Analog-model analysis of effects of wastewater management on the groundwater reservoir in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, New York; Report II: Recharge with wastewater
Arlen W. Harbaugh, Thomas E. Reilly
1976, Open-File Report 76-847
No abstract available....
Uranium in the Cochetopa District, Colorado, in relation to the Oligocene erosion surface
Jerry Chipman Olson
1976, Open-File Report 76-222
In the Cochetopa district, Colorado, the sequence of Mesozoic and Cenozoic events is as follows: development of a relatively smooth, planar erosion surface in Jurassic time; deposition, on this surface, of the Junction Creek Sandstone and Morrison Formation of Jurassic age, followed by deposition of the Dakota Sandstone and Mancos...
Data for calibrating unsteady-flow sediment-transport models, East Fork River, Wyoming, 1975
Holly A. Mahoney, Edmund D. Andrews, William W. Emmett, Luna Bergere Leopold, Robert H. Meade, Robert M. Myrick, Carl F. Nordin
1976, Open-File Report 76-22
In 1975, data to calibrate a one-dimensional unsteady-flow and sediment-transport routing model were collected on a reach of the East Fork River of western Wyoming. The reach, 3.1 miles (5 kilometers) in length, wan immediately upstream from a previously established bedload sampling station. Nineteen channel cross sections were sounded at...
Reservoir-system model for the Willamette River basin, Oregon
James O. Shearman
1976, Circular 715-H
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...
Selection of streamflow and reservoir-release models for river-quality assessment
Marshall E. Jennings, James O. Shearman, Daniel P. Bauer
1976, Circular 715-E
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...
Mineral resources of the South Warner Wilderness, Modoc County, California
Wendell A. Duffield, Robert D. Weldin, W. E. Davis
1976, Bulletin 1385-D
No abstract available....
Numerical model of the salt-wedge reach of the Duwamish River estuary, King County, Washington
Edmund A. Prych, W.L. Haushild, J.D. Stoner
1976, Professional Paper 990
A numerical model of a salt-wedge estuary developed by Fischer (1974) has been expanded and used to calculate the distributions of salinity, temperature, chlorophyll a concentration, biochemical oxygen demand, and dissolved-oxygen concentration in the Duwamish River estuary, King County, Wash. The model was used to predict the dissolved-oxygen concentrations in...
Calibration of a mathematical model of the Antelope Valley ground-water basin, California
Timothy J. Durbin
1976, Open-File Report 76-833
Interpretation of magnetic surveys in intermontane valleys of Nevada and southern New Mexico
G. D. Bath
1976, Open-File Report 76-440
An evaluation of the magnetic method of geophysical exploration in intermontane valleys is made through examples of magnetic properties, magnetic surveys, reduction of data, and analysis of magnetic anomalies from some valley areas. Measurements of magnetic properties of samples collected along valley margins or from drill holes indicate that the...
Numerical modeling of subsurface radioactive solute transport from waste seepage ponds at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
John B. Robertson
1976, Open-File Report 76-717
Aqueous chemical and low-level radioactive effluents have been disposed to seepage ponds since 1952 at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. The solutions percolate toward the Snake River Plain aquifer (135 m below) through interlayered basalts and unconsolidated sediments and an extensive zone of ground water perched on a sedimentary layer...
Reaeration-coefficient measurements of 10 small streams in Wisconsin using radioactive tracers : with a section on the energy-dissipation model
R. Stephen Grant
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-96
Reaeration-rate coefficients were measured for 10 small streams in Wisconsin using the radioactive-tracer method. The coefficients ranged from 2.06 to 55.2 per day (base e at 25 degrees Celsius). Stream discharges ranged from 0.3 to 37.0 cubic feet per second, most discharges being less than 10 cubic feet per second....
Shallow sedimentary framework of Georges Bank
R. S. Lewis, R. E. Sylwester
1976, Open-File Report 76-874
Two thousand nine hundred kilometers of minisparker data were collected on Georges Bank by the United States Geological Survey during October of 1975. Several sedimentary features have been observed in the data, The bank is recognized as a compound feature resulting from erosion of Tertiary coastal-plain strata followed by deposition...
Integration of geological remote-sensing techniques in subsurface analysis
James V. Taranik, Charles M. Trautwein
1976, Open-File Report 76-402
Geological remote sensing is defined as the study of the Earth utilizing electromagnetic radiation which is either reflected or emitted from its surface in wavelengths ranging from 0.3 micrometre to 3 metres. The natural surface of the Earth is composed of a diversified combination of surface cover types, and geologists...
Evaluation of hydrologic properties of the Long Island ground-water reservoir using cross-sectional electric-analog models
O.L. Franke, R.T. Getzen
1976, Open-File Report 75-679
Variables necessary for constructing a quantitative model to predict the response of ground-water reservoirs to hydrologic stresses are in four classes: (a) external and internal geometry of the reservoir, (b) nature of the reservoir boundaries, (c) areal distribution of horizontal and vertical hydraulic conductivities, and (d) areal distribution of storage...
