Aggradation and Degradation of the Palisades Gully Network, 1996 to 2005, with Emphasis on the November 2004 High-Flow Experiment, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Joseph E. Hazel Jr., Matt Kaplinski, Roderic A. Parnell, Helen C. Fairley
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1264
This study examines a large drainage network incised into alluvial terraces located along the Colorado River downstream of Palisades Creek in Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. Gully erosion in the drainage affects archaeological sites found on the wide, relatively flat alluvial terraces. In 1996, 7-d release of 1,274 cubic meters...
Quantitative Mineral Resource Assessment of Copper, Molybdenum, Gold, and Silver in Undiscovered Porphyry Copper Deposits in the Andes Mountains of South America
Charles G. Cunningham, Eduardo O. Zappettini, Waldo Vivallo S., Carlos Mario Celada, Jorge Quispe, Donald A. Singer, Joseph A. Briskey, David M. Sutphin, Mariano Gajardo M., Alejandro Diaz, Carlos Portigliati, Vladimir I. Berger, Rodrigo Carrasco, Klaus J. Schulz
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1253
Quantitative information on the general locations and amounts of undiscovered porphyry copper resources of the world is important to exploration managers, land-use and environmental planners, economists, and policy makers. This publication contains the results of probabilistic estimates of the amounts of copper (Cu), molybdenum (Mo), gold (Au), and silver (Ag)...
Digital coordinates and age of more than 13,000 foraminifers samples collected by Chevron Petroleum geologists in California
William T. Malmblorg, William B. West, Earl E. Brabb, John M. Parker
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1187
The general location and age of more than 33,500 mostly foraminifer samples from Chevron surface localities in nearly 600 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 7.5' quadrangles from California were provided by Brabb and Parker (2003). Barren and non-diagnostic samples plus many that have no paleontologic information were omitted to provide a...
Paleontologic Database for the Guadalupe Peak 1:100,000 Quadrangle: A Prototype for the National Paleontologic Database, Paleodata
Bruce R. Wardlaw
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1141
This report is a compilation of most of the known fossil locality data from Guadalupe Peak 1:100,000 quadrangle, West Texas. The data represent several major collection efforts over the past century by the Smithsonian Institution, the American Museum of Natural History, and the U.S. Geological Survey. This dataset is not...
Ground-water levels in Huron County, Michigan, 2006-07
T. L. Weaver, S. P. Blumer, L. M. Fuller
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1248
In 1990, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) completed a study of the hydrogeology of Huron County, Michigan (Sweat, 1991). In 1993, Huron County and the USGS entered into a continuing agreement to measure water levels at selected wells throughout Huron County. As part of the agreement, USGS initially operated four...
Weight of Production of Emeralds, Rubies, Sapphires, and Tanzanite from 1995 Through 2005
Thomas R. Yager, W. David Menzie, Donald W. Olson
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1013
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) historically has not attempted to report comprehensive world production of gemstones on a country basis. This was because estimation of gemstone production is inherently difficult due to the fragmentary nature of the industry, the lack of governmental oversight or reporting in many countries where colored gemstones...
Technical Manual for the Geospatial Stream Flow Model (GeoSFM)
Kwabena O. Asante, Guleid A. Artan, Md Shahriar Pervez, Christina Bandaragoda, James P. Verdin
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1441
The monitoring of wide-area hydrologic events requires the use of geospatial and time series data available in near-real time. These data sets must be manipulated into information products that speak to the location and magnitude of the event. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science (USGS...
Digital data for volcano hazards at Newberry Volcano, Oregon
S. P. Schilling, S. Doelger, D. R. Sherrod, L.G. Mastin, W. E. Scott
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1225
Newberry volcano is a broad shield volcano located in central Oregon, the product of thousands of eruptions, beginning about 600,000 years ago. At least 25 vents on the flanks and summit have been active during the past 10,000 years. The most recent eruption 1,300 years ago produced the Big Obsidian...
