Map showing the potentiometric surface of the Magothy aquifer in southern Maryland, August 1980
Frederick K. Mack, Judith C. Wheeler, Stephen E. Curtin
1981, Open-File Report 81-633
This map is based on measurements made in a network of 77 observation wells. Highest levels of the potentiometric surface, 61 to 64 feet above sea level, were near the outcrop or subcrop of the aquifer in topographically high areas of Anne Arundel and northern Prince Georges Counties. The potentiometric...
State-discharge relations at dams on the Illinois and Des Plaines rivers in Illinois
Dean M. Mades
1981, Open-File Report 81-1009
Stage-discharge relations were developed for the Brandon Road Dam on the Des Plaines River and the Dresden Island, Marseilles, Starved Rock, Peoria, and La Grange Dams on the Illinois River. A t Brandon Road Dam, streamflow is regulated by the operation of tainter gates and headgates. Tainter gates are operated...
Geologic factors pertinent to the proposed A. J. Wiley Hydroelectric Project No. 2845, Bliss, Idaho
Harold E. Malde
1981, Open-File Report 81-569
The A.J. Wiley Hydroelectric Project is a proposal by the Idaho Power Company to develop hydroelectricity near Bliss, Idaho, by building a dam on the Snake River (fig. 1). The proposed dam would impound a narrow reservoir as deep as 85 feet in a free-flowing reach of the river that...
Geology of the Twinridge pluton area, Nevada Test Site, Nevada
Florian Maldonado
1981, Open-File Report 81-156
Strong-motion data from the Westmorland, California, earthquake of April 26, 1981
R.P. Maley, E. C. Etheredge
1981, Open-File Report 81-1149
Catalog of earthquakes along the San Andreas fault system in central California, July-September 1977
S.M. Marks, L. Fluty
1981, Open-File Report 81-462
Numerous small earthquakes occur each day in the Coast Ranges of central California. The detailed study of these earthquakes provides a tool for gaining insight into the tectonic and physical processes responsible for the generation of damaging earthquakes. This catalog contains the fundamental parameters for earthquakes located within and adjacent...
User oriented, interactive Multics computer programs to create grid cell, contour, and perspective maps using Surface Display Library
R. K. Mark, E. B. Newman
1981, Open-File Report 81-513
Current water-resources investigations of the U.S. Geological Survey in North Dakota; fiscal year 1981
Cathy R. Martin, Luverne L. Albright
1981, Open-File Report 81-923
The U.S. Geological Survey, through its Water Resources Division, investigates the occurrence, quantity, quality, distribution, and movement of the surface and underground water that composes the Nation's water resources. This publication contains a brief description of the ongoing investigations of the North Dakota District. Much of the Geological Survey program is...
Sampling and analyzing sediment cores for 210Pb geochronology
E. Ann Martin, Cynthia A. Rice
1981, Open-File Report 81-983
Evaluation of the cone penetrometer for liquefaction hazard assessment
Geoffrey R. Martin, Bruce J. Douglas
1981, Open-File Report 81-284
An evaluation of the M204 data-base management system
George T. Mason
1981, Open-File Report 81-1148
Mekometer measurements in the Imperial Valley
Ronald G. Mason, C.N. Crook, P.R. Wood
1981, Open-File Report 80-2008
During the six weeks following the October 15, 1979 earthquake, parts of the Imperial Valley Mekometer network (Fig. 1) around the Imperial fault to the east of El Centro were re-measured, some repeatedly, in an attempt to assess the coseismic and postearthquake slip on the fault, and horizontal strain adjustment...
Assessment of conventionally recoverable petroleum resources of Indonesia
Charles D. Masters, Joseph P. Riva
1981, Open-File Report 81-1142
Assessment of conventionally recoverable petroleum resources of northeastern Mexico
Charles D. Masters, James A. Peterson
1981, Open-File Report 81-1143
Assessment of conventionally recoverable petroleum resources of Persian Gulf basin and Zagros fold belt (Arabian-Iranian Basin)
Charles D. Masters
1981, Open-File Report 81-986
Assessment of conventionally recoverable petroleum resources of southeastern Mexico, northern Guatemala, and Belize
Charles D. Masters, James A. Peterson
1981, Open-File Report 81-1144
Assessment of conventionally recoverable petroleum resources of the West Siberian Basin and Kara Sea basin, U.S.S.R.
Charles D. Masters
1981, Open-File Report 81-1147
Assessment of conventionally recoverable petroleum resources of Trinidad
Charles D. Masters
1981, Open-File Report 81-1145
Assessment of conventionally recoverable petroleum resources of Venezuela
Charles D. Masters
1981, Open-File Report 81-1146
Assessment of conventionally recoverable petroleum resources, Volga-Urals Basin, U.S.S.R.
Charles D. Masters, James A. Peterson
1981, Open-File Report 81-1027
An estimation of the reaeration coefficient in natural streams by spectral analysis of time series data
Tomonori Matsuo, Nobuhiro Yotsukura
1981, Open-File Report 81-648
Probability models and computer simulation of landscape evolution
Larry Mayer, Marcia Mergner-Keefer, C. M. Wentworth
1981, Open-File Report 81-656
Flood of August 20, 1979, on a tributary of Chickamauga Creek, near Gallipolis, Ohio
R.I. Mayo, E.E. Webber
1981, Open-File Report 81-414
An intense summer rain estimated at 4 to 5 inches in 2.5 hours caused flooding on a Chickamauga Creek tributary 4.5 miles northwest of Gallipoolis, Ohio. Computation of a peak discharge of 1,350 cubic feet per second from 3.03 square miles of drainage area (446 cubic feet per second per...
Hydraulic analysis, Paint Creek at State Route 772, Chillicothe, Ohio
R.I. Mayo, W.P. Bartlett Jr.
1981, Open-File Report 81-350
The Ohio Department of Transportation, Division of Highways, proposes to replace a three-span arch, bridge across Paint Creek on South Paint Street in Chillicothe, Ohio with a new deck-type structure resting on four sets of piles and four piers. Profiles of the 10-, 25-, 50- and 100-year floods under present...
Predicted effects on ground water of construction of Divide Cut section, Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, northeastern Mississippi, using a digital model
Mark S. McBride
1981, Open-File Report 81-649
The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, connecting the Tennessee River in northeastern Mississippi with the Gulf of Mexico, is currently (1980) under construction. The Divide Section, the northernmost 39 miles of the Waterway, will consist, from north to south, of (1) a dredged channel, (2) the Divide Cut, and (3) an artifical lake...