Activity L-5-85-NC, ship station 9c ... DVD-Video disc set of seafloor transects during USGS research cruises in the Pacific Ocean
Henry Chezar, Ivy Newman
2006, Open-File Report 2004-1119-A-E
Activity A-2-84-WF, ship station 1 ... DVD-Video disc set of seafloor transects during USGS research cruises in the Pacific Ocean
Henry Chezar, Ivy Newman
2006, Open-File Report 2004-1108-A-E
Activity O-1-00-SC, Ship Station SM 12 ... DVD-Video disc set of seafloor transects during USGS research cruises in the Pacific Ocean
Henry Chezar, Ivy Newman
2006, Open-File Report 2004-1185-A-D
Activity C-1-83-WF, ship station 20 ... DVD-Video disc set of seafloor transects during USGS research cruises in the Pacific Ocean
Henry Chezar, Ivy Newman
2006, Open-File Report 2004-1105-A-E
Activity A-2-84-WF, ship station 10 ... DVD-Video disc set of seafloor transects during USGS research cruises in the Pacific Ocean
Henry Chezar, Ivy Newman
2006, Open-File Report 2004-1114-A-E
Activity A-2-84-WF, ship station 9 ... DVD-Video disc set of seafloor transects during USGS research cruises in the Pacific Ocean
Henry Chezar, Ivy Newman
2006, Open-File Report 2004-1113-A-E
Environmental aspects of produced-water salt releases in onshore and coastal petroleum-producing areas of the conterminous U.S. - a bibliography
James K. Otton
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1154
Environmental effects associated with the production of oil and gas have been reported since the first oil wells were drilled in the Appalachian Basin in Pennsylvania and Kentucky in the early to mid-1800s. The most significant of these effects are the degradation of soils, ground water, surface water, and ecosystems...
Biostratigraphic and lithologic correlations of two Sonoma County Water Agency pilot wells with the type Wilson Grove Formation, Sonoma County, central California
Charles L. Powell II, Robert J. McLaughlin, Elmira Wan
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1196
Small mollusk faunas characteristic of the uppermost part of the Wilson Grove Formation at Wilson Grove and along River Road at Trenton (Pliocene) were encountered in Sonoma County Water Agency pilot wells at Occidental Road well field between 320-500 ft (98-152 m), depth, and in the Sebastopol Road pilot well...
Volcanic hazards at Atitlan volcano, Guatemala
J.M. Haapala, R. Escobar Wolf, James W. Vallance, William I. Rose Jr., J.P. Griswold, S. P. Schilling, J.W. Ewert, M. Mota
2006, Open-File Report 2005-1403
Atitlan Volcano is in the Guatemalan Highlands, along a west-northwest trending chain of volcanoes parallel to the mid-American trench. The volcano perches on the southern rim of the Atitlan caldera, which contains Lake Atitlan. Since the major caldera-forming eruption 85 thousand years ago (ka), three stratovolcanoes--San Pedro, Toliman, and Atitlan--have...
Field-trip guide to volcanic and volcaniclastic deposits of the lower Jurassic Talkeetna formation, Sheep Mountain, south-central Alaska
Amy E. Draut, Peter D. Clift, Robert B. Blodgett
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1124
This guide provides information for a one-day field trip in the vicinity of Sheep Mountain, just north of the Glenn Highway in south-central Alaska. The Lower Jurassic Talkeetna Formation, consisting of extrusive volcanic and volcaniclastic sedimentary rocks of the Talkeetna arc complex, is exposed on and near Sheep Mountain. Field-trip...
Extracting shorelines from NASA airborne topographic lidar-derived digital elevation models
M. Harris, J. Brock, A. Nayegandhi, M. Duffy
2006, Open-File Report 2005-1427
This report documents part of the National Park Service (NPS)/U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)/National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Aerial Data Collection and Creation of Products for Park Vital Signs Project. This report is one in a series that describes methods for extracting topographic features from aerial survey data as part...
Water and Sediment Chemical Data and Data Summary for Samples Collected in 1999 and 2001 in the Goodpaster River Basin, Big Delta B-2 Quadrangle, Alaska
Bronwen Wang, Larry Gough, Richard Wanty, Jim Vohden, Jim Crock, Warren Day
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1131
We report the chemical analysis for water and sediment collected from the Big Delta B-2 quadrangle. These data are part of a study located in the Big Delta B-2 quadrangle that focused on the integration of geology and bedrock geochemistry on with the biogeochemistry of water, sediments, soil, and vegetation....
Measurements of wind, aeolian sand transport, and precipitation in the Colorado River corridor, Grand Canyon, Arizona: January 2005 to January 2006
Amy E. Draut, David M. Rubin
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1188
This report presents measurements of aeolian sediment-transport rates, wind speed and direction, and precipitation records from six locations that contain aeolian deposits in the Colorado River corridor through Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Aeolian deposits, many of which contain and preserve archaeological material, are an important part of...
Coastal monitoring of the May 2005 dredge disposal offshore of Ocean Beach, San Francisco, Calif.
Patrick L. Barnard, Daniel M. Hanes
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1140
Ocean Beach, California, contains an erosion hot spot in the shadow of the San Francisco ebb tidal delta south of Sloat Boulevard that threatens valuable public infrastructure as well as the safe recreational use of the beach. In an effort to reduce the erosion at this location and avoid hazardous...
