Birth of the lower Colorado River–Stratigraphic and geomorphic evidence for its inception near the conjunction of Nevada, Arizona, and California
Kyle House, Keith A. Howard, J. W. Bell, M. E. Perkins, J. E. Faulds, A. Brock
2005, Book chapter, Interior Western United States: Geological Society of America Field Guide
A detailed record of the late Cenozoic history of the lower Colorado River can be inferred from alluvial and (likely) lacustrine stratigraphy exposed in dissected alluvial basins below the mouth of the Grand Canyon. Numerous sites in Mohave, Cottonwood, and Detrital valleys contain stratigraphic records that directly bear on the...
Appendix D: Selected statistical tables
Mary C. Hill, Claire R. Tiedeman
2005, Book chapter, Effective Groundwater Model Calibration: With Analysis of Data, Sensitivities, Predictions, and Uncertainty
No abstract available. ...
Appendix B: Calculation details of the modified Gauss-Newton Method
Mary C. Hill, Claire R. Tiedeman
2005, Book chapter, Effective Groundwater Model Calibration: With Analysis of Data, Sensitivities, Predictions, and Uncertainty
No abstract available....
Guidelines 13 and 14—Prediction uncertainty
Mary C. Hill, Claire R. Tiedeman
2005, Book chapter, Effective Groundwater Model Calibration: With Analysis of Data, Sensitivities, Predictions, and Uncertainty
An advantage of using optimization for model development and calibration is that optimization provides methods for evaluating and quantifying prediction uncertainty. Both deterministic and statistical methods can be used. Guideline 13 discusses using regression and post-audits, which we classify as deterministic methods. Guideline 14 discusses inferential statistics and Monte Carlo...
Calibrating transient and transport models and recalibrating existing models
Mary C. Hill, Claire R. Tiedeman
2005, Book chapter, Effective Groundwater Model Calibration: With Analysis of Data, Sensitivities, Predictions, and Uncertainty
The methods presented in Chapters 3 to 8 are applicable to models of any system. However, there are special considerations when applying the methods to certain types of models. This chapter discusses three types of models that are of special interest to many scientific and engineering fields: transient models, transport...
Assessment, water-quality trends, and options for remediation of acidic drainage from abandoned coal mines near Huntsville, Missouri, 2003-2004
Eric D. Christensen
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5202
Water from abandoned underground coal mines acidifies receiving streams in the Sugar Creek Basin and Mitchell Mine Basin near Huntsville, Missouri. A 4.35-kilometer (2.7-mile) reach of Sugar Creek has been classified as impaired based on Missouri's Water Quality Standards because of small pH values [< (less than) 6.5]. Samples collected...
Base flow in the Great Lakes Basin
B.P. Neff, S.M. Day, A.R. Piggott, L. M. Fuller
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5217
Hydrograph separations were performed using the PART, HYSEP 1, 2, and 3, BFLOW and UKIH methods on 104,293 years of daily streamflow records from 3,936 streamflow-gaging stations in Ontario, Canada and the eight Great Lakes States of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to estimate base-flow...
Historical development of the U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic monitoring and investigative programs at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho, 1949 to 2001
LeRoy L. Knobel, Roy C. Bartholomay, Joseph P. Rousseau
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1223
This report is a summary of the historical development, from 1949 to 2001, of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) hydrologic monitoring and investigative programs at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. The report covers the USGS's water-level monitoring program, water-quality sampling program, geophysical program, geologic framework program, drilling program,...
Simulation of conservative-constituent transport in the Red River of the North Basin, North Dakota and Minnesota, 2003-04
Rochelle A. Nustad, Jerad D. Bales
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5273
Population growth along with possible future droughts in the Red River of the North (Red River) Basin will create an increasing need for reliable water supplies. Therefore, as a result of the Dakota Water Resources Act of 2000, the Bureau of Reclamation identified eight water-supply alternatives (including a no-action alternative)...
Petrogenesis of the Apollo 14 high-alumina basalts: Implications from ion microprobe analyses
Justin Hagerty, Charles K. Shearer, James J. Papike
2005, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (69) 5831-5845
In this study, ion microprobe analyses of individual minerals are used to investigate the petrogenesis of the Apollo 14 high-Al basalts. We use trace element concentrations from individual minerals in the Apollo 14 high-Al basalts to evaluate both endogenic and exogenic models. The data show that if the Apollo 14...
Two-dimensional resistivity investigation of the North Cavalcade Street site, Houston, Texas, August 2003
Wade H. Kress, Andrew Teeple
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5205
The North Cavalcade Street site was first developed for wood treating in 1946. By 1955, pentachlorophenol wood preservation services and other support facilities, such as creosote ponds, pentachlorophenol and creosote storage structures, various tanks, lumber sheds, a treatment facility, and other buildings had been added. In 1961, the property was...
Simulation of flow and sediment mobility using a multidimensional flow model for the White Sturgeon critical-habitat reach, Kootenai River near Bonners Ferry, Idaho
Gary J. Barton, Richard R. McDonald, Jonathan M. Nelson, Randal L. Dinehart
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5230
In 1994, the Kootenai River white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) was listed as an Endangered Species as a direct result of two related observations. First, biologists observed that the white sturgeon population in the Kootenai River was declining. Second, they observed a decline in recruitment of juvenile sturgeon beginning in the...
The manly map: the English construction of gender in early modern cartography
Dalia E. Varanka
Lorraine Dowler, Josephine M. Carubia, Bonj Szczygiel, editor(s)
2005, Book chapter, Gender and landscape : Renegotiating morality and space
Questions of gender in cartography most often focus on the sex of people involved in the cartographic process. These areas of research include the history of women cartographers (Tyner 1997: 46; Ritzlin 1989: 5; Hudson 1989: 29), the cartography of issues centered on women (Seager and Olson 1986; Seager et...