Digital data for volcano hazards in the Crater Lake Region, Oregon
S. P. Schilling, S. Doelger, C. R. Bacon, L.G. Mastin, K.E. Scott, M. Nathenson
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1223
Crater Lake lies in a basin, or caldera, formed by collapse of the Cascade volcano known as Mount Mazama during a violent, climactic eruption about 7,700 years ago. This event dramatically changed the character of the volcano so that many potential types of future events have no precedent there. This...
Development and Evaluation of a Riparian Buffer Mapping Tool
Lesley E. Milheim, Peter R. Claggett
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1266
Land use and land cover within riparian areas greatly affect the conditions of adjacent water features. In particular, riparian forests provide many environmental benefits, including nutrient uptake, bank stabilization, steam shading, sediment trapping, aquatic and terrestrial habitat, and stream organic matter. In contrast, residential and commercial development and associated transportation...
High-resolution chirp and mini-sparker seismic-reflection data from the southern California continental shelf — Gaviota to Mugu Canyon
Ray W. Sliter, Peter J. Triezenberg, Patrick E. Hart, Amy E. Draut, William R. Normark, James E. Conrad
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1246
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collected high-resolution shallow seismic-reflection data in September, 2007, and June-July, 2008, from the continental shelf offshore of southern California between Gaviota and Mugu Canyon, in support of the California's State Waters Mapping Program. Data were acquired using SIG 2mille mini-sparker and Edgetech chirp 512 instruments...
Summary of mercury and trace element results in precipitation from the Culpeper, Virginia, Mercury Deposition Network Site (VA-08), 2002-2006
Mark A. Engle, Allan Kolker, Douglas E. Mose, Joseph A. East, Jamey D. McCord
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1232
The VA-08 Mercury Deposition Network (MDN) site, southwest of Culpeper, Virginia, was established in autumn of 2002. This site, along with nearby VA-28 (~31 km west) at Big Meadows in Shenandoah National Park, fills a spatial gap in the Mid-Atlantic region of the MDN network and provides Hg deposition data...
Digital data for volcano hazards of the Three Sisters region, Oregon
S. P. Schilling, S. Doelger, W. E. Scott, R.M. Iverson
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1221
Three Sisters is one of three active volcanic centers that lie close to rapidly growing communities and resort areas in Central Oregon. The major composite volcanoes of this area are clustered near the center of the region and include South Sister, Middle Sister, and Broken Top. Additionally, hundreds of mafic...
Digital Data for Volcano Hazards of the Mount Hood Region, Oregon
S. P. Schilling, S. Doelger, W. E. Scott, T.C. Pierson, J. E. Costa, C. A. Gardner, J.W. Vallance, Jon J. Major
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1222
Snow-clad Mount Hood dominates the Cascade skyline from the Portland metropolitan area to the wheat fields of Wasco and Sherman Counties. The mountain contributes valuable water, scenic, and recreational resources that help sustain the agricultural and tourist segments of the economies of surrounding cities and counties. Mount Hood is also...
Interactions among livestock grazing, vegetation type, and fire behavior in the Murphy Wildland Fire Complex in Idaho and Nevada, July 2007
Karen Launchbaugh, Bob Brammer, Matthew L. Brooks, Stephen C. Bunting, Patrick Clark, Jay Davison, Mark Fleming, Ron Kay, Mike Pellant, David A. Pyke
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1214
A series of wildland fires were ignited by lightning in sagebrush and grassland communities near the Idaho-Nevada border southwest of Twin Falls, Idaho in July 2007. The fires burned for over two weeks and encompassed more than 650,000 acres. A team of scientists, habitat specialists, and land managers was called...
Hydrologic data from the study of acidic contamination in the Miami Wash— Pinal Creek Area, Arizona, water years 1997–2004
A.D. Konieczki, J. G. Brown, J. T. C. Parker
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1273
Since 1984, hydrologic data have been collected as part of a U.S. Geological Survey study of the occurrence and movement of acidic contamination in the aquifer and streams of the Pinal Creek drainage basin near Globe, Arizona. Ground-water data from that study are presented for water years 1997 through 2004...
