Preliminary analytical results for a mud sample collected from the LUSI Mud Volcano, Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia
Geoffrey S. Plumlee, Thomas J. Casadevall, Handoko T. Wibowo, Robert J. Rosenbauer, Craig A. Johnson, George N. Breit, Heather Lowers, Ruth E. Wolf, Philip L. Hageman, Harland L. Goldstein, Michael W. Anthony, Cyrus J. Berry, David L. Fey, Gregory P. Meeker, Suzette A. Morman
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1019
On May 29, 2006, mud and gases began erupting unexpectedly from a vent 150 meters away from a hydrocarbon exploration well near Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia. The eruption, called the LUSI (Lumpur 'mud'-Sidoarjo) mud volcano, has continued since then at rates as high as 160,000 m3 per day. At the...
Submarine Hydrogeological Data from Cape Cod National Seashore
VeeAnn A. Cross, John F. Bratton, John Crusius, John A. Colman, Timothy D. McCobb
2008, Open-File Report 2006-1169
In order to test hypotheses about ground water flow under and into estuaries and the Atlantic Ocean, geophysical surveys, geophysical probing, submarine ground-water sampling, and sediment coring were conducted by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists at Cape Cod National Seashore (CCNS) in Massachusetts from 2004 through 2006. This USGS Open-File...
Interferometric Sidescan Bathymetry, Sediment and Foraminiferal Analyses; a New Look at Tomales Bay, California
Roberto J. Anima, John L. Chin, David P. Finlayson, Mary McGann, Florence L. Wong
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1237
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) in collaboration with Point Reyes National Sea Shore (PRNS), and the Tomales Bay Watershed Council [http://www.tomalesbaywatershed.org/] has completed a detailed bathymetric survey, and sediment and foraminiferal analyses of the floor of Tomales Bay, California. The study goals are to detail the submarine morphology,...
Mammal Inventory of the Mojave Network Parks-Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Manzanar National Historic Site, and Mojave National Preserve
Charles A. Drost, Jan Hart
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1167
This report describes the results of a mammal inventory study of National Park Service units in the Mojave Desert Network, including Death Valley National Park, Joshua Tree National Park, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Manzanar National Historic Site, and Mojave National Preserve. Fieldwork for the inventory focused on small mammals,...
Application of Wind Fetch and Wave Models for Habitat Rehabilitation and Enhancement Projects
Jason J. Rohweder, James T. Rogala, Barry L. Johnson, Dennis Anderson, Steve Clark, Ferris Chamberlin, Kip Runyon
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1200
Models based upon coastal engineering equations have been developed to quantify wind fetch length and several physical wave characteristics including significant height, length, peak period, maximum orbital velocity, and shear stress. These models, developed using Environmental Systems Research Institute's ArcGIS 9.2 Geographic Information System platform, were used to quantify differences...
Assessment of Coal Geology, Resources, and Reserves in the Gillette Coalfield, Powder River Basin, Wyoming
James A. Luppens, David C. Scott, Jon E. Haacke, Lee M. Osmonson, Timothy J. Rohrbacher, Margaret S. Ellis
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1202
The Gillette coalfield, within the Powder River Basin in east-central Wyoming, is the most prolific coalfield in the United States. In 2006, production from the coalfield totaled over 431 million short tons of coal, which represented over 37 percent of the Nation's total yearly production. The Anderson and Canyon coal...
Ground-Water Quality in Western New York, 2006
David A.V. Eckhardt, James E. Reddy, Kathryn L. Tamulonis
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1140
Water samples were collected from 7 production wells and 26 private residential wells in western New York from August through December 2006 and analyzed to characterize the chemical quality of ground water. Wells at 15 of the sites were screened in sand and gravel aquifers, and 18 were finished in...
Community Survey Results for Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge: Completion Report
Natalie R. Sexton, Susan C. Stewart, Lynne Koontz
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1219
This report provides a summary of results for the survey of residents of communities adjacent to Rappahannock River Valley NWR conducted from the spring through the summer in 2006. This research was commissioned by the Northeast Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in support of the Rappahannock River...
