Interpretation and description of seismic data from Lower Cook Inlet, Alaska
Michael A. Fisher
1976, Open-File Report 76-561
A coarse grid of 480 kilometres of seismic lines was collected in lower Cook Inlet, Alaska between Homer on the north and Cape Douglas on the south. Paper and mylar copies of the seismic sections and shot point maps are available to the public from NOAA in Boulder, Colorado.The seismic...
Twenty-four channel seismic reflection data acquired on the R/V S. P. Lee in the Bering Sea, September 1975, and structure contours of acoustic basement beneath the southern Bering Sea Shelf
Michael S. Marlow, A. K. Cooper, D.W. Scholl, T. R. Alpha
1976, Open-File Report 76-652
No abstract available....
Geologic appraisal of the petroleum potential of offshore southern California; the borderland compared to onshore coastal basins
James Carlton Taylor
1976, Circular 730
Offshore southern California is part of a much larger Pacific continental margin, and the two areas have a similar geologic history at least as far back as middle Tertiary time. Assessment of the petroleum potential of the offshore Southern California borderland is accomplished by examining the adjacent highly explored productive...
PACER; data entry, retrieval, and update for the National Coal Resources Data System (Phase I)
Simon M. Cargill, A.C. Olson, A.L. Medlin, M.D. Carter
1976, Professional Paper 978
Injection of acidic industrial waste into the Floridan Aquifer near Belle Glade, Florida: upward migration and geochemical interactions, 1973-75
Donald J. McKenzie
1976, Open-File Report 76-626
In 1966, a furfural plant at Belle Glade, Florida, began injecting hot, acidic liquid waste into the saline, water-filled lower part of the Floridan aquifer, between the depths of 1 ,495-1,939 feet. The beds above and below the injection zone were subjected to attack by the acid waste. By 1969,...
Q-mode factor analysis of geochemical and petrologic data matrices with constant row-sums
A.T. Miesch
1976, Professional Paper 574-G
Geological and geochemical reconnaissance in the central Santander Massif, Departments of Santander and Norte de Santander, Colombia
James George Evans
1976, Open-File Report 77-281
The central Santander Massif is composed of Precambrian Bucaramanga Gneiss and pre-Devonian Silgara Formation intruded by Mesozoic quartz diorite, quartz monzonite, and alaskite and Cretaceous or younger porphyry. Triassic (Bocas Formation), Jurassic (Jordan and Giron Formations).and Cretaceous (Tambor, Rosa Blanca, Paja, Tablazo, Simiti, La Luna, and Umir Formations) sedimentary rocks...
Sediment characteristics of five streams near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, before highway construction
Lloyd A. Reed
1976, Water Supply Paper 1798-M
Rainfall, streamflow, sediment, and turbidity data are being collected as part of a study to evaluate the effects of highway construction on sediment discharge. The study is also designed to determine the effectiveness of different erosion-control measures in reducing sediment discharges. The study area, near Enola, Pa., consists of five...
Selected hydrologic data, Clarion River and Redbank Creek basins, northwestern Pennsylvania: an interim report
Harry E. Koester, Joseph B. Lescinsky
1976, Open-File Report 76-445
This report presents basic hydrologic data collected for part of a water-resources study and supplements an interpretive report which will be published separately. The report summarizes discharge data from 140 stream collection sites, contains tables of about 800 chemical analyses from 164 stream sites and 107 analyses from 91 abandoned...
Hydrologic analysis and river-quality data programs
Walter G. Hines, David A. Rickert, Stuart W. McKenzie
1976, Circular 715-D
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 guide to State programs for the reclamation of surface mined areas
Edgar A. Imhoff, Thomas O. Friz, James R. LaFevers
1976, Circular 731
During 1975 inquiries of agencies in each State and review of State statutes and related administrative codes revealed that 38 States have established programs requiring the reclamation of surface mined lands. Results of analyses of those programs and ancillary data are presented in : (1) A table (matrix) which has...
Effects of drain wells on the ground-water quality of the western Snake Plain Aquifer, Idaho
Joe A. Moreland, Harold R. Seitz, Albert Mario LaSala
1976, Open-File Report 76-673
Approximately 3,100 drain wells injects irrigation waste water, urban runoff, septic-tank effluent, and industrial waste water into the Snake Plain aquifer in Minidoka, Gooding, Jerome, and Lincoln Counties, Idaho. About 29,000 acre-feet of irrigation waste water, 100 acre-feet of urban runoff, 400 acre-feet of septic-tank effluent, and 1,000 acre-feet of...
Low-flow characteristics of streams on the Kitsap Peninsula and selected adjacent islands, Washington
J. E. Cummans
1976, Open-File Report 76-704
Low-flow-frequency data are tabulated for 90 streamflow sites on the Kitsap Peninsula and adjacent islands, Washington. Also listed are data for 56 additional sites which have insufficient measurements for frequency analysis but which have been observed having no flow at least once during the low-flow period. The streams drain relatively...
Geochemical and hydrologic data for wells and springs in thermal-spring areas of the Appalachians
W.A. Hobba, J.C. Chemerys, D.W. Fisher, F. J. Pearson Jr.
