Geology of the eastern part of the Centralia - Chehalis coal district, Lewis and Thurston Counties, Washington
Parke Detweiler Snavely Jr., A. E. Roberts, Linn Hoover Jr., M. H. Pease Jr.
1951, Coal Map 8
This report gives the results of geologic investigations made in 1948 and 1949 in the eastern part of the Centralia-Chehalis coal district of southwest Washington. Detailed geologic mapping and stratigraphic studies were supplemented by core drilling. The core drilling tested the thickness and physical character of the individual coal beds...
Stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria formation in Wyoming
V.E. McKelvey, L.E. Smith, R.A. Hoppin, F.C. Armstrong
1951, Open-File Report 51-18-D
The first of a series of reports giving detailed stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria formation in the Western phosphate field as measured and described by the Geological Survey will be released as Circulars within the next few months. Because of the needs of industry for many of these data during...
Stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria formation in Idaho
V.E. McKelvey, D.F. Davidson, F.W. O’Malley, L.E. Smith, F.C. Armstrong, R.P. Sheldon
1951, Open-File Report 51-18-A
The first of a series of reports giving detailed stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria formation in the Western phosphate field as measured and described by the Geological Survey will be released as Circulars within the next few months. Because of the needs of industry for many of these data during...
Geologic and magnetic data of the Sholdeis-Doane and Red Rock explorations, Iron County, Michigan
Kenneth L. Wier, Bruce E. Kennedy
1951, Open-File Report 51-86
Stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria formation in Montana
R. W. Swanson, M. R. Klepper, W.R. Lowell, F.S. Honkala, E. R. Cressman, D.A. Bostwick, O.A. Payne, E. T. Ruppel
1951, Open-File Report 51-18-B
The first of a series of reports giving detailed stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria formation in the Western phosphate field as measured and described by the Geological Survey will be released as Circulars within the next few months. Because of the needs of industry for many of these data during...
Diamond-drill exploration of the Rousseau talc prospect, Cambridge, Vermont, and the Barnes Hill prospect, Waterbury, Vermont
A.H. Chidester
1951, Open-File Report 51-47
The Geological Survey carried out a program of diamond-drilling at two localities in Vermont during the period July-September 1950. The deposits chosen for drilling were two of the more promising talc deposits associated with ultramafic rocks of several that had been mapped earlier by the Geological Survey, but could not...
Ground-water data collected in the Missouri River basin units in Kansas during 1950
Delmar W. Berry
1951, Open-File Report 51-100
Ground-water studies in the Missouri River basin were begun by the United States Geological Survey during the fall of 1945 as a part of a program for the development of the resources of the basin by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and other Federal Agencies. The studies of the...
Basic hydrologic data: Temperature of water
H. E. Thomas
1951, Open-File Report 51-153
Geology and ground-water resources of the northern part of the Ranegras Plain area, Yuma County, Arizona
Donald George Metzger
1951, Open-File Report 51-28
The Ranegras Plain area is part of the Basin and Range province in west-central Arizona. The report discusses rocks of pre-Cambrian, pre-Cambrian (?), Paleozoic (?), Mesozoic (?), Cretaceous (?), Cretaceous and Tertiary, Tertiary (?), Quaternary (?), and Quaternary age. All the Paleozoic (?) and Cretaceous (?) rocks and parts of the...
Pumping test at Levittown, Nassau County, New York, September 16-18, 1949
N.J. Lusczynski
1951, Open-File Report 51-131
This report presents and discusses the quantitative and qualitative data obtained during a pumping test at the Levittown housing development in Nassau County, N. Y. One of the ten principal supply wells, screened in the sands of the Magothy (?) formation which is overlain unconformably by the sand and gravel...
Ground-water data on certain areas in Baltimore County, Maryland
R.R. Bennett
1951, Open-File Report 51-98
No abstract available. ...
Ground-water conditions in the Dutch Flats area, Scotts Bluff and Sioux Counties, Nebraska, with a section on chemical quality of the ground water
H. M. Babcock, F. N. Visher, W. H. Durum
1951, Circular 126
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) studied contamination induced by irrigation drainage in 26 areas of the Western United States during 1986-95. Comprehensive compilation, synthesis, and evaluation of the data resulting from these studies were initiated by DOI in 1992. Soils and ground water in irrigated areas of the...
Ground water in the Cuyama Valley, California
J. E. Upson, George Frank Worts
1951, Water Supply Paper 1110-B
This is the fourth of a series of interpretive reports on the water resources of the major valleys of Santa Barbara County, Calif., prepared by the Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior, in cooperation with Santa Barbara County. The first three reports described the other major valleys in...
