Supplement to floods in the upper Des Moines River basin, Iowa
Albert J. Heinitz
1979, Open-File Report 79-1486
Data on the East Fork Des Moines River for the August 1979 flood between river miles 330.4 and 408.8 is being published as a supplement to the report "Floods in the Upper Des Moines River basin, Iowa" (Schwab, 1970). Elevation profiles of the 1979 flood, along with previously published profiles, are shown in figures...
Appraisal of ground water in the vicinity of the Leadville drainage tunnel, Lake County, Colorado
John T. Turk, O. James Taylor
1979, Open-File Report 79-1538
Ground water in the Leadville mining district occurs in granite, quartzite, limestone, sandstone, porphyry dikes, and unconsolidated material. These rocks form a single aquifer system because the formations are hydraulically connected through contact, mine workings, faulting, and fracturing. The aquifer is recharged by precipitation and water moves toward California Gulch...
Ground-water monitoring at Santa Barbara, California: Phase 1— Coastal monitor-well installation and initial measurements
C. B. Hutchinson
1979, Open-File Report 79-923
Plans to reduce natural ground-water storage in the 7-square-mile Santa Barbara groundwater basin have caused concern about possible saltwater intrusion into the coastal freshwater aquifer. To give advance warning of such intrusion, two multipiezometer wells were installed along the coast, about half a mile and 1 mile from the pumping...
Physical and chemical properties of San Francisco Bay waters, 1969-1976
Richard E. Smith, Raynol E. Herndon, Dana D. Harmon
1979, Open-File Report 79-511
Basic data on the physical and chemical properties of San Francisco Bay are presented here. Samples were collected over the period 1969-1976 at approximately six-week intervals at 36 stations. The stations were located along the axis of the Bay from Calaveras Point in South San Francisco Bay to the town...
Fluid inclusions in salt from the Rayburn and Vacherie domes, Louisiana
Edwin Roedder, H. E. Belkin
1979, Open-File Report 79-1675
Core samples from the Rayburn and Vacherie salt domes in Louisiana were examined for fluid inclusions, in connection with the possible use of such domes for nuclear waste storage sites. Three types of fluid inclusions were found, brine, compressed gas, and oil (in decreasing volume percent abundance). The total amount...
Water-quality data for the Hanna and Carbon basins, Wyoming
Pamela B. Freudenthal
1979, Open-File Report 79-1277
Water-quality data for the Hanna and Carbon Basins, south-central Wyoming, are presented in tables with no interpretation. Common-constituent, trace-element, and radiochemical data for ground and surface water and sediment concentrations for surface water are included. Ground water at 53 sites and surface water at 3 gaging stations were sampled. (Kosco-USGS)...
Design of a network for monitoring ground-water quality in Minnesota
Marc F. Hult
1979, Open-File Report 79-1164
A network for monitoring the quality of water in the 13 principal aquifers in Minnesota has been designed and more than 400 wells and springs selected for sampling. The network organization includes four major elements; (1) point sampling, (2) point monitoring, (3) regional monitoring, and (4) site-specific monitoring. These elements...
Summary of hydrologic data collected during 1977 in Dade County, Florida
John E. Hull
1979, Open-File Report 79-514
During 1977 rainfall was 1.52 inches above the long-term average in Dade County, Fla. Ground-water levels ranged from 0.3 foot above to 0.1 foot below average. The highest and lowest ground-water levels for the year were 1 foot below and 1 foot above their long-term average. In the Hialeah-Miami Springs...
Water resources of the Marquette Iron Range area, Marquette County, Michigan
N.G. Grannemann
1979, Open-File Report 79-1339
Dependable water supplies are vital to the mining industry in the Marquette Iron Range in Michigan. Development of processes that concentrate and pelletize low-grade iron ore has permitted mining to expand during the past two decades. Water demand has increased both for iron ore concentration processes and for the area...
Portable field kit for determining uranium in water
John B. McHugh
1979, Open-File Report 79-429
The pressing need for on-site field analyses of the uranium content of surface and ground waters has promoted the development of a simple, light-weight, relatively cheap, portable kit to make such determinations in the field. Forty to sixty water samples per day can be analyzed for uranium to less than...
Hydrogeologic features of the alluvial deposits in the Nowood River drainage area, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
M. E. Cooley, William J. Head
1979, Open-File Report 79-1291
In the Nowood River drainage area, Wyoming, the principal deposits comprising the alluvial aquifer include the flood-plain and younger (generally undissected) alluvial-fan deposits and a unique boulder-fan gravel. Other deposits mapped, but virtually nonwater yielding, are the older (dissected) alluvial-fan, pediment, and terrace deposits. Terraces are capped by gravel and...