Preliminary Geologic Map of the North-Central Part of the Alamosa 30' x 60' Quadrangle, Alamosa, Conejos and Costilla Counties, Colorado
Michael N. Machette, Ren A. Thompson, Theodore R. Brandt
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1124
This geologic map presents new polygon (geologic map unit contacts) and line (terrace and lacustrine spit/barrier bar) vector data for a map comprised of four 7.5' quadrangles in the north-central part of the Alamosa, Colorado, 30' x 60' quadrangle. The quadrangles include Baldy, Blanca, Blanca SE, and Lasauses. The map...
Preliminary Geologic Map of the Culebra Peak Area, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Las Animas and Costilla Counties, Colorado
Christopher J. Fridrich, Robert M. Kirkham
2008, Open-File Report 2007-1428
This geologic map provides new geologic mapping at 1:50,000-scale in the Culebra Peak area of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of south-central Colorado. The map area includes all of the El Valle Creek, Stonewall, Culebra Peak, and Torres 7.5' quadrangles. Paleoproterozoic crystalline basement rocks are exposed along the crest of...
Landscape Features Shape Genetic Structure in Threatened Northern Spotted Owls
W. Chris Funk, Eric D. Forsman, Thomas D. Mullins, Susan M. Haig
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1240
Several recent studies have shown that landscape features can strongly affect spatial patterns of gene flow and genetic variation. Understanding landscape effects on genetic variation is important in conservation for defining management units and understanding movement patterns. The landscape may have little effect on gene flow, however, in highly mobile...
Surficial Geologic Map of the Worcester North-Oxford- Wrentham-Attleboro Nine-Quadrangle Area in South- Central Massachusetts
Byron D. Stone, Janet Radway Stone, Mary L. DiGiacomo-Cohen
2008, Open-File Report 2006-1260-D
The surficial geologic map layer shows the distribution of nonlithified earth materials at land surface in an area of nine 7.5-minute quadrangles (417 mi2 total) in south-central Massachusetts (fig. 1). Across Massachusetts, these materials range from a few feet to more than 500 ft in thickness. They overlie bedrock, which...
Data to support statistical modeling of instream nutrient load based on watershed attributes, southeastern United States, 2002
Anne B. Hoos, Silvia Terziotti, Gerard McMahon, Katerina Savvas, Kirsten C. Tighe, Ruth Alkons-Wolinsky
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1163
This report presents and describes the digital datasets that characterize nutrient source inputs, environmental characteristics, and instream nutrient loads for the purpose of calibrating and applying a nutrient water-quality model for the southeastern United States for 2002. The model area includes all of the river basins draining to the south...
Newly discovered Paleocene and Eocene rocks near Fairfield, California, and correlation with rocks in Vaca Valley and the so-called Martinez Formation or Stage
Earl E. Brabb, Donn Ristau, David Bukry, Kristin McDougall, Alvin A. Almgren, LouElla Saul, Annika Sanfilippo
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1228
Discovery of a 3-foot thick sandstone bed with abundant Turritellid gastropods of late Paleocene age about 4 miles northeast of Fairfield and on the southwest flank of Cement Hill, Solano County provides an opportunity to reevaluate the relationships of lower Tertiary formations in this part of California. Cement Hill is...
Genetics Show Current Decline and Pleistocene Expansion in Northern Spotted Owls
W. Chris Funk, Eric D. Forsman, Thomas D. Mullins, Susan M. Haig
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1239
The northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) is one of the most controversial threatened subspecies ever listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Because of concern for persistence of the subspecies, logging on Federal lands in the U.S. Pacific Northwest was dramatically reduced under the Northwest Forest Plan in 1994....
Influence of the Houma Navigation Canal on Salinity Patterns and Landscape Configuration in Coastal Louisiana
Gregory D. Steyer, Charles Sasser, Elaine Evers, Erick Swenson, Glenn Suir, Sijan Sapkota
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1127
Coastal Louisiana is a dynamic and ever changing landscape. From 1956 to 2004, over 297,000 ha of Louisiana's coastal wetlands were lost because of the effects of natural and human-induced activities. Studies show that, in 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita transformed over 56,200 ha of wetlands to open water in...
