Chemical and biological quality of selected lakes in Ohio, 1976 and 1977
Robert L. Tobin, John D. Youger
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-109
Twenty-eight Ohio lakes (14 per year) were sampled by the U.S. Geological Survey and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for the water-quality characteristics during the spring and summer of 1976 and 1977. Data items included: profiles of temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, and specific conductance; physical, biological, nutrient, and organic characteristics; major...
Water in the Pensacola, Florida area
Henry Trapp
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-89
The Pensacola, Florida, area, comprising Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties, has abundant water of good quality. Most of the freshwater used, about 101 million gallons per day, comes from the surficial sand-and-gravel aquifer. The deeper Floridan aquifer locally contains saltwater, and is used in places for industrial waste disposal. Surface...
Application of transient-flow model to the Sacramento River at Sacramento, California
R.N. Oltmann
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-119
The transient-flow simulation model was applied to the Sacramento River at Sacramento, Calif. An alternative is needed to the empirical stage-fall-discharge computational method, which provides only daily mean discharges and requires frequent measurement over a 25- to 26-hour period of the tide-affected flow. Measurement of tide-affected flow involves use of...
Floods in Georgia, magnitude and frequency: Techniques for estimating the magnitude and frequency of floods in Georgia with compilation of flood data through 1974
McGlone Price
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-137
Regional relations are defined for estimating the magnitude and frequency of floods having recurrence intervals of 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100 years on streams with natural flow in Georgia. Multiple-regression analyses were used to define the relationship between the flood-discharge frequency of annual peak discharges for streams draining...
A facility designed to monitor the unsaturated zone during infiltration of tertiary-treated sewage, Long Island, New York
Robert C. Prill, Edward T. Oaksford, James E. Potorti
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-48
A facility consisting of a circular recharge basin 6.10 meters in diameter with a central observation manhole was developed on Long Island, N.Y., to study the role of the unsaturated zone during aquifer recharge with tertiary-treated sewage. The manhole extends through most of the 7.5-meter-thick unsaturated zone, which is composed...
Streamflow simulation studies of the Hillsborough, Alafia, and Anclote Rivers, west-central Florida
J.F. Turner Jr.
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-102
A modified version of the Georgia Tech Watershed Model was applied for the purpose of flow simulation in three large river basins of west-central Florida. The model was calibrated for six streamflow stations located in these basins using 4 years of historical and current rainfall, runoff, and estimated evapotranspiration data....
Ground-water quality in Bannock, Bear Lake, Caribou, and part of Power counties, southeastern Idaho
Harold R. Seitz, Ralph F. Norvitch
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-14
This report provides information about the current quality of ground waters in southeastern Idaho and discusses the natural and manmade environmental controls on that quality. This information will be useful in planning and monitoring the development and use of the ground-water resources of southeastern Idaho.The southeastern corner of Idaho, as...
Results of testing landspreading of treated municipal wastewater at St. Petersburg, Florida
R.C. Reichenbaugh, David P. Brown, Carole L. Goetz
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-110
Chlorinated secondary-treated effluent was used to irrigate a grassed 4-acre site at rates of 2 and 4 inches per week for periods of 11 and 14 weeks, respectively. Part of the site was drained by tile lines 5 feet below land surface. Irrigation of the drained plot resulted in rapid...
Water resources of the Nisqually Lake area, Pierce County, Washington
H. E. Pearson, N. P. Dion
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-101
This report presents data assembled during a July 1975 to August 1977 study of the water resources of an area within, and adjacent to, a part of the Fort Lewis Military Reservation that prior to 1917 was included in the Nisqually Indian Reservation. Because the area is within or near...
Use of the STORM model for estimating the quantity and quality of runoff from the metropolitan area of Houston, Texas
Kidd M. Waddell, Bernard C. Massey, Marshall E. Jennings
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-74
The "STORM" model, developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was selected from existing models and adapted to use available data to compute runoff from the Houston, Texas, area and to compute the loads and concentrations of biochemicaloxygen demand, dissolved solids, total phosphorus, total organic carbon, total nitrogen, and...
Geology and mineral resources of the Lemhi Pass thorium district, Idaho and Montana, with a section on description of selected thorium veins
M.H. Staatz, B. J. Sharp, D. L. Hetland
1979, Professional Paper 1049-A
No abstract available....
Reconnaissance engineering geology of the Yakutat area, Alaska, with emphasis on evaluation of earthquake and other geologic hazards
Lynn A. Yehle
1979, Professional Paper 1074
No abstract available....
Clastic dikes of Heart Mountain fault breccia, northwestern Wyoming, and their significance
W. G. Pierce
1979, Professional Paper 1133
Structural features in northwestern Wyoming indicate that the Heart Mountain fault movement was an extremely rapid, cataclysmic event that created a large volume of carbonate fault breccia derived entirely from the lower part of the upper plate. After fault movement had ceased, much of the carbonate fault breccia, here called...
