Water resources of the Marquette Iron Range area, Marquette County, Michigan
N.G. Grannemann
1979, Open-File Report 79-1339
Dependable water supplies are vital to the mining industry in the Marquette Iron Range in Michigan. Development of processes that concentrate and pelletize low-grade iron ore has permitted mining to expand during the past two decades. Water demand has increased both for iron ore concentration processes and for the area...
Mineral resources of the Minarets Wilderness and adjacent areas, Madera and Mono counties, California
N. King Huber, Howard W. Oliver, Roy A. Bailey, U.S. Bureau of Mines
1979, Open-File Report 79-1472
A mineral survey of the Minarets Wilderness area and adjacent areas in the central Sierra Nevada, Calif., was conducted during 1973 through 1975. The total area covers about 620 km2 (237 sq mi) in the Sierra and Inyo National Forests, of which about 440 km2 (170 sq mi) are within...
Water-quality assessment of Rattlesnake Creek watershed, Ohio
Kenneth F. Evans, Robert L. Tobin
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-17
Chemical and biological water quality in Rattlesnake Creek basin, Ohio, are evaluated. The data include field and laboratory data for eight sites during August 1976- August 1977 and summaries of earlier (1972-76) data. Streamflow was below normal during the study period. Basin waters types were calcium bicarbonate or calcium magnesium...
Seismicity map of the State of Georgia
C. W. Stover, B.G. Reagor, S. T. Algermissen, L.T. Long
1979, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 1060
The earthquake data shown on this map and listed in table 1 are a list of earthquakes that were originally used in preparing the Seismic Risk Studies in the United States (Algermissen, 1969) which have been recompiled and updated through 1977. The data have been reexamined and intensities assigned where...
Paleontologic and stratigraphic relations of phosphate beds in Upper Cretaceous rocks of the Cordillera Oriental, Colombia
Edwin K. Maughan, Francisco Zambrano O., Pedro Mojica G., Jacob Abozaglo M., Fernando Pachon P., Raul Duran R.
1979, Open-File Report 79-1525
Phosphorite crops out in the Cordillera Oriental of the Colombian Andes in rocks of Late Cretaceous age as strata composed mostly of pelletal carbonate fluorapatite. One stratum of Santonian age near the base of the Galembo Member of the La Luna Formation crops out at many places in the Departments...
Potential hydrologic effects of peat mining in the Red Lake Peatlands, north-central Minnesota— A project plan
Donald I. Siegel
1979, Open-File Report 79-1591
Peat is being considered for fuel in Minnesota. This study will investigate the potential effects of large-scale surface mining of peat on the hydrology and water quality of Upper Red Lake and the Tamarac River. The major aspects of the study are the characterization of the surface-water and groundwater hydrology...
Catalog of earthquakes in southern Alaska: January-March 1978
C.D. Stephens, J.C. Lahr, K.A. Fogleman, M.A. Allan, S.M. Helton
1979, Open-File Report 79-718
The National Center for Earthquake Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began a program of telemetered seismic recording in south-central Alaska in 1971. The principal objectives of this program have been to use data recorded by this network to precisely locate earthquakes in the active seismic zones of southern...
Primary and secondary faulting in the Najd fault system, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
John McMahon Moore
1979, Open-File Report 79-1661
The Najd fault system is a major transcurrent (strike-slip) fault system of Proterozoic age in the Arabian Shield. The system is a braided complex of parallel and curved en echelon faults. Complex arrays of secondary structures including strike-slip, oblique-slip, thrust, and normal faults, together with folds and dike swarms, are...
Water-level predictions for Indian Wells Valley ground-water basin, California, 1978
Michael J. Mallory
1979, Open-File Report 79-254
Ground-water pumpage in Indian Wells Valley, virtually a closed basin in the Mojave Desert of southern California, has increased gradually since 1945 and presently exceeds the long-term mean annual recharge (perennial supply). In order to aid in the understanding and management of the ground-water basin, a digital ground-water model was...
Preliminary analysis of clay gouge from a well in the San Andreas fault zone in central California
Richard Liechti, Mark D. Zoback
1979, Open-File Report 79-861
Drilling into the San Andreas fault zone has begun in central California as part of the U.S.G.S. program of fault zone studies. The purpose of drilling into the fault zone is threefold. First, it will allow recovery of material from depth in order to determine the composition of both solid...
Relation between proposed developments of water resources and seepage from the All-American Canal, eastern Imperial Valley, California
Omar J. Loeltz, S. A. Leake
1979, Open-File Report 79-744
A two-layer digital model designed for this study indicated that sealing of the Coachella branch of the All-American Canal would cause an eventual increase in seepage from the All-American Canal of about 15,000 acre-feet annually. Sealing of both the Coachella Canal and the segment of the All-American Canal between Pilot...
Water budget and mathematical model of the Coconino Aquifer, southern Navajo County, Arizona
Larry J. Mann
1979, Open-File Report 79-348
The main source of water in the 3,400-square-mile area of southern Navajo County is the large volume of ground water in storage in the Coconino aquifer, which consists of the Coconino Sandstone, the uppermost part of the underlying Supai Formation, and the overlying Kaibab Limestone. The amount of water withdrawn...
The Parsonsburg Sand in the central Delmarva Peninsula, Maryland and Delaware
Charles Storrow Denny, J. P. Owens, L.A. Sirkin, Meyer Rubin
1979, Professional Paper 1067-B
The Parsonsburg Sand, a surface sand largely of Wisconsin age, caps terraces east of some of the major streams and mantles broad areas on the uplands of the central Delmarva Peninsula, Maryland and Delaware. The main body of the formation east and south of Salisbury, Md., ranges from 1.25 to...