Geological interpretation of bathymetric and backscatter imagery of the sea floor off eastern Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Larry J. Poppe, Valerie F. Paskevich, Bradford Butman, Seth D. Ackerman, William W. Danforth, Dave S. Foster, Dann S. Blackwood
2006, Open-File Report 2005-1048
The imagery, interpretive data layers, and data presented herein were derived from multibeam echo-sounder data collected off Eastern Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and from the stations occupied to verify these acoustic data. The basic data layers show sea-floor topography, sun-illuminated shaded relief, and backscatter intensity; interpretive layers show the distributions of...
Gas desorption and adsorption isotherm studies of coals in the Powder River basin, Wyoming and adjacent basins in Wyoming and North Dakota
Gary D. Stricker, Romeo M. Flores, Dwain E. McGarry, Dean P. Stillwell, Daniel J. Hoppe, Cathy R. Stillwell, Alan M. Ochs, Margaret S. Ellis, Karl S. Osvald, Sharon L. Taylor, Marjorie C. Thorvaldson, Michael H. Trippi, Sherry D. Grose, Fred J. Crockett, Asghar J. Shariff
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1174
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the State Office, Reservoir Management Group (RMG), of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Casper (Wyoming), investigated the coalbed methane resources (CBM) in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana, from 1999 to the present. Beginning in late 1999, the study...
A preliminary assessment of mouflon abundance at the Kahuku Unit of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Steven C. Hess, Ben Kawakami Jr., David Okita, Keola Medeiros
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1193
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (HAVO) recently acquired the 115,653 acre Kahuku Ranch unit adjacent to the existing Mauna Loa section of HAVO. Kahuku contains numerous exceptional natural resources including many federally listed threatened and endangered species. An apparently large and growing population of alien mouflon sheep (Ovis gmelini musimon), however,...
Soil data at sites near Geneva Lake, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and Long Lake, near New Auburn, Wisconsin
David J. Graczyk, Steven R. Greb
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1191
The goals of this project are to describe how water moves through shallow soil and how vegetated buffers influence this flow. This was accomplished by using a series of soil-moisture probes which track the lateral and vertical movement of water during natural and artificial rainfall/runoff events. The purpose of this...
Preliminary estimate of coal resources in the Gillette coalfield affected by the location of the Burlington Northern/Union Pacific joint mainline railroad
Timothy J. Rohrbacher, Jon E. Haacke, David C. Scott, Lee M. Osmonson, James A. Luppens
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1206
This publication, primarily in graphic form, presents a preliminary resource assessment related to a major, near-term restriction to mining in that portion of the Gillette coalfield, Wyoming, that is traversed by the Burlington Northern/Union Pacific joint mainline railroad. This assessment is part of a current Powder River Basin regional coal...
Scoping of flood hazard mapping needs for Coos County, New Hampshire
Robert H. Flynn
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1200
This report was prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) New Hampshire/ Vermont Water Science Center for scoping of flood-hazard mapping needs for Coos County, New Hampshire, under Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Inter-Agency agreement Number HSFE01-05X-0018. One of the priorities for FEMA, Region 1, is to develop updated Digital...
Stability of leaning column at Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming
Edwin L. Harp, Charles R. Lindsay
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1130
In response to reports from climbers that an 8-meter section (referred to as the leaning column) of the most popular climbing route on Devils Tower in northeastern Wyoming is now moving when being climbed, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey inspected the site to determine the stability of the column...
Chemical analyses of coal, coal-associated rocks and coal combustion products collected for the National Coal Quality Inventory
Joseph R. Hatch, John H. Bullock Jr., Robert B. Finkelman
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1162
In 1999, the USGS initiated the National Coal Quality Inventory (NaCQI) project to address a need for quality information on coals that will be mined during the next 20-30 years. At the time this project was initiated, the publicly available USGS coal quality data was based on samples primarily collected...
Potentiometric surface of the Upper Floridan aquifer, west-central Florida, September 2005
A.G. Ortiz
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1128
The Floridan aquifer system consists of the Upper and Lower Floridan aquifers separated by the middle confining unit. The middle confining unit and the Lower Floridan aquifer in west-central Florida generally contain highly mineralized water. The water-bearing units containing freshwater are herein referred to as the Upper Floridan aquifer. The...
delta 15N and non-carbonate delta 13C values for two petroleum source rock reference materials and a marine sediment reference material
Kristin O. Dennen, Craig A. Johnson, Marshall L. Otter, Steven R. Silva, Gregory A. Wandless
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1071
Samples of United States Geological Survey (USGS) Certified Reference Materials USGS Devonian Ohio Shale (SDO-1), and USGS Eocene Green River Shale (SGR-1), and National Research Council Canada (NRCC) Certified Marine Sediment Reference Material (PACS-2), were sent for analysis to four separate analytical laboratories as blind controls for organic rich sedimentary...
Preliminary results of sequential extraction experiments for selenium on mine waste and stream sediments from Vermont, Maine, and New Zealand
N.M. Piatak, R.R. Seal II, R. F. Sanzolone, P. J. Lamothe, Z. A. Brown
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1184
We report the preliminary results of sequential partial dissolutions used to characterize the geochemical distribution of selenium in stream sediments, mine wastes, and flotation-mill tailings. In general, extraction schemes are designed to extract metals associated with operationally defined solid phases. Total Se concentrations and the mineralogy of the samples are...