Federal-State Cooperative Program in Kansas, seminar proceedings, July 1985
T.L. Huntzinger
1985, Open-File Report 85-641
During the past few years, water-resource management in Kansas has undergone reorientation with the creation of the Kansas Water Authority and the Kansas Water office. New thrusts toward long-term goals based on the Kansas State Water plan demand strong communication and coordination between all water-related agencies within the State. The...
Potential hydrologic effects of ground-water withdrawals from the Dakota Aquifer, southwestern Kansas
Kenneth R. Watts
1985, Open-File Report 85-567
A study was conducted to evaluate the effects of potential development of the Dakota aquifer on the layered aquifer system above Permian rocks in a 5,000 sq mi area of southwestern Kansas. Transmissivity of the Dakota aquifer, determined from analyses of pumping tests, ranges from 100 to 7,100 sq ft/day....
Stratigraphy and characteristic mollusks of the Pamunkey Group (Lower Tertiary) and the Old Church Formation of the Chesapeake Group— Virginia coastal plain
Lauck W. Ward
1985, Professional Paper 1346
Along the Pamunkey River and its tributaries can be found a very complete, well-preserved, Tertiary stratigraphic record that reflects the sea-level changes as well as the local tectonic history of the central Virginia Coastal Plain. Using this record, I have described the lower Tertiary units and proposed a sequential model...
Tectonic implications of the Indian Run Formation— A newly recognized sedimentary mélange in the northern Virginia Piedmont
Avery Ala Drake
1985, Professional Paper 1324
Sedimentary melange in the northeastern part of Fairfax County, Virginia, contains both mesoscopic and mappable fragments of Accotink Schist, Lake Barcroft Metasandstone, metagabbro, and ultramafic rocks as well as smaller fragments of other rock types. This melange was originally mapped as the Sykesville Formation, a major precursory sedimentary melange in...
Vertical modal responses of Monticello Dam; results from an air-gun dynamic test; California
Hsi-Ping Liu, J.J. Fedock, Joe B. Fletcher, E.D. Sembera
1985, Open-File Report 85-710
Preliminary report on gold deposits at Meshaheed, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
C. W. Smith, R.M. Samater
1985, Open-File Report 85-9
A fault-controlled, hydrothermal system deposited gold, stibnite, and quartz in metasediments, intrusive basalt, and diorite in an area approximately 3 by 5 km in the Meshaheed area of the northeastern Arabian Shield. Veins in metasediments appear to be lenticular and average less than 1 m thick. A related, quartz-pyrite stockwork...
Water-resources activities of the U.S. Geological Survey in Texas; fiscal years 1982-84
R.U. Grozier, L. F. Land
1985, Open-File Report 85-346
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) was established by an act of Congress on March 3, 1879, to provide a permanent Federal agency to conduct the systematic and scientific classification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of national domain. An integral part of...
Ground-water resources and potential hydrologic effects of surface coal mining in the northern Powder River basin, southeastern Montana
Steven E. Slagle, Barney D. Lewis, Roger W. Lee
1985, Water Supply Paper 2239
The shallow ground-water system in the northern Powder River Basin consists of Upper Cretaceous to Holocene aquifers overlying the Bearpaw Shale--namely, the Fox Hills Sandstone; Hell Creek, Fort Union, and Wasatch Formations; terrace deposits; and alluvium. Ground-water flow above the Bearpaw Shale can be divided into two general flow patterns....
Evaluation of major dike-impounded ground-water reservoirs, Island of Oahu
Kiyoshi J. Takasaki, John Francis Mink
1985, Water Supply Paper 2217
Ground-water reservoirs impounded by volcanic dikes receive a substantial part of the total recharge to ground water on the island of Oahu because they generally underlie the rainiest areas. These reservoirs accumulate the infiltration from rainfall, store it temporarily, and steadily leak it to abutting basal reservoirs or to streams...
Tabulation of modal and chemical analyses for Silver Plume Quartz Monzonite (Silver Plume Granite), Berthoud Plutonic Suite, Front Range, Colorado
D. J. Gable
1985, Open-File Report 85-296
Proceedings of the advanced seminar on sedimentation, August 15-19, 1983, Denver, Colorado
George D. Glysson, editor(s)
1985, Open-File Report 85-98
On August 15-19, 1983, the U.S. Geological Survey 's Water Resources Division sponsored an advanced seminar on sedimentation at the National Training Center in Lakewood, Colorado. Topics discussed were modeling, mud, and debris flows, transport, sediment chemistry, channel morphology, instrumentation, and bed load. This circular presents summaries of 28 presentations....
Selected papers in the hydrologic sciences, 1985; May 1985
Seymour Subitzky, editor(s)
1985, Water Supply Paper 2270
The University of Minnesota, the Minnesota Geological Survey, and the U.S. Geological Survey are studying the feasibility of storing water at a temperature of 150 degrees Celsius in the Franconia-Ironton-Galesville aquifer. The Aquifer Thermal-Energy Storage project has a doublet-well design with a well spacing of approximately 250 meters. One well...
Subsurface storage of freshwater in South Florida; a digital model analysis of recoverability
Michael L. Merritt
1985, Water Supply Paper 2261
As part of a study of the feasibility of recovering freshwater injected and stored underground in south Florida, a digital solute-transport model was used to investigate the relation of recovery efficiency to the variety of hydrogeologic conditions that could prevail in brackish artesian aquifers and to a variety of management...
