Wetland and water supply
John Augustus Baker
1960, Circular 431
The Geological Survey has received numerous inquiries about the effects of proposed changes in the wetland environment. The nature of the inquiries suggests a general confusion in the public mind as to wetland values and an increasing concern by the public with the need for facts as a basis for...
General introduction and hydrologic definitions
W. B. Langbein, Kathleen T. Iseri
1960, Water Supply Paper 1541-A
Double-mass curves, with a section fitting curves to cyclic data
James K. Searcy, Clayton H. Hardison, Walter B. Langbein
1960, Water Supply Paper 1541-B
The double.-mass curve is used to check the consistency of many kinds of hydrologic data by comparing data for a single station with that of a pattern composed of the data from several other stations in the area The double-mass curve can be used to adjust inconsistent precipitation data. The...
Graphical correlation of gaging-station records
James K. Searcy
1960, Water Supply Paper 1541-C
A gaging-station record is a sample of the rate of flow of a stream at a given site. This sample can be used to estimate the magnitude and distribution of future flows if the record is long enough to be representative of the long-term flow of the stream. The reliability...
Ground-water resources of the south--a frontier of the Nation's water supply
Philip E. LaMoreaux
1960, Circular 441
Ground-water supplies in shale and sandstone in Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William Counties, Virginia
Paul McKelvey Johnston
1960, Circular 424
The Triassic rocks of northern Virginia may be a potential source of moderately large supplies of ground water for municipal end industrial use if the performance of two deep wells drilled at the site of the new Dulles International Airport is a criterion. These two wells produced 327 and 600...
Opportunities and responsibilities of earth scientists in the nuclear age
Edwin Butt Eckel
1960, Circular 430
Compilation of records of surface waters of the United States through September 1950: Part 11-A. Pacific slope basins in California, except Central Valley
J. V. B. Wells
1960, Water Supply Paper 1315-B
No abstract available....
Surface water supply of the United States, 1959, Part 12, Pacific slope basins in Washington and upper Columbia River Basin
J. V. B. Wells
1960, Water Supply Paper 1636
Occurrence of ground waters of low hardness and of high chloride content in Lyon County, Minnesota
Harry G. Rodis, Robert Schneider
1960, Circular 423
The ground water in Lyon County and elsewhere in southwestern Minnesota is generally hard and low in chloride. It is the purpose of this report to describe briefly the occurrence in Lyon County of waters of low hardness and of high chloride content. The waters are found largely in Cretaceous...
Water-resources summary for southern California, 1959
William C. Peterson
1960, Circular 429
Conservation and protection
Luna Bergere Leopold
1960, Circular 414-A
When I was a child we had a burro I called Gacho. He was a typical burro, omnivorous in his eating habits and prone to streaks of extreme recalcitrance.Our yard wasn't very large, but it did produce enough grass and weeds to keep old Gacho in good fettle. His first...
Reports and maps of the Geological Survey released only in the open files, 1959
Betsy A. Weld, Erwin S. Asselstine, Arthur Johnson
1960, Circular 428
Surface water supply of the United States, 1959, Part 9, Colorado River Basin
J. V. B. Wells
1960, Water Supply Paper 1633
Progress report on use of water by riparian vegetation, Cottonwood Wash, Arizona
E. L. Hendricks, William Kam, James E. Bowie
1960, Circular 434
Measurements of streamflow, ground-water levels, and meterological data obtained in a 4.1-mile reach of the flood plain of Cottonwood Wash, Mohave County, Ariz., define the use of water by riparian vegetation in that part of the stream valley. The computed evapotranspiration loss during the growing season of 1959 was 175...
Occurrence of strontium in natural water
M. W. Skougstad, C. Albert Horr
1960, Circular 420
The regions where the stable strontium content of surface waters is relatively low (less than 0.50 ppm) include the Pacific Northwest, Northeastern United States, and the Central Lowlands, Particularly the Lower Mississippi basin and the Western Gulf Coast area. Moderate concentrations of strontium (0.50 to 1.5 ppm) are found in...
Availability of ground water at the border stations at Laurier and Ferry, Washington
Kenneth Lyle Walters
1960, Circular 422
In the Laurier area, Washington, the Kettle River has cut into crystalline rocks in the deepest part of the valley. Sand and gravel fill were deposited in the valley during Pleistocene time by melt water from glaciers, and subsequent erosion and alluviation formed three terrace levels. The highest level, on...
Geology and ground-water features of the Butte Valley region, Siskiyou County, California
P.R. Wood
1960, Water Supply Paper 1491
Sediment discharge and stream power--A preliminary announcement
Ralph A. Bagnold
1960, Circular 421
Surface water supply of the United States, 1959, Part 3-A, Ohio River Basin except Cumberland and Tennessee River Basins
J. V. B. Wells
1960, Water Supply Paper 1625
Geology of the Jackson Mountains, Humbolt County, Nevada
Charles Ronald Willden
1960, Open-File Report 60-155
The Jackson Mountains, a prominent range near the center of Humboldt County, Nevada, are of interest because the Cretaceous rocks in the range record the effects of a late Cretaceous to early Tertiary orogeny. Such an orogeny has been assumed to have effected all of the Great Basin, but the...
Minor element content of coal from Illinois beds 5 and 6 and their correlatives in Indiana and western Kentucky
Peter Zubovic
1960, Open-File Report 60-165
Spectrographic analyses for 15 elements of 249 block samples of coal are reported here. These samples represent 28 localities of beds 5 and 6 of Illinois and their correlatives in Indiana and western Kentucky.Comparison with the coals of the Northern Great Plains province shows a similarity in the total amount...
Iron ore deposits of Nevada; iron ore deposits of Northern Nevada
Fred R. Shawe, Robert G. Reeves, Victor E. Kral
1960, Open-File Report 61-154
Selected logs of borings on the east side of San Francisco Bay, California
Mary A. Weaver, Dorothy H. Radbruch
1960, Open-File Report 60-151
Geology of Grosvenor quadrangle, Texas, and petrology of some of its Pennsylvanian limestones
Robert Theodore Terriere
1960, Open-File Report 60-141
