Location and hydrocarbon content of a gravity core from the offshore Eel River basin, northern California
Michael E. Field, Keith A. Kvenvolden, Samuel H. Clarke
1979, Open-File Report 79-1618
The core was collected from ponded sediment near the crest of a diapir-like feature on the Eel Plateau. The measured hydrocarbons are likely to have been derived from deep in the Neogene sedimentary section of the Eel River Basin. Their presence at the surface may indicate migration along fractures in...
Ground-water hydrology of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
David F. Delaney
1979, Open-File Report 79-917
Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Gulkana Quadrangle, Alaska
Edward Huntington Cobb
1979, Open-File Report 79-1247
These summaries of references are designed to aid in library research on metallic and nonmetallic (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) mineral occurrences in the Gulkana quadrangle, Alaska. All references to most reports of the Geological Survey, the U.S. Bureau of Mines, and the State of Alaska Division of...
Summary of U.S. Geological Survey investigations and hydrologic conditions in the Southwest Florida Water Management District for 1978
Robert Lloyd Knutilla, H.C. Rollins
1979, Open-File Report 79-1257
This report summarizes water-resources investigations in the Southwest Florida Water Management District performed by the U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, for fiscal year 1978. The investigations are part of the Federal program of appraising the nation 's water resources. The cooperative program for fiscal year 1978 included 37 interpretive...
A geohydrologic overview for the Pecora Symposium field trip, June 1979
Neil C. Koch
1979, Open-File Report 79-563
The settlement and development of South Dakota has been closely related to both its mineral and water resources In 1874 the discovery of gold in the Black Hills led to the opening and development of the area west of the Missouri River. Towns and farms both here and east of...
Geophysical and lithologic logs of 1977 coal drilling in the Fort Union Formation, Carbon and Sweetwater Counties, Wyoming
Robert D. Hettinger, Robert Brown
1979, Open-File Report 79-326
The use of Vacutainer tubes for collection of soil samples for helium analysis
Margaret Hinkle, James E. Kilburn
1979, Open-File Report 79-1441
Measurements of the helium concentration of soil samples collected and stored in Vacutainer-brand evacuated glass tubes show that Vacutainers are reliable containers for soil collection. Within the limits of reproducibility, helium content of soils appears to be independent of variations in soil temperature, barometric pressure, and quantity of soil moisture...
Use of U.S. Geological Survey earth-science products by selected regional agencies in the San Francisco Bay region, California
William J. Kockelman
1979, Open-File Report 79-221
An inventory of the use of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) products in studies, plans, implementation, and other planning activities was made for seven selected regional agencies in the San Francisco Bay region -- a region of over five million people. This inventory was designed to determine and document the use...
Major-element geochemistry of the Silent Canyon-Black Mountain peralkaline volcanic centers, northwestern Nevada Test Site: applications to an assessment of renewed volcanism
Bruce M. Crowe, Kenneth A. Sargent
1979, Open-File Report 79-926
The Silent Canyon and Black Mountain volcanic centers are located in the northern part of the Nevada Test Site. The Silent Canyon volcanic center is a buried cauldron complex of Miocene age (13-15 m.y.). Black Mountain volcanic center is an elliptical-shaped cauldron complex of late Miocene age. The lavas and...
Water-quality data from a landfill, Pinellas County, Florida, May 1975-October 1977
Mario Fernandez
1979, Open-File Report 78-822
Ground water in and near a proposed landfill site can become contaminated by leachates from the fill material. Realizing that potential, Pinellas County entered into a cooperative investigation with the U.S. Geological Survey to determine background water-quality conditions, and to evaluate the potential effects of landfill leachate on the quality...
Radium and uranium concentrations and associated hydrogeochemistry in ground water in southwestern Pueblo County, Colorado
J. Karen Felmlee, Robert Allen Cadigan
1979, Open-File Report 79-974
Radium and uranium concentrations in water from 37 wells tapping the aquifer system of the Dakota Sandstone and Purgatoire Formation in southwestern Pueblo County, Colorado, have a wide range of values and define several areas of high radioactivity in the ground water. Radium ranges from 0.3 to 420 picocuries per...