Ground-water resources of the Paintrock irrigation project, Wyoming, with a section on the quality of the water
Frank Albert Swenson, W. Kenneth Bach, Herbert A. Swenson
1951, Circular 96
The ground-water conditions of the area covered by the Paintrock irrigation project, in north-central Wyoming, were investigated during the summer of 1947. The purpose of the study was to obtain a general evaluation of ground-water recharge, discharge, and storage in the area now irrigated and in the adjacent areas where...
Flood of August 1-6, 1950, at Wichita Falls, Texas
Ivan Dale Yost
1951, Circular 99
Floods occurred on streams in the vicinity of Wichita Falls, Tex., during the period Aug. 1-6, 1950, as a result of heavy rains falling immediately southwest of the city on August 1, 1950. Serious flooding occurred along Holliday Creek in the city, necessitating the evacuation of about five hundred families...
Some aspects of the water supply in the South Coastal basin, California
Harold Coble Troxell, J. F. Poland, and others
1951, Circular 105
The observation well network in Alabama was started in 1940. Unpublished water-level data collected periodically at 254 observation wells are listed in this report with the location, description, and general information on construction of the observation wells. Publications containing water-level data from selected observation wells are also listed. (USGS)...
Public water supplies in western Texas
W. L. Broadhurst, R.W. Sundstrom, D. E. Weaver
1951, Water Supply Paper 1106
This report gives a summarized description of the public water supplies in a region comprising 81 counties of western Texas and lying generally west of the hundredth meridian. It is the fourth and last of this series of reports concerning the public water supplies of the State. It gives the...
Missouri River basin floods of April-May 1950 in North and South Dakota
Roy Edwin Oltman
1951, Water Supply Paper 1137-A
In area coverage and magnitude of peak discharge the floods of April-May 1950 in the Missouri River Basin in North and South Dakota were unprecedented in the area. These floods were characterized by an extremely late spring breakup of ice, by great flood peaks resulting from snow melt, and by...
Stratigraphy and structure of the southern foothills section between the Etivluk and Kiligwa Rivers
Irvin L. Tailleur, Bion H. Kent
1951, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 43
The part of the Southern Foothill section, Arctic foothills province, that lies beteween the Etivluk and Kiligwa Rivers was investigated by Navy Oil Unit party 6 during the 1950 field season, A belt about 16 miles wide and 60 miles long (approximately 800 square miles) was mapped in considerable detail...
Water resources of southeastern Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Jack B. Graham, John W. Mangan, Walter F. White
1951, Circular 104
This report has been prepared as a contribution to the development of southeastern Bucks County, Pa. It summarizes available information on the water resources of this 90-square mile area and evaluates current supplies. Future development of the area may change both the available quantity and the quality of the water...
Stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria formation in Idaho, 1947-48, Part III
F.W. O’Malley, D.F. Davidson, R.A. Hoppin, R.P. Sheldon
1951, Trace Elements Investigations 188
.The U.S. Geological Survey has measured and sampled the Phosphoria formation at many localities in Idaho and other western states. These data will not be fully synthesized and analyzed for several years but segments of the data, accompanied by little or no interpretation, are published as preliminary reports as they...
Preliminary report on the geology and ground-water supply of the Newark, New Jersey, area
Henry Herpers, Henry C. Barksdale
1951, Special Report (New Jersey Division of Water Policy and Supply) 10
In the Newark area, ground water is used chiefly for industrial cooling, air-conditioning, general processing, and for sanitary purposes. A small amount is used in the manufacture of beverages. Total ground-water pumpage in Newark is estimated at not less than 20,000,000 gallons daily. The Newark area is underlain by formations of...
Geochemical field method for determination of nickel in plants
L.E. Reichen
1951, Analytical Chemistry (23) 727-729
The use of biogeochemical data in prospecting for nickel emphasizes the need for a simple, moderately accurate field method for the determination of nickel in plants. In order to follow leads provided by plants of unusual nickel content without loss of time, the plants should be analyzed and the results...
Conservation: Where we stand: Review of Water, land, and people
Luna Bergere Leopold
1951, The Living Wilderness (36)
A distinguished conservationist, just returned from more than a year in those Pacific islands held in trust by the United States, reports that representatives of the government there are nearly completely concerned with the maintenance of an administrative organization. Actual advances in matters of land use, of maintaining the material...
Summary review of analytical data pertaining to uranium content or radioactivity of domestic shales
Perry Foote Narten, J.E. Crawford, Arthur Pierce Butler Jr.
1950, Trace Elements Memorandum 240
No abstract available....