1976, Open-File Report 76-550
Current interest in geothermal potential of thermal-spring areas in the Appalachians makes all data on thermal springs and wells in these areas valuable. Presented here without interpretive comment are maps showing selected springs and wells and tables of physical and chemical data pertaining to these wells and springs. The chemical...
Summary of miscellaneous potassium-argon age measurements, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, for the years 1972-74
A.L. Berry, G. B. Dalrymple, M. A. Lanphere, J.C. Von Essen, editor(s)
1976, Circular 727
Potassium-argon age measurements are reported for 61 mineral separates and rock samples from Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Utah, and Washington. The age report for each sample gives location, analytical data, and a brief geologic interpretation....
Geological and operational summary, Atlantic Richfield Northern Gulf of Alaska COST Well No. 1
J.G. Bolm, F.B. Chmelik, G.H. Steward, R.F. Turner, H.H. Waetjen, J.C. Wills
1976, Open-File Report 76-635
This open-file report is presented in accordance with regulations which require that geophysical and geological data and processed information acquired from deep stratigraphic test wells on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) be made available for public inspection following the issuance of the first Federal lease within 50 geographic (nautical) miles...
Station location map and audio-magnetotelluric data log for Monte Neva Known Geothermal Resource Area, Nevada
Carl L. Long, Michael L. Batzle
1976, Open-File Report 76-700-A
Records of wells and water quality for the Garber-Wellington Aquifer, northern Oklahoma and southern Logan Counties, Oklahoma
Jerry E. Carr, John S. Havens
1976, Open-File Report 76-619
The U.S. Geological Survey has collected data on Oklahoma's ground-water resources since 1934. Most of these data were collected as part of specific ground-water studies conducted in cooperation with various Federal, State, and local agencies. In 1972, at the request of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Geological Survey undertook...
Land and natural resource information and some potential environmental effects of surface mining of coal in the Gillette area, Wyoming
William Richard Keefer, R. F. Hadley
1976, Circular 743
Campbell County, along the east margin of the Powder River Basin in northeastern Wyoming, contains more coal than any other county in the United States. The principal deposit is the Wyodak-Anderson coal bed. The bed is 50-100 feet (15-30 meters) thick over large areas, lies less than 200 feet (60...
Stability of highwalls in surface coal mines, western Powder Ridge Basin, Wyoming and Montana
Fitzhugh T. Lee, William K. Smith, William Z. Savage
1976, Open-File Report 76-846
Preliminary results from the first part of a two-part investigation of the stability of highwalls in open-pit coal mines in the Fort Union Formation of the western Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana indicate that these highwalls are subject to time-dependent deformation. Field investigations and laboratory physical-properties tests of...
Comprehensive monitoring of meteorology, hydraulics, and thermal regime of the San Diego Aqueduct, California
Harvey E. Jobson, Alex M. Sturrock
1976, Open-File Report 76-628
Water temperature, as well as meteorologic and hydraulic variables which influence the energy budget of the San Diego Aqueduct in southern California, were continuously monitored for a 1-year period beginning July 24, 1973. Incoming solar and atmospheric radiation, windspeed and direction, water temperature, and wet- and dry-bulb air temperatures were...
Artificial recharge through a well in fissured carbonate rock, west St. Paul, Minnesota
Harold O. Reeder, Warren W. Wood, G. G. Ehrlich, Ren Jen Sun
1976, Water Supply Paper 2004
The Prairie du Chien Group was injected with 2,754,000 gallons (368,200 cubic feet), or 10,430 cubic metres, of municipally treated water at about 100 gallons per minute (13.4 cubic feet per minute), or 6.3 litres per second, for 20 days. The injection-pipe system was designed to utilize pipe friction rather...
Data for calibrating unsteady-flow sediment-transport models, East Fork River, Wyoming, 1975
Holly A. Mahoney, Edmund D. Andrews, William W. Emmett, Luna Bergere Leopold, Robert H. Meade, Robert M. Myrick, Carl F. Nordin
1976, Open-File Report 76-22
In 1975, data to calibrate a one-dimensional unsteady-flow and sediment-transport routing model were collected on a reach of the East Fork River of western Wyoming. The reach, 3.1 miles (5 kilometers) in length, wan immediately upstream from a previously established bedload sampling station. Nineteen channel cross sections were sounded at...
Computer-enhanced LANDSAT imagery as a tool for mineral exploration in Alaska
Nairn Albert, Pat S. Chavez
1976, Open-File Report 76-65
Recent work in the Nabesna and McCarthy quadrangles, Alaska, indicates that computer-enhanced LANDSAT imagery shows many of the known mineral deposits and can help in the prediction of potential mineral occurrences. False color, "simulated natural color" and color ratio techniques, were used successfully in conjunction with a black and white,...
Thermographic mosaic of Yellowstone National Park
Richard S. Williams Jr., Philip G. Hasell Jr., Albert N. Sellman, Harry W. Smedes
1976, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (42) 1315-1324
An uncontrolled thermographic mosaic, which covers most of the area of Yellowstone National Park, has been compiled. The recording of aerial thermographic data on videotape is established as one of the prerequisites for the preparation of more accurate mosaics. Post-mission processing of the videotape record can rectify the nadir line...
