Supplement to the New Mexico three-dimensional model
Glenn A. Hearne
1982, Open-File Report 82-857
The computer program documented in Open-File Report 80-421 has continued to evolve in response to needs. By January 1981, changes included the following: (1) treatment of head-dependent boundaries and specified-flow boundaries and (2) code which executes on the CRAY-1 computer. This report provides instructions for compiling and executing the computer...
Ground-water storage depletion in Pahrump Valley, Nevada-California, 1962-75
James R. Harrill
1982, Open-File Report 81-635
During the 13-year period, February 1962 to February 1975, about 540,000 acre-feet of ground water was pumped from Pahrump Valley. This resulted in significant water-level declines along the base of the Pahrump and Manse fans where pumping was concentrated. Maximum observed net decline was slightly more than 60 feet. Much...
Locality map for scintillometer and analytical data collected in 1981, Ugashik and Karluk quadrangles, Alaska
Robert L. Detterman, W.H. Allaway Jr., G.W. Day, D.M. Hopkins, R. M. O’Leary, Edward Svec
1982, Open-File Report 82-53
Scintillometer data were collected routinely in 1981 as part of the field investigations in the Ugashik and Karluk quadrangles. The instrument used was a Geometrics Model GR-101A, mounted in the helicopter. The data, in counts per second (cps), were obtained at most of the sites by the helicopter pilot (Svec)...
An application of a vulnerability index to oil spill modeling in the Gulf of Mexico
R.P. LaBelle, Gail Rainey, K.J. Lanfear
1982, Open-File Report 82-804
An analysis was made of the relative impact to the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico from proposed Federal Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing activity. An oil spill trajectory model was coupled with a land segment vulnerability characterization to predict the risks to the shoreline. Such a technique...
Habitat Suitability Index models: juvenile Atlantic croaker
Robert J. Diaz
1982, FWS/OBS 82/10.21
Habitat Suitability Index Models: Pine warbler
Richard L. Schroeder
1982, FWS/OBS 82/10.28
Habitat preferences of the pine warbler (Dendroica pinus) are described in this publication, which is one of a series of Habitat Suitability Index (HSI) models. Habitat use information is presented in a synthesis of the literature on the species-habitat requirements of the pine warbler, followed by the development of the...
Habitat Suitability Index Models: Bluegill
Robert J. Stuber, Glen Gebhart, O. Eugene Maughan
1982, FWS/OBS 82/10.8
A literature review encompassing habitat and species characteristics of the bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) is followed by a discussion of the relationship of habitat variables and life requisites of this species. These data re then incorporated into Habitat Suitability Index models for the bluegill. This is one in a series of publications...
Preliminary projections of the effects of chloride-control structures on the Quaternary aquifer at Great Salt Plains, Oklahoma
J.E. Reed
1982, Water-Resources Investigations Report 80-120
About 1,200 tons of chloride per day are added to the salt load of the Salt Fork Arkansas River at Great Salt Plains Lake.from brine discharge from the rocks of Permian age in the vicinity of the lake. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has planned a chloride-control project. The...
Preliminary report on the geology and gold mineralization of the Gold Basin-Lost Basin mining districts, Mohave County, Arizona
Ted G. Theodore, Will N. Blair, J. Thomas Nash, Edwin H. McKee
1982, Open-File Report 82-1052
The Gold Basin-Lost Basin mining districts are adjacent to each other in northwestern Arizona, south of Lake Mead, and just west of the Grand Wash Cliffs. Most recorded production from lode deposits is credited to mines in the Gold Basin district, which is in the southern White Hills, whereas the...
Habitat Suitability Index Models: Gray squirrel
Arthur W. Allen
1982, FWS/OBS 82/10.19
The gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)inhabits hardwood and mixed hardwood-coniferous forests (Uhlig 1955; Golley 1962). Although they may occur in a variety of forested habitat types, large, densely forested areas are preferred (Taylor 1974)....
Heat-flow measurements at shot points along the 1978 Saudi Arabia seismic deep-refraction line; Part II, Discussion and interpretation
M. E. Gettings
1982, Open-File Report 82-794
The heat-flow profile across the Arabian Shield from Ar Riyad to Ad Darb and across the Red Sea is examined for compatibility with the lithospheric structure of the area as deduced from geologic and other geophysical data. Broad continental uplift associated with Red Sea rifting is symmetric about the Red...
Illustrations of gravity models of the southeast limb of the Blacktail-Snowcrest uplift, southwest Montana
D. M. Kulik
1982, Open-File Report 82-823
A hybrid structure for the storage and manipulation of very large spatial data sets
Donna J. Peuquet
1982, Open-File Report 82-816
The map data input and output problem for geographic information systems is rapidly diminishing with the increasing availability of mass digitizing, direct spatial data capture and graphics hardware based on raster technology. Although a large number of efficient raster-based algorithms exist for performing a wide variety of common tasks on...
