Evaluating causes of population change in North American insectivorous songbirds
C.S. Robbins
1962, Audubon Field Notes (16) 142
Although the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) is a principal source of information regarding populations of most North American bird species, many features of the survey complicate analysis of population change. Correlation studies based on BBS data cannot be used to unambiguously define cause and effect relationships....
Current studies of the hydrology of prairie potholes
Jelmer B. Shjeflo
1962, Circular 472
The prairie potholes in the North-Central States and in Canada are of glacial origin. Because many of them contain ponds or marshes, they are important in the production of livestock and waterfowl. The objective of the present investigation is to determine the amount of water that accumulates in and is...
Floods in Utah, magnitude and frequency
Vernon K. Berwick
1962, Circular 457
This report presents a procedure for estimating the magnitude and frequency of floods, within the range of the base data, for any site, gaged or ungaged. From the relation of annual floods to the mean annual flood, a composite frequency curve was derived for recurrence intervals of 1.1 to 50...
Titanium in the United States, exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii
Cleaves Lincoln Rogers, Marion Charlotte Jaster
1962, Mineral Investigations Resource Map 29
The accompanying map shows the location of the principal deposits of titanium minerals in the United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii). Four broad geologic categories of deposits have been distinguished on the map by the shapes of the symbols, and relative importance is indicated by their size. The smaller deposits...
A practical field technique for measuring reservoir evaporation utilizing mass-transfer theory
G. E. Harbeck Jr.
1962, Professional Paper 272-E
Studies of evaporation made in recent years nave provided values of the mass-transfer coefficient, N, in the equation E=Nut(e0—ea) for reservoirs having surface areas ranging from 1 to nearly 30,000 acres. The apparent correlation of N with reservoir surface area may in large part be associated with variations in the...
Geology and ground-water resources of the Ahtanum Valley, Yakima County, Washington
B. L. Foxworthy
1962, Water Supply Paper 1598
The Ahtanum Valley covers an area of about 100 square miles in an important agricultural district in central Yakima County, Wash. Because the area is semiarid, virtually all crops require irrigation. Surface-water supplies are inadequate in most of the area, and ground water is being used increasingly for irrigation. The...
Glacier observations, Glacier National Park, Montana, 1961
Arthur Johnson
1962, Open-File Report 62-69
This report records the results obtained during the 1961 season in the continuing program of glacier observations in Glacier National Park. The investigations currently in progress relate to the Grinnell and Sperry Glaciers. This program is carried on cooperatively by the Geological Survey, the National Park Service and the Weather...
Porosity, density, and water content data on tuff of the Oak Spring Formation from the U12e tunnel system, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada
F.M. Byers Jr.
1962, Open-File Report 62-23
Records and logs of selected wells and test holes, chemical analyses of water, and water levels in observation wells in southeastern New Hampshire
Edward Bradley, R.G. Petersen
1962, Open-File Report 61-23
The area covered by this report (fig. 1) includes about 390 square miles of southeastern New Hampshire adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean. It lies between Massachusetts on the south and Maine on the north and east, and it is bounded on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and on the...
Ground-water provinces of Brazil
Robert Schneider
1962, Water Supply Paper 1663-A
As part of a study of the status of investigations and development of ground water in Brazil, made under the auspices of the United States International Cooperation Administration and with the cooperation of the Government of Brazil, the country was divided into seven ground-water provinces. The identification and delineation of...
Floods in Nebraska on small drainage areas, magnitude and frequency
Emil W. Beckman, Norman E. Hutchison
1962, Circular 458
Flood hazard information is needed for small streams as well as for large ones. This report explains methods of defining the magnitude and frequency of floods in Nebraska on uncontrolled and unregulated streams which have about 300 square miles or less of drainage area contributing to surface runoff. Composite frequency...
Beryllium in the United States, exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii
Wallace R. Griffitts, David Marcel Larrabee, James Jennings Norton
1962, Mineral Investigations Resource Map 35
This map shows most of the known occurrences of beryllium minerals and of rocks that contain 0.003 percent or more beryllium (0.01 percent Be0) in the United States (exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii). The occurrences are subdivided on the map according to genesis and size. The genetic types of deposits...
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...
Chromite in the United States, exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii
Thomas Prence Thayer, M. H. Miller
1962, Mineral Investigations Resource Map 26
The chromite deposits in the United States (exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii) are shown on the accompanying map. In compiling the map, the deposits were classified in five size categories according to the estimated total quantity of chromite present before mining. The map shows, by different symbols, deposits of chromite...
