Selenium in the Kendrick recalamation project, Wyoming
David A. Peterson
1988, Conference Paper
Elevated concentrations of selenium in water, bottom sediment, and biota were noted during a reconnaissance investigation of the Kendrick Reclamation Project in central Wyoming. Dissolved-selenium concentrations in 11 of 24 samples of surface or ground water exceeded the national drinking-water standard of 10 micrograms per liter. Bottom-sediment samples contained concentrations...
Tectonic history of the Syria Planum province of Mars
K. L. Tanaka, P. A. Davis
1988, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth (93) 14893-14917
We attribute most of the development of extensive fractures in the Tharsis region to discrete tectonic provinces within the region, rather than to Tharsis as a single entity. One of these provinces is in Syria Planum. Faults and collapse structures in the Syria Planum tectonic province on Mars are grouped...
Simulation of three lahars in the Mount St Helens area, Washington using a one-dimensional, unsteady-state streamflow model
Antonius Laenen, R. P. Hansen
1988, Water-Resources Investigations Report 88-4004
A one-dimensional, unsteady-state, open-channel model was used to analytically reproduce three lahar events. Factors contributing to the success of the modeling were: (1) the lahars were confined to a channel, (2) channel roughness was defined by field information, and (3) the volume of the flow remained relatively unchanged for the...
Determining the distribution of hydraulic conductivity in a fractured limestone aquifer by simultaneous injection and geophysical logging
Roger H. Morin, A.E. Hess, Frederick L. Paillet
1988, Ground Water (26) 587-595
A field technique for assessing the vertical distribution of hydraulic conductivity in an aquifer was applied to a fractured carbonate formation in southeastern Nevada. The technique combines the simultaneous use of fluid injection and geophysical logging to measure in situ vertical distributions of fluid velocity and hydraulic head down the...
Identification, movement, growth, mortality, and exploitation of walleye stocks in Lake St. Clair and the western basin of Lake Erie
Robert C. Haas, Mary C. Fabrizio, Thomas N. Todd
1988, Fisheries Research Report 1954
The harvest of walleye by sport and commercial fisheries in lakes St. Clair and Erie is under a cooperative management program involving several states and two countries. In this report we present the results of a long-term tag-recapture study as well as corroborative evidence of stock discreteness fromstudies of...
The distribution, structure, and composition of freshwater ice deposits in Bolivian salt lakes
S. H. Hurlbert, Cecily C.Y. Chang
1988, Hydrobiologia (158) 271-299
Freshwater ice deposits are described from seven, high elevation (4117-4730 m), shallow (mean depth <30 cm), saline (10-103 g l-1) lakes in the southwestern corner of Bolivia. The ice deposits range to several hundred meters in length and to 7 m in height above the lake or playa surface. They...
Causes of two slope-failure types in continental-shelf sediment, northeastern Gulf of Alaska
William C. Schwab, Homa J. Lee
1988, Journal of Sedimentary Research (58) 1-11
Slumps and sediment-gravity flows have been identified in Holocene glaciomarine sediment on declivities less than 1.3 degrees on the Gulf of Alaska continental shelf. Geologic and geotechnical investigation suggest that the processes responsible for these slope failures are earthquake and storm-wave loading, coupled with cyclic degradation of the sediment-shear strength....
Key to acanthocephala reported in waterfowl
Malcolm E. McDonald
1988, Resource Publication 173
This is the third part of a continuing series on helminths reported in waterfowl (McDonald 1974, 1981). Coots and moorhens (in Family Rallidae, Order Gruiformes) are included with the Anatidae of Anseriformes. The goal of these studies i complete coverage of waterfowl helminths of the world, although the original incentive-inadequate...
Methane hydrate - A major reservoir of carbon in the shallow geosphere?
K.A. Kvenvolden
1988, Chemical Geology (71) 41-51
Methane hydrates are solids composed of rigid cages of water molecules that enclose methane. Sediment containing methane hydrates is found within specific pressure-temperature conditions that occur in regions of permafrost and beneath the sea in outer continental margins. Because methane hydrates are globally widespread and concentrate methane within the gas-hydrate...
Microbial and biogeochernical processes Soda Lake, Nevada
R.S. Oremland, J. E. Cloern, Z. Sofer, R. L. Smith, C.W. Culbertson, J. Zehr, L. Miller, B. Cole, R. Harvey, N. Iversen, M. Klug, D. J. Des Marais, G. Rau
1988, Book chapter, Lacustrine petroleum source rocks: Geological Society Special Publication No. 40
Meromictic, alkaline lakes represent modern-day analogues of lacustrine source rock depositional environments. In order to further our understanding of how these lakes function in terms of limnological and biogeochemical processes, we have conducted an interdisciplinary study of Big Soda Lake. Annual mixolimnion productivity (ca. 500 g m-2) is dominated by...
Records of wells, drillers' logs, water-level measurements, and chemical analyses of ground water in Harris and Galveston counties, Texas, 1980-84
J. F. Williams III, L.S. Coplin, C.E. Ranzau Jr., W.B. Lind, C.W. Bonnet, G.L. Locke
1988, Texas Water Development Board Report 310
No abstract available....
Hydrogeology of the Croton-Ossining area, Westchester County, New York
Richard J. Reynolds
1988, Water-Resources Investigations Report 87-4159
The hydrogeology of a 29-sq-mi area surrounding the village of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, is summarized on 6 sheets at 1:12 ,000 scale that show locations of wells and test holes, surficial geology, geologic sections, bedrock geology, land use, and soil permeability. The primary stratified-drift aquifer in this area is the...
