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...
Progress report: chemical character of surface waters in the Devils Lake Basin, North Dakota
Herbert A. Swenson
1950, Open-File Report 50-98
Devils Lake in northeastern North Dakota was at one time the most popular summer resort in the state. With decline in lake level the lake has become a shallow body pf vary saline water, which scenic value and recreational appeal completely destroyed. Under the Missouri River development program, it is...
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,...
Water supply of the United States
Carl G. Paulsen
1950, Open-File Report 50-89
The front pages of the press throughout the country during the past several weeks have dramatized the critical water shortages in many parts of the Nation. The concerns that has grown in recent years over the future of our water supplies has been forcibly brought to the attention of the...
Ground-water resources of the Mt. Savage area, Maryland
R. M. Overbeck
1950, Open-File Report 50-87
A law providing for the establishment of sanitary district in Allegany Count was passed by the Maryland State Legislature in 1949. In connection with the establishment of these district a commission, called the Allegany County Metropolitan Commission, was appointed on January 1, 1950. This commission is considering the construction of...
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...
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...
Ground-water conditions in the vicinity of Gillette, Wyoming, with a section on the quality of ground waters
Robert T. Littleton, Herbert A. section by Swenson
1950, Circular 76
A glossary of uranium- and thorium-bearing minerals
Judith Weiss Frondel, Michael Fleischer
1950, Circular 74
During 1980, an estimated 121 million gallons of water per day was pumped in a 26-county area in east-central Georgia from sand aquifers of Paleocene and Late Cretaceous age. Maximum withdrawals were at the kaolin mining and processing centers in Twiggs, Wilkinson, and Washington Counties, where water levels have declined...
Reconnaissance of the ground-water resources of the Wheatland Flats area, Wyoming
Robert Thomas Littleton
1950, Circular 70
No abstract available....
Progress report, investigations of fluvial sediments of the Niobrara River near Cody, Nebraska
Eugene Frank Serr
1950, Circular 67
Comparison of sediment concentrations at a naturally contracted section on the Niobrara River near Cody, Nebraska, with those measured at the regular gaging station one quarter mile upstream, indicates that approximately 50 percent of the sediment is transported as bed load at the regular gaging station. The bed load percentage...
Reconnaissance of the geology and ground-water hydrology of the Laramie Basin, Wyoming, with special reference to the Laramie and Little Laramie River valleys
Robert Thomas Littleton
1950, Circular 80
Coal resources of New Mexico
Charles Brian Read, R. T. Duffner, G. H. Wood, A.D. Zapp
1950, Circular 89
A study of water quality degradation due to brine contamination was made in an area of about 1,700 sq mi in east-central Oklahoma. The study area coincides in part with the outcrop of the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer of Pennsylvanian age. Water samples collected from 180 wells completed in the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer...
Memorandum on possibility of developing ground water for irrigation along Toc Chinlin Wash near Emmanuel Mission, Navajo Indian Reservation, Apache County, Arizona
H.A. Whitcomb, C.A. Repenning
1950, Open-File Report 50-109
On November 21, 1949, the writers accompanied Mr. Chester Wilson of the Navajo Service Water Supply Office to Emmanuel Mission, Arizona, to investigate the adequacy of ground-water supplies adequate for irrigation along Toc Chinlin Wash. The investigation was made as part of the ground-water studies of the Geological Survey on...
Abstracts of the literature on synthesis of apatites and some related phosphates, Part I and Part II
Elizabeth B. Jaffe
1950, Trace Elements Investigations 132
The upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district; In two parts: I General structural relations of the upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district. II. The ore deposits of the upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district
Allen V. Heyl Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-13
No abstract available....
Forty-niner, King Solomon Ridge, and West End claims near Clancy, Jefferson County, Montana
Montis Ruhl Klepper
1950, Open-File Report 51-23
A radiometric traverse at the Apex Claims (Bates Creek), Gilpin County, Colorado
Robert Ugstad King
1950, Trace Elements Memorandum 22
Memorandum on location of proposed well 15 miles north of Crown Point, McKinley County, New Mexico
H.A. Whitcomb, C.A. Repenning
1950, Open-File Report 50-10
