Summary of surface-water quality data from the Illinois River Basin in Northeast Oklahoma, 1970-2007
William J. Andrews, Mark F. Becker, S. Jerrod Smith, Robert L. Tortorelli
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5182
The quality of streams in the Illinois River Basin of northeastern Oklahoma is potentially threatened by increased quantities of wastes discharged from increasing human populations, grazing of about 160,000 cattle, and confined animal feeding operations raising about 20 million chickens. Increasing numbers of humans and livestock in the basin contribute...
Terrestrial lidar datasets of New Orleans, Louisiana, levee failures from Hurricane Katrina, August 29, 2005
Brian D. Collins, Robert Kayen, Diane L. Minasian, Thomas Reiss
2009, Data Series 470
Hurricane Katrina made landfall with the northern Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, as one of the strongest hurricanes on record. The storm damage incurred in Louisiana included a number of levee failures that led to the inundation of approximately 85 percent of the metropolitan New Orleans area. Whereas extreme...
Pesticides in ground water in selected agricultural land-use areas and hydrogeologic settings in Pennsylvania, 2003-07
Connie A. Loper, Kevin J. Breen, Tammy M. Zimmerman, John W. Clune
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5139
This report was prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PDA) as part of the Pennsylvania Pesticides and Ground Water Strategy (PPGWS). Monitoring data and extensive quality-assurance data on the occurrence of pesticides in ground water during 2003–07 are presented and evaluated;...
Land Treatment Digital Library
David S. Pilliod
2009, Fact Sheet 2009-3095
A dynamic system to enter, store, retrieve, and analyze Federal land-treatment data. More information and access to data available at: http://greatbasin.wr.usgs.gov/ltdl Across the country, public land managers make hundreds of decisions each year that influence landscapes and ecosystems within the lands they manage. Many of these decisions involve vegetation manipulations known...
Water-quality, bed-sediment, and biological data (October 2007 through September 2008) and statistical summaries of long-term data for streams in the Clark Fork Basin, Montana
Kent A. Dodge, Michelle I. Hornberger, Jessica Dyke
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1178
Water, bed sediment, and biota were sampled in streams from Butte to near Missoula as part of a long-term monitoring program in the upper Clark Fork basin; additional water samples were collected in the Clark Fork basin from sites near Missoula downstream to near the confluence of the Clark Fork...
The Mississippi Embayment Regional Aquifer Study (MERAS): Documentation of a groundwater-flow model constructed to assess water availability in the Mississippi embayment
Brian R. Clark, Rheannon M. Hart
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5172
The Mississippi Embayment Regional Aquifer Study (MERAS) was conducted with support from the Groundwater Resources Program of the U.S. Geological Survey Office of Groundwater. This report documents the construction and calibration of a finite-difference groundwater model for use as a tool to quantify groundwater availability within the Mississippi embayment. To...
Preliminary geologic map of the Cook Inlet region, Alaska-Including parts of the Talkeetna, Talkeetna Mountains, Tyonek, Anchorage, Lake Clark, Kenai, Seward, Iliamna, Seldovia, Mount Katmai, and Afognak 1:250,000-scale quadrangles
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1108
The growth in the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has highlighted the need for digital geologic maps that have been attributed with information about age and lithology. Such maps can be conveniently used to generate derivative maps for manifold special purposes such as mineral-resource assessment, metallogenic studies, tectonic studies,...
Depth to water, saturated thickness, and other geospatial datasets used in the design and installation of a groundwater monitoring-well network in the High Plains Aquifer, Colorado
Jennifer L. Flynn, L. Rick Arnold, Suzanne S. Paschke
2009, Data Series 472
These datasets were compiled in support of U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 456, Design and Installation of a Groundwater Monitoring-Well Network in the High Plains Aquifer, Colorado. These datasets were developed as part of a cooperative project between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Colorado Department of Agriculture. The purpose...
Design and Installation of a Groundwater Monitoring-Well Network in the High Plains Aquifer, Colorado
L. R. Arnold, J.L. Flynn, S.S. Paschke
2009, Data Series 456
The High Plains aquifer is an important water source for irrigated agriculture and domestic supplies in northeastern Colorado. To address the needs of Colorado's Groundwater Protection Program, the U.S. Geological Survey designed and installed a groundwater monitoring-well network in cooperation with the Colorado Department of Agriculture in 2008 to characterize...
Numerical groundwater-flow model of the Minnelusa and Madison hydrogeologic units in the Rapid City area, South Dakota
Larry D. Putnam, Andrew J. Long
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5205
The city of Rapid City and other water users in the Rapid City area obtain water supplies from the Minnelusa and Madison aquifers, which are contained in the Minnelusa and Madison hydrogeologic units. A numerical groundwater-flow model of the Minnelusa and Madison hydrogeologic units in the Rapid City area was...
Preliminary Map of Landslide Deposits in the Mesa Verde National Park Area, Colorado
Paul E. Carrara
2009, Scientific Investigations Map 3090
This report presents a preliminary map of landslide deposits in the Mesa Verde National Park area (see map sheet) at a compilation scale of 1:50,000. Landslide is a general term for landforms produced by a wide variety of gravity-driven mass movements, including various types of flows, slides, topples and falls,...
Defining fish nursery habitats: An application of otolith elemental fingerprinting in Tampa Bay, Florida
Janet A. Ley, Carole C. McIvor, Ernst B Peebles, Holly Rolls, Suzanne T. Cooper
2009, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the fifth Tampa Bay area scientific information symposium basis 5
Fishing in Tampa Bay enhances the quality of life of the area's residents and visitors. However, people's desire to settle along the Bay's shorelines and tributaries has been detrimental to the very habitat believed to be crucial to prime target fishery species. Common snook (Centropomus undecimalis) and red drum (Sciaenops...
