Hydrologic and human aspects of the 1976-77 drought
Howard F. Matthai
1979, Professional Paper 1130
The drought of 1976-77 was the most severe in at least 50 years in many parts of the United States. Record low amounts of rainfall, snowfall, and runoff, and increased withdrawals of ground water were prevalent. The use of carry-over storage in reservoirs during 1976 maintained streamflow at near normal...
Summary appraisals of the nation's ground-water resources – Lower Colorado region
E. S. Davidson
1979, Professional Paper 813-R
This report summarizes ground-water availability in the lower Colorado region and discusses the potential for greater ground-water development and increased efficiency of water use. The climate in the most highly developed southwestern part of the region is warm and dry and that in the northeastern part is cool and moist to...
Physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of Ross Lake, Snohomish County, Washington
N. P. Dion
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-44
A study of the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of Ross Lake in 1975 showed that the lake has no well-defined surface-water inflow and that thermal stratification is well established in summer. The water is of a calcium bicarbonate type, which is typical of lakes in western Washington.Biological productivity in...
Regional metamorphism in the Condrey Mountain Quadrangle, north-central Klamath Mountains, California
Preston Enslow Hotz
1979, Professional Paper 1086
A subcircular area of about 650 km 2 in northern California and southwestern Oregon is occupied by rocks of the greenschist metamorphic facies called the Condrey Mountain Schist. This greenschist terrane is bordered on the east and west by rocks belonging to the amphibolite metamorphic facies that structurally overlie and...
Steady-state dissolved oxygen model of the Willamette River, Oregon
Stuart W. McKenzie, W. G. Hines, D. A. Rickert, F. A. Rinella
1979, Circular 715-J
For nearly half a century the Willamette River in Oregon experienced severe dissolved-oxygen problems related to large loads of organically rich waste waters from industries and municipalities. Since the mid-1950 's dissolved oxygen quality has gradually improved owing to low-flow augmentation, the achievement of basinwide secondary treatment, and the use...
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...
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...
Simulation analysis of the unconfined aquifer, Raft River geothermal area, Idaho-Utah
William D. Nichols
1979, Water Supply Paper 2060
This study covers about 1,000 mi2 (2,600 km2 ) of the southern Raft River drainage basin in south-central Idaho and northwest Utah. The main area of interest, approximately 200 mi2 (520 km2 ) of semiarid agricultural and rangeland in the southern Raft River Valley that includes the known Geothermal Resource...
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...
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...
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....
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....
Petroleum geology of Cook Inlet basin, Alaska: An exploration model
Leslie B. Magoon, George E. Claypool
1979, Open-File Report 79-548
No abstract available....
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...
The Yampa River basin, Colorado and Wyoming : a preview to expanded coal-resource development and its impacts on regional water resources
Timothy Doak Steele, D. P. Bauer, D.A. Wentz, J. W. Warner
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-126
Expanded coal production and conversion in the Yampa River basin , Colorado and Wyoming, may have substantial impacts on water resources, environmental amenities, and socioeconomic conditions. Preliminary results of a 3-year basin assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey are given for evaluation of surface- and ground-water resources using available data,...
Backwater at bridges and densely wooded flood plains, Thompson Creek near Clara, Mississippi
B.E. Colson, C. O. Ming, George J. Arcement
1979, Hydrologic Atlas 597
Floodflow data that will provide a base for evaluating digital models relating to open-channel flow were obtained at 22 sites on streams in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Thirty-five floods were measured. Analysis of the data indicated methods currently in use would be inaccurate where densely vegetated flood plains are crossed...
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...
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...
Modeling sandhill crane population dynamics
Douglas H. Johnson
1979, Special Scientific Report - Wildlife 222
Backwater at bridges and densely wooded flood plains, west fork Amite River near Liberty, Mississippi
B.E. Colson, C. O. Ming, George J. Arcement
1979, Hydrologic Atlas 598
Floodflow data that will provide a base for evaluating digital models relating to open-channel flow were obtained at 22 sites on streams in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Thirty-five floods were measured. Analysis of the data indicated methods currently in use would be inaccurate where densely vegetated flood plains are crossed...
Water-resources investigations in Kansas; fiscal year 1978
Harold E. McGovern, L. J. Combs
1979, Open-File Report 79-561
Hydrologic investigations in Kansas during fiscal year 1978 consisted of collecting and analyzing data to assess the State 's water resources, describe the framework of hydrologic systems , and provide quantity and quality of water data for optimum development and management. Surface-water studies were made to analyze long-term records of...
Seismic refraction profile, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: field operations, instrumentation, and initial results
H. Richard Blank, J. H. Healy, John Roller, Ralph Lamson, Fred Fisher, Robert McClearn, Steve Allen
1979, Open-File Report 79-1568
In February 1978 a seismic deep-refraction profile was recorded by the USGS along a 1000-km line across the Arabian Shield in western Saudi Arabia. The line begins in Paleozoic and Mesozoic cover rocks near Riyadh on the Arabian Platform, leads southwesterly across three major Precambrian tectonic provinces, traverses Cenozoic rocks...
Flow routing in the Susquehanna River Basin, Part II: Lowflow frequency characteristics of the Susquehanna River between Waverly, New York and Sunbury, Pennsylvania
Donald L. Bingham
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-52
Six flow-routing models were developed, calibrated, and verified for the Susquehanna River between Waverly, New York, and Sunbury , Pennsylvania. The models give the Susquehanna River Basin Commission tools to estimate effects of water-resource developments upstream from Waverly upon four gaged sites and two ungaged sites within the study reach....
A one-dimensional, steady-state, dissolved-oxygen model and waste-load assimilation study for Clear Creek, Monroe County, Indiana
William G. Wilber, Charles G. Crawford, James G. Peters, Frank P. Girardi
1979, Open-File Report 79-1533
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 Clear Creek was used to develop alternatives for future waste loadings that would be compatible with Indiana stream water-quality...
