Combining lunar photogrammetric topographic data with Clementine LIDAR data
Mark R. Rosiek, Randolph L. Kirk, Elpitha Howington-Kraus
2001, Conference Paper, Planetary Mapping: ISPRS Working Group IV/9 Workshop Proceedings
During the Clementine Mission both oblique and vertical multispectral images were collected. The oblique and vertical images from a single spectral band collected during the same orbit form a stereo pair that can be used to derive the topography. These stereo pairs were used to derive the topography of an...
Landsat 7 on-orbit modulation transfer function estimation
James C. Storey
2001, Conference Paper, Proc. SPIE 4540, sensors, systems, and next-generation satellites V
The Landsat 7 spacecraft and its Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) were launched on April 15, 1999. Pre-launch modeling of the ETM+ optical system predicted that modulation transfer function (MTF) performance would change on-orbit. A method was developed to monitor the along-scan MTF performance of the ETM+ sensor system using...
Watershed delineation using the National Elevation Dataset and semiautomated techniques
Jay R. Kost, Glenn G. Kelly
2001, Conference Paper
Federal, State, and local agencies have realized that currently available hydrologic units are not of sufficient scale for many applications. An interagency effort is under way to subdivide hydrologic units into smaller units called watersheds and subwatersheds. The National Elevation Dataset contains the best available elevation data merged into a...
Development of a national seamless database of topography and hydrologic derivatives
Sandra K. Franken, Dean J. Tyler, Kristine L. Verdin
2001, Conference Paper
The recent completion of the National Elevation Dataset (NED) and the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) has provided an avenue for nationwide development of topographically derived hydrologic data layers at a scale of 1:24,000. This multilayer dataset of hydrologic derivatives, entitled the Elevation Derivatives for National Applications (EDNA), is being developed...
Sedimentology of the Pennsylvanian and Permian Strathearn Formation, Northern Carlin Trend, Nevada; with a section on microfossil controls on age of the Strathearn Formation
Vladimir I. Berger, Donald A. Singer, Ted G. Theodore, Anita G. Harris, Calvin H. Stevens
2001, Open-File Report 2001-402
Two framework-supported, poorly bedded conglomerate units of the middle Upper Pennsylvanian and middle Lower Permian Strathearn Formation belonging to the overlap assemblage of the Antler orogen are prominent in the northern Carlin trend. These horizons stratigraphically and temporally bracket thrust emplacement of a major allochthonous thrust plate of mainly quartzarenite...
Statistical compilation of NAPAP chemical erosion observations
Victor G. Mossotti, A. Raouf Eldeeb, Michael M. Reddy, Terry L. Fries, Mary Jane Coombs, Ron L. Schmiermund, Susan I. Sherwood
2001, Open-File Report 98-755
In the mid 1980s, the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP), in cooperation with the National Park Service (NPS) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), initiated a Materials Research Program (MRP) that included a series of field and laboratory studies with the broad objective of providing scientific information on acid...
Lithologic and ground-water-quality data collected using Hoverprobe drilling techniques at the West Branch Canal Creek wetland, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, April-May 2000
Daniel J. Phelan, Michael P. Senus, Lisa D. Olsen
2001, Open-File Report 2000-446
This report presents lithologic and groundwater- quality data collected during April and May 2000 in the remote areas of the tidal wetland of West Branch Canal Creek, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Contamination of the Canal Creek aquifer with volatile organic compounds has been documented in previous investigations of the area. This study was conducted to investigate areas that...
The Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary interval in Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Philip W. Stoffer, Paula Messina, John A. Chamberlain Jr., Dennis O. Terry Jr.
2001, Open-File Report 2001-56
A marine K-T boundary interval has been identified throughout the Badlands National Park region of South Dakota. Data from marine sediments suggest that deposits from two asteroid impacts (one close, one far away) may be preserved in the Badlands. These impact-generated deposits may represent late Maestrichtian events or possibly the...
Geochemical baseline studies and relations between water quality and streamflow in the Upper Blackfoot watershed, Montana: Data for July 1997-December 1998
Sonia A. Nagorski, Johnnie N. Moore, David B. Smith
2001, Open-File Report 2001-59
We used ultraclean sampling techniques to study the solute (operationally defined as <0.2 ?m) surface water geochemistry at five sites along the Upper Blackfoot River and four sites along the Landers Fork, some in more detail and more regularly than others. We collected samples also from Hogum Creek, a tributary to the Blackfoot,...
Stratigraphic and structural characterization of the OU-1 area at the former George Air Force Base, Adelanto, southern California
R. D. Catchings, G. Gandhok, M. R. Goldman
2001, Open-File Report 2001-60
The former George Air Force Base (GAFB), now known as the Southern California Logistics Airport (SCLA), is located in the town of Adelanto, approximately 100 km northeast of Los Angeles, California (Fig. 1). In this report, we present acquisition parameters, data, and interpretations of seismic images that were acquired in...
New Mexico aeromagnetic and gravity maps and data: a web site for distribution of data
Robert P. Kucks, Patricia L. Hill, Charles E. Heywood
2001, Open-File Report 2001-61
Geology and natural history of the San Francisco Bay area: A field-trip guidebook
Philip W. Stoffer, Leslie C. Gordon, editor(s)
2001, Bulletin 2188
A National Association of Geoscience Teachers Far Western Section (NAGT-FWS) field conference is an ideal forum for learning about the geology and natural history of the San Francisco Bay area. We visit classic field sites, renew old friendships, and make new ones. This collection of papers includes field guides and...