Planning for an uncertain future - Monitoring, integration, and adaptation
Richard M. Webb, Darius J. Semmens, editor(s)
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5049
The 6.7 billion human inhabitants of the earth have the ability to drastically alter ecosystems and the populations of species that have taken eons to evolve. By better understanding how our actions affect the environment, we stand a better chance of designing successful strategies to manage ecosystems sustainably. Toward this...
Quality of Surface Water in Missouri, Water Year 2008
William Otero-Benitez, Jerri V. Davis
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1214
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, designed and operates a series of monitoring stations on streams throughout Missouri known as the Ambient Water-Quality Monitoring Network. During the 2008 water year (October 1, 2007, through September 30, 2008), data were collected at 67 stations,...
Coastal Circulation and Sediment Dynamics in War-in-the-Pacific National Historical Park, Guam; measurements of waves, currents, temperature, salinity, and turbidity, June 2007-January 2008
Curt D. Storlazzi, M. Katherine Presto, Joshua B. Logan
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1195
Flow in and around coral reefs affects a number of physical, chemical and biologic processes that influence the health and sustainability of coral reef ecosystems. These range from the residence time of sediment and contaminants to nutrient uptake and larval retention and dispersal. As currents approach a coast they diverge...
Preliminary Geologic Map of the Buxton 7.5' Quadrangle, Washington County, Oregon
Philip A. Dinterman, Alison R. Duvall
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1186
This map, compiled from previously published and unpublished data, and new mapping by the authors, represents the general distribution of bedrock and surficial deposits of the Buxton 7.5-minute quadrangle. The database delineates map units that are identified by general age and lithology following the stratigraphic nomenclature of the U.S. Geological...
Geologic Map of the Carlton Quadrangle, Yamhill County, Oregon
Karen L. Wheeler, Ray E. Wells, Joseph M. Minervini, Jessica L. Block
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1172
The Carlton, Oregon, 7.5-minute quadrangle is located in northwestern Oregon, about 35 miles (57 km) southwest of Portland. It encompasses the towns of Yamhill and Carlton in the northwestern Willamette Valley and extends into the eastern flank of the Oregon Coast Range. The Carlton quadrangle is one of several dozen...
Hydrogeology and Groundwater Resources of the Coastal Aquifers of Southeastern Massachusetts
John P. Masterson, Donald A. Walter
2009, Circular 1338
The glacially derived aquifer systems of southeastern Massachusetts compose the largest groundwater reservoir in the State. Population increases, land-use changes, and climate change in this area could lead to three primary environmental effects that relate directly to groundwater resources - (1) increases in pumping that could adversely affect environmentally sensitive...
Core Research Center
Joshua Hicks, Betty Adrian
2009, General Information Product 94
The Core Research Center (CRC) of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), located at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood, Colo., currently houses rock core from more than 8,500 boreholes representing about 1.7 million feet of rock core from 35 States and cuttings from 54,000 boreholes representing 238 million feet of...
Geologic Map of The Volcanoes Quadrangle, Bernalillo and Sandoval Counties, New Mexico
Ren A. Thompson, Ralph R. Shroba, Christopher M. Menges, Dwight L. Schmidt, Stephen F. Personius, Theodore R. Brandt
2009, Scientific Investigations Map 3083
This geologic map, in support of the U.S. Geological Survey Middle Rio Grande Basin Geologic Mapping Project, shows the spatial distribution of surficial deposits, lava flows, and related sediments of the Albuquerque volcanoes, upper Santa Fe Group sediments, faults, and fault-related structural features. These deposits are on, along, and beneath...
Community exposure to lahar hazards from Mount Rainier, Washington
Nathan J. Wood, Christopher E. Soulard
2009, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5211
Geologic evidence of past events and inundation modeling of potential events suggest that lahars associated with Mount Rainier, Washington, are significant threats to downstream development. To mitigate potential impacts of future lahars and educate at-risk populations, officials need to understand how communities are vulnerable to these fast-moving debris flows and...
Scientific Framework for Stormwater Monitoring by the Washington State Department of Transportation
R.W. Sheibley, V.J. Kelly, R. J. Wagner
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1236
The Washington State Department of Transportation municipal stormwater monitoring program, in operation for about 8 years, never has received an external, objective assessment. In addition, the Washington State Department of Transportation would like to identify the standard operating procedures and quality assurance protocols that must be adopted so that their...
A method for creating a three dimensional model from published geologic maps and cross sections
Gregory J. Walsh
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1229
This brief report presents a relatively inexpensive and rapid method for creating a 3D model of geology from published quadrangle-scale maps and cross sections using Google Earth and Google SketchUp software. An example from the Green Mountains of Vermont, USA, is used to illustrate the step by step methods used...
Late Cenozoic geology and lacustrine history of Searles Valley, Inyo and San Bernardino Counties, California
George I. Smith
2009, Professional Paper 1727
Searles Valley is an arid, closed basin lying 70 km east of the south end of the Sierra Nevada, California. It is bounded on the east and northeast by the Slate Range, on the west by the Argus Range and Spangler Hills, and on the south by the Lava Mountains;...
A New Occurrence Model for National Assessment of Undiscovered Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits
W.C. Pat Shanks III, Cynthia Dusel-Bacon, Randolph Koski, Lisa A. Morgan, Dan Mosier, Nadine M. Piatak, Ian Ridley, Robert R. Seal II, Klaus J. Schulz, John F. Slack, Roland Thurston
2009, Open-File Report 2009-1235
Volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits are very significant current and historical resources of Cu-Pb-Zn-Au-Ag, are active exploration targets in several areas of the United States and potentially have significant environmental effects. This new USGS VMS deposit model provides a comprehensive review of deposit occurrence and ore genesis, and fully integrates...
