Ground-water supplies in the Murfreesboro area, Tennessee
Donald Robert Rima, Mary S. Moran, E. Jean Woods
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-86
Ground water occurs in the Murfreesboro area in solution openings in the otherwise dense paleozoic limestones that underlie most of central Tennessee. Test drilling based on conceptual models of ground-water occurrence in carbonate-rock aquifers indicate that multimillion-gallon-per-day supplies could be developed from strategically located production wells in the Shiloh and...
A digital model of the Floridan Aquifer, north of Tampa, Florida
A.F. Robertson, M. J. Mallory
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-64
A regional ground-water model of the Floridan aquifer was constructed for an 875-square-mile portion of the rapidly developing area north of Tampa Bay. The digital model was calibrated by comparing observed (March 1974 and May 1975) and computed potentiometric heads. A good comparison was obtained by adjusting leakance and transmissivity....
Computer simulation of two-dimensional unsteady flows in estuaries and embayments by the method of characteristics : Basic theory and the formulation of the numerical method
Chintu Lai
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-85
Two-dimensional unsteady flows of homogeneous density in estuaries and embayments can be described by hyperbolic, quasi-linear partial differential equations involving three dependent and three independent variables. A linear combination of these equations leads to a parametric equation of characteristic form, which consists of two parts: total differentiation along the bicharacteristics...
Theoretical drawdown due to simulated pumpage from the Ohio River alluvial aquifer near Siloam, Kentucky
J. M. Kernodle
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-24
Theoretical drawdown due to simulated pumpage was determined for a site near Siloam, Kentucky by using a digital ground-water-flow model. The maximum sustained yield of water from the single well was shown to be less than 900 gallons per minute, and, for a simulated pumping rate of 450 gallons per...
Ground-water hydrology of the Lower Milliken-Sarco-Tulucay Creeks area, Napa County, California
Michael J. Johnson
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-82
The Sonoma Volcanics are the principal water-bearing materials in the lower Milliken-Sarco-Tulucay Creeks area, which occupies about 15 square miles (39 square kilometers) in and east of Napa, Calif. The distribution and composition of these volcanic units are highly variable and complex. Within the Sonoma Volcanics the tuffs constitute the...
Simulation studies of flow and sediment transport using a mathematical model, Atchafalaya River Basin, Louisiana
Marshall E. Jennings, Larry F. Land
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-14
Simulation studies were made of flow and sediment transport for the Atchafalaya River basin, Louisiana using a mathematical model calibrated and supplied by the Hydrologic Engineering Center and the New Orleans District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The study results are based on three, 50-year computer simulations for the following...
Ground-water appraisal of the Pineland Sands area, central Minnesota
J. O. Helgesen
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-102
The Pineland Sands area consists of 770 square miles of surficial glacial outwash, which is undergoing increasing ground-water development for irrigation. The aquifer material is commonly very fine sand to fine gravel, and grain size generally increases from south to north. Thickness, transmissivity, and theoretical well yields are highest in...
Stream simulation in an analog model of the ground-water system on Long Island, New York
Arlen W. Harbaugh, Rufus T. Getzen
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-58
The stream circuits of an electric analog model of the ground-water system of Long Island were modified to more accurately represent the relationahip between streamflow and ground-water levels. Assumptions for use of the revised circuits are (1) that streams are strictly gaining, and (2) that ground-water seepage into the streams...
Maps showing sample localities and ternary plots and graphs showing modal and chemical data for granitic rocks of the Santa Lucia Range, Salinian block, California Coast Ranges
D. C. Ross
1977, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 799
Geologic map of the Iapygia Quadrangle of Mars
G. G. Schaber
1977, IMAP 1020
The Iaygia quadrangle, in the equatorial region of Mars just north of the Hellas basin, is mainly ancient, hilly, and cratered upland terrain. The southern one-third of the quadrangle is dominated by mountains and knobby...
Ground water in the Lajas Valley, Puerto Rico
Henry R. Anderson
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-68
Lajas Valley is plagued with salinity and waterlogging problems of the soils. Use of brackish (500 milligrams per liter) ground water for irrigation compounded the problem until an irrigation-drainage system was constructed in 1955. Lajas Valley is an alluvium-filled trough between volcanic and limestone highlands. The alluvium, mostly clay and...
A summary of the mineral resources of the proposed Great Bear wilderness, Flathead, Teton, and Pondera counties, Montana
Melville Rhodes Mudge, Robert L. Earhart, Dudley D. Rice, Lawrence Y. Marks
1977, Open-File Report 77-95
The proposed Great Bear wilderness has a good potential for oil and gas (mainly gas), and a moderate potential for submarginal resources of copper and silver in a belt 25 miles (40 km) long and about 1 mile (1.6 km) wide that is partly within the study area along the...