Analytical data for waters of the Harvard Open Pit, Jamestown Mine, Tuolumne County, California, March 1998-September 1999
R. P. Ashley, K. S. Savage
2001, Open-File Report 2001-74
The Jamestown mine is located in the Jamestown mining district in western Tuolumne County, California (see Fig. 1). This district is one of many located on or near the Melones fault zone, a major regional suture in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The districts along the Melones fault comprise the Mother...
Surface water quality-assurance plan for the Hawaii District of the U. S. Geological Survey
R. A. Fontaine
2001, Open-File Report 2001-75
This District Surface Water Quality-Assurance Plan documents the standards, policies, and procedures used by the Hawaii District for activities related to the collection, processing, storage, analysis, and publication of surface-water data....
Arizona aeromagnetic and gravity maps and data: a website for distribution of data
Ronald E. Sweeney, Patricia L. Hill
2001, Open-File Report 2001-81
Summary of suspended-sediment concentration data, San Francisco Bay, California, water year 1999
Paul A. Buchanan, Catherine A. Ruhl
2001, Open-File Report 2001-100
Suspended-sediment concentration data were collected in San Francisco Bay during water year 1999 (October 1, 1998-September 30, 1999). Optical backscatterance sensors and water samples were used to monitor suspended sediment at one site in Suisun Bay, three sites in San Pablo Bay, two sites in Central San Francisco Bay, and...
Evaluation of the Effects of Development on Peak-Flow Hydrographs for Collyer Brook, Maine
Robert W. Dudley, Glenn A. Hodgkins, Alexander Mann, John Chisolm
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4156
The development of former agricultural or forested lands creates more impervious areas and drainage improvements that can increase the volume of runoff and decrease infiltration and ground-water recharge in a watershed. Drainage improvements also can improve the conveyance of runoff, decreasing the time of rise to peak flow between the...
1:100,000-scale topographic contours derived from digital elevation models, San Francisco Bay region, California: a digital database
Heather M. Wright, Carl M. Wentworth
2001, Open-File Report 2001-101
This report presents a consistent set of 1:100,000-scale vector topographic contours for all eleven 30x60-minute quadrangles in the San Francisco Bay region for use in visualizing the topography and preparing maps of the region. The contours were prepared by contouring an areally continuous 30-m altitude grid (National Elevation Dataset, Jan.,...
Georgia aeromagnetic and gravity maps and data: a web site for distribution of data
David L. Daniels
2001, Open-File Report 2001-106
Core descriptions, core photographs, physical property logs and surface textural data of sediment cores recovered from the continental shelf of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary during the research cruises M-1-95-MB, P-2-95-MB, and P-1-97-MB
Kevin M. Orzech, Wendy E. Dahl, Brian D. Edwards
2001, Open-File Report 2001-107
In response to the 1992 creation of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) initiated a multiyear investigation of the Sanctuary continental margin. As part of the investigative effort, this report summarizes the shipboard procedures, subsequent laboratory analyses, and data results from three seafloor...
Digital database of mining-related features at selected historic and active phosphate mines, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, and Caribou counties, Idaho
J. Douglas Causey, Phillip R. Moyle
2001, Open-File Report 2001-142
This report provides a description of data and processes used to produce a spatial database that delineates mining-related features in areas of historic and active phosphate mining in the core of the southeastern Idaho phosphate resource area. The data have varying degrees of accuracy and attribution detail. Classification of areas...
Statewide water-quality network for Massachusetts
Leslie A. DeSimone, Peter A. Steeves, Marc James Zimmerman
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4081
A water-quality monitoring program is proposed that would provide data to meet multiple information needs of Massachusetts agencies and other users concerned with the condition of the State's water resources. The program was designed by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Watershed Management,...
Reconnaissance of Stream Geomorphology, Low Streamflow, and Stream Temperature in the Mountaintop Coal-Mining Region, Southern West Virginia, 1999-2000
Jeffrey B. Wiley, Ronald D. Evaldi, James H. Eychaner, Douglas B. Chambers
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4092
The effects of mountaintop removal coal mining and the valley fills created by this mining method in southern West Virginia were investigated by comparing data collected at valley-fill, mined, and unmined sites. Bed material downstream of valley-fill sites had a greater number of particles less than 2 millimeters and a...
Concentrations and loads of cadmium, lead, zinc, and nutrients measured during the 1999 water year within the Spokane River basin, Idaho and Washington
P. F. Woods
2001, Open-File Report 2000-441
The Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency within the Spokane River Basin of northern Idaho and eastern Washington included extensive data-collection activities to determine the nature and extent of trace-element contaminationwithin the basin. The U.S. Geological Survey designed and operated a streamflow and water quality monitoring network...
Trace-metal concentrations in sediment and water and health of aquatic macroinvertebrate communities of streams near Park City, Summit County, Utah
Elis Giddings, Michelle I. Hornberger, Heidi K. Hadley
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4213
The spatial distribution of metals in streambed sediment and surface water of Silver Creek, McLeod Creek, Kimball Creek, Spring Creek, and part of the Weber River, near Park City, Utah, was examined. From the mid-1800s through the 1970s, this region was extensively mined for silver and lead ores. Although some...
