Ground water in the Pullman area, Whitman County, Washington
B. L. Foxworthy, R.L. Washburn
1963, Water Supply Paper 1655
This report presents the results of an investigation of the ground-water resources of the Pullman area, Whitman County, Wash. The investigation war made in cooperation with the State of Washington, Department of Conservation, Division of Water Resources, to determine whether the 1959 rate of ground-water withdrawal exceeded the perennial yield...
Ground-water exploration in Al Marj area, Cyrenaica, United Kingdom of Libya
T.G. Newport, Yousef Haddor
1963, Water Supply Paper 1757-A
The present report, based largely on fieldwork during 1959-61, describes the results of reconnaissance hydrogeologic studies and exploratory drilling to evaluate the general water-bearing properties of the rocks and the availability of groundwater supplies for irrigation, stock, and village uses in Al Marj area. These studies and the drilling were...
Water resources of Red River Parish, Louisiana
Roy Newcome, Leland Vernon Page
1963, Water Supply Paper 1614
Red River Parish is on the eastern flank of the Sabine uplift in northwestern Louisiana. The 'area is underlain by lignitic clay and sand of Paleocene and Eocene age which dip to the east at the rate of about 30 feet per mile. The Red River is entrenched in these...
Electric analog of three-dimensional flow to wells and its application to unconfined aquifers
Robert W. Stallman
1963, Water Supply Paper 1536-H
Electric-analog design criteria are established from the differential equations of ground-water flow for analyzing pumping-test data. A convenient analog design was obtained by transforming the cylindrical equation of flow to a rectilinear form. The design criteria were applied in the construction of an electric analog, which was used for studying...
Ground-water resources of the Alma area, Michigan
Kenneth E. Vanlier
1963, Water Supply Paper 1619-E
The Alma area consists of 30 square miles in the northwestern part of Gratiot County, Mich. It is an area of slight relief gently rolling hills and level plains and is an important agricultural center in the State.The Saginaw formation, which forms the bedrock surface in part of the area,...
Ground-water geology of Edwards County, Texas
Archie T. Long
1963, Water Supply Paper 1619-J
Edwards County occupies 2,075 square miles of the southern part of the Edwards Plateau in southwest Texas. In 1950 it had a population of 2,908. Its thin limestone soil supports the characteristic flora of a semiarid region. The county is underlain by nearly flat-lying beds of limestone and a few...
Geology and ground-water resources of Montgomery County, Alabama
Doyle Blewer Knowles, H. L. Reade, J. C. Scott
1963, Water Supply Paper 1606
Montgomery County includes an area of 790 square miles in east-central Alabama. The economy of Montgomery County is related primarily to the growing and processing of agricultural products.The county is in the northern part of the Coastal Plain. It consists of parts of four divisions of the Coastal Plain: the...
Modified Parshall flume
A.I. Johnson
1963, Open-File Report 63-63
Geology and ground-water resources of the Lake Dakota Plain area, South Dakota
William B. Hopkins, Lester R. Petri
1963, Water Supply Paper 1539-T
The Lake Dakota plain area is a nearly flat surface that includes parts of Spink, Brown, Marshall, and Day Counties in northeastern South Dakota. Agriculture is the principal occupation. Because precipitation often is insufficient for maximum crop production, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has developed a plan for irrigation of...
Ground-water geology and pump irrigation in Frenchman Creek Basin above Palisade, Nebraska
W. D. E. Cardwell, Edward D. Jenkins
1963, Water Supply Paper 1577
This report describes the geography, geology, and ground-water resources of that part of the Frenchman Creek basin upstream from Palisade, Nebr., an area of about 4,900 square miles. The basin includes all of Phillips County, Colo., and Chase County, Nebr., and parts of Logan, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma Counties, Colo.,...
Progress report on the ground-water resources of the Louisville area, Kentucky, 1949-55
Edwin A. Bell, Robert W. Kellogg, Willis K. Kulp
1963, Water Supply Paper 1579
In the Louisville area, the principal water-bearing formations are the glacial-outwash sand and gravel and, in places, the underlying limestone. During the period 1949 through 1955 pumpage from the two aquifers averaged about 30 mgd (million gallons per day). The pumpage was approximately in balance with the normal net recharge...
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...
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...
Tests of crest-stage gage intakes
Jack R. Carter, Charles R. Gamble
1963, Open-File Report 63-147
Various types of c rest-stage gages have been used by the Geological Survey. Most installations consist of a vertically mounted metal pipe, a wooden rod, an intake device, and a small amount of granulated cork. These gages are placed where elevations of flood crests are desired. Water rising and then...
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...
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...
