Ground water investigations in Oklahoma
Leon V. Davis
1955, Open-File Report 55-36
Prior to 1937, ground-water work in Oklahoma consisted of broad scale early-day reconnaissance and a few brief investigations of local areas. The reconnaissance is distinguished by C. N. Gould's "Geology and Water Resources of Oklahoma" (Water-Supply Paper 148, 1905), which covers about half of the present State of Oklahoma. Among...
Geology of the Canyon Reservoir site on the Guadalupe River, Comal County, Texas
William O. George, Frank A. Welder
1955, Open-File Report 55-47
In response to a request by Colonel Harry O. Fisher, District Engineer of the Fort Worth District of the Corps of Engineers, United States Army (letter of Dec. 13, 1954), a reconnaissance investigation was made of the geology of the Canyon (F-1) reservoir site on the Guadalupe River in Comal...
Ground water and the law - some selected annotated references
Robert C. Vorhis
1955, Open-File Report 55-184
The strictly "legal" literature of ground-water use and control -except for a few essays in certain of the law reviews- is quite limited. A larger and more pointful source of information and analysis is the legal-scientific writings of the geologists, hydrologists, meteorologists, engineers and others. When new statutes are to...
Flood of May 27-28, 1954, in Panola and Lafayette Counties, Mississippi
W.H. Goines
1955, Open-File Report 55-48
As a result of heavy rains during the late afternoon and night of May 27, 1954, record-breaking floods occurred on small streams in Panola and Lafayette Counties. All flooding was in rural areas, and no loss of life was reported. The Agriculture Stabilization Committees at Sardis and at Oxford estimated...
Hydraulics of wells
Thad G. McLaughlin
1955, Open-File Report 55-104
Although the subject of this lecture is supposed to be concerned primarily with the hydraulics of wells, Professor Weers has asked that I also discuss the effects tat geological formations have on the quantity and quality of water available to wells. I will discuss the geology of Colorado in relation...
Photogeologic map, Circle Cliffs-12 quadrangle, Garfield County, Utah
R.J. Hackman
1955, Open-File Report 55-54
Data on wells and test borings in the Slocum quadrangle, Rhode Island
G.W. Hahn
1955, Open-File Report 55-56
No abstract available. ...
Water supplies for irrigation in the Northeast
C.H. Hardison, O. M. Hackett
1955, Open-File Report 55-57
The subject of this paper as given on the program is "Water Supplies for Irrigation in the Northeast." Both surface-water and ground-water resources are discussed, although with somewhat differing approaches. First we discuss the use of streamflow data in estimating the surface-water supplies available for irrigation use. Then we treat...
Extending flood-frequency graphs by comparison with rainfall
W. B. Langbein
1955, Open-File Report 55-90
Flood discharge is the consequence of many contributing hydrologic events which may be presumed to occur fortuitously and independently, such that the probability of a given flood is the product of the probability of each independent contributing event. Of the many factors that lead to a flood, the two most...
Photogeologic map of the Woodside-5 quadrangle, Emery County, Utah
P. P. Orkild
1955, IMAP 5
Floods in North Carolina, frequency and magnitude
H. C. Riggs
1955, Open-File Report 55-151
Recorded annual flood stages and discharges at 144 gaging stations are listed. Also included are maximum known flood stages and discharges, both at gaging stations and at miscellaneous sites. Using the annual flood discharge at gaging stations a regional analysis of flood magnitudes and frequencies in the state was made....
Ground-water conditions between Oracle and Oracle Junction, Pinal County, Arizona
L.A. Heindl
1955, Open-File Report 55-63
The development of the San Manuel copper prospect has greatly increased traffic along State Highway 77. Considerable interest in commercial possibilities along that road has resulted in a request by the Arizona State Land Department for information about the ground-water conditions between Oracle and Oracle Junction. This request came too...
The outlook for ground-water resources in Texas
R.W. Sundstrom
1955, Open-File Report 55-178
The future of ground-water supplies in Texas presents a problem that is very important to the economy of Texas and to the well-being of almost every citizen of the state. It is of particular importance to more than 580 municipalities using ground water as the sole source of water supply;...
Water supplies at certain U. S. Naval Air Stations in the Caribbean region, with special reference to ground water and quarry prospects in eastern Puerto Rico, July 30, 1941
Gerald A. Waring
1955, Open-File Report 55-188
Detailed logs of 28 wildcat wells in Lee, Wise, Buchanan, Montgomery, and Dickenson Counties, Virginia
Mary Beth McFarlan, Eloise T. Jacobsen
1955, Open-File Report 55-72
The Clinchfield Coal Company No. 102 well was drilled in the western part of Buchanan County near the Dickinson County line. The well started in the Pennsylvanian Norton formation and originally stopped in the Big Stone Gap shale. It was later deepened during 1950 to a total depth of 5847...
Our national water resources
C. G. Paulsen
1955, Open-File Report 55-136
A summary of the artesian-water resources in the Savannah area, Georgia, and an outline of additional studies needed
M.A. Warren
1955, Open-File Report 55-189
Double Moutain Fork Brazos River between Lubbock and Buffalo Lakes, Texas
J.O. Joerns
1955, Open-File Report 55-73
The purpose of this investigation was to study quantity, quality, and possible sources of the low flow and spring inflow of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River between the Lubbock sewage disposal plant, 3 miles southeast of Lubbock, and a County Road crossing about 15 miles downstream and...
Ground-water resources and geology of the Gila Bend and Dendora areas, Maricopa County, Arizona
P.W. Johnson, J.M. Cahill
1955, Open-File Report 55-75
The contemplated construction of an earth-fill flood-control dam on the Gila River in the vicinity of Gila Bend, Ariz., required a preliminary evaluation of the effects of such a structure upon the water supply of the area. The proposed dam would temporarily impound teh occasional floods that constitute the only...
Water resources of the Indianapolis area, Indiana
Claude Martin Roberts, L.E. Widman, P.N. Brown
1955, Circular 366
Water used in the Indianapolis area comes from two sources: the White River and tributary streams and the underground reservoirs formed by the underlying glacial drift and limestone. Surface-water sources provide about 60 mgd (million gallons per day) for public supply and an additional 300 mgd is used by private...
Rapid field and laboratory method for the determination of copper in soil and rocks
Hy Almond
1955, Bulletin 1036-A
Geology of the High Climb pegmatite, Custer County, South Dakota
Douglas M. Sheridan
1955, Bulletin 1015-C
Geology and ground-water resources of the Douglas basin, Arizona, with a section on chemical quality of the ground water
Donald Robert Coates, R.L. Cushman, James Lawrence Hatchett
1955, Water Supply Paper 1354
The Douglas basin is part of a large northwest-trending intermontane valley, known as the Sulphur Spring Valley, which lies in southeastern Arizona, and extends into northeastern Sonora, Mexico. Maturely dissected mountains rise abruptly from long alluvial slopes and culminate in peaks 3,000 to 4,000 feet above the valley floor, Bedrock...
Photogeologic map of the Tidwell-16 quadrangle, Emery and Grand Counties, Utah
P. P. Orkild
1955, IMAP 115
Quality of surface waters of the United States, 1951. Parts 7 and 8, lower Mississippi River Basin and western Gulf of Mexico basins
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1955, Water Supply Paper 1199
