Hydrologic reconnaissance of the Montezuma Creek-Aneth area, southeastern Utah
C. T. Sumsion
1975, Open-File Report 75-268
The Montezuma Creek-Aneth area is in the northeastern part of the Navajo Indian Reservation in southeastern Utah. It is a semiarid area along the San Juan River near the communities of Montezuma Creek and Aneth. Within the Blanding Basin, geologic formations exposed are of Jurassic and Quaternary age. The rock...
Landsliding in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Reginald Peter Briggs, John S. Pomeroy, William E. Davies
1975, Circular 728
Man should proceed with caution if modifications such as loading, excavation, or changes of the water regime are contemplated for slopes in Allegheny County, especially those slopes described on the map as highly sensitive to disturbance by man. Features indicative of unstable slope conditions include: cracks in buildings, yard walls,...
United States Geological Survey's hydrogeological research programs and plans related to disposal of radioactive waste into geologic formations
George D. DeBuchananne, William Stephens Twenhofel
1975, Open-File Report 75-626
The Geological Survey, United States Department of Interior, has cooperated with the United States Energy Research and Development Administration, formerly the Atomic Energy Commission, for more than 30 years on research related to the disposal of radioactive waste into geological formations. Results of most of this research effort have been...
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,...
Formulation and use of practical models for river-quality assessment
Walter G. Hines, D. A. Rickert, S. W. McKenzie, J. P. Bennett
1975, Circular 715-B
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 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
Self-calibrating seismic amplifier and telemetry system
John R. Van Schaack
1975, Open-File Report 75-64
A frequency modulated, constant bandwidth, telemetry system has been designed to transmit simultaneously up to 8 channels of seismograph data from remote locations to a central recording site via radio or voice-grade telephone circuit. By utilizing state-of-the-art integrated circuits, the size of the remote unit has been considerably reduced over...
Reactions of aqueous aluminum species at mineral surfaces
David Wayne Brown, John David Hem
1975, Water Supply Paper 1827-F
Aqueous aluminum solutions containing 4.5 ? 10 4 molar aluminum in 0.01 molar NaC104 were partly neutralized with NaOH to give OH:A1 mole ratios from 1.40 to 2.76. Measured amounts of montmorillonite, kaolinite, volcanic ash, or feldspathic sand were added to provide an area of inert surface. Reactions that occurred...
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 availability of Choctaw County, Alabama
John G. Newton, Jerald F. McCain
1975, Open-File Report 75-477
Large quantities of ground water and surface water are available in Choctaw County. Major sources of ground water are the Nanafalia Formation, Tuscahoma Sand, Hatchetigbee Formation, and Gosport Sand and Lisbon Formation. The Nanafalia Formation is the most productive source of ground water, and individual wells will yield as much...
Recent man-induced modifications of the physical resources of the Redwood Creek unit of Redwood National Park, California, and the processes responsible for those modifications
Richard J. Janda
1975, Open-File Report 75-561
A Study of earthquake losses in the Puget Sound, Washington, area
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1975, Open-File Report 75-375
The Puget Sound Basin has a history of frequent seismic activity, including two recent damaging events. The greatest extent of urban development and the most densely populated area generally correspond to the area where the greatest energy release has been experienced. For this study two earthquakes have been simulated, each...
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...
Abundances of uranium, thorium, and potassium for some Australian crystalline rocks
Carl Maurice Bunker, C. A. Bush, Robert J. Munroe, J.H. Sass
1975, Open-File Report 75-393
This report contains a tabulation of the basic radioelement and radiogenic heat data obtained during an Australian National University (ANU) - United States Geological Survey (USGS) heat-flow project, directed jointly by J. C. Jaeger (ANU) and J. H. Sass (USGS). Most samples were collected during the periods June through September,...
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,...
Computer program to simulate the salt balance between the north and south parts of Great Salt Lake, Utah
K.M. Waddell, E.L. Bolke
1975, Open-File Report 75-131
This report presents a computer simulation program that was used by Waddell and Bolke (1973) to predict the salt balance between the north and south parts of Great Salt Lake, Utah, for either existing or modified culvert openings (fig. 1). The development of the program, its accuracy and limitations, are...
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...
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 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...
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
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...
Analyses of selected constituents in native water and soil in the Bayou Boeuf-Chene-Black area near Morgan City, Louisiana, including a modified standard elutriate test
Frank C. Wells, Anthony J. Gogel
1975, Open-File Report 75-176
In search of a statistical probability model for petroleum-resource assessment : a critique of the probabilistic significance of certain concepts and methods used in petroleum-resource assessment : to that end, a probabilistic model is sketched
Bernardo F. Grossling
1975, Circular 724
Exploratory drilling is still in incipient or youthful stages in those areas of the world where the bulk of the potential petroleum resources is yet to be discovered. Methods of assessing resources from projections based on historical production and reserve data are limited to mature areas. For most of the...
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...
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...
