Forecasting the dry‐weather flow of Pond Creek, Oklahoma: A progress report
William E. Clark
1956, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (37) 442-450
Pond Creek in west‐central Oklahoma drains an area of 319 sq mi above the gaging station near Fort Cobb, Caddo County. Ground water, contained in the Permian Rush Springs sandstone under water‐table conditions, moves toward the creek at an almost unchanging rate. The discharge of ground water into the creek...
Silica in hot-spring waters
Donald E. White, W. W. Brannock, K. J. Murata
1956, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (10) 27-29
The silica in hot-spring waters and in a few cold waters was studied by moans of the colorimetrie ammonium-molybdate method of analysis. Murata found in 1947 that only a part of the total silica in aged samples of high-silica waters was determinable by the colorimetric method. Weitz, franck And schuchard later showed that...
Application of the modified Einstein procedure for computation of total sediment load
K. B. Schroeder, C. H. Hembree
1956, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (37) 197-212
A method that enables good estimates to be made of total sediment load has been tested with data from several western streams. The method, which uses both theoretical and empirical formulas, combines a modification of Einstein's procedure for computing bed‐material load and the usually available data from suspended‐sediment measurements. Basic...
Non-pegmatitic resources of beryllium in United States
Lawrence Allen Warner, W.T. Holser, V.R. Wilmarth, E.N. Cameron
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 137
During the period from 1948 to 1950 the U.S. Geological Survey conducted a program of field and laboratory research w determine the mode of occurrence of beryllium in non-pegmatitic rocks and mineral deposits as part of the Beryllium Program of the Division of Raw Materials of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Approximately 23...
Ground water in northeastern Louisville, Kentucky with reference to induced infiltration
M. I. Rorabaugh
1956, Water Supply Paper 1360-B
In cooperation with the city of Louisville, Ky., the U. S. Geological Survey made a detailed investigation during the period February 1945 to March 1947 of the ground-water resources of a 3-square-mile area along the Ohio River north-east of Louisville. Test drilling shows that the principal aquifer consists of about...
Preliminary report on the geology and deposits of monazite, thorite, and niobium-bearing rutile of the Mineral Hill district, Lemhi County, Idaho
Edward Peck Kaiser
1956, Open-File Report 56-69
Deposits of minerals containing niobium (columbium), thorium, and rare earths occur in the Mineral Hill district, 30 miles northwest of Salmon, Lemhi County, Idaho. Monazite, thorite, allanite, and niobium-bearing rutile form deposits in metamorphic limestone layers less than 8 feet thick. The known deposits are small, irregular, and typically located...
Floods in relation to the river channel
Luna Bergere Leopold, M. Gordon Wolman
1956, Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences 85-98
Among the rivers studied by us two broad types may be distinguished. Channels in the semi-arid areas scour at high discharges so that the bed lowers nearly as much as the water surface rises. Detailed data on the middle reaches of the Rio Grande in New Mexico during the spring...
Ground-water geology of the coastal zone, Long Beach-Santa Ana area, California
J. F. Poland, A. M. Piper
1956, Water Supply Paper 1109
This paper is the first chapter of a comprehensive report on the ground-water features in the southern part of the coastal plain in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, Calif., with special reference to the effectiveness of the so-called coastal barrier--the Newport-Inglewood structural zone--in restraining landwar,-1 movement of saline water. The...
Abundances of the elements
H. E. Suess, H. C. Urey
1956, Reviews of Modern Physics (28) 53-74
[No abstract available]...
Water requirements of selected industries
U.S. Geological Survey, Orville D. Mussey, Howard L. Conklin, Charles N. Durfor, Louis Ethelbert Otts Jr., Faulkner B. Walling
1955, Water Supply Paper 1330
The early industries in America generally were established when and where demands for the products of industry arose. Most of the early industries were so located that their increasing requirements for transportation, raw materials, market, labor, and water supply could be satisfied economically. Many of these original plant locations have...
Water rights in areas of ground-water mining
Harold E. Thomas
1955, Circular 347
Ground-water mining, the progressive depletion of storage in a ground-water reservoir, has been going on for several years in some areas, chiefly in the Southwestern States. In some of these States a water right is based on ownership of land overlying the ground-water reservoir and does not depend upon putting...
Reconnaissance of geology and ground water in the lower Grand River valley, South Dakota, with a section on Chemical quality of the ground water
Paul C. Tychsen, R.C. Vorhis, Eugene R. Jochens
1955, Water Supply Paper 1298
The area described in this report is the flood plain of the Grand River and the bordering benchlands in Perkins and Corson Counties, S. Dak., from a point about 6 miles west of the town of Shadehill to the confluence of the Grand and Missouri Rivers near Mobridge. The exposed bedrock...
