Ground-water monitoring at Santa Barbara, California; Phase 2-effects of pumping on water levels and water quality in the Santa Barbara ground-water basins
Peter Martin
1982, Open-File Report 82-366
From July 1978 to January 1980, water levels declined more than 100 feet in the southern part of the Santa Barbara ground-water basin. The water-level declines are the result of increases in municipal pumping since July 1978. The increase in municipal pumping was part of a basin-testing program to determine...
Data for wells at the low-level radioactive-waste burial site in the Palos Forest Preserve, Illinois
J.C. Olimpio
1982, Open-File Report 82-692
The U.S. Geological Survey is studying the geologic, hydrologic, and geochemical properties of the glacial drift and underlying bedrock at a low-level radioactive-waste burial site in the Palos Forest Preserve, 22 kilometers southwest of Chicago. Data collected from the 33 test wells drilled into the drift plus data from 4...
Test and calibration of the Digital World-Wide Standardized Seismograph
Jon Peterson, Charles R. Hutt
1982, Open-File Report 82-1087
During the past decade there has been steady progress in the modernization of the global seismograph network operated by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The World-Wide Standardized Seismograph Network (WWSSN) has been augmented by new stations with advanced instrumentation, including the Seismic Research Observatories (SRO) and the modified High-Gain Long-Period...
Design concepts for a Global Telemetered Seismograph Network
Jon Peterson, Nicholas A. Orsini
1982, Open-File Report 82-703
This study represents a first step in developing an integrated, real-time global seismic data acquisition system a Global Telemetered Seismograph Network (GTSN). The principal objective of the GTSN will be to acquire reliable, high-quality, real-time seismic data for rapid location and analysis of seismic events. A secondary, but important, objective...
Hydrologic data for the Potomac Formation in New Castle County, Delaware
Mary M. Martin, Judith M. Denver
1982, Open-File Report 81-916
Hydrologic data for the Potomac Formation in New Castle County, Delaware, consist of records of historical ground-water pumpage, water levels, water quality, and surface-water discharge. This report includes records of 405 wells and hydro-graphs of water levels in 86 wells. Pumpage from 20 well fields is reported. Also included are...
Programs for filing and X-Y plotting of isotopic and other data using an HP-9830 computer and HP-9862 plotter
K.R. Ludwig
1982, Open-File Report 82-385
Three-dimensional modeling of the Nevada Test Site and vicinity from teleseismic P-wave residuals
Mary E. Monfort, John R. Evans
1982, Open-File Report 82-409
A teleseismic P-wave travel-time residual study is described which reveals the regional compressional-velocity structure of southern Nevada and neighboring parts of California to a depth of 280 km. During 1980, 98 teleseismic events were recorded at as many as 53 sites in this area. P-wave residuals were calculated relative to...
Geochemical and geostatistical evaluation, Arkansas Canyon Planning Unit, Fremont and Custer Counties, Colorado
E. F. Weiland, R. A. Connors, M. L. Robinson, J. W. Lindemann, W. T. Meyer
1982, Open-File Report 82-462
A mineral assessment of the Arkansas Canyon Planning Unit was undertaken by Barringer Resources Inc., under the terms of contract YA-553-CTO-100 with the Bureau of Land Management, Colorado State Office. The study was based on a geochemical-geostatistical survey in which 700 stream sediment samples were collected and analyzed for 25...
Magnitude and frequency of floods from selected drainage basins in South Dakota
Lawrence D. Becker
1982, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-31
The 2-, 5-, 10-, 25-, 50-, and 100-year floods are determined for gaged sites on 120 selected, small drainage basins in South Dakota. These estimates are from the frequency curves defined from the streamflow records. Short-term records for 66 sites were extended on the basis of long-term climatic records and...
Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska: June 1982
John B. Townshend, J.E. Papp, E.A. Sauter, L.Y. Torrence, T.K. Cunningham
1982, Open-File Report 82-300-F
The preliminary geomagnetic data included here is made available to scientific personnel and organizations, as part of a cooperative effort and on a data exchange basis because of the early need by some users. To avoid delay, all of the data is copied from original forms processed at the observatory;...
MRNIDX - Marine Data Index: Database Description, Operation, Retrieval, and Display
Valerie F. Paskevich
1982, Open-File Report 82-397
A database referencing the location and content of data stored on magnetic medium was designed to assist in the indexing of time-series and spatially dependent marine geophysical data collected or processed by the U. S. Geological Survey. The database was designed and created for input to the Geologic Retrieval and...
Hydrogeologic data from two wells at Myakka Head, Manatee County, Florida
W. C. Sinclair
1982, Open-File Report 81-1070
Well construction data, lithologic and geophysical logs, and water-quality data are presented for a deep (1,210 feet) well drilled at myakka Head, Manatee County, Florida. A shallow well (600 feet) was drilled at the same site. The wells were drilled as part of the Southwest Florida Water Management District 's...
