Hydrogeologic framework of the North Carolina coastal plain
M. D. Winner Jr., R. W. Coble
1996, Professional Paper 1404-I
The hydrogeologic framework of the North Carolina Coastal Plain aquifer system consists of 10 aquifers separated by 9 confining units. From top to bottom, the aquifers are the surficial aquifer, Yorktown aquifer, Pungo River aquifer, Castle Hayne aquifer, Beaufort aquifer, Peedee aquifer, Black Creek aquifer, upper Cape Fear aquifer, lower...
Peak data for U.S. Geological Survey gaging stations, Texas network and computer program to estimate peak-streamflow frequency
R.M. Slade, W.H. Asquith
1996, Open-File Report 96-148
About 23,000 annual peak streamflows and about 400 historical peak streamflows exist for about 950 stations in the surface-water data-collection network of Texas. These data are presented on a computer diskette along with the corresponding dates, gage heights, and information concerning the basin, and nature or cause for the flood....
Factors affecting tritium and 14carbon distributions in the unsaturated zone near the low-level radioactive-waste burial site south of Beatty, Nevada
Robert G. Striegl, David E. Prudic, J. S. Duval, R. W. Healy, E. R. Landa, D.W. Pollock, D.C. Thorstenson, R.P. Weeks
1996, Open-File Report 96-110
Interpretations of the distributions of tritiated water vapor (HTOV) and 14carbon dioxide gas (14CO2) concentrations in the unsaturated zone adjacent to the low-level radioactive-waste burial site south of Beatty, Nevada, suggest that observed concentrations of 14CO2 could be explained by either diffusive or advective transport of the radioactive gas from...
Movement of agricultural chemicals between surface water and ground water, lower Cedar River basin, Iowa
Paul J. Squillace, J.P. Caldwell, P.M. Schulmeyer, C.A. Harvey
1996, Water Supply Paper 2448
Movement of agricultural chemicals alachlor, atrazine, cyanazine, deethylatrazine, deisopropylatrazine, and metolachlor between surface water and ground water is documented by data collected from May 1989 through July 1991 at an unfarmed study site adjacent to the Cedar River in Iowa. During periods of runoff, these chemicals moved from the Cedar...
Review of Seismic Hazard Issues Associated with Auburn Dam Project, Sierra Nevada Foothills, California
David P. Schwartz, W. B. Joyner, R.S. Stein, R.D. Brown, A.F. McGarr, S.H. Hickman, W. H. Bakun
1996, Open-File Report 96-11
Summary -- The U.S. Geological Survey was requested by the U.S. Department of the Interior to review the design values and the issue of reservoir-induced seismicity for a concrete gravity dam near the site of the previously-proposed Auburn Dam in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada, central California. The...
Bridge-scour instrumentation and data for nine sites in Oregon, 1991-94
Milo D. Crumrine, Karl K. Lee, Richard L. Kittelson
1996, Open-File Report 95-366
This report is a compilation of bridge-scour instrumentation information, bridge-scour data, and hydraulic data for nine sites studied in Oregon from October 1991 through September 1994. The Alsea Bay scour monitoring site was established to test new bridge-scour monitoring equipment, whereas the eight additional sites were established to monitor scour-hole...
Variations in land use and nonpoint-source contamination on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, west-central North Dakota, 1990-93
Kathleen Macek-Rowland, Robert M. Lent
1996, Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4007
The effects of land-use activities on the water quality of five streams on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation were evaluated. The five basinsevaluated were East Fork Shell Creek, Deepwater Creek, Bear Den Creek, Moccasin Creek, and Squaw Creek. East Fork Shell Creek and DeepwaterCreek Basins are located east of Lake...
Geohydrology and contamination at the Michigan Department of Transportation maintenance garage area, Kalamazoo County, Michigan
E. A. Lynch, G.C. Huffman
1996, Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4010
A leaking underground storage tank was removed from the Michigan Department of Transportation maintenance garage area in Kalamazoo County., Mich., in 1985. The tank had been leaking unleaded gasoline. Although a remediation system was operational at the site for several years after the tank was removed, ground-water samples collected from...
Plan of study to quantify the hydrologic relations between the Rio Grande and the Santa Fe Group aquifer system near Albuquerque, central New Mexico
D. P. McAda
1996, Water-Resources Investigations Report 96-4006
The Albuquerque Basin in central New Mexico covers an area of about 3,060 square miles. Ground water from the Santa Fe Group aquifer system of the Albuquerque Basin is the principal source of water for municipal, domestic, commercial, and industrial uses in the Albuquerque area, an area of about 410 square miles....
Resource assessment of the Bureau of Land Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, Northwest Nevada and Northeast California; geology and its relation to resource genesis
J. L. Doebrich
1996, Open-File Report 96-30
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is a party to joint interagency Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) to coordinate resource assessments and evaluations of BLM administered lands. Resource assessments of BLM Resource Areas, that are conducted by the...
