OFR 97-492: Wichita Quadrangle NURE HSSR Study
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[See History of NURE HSSR Program for a summary of the entire program.]
ORGDP: Wichita Quadrangle
Totals of 761 stream-sediment and 746 ground-water samples were collected from the Wichita quadrangle as part of the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant (ORGDP) Wichita Quadrangle NURE Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR) study. Both stream-sediment and ground-water sampling was performed by Geochemex, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee, under contract with ORGDP. Training and technical supervision for all sampling was provided by the ORGDP Uranium Resource Evaluation Project staff. Sediment and water samples were collected between September and October of 1978. These samples were analyzed by the ORGDP for uranium and other elements. The analytical data were released as the Wichita Quadrangle NURE HSSR study GJBX-54(79) report.
Summary Tables
The following is a list of the sample types collected for the Wichita quadrangle study.
Sediment Sample Type | Number of Samples | Water Sample Type | Number of Samples |
---|---|---|---|
Wet Streams | 267 | Wells | 742 |
Dry Streams | 494 | Springs | 4 |
Total Sediments | 761 | Total Waters | 746 |
These Wichita quadrangle samples were analyzed by one or more of the following methods:
Sediment Samples
Water Samples
The Wichita quadrangle sediment and water data consist of reformatted records from the Wichita Quadrangle NURE HSSR study GJBX-54(79) report. The following problems were found and addressed during the comparison and reformatting stages for these data:
Sediment Records
Water Records
The NURE HSSR data are now available online in two databases: The sediment database (also includes data for soils and some rocks) at http://tin.er.usgs.gov/nure/sediment/ and the water database at http://tin.er.usgs.gov/nure/water/. From these two web sites, NURE HSSR data can be selected, examined, summarized, and downloaded by political boundaries (State and County), by quadrangle (1:250,000-scale, 1:100,000-scale, and 1:63,360-scale for Alaska or 1:24,000-scale for the Lower 48 States), and by hydrologic unit (drainage region, subregion, river basin, or sub-basin). Selected data can be downloaded as a dBase file, a shapefile, an HTML table, or ASCII text (tab- or comma-delimited).
Wichita Quadrangle Sediment Data - 761 records
Wichita Quadrangle Water Data - 745 records
The water samples were reportedly collected in the field without any filtering or acidification. (See the SAMPTYP coding explanation in the On-Line Manual for USGS-Reformatted NURE HSSR Data Files for descriptions of different Sample Types). However, the samples were filtered later in the laboratory through a 0.45 micron membrane filter before analysis. Therefore, the samples were not true "untreated water" samples and the analytical data may not be directly comparable for other quadrangle water samples of the same SAMPTYP when collected by a different laboratory. Since this was the standard procedure for Oak Ridge, water data from other Oak Ridge quadrangles should be comparable.
Latitude-longitude coordinates were reported in the original data files, as decimal degrees, to only 3 decimal places. Therefore, the precision of these coordinates is limited to +/- 0.001 degrees or +/- 3.6 seconds. This translates to a minimum precision of +/- 364 feet (111 m) for latitude values and between +/- 300 feet (91 m) to +/- 280 feet (85 m) for longitude values (calculated at latitudes of 35° and 40°N, respectively.)
One well-water sample collected in the Wichita quadrangle was not analyzed by any method.
Wichita Quadrangle NURE Summary
A summary evaluation report was prepared for the Wichita quadrangle by Wichita State University in 1982 [PGJ/F-098(82)]. The abstract noted that there are favorable environments for Texas roll-type uranium deposits in the Wichita quadrangle. These environments are found in sandstones of Pennsylvanian age, which includes the Cherokee Group. As part of this study, 10 stream sediments, and 32 waters were sampled within the Wichita quadrangle. All samples were analyzed for uranium by fluorometry. The stream sediments were also analyzed for 29 other elements by an undocumented method and the water samples were additionally analyzed for As, Mo, Se, and V by an undocumented method. These data are found only as tables on the microfiche accompanying the report.
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