Documentation and user's guide for interactive spectral analysis and filter program package useful in the processing of seismic reflection data
J. J. Miller
1982, Open-File Report 82-744
The spectral analysis and filter program package is written in the BASIC language for the HP-9845T desktop computer. The program's main purpose is to perform spectral analyses on digitized time-domain data. In addition, band-pass filtering of the data can be performed in the time domain. Various other processes such as...
COASTAL*FISH user's guide--a finfish/shellfish information base for Mississippi Sound and Mobile Bay
B. Jones, N. Benson
1982, FWS/OBS 82/12
COASTAL *FISH is a computerized database that includes current information on spawning, nursery areas, migrations, distribution, and environmental requirements of finfish and shellfish. This User's Guide was prepared to access and query the finfish and shell fish database. It provides basic information required to query the database....
Quality of runoff from small watersheds in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, Minnesota: Hydrologic data for 1980
G. A. Payne, M. A. Ayers, R. G. Brown
1982, Open-File Report 82-504
An intensive study of nonpoint-source runoff was conducted in the Twin Cities metropolitan area in Minnesota during 1980. The purpose of the study was to determine the relationships between land use, watershed characteristics, and the quantity, quality, and timing of runoff. Discharge and water-quality data were collected at 19 sites located...
Digital classification of Landsat data for vegetation and land-cover mapping in the Blackfoot River watershed, southeastern Idaho
L. R. Pettinger
1982, Professional Paper 1219
This paper documents the procedures, results, and final products of a digital analysis of Landsat data used to produce a vegetation and landcover map of the Blackfoot River watershed in southeastern Idaho. Resource classes were identified at two levels of detail: generalized Level I classes (for example, forest land and...
Application of computer graphics to generate coal resources of the Cache coal bed, Recluse geologic model area, Campbell County, Wyoming
G. B. Schneider, S.S. Crowley, M.A. Carey
1982, Open-File Report 82-402
Low-sulfur subbituminous coal resources have been calculated, using both manual and computer methods, for the Cache coal bed in the Recluse Model Area, which covers the White Tail Butte, Pitch Draw, Recluse, and Homestead Draw SW 7 1/2 minute quadrangles, Campbell County, Wyoming. Approximately 275 coal thickness measurements obtained from...
Ground-water quality in east-central Idaho valleys
D. J. Parliman
1982, Open-File Report 81-1011
From May through November 1978, water quality, geologic, and hydrologic data were collected for 108 wells in the Lemhi, Pahsimeroi, Salman River (Stanley to Salmon), Big Lost River, and Little Lost River valleys in east-central Idaho. Data were assembled to define, on a reconnaissance level, water-quality conditions in major aquifers...
Knik Glacier, Alaska; summary of 1979, 1980, and 1981 data and introduction of new surveying techniques
L.R. Mayo, D.C. Trabant
1982, Open-File Report 82-685
Knik Glacier in south-central Alaska has the potential to reform Lake George, Alaska 's largest glacier-dammed lake. Measurements of surface altitude, snow depth, terminus position, glacier speed, and ice depth are being made in an attempt to determine the mechanisms that could cause a significant re-advance of the glacier. New...
Preliminary interpretation of thermal data from the Nevada Test Site
John Harvey Sass, Arthur H. Lachenbruch
1982, Open-File Report 82-973
Analysis of data from 60 wells in and around the Nevada Test Site, including 16 in the Yucca Mountain area, indicates a thermal regime characterized by large vertical and lateral gradients in heat flow. Estimates of heat flow indicate considerable variation on both regional and local scales. The variations are...
Streamflows and channels of the Green River basin, Wyoming
H. W. Lowham
1982, Water-Resources Investigations Report 81-71
Width, depth, cross-sectional area, and velocity of streamflow were depicted for 51 gaged sites in or near the Green River basin of Wyoming by summarizing data obtained from current-meter discharge measurements. Using these at-a-station relations as a base, regional relations were then developed that characterize hydraulic features of streams throughout...
Shallow subsurface temperatures and some estimates of heat flow from the Colorado Plateau of northeastern Arizona
J.H. Sass, Claudia Stone, D. J. Bills
1982, Open-File Report 82-994
Temperature data to depths of a few hundred meters were obtained from 29 wells in northeastern Arizona; 12 in the region surrounding the San Francisco Volcanic Field, 8 in the Black Mesa area, and 9 in the south-central Colorado Plateau which includes the White Mountains. Although there was evidence for...
Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska, December 1982
J.B. Townshend, J.E. Papp, E.A. Sauter, L.Y. Torrence
1982, Open-File Report 82-300-L
Seismic reflection study of Flathead Lake, Montana
Richard J. Wold
1982, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 1433
A seismic reflection survey of Flathead Lake, Montana, was carried out in 1970 to study the geologic structure underlying the lake. Approximately 200 km of track lines were surveyed resulting in about 140 km of useable data (Fig. 1). A one cu. in. air gun was used as the energy...
Guide to the use of PACER, the data retrieval and update system for the National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS)
K.K. Krohn, M.A. Carey, M.D. Carter, A.L. Medlin
1982, Open-File Report 82-291