Direct temperature measurements of deposits, Mount St. Helens, Washington, 1980-1981
Norman G. Banks, Richard P. Hoblitt
1996, Professional Paper 1387
A program of temperature studies of the eruptive products of Mount St. Helens was established May 20, 1980, 2 days after the catastrophic eruption of May 18. Temperature-depth profiles were measured by thermocouple to determine the emplacement temperatures of deposits of the debris avalanche and blast of May 18 and...
Hydrology of the Wolf Branch sinkhole basin, Lake County, east-central Florida
D. M. Schiffer
1996, Open-File Report 96-143
A 4-year study of the hydrology of the Wolf Branch sinkhole basin in Lake County, Florida, was conducted from 1991-95 by the U.S. Geological Survey to provide information about the hydrologic characteristics of the drainage basin in the vicinity of Wolf Sink. Wolf Branch drains a 4.94 square mile area...
Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment (LARSE), California, off-shore seismic refraction data
Uri S. ten Brink, R.M. Drury, G.K. Miller, T.M. Brocher, D. A. Okaya
1996, Open-File Report 96-27
Tennessee
B. H. Balthrop (compiler), K.A. Carney
1996, Open-File Report 96-176
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), established in 1879, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior. For more than a century, the USGS has provided reports, maps, data, and other information to aid in the development, management, and portection of the Nation's water, energy, mineral, and land resources....
Digital elevation model (DEM) file of topographic elevations for the Death Valley region of southern Nevada and southeastern California processed from U.S. Geological Survey 1-degree Digital Elevation Model data files
A. K. Turner, F. A. D’Agnese, Claudia C. Faunt
1996, Open-File Report 95-287
Field test of two single-frequency GPS receivers
E.Y. Iwatsubo
1996, Open-File Report 96-43
The U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) has been testing low-cost, low-power Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers for use in the monitoring of restless volcanoes. Field tests of two single-frequency (L1 only) receivers, the Ashtech SCA-12S and the Leica SR261 show that these units can measure positions precisely enough...
Thermal maturity data used for the assessment of gas resources in the Wind River basin, Wyoming
V. F. Nuccio, T.M. Finn, R. C. Johnson
1996, Open-File Report 96-64
Stratigraphic data for wells at and near the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho
S. R. Anderson, D. J. Ackerman, M. J. Liszewski, R.M. Freiburger
1996, Open-File Report 96-248
Stormwater-runoff data, Madison, Wisconsin, 1993-94
R.J. Waschbusch
1996, Open-File Report 95-733
Section 402(P) of the Water Quality Control Act of 1987 requires that municipalities with a population of 100,000 or more obtain permits to discharge stormwater runoff and to control its quality. Monitoring and sampling of stormwater runoff from seven drainage basins in Madison, Wis., was performed from April 1993 through...
Bibliography of selected water-resources publications by the U.S. Geological Survey for North Carolina, 1886-1995
M. D. Winner Jr.
1996, Open-File Report 95-775
More than 660 selected publications, written by scientists, engineers, and technicians of the U.S. Geological Survey during the period 1886-1995, compose the bulk of information about North Carolina?s water resources. The bibliography includes interpretive reports on water resources, ground water, surface water, water quality, and public-water supply and water use,...
Summary of the land-use inventory for the nonpoint-source evaluation monitoring watersheds in Wisconsin
J.A. Wierl, K.F. Rappold, F.U. Amerson
1996, Open-File Report 96-123
In 1992, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey initiated a land-use inventory to identify sources of pollutants and track the land-management changes for eight evaluation monitoring watersheds established as part of the WDNR's Nonpoint Source Program. Each evaluation monitoring watershed is within...
Contaminant concentrations in stormwater from eight lake Superior basin cities, 1993-94
J. J. Steuer, W.R. Selbig, Nancy J. Hornewer
1996, Open-File Report 96-122
The U.S. Geological Survey collected Stormwater samples from eight Lake Superior Basin cities to determine the quality of urban runoff entering Lake Superior from urban areas. The samples were collected during July 1993-September 1994 from storm sewers in Ishpeming, Negaunee, Sault Ste. Marie, and Houghton, Michigan; Virginia and Ribbing, Minnesota;...
Summary of ground-water and rainfall data for Tutuila and Aunuu Islands, Americn Samoa, for July, 1984 through September, 1995
S. K. Izuka
1996, Open-File Report 96-116
Ground-water and rainfall data for the period from July 1984 through September 1995 from the islands of Tutuila and Aunuu have been summarized in time-series graphs that can be used to analyze for historical trends. The data include pumpage and chloride concentrations from 50 production wells on Tutuila and 3...
Digital hydrographic, land use/land cover, and hydrologic unit boundary files for the Death Valley region of southern Nevada and southeastern California processed from U.S. Geological Survey 1:100,000- and 1:250,000-scale digital data files
A. K. Turner, F. A. D’Agnese, C.C. Faunt
1996, Open-File Report 95-362
Global volcanic earthquake swarm database 1979-1989
J.P. Benoit, S.R. McNutt
1996, Open-File Report 96-69
Earthquake swarms are pervasive at volcanoes, but have seldom been studied systematically. Most swarms that are described in the literature are those that occurred in association with eruptions; indeed, earthquake swarms are the most reliable method of forecasting eruptions. For the purpose of this report, a swarm is defined as...
