treatment

Sample preparation technique is critical for valid chemical analyses. A main source of error comes from the fact that the great specific surface area of crusts or nodules enhances their tendency to retain or attract hygroscopic moisture. Variable treatment of this moisture can in extreme cases lead to analytical value differences as great as 40-50 %. In order to quantify these influences, samples of ferromanganese oxide-phosphorite pavement from the Blake Plateau have been subjected to various drying techniques before analysis using X-ray fluorescence.

Margaret Sloan, co-founder of National Black Feminist Organization

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Chemical composition of a manganese nodule from the Blake Plateau, Atlantic Ocean

The area surveyed during project AMC-11-67 was the portion of the Blake Plateau between latitude 30°00'N and 33°00'N and between the 100 to 1000 fathom curves. The survey was conducted from 3 October until 18 October 1967. Survey operations included dredgings, camera and multi-sensor lowerings. A collection of manganese and phosphate concretions as well as coral and sediment samples were examined by the ESSA(NOAA) Atlantic Oceanographic Laboratories. Chemical analyses were conducted at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston by Richard A. Laidley for X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis and H. Costello for Atomic Absorption Analysis. Later the whole collection of samples was transferred to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History were it is available for study (see, http://mineralsciences.si.edu/collections.htm).