Spatial variation in total element concentration in soil within the Northern Great Plains coal region and Regional soil chemistry in Bighorn and Wind River basins, Wyoming and Montana
R. C. Severson, R.R. Tidball
1979, Professional Paper 1134-A,B
PART A: To objectively determine the changes in chemical character of an area subjected to mining and reclamation, prior information is needed. This study represents a broadscale inventory of total chemical composition of the surficial materials of the Northern Great Plains coal region (western North and South Dakota, eastern Montana,...
Evaluation of the geologic and hydrologic factors related to the waste-storage potential of Mesozoic aquifers in the southern part of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, South Carolina and Georgia
Philip M. Brown, D.L. Brown, M.S. Reid, O. B. Lloyd Jr.
1979, Professional Paper 1088
The report describes the subsurface distribution of rocks of Cretaceous to Late Jurassic( ) age in the Atlantic Coastal Plain , South Carolina, and Georgia, and examines their potential for deep-well waste storage into th part of the regional sediment mass which lies below the deepest zones containing usable ground...
Thermal ground-water discharge and associated convective heat flux, Bruneau-Grand View area, southwest Idaho
H.W. Young, R.E. Lewis, R.L. Backsen
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-62
The Bruneau-Grand View area occupies about 1,100 square miles in southwest Idaho. The area has a rural population dependent on ground-water irrigation. Temperature of the ground water ranges from 15 C to more than 80 C. Ground water for irrigation is obtained from flowing and pumped wells. Discharge of thermal...
Techniques for estimating magnitude and frequency of floods on rural unregulated streams in New York State excluding Long Island
Thomas J. Zembrzuski Jr., Bernard Dunn
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-83
Techniques are presented for estimating the magnitude and frequency of floods at ungaged sites on unregulated rural streams in New York, excluding Long Island. The discharge-frequency data and basin characteristics of 220 stream-gaging stations in New York and adjacent States were used in developing multiple linear regression equations for floods...
Bibliography of geology and hydrology, eastern New Mexico
Ann Finley Wright
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-76
The High Plains of the eastern New Mexico region are recognized as an abundant and varied source of natural resources. The bibliography of over 1,900 references concerned with geology, hydrology, chemistry, and geography has been compiled to assist physical science researchers in their study of this region. (Kosco-USGS)...
Core descriptions and preliminary observations of vibracores from the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Shelf
Peter W. Barnes, Erk Reimnitz, L.J. Toimil, D. K. Maurer, David McDowell
1979, Open-File Report 79-351
In situ determination of heat flow in unconsolidated sediments
J.H. Sass, J.P. Kennelly, W.E. Wendt, T.H. Moses, J.P. Ziagos
1979, Open-File Report 79-593
Subsurface thermal measurements are the most effective, least ambiguous tools for identifying and delineating possible geothernml resources. Measurements of thermal gradient in the upper few tens of meters generally are sufficient to outline the major anomalies, but it is always desirable to combine these gradients with reliable estimates of thermal...
Chemical analysis of 617 coal samples from the Eastern United States
Peter Zubovic, Charles L. Oman, S.L. Coleman, Linda Bragg, P.T. Kerr, K.M. Kozey, F.O. Simon, J.J. Rowe, J.H. Medlin, F.E. Walker
1979, Open-File Report 79-665
This report includes all the analytical data on 617 coal samples from 8 states east of the Mississippi River. The samples from each state are, Pennsylvania 71, Ohio 40, West Virginia 252, Virginia 72, Kentucky 27, Tennessee 27, Alabama 20, and Indiana 108.The U.S. Geological Survey has quantitatively determined the...
Major oxide, trace element, and glass chemistry of Columbia River basalt samples collected between 1971 and 1977
Thomas L. Wright, Donald A. Swanson, Rosalind Tuthill Helz, G. R. Byerly
1979, Open-File Report 79-711
In this report we are making available all chemical analyses of whole rocks and selected glasses for samples of Columbia River Basalt that we collected between 1971 and 1977 during reconnaissance geologic mapping of the Columbia Plateau....
Resource report for proposed OCS lease sale 57: Norton Basin, Alaska
Michael A. Fisher, W.W. Patton, D.R. Thor, M.L. Holmes, E. W. Scott, C.H. Nelson, C.L. Wilson
1979, Open-File Report 79-720
This report is a summary of information about an area of the northern Bering Sea continental shelf that is bounded by the Seward Peninsula on the north, by the line of the United States-Russia Convention of 1867 on the west, and by St. Lawrence Island and the coastline that rims...
Spectrographic and chemical analyses of geochemical samples collected during 1978 from the Lake Clark Quadrangle, Alaska
W.D. Crim, E.F. Cooley, J.O. Hampton, S.K. McDanal, R. M. O’Leary
1979, Open-File Report 79-871
Results of the chemical monitoring of the in-situ leaching of a South Texas uranium orebody
Robert W. Potter, M.A. Clynne, J. M. Thompson, V.L. Thurmond, Richard C. Erd, N.L. Nehring, Karen A. Smith, D.R. Tweeton, G.R. Anderson, W.H. Engelmann, P. J. Lamothe, J. L. Seeley
1979, Open-File Report 79-1144