The Model '54 transmission and reflection fluorimeter for the determination of uranium, with adaptation to field use
Ernest E. Parshall, Lewis F. Rader
1955, Trace Elements Investigations 520
Chemical quality of surface waters in Devils Lake basin, North Dakota
Herbert Swenson, Bruce R. Colby
1955, Water Supply Paper 1295
Devils Lake basin, a closed basin in northeastern North Dakota, covers about 3,900 square miles of land, the topography of which is morainal and of glacial origin. In this basin lies a chain of waterways, which begins with the Sweetwater group and extends successively through Mauvais Coulee, Devils Lake, East...
The natural channel of Brandywine Creek, Pennsylvania
M. G. Wolman
1955, Professional Paper 271
This study of the channel of Brandy wine Creek, Pennsylvania, consists of three parts. The first is an analysis of the changes which take place in the width, depth, velocity, slope of the water surface, suspended load, and roughness factor with changing discharge below the bankfull stage at each of...
Gravel and sand resources of the New England-New York region
Louis W. Currier
1955, Open-File Report 55-33
Deposits of sand and gravel are widespread in the New England-New York regions and constitute one of its principal mineral resources. Most of the pits are operated intermittently to supply local needs. Because of the great number and variety of known deposits, and because they have been worked at countless...
Some thorium prospects, Lemhi Pass area, Beaverhead County, Montana
Frank C. Armstrong
1955, Trace Elements Memorandum 918
The Last Chance group> Brown Bear and Shady Tree claims in Beaverhead County, Mont., were explored for thorium under a Defense Minerals Exploration Administration Contract in 1951 and 1952. The project was undertaken to explore northwest-trending moderately to steep dipping, thorite-bearing quartz-barite-hematite veins. The veins are wall-rock replacements and fissure fillings...
Statement on ground water in Connecticut
R.V. Cushman
1955, Open-File Report 55-35
Connecticut has a supply of ground water, most of it of good quality, which is largely undeveloped, and much of which would lend itself to industrial and other uses. Ground water is available in small quantities in nearly all parts of the State, and in moderate to large quantities in...
Water resources of southeastern Florida, with special reference to the geology and ground water of the Miami area
Garald G. Parker, G.E. Ferguson, S. K. Love
1955, Water Supply Paper 1255
The circulation of water, in any form, from the surface of the earth to the atmosphere and back again is called the hydrologic cycle. A comprehensive study of the water resources of any area must, therefore, include data on the climate of the area.The humid subtropical climate of southeastern Florida...
Ground water investigations in Oklahoma
Leon V. Davis
1955, Open-File Report 55-36
Prior to 1937, ground-water work in Oklahoma consisted of broad scale early-day reconnaissance and a few brief investigations of local areas. The reconnaissance is distinguished by C. N. Gould's "Geology and Water Resources of Oklahoma" (Water-Supply Paper 148, 1905), which covers about half of the present State of Oklahoma. Among...
Subsurface exploration for stripping coal on Lower Deep Creek, Homer district, Kenai coal field, Alaska
Farrell F. Barnes, Daniel Sokol
1955, Open-File Report 55-6
The area described in this report is on the west side of the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska, near the mouth of Deep Creek, a stream of moderate size that enters Cook Inlet about 2 miles south of the village of Ninilchik (pl. 1). It is 37 miles by highway...
Photogeologic procedures in geologic interpretation and mapping
Richard G. Ray
1955, Open-File Report 55-144
In the past few years increasing use has been made of aerial photographs for geologic interpretation and mapping within the U.S. Geological Survey. As a specialized technique in interpretation and mapping, however, photogeologic procedures were extensively used (1947-1953) in the Survey's geologic mapping of Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 in...
Computations of total sediment discharge, Niobrara River near Cody, Nebraska
Bruce R. Colby, C. H. Hembree
1955, Water Supply Paper 1357
A natural chute in the Niobrara River near Cody, Nebr., constricts the flow of the river except at high stages to a narrow channel in which the turbulence is sufficient to suspend nearly the total sediment discharge. Because much of the flow originates in the sandhills area of Nebraska, the...
Diagrams for construction of Model '54 transmission and reflection fluorimeter
Ernest E. Parshall, Lewis F. Rader Jr.
1955, Open-File Report 55-130
No abstract available....
Pleistocene geology of the southwestern Wind River Mountains, Wyoming
G.W. Holmes, J.H. Moss
1955, GSA Bulletin (66) 629-654
Patches of Buffalo till record the earliest glaciation in the southwestern Wind River Mountains. In places, these rest in youthful valleys cut in high gravel terrace. Two other younger and lower terraces are both topographically and stratigraphically associated with Buffalo till, which may indicate that the Buffalo advance was compound....
