A water-quality assessment of the Rock Creek (Cass) watershed, Cass and Carroll counties, Indiana
Mark A. Ayers
1975, Open-File Report 75-324
A water-quality assessment of the Rock Creek (Cass) watershed was made June 12 and 13, 1974. Nutrients were resampled November 7, 1974. Surface waters within the watershed were calcium bicarbonate types with very similar concentrations of major dissolved constituents. Samples collected June 13 contained between 7.4 and 14 milligrams per...
Hydrology for land-use planning: The Hillside area, Anchorage, Alaska
Larry L. Dearborn, William W. Barnwell
1975, Open-File Report 75-105
Rapid residential growth of the Hillside area, Anchorage, Alaska, may cause depletion of aquifers and a change in quality of water resources as a result of extensive development of small-lot tracts. Ground-water yields are low and may be locally inadequate for single family requirements where wells produce from bedrock in...
Water availability of Blount County, Alabama
Robert J. Faust, Joe R. Harkins
1975, Open-File Report 75-453
Ground water is obtained mostly from limestone and dolomite aquifers along the Sequatchie anticline and Murphrees Valley anticline and. from sandstone aquifers in Sand Mountain and Blount Mountain synclinal areas. Wells tapping some limestone and dolomite aquifers produce as much as 1.4 mgd (million gallons per day). Wells completed in...
Analog-model analysis of regional three-dimensional flow in the ground-water reservoir of Long Island, New York
Rufus T. Getzen
1975, Open-File Report 75-617
Tectonic framework of petroliferous rocks in Alaska
Arthur Grantz, C.E. Kirschner
1975, Open-File Report 75-149
Alaska, comprising 3.6 X 106 sq km (about 28 percent) of the land, shelf, and upper continental slope of the United States, has been estimated by the U.S. Geological Survey (1974) to contain about 25 percent of the Nation's petroleum resources. Some 11 billion barrels of petroleum liquids and 31...
Analog-model analysis of hydrological effects of sewage in Southeast Nassau and Southwest Suffolk counties, Long Island, New York
Grant E. Kimmel, Arlen W. Harbaugh
1975, Open-File Report 75-535
Surface-water availability, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Alfred L. Knight, Marvin E. Davis
1975, Open-File Report 75-458
The average annual runoff, about 1,270 mgd (million gallons per day), originating in Tuscaloosa County is equivalent to 20 inches or 0.95 mgd per square mile. The Black Warrior and Sipsey Rivers, the largest streams in the county, have average flows of 5,230 mgd and 580 mgd, respectively, where they...
Stochastic analysis of particle movement over a dune bed
Baum K. Lee, Harvey E. Jobson
1975, Open-File Report 75-358
Stochastic models are available that can be used to predict the transport and dispersion of bed-material sediment particles in an alluvial channel. These models are based on the proposition that the movement of a single bed-material sediment particle consists of a series of steps of random length separated by rest...
Reconnaissance engineering geology of the Ketchikan area, Alaska, with emphasis on evaluation of earthquake and other geologic hazards
Richard W. Lemke
1975, Open-File Report 75-250
The Alaska earthquake of March 27, 1964, dramatically emphasized the need for engineering geologic studies of urban areas in seismically active regions. A reconnaissance study of the Ketchikan area in southeastern Alaska is part of a program to evaluate earthquake and other geologic hazards in most of the larger Alaska...
Hydrologic effects of reducing irrigation to maintain a permanent pool in John Martin Reservoir, Arkansas River Valley, Colorado
Richard R. Luckey
1975, Open-File Report 75-214
The U.S. Geological Survey has evaluated a plan by the Colorado Division of Wildlife to maintain a permanent pool of 10,000 acre-feet (1.2x107 cubic metres) in John Martin Reservoir on the Arkansas River. The proposed pool would be maintained through the use of water formerly diverted by the Catlin Canal...
Sandstone geometry, porosity and permeability distribution, and fluid migration in eolian system reservoirs
Robert Lupe, Thomas S. Ahlbrandt
1975, Open-File Report 75-357
Upper Paleozoic to Mesozoic eolian blanket sandstones of the Colorado Plateau and the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and southern Wyoming are texturally complex. As petroleum reservoirs they commonly have poor performance histories. They contain the sediments of a depositional system comprised of three closely associated depositional subenvironments: dune, interdune, and...