Estimating peak discharges of small rural streams in Massachusetts
S. William Wandle Jr.
1982, Open-File Report 80-676
Floodflows on natural-flow streams in Massachusetts with drainage areas between 0.25 square miles and 260 square miles may be estimated from drainage area, main-channel slope, mean basin elevation, and the area of swamps, lakes, and ponds. Multiple-regression techniques were used to define the relationship between a suite of basin and...
Radioactive mineral spring precipitates, their analytical and statistical data and the uranium connection
R. A. Cadigan, J.K. Felmlee
1982, Open-File Report 82-743
Major radioactive mineral springs are probably related to deep zones of active metamorphism in areas of orogenic tectonism. The most common precipitate is travertine, a chemically precipitated rock composed chiefly of calcium carbonate, but also containing other minerals. The mineral springs are surface manifestations of hydrothermal conduit systems which extend...
A recommended procedure for the preparation of oriented clay-mineral specimens for X-ray diffraction analysis; modifications to Drever's filter-membrane peel technique
R. M. Pollastro
1982, Open-File Report 82-71
Extremely well-oriented clay mineral mounts for X-ray diffraction analysis can be prepared quickly and without introducing segregation using the filter-membrane peel technique. Mounting problems encountered with smectite-rich samples can be resolved by using minimal sample and partial air-drying of the clay film before transfer to a glass slide. Samples containing...
Habitat Suitability Index Models: Eastern meadowlark
Richard L. Schroeder, Patrick J. Sousa
1982, FWS/OBS 82/10.29
Habitat preferences of the eastern meadowlark (Sturnella magna) are described in this publication, which is one of a series of Habitat Suitability Index (HSI) models. Habitat use information is presented in a synthesis of the literature on the species-habitat requirements of the eastern meadowlark, followed by the development of the...
Dissolved-solids concentration in water from the upper permeable zone of the Tertiary limestone aquifer system, southeastern United States
Craig L. Sprinkle
1982, Open-File Report 82-94
The Tertiary limestone aquifer system of the southeastern United States is a thick sequence of carbonate rocks that range from Paleocene to Miocene in age and are hydraulically connected in varying degrees. The upper permeable zone of the aquifer system consists of the Tampa, Suwannee, Ocala, and Avon Park Limestones....
Base flow of streams on Long Island, New York
Richard J. Reynolds
1982, Water-Resources Investigations Report 81-48
On Long Island, base flow under nonurbanized conditions constitutes 90 to 95% of total stream discharge. Base-flow data from 19 continuously gaged streams are presented as monthly mean and annual mean discharge for water years 1960-75, which includes the 1962-66 drought. The data were derived by hydrograph-separation procedures that isolate...
Two-dimensional digital ground-water model of the Memphis Sand and equivalent units, Tennessee,Arkansas,Mississippi
J. V. Brahana
1982, Open-File Report 82-99
Gravity and aeromagnetic modelling of a large gabbroic body near the Border Ranges Fault, southern Alaska
L.E. Burns
1982, Open-File Report 82-460
Ground-water appraisal of the Pine Bush area, Albany County, New York
D. S. Snavely
1982, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-4000
The 32-square-mile central part of the Pine Bush was studied to determine the availability of ground water in the surficial sand and to assess the quality of the water, especially with respect to phosphorous, nitrogen, and chloride. The surficial sand is from 5 to 150 feet thick and has a...
Two-dimensional, steady-state model of ground-water flow, Nevada Test Site and vicinity, Nevada-California
R. K. Waddell
1982, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-4085
A two-dimensional, steady-state model of ground-water flow beneath the Nevada Test Site and vicinity has been developed using inverse techniques. The area is underlain by clastic and carbonate rocks of Precambrian and Paleozoic age and by volcanic rocks and alluvium of Tertiary and Quaternary age that have been juxtaposed by...
Modifications and corrections to the finite-difference model for simulation of three-dimensional ground-water flow
L.J. Torak
1982, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-4025
This report describes modifications incorporated into the finite-difference model for simulation of groundwater flow in three dimensions. These modifications extend the application of this model to simulations involving head-dependent sources and sinks (i.e., rivers, evapotranspiration, and springs or drains). Other modifications are made that enhance the iterative-solution process of the...
Evaluation of a predictive ground-water solute-transport model at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho
Barney D. Lewis, Flora J. Goldstein
1982, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-25
Aqueous chemical and radioactive wastes discharged to shallow ponds and to shallow or deep wells on the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) since 1952 have affected the quality of the ground water in the underlying Snake River Plain aquifer. The aqueous wastes have created large and laterally dispersed concentration plumes...
