Sediment management strategies associated with dam removal in the State of Washington
C. S. Magirl, P.J. Connolly, B. Coffin, J.J. Duda, A.E. Draut
2010, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 2nd Joint Federal Interagency Conference (9th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference and 4th Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference)
Different removal strategies are described for dams in three diverse drainage basins (Wind River, White Salmon River, and Elwha River basins) in the State of Washington (USA). The comparisons between the strategies offer the opportunity to track the effects of sediment resulting from dam decommissioning in the Pacific Northwest and...
Calibrating recruitment estimates for mourning doves from harvest age ratios
David A. Miller, David L. Otis
2010, Journal of Wildlife Management (74) 1070-1078
We examined results from the first national-scale effort to estimate mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) age ratios and developed a simple, efficient, and generalizable methodology for calibrating estimates. Our method predicted age classes of unknown-age wings based on backward projection of molt distributions from fall harvest collections to preseason banding. We...
A chemostratigraphic method to determine the end of impact-related sedimentation at marine-target impact craters (Chesapeake Bay, Lockne, Tvären)
Jens Ormö, Andrew C. Hill, Jean M. Self-Trail
2010, Meteoritics and Planetary Science (45) 1206-1224
To better understand the impact cratering process and its environmental consequences at the local to global scale, it is important to know when in the geological record of an impact crater the impact-related processes cease. In many instances, this occurs with the end of early crater modification, leaving an obvious...
New York-Alabama lineament: A buried right-slip fault bordering the Appalachians and mid-continent North America
M.G. Steltenpohl, I. Zietz, J. Wright Horton, Jr., D. L. Daniels
2010, Geology (38) 571-574
The New York-Alabama (NY-AL) lineament, recognized in 1978, is a magnetic anomaly that delineates a fundamental though historically enigmatic crustal boundary in eastern North America that is deeply buried beneath the Appalachian basin. Data not in the original aeromagnetic data set, particularly the lack of any information available at the time...
Nitrate Loads and Concentrations in Surface-Water Base Flow and Shallow Groundwater for Selected Basins in the United States, Water Years 1990-2006
Norman E. Spahr, Neil M. Dubrovsky, JoAnn M. Gronberg, O. Lehn Franke, David M. Wolock
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5098
Hydrograph separation was used to determine the base-flow component of streamflow for 148 sites sampled as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment program. Sites in the Southwest and the Northwest tend to have base-flow index values greater than 0.5. Sites in the Midwest and the eastern portion of the Southern...
Effects of upstream dams versus groundwater pumping on stream temperature under varying climate conditions
John C. Risley, Jim Constantz, Hedeff I. Essaid, Stewart A. Rounds
2010, Water Resources Research (46)
The relative impact of a large upstream dam versus in‐reach groundwater pumping on stream temperatures was analyzed for humid, semiarid, and arid conditions with long dry seasons to represent typical climate regions where large dams are present, such as the western United States or eastern Australia. Stream temperatures were simulated...
Land-Use Analysis and Simulated Effects of Land-Use Change and Aggregate Mining on Groundwater Flow in the South Platte River Valley, Brighton to Fort Lupton, Colorado
L. R. Arnold, C.S. Mladinich, W. H. Langer, J.S. Daniels
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5019
Land use in the South Platte River valley between the cities of Brighton and Fort Lupton, Colo., is undergoing change as urban areas expand, and the extent of aggregate mining in the Brighton-Fort Lupton area is increasing as the demand for aggregate grows in response to urban development. To improve...
Indicators of streamflow alteration, habitat fragmentation, impervious cover, and water quality for Massachusetts stream basins
Peter K. Weiskel, Sara L. Brandt, Leslie A. DeSimone, Lance J. Ostiguy, Stacey A. Archfield
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5272
Massachusetts streams and stream basins have been subjected to a wide variety of human alterations since colonial times. These alterations include water withdrawals, treated wastewater discharges, construction of onsite septic systems and dams, forest clearing, and urbanization—all of which have the potential to affect streamflow regimes, water quality, and habitat...