A digital-computer model for estimating drawdowns in the sandstone aquifer in Dane County, Wisconsin
R.S. McLeod
1975, Open-File Report 74-59
A digital-computer program was developed to compute nonsteady and steady-state hydrologic changes caused by pumping from a confined aquifer. The program computes head changes in the confined aquifer and the rate and volume of water withdrawn from aquifer boundaries.The program was used to model the sandstone aquifer underlying Dane County,...
A digital-computer model for estimating hydrologic changes in the aquifer system in Dane County, Wisconsin
R.S. McLeod
1975, Open-File Report 75-304
A finite-element model of a two-dimensional, single-phase heat transport in a porous medium
James W. Mercer, George Francis Pinder
1975, Open-File Report 75-574
Availability of ground water in Marion County, Indiana
William R. Meyer, J. P. Reussow, D. C. Gillies, W. J. Shampine
1975, Open-File Report 75-312
County constitute the most extensive aquifers in the county. Four areally distinct sand and gravel aquifers were mapped in the drift during the course of this study. The aquifer of greatest economic importance consists of sand and gravel deposits of glacial-outwash origin which coincide with the courses of the White...
Water-quality assessment of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, 1973-74
Leslie D. Arihood
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 75-14
The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is underlain by unconsolidated lake and glacial deposits which have been divided into three units. Unit 1 is comprised mostly of sand and, in the western part of the National Lakeshore, is capable of yielding more than 500 gallons per minute (32 litres per second)...
Digital-model analysis of the effects of water-use alternatives on spring discharges, Gooding and Jerome Counties, Idaho
Joe A. Moreland
1975, Open-File Report 75-615
Some reservoir engineering calculations for the vapor-dominated system at Larderello, Italy
Manuel Nathenson
1975, Open-File Report 75-142
Various reservoir properties are calculated for the Larderello vapor-dominated system using available published data. Bottom-hole flowing properties are calculated from measured wellhead data. Whereas wellhead temperatures measured at a particular time tend to change systematically with changes in flow and pressure, calculated bottom-hole temperatures tend to be constant for two...
Water availability of Washington County, Alabama
John G. Newton, Jerald F. McCain, James D. Turner
1975, Open-File Report 75-476
Large quantities of ground water and surface water are available in Washington County. Major sources of ground water are the Gosport Sand and Lisbon Formation undifferentiated, the Miocene Series undifferentiated, and alluvium and low terrace deposits. The Miocene, the most productive source of ground water, will yield 0.5 to 1.0...
Numerical model of the salt-wedge reach of the Duwamish River estuary, King County, Washington
Edmund A. Prych, W.L. Haushild, J.D. Stoner
1975, Open-File Report 75-13
A numerical model of a salt-wedge estuary developed by Fischer has been expanded and used to calculate the distributions of salinity, temperature, chlorophyll a concentrations, biochemical oxygen demand, and dissolved-oxygen concentrations in the Duwamish River estuary, King County, Wash. With this model, which was calibrated and verified with observed data,...
Hydrology and sedimentation of Bixler Run basin, central Pennsylvania
Lloyd A. Reed
1975, Open-File Report 75-26
Rainfall, streamflow, stream chemical, and sediment discharge data were collected from Bixler Run near Loysville, Pa., during the period February 1954 to September 1969, as part of a project to evaluate sediment discharge from an agricultural area that had been adopting soil-conservation techniques at a moderate rate. The study was...
Water availability in Perry County, Alabama
Philip C. Reed, J.R. Willmon, Patrick O. Jefferson
1975, Open-File Report 75-482
The principal sources of large quantities of ground water in Perry County are sand and gravel aquifers in the Coker, Gordo, and Eutaw Formations of the Upper Cretaceous Series. Upper Cretaceous deposits, which dip to the southwest at about 35 feet per mile, range in thickness (d from about 400...
Sediments, structural framework, petroleum potential, environmental conditions, and operational considerations of the United States North Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1975, Open-File Report 75-353
The area designated for possible oil and gas lease sale as modified from BLM memorandum 3310 #42 (722) and referred to therein as the North Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) contains about 58,300 sq km of shelf beneath water depths of less than 200 m and lies chiefly within the...
A model for earthquakes near Palisades Reservoir, southeast Idaho
David L. Schleicher
1975, Open-File Report 75-12
The Palisades Reservoir seems to be triggering earthquakes: epicenters are concentrated near the reservoir, and quakes are concentrated in spring, when the reservoir level is highest or is rising most rapidly, and in fall, when the level is lowest. Both spring and fall quakes appear to be triggered by minor...
Numerical modeling of liquid geothermal systems
M.L. Sorey
1975, Open-File Report 75-613
