Ground-water geology of Bexar County, Texas
Ted Arnow
1963, Water Supply Paper 1588
The investigation in Bexar County was part of a comprehensive study of a large area in south-central Texas underlain by the Edwards and associated limestones (Comanche Peak and Georgetown) of Cretaceous age. The limestones form an aquifer which supplies water to the city of San Antonio, several military installations, many...
Geology and occurrence of ground water in Lyon County, Minnesota
Harry G. Rodis
1963, Water Supply Paper 1619-N
Lyon County is in southwestern Minnesota, mostly within the drainage basin of the Minnesota River. The basement rocks in the area consist largely of Precambrian granite and quartzite. These are overlain locally by flat-lying Upper Cretaceous strata composed of thick sections of soft dark-bluish-gray shale and some thin beds of...
Ground-water geology of Grayson County, Texas
E.T. Baker
1963, Water Supply Paper 1646
Grayson County in north-central Texas is near the north edge of the West Gulf Coastal Plain. The county has an area of 927 square miles and had an estimated population of 79,500 in 1957. The major town is Sherman, which has an estimated population of 31,000. The northern two-thirds of...
Early pennsylvanian currents in the southern Appalachian Mountains
J. Schlee
1963, Geological Society of America Bulletin (74) 1439-1451
Measurement of more than 1200 cross-beds in lower Pennsylvanian sandstones of the southern Appalachian Mountains reveals a broad pattern of sediment transport to the southwest and west. Most of the sand appears to have been derived from the east and to have moved south-westward parallel to the axis of the...
Factors influencing the pore volume of fine-grained sediments under low-to-moderate overburden loads
R.H. Meade
1963, Sedimentology (2) 235-242
An anomalous increase of pore volume with increasing depth in the range 0—1,900 ft. occurs in fine‐grained sediments along the east side of the San Joaquin Valley of Cali‐ fornia. Several possible causes for the anomaly were inferred from a literature search and from study of the core samples. Statistical analyses of...
Two pollen diagrams from southeastern Minnesota: Problems in the regional late-glacial and postglacial vegetational history
H.E. Wright Jr., Thomas C. Winter, Harvey L. Patten
1963, Geological Society of America Bulletin (74) 1371-1396
Kirchner Marsh and Lake Carlson are located 3 miles apart in Dakota County about 15 miles south of Minneapolis in the St. Croix moraine, which was formed by the Superior lobe during the Gary phase of the Wisconsin glaciation. During the Mankato phase that followed, the Des Moines lobe advanced to within...
Early pennsylvanian currents in the southern Appalachian Mountains
John Schlee
1963, Geological Society of America Bulletin (74) 1439-1451
Measurement of more than 1200 cross-beds in lower Pennsylvanian sandstones of the southern Appalachian Mountains reveals a broad pattern of sediment transport to the southwest and west. Most of the sand appears to have been derived from the east and to have moved south-westward parallel to the axis of the Appalachian geosyncline. The pattern...
Gibson peak pluton: A discordant composite intrusion in the southeastern Trinity Alps, northern California
Peter W. Lipman
1963, Geological Society of America Bulletin (74) 1259-1280
Gibson Peak pluton is the most discordant of several dominantly granitic intrusions in the Trinity Alps of northern California. It formed during Nevadan (Late Jurassic) deformation by emplacement of at least five discrete rock units that define a successively more silicic series, ranging from hypersthene gabbro to trondhjemitic tonalite. Contact features suggest that several...
Dispersion in natural streams
Richard G. Godfrey, Bernard J. Frederick
1963, Report
Eleven tests were conducted to study the dispersion patterns of a radiotracer in five natural stream channels and in one canal. The radiotracer was injected as a line source. The patterns of dispersion that were observed in these channels were compared with patterns predicted by the theoretical models for one-dimensional...
Age and growth of the whitefish in Lake Superior
William R. Dryer
1963, Fishery Bulletin (63) 77-95
The average annual commercial production of whitefish in the U.S. waters of Lake Superior dropped from 2,194,000 pounds in 1879-1908 to 504,000 pounds in 1911-59. The modern production, though far below the earlier, has accounted for more than 10 percent of the total value of the fishery in all...
Indirect spectrophotometric determination of traces of bromide in water
M. J. Fishman, M. W. Skougstad
1963, Analytical Chemistry (35) 146-149
A rapid, accurate, and sensitive indirect spectrophotometric method for the determination of bromide in natural waters is based on the catalytic effect of bromide on the oxidation of iodine to iodate by potassium permanganate in sulfuric acid solution. The method is applicable to concentrations ranging from 1 to 100 μg....
Studies of transmission of mycobacterial infections in Chinook salmon
A. J. Ross, H.E. Johnson
1962, Progressive Fish-Culturist (24) 147-149
THE INCLUSION OF VISCERA AND CARCASSES OF TUBERCULOUS ADULT SALMON IN THE DIET OF JUVENILE SALMONIDS is considered to be the major source of mycobacterial infections in hatchery-reared fish (Wood and Ordal, 1958; Ross, Earp, and Wood, 1959). In considering additional modes of infection, we speculated about transovarian transmission or...