Rainfall-runoff relationships and water-quality assessment of Coon Creek watershed, Anoka County, Minnesota
A.D. Arntson, L. H. Tornes
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4013
Rainfall-runoff relationships and results of water-quality analyses were studied to develop an understanding of flooding problems and to assess present and potential water-quality problems in the 96.9-square-mile Coon Creek watershed, Anoka County, Minnesota. Rainfall, runoff, and water-quality data were collected from March 1979 to November 1980 at five continuously recording...
Hydrologic effects of ground- and surface-water withdrawals in the Milford area, Elkhart and Kosciusko counties, Indiana
H.A. Lindgren, J. G. Peters, D.A. Cohen, E. J. Crompton
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 85-4166
Agricultural irrigation in northern Indiana has increased rapidly since 1975 and might double by the year 2000. A 16.5 square-mile area in north-central Indiana was studied to determine possible effects of increased irrigation on local water supply. In 1982, an average of 2 inches of water was used to irrigate...
Relation between ground-water quality and mineralogy in the coal-producing Norton Formation of Buchanan County, Virginia
John D. Powell, Jerry D. Larson
1985, Water Supply Paper 2274
The geochemical processes controlling ground-water chemistry in the coal-producing strata of southwestern Virginia include hydrolysis of silicates, dissolution of carbonates, oxidation of pyrite, cation exchange, and precipitation of secondary minerals, kaolinite and goethite. Core material from the Norton Formation of the Pennsylvania Period is composed of slightly more than one-half...
Design of the National Trends Network for monitoring the chemistry of atmospheric precipitation
J.K. Robertson, J.W. Wilson
1985, Circular 964
Long-term monitoring (10 years minimum) of the chemistry of wet deposition will be conducted at National Trends Network (NTN) sites across the United States. Precipitation samples will be collected at sites that represent broad regional characteristics. Design of the NTN considered four basic elements during construction of a model to...
A two-constituent solute-transport model for ground water having variable density
W. E. Sanford, Leonard F. Konikow
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 85-4279
A numerical model has been developed to simulate solute transport and dispersion of either one or two constituents in groundwater where there is two-dimensional, density-dependent flow. The model is a modified version of the one documented by Konikow and Bredehoeft (1978), which uses finite-difference methods and the method of characteristics...
The ground-water system in the LaGrange Aquifer near LaGrange, southeastern Wyoming
W. B. Borchert
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4024
Groundwater is being developed from the La Grange aquifer in southeastern Wyoming. It consists of saturated permeable alluvium that is hydraulically connected with most of the underlying White River Group. In the area of principal interest east of Horse Creek, Hawk Springs Reservoir and 14 adjacent wells used to supplement...
Effects of sanitary sewers on ground-water levels and streams in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, New York; part 2: Development and application of southwest Suffolk County model
H. T. Buxton, T. E. Reilly
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4209
By 1990, sanitary sewers in Nassau County Sewage Disposal Districts 2 and 3 and Suffolk County Southwest Sewer District will discharge to the ocean 140 cu ft of water/sec that would otherwise be returned to the groundwater system through septic tanks and similar systems. To evaluate the effects of this...
Transit losses and traveltimes for water-supply releases from Marion Lake during drought conditions, Cottonwood River, east-central Kansas
P. R. Jordan, R. J. Hart
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 85-4263
A streamflow routing model was used to calculate the transit losses and traveltimes. Channel and aquifer characteristics, and the model control parameters, were estimated from available data and then verified to the extent possible by comparing model simulated streamflow to observed streamflow at streamflow gaging stations. Transit losses and traveltimes...
Computer-assisted map projection research
John Parr Snyder
1985, Bulletin 1629
Computers have opened up areas of map projection research which were previously too complicated to utilize, for example, using a least-squares fit to a very large number of points. One application has been in the efficient transfer of data between maps on different projections. While the transfer of moderate amounts...
Hydrology, water quality, and ground-water-development alternatives in the Chipuxet ground-water reservoir, Rhode Island
H.E. Johnston, D.C. Dickerman
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4254
A glacial sand and gravel aquifer in the Chipuxet River basin of Rhode Island forms a ground-water reservoir that could yield as much as 8.6 million gallons per day to wells; however, some streams would go dry for extended periods of time. The State Water Resources Board has tested five...
Simulation of the flow system of Barton Springs and associated Edwards Aquifer in the Austin area, Texas
Raymond M. Slade Jr., Linda Ruiz, Diana Slagle
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 85-4299
A digital model of two-dimensional groundwater flow was used to estimate the hydraulic properties of the Edwards Aquifer in a 151 sq mi area near Austin, Texas. The transmissivity, hydraulic conductivity, and specific yield were estimated for the part of the aquifer that discharges at Barton Springs in Austin. The...
Water-resources monitoring in the Cottonwood Creek area, Shasta and Tehama counties, California, 1982-83
R. P. Fogelman, K. D. Evenson
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4187
The Cottonwood Creek study area in the Redding basin, California , contains a network of wells established to provide baseline information on ground-water levels and quality prior to the completion of two proposed dams, one on Cottonwood Creek and one on South Fork Cottonwood Creek. Analysis of monthly ground-water levels...