Simulation of contributing areas and surface-water leakage to potential replacement wells near the community of New Post, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, by means of a two-dimensional ground-water flow model
Paul F. Juckem, Randall J. Hunt
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1133
A two-dimensional, steady-state ground-water-flow model of the shallow ground-water-flow system near the community of New Post, Sawyer County, Wis., was refined from an existing model of the area. Hydraulic-conductivity and recharge values were not changed from the existing model for the scenario simulations described in this report. Rather, the model...
Digital elevation models of the Pre-Eruption 2000 Crater and 2004-07 Dome-Building Eruption at Mount St. Helens, Washington, USA
James A. Messerich, Steve P. Schilling, Ren A. Thompson
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1169
Presented in this report are 27 digital elevation model (DEM) datasets for the crater area of Mount St. Helens. These datasets include pre-eruption baseline data collected in 2000, incremental model subsets collected during the 2004–07 dome building eruption, and associated shaded-relief image datasets. Each dataset was collected photogrammetrically with digital...
Vegetation Types in Coastal Louisiana in 2007
Charles E. Sasser, Jenneke M. Visser, Edmond Mouton, Jeb Linscombe, Steve B. Hartley
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1224
During the summer and fall of 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Fur and Refuge Division jointly completed an aerial survey to collect data on 2007 vegetation types in coastal Louisiana. The current map presents the data...
Reconnaissance of persistent and emerging contaminants in the Shenandoah and James River Basins, Virginia, during Spring of 2007
David A. Alvarez, Walter Cranor, Stephanie D. Perkins, Vickie Schroeder, Stephen Werner, Edward Furlong, Donald Kain, Robert Brent
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1231
Fish exhibiting external lesions, incidences of intersex, and death have recently been observed in the Shenandoah and James River Basins. These basins are characterized by widespread agriculture (intensive in some areas), several major industrial discharges, numerous sewage treatment plant discharges, and urban, transportation, and residential growth that has increased rapidly...
Water-quality data at amphibian research sites in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, 2005-2007
Karen C. Rice
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1204
Data on the chemical composition of water were collected at least once from 47 amphibian research sites in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, from 2005 through 2007. One hundred twenty-five water samples were collected from vernal pools and streams and analyzed as part of long-term monitoring projects of the U.S....
Sea-floor character and sedimentary processes in the vicinity of Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Lawrence J. Poppe, Katherine Y. McMullen, David S. Foster, Dann S. Blackwood, S. Jeffress Williams, Seth D. Ackerman, Steven R. Barnum, Rick T. Brennan
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1004
Continuous-coverage multibeam bathymetric models and sidescan-sonar imagery have been verified with high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles, sediment sampling, and bottom photography. Together these data layers provide detailed base maps that yield topographic, compositional, and environmental perspectives of the sea floor in the vicinity of Woods Hole, an important harbor and major passage...
Landslide and Land Subsidence Hazards to Pipelines
Rex L. Baum, Devin L. Galloway, Edwin L. Harp
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1164
Landslides and land subsidence pose serious hazards to pipelines throughout the world. Many existing pipeline corridors and more and more new pipelines cross terrain that is affected by either landslides, land subsidence, or both. Consequently the pipeline industry recognizes a need for increased awareness of methods for identifying and evaluating...
Simulation of Flow Regimes to Reduce Habitat for T. tubifex
Robert T. Milhous
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1107
Whirling disease has had a significant impact on trout fisheries of the American west by reducing the numbers and quality of rainbow trout in infected streams. A critical factor in the life cycle of the whirling disease parasite is the fine sediment that provides the optimum habitat for Tubifex tubifex,...
The Distribution of Submersed Aquatic Vegetation in the Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Potomac River, 2005
Nancy B. Rybicki, Erika M. Justiniano-Velez, Edward R. Schenk, Julie M. Baldizar, Sarah E. Hunter
2008, Open-File Report 2008-1218
Submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV) is a critical component of the Potomac River ecosystem. Though SAV provides important habitat for fauna and stabilizes bottom sediment, very dense beds may restrict recreational and commercial navigation. Exotic species of SAV are managed by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Potomac Aquatic Plant Management...
