Borehole geophysics applied to ground-water investigations
W.S. Keys
1988, Open-File Report 87-539
The purpose of this manual is to provide hydrologists, geologists, and others who have the necessary training with the basic information needed to apply the most useful borehole-geophysical-logging techniques to the solution of problems in ground-water hydrology. Geophysical logs can provide information on the construction of wells and on the...
Concentrations of selected trace inorganic constituents and synthetic organic compounds in the water-table aquifers in the Memphis area, Tennessee
B.W. McMaster, William Scott Parks
1988, Open-File Report 88-485
Water quality samples for analysis of selected trace inorganic constituents and synthetic organic compounds were collected from 29 private or observation wells in alluvium and fluvial deposits of Quaternary and Tertiary Age. The alluvium and fluvial deposits are the water table aquifers in the Memphis area. In addition, nine wells...
Ground-water resources of Honey Lake valley, Nevada and California
E. H. Handman
1988, Open-File Report 88-306
Land use, water use, streamflow, and water-quality characteristics of the Charlotte Harbor inflow area, Florida
K.M. Hammett
1988, Open-File Report 87-472
Charlotte Harbor is a 270-square-mile estuarine system in west-central Florida. It is being subjected to increasing environmental stress by rapid population growth and development. Population in the inflow area may double by the year 2020, resulting in increased demands for freshwater and increased waste loads.The Myakka, Peace, and Caloosahatchee Rivers...
Summary of well construction, testing, and preliminary findings from the Alligator Alley test well, Broward County, Florida
F.W. Meyer
1988, Open-File Report 87-551
A 2,811-foot deep test well was drilled during 1980 in The Everglades along Alligator Alley as part of the Floridan Regional Aquifer Systems Analysis project. The well was cased 895 feet deep. Hydraulic packers were used to isolate selected zones in the open hole for water samples and measurement of...
Capacity of McKenzie Slough near McKenzie, North Dakota
Robert W. Gauger
1988, Open-File Report 88-328
A topographic survey of McKenzie Slough, N. Dak., was conducted from August 1984 through August 1986 by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Burleigh County Water Resources District. McKenzie Slough is located near the town of McKenzie, N. Dak. McKenzie is about 18 miles east of the city...
Activities of the Water Resources Division, California District, in the 1987 fiscal year
C.A. Griner, P.W. Anttila
1988, Open-File Report 88-177
The mission of the Water Resources Division is to provide the hydrologic information and understanding needed for the optimum utilization and management of the Nation 's water resources for the overall benefit of the people of the United States. Several of the most relevant and visible studies being conducted by...
U.S. Geological Survey ground-water studies in Georgia
Richard E. Krause
1988, Open-File Report 88-150
Ground-water levels in Arkansas, spring 1988
Paul W. Westerfield, Maria Plafcan
1988, Open-File Report 88-706
Groundwater level measurements were made in 694 wells in Arkansas in the spring of 1988. These data are listed in tables by aquifer; then by county. For each well, the altitude of the land surface, the date measured, the depth to the water surface, and the altitude of the water...
Documentation of a computer program to simulate aquifer-system compaction using the modular finite-difference ground-water flow model
S. A. Leake, David E. Prudic
1988, Open-File Report 88-482
The process of permanent compaction is not routinely included in simulations of groundwater flow. To simulate storage changes from both elastic and inelastic compaction, a computer program was written for use with the U. S. Geological Survey modular finite-difference groundwater flow model. The new program is called the Interbed-Storage Package....
Water Resources Data for New Hampshire and Vermont, Water Year 1986
F.E. Blackey, J. E. Cotton, J.C. Denner
1988, Water Data Report NH-VT-86-1
No abstract available. ...
Water Resources Data for Kentucky, Water Year 1988
R. Garcia, C.J. Sholar, S.G. Toms
1988, Water Data Report KY-88-1
Dissolved-solids concentrations and primary water types, Gulf Coast aquifer systems, south-central United States
Robert A. Pettijohn
1988, Hydrologic Atlas 706
Programs for generating data tables for the annual water-resources data report of the U.S. Geological Survey
R.R. Mason, C.L. Hill
1988, Open-File Report 88-173
The U.S. Geological Survey has developed software that interfaces with the Automated Data Processing System to facilitate and expedite preparation of the annual water-resources data report. This software incorporates a feature that prepares daily values tables and appends them to previously edited files containing station manuscripts. Other features collate the...