Lakes Marion-Moultrie stream system investigation, South Carolina : Part II-Simulation Studies
H.H. Jeffcoat, M.E. Jennings, D.L. Collins, J.O. Shearman
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-11
A stream-reservoir model was developed to simulate the operation of the Lakes Marion-Moultrie, South Carolina, reservoir system. The reservoir system is operated under the assumption of a 3-day prior knowledge of inflows. This information is attainable from the ooperational reservoir-inflow forecasting model developed in the Part I report. The model,...
History of dredging and filling of lagoons in the San Juan area, Puerto Rico
S. R. Ellis
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-38
Laguna La Torrecilla, Laguna de Pinones, Laguna San Jose, and Laguna del Condado, in the San Juan, Puerto Rico area, are located within a metropolitan area of more than 1 million people. Bathymetric maps made during the study, in 1973, showed that Lagunas La Torrecilla, San Jose, and del Condado...
Preseismic and coseismic deformation associated with the Hollister, California, earthquake of November 28, 1974
James C. Savage, Mary Ann Spieth, W.H. Prescott
1976, Journal of Geophysical Research (81) 3567-3574
The epicenter of the Hollister earthquake (ML = 5.1) of November 28, 1974, is located near the center of an 81‐line trilateration network which has been surveyed annually since 1971. Five lines in the neighborhood of the epicenter were surveyed just 2 days before the earthquake, and two other lines nearby...
Strain accumulation on the San Andreas Fault near Palmdale, California
W.H. Prescott, James C. Savage
1976, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (81) 4901-4908
Precise distance measurements of a 10×25 km 15‐station trilateration network that spans the San Andreas fault west of Palmdale, California, have been repeated annually in the period 1971–1975. The network appears to be deforming under simple uniform tensor shear of about 0.21±0.03 μstrain/yr with the direction of maximum right‐lateral shear...
Numerical models of wind-driven circulation in lakes
Ralph T. Cheng, Thomas M. Powell, T. M. Dillon
1976, Applied Mathematical Modelling (1) 141-159
The state-of-the-art of numerical modelling of large-scale wind-driven circulation in lakes is presented. The governing equations which describe this motion are discussed along with the appropriate numerical techniques necessary to solve them in lakes. The numerical models are categorized into three large primary groups: the layered models, the Ekman-type models,...
Episodic strain accumulation in Southern California
W. Thatcher
1976, Science (194) 691-695
Reexamination of horizontal geodetic data in the region of recently discovered aseismic uplift has demonstrated that equally unusual horizontal crustal deformation accompanied the development of the uplift. During this time interval compressive strains were oriented roughly normal to the San Andreas fault, suggesting that the uplift produced little shear strain...
Metagraywacke in the Salinian Block, central Coast Ranges, California: And a possible correlative across the San Andreas Fault
Donald C. Ross
1976, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (4) 683-696
The schist of Sierra de Salinas is a monotonously homogeneous biotite quartzofeldspathic schist with minor amounts of quartzite, amphibolite, and marble that forms a northwest-trending outcrop belt that strikes across parts of the Santa Lucia and Gabilan Ranges and is traceable further south in the subsurface to where it is...
Gravity studies in the Carolina slate belt near the Haile and Brewer mines, north-central South Carolina
Henry Bell III, Peter Popenoe
1976, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (4) 667-682
The Bouguer gravity map of part of the Carolina slate belt near the Haile and Brewer mines in South Carolina shows anomalies related to rock units. The most conspicuous of the anomalies coincide with coarse-grained granitic plutons. Mathematically calculated models using an iterative three-dimensional solution of the gravity anomalies show...
Geothermal flux through palagonitized tephra, Surtsey, Iceland: The Surtsey temperature-data-relay experiment via Landsat-1
Jules D. Friedman, Duane M. Preble, Sveinn P. Jakobsson
1976, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (4) 645-659
The net geothermal flux through palagonitized basaltic tephra rims of the Surtur I and Surtur II craters at Surtsey, Iceland, in 1972, is estimated at 780 ±325 μcal cm-2s-1, indicating a decline since 1969 when a flux of 1,500 μcal cm-2s-1 was estimated. Heat flux in this range characterizes the...
Pre-Eocene rocks of Java, Indonesia
Keith B. Ketner, Kastowo, Subroto Modjo, C. W. Naeser, J. D. Obradovich, Keith Robinson, Tatan Suptandar, Wikarno
1976, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (4) 605-614
The exposed pre-Eocene rocks of Java can be divided into two compound units for purposes of reconnaissance mapping and structural interpretation: a sedimentary sequence and melange. The sedimentary sequence consists of moderately deformed and little-metamorphosed conglomerate, sandstone, mudstone, claystone, chert, and limestone. The melange consists of a chaotic mechanical mixture...
Sedimentary depositional environments of uranium and petroleum host rocks of the Jackson Group, south Texas
Kendell A. Dickinson
1976, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (4) 615-629
Determination of depositional environments in rocks of the Jackson Group of late Eocene age aids in the exploration for uranium and petroleum in south Texas. During deposition of the Jackson Group, conditions were similar to those existing along the modern Gulf Coast of Texas except for a less arid climate...