Discharge of saltwater from Permian rocks to major stream-aquifer systems in central and south-central Kansas
Anthony J. Gogel
1979, Open-File Report 79-1055
Saline-water inflow from Permian rocks has resulted in the degradation of freshwater systems in several areas of central and south-central Kansas. Solution of evaporite beds has occurred along the eastern edge of the Wellington Formation, chiefly within the Hutchinson Salt Member and associated gypsum units. The solution, caused by leakage...
Flow routing in the Susquehanna River Basin: Part III -- Routing reservoir releases in the Tioga and Chemung rivers system, Pennsylvania, and New York, 1977
Jeffrey T. Armbruster
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-85
Channel-routing models were used to route hypothetical releases from reservoirs in the upper Tioga River basin, Pennsylvania. These releases were routed northward down the Tioga River to Lindley, Erwins, and Corning, New York: combined with flows routed down the Cohocton River from Campbell to Corning, New York; and then routed...
Preliminary geology of the Blacktail Mountain drilling site, Flathead County, Montana
Jack Edward Harrison, Mitchell W. Reynolds
1979, Open-File Report 79-938
Five argillitic green beds that alternate with six argillitic purple beds in the upper part of the Spokane Formation of the Belt Supergroup of Proterozoic Y age were sampled by 22 shallow core holes. The holes were drilled on a hexagonal pattern over an area about 50 m wide and...
Chemical and biological quality of selected lakes in Ohio, 1976 and 1977
Robert L. Tobin, John D. Youger
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-109
Twenty-eight Ohio lakes (14 per year) were sampled by the U.S. Geological Survey and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for the water-quality characteristics during the spring and summer of 1976 and 1977. Data items included: profiles of temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, and specific conductance; physical, biological, nutrient, and organic characteristics; major...
Estimating the gas and dye quantities for modified tracer technique measurements of stream reaeration coefficients
R. E. Rathbun
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-27
Measuring the reaeration coefficient of a stream with a modified tracer technique has been accomplished by injecting either ethylene or ethylene and propane together and a rhodamine-WT dye solution into the stream. The movement of the tracers through the stream reach after injection is described by a one-dimensional diffusion equation....
Digital-transport model study of Diisopropylmethylphosphonate (DIMP) ground-water contamination at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado
James W. Warner
1979, Open-File Report 79-676
Diisopropylmethylphosphonate (DIMP) is an organic compound produced as a byproduct of the manufacture and detoxification of GB nerve gas. Ground-water contamination by DIMP from the disposal of wastes into unlined surface ponds at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal occurred from 1952 to 1956. A digital-transport model was used to determine the...
Availability of ground water on Federal land near the Ak-Chin Indian Reservation, Arizona— A reconnaissance study
Richard P. Wilson
1979, Open-File Report 79-1165
Sufficient ground water to provide about 2.1 million acre-feet in a 25-year period is available for delivery to the Ak-Chin Indian Reservation from Federal land in the Vekol Valley, Waterman Wash area, and Bosque area in south-central Arizona. Withdrawal of 85,000 acre-feet per year as required by the Ak-Chin water-supply...
Possible uranium mineralization, Mineral Mountains, Utah
W. Roger Miller, John B. McHugh, Walter H. Ficklin
1979, Open-File Report 79-1354
The Mineral Mountains block in west-central Utah is a horst whose core stands structurally high relative to all nearby basin-and-range fault blocks. Rocks of the Mineral Mountains range from Precambrian to Quaternary in age, but mostly consist of Tertiary granitic rocks. The range lies with the Wah Wah-Tusher mineral belt....
The Jabal Ishmas-Wadi Tathlith gold belt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ronald G. Worl
1979, Open-File Report 79-1519
The Jabal Ishmas-Wadi Tathlith gold belt is a north-south zone of numerous ancient gold mines in the southeastern Precambrian shield of Saudi Arabia, extending along long 43?30'E. between lat 18?N. and 21?30'N., a distance of about 390 km. The gold belt coincides with a major zone of faulting, shearing, and...
A one-dimensional, steady-state, dissolved-oxygen model and waste-load assimilation study for Silver Creek, Clark and Floyd counties, Indiana
William G. Wilber, Charles G. Crawford, James G. Peters
1979, Open-File Report 79-1253
The Indiana State Board of Health is developing a State water-quality management plan that includes establishing limits for wastewater effluents discharged into Indiana streams. A digital model calibrated to conditions in Silver Creek was used to develop alternatives for future waste loadings that would be compatible with Indiana stream water-quality...
A revised version of Graphic Normative Analysis Program (GNAP) with examples of petrologic problem solving
J. S. Stuckless, G. VanTrump
1979, Open-File Report 79-1237
A revised version of Graphic Normative Analysis Program (GNAP) has been developed to allow maximum flexibility in the evaluation of chemical data by the occasional computer user. GNAP calculates ClPW norms, Thornton and Tuttle's differentiation index, Barth's cations, Niggli values and values for variables defined by the user. Calculated values...
Mesozoic stratigraphy: the key to tectonic analysis of southern and central Alaska
David Lawrence Jones, Norman J. Silberling
1979, Open-File Report 79-1200
Southern and central Alaska constitutes an enormous tectonic mosaic composed of separate structural blocks and fragments that accreted to North America during Mesozoic and early Cenozoic time. Some of these blocks are far traveled, as shown by paleomagnetic and paleontologic studies. More than 25 discrete tectonostratigraphic terranes now are known,...
