Progress report: chemical character of surface waters in the Devils Lake Basin, North Dakota
Herbert A. Swenson
1950, Open-File Report 50-98
Devils Lake in northeastern North Dakota was at one time the most popular summer resort in the state. With decline in lake level the lake has become a shallow body pf vary saline water, which scenic value and recreational appeal completely destroyed. Under the Missouri River development program, it is...
Additional water wells at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Allen Sinnott
1950, Open-File Report 50-96
Water supply of the United States
Carl G. Paulsen
1950, Open-File Report 50-89
The front pages of the press throughout the country during the past several weeks have dramatized the critical water shortages in many parts of the Nation. The concerns that has grown in recent years over the future of our water supplies has been forcibly brought to the attention of the...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1947, Part XIII, Snake River basin
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1950, Water Supply Paper 1093
Ground-water resources of the Mt. Savage area, Maryland
R. M. Overbeck
1950, Open-File Report 50-87
A law providing for the establishment of sanitary district in Allegany Count was passed by the Maryland State Legislature in 1949. In connection with the establishment of these district a commission, called the Allegany County Metropolitan Commission, was appointed on January 1, 1950. This commission is considering the construction of...
Withdrawal of ground water and pond water on Long Island from 1904 to 1949
Norbert J. Lusczynski
1950, Open-File Report 50-83
For more than 50 years the highly productive and readily replenishable water-bearing sands and gravels on Long Island -- capable of yielding an average of at least 1,000 million gallons a day -- and also some surface streams and ponds have been utilized on a large scale of public water...
Progress report on the geology and ground-water hydrology of the Riverton Irrigation Project, Wyoming
D. A. Morris, W. H. Durum
1950, Open-File Report 50-85
Progress report, investigations of fluvial sediments of the Niobrara River near Cody, Nebraska
Eugene Frank Serr
1950, Circular 67
Comparison of sediment concentrations at a naturally contracted section on the Niobrara River near Cody, Nebraska, with those measured at the regular gaging station one quarter mile upstream, indicates that approximately 50 percent of the sediment is transported as bed load at the regular gaging station. The bed load percentage...
Notes to accompany preliminary geologic map of Fairfax, Virginia and (part) Seneca, Virginia-Maryland quadrangles
Allan P. Bennison, Charles Milton
1950, Open-File Report 50-11
Coal resources of New Mexico
Charles Brian Read, R. T. Duffner, G. H. Wood, A.D. Zapp
1950, Circular 89
A study of water quality degradation due to brine contamination was made in an area of about 1,700 sq mi in east-central Oklahoma. The study area coincides in part with the outcrop of the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer of Pennsylvanian age. Water samples collected from 180 wells completed in the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer...
Ground-water resources of Gregg County, Texas, with a section on Stream runoff
W. L. Broadhurst, S.D. Breeding
1950, Water Supply Paper 1079-B
Field work in the island of St. Croix, V. I., was carried on from December 1938 to April 1939 in connection with a test-drilling program for water sup- plies. The island is 21 miles long and has a maximum width of 6 miles. Its western part consists of a range...
Some reservoir sites in the Sierra Nevada, California
Frederick A. Johnson
1950, Circular 85
Surficial geologic map of parts of Billerica, Wilmington, and Lexington quadrangles, Massachusetts
Robert O. Castle
1950, Open-File Report 50-31
Map showing coal resources of Montana
John Xavier Combo, Clifford N. Holmes, H. Reed Christner
1950, Coal Map 2
No abstract available....
The Fire Clay and Whitesburg coals in the Hyden quadrangle, Leslie, Clay, and Perry Counties, Kentucky
John Edward Johnston, W. A. Heck
1950, Coal Map 5
This preliminary report on the coal in the Hyden quadrangle, Kentucky, presents data on two of the principal commercial coals. The Fire Clay is the most valuable commercial coal in the quadrangle, and locally the Whitesburg bed is of minable thickness. Special emphasis has been placed on determining the thickness,...
Geology and oil shale resources of the eastern side of the Piceance Creek Basin, Rio Blanco and Garfield counties, Colorado
Donald Cave Duncan, Carl Belser
1950, Open-File Report 50-12
The upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district; In two parts: I General structural relations of the upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district. II. The ore deposits of the upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district
Allen V. Heyl Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-13
No abstract available....
Geologic maps of lead-zinc mines, Kokomo district, Summit County, Colorado
Albert Herbert Koschmann
1950, Open-File Report 50-19
A transmission fluorimeter for use in the fluorimetric method of analysis for uranium
Mary H. Fletcher, Irving May, Morris Slavin
1950, Open-File Report 50-34
Geology of the Limestone Hills, Broadwater County, Montana
Edward Thompson Ruppel
1950, Open-File Report 50-14
The Limestone Hills, a natural topographic unit having an area of about 16 square miles, are situated a few miles west and southwest of Townsend, Broadwater County, Montana. They are composed of pre-Cambrian, Paleozoic, and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks i...
Five preliminary aeromagnetic maps of Pottsville and vicinity, Mullan and vicinity, Wallace and vicinity, Smelterville and vicinity, and Kellogg and vicinity, all in the Coeur d'Alene mining district, Idaho
William J. Dempsey
1950, Open-File Report 50-8
Structural geology of the Terlingua quicksilver district, Texas
George Albert Thompson Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-9
Geologic mapping, supplemented by detailed investigations at the mines, has revealed new information about the geologic structure of the Terlingua quicksilver district, Texas. Attention is focused on the nature and origin of domes, grabens, and breccia pipes, structures that are unusually well developed in the area. The sedimentary rocks, of...
Exploration of the Buckhorn Mica Pegmatite mine, Larimer County, Colorado
W. R. Thurston
1950, Open-File Report 50-22
Map showing status of geologic mapping and investigations in Massachusetts and Rhode Island under cooperative programs
Louis W. Currier
1950, Open-File Report 50-21
Tertiary stratigraphy of the western part of the Beaver Divide area, Fremont County, Wyoming
Franklyn B. Van Houten
1950, Oil and Gas Investigation Map 113
