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...
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...
Stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria formation in Utah
V.E. McKelvey, L.E. Smith, D.M. Kinney, J. W. Huddle, G.F. Hosford, R.S. Sears, D.P. Sprouse, M.D. Stewart
1951, Open-File Report 51-18-C
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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
Geologic interpretation of seismic data for various locations in Harvard and Topsfield, Masachusetts
James E. May, Daniel Linehan
1950, Open-File Report 50-46
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Collected logs of borings in San Francisco area, a continued compilation of boring data
Julius Schlocker
1950, Open-File Report 50-49
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...
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...
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...