Selenium accumulation in benthic bivalves and fine sediments of San Francisco Bay, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and selected tributaries
Carolyn Johns, Samuel N. Luoma, Virginia Elrod
1988, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (27) 381-396
Spatial distributions of selenium were determined in fine-grained, oxidized, surface sediments and in two benthic bivalves (Corbicula sp., a suspension-feeding freshwater clam, and Macoma balthica, a deposit-feeding brackish-water clam) within San Francisco Bay, the San Joaquin River and three river systems unlikely to be subject to selenium inputs. Biologically available selenium enters...
Phytoplankton growth rates in a light-limited environment, San Francisco Bay
Andrea E. Alpine, James E. Cloern
1988, Marine Ecology Progress Series (44) 167-173
Phytoplankton cells reside in a turbulent medium partitioned into an upper photic zone that sustains photosynthesis, and a lower aphotic zone that does not. In estuaries, vertical mixing rates between these 2 zones can be rapid (< 1 generation time) because of tidal stirring and because the mixing depth is...
Nutritional values of waterfowl foods
Leigh H. Fredickson, Fredric A. Reid
1988, Fish and Wildlife Leaflet 13.1.1
wetland habitats throughout their annual cycles. Survival, reproduction, and growth are dependent on the availability of foods that meet nutritional requirements for recurring biological events. These requirements occur among a wide variety of environmental conditions that also influence nutritional demands. Recent work on nesting waterfowl has identified the female’s...
Annual body weight change in ring-neck ducks (Aythya collaris)
William L. Hohman, T. Scott Taylor, Milton W. Weller
1988, Book chapter, Waterfowl in winter
No abstract available....
Field validation of a habitat suitability index model for the American oyster
Thomas M. Soniat, Michael S. Brody
1988, Estuaries (11) 87-95
A habitat suitability index (HSI) model, developed for the American oyster,Crassostrea virginica, along the Gulf of Mexico, was field tested on 38 0.1-ha reef and nonreef sites in Galveston Bay, Texas. The HSI depends upon six (HSI1) or, optionally, eight (HSI2) variables. The six variables are percent of...
Evaluation of the continuous seismic-reflection method for determining the thickness and lithology of stratified drift in the glaciated northeast
F.P. Haeni
1988, Book chapter, Regional aquifer systems of the United States: The northeast glacial aquifers
No abstract available....
Workshop summary: Habitat loss and its effect on waterfowl
Robert E. Stewart Jr., Gary Krapu, Bruce Conant, H. Franklin Percival, David L. Hall
1988, Conference Paper, Waterfowl in winter
No abstract available....
Habitat relationships of island nesting seabirds along Coastal Louisiana
Richard D. Greer, Carroll L. Cordes, Stanley H. Anderson
1988, Colonial Waterbirds (11) 181-188
Seabirds in the saline marsh of coastal Louisiana nest on the islands that are more isolated, smaller, have lower percentages of woody vegetation, and higher percentages of herbaceous vegetation and beach habitat. Only moderate variation in these habitat features was demonstrated among years of colonization. The factors...
The Blake Plateau Basin and Carolina Trough
William P. Dillon, Peter Popenoe
R. E. Sheridan, John A. Grow, editor(s)
1988, Book chapter, The Atlantic Continental Margin
Presently, the continental margin of the southeastern United States (Fig. 1) forms a zone of transition between the actively building, steep-fronted carbonate platform of the Bahamas and the typical eastern North American terrigenous clastic-dominated, drowned, shelf-slope-rise configuration. This region of the continental margin is underlain by two major sedimentary basins—the...
Groundwater velocity magnitude in radionuclide transport calculations
Daniel J. Goode
1988, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (114) 933-939
Analytical solutions have been developed for many conceptual models of solute transport in groundwater (Bear 1979). Although these models usually rely on assumptions too restrictive for accurate description of actual field situations, they are useful in understanding groundwater transport and in evaluating the relative importance of the subsurface processes affecting...
Ground-water influences on wetlands at Indiana Dunes, Northwest Indiana
Robert J. Shedlock, N. L. Loiacono, Thomas E. Imbrigiotta
1988, Conference Paper, Interdisciplinary approaches to freshwater wetlands research
No abstract available....