A one-dimensional, steady-state, dissolved-oxygen model and waste-load assimilation study for Wildcat Creek, Howard County, Indiana
Charles G. Crawford, William G. Wilber, James G. Peters
1979, Open-File Report 79-1252
The Indiana State Board of Health is developing a water-quality management plan that includes establishing limits for wastewater effluents discharged into Indiana streams. A digital model calibrated to conditions in Wildcat Creek was used to predict alternatives for future waste loadings that would be compatible with Indiana stream water-quality standards...
Geochemical analyses of rock, soil, and stream sediment samples from the Big Frog Wilderness Study Area, Polk County, Tennessee and Fannin County, Georgia
R.T. Hopkins, A.L. Meir, John F. Slack
1979, Open-File Report 79-543
Semiquantitative spectrographic analyses for 31 elements and atomic absorption analyses for gold and zinc on 43 stream sediments, 5 panned concentrates, 65 soils, and 81 rock samples from the Big Frog Wilderness Study Area and vicinity, Polk County, Tennessee, and Fannin County, Georgia, are reported here in detail. Locations for...
A one-dimensional, steady-state, dissolved-oxygen model and waste-load assimilation study for South Fork Wildcat Creek, Clinton County, Indiana
Charles G. Crawford, William G. Wilber, James G. Peters
1979, Open-File Report 79-1074
The Indiana State Board of Health is developing a State water-quality management plan that includes establishing limits for wastewater effluents discharged into Indiana streams. A digital model calibrated to conditions in South Fork Wildcat Creek was used to predict alternatives for future waste loadings that would be compatible with Indiana...
Spectrographic analyses of selected cores from the Blacktail Mountain drilling site, Flathead County, Montana
J. A. Domenico
1979, Open-File Report 79-939
A digital model for simulation of ground-water hydrology in the Houston area, Texas
Walter Richard Meyer, Jerry E. Carr
1979, Open-File Report 79-677
No abstract available....
Lithologic description of drill core from Sinclair Oil Company Skyline core hole 1, Piceance Creek basin, Rio Blanco County, Colorado
John R. Dyni
1979, Open-File Report 79-1222
Structural controls of hot-spring systems on southwestern Montana
Robert A. Chadwick, Robert Benjamin Leonard
1979, Open-File Report 79-1333
Thermal waters that issue as hot (more than 38C) springs in southwestern Montana appear to circulate to depth along Cenozoic block faults, deep fractures penetrating the dominantly crystalline rock crust, or major structural lineaments. At individual hot springs, rising thermal waters are transmitted along conduits formed by the intersection of...
Geophysical logs of coal test drill holes in the Grand Mesa coal field, Delta County, Colorado
George P. Eager
1979, Open-File Report 79-327
Report of the annual yield of the Arkansas River basin for the Arkansas River Basin Compact, Arkansas-Oklahoma, 1978 water year
G. Louis Ducret
1979, Open-File Report 79-422
The computed annual yields for subbasins in the Arkansas River basin as defined in the Arkansas River Basin Compact, Arkansas-Oklahoma, 1972, are presented in this report. The area bounded by the Compact is shown in figure 1.This report was prepared by the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey...
Hydrology and water resources of the Shawsheen River basin, Massachusetts
Frederick B. Gay, David F. Delaney
1979, Open-File Report 79-344
A single-degree-of-freedom model for non-linear soil amplification
Mustafa Ozder Erdik
1979, Open-File Report 79-592
For proper understanding of soil behavior during earthquakes and assessment of a realistic surface motion, studies of the large-strain dynamic response of non-linear hysteretic soil systems are indispensable. Most of the presently available studies are based on the assumption that the response of a soil deposit is mainly due to...
Geology of the Apollo 16 area, central lunar highlands
G. E. Ulrich, C. A. Hodges, W.R. Muhlberger
1979, Open-File Report 79-1091
Supplement to floods in the upper Des Moines River basin, Iowa
Albert J. Heinitz
1979, Open-File Report 79-1486
Data on the East Fork Des Moines River for the August 1979 flood between river miles 330.4 and 408.8 is being published as a supplement to the report "Floods in the Upper Des Moines River basin, Iowa" (Schwab, 1970). Elevation profiles of the 1979 flood, along with previously published profiles, are shown in figures...
Drilling techniques presently in use by the Geothermal Studies Project, U.S. Geological Survey
Thomas H. Moses, J.H. Sass
1979, Open-File Report 79-763
