Ground-water resources and geology of the Gila Bend and Dendora areas, Maricopa County, Arizona
P.W. Johnson, J.M. Cahill
1955, Open-File Report 55-75
The contemplated construction of an earth-fill flood-control dam on the Gila River in the vicinity of Gila Bend, Ariz., required a preliminary evaluation of the effects of such a structure upon the water supply of the area. The proposed dam would temporarily impound teh occasional floods that constitute the only...
Extending flood-frequency graphs by comparison with rainfall
W. B. Langbein
1955, Open-File Report 55-90
Flood discharge is the consequence of many contributing hydrologic events which may be presumed to occur fortuitously and independently, such that the probability of a given flood is the product of the probability of each independent contributing event. Of the many factors that lead to a flood, the two most...
Barite-fluorite deposits in the eastern belt of the Sweetwater barite district, Monroe County, Tennessee
John Crawford Dunlap
1955, Open-File Report 55-43
Foraminifera from the Arctic Slope of Alaska; Part 2, Jurassic foraminifera
Helen Tappan
1955, Professional Paper 236-B
Preliminary report on part of the Oat Hill quicksilver mine, Mayacmas district, Napa County, California
Philip Forsyth Fix
1955, Open-File Report 55-45
Oat Hill quicksilver mine, located in the Mayacmas district of northern California, and credited with having produced more than 160,000 flasks of quicksilver, was sampled cooperatively by the Buray of Mines and Geological Survey during 1944. 28 diamond drill holes totaling 8,120 feet were drilled by the Bureau of Mines...
Foraminifera of the Lodo Formation, central California; Part 2, Calcareous foraminifera (Miliolidae and Lagenidae, part)
M.C. Israelsky
1955, Professional Paper 240-B
Preliminary report on the geology of the upper La Paz Valley of Bolivia
Ernest Dobrovolny
1955, Open-File Report 55-42
Water levels in observation wells in Santa Barbara County, California; in 1954
K. S. Muir
1955, Open-File Report 55-117
The investigation of the ground-water resources of Santa Barbara County was continued (luring 1954 in cooperation with the Santa Barbara County Wallet Agency. Monthly water-level measurements were made in 182 wells in 6 of which automatic water-level recorders were operated. Earlier measurements covering the period 1941 through 1952 have been...
Compilation of flood data in Arizona, 1862-1953
Winchell Smith, W. L. Heckler
1955, Open-File Report 55-170
Chemical quality of surface waters in Devils Lake basin, North Dakota
Herbert Swenson, Bruce R. Colby
1955, Water Supply Paper 1295
Devils Lake basin, a closed basin in northeastern North Dakota, covers about 3,900 square miles of land, the topography of which is morainal and of glacial origin. In this basin lies a chain of waterways, which begins with the Sweetwater group and extends successively through Mauvais Coulee, Devils Lake, East...
Progress report on studies of artificial recharge in the Grand Prairie region, Arkansas
R. T. Sniegocki
1955, Open-File Report 55-171
Floods in Missouri, magnitude and frequency
James K. Searcy
1955, Circular 370
Floods of June 1953 in northwestern Iowa
J. V. B. Wells
1955, Water Supply Paper 1320-A
Cooperative and other activities of the Water Resources Division of the U. S. Geological Survey
C. G. Paulsen
1955, Open-File Report 55-135
Preliminary geologic map of Juanita Arch quadrangle, Colorado
E.M. Shoemaker
1955, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 28
No abstract available....
Floods of 1952 in the basins of the upper Mississippi River and Red River of the North
J. V. B. Wells
1955, Water Supply Paper 1260-C
The flood of April 1952 on the Mississippi River between the Minnesota and Des Moines Rivers established many record-high stages. In the Minnesota River basin, the floods of April 1952 exceeded those of 1951 in many locations but generally were smaller than those of 1881. The timing of flows on...
Results of 1952-1953 sampling of Chattanooga shale in Tennessee and adjacent states
Vernon Emanuel Swanson, Thomas M. Kehn
1955, Trace Elements Investigations 366
Bedrock geology of the Chateaugay quadrangle, New York
Arthur E. Nelson, Donald Richard Wiesnet, Albert Williams Postel
1955, Open-File Report 55-121
No abstract available. ...
Photogeologic map, Straight Cliffs-3 quadrangle, Kane County, Utah
Bion H. Kent
1955, Open-File Report 55-83
No abstract available. ...
Photogeologic map, Clay Hills-8 quadrangle, San Juan County, Utah
Charles H. Marshall
1955, Open-File Report 55-108
No abstract available. ...
Preliminary geologic map of the Roc Creek quadrangle, Colorado
E.M. Shoemaker
1955, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 23
No abstract available....
Gravel and sand resources of the New England-New York region
Louis W. Currier
1955, Open-File Report 55-33
Deposits of sand and gravel are widespread in the New England-New York regions and constitute one of its principal mineral resources. Most of the pits are operated intermittently to supply local needs. Because of the great number and variety of known deposits, and because they have been worked at countless...
A Paleozoic geochemical anomaly near Jerome, Arizona
Lyman C. Huff
1955, Bulletin 1000-C
Surface and underground geologic map and sections of the Red Devil mine, Sleetmute area, central Kuskokwim region, Alaska
Wallace Martin Cady, R. E. Wallace
1955, Open-File Report 55-23
Statement on ground water in Connecticut
R.V. Cushman
1955, Open-File Report 55-35
Connecticut has a supply of ground water, most of it of good quality, which is largely undeveloped, and much of which would lend itself to industrial and other uses. Ground water is available in small quantities in nearly all parts of the State, and in moderate to large quantities in...