Mercury in the United States, exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii
Edgar Herbert Bailey
1962, Mineral Investigations Resource Map 30
This map shows the location of mercury districts and deposits in the United States (exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii). The map was compiled from published reports and from data in the files of the Geological Survey. All map locations are numbered consecutively in each state and names, geographic coordinates, and...
Bedrock geology of the Mount Carmel and Southington quadrangles, Connecticut
Crawford Ellswroth Fritts
1962, Open-File Report 62-48
New data concerning the geologic structure, stratigraphy, petrography, origin, and ages of bedrock formations in an area of approximately 111 square miles in south-central Connecticut were obtained in the course of detailed geologic mapping from 1957 to 1960. Mapping was done at a scale of 1:24,000 on topographic base maps...
Geology and fluorspar deposits of the Levias-Keystone and Dike-Eaton areas, Crittenden County, Kentucky
Robert Denny Trace
1962, Bulletin 1122-E
The fault systems of the Levias-Keystone and Dike-Eaton areas, in the Kentucky-Illinois fiuorspar district, are a complex northeastward-trending sys- tem and a simple northwestward-trending system of steeply dipping normal faults, associated in part with a lamprophyre dike. Fluorspar mining started in the area about 1900 and, as of 1945, more...
Tungsten in the United States, exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii
D.M. Lemmon, Ogden L. Tweto
1962, Mineral Investigations Resource Map 25
The accompanying map shows the tungsten deposits of the United States (exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii). The relative importance of the deposits, groups, or districts is shown by four symbols, indicating tungsten contents of: (1) greater than 10,000 short tons of tungsten metal, (2) 10,000 to 500 tons, (3) 500...
Copper in the United States, exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii
Arthur R. Kinkel Jr., N. P. Peterson
1962, Mineral Investigations Resource Map 13
The copper districts in the United States (exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii) are shown on the accompanying map. In compiling the map, the estimated total quantity of copper present before mining was used to assign districts to size categories, and both production and reserves are included without distinction as to...
Constant-head pumping test of a multiaquifer well to determine characteristics of individual aquifers
Gordon D. Bennett, E.P. Patten
1962, Water Supply Paper 1536-G
This report describes the theory and field procedures for determining the transmissibility and storage coefficients and the original hydrostatic head of each aquifer penetrated by a multiaquifer well. The procedure involves pumping the well in such a manner that the drawdown of water level is constant while the discharges of...
Astrogeologic studies, semiannual progress report, February 26, 1961 to August 24, 1961
R.J. Hackman
1962, Open-File Report 62-140
This report is the second semiannual report on a geological program of research conducted by the Geological Survey on behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This research is being carried out under the Branch of Astrogeology. The long-range objectives of this program are to determine and map the...
Data on uranium and radium in ground water in the United States, 1954 to 1957
R. C. Scott, F. B. Barker
1962, Professional Paper 426
This report is one of a series resulting from a study by the U.S. Geological Survey to determine the occurrence and distribution of naturally radioactive substances in water. From 1954-57 uranium and radium concentrations were determined in 561 samples, mainly of ground water, having wide geologic and geographic distribution. These...
An application of thermometry to the study of ground water
Robert Schneider
1962, Water Supply Paper 1544-B
Except for studies of temperature data related to ground-water developments that induce infiltration from streams, little attention has been given to the possibility of using temperature fluctuations as a tool for studying the elements of the hydrologic cycle involving ground water. The temperature of the water discharged from large installations that...
Methods of measuring soil moisture in the field
A.I. Johnson
1962, Water Supply Paper 1619-U
For centuries, the amount of moisture in the soil has been of interest in agriculture. The subject of soil moisture is also of great importance to the hydrologist, forester, and soils engineer. Much equipment and many methods have been developed to measure soil moisture under field conditions. This report discusses...
Inventory of published and unpublished sediment-load data, United States and Puerto Rico, 1950-60
Kerry F. Harris
1962, Water Supply Paper 1547
This inventory of published and unpublished sediment-load data contains a list of the sediment-transport measurements in the United States and Puerto Rico during October 1950 to September 1960, made by the agencies associated with the Subcommittee on Sedimentation. Some of the agencies have miscellaneous sediment data, such as single observations...