Input data used to generate one-dimensional burial history models, central Alberta, Canada
Laura N.R. Roberts, Debra K. Higley, Mitchell E. Henry
2005, Open-File Report 2005-1412
The influence of anthropogenic landscape changes on weather in south Florida
Roger A. Pielke Sr., Curtis Marshall, R. L. Walko, Louis T. Steyaert, P.L. Vidale, Glen E. Liston, W.A. Lyons, Thomas N. Chase
2005, Book chapter, Coupled models for the hydrological cycle: Integrating atmosphere, biosphere, and pedosphere
No abstract available....
Evaluating MODIS data to estimate irrigated crop production in Afghanistan using a thermal-based ET fraction approach
Gabriel B. Senay, Michael Budde, J. Rowland, James P. Verdin
2005, Conference Paper, Global priorities in land remote sensing
Accurate crop performance monitoring and production estimation is critical for timely assessment of the food balance of several countries in the world. Recently, the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) has been monitoring crop performance and to some extent relative production using satellite derived data and simulation models in...
Analysis of multi-temporal geospatial data sets to assess the landscape effects of surface mining
Dean B. Gesch
2005, Conference Paper
Geospatial data sets, especially digital elevation data, have proven useful for characterizing and analyzing land surface conditions. Digital elevation models are routinely used for describing the morphology of the land surface in terms of slope gradient and aspect. Additionally, the elevation data are useful for deriving parameters that describe the...
Petrography, structure, age, and thermal history of granitic coastal plain basement in the Chesapeake Bay impact structure, USGS-NASA Langley core, Hampton, Virginia
J. Wright Horton, Jr., David S. Powars, Gregory Gohn
2005, Professional Paper 1688-B
The USGS-NASA Langley corehole at Hampton, Va., was drilled in 2000 and was the first corehole to reach coastal plain basement in the late Eocene Chesapeake Bay impact structure. The Langley core provided samples of granite that had been concealed by 626.3 meters (2,054.7 feet) of preimpact, synimpact, and postimpact sediments. The granite, here...
Studies of the Chesapeake Bay impact structure - Introduction and discussion
J. Wright Horton, Jr., David S. Powars, Gregory Gohn
2005, Professional Paper 1688-A
The late Eocene Chesapeake Bay impact structure on the Atlantic margin of Virginia is the largest known impact crater in the United States, and it may be the Earth's best preserved example of a large impact crater that formed on a predominantly siliciclastic continental shelf. The 85-kilometer-wide (53-milewide) crater also coincides with a region of...
Individual-based modeling of ecological and evolutionary processes
Donald L. DeAngelis, Wolf M. Mooij
2005, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (36) 147-168
Individual-based models (IBMs) allow the explicit inclusion of individual variation in greater detail than do classical differential-equation and difference-equation models. Inclusion of such variation is important for continued progress in ecological and evolutionary theory. We provide a conceptual basis for IBMs by describing five major types of individual variation in...
Monitoring boreal forest leaf area index across a Siberian burn chronosequence: A MODIS validation study
X. Chen, Lee Vierling, D. Deering, A. Conley
2005, International Journal of Remote Sensing (26) 5433-5451
Landscapes containing differing amounts of ecological disturbance provide an excellent opportunity to validate and better understand the emerging Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) vegetation products. Four sites, including 1‐year post‐fire coniferous, 13‐year post‐fire deciduous, 24‐year post‐fire deciduous, and >100 year old post‐fire coniferous forests, were selected to serve as a...
Uncertainty in the Great Lakes water balance
Brian P. Neff, J.R. Nicholas
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5100
This report describes the Great Lakes hydrologic system and methods used to quantify individual components of the water balance. Potential sources of uncertainty are identified and, where appropriate, alternate or additional data, models, and estimation methods suitable for reducing uncertainties are discussed. Finally, approximate uncertainties of all components are identified,...
Hydrogeology and quality of ground water in the upper Arkansas River basin from Buena Vista to Salida, Colorado, 2000-2003
Kenneth R. Watts
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5179
The upper Arkansas River Basin between Buena Vista and Salida, Colorado, is a downfaulted basin, the Buena Vista-Salida structural basin, located between the Sawatch and Mosquito Ranges. The primary aquifers in the Buena Vista-Salida structural basin consist of poorly consolidated to unconsolidated Quaternary-age alluvial and glacial deposits and Tertiary-age basin-fill...
Remote sensing characterization of the Animas River watershed, southwestern Colorado, by AVIRIS imaging spectroscopy
J.B. Dalton, D. J. Bove, C.S. Mladinich
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5203
Visible-wavelength and near-infrared image cubes of the Animas River watershed in southwestern Colorado have been acquired by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Airborne Visible and InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) instrument and processed using the U.S. Geological Survey Tetracorder v3.6a2 implementation. The Tetracorder expert system utilizes a spectral reference library containing more...
Compilation of geologic, hydrologic, and ground-water flow modeling information for the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie aquifer, Spokane County, Washington, and Bonner and Kootenai Counties, Idaho
Sue C. Kahle, Rodney R. Caldwell, James R. Bartolino
2005, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5227
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Idaho Department of Water Resources and Washington Department of Ecology compiled and described geologic, hydrologic, and ground-water flow modeling information about the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie (SVRP) aquifer in northern Idaho and northeastern Washington. Descriptions of the hydrogeologic framework, water-budget components, ground- and...