Compilation of Disruptions to Airports by Volcanic Activity (Version 1.0, 1944-2006)
Marianne Guffanti, Gari C. Mayberry, Thomas J. Casadevall, Richard Wunderman
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1256
Volcanic activity has caused significant hazards to numerous airports worldwide, with local to far-ranging effects on travelers and commerce. To more fully characterize the nature and scope of volcanic hazards to airports, we collected data on incidents of airports throughout the world that have been affected by volcanic activity, beginning...
Rainfall, discharge, and water-quality data during stormwater monitoring, July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008; Halawa stream drainage basin and the H-1 storm drain, Oahu, Hawai'i
Todd K. Presley, Marcael T. J. Jamison, Stacie T. M. Young
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1233
Storm runoff water-quality samples were collected as part of the State of Hawaii Department of Transportation Stormwater Monitoring Program. The program is designed to assess the effects of highway runoff and urban runoff on Halawa Stream and to assess the effects from the H-1 storm drain on Manoa Stream. For...
Digital Data for Volcano Hazards from Mount Rainier, Washington, Revised 1998
S. P. Schilling, S. Doelger, R. Hoblitt, J. S. Walder, C. L. Driedger, K. M. Scott, P. T. Pringle, J.W. Vallance
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1220
Mount Rainier at 4393 meters (14,410 feet) is the highest peak in the Cascade Range; a dormant volcano having glacier ice that exceeds that of any other mountain in the conterminous United States. This tremendous mass of rock and ice, in combination with great topographic relief, poses a variety of...
Digital data for volcano hazards in the Mount Jefferson Region, Oregon
S. P. Schilling, S. Doelger, J. S. Walder, C. A. Gardner, R. M. Conrey, B.J. Fisher
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1224
Mount Jefferson has erupted repeatedly for hundreds of thousands of years, with its last eruptive episode during the last major glaciation which culminated about 15,000 years ago. Geologic evidence shows that Mount Jefferson is capable of large explosive eruptions. The largest such eruption occurred between 35,000 and 100,000 years ago....
Study design and percent recoveries of anthropogenic organic compounds with and without the addition of ascorbic acid to preserve water samples containing free chlorine, 2004-06
Joshua F. Valder, Gregory C. Delzer, Curtis V. Price, Mark W. Sandstrom
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1226
The National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began implementing Source Water-Quality Assessments (SWQAs) in 2002 that focus on characterizing the quality of source water and finished water of aquifers and major rivers used by some of the larger community water systems in the United States....
Airborne Hyperspectral Survey of Afghanistan 2007: Flight Line Planning and HyMap Data Collection
Raymond F. Kokaly, Trude King, K. Eric Livo
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1235
Hyperspectral remote sensing data were acquired over Afghanistan with the HyMap imaging spectrometer (Cocks and others, 1998) operating on the WB-57 high altitude NASA research aircraft (http://jsc-aircraft-ops.jsc.nasa.gov/wb57/index.html). These data were acquired during the interval of August 22, 2007 to October 2, 2007, as part of the United States Geological Survey...
Earthquakes in Ohio and Vicinity 1776-2007
Richard L. Dart, Michael C. Hansen
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1221
This map summarizes two and a third centuries of earthquake activity. The seismic history consists of letters, journals, diaries, and newspaper and scholarly articles that supplement seismograph recordings (seismograms) dating from the early twentieth century to the present. All of the pre-instrumental (historical) earthquakes were large enough to be felt...
The National Map 2.0 Tactical Plan: "Toward the (Integrated) National Map"
Carl A. Zulick
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1263
The National Map's 2-year goal, as described in this plan, is to provide a range of geospatial products and services that meet the basic goals of the original vision for The National Map while furthering the National Spatial Data Infrastructure that underpins U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) science. To accomplish this...
User's Manual for the Object User Interface (OUI): An Environmental Resource Modeling Framework
Steven L. Markstrom, Kathryn M. Koczot
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1120
The Object User Interface is a computer application that provides a framework for coupling environmental-resource models and for managing associated temporal and spatial data. The Object User Interface is designed to be easily extensible to incorporate models and data interfaces defined by the user. Additionally, the Object User Interface is...
