Rodent repellency
J.B. DeWitt, J.F. Welch, E. Bellack
1950, Modern Packaging (23) 123-126
In the course of studies involving more than 2,500 chemical repellents, it has been found that certain groups of- compounds containing nitrogen or sulfur are repellent to rats under the , test conditions and it appears probable that some of these compounds might be used for the protection of packaged...
Progress report on the geology and ground-water hydrology of part of the Oahe Unit, James River Division, South Dakota
Gerald A. Waring, W.H. Bush
1950, Open-File Report 50-104
The Oahe Unit, in the James River basin in eastern South Dakota, extends for about 100 miles north and south and is 20 to 80 miles wide, having the river as its east border. The Oahe irrigation project is planned to supply water to 750,000 to 1,500,000 acres of...
Geologic interpretations of seismic data: Braintree-Weymouth by-pass stations 29-56, Liberty Street grade separation in Braintree, Massachusetts
James E. May, Daniel Linehan
1950, Open-File Report 50-42
At the request of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, seismic and geologic studies were made for the projected Braintree-Weymouth By-Pass grade separation at Liberty Street in Braintree, Massachusetts. The work was performed in order to furnish data that would aid the engineers in preparing estimates of the quantity of...
A comparative study of mean-section and mid-section methods for computation of discharge measurements
Kenneth B. Young
1950, Open-File Report 53-277
In February, 1949, Mr. J. V. B. Wells, Chief of the Surface Water Branch, appointed a committee of three hydraulic engineers assigned to the Washington office to make a comparative study of the relative merits of the mean-section and mid-section methods of computing discharge measurements. this was done in order...
Basic ground-water data in Lake County, Oregon
F.D. Trauger
1950, Open-File Report 51-156
Coal resources of the United States, A progress report, November 1, 1950
Paul Averitt, Louise R. Berryhill
1950, Circular 94
Interest in the quantity and quality of the coal reserves of the United States has increased greatly since the end of World War II, principally because of the growing realization that the ultimate reserves of petroleum and natural gas, although largely undefined, still. have finite limits. With the greatly increased...
Coal resources of New Mexico
Charles Brian Read, R. T. Duffner, G. H. Wood, A.D. Zapp
1950, Circular 89
A study of water quality degradation due to brine contamination was made in an area of about 1,700 sq mi in east-central Oklahoma. The study area coincides in part with the outcrop of the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer of Pennsylvanian age. Water samples collected from 180 wells completed in the Vamoosa-Ada aquifer...
A glossary of uranium- and thorium-bearing minerals
Judith Weiss Frondel, Michael Fleischer
1950, Circular 74
During 1980, an estimated 121 million gallons of water per day was pumped in a 26-county area in east-central Georgia from sand aquifers of Paleocene and Late Cretaceous age. Maximum withdrawals were at the kaolin mining and processing centers in Twiggs, Wilkinson, and Washington Counties, where water levels have declined...
Public water supplies in southern Texas
W. L. Broadhurst, R.W. Sundstrom, J.H. Rowley
1950, Water Supply Paper 1070
This report gives a summarized description of the public water supplies in 42 counties of southern Texas, extending from the Rio Grande northward to the northern boundaries of Kinney, Uvalde, Bandera, Kendall, and Hays Counties and eastward to the eastern boundaries of Caldwell, Gonzales, DeWitt, Victoria, and Calhoun Counties. It...
Techniques used in mine-water problems of the east Tennessee zinc district
Deane Frederick Kent
1950, Circular 71
A study of ground water as related to mining in cavernous limestones and dolomites in eastern Tennessee was made in 1946 by the U. S. Geological Survey. Surface and subsurface mapping indicated the geologic control of underground channels. Several methods of tracing water were tried and new techniques in using...
Mineral resources of Colombia (other than petroleum)
Quentin Dreyer Singewald
1950, Bulletin 964-B
The following report summarizes data acquired during 1942-45, in Colombia, by geologists and engineers of the Foreign Economic Administration, with whom the United States Geological Survey cooperated. Twenty-nine mineral commodities are considered, but the data for five of them are scant because they were of no interest to FEA personnel....
Chemical composition of Texas surface waters, 1949
Burdge Irelan
1950, Open-File Report 50-78
This report is the fifth the a series of publications by the Texas Board of Water Engineers giving chemical analyses of the surface waters in the State of Texas. The samples for which data are given were collected between October 1, 1948 and September 30, 1949. During the water year...