Immediate and long-term fire effects on total mercury in forests soils of northeastern Minnesota
Laurel G. Woodruff, William F. Cannon
2010, Environmental Science and Technology (44) 5371-5376
Within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota, soils were collected from 116 sites in areas of primarily virgin forest with fire-origin stand years (year of last recognizable stand-killing wildfire) that range from the 1759 to 1976. Median concentrations for total mercury in soils for this span of...
Paleoclimates: Understanding climate change past and present
Thomas M. Cronin
2010, Book
The field of paleoclimatology relies on physical, chemical, and biological proxies of past climate changes that have been preserved in natural archives such as glacial ice, tree rings, sediments, corals, and speleothems. Paleoclimate archives obtained through field investigations, ocean sediment coring expeditions, ice sheet coring programs, and other projects allow...
Chemical Constituents in Groundwater from Multiple Zones in the Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer at the Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho, 2005-08
Roy C. Bartholomay, Brian V. Twining
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5116
From 2005 to 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey's Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Project office, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy, collected water-quality samples from multiple water-bearing zones in the eastern Snake River Plain aquifer. Water samples were collected from six monitoring wells completed in about 350-700 feet of...
Coastal Change on Gulf Islands National Seashore during Hurricane Gustav: West Ship, East Ship, Horn, and Petit Bois Islands
Hilary F. Stockdon, Kara S. Doran, Katherine A. Serafin
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1090
INTRODUCTION Hurricane Gustav made landfall on September 1, 2008, near Cocodrie, Louisiana, as a category 2 storm, with maximum sustained winds near 170 km/hr. Hurricane-force winds, with speeds in excess of 119 km/hr, extended along 270 km of the Louisiana coastline, from Marsh Island to the central barrier islands. Tropical-storm-force winds...
Hydrostratigraphic mapping of the Milford-Souhegan glacial drift aquifer, and effects of hydrostratigraphy on transport of PCE, Operable Unit 1, Savage Superfund Site, Milford, New Hampshire
Philip T. Harte
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1047
The Savage Municipal Well Superfund site in the Town of Milford, New Hampshire, was underlain by a 0.5-square mile plume (as mapped in 1994) of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), most of which consisted of tetrachloroethylene (PCE). The plume occurs mostly within highly transmissive stratified-drift deposits but also extends into underlying...
Effects of building a sand barrier berm to mitigate the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Louisiana marshes
Dawn Lavoie, James G. Flocks, Jack L. Kindinger, A. H. Sallenger Jr., David C. Twichell
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1108
The State of Louisiana requested emergency authorization on May 11, 2010, to perform spill mitigation work on the Chandeleur Islands and on all the barrier islands from Grand Terre Island eastward to Sandy Point to enhance the capability of the islands to reduce the movement of oil from the Deepwater...
Integration of tectonic, sedimentary, and geohydrologic processes leading to a small-scale extension model for the Mormon Mountains area north of Lake Mead, Lincoln County, Nevada
R. Ernest Anderson, Tracey J. Felger, Sharon F. Diehl, William R. Page, Jeremiah B. Workman
Paul J. Umhoefer, L. Sue Beard, Melissa Lamb, editor(s)
2010, Book chapter, Miocene tectonics of the Lake Mead Region, central basin and range
Scattered remnants of highly diverse stratigraphic sections of Tertiary lacustrine limestone, andesite flows, and 23.8–18.2 Ma regional ash-flow tuffs on the north flank of the Mormon Mountains record previously unrecognized deformation, which we interpret as pre–17 Ma uplift and possibly weak extension on the north flank of a growing dome....
Implications of geophysical analysis on basin geometry and fault offsets in the northern Colorado River extensional corridor and adjoining Lake Mead region, Nevada and Arizona
Victoria E. Langenheim, L. Sue Beard, James E. Faulds
Paul J. Umhoefer, Melissa Lamb, editor(s)
2010, Book chapter, Miocene tectonics of the Lake Mead region, central Basin and Range
The northern Colorado River extensional corridor and Lake Mead region are characterized by prominent gravity and magnetic anomalies that provide insight into the geometry of extensional basins, amount of vertical and strike-slip offset on faults that bound these basins, and composition of major basement blocks. Although large-magnitude extension throughout the...
