Collected logs of borings in San Francisco area, a continued compilation of boring data
Julius Schlocker
1950, Open-File Report 50-49
Ground-water conditions in Whisky Flat, Mineral County, Nevada
T.E. Eakin, T. W. Robinson
1950, Open-File Report 50-70
As a part of the State-wide cooperative program between the Office of the State Engineer of Nevada and the U.S. Geological Survey, the Ground Water Branch of the Geological Survey made a reconnaissance study of ground-water conditions in Whisky Flat, Mineral County, Nevada....
Ground-water resources of Liberty County, Texas, with a section on Stream runoff
Walter H. Alexander Jr., S. D. Breeding
1950, Water Supply Paper 1079-A
Liberty County is in the Gulf Coastal Plain of southeastern Texas in the second tier of counties back from the Gulf. The geologic formations discussed in this report in upward sequence consist of the Oakville sandstone of Miocene age and the Lagarto clay of Miocene (?) age, the Willis sand...
Memorandum on ground-water conditions in the Huachipato-Talcahuano area near Concepcion, Chile
P.H. Jones
1950, Open-File Report 50-79
Geology of the Lander area, central Wyoming
R. M. Thompson, M. L. Troyer, V.L. White, G. N. Pipiringos
1950, Oil and Gas Investigation Map 112
No abstract available....
Descriptive geology of Anchorage and vicinity, Alaska
Ernest Dobrovolny, Robert D. Miller
1950, Open-File Report 50-25
Water power resources of Scenery Creek near Petersburg, Alaska
Fred F. Lawrence
1950, Open-File Report 50-113
Due to high unit runoff, a good storage site, and a high concentration of fall, Scenery Lake presents a favorable power site. By building a tunnel three miles long from Scenery Grove to tap Scenery Lake at elevation 900 feet and a dam to raise Scenery Lake to elevation 1020...
Memorandum on pumping test at Ambridge, Pennsylvania
D. W. Van Tuyl
1950, Open-File Report 50-103
By arrangment with Mr. J. Z. Columbia, Superintendent of the Ambridge Water Works, the United States Geological Survey conducted a "pumping test" in the Ambridge well field on November 10, 1949. As used in this report, "pumping test" means pumping a well at a fixed rate to determine the hydrologic...
Second progress report on the cooperative investigation of springs and stream flow in the Tecolote Tunnel area of Santa Barbara County, California
Harold C. Troxell, C.E. Burgess
1950, Open-File Report 50-101
This report represents the second of a series of progress reports giving the results of discharge measurements made at more than 100 locations in the Santa Ynez Mountains from the Refugio Canyon on the west to the San Marcos Pass and Painted Cave area on the east. The flow in...
Water resources of the United States
Albert N. Sayre
1950, Open-File Report 50-95
The concerns that has grown gradually in recent years over the future of our water supplies has been forcefully dramatized by the water shortage that New York City is now experiencing. This shortage is not the first that has affected an American community and it is not the most serious....
Chloride content of water from wells screened in the Lloyd sand member of the Raritan formation on Long Island, New York
C.M. Roberts
1950, Open-File Report 50-93
Since 1932 the United States Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New York Power and Control Commission, the Nassau County Department of Public Works, the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors, and later also the Suffolk County Water Authority, has been making general and specific studies dealing with the occurrence, movement,...
Piezometric levels from 1948 through 1950 for wells screened in the Lloyd sand member of the Raritan formation on Long Island, New York
Norbert J. Lusczynski
1950, Open-File Report 50-84
Since 1932, the United States Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New York Water Power and Control Commission, the Nassau County Department of Public Works, the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors, and later also with the Suffolk County Water Authority, has been making both general and detailed studied dealing with...
Salinity of ground water at sampling wells located in southeastern Nassau County, Long Island, New York
Norbert J. Lusczynski
1950, Open-File Report 50-82
In 1939, a special program for the systematic collection of chloride data in southeastern Nassau County was inaugurated in which three agencies participated. The Nassau County Department of Public Works constructed the sampling wells, the Ground Water Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey began to collect at period intervals water...
Water-supply investigation of Sanastee area, Navajo Indian Reservation, San Juan County, New Mexico
L.C. Halpenny, J. W. Harshbarger, J.D. Hem
1950, Open-File Report 50-75
Ground water in the vicinity of Healy and Homer, Alaska
D.J. Cedarstrom, Clyde Wahrhaftig, F.F. Barnes
1950, Open-File Report 50-64
A list of references on the occurrence, availability, and character of ground water in the Missouri River Basin
Eldon A. Busch (compiler)
1950, Open-File Report 50-63
This compilation of ground-water references was prepared as an aid to the field men engaged in ground-water investigations in the Missouri River Basin. It is thought that an acquaintance with the available literature on the area in which a field man is working may on occasion not only save him...
Pleistocene shore lines in Florida and Georgia
F. Stearns MacNeil
1950, Professional Paper 221-F
Larger Foraminifera from the Palau Islands
W. Storrs Cole
1950, Professional Paper 221-B
Cooperative ground-water investigations in Massachusetts by the United States Geological Survey, 1938-50
M.L. Brashears Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-61
The United States Geological Survey in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Public Works in 1938 began an investigation of the ground-water conditions in Massachusetts. This work is part of a larger cooperative program that includes surface-water investigations, geologic studies, and topographic mapping. The purpose of the ground-water studies is...
Ground-water conditions at the Veterans Facility, Castle Point, New York
M.L. Brashears Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-60
The rock aquifers in the vicinity of the Castle Point Veterans Hospital yield limited quantities of water which, in general, are sufficient for domestic and farm purposes only. The possibility of obtaining the stated quantity requirements of about 200,000 gallons daily or more from the bedrock formations seems poor with...
Detailed sections of pre-Pennsylvanian rocks along the Front Range of Colorado
John Charles Maher
1950, Circular 68
Structural geology of the Terlingua quicksilver district, Texas
George Albert Thompson Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-9
Geologic mapping, supplemented by detailed investigations at the mines, has revealed new information about the geologic structure of the Terlingua quicksilver district, Texas. Attention is focused on the nature and origin of domes, grabens, and breccia pipes, structures that are unusually well developed in the area. The sedimentary rocks, of...
Geology and mineral resources of the Maimon-Hatillo district, Dominican Republic
Albert Herbert Koschmann, Mackenzie Gordon Jr.
1950, Bulletin 964-D
Annual fur catch of the United States
Frank G. Ashbrook
1950, Wildlife Leaflet 315
A geologic reconnaissance of parts of Beaverhead and Madison Counties, Montana
Montis Ruhl Klepper
1950, Bulletin 969-C