Geologic interpretations of seismic data for various locations in Wakefield, Danvers, Shelburne and Sturbridge, Massachusetts
James E. May, Daniel Linehan
1950, Open-File Report 50-43
Salinity of ground water at sampling wells located in southeastern Nassau County, Long Island, New York
Norbert J. Lusczynski
1950, Open-File Report 50-82
In 1939, a special program for the systematic collection of chloride data in southeastern Nassau County was inaugurated in which three agencies participated. The Nassau County Department of Public Works constructed the sampling wells, the Ground Water Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey began to collect at period intervals water...
Geologic interpretation of seismic data, relocation of Route 2, Stations 138-155 in Lancaster, Mass.
James E. May, Daniel Linehan
1950, Open-File Report 50-44
The proposed relocation of the Concord-Westminster Highway, Route 2, in Lancaster, Mass., requires a long, deep cut between stations 138 and 155. A preliminary seismic survey was made of the site in October 1949. At that time five transverses were made along the base-line, and three transverse to it. This...
Geologic interpretation of seismic data, relocation Route 1 cut, Stations 25-36 Ballard Estate in Topsfield, Mass.
James E. May, Daniel Linehan
1950, Open-File Report 50-45
This investigation was undertaken to determine the surface and subsurface conditions between stations 25 and 36 of the proposed relocation of the Newburyport Turnpike, Route 1, Topsfield, Mass. Reconnaissance seismic work was performed at the site in September 1949. Because that work showed bedrock near the surface over an extensive...
Geologic interpretation of seismic data for various locations in Harvard and Topsfield, Masachusetts
James E. May, Daniel Linehan
1950, Open-File Report 50-46
Collected logs of borings in San Francisco area, a continued compilation of boring data
Julius Schlocker
1950, Open-File Report 50-49
Geologic interpretations of seismic data, relocation of Route 116, Stations 7-135 in Cheshire, Mass.
Max E. Willard, Daniel Linehan
1950, Open-File Report 50-52
Three segments of the proposed relocation of Route 116, stations 7 to 135, in Cheshire, Mass. require shallow cuts. For the purpose of obtaining information on the depths to bedrock, and on the nature of the overlaying materials, seismic and geologic studies were made of the segments in October 1949....
Bibliography of publications relating to ground water in Connecticut
R.V. Cushman
1950, Open-File Report 50-67
The United States Geological Survey is currently investigating the ground-water resources of Connecticut in cooperation with the State Water Commission. As part of this cooperative project, in order to summarize the knowledge already gained about ground water in the State, a bibliography of reports dealing with ground water in Connecticut...
Average daily withdrawals of water for public supply in Kings, Queens, and Nassau Counties, New York
M.L. Brashears Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-59
Since 1932 the United States Geological Survey in cooperation with the New York Water Power and Control Commission, the Nassau County Department of Public Works, the Suffolk County Water Authority, and the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors has conducted studies dealing with the occurrence, movement, quantity, quality, and temperature of...
Ground-water data collected in the Missouri River basin units in Kansas during 1949
Delmar W. Berry
1950, Open-File Report 50-55
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 the program for development of the resources of the basin by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and other Federal Agencies. The studies of the ground-water resources...
Second progress report on the cooperative investigation of springs and stream flow in the Tecolote Tunnel area of Santa Barbara County, California
Harold C. Troxell, C.E. Burgess
1950, Open-File Report 50-101
This report represents the second of a series of progress reports giving the results of discharge measurements made at more than 100 locations in the Santa Ynez Mountains from the Refugio Canyon on the west to the San Marcos Pass and Painted Cave area on the east. The flow in...
The Fire Clay and Whitesburg coals in the Hyden quadrangle, Leslie, Clay, and Perry Counties, Kentucky
John Edward Johnston, W. A. Heck
1950, Coal Map 5
This preliminary report on the coal in the Hyden quadrangle, Kentucky, presents data on two of the principal commercial coals. The Fire Clay is the most valuable commercial coal in the quadrangle, and locally the Whitesburg bed is of minable thickness. Special emphasis has been placed on determining the thickness,...
Ground-water data collected in the Missouri River basin units in Kansas during 1948
Delmar W. Berry
1950, Open-File Report 50-54
Ground-water studies in the Missouri River Basin were begun by the U.S. Geological Survey during the fall of 1945 as a part of the program for development of the resources of the basin by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and other Federal agencies. The studies of the ground-water resources in...