Preliminary data on some Precambrian deposits of zinc-copper-lead sulfides and zinc spinel (granite) in Colorado
Douglas M. Sheridan, William H. Raymond
1977, Open-File Report 77-607
Precambrian sulfide deposits in the Southern Rocky Mountains in Colorado are being studied and re-evaluated according to geologic concepts which were developed in recent years in other parts of the world during successful research regarding economic massive sulfide deposits. These studies, initiated in 1974 in Colorado by the U.S. Geological...
Ground-water resources of Cambodia
William Charles Rasmussen, Gary M. Bradford
1977, Water Supply Paper 1608-P
Cambodia (now the Khmer Republic), in tropical, humid southeast Asia, has an area of 175,630 km and a population of about 5 million. The Mekong River, one of the world's largest rivers, flows through Cambodia. Also, the Tonle Sap (Grand Lac), a highly productive fresh-water lake, functions as a huge...
Study results of 9 sites used by off-road vehicles that illustrate land modifications
Howard Gordon Wilshire
1977, Open-File Report 77-601
Simulated changes in ground-water levels resulting from proposed phosphate mining, west-central Florida; preliminary results
William Edward Wilson
1977, Open-File Report 77-882
A digital model of two-dimensional ground-water flow was used to simulate projected changes in the Floridan aquifer potentiometric surface in 1985 and 2000, resulting from proposed ground-water developments by the phosphate mining industry in west-central Florida. The .model was calibrated under steady-state conditions to simulate the September 1975 potentiometric surface....
Reconnaissance engineering geology of the Metlakatla area, Annette Island, Alaska, with emphasis on evaluation of earthquakes and other geologic hazards
Lynn A. Yehle
1977, Open-File Report 77-272
A program to study the engineering geology of most larger Alaska coastal communities and to evaluate their earthquake and other geologic hazards was started following the 1964 Alaska earthquake; this report about the Metlakatla area, Annette Island, is a product of that program. Field-study methods were of a reconnaissance nature,...
Uranium mobility during interaction of rhyolitic glass with alkaline solutions: dissolution of glass
Robert A. Zielinski
1977, Open-File Report 77-744
This report concerns investigations designed to identify the important physical and chemical parameters influencing the rate of release of uranium from glass shards of rhyolitic air-fall ash. Oxidizing, silica undersaturated, alkaline solutions are eluted through a column of rhyolitic glass shards at a carefully controlled temperature, pressure, and flow rate....
Application of digital profile modeling techniques to ground-water solute transport at Barstow, California
Stanley G. Robson
1977, Open-File Report 77-276
A brief investigation of the surface-water hydrology of Yemen Arab Republic
Henry Chiles Riggs
1977, Open-File Report 77-150
Yemen, near the southwest tip of the Arabian Peninsula, is a mountainous country bordered by a desert on the east and a coastal plain on the west. Rainfall is low and seasonal; consequently, most streams (wadis) are ephemeral. The natural flow regimens of many of the smaller wadis are modified...
Training and assistance at the EROS Data Center. A slide-cassette training module
William J. Redmond
1977, Open-File Report 77-122
No abstract available....
Preliminary foraminiferal biostratigraphy and correlation of selected stratigraphic sections and wells in the Gulf of Alaska Tertiary province
Weldon W. Rau, George Plafker, Gary R. Winkler
1977, Open-File Report 77-747
As part of ongoing research by the U.S. Geological Survey on the geology and resource potential of the Gulf of Alaska Tertiary Province, a vast amount of data has been accumulated over the past 25 years on the lithology and paleontology of bedded rocks in the province. This report brings...
Geology and ground-water in western Santa Cruz County, California, with particular emphasis on the Santa Margarita Sandstone
J. P. Akers, L.E. Jackson
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-15
The water-bearing potential of the geologic formations in the western part of Santa Cruz County, Calif., is evaluated. Most of the sedimentary formations in this area are fine-grained rocks of Tertiary age that have been folded and faulted. These rocks, in general, yield supplies of water sufficient only for individual...
Water resources of the Maunabo Valley, Puerto Rico
D. G. Adolphson, M.A. Seijo, Tully M. Robison
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-115
The Maunabo Valley, in southestern Puerto Rico, consists of a 3.5-square-mile alluvial plain surrounded by hills of metavolcanic and igneous intrusive rocks. The principal source of ground water in the basin is a shallow unconfined aquifer in the valley alluvium. Continuous pumping of the shallow aquifer has induced the flow...
Ground-water hydrology and subsurface migration of radioisotopes at a low-level solid radioactive-waste disposal site, West Valley, New York
David E. Prudic, Allan D. Randall
1977, Open-File Report 77-566
Burial trenches for disposal of solid radioactive waste at West Valley, N.Y., are excavated in till that has very low hydraulic conductivity (about 5 x 10 to the minus 8th power centimeters per second). Fractures and root tubes with chemically oxidized and (or) reduced soil in their walls extend to...