Palaeoenvironmental significance of diatom and vertebrate fossils from Late Cenozoic tectonic basins in west-central México: A review
I. Israde-Alcántara, W.E. Miller, V.H. Garduño-Monroy, John A. Barron, M. A. Rodriguez-Pascua
2010, Quaternary International (219) 79-94
Pronounced lacustrine sedimentation developed in west-central México during the late Miocene, between approximately 11 and 7 Ma. This was in response to tectonic extension associated with the initial emplacement of the late Miocene substrata of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. Climatic conditions in west-central México during this interval were relatively warm...
The northwestern margin of the Basin and Range province: Part 2: Structural setting of a developing basin from seismic and potential field data
Anne E. Egger, Jonathan M.G. Glen, David A. Ponce
2010, Tectonophysics (488) 150-161
Surprise Valley in northeastern California offers an ideal opportunity to examine the structural setting of a developing extensional basin due to its late Miocene to recent activity in isolation from other major normal fault-bound basins. Seismic velocity and potential field modeling help determine the nature of basin fill and identify...
Three-dimensional geologic modeling of the Santa Rosa Plain, California
Donald S. Sweetkind, Emily M. Taylor, Craig A. McCabe, Victoria E. Langenheim, Robert J. McLaughlin
2010, Geosphere (6) 237-274
New three-dimensional (3D) lithologic and stratigraphic models of the Santa Rosa Plain (California, USA) delineate the thickness, extent, and distribution of subsurface geologic units and allow integration of diverse data sets to produce a lithologic, stratigraphic, and structural architecture for the region. This framework can be used to predict pathways...
A cost-benefit analysis of preventative management for zebra and quagga mussels in the Colorado-Big Thompson System
Catherine M. Thomas
2010, Thesis
Zebra and quagga mussels are fresh water invaders that have the potential to cause severe ecological and economic damage. It is estimated that mussels cause $1 billion dollars per year in damages to water infrastructure and industries in the United States (Pimentel et al., 2004). Following their introduction to the...
A chronicle of Miocene extension near the Colorado Plateau-Basin and Range boundary, southern White Hills, northwestern Arizona: Paleogeographic and tectonic implications
James E. Faulds, Linda M. Price, Lawrence W. Snee, Philip B. Gans
2010, Book chapter, Miocene tectonics of the Lake Mead Region, central basin and range
In northwestern Arizona, the high-standing, relatively unextended Colorado Plateau abruptly gives way across a system of major west-dipping normal faults to a highly extended part of the Basin and Range province known as the northern Colorado River extensional corridor. The transition from unextended to highly extended upper crust is unusually...
Coalbed methane resources of the Appalachian Basin, eastern USA
Robert C. Milici, Joseph R. Hatch, Mark J. Pawlewicz
2010, International Journal of Coal Geology (82) 160-174
In 2002, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessed the technically recoverable, undiscovered coalbed-gas resources in the Appalachian basin and Black Warrior basin Assessment Provinces as about 15.5 trillion cubic feet. Although these resources are almost equally divided between the two areas, most of the production occurs within relatively small areas...
Chesapeake bay watershed land cover data series
Frederick M. Irani, Peter R. Claggett
2010, Data Series 505
To better understand how the land is changing and to relate those changes to water quality trends, the USGS EGSC funded the production of a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Land Cover Data Series (CBLCD) representing four dates: 1984, 1992, 2001, and 2006. EGSC will publish land change forecasts based on observed...
Comparative analysis of Mourning Dove population change in North America
John R. Sauer, William A. Link, William L. Kendall, David D. Dolton
2010, Journal of Wildlife Management (74) 1059-1069
Mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) are surveyed in North America with a Call-Count Survey (CCS) and the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS). Analyses in recent years have identified inconsistencies in results between surveys, and a need exists to analyze the surveys using modern methods and examine possible causes of differences...
Effects of surface-water diversion on streamflow, recharge, physical habitat, and temperature, Na Wai Eha, Maui, Hawai'i
Delwyn S. Oki, Reuben H. Wolff, Jeff A. Perreault
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5011
The perennial flow provided by Waihe‘e River, Waiehu Stream, ‘Īao Stream, and Waikapū Stream, collectively known as Nā Wai ‘Ehā (“The Four Streams”), made it possible for widespread agricultural activities to flourish in the eastern part of West Maui, Hawai‘i. The streams of the Nā Wai ‘Ehā area flow in...