Relation between ground water and surface water in Brandywine Creek basin, Pennsylvania
F. H. Olmsted, A. G. Hely
1962, Professional Paper 417-A
The relation between ground water and surface water was studied in Brandywine Creek basin, an area of 287 square miles in the Piedmont physiographic province in southeastern Pennsylvania. Most of the basin is underlain by crystalline rocks that yield only small to moderate supplies of water to wells, but the...
Ground-water resources of Camas Prairie, Camas and Elmore Counties, Idaho
William Clarence Walton
1962, Water Supply Paper 1609
Camas Prairie is an eastward-trending intermontane basin along the north flank of the Snake River Plain in southern Idaho. The basin is about 40 miles long and averages about 8 miles wide. It was formed as a structural depression in which a considerable thickness of alluvial and lake deposits accumulated...
Reconnaissance of ground-water resources in the Eastern Coal Field Region, Kentucky
William E. Price, D. S. Mull, Chabot Kilburn
1962, Water Supply Paper 1607
In the Eastern Coal Field region of Kentucky, water is obtained from consolidated sedimentary rocks ranging in age from Devonian to Pennsylvanian and from unconsolidated sediments of Quaternary age. About 95 percent of the area is underlain by shale, sandstone, and coal of Pennsylvanian age. Principal factors governing the availability...
A formula for computing transmissibility causing maximum possible drawdown due to pumping
G.M. Robinson, Herbert E. Skibitzke
1962, Water Supply Paper 1536-F
By modifying the Theis nonequilibrium formula a relation is found in which the maximum possible drawdown is expressed in terms of a unique value for the aquifer coefficient of transmissibility. The relation is valid for any specified period and rate of pumping, for a given aquifer coefficient of storage, and...
Study of natural glasses through their behavior as membrane electrodes, Part 2
Alfred Hemingway Truesdell
1962, Open-File Report 62-136
The exchange constants and regular solution constants for a number of exchange reactions involving analyzed natural and simulated natural glasses have been determined. The experimental method used provides quick and simple determination of these constants. The calculation of the internal energy differences of model ion exchange systems involving alkali and...
Rainwater as a chemical agent of geologic processes; a review
Dorothy Carroll
1962, Water Supply Paper 1535-G
Chemical analyses of the rainwater collected at several localities are given to show the variations of the principal constitutents. In rock weathering and soil-forming processes, the chemical composition of rainwater has an important effect which has been evaluated for only a few arid areas. In humid regions the important amounts...
Reconnaissance of ground-water resources in the Western Coal Field Region, Kentucky
Bruce William Maxwell, Robert Washburn Devaul
1962, Water Supply Paper 1599
In the Western Coal Field region of Kentucky, water is obtained from consolidated sedimentary rocks of Mississippian and Pennsylvanian ages and from unconsolidated sediments of Cenozoic age. Pennsylvanian rocks crop out in more than 95 percent of the area and consist of shale and sandstone interbedded with some limestone and...
Ground-water studies and analog models
Charles Joseph Robinove
1962, Circular 468
Hydrologists make ground-water studies to aid managers and users of water resources in solving their problems in the development and management of ground water. Geologic and hydrologic information provides the basic knowledge for construction of electric analog models that portray the ground-water system in miniature. Analog models can be analyzed...
Theory of aquifer tests
J.G. Ferris, D.B. Knowles, R. H. Brown, R.H. Stallman
1962, Water Supply Paper 1536-E
The development of water supplies from wells was placed on a rational basis with Darcy's development of the law governing the movement of fluids through sands and with Dupuit's application of that law to the problem of radial flow toward a pumped well. As field experience increased, confidence in the...
Water resources of the Utica-Rome area, New York
Henry N. Halberg, O. P. Hunt, F. H. Pauszek
1962, Water Supply Paper 1499-C
The Utica-Rome area is along the Mohawk River and New York State Erie (Barge) Canal about midway between Lake Ontario and Albany. It encompasses about 390 square miles centered around the industrial cities of Utica and Rome. The Mohawk River, its tributary West Canada Creek, and a system of reservoirs...
Hydraulic model studies--stream gaging control structure for Carrizo-Corduroy Project, Arizona
E.V. Richardson
1962, Open-File Report 62-107
Manganese in the United States, exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii
Max D. Crittenden, Louis Pavlides
1962, Mineral Investigations Resource Map 23
The manganese deposits in the United States (exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii) are shown on the accompanying map. The deposits have been divided into several genetic types distinguished on the map by symbols. The principal distinction is between syngenetic deposits, in which the manganese was deposited contemporaneously with the enclosing...
The concept of entropy in landscape evolution
Luna Bergere Leopold, Walter Basil Langbein
1962, Professional Paper 500-A
The concept of entropy is expressed in terms of probability of various states. Entropy treats of the distribution of energy. The principle is introduced that the most probable condition exists when energy in a river system is as uniformly distributed as may be permitted by physical constraints. From these general...