Preliminary evaluation of the ground-water resources of Bainbridge Island, Kitsap County, Washington, with a section on geohydrologic units
N. P. Dion, T. D. Olsen, K. L. Payne, M. A. Jones
1988, Water-Resources Investigations Report 87-4237
No abstract available....
The aqueous geochemistry of uranium in a drainage containing uraniferous organic-rich sediments, Lake Tahoe area, Nevada, USA
R. A. Zielinski, J. K. Otton, R. B. Wanty, C. T. Pierson
1988, Uranium (4) 281-305
Anomalously uraniferous waters occur in a small (4.2 km2) drainage in the west-central Carson Range, Nevada, on the eastern side of Lake Tahoe. The waters transport uranium from local U-rich soils and bedrock to organic-rich valley-fill sediments where it is concentrated, but weakly bound. The dissolved U and the U...
A bioassay for production capacity assessment
J. W. Meade
1988, Aquacultural Engineering (7) 139-146
Given sufficient oxygen, fish production can be limited by a multiplicity of factors. Accurate determination of production capacity requires something other than an estimate of the biomass at which ambient un-ionized ammonia will reach a recommended, non-site-specific, maximum safe concentration. A chronic (1- to 2-month) bioassay can be used to...
Fluid-inclusion evidence for previous higher temperatures in the Miravalles geothermal field, Costa Rica
K.E. Bargar, R.O. Fournier
1988, Geothermics (17) 681-693
Heating and freezing data were obtained for liquid-rich secondary fluid inclusions in magmatic quartz, hydrothermal calcite and hydrothermal quartz crystals from 19 sampled depths in eight production drill holes (PGM-1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 11, 12 and 15) of the Miravalles geothermal field in northwestern Costa Rica. Homogenization temperatures for...
Instrumentation for a dry-pond detention study
L. M. Pope, M.E. Jennings, K.G. Thibodeaux
1988, Conference Paper
A 12.3-acre, fully urbanized, residential land-use catchment was instrumented by the U. S. Geological Survey in Topeka, Kansas. Hydraulic instrumentation for flow measurement includes two types of flumes, a pipe-insert flume and a culvert-inlet (manhole) flume. Samples of rainfall and runoff for water-quality analyses were collected by automatic, 3-liter, 24-sample...
Irrigation drainage: Green River basin, Utah
Doyle W. Stephens, Bruce Waddell, Jerry B. Miller
1988, Conference Paper
A reconnaissance of wildlife areas in the middle Green River basin of Utah during 1986-87 determined that concentrations of selenium in water and biological tissues were potentially harmful to wildlife at the Stewart Lake Waterfowl Management Area and in the Ouray National Wildlife Refuge. Concentations of selenium in irrigation drainage...
Concentration of gold in natural waters
J. B. McHugh
1988, Journal of Geochemical Exploration (30) 85-94
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the amount of gold present in natural waters. One hundred and thirty-two natural water samples were collected from various sources and analyzed for gold by the latest techniques. Background values for gold in...
Fluid inclusions in vadose cement with consistent vapor to liquid ratios, Pleistocene Miami Limestone, southeastern Florida
C.E. Barker, R. B. Halley
1988, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (52) 1019-1025
Vadose cements in the Late Pleistocene Miami Limestone contain regions with two-phase aqueous fluid inclusions that have consistent vapor to liquid (V-L) ratios. When heated, these seemingly primary inclusions homogenize to a liquid phase in a range between 75°C and 130°C (mean = 100°C) and have final melting temperatures between...
Hydrologic Unit Map – 1988, states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1988, Hydrologic Unit 21
No abstract available....
National water-quality assessment: Future directions of the U.S. Geological Survey
Philip Cohen, William M. Alley, William G. Wilber
1988, Water Resources Bulletin (24) 1147-1151
Throughout U.S. history, the Nation has made major investments in assessing natural resources, such as soils, minerals, and hydrocarbons. The maintenance and the improvement of water quality has been one of the major areas of public investment and government regulation. One of the contributions the U.S. Geological Survey proposes to...
Oxygen isotope variations in granulite-grade iron formations: constraints on oxygen diffusion and retrograde isotopic exchange
Z.D. Sharp, J. R. O’Neil, E.J. Essene
1988, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (98) 490-501
The oxygen isotope ratios of various minerals were measured in a granulite-grade iron formation in the Wind River Range, Wyoming. Estimates of temperature and pressure for the terrane using well calibrated geothermometers and geobarometers are 730??50?? C and 5.5??0.5 kbar. The mineral constraints on fluid compositions in the iron formation...
An oxygen isotope and geochemical study of meteoric-hydrothermal systems at Pilot Mountain and selected other localities, Carolina slate belt
T. L. Klein, R.E. Criss
1988, Economic Geology (83) 801-821
Several epigenetic mineral deposits in the Ca1rolina slate belt are intimately related to meteoric-hydrothermal systems of late Precambrian and early Paleozoic age. At Pilot Mountain, low 18 O rocks correlate well with zones of strong silicic alteration and alkali leaching accompanied by high alumina minerals (sericite, pyrophyllite, andalusite + or - topaz)...
Hydrodynamics of Denver basin: Explanation of subnormal fluid pressures
Kenneth Belitz, John D. Bredehoeft
1988, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (72) 1334-1359
Anomalously low fluid potential (and hence subnormal fluid pressure) is found in Mesozoic and Paleozoic rocks of the Denver basin. The potentiometric surface for the Dakota and basal Cretaceous sandstones is 2,000-3,000 ft (600-900 m) beneath the land surface in parts of the Denver basin in Colorado and Nebraska. The...