High-resolution seismic profiling data from the upper continental slope of the northern Gulf of Mexico
Louis E. Garrison
1979, Open-File Report 79-955
From July 28 through December 20, 1975, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted a high-resolution geophysical survey on the Upper Continental Slope in the Gulf of Mexico north of Latitude 26°N. The survey was limited to water depths between 100 m and 1000 m with seismic lines spaced from 7.5 to...
Mid- and North Atlantic multichannel seismic reflection profiles, 7, 8 A, B, and C, 12 E, F, G, H, I, and J, and 13 A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1979, Open-File Report 78-685
Available are four multichannel profiles collected by Digicon Geophysical Corporation in 1975 using a 48-channel streamer (3600 m long), and a 27.9 cubic liter airgun array. They were processed in Denver on the Phoenix "I" by William C. Petterson. The processing includes demultiplexing and resampling, geometry and common-depth-point, definition, velocity...
Hydrogeology of the Gatlinburg area, Tennessee
Ann Zurawski
1979, Open-File Report 79-1167
A study of ground-water availability in the Gatlinburg area, Tenn., was undertaken to improve concepts of ground-water occurrence in the Blue Ridge and demonstrate that ground water is present in sufficient quantities to provide an alternative to surface water as a source of supply. Of 25 test wells, 8 produced...
Analysis of picric acid in water by high-performance liquid chromatography
D.F. Goerlitz
1979, Open-File Report 79-207
Methods for the determination of picric acid (2,4,6, trinitrophenol) in water employing high-performance liquid chromatography are presented. Ion-pair chromatography under an isocratic condition is performed on a reverse-phase column. Picric acid can be determined directly in water at a lower detection limit of 10 micrograms per liter. By use of...
Test data from the chloride-monitor well at Sun City Center, Hillsborough County, Florida
William C. Sinclair
1979, Open-File Report 78-1030
A test well drilled for Southwest Florida Water Management District at Sun City Center in Hillsborough County, will serve to monitor the interface between freshwater in the aquifer and the underlying chloride water. The sulfate content of the water in the aquifer at the well site exceeds 250 mg/L below...
The quality of surface water on Sanibel Island, Florida, 1976-77
Benjamin F. McPherson, T.H. O’Donnell
1979, Open-File Report 79-1478
The quality of surface water in parts of the interior of Sanibel Island has been periodically degraded by high concentrations of salt or macronutrients and by low concentrations of dissolved oxygen. In 1976 the chloride concentration of surface water ranged from about 500 milligrams per liter to almost that of...
An experimental ground-magnetic and VLF-EM traverse over a buried paleochannel near Salisbury, Maryland
Jeffrey C. Wynn
1979, Open-File Report 79-1505
Since, 1963, the Maryland Geological Survey and the U.S. Geological Survey have been engaged in a study of the Pleistocene Series beneath a 230 square kilometer area around Salisbury, Maryland. (Hansen, 1966; Weigle, 1972; Zohdy and others, 1974, p.56) North of Salisbury a deep Pleistocene paleochannel was discovered; this channel...
Investigations needed to stimulate the development of Jordan's mineral resources
V.E. McKelvey
1979, Open-File Report 79-1569
The level of living that any society can attain is a direct function of the use it makes of all kinds of raw materials (soil, water, metals, nonmetals, etc.), all kinds of energy (both animate and inanimate), and all kinds of human ingenuity; and is an inverse function of the...
Uranium results for 147 water samples from the Elkhorn Wilderness Study Area, Montana
John B. McHugh, William R. Miller
1979, Open-File Report 79-675
One hundred forty seven water samples were corrected from the Elkhorn Wilderness during the summer of 1977 as a part of a mineral resource assessment study. Each sample was analyzed for uranium. Specific conductance and pH were also measured. Sample analyses and site locations are presented in this report....
Comprehensive monitoring of meteorology, hydraulics, and thermal regime of the San Diego Aqueduct, California
Harvey E. Jobson, Alex M. Sturrock
1979, Professional Paper 1137
Water temperature, as well as meteorologic and hydraulic variables which influence the energy budget of the San Diego Aqueduct in southern California, were continuously monitored for a 1-year period beginning July 24, 1973. Incoming solar and atmospheric radiation, windspeed and direction, water temperature, and wet- and dry-bulb air temperatures were...
Water quality of south San Francisco Bay and Coyote Creek after failure of the San Jose-Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant I. 17 September - 10 October 1979
James E. Cloern, Brian E. Cole
1979, Open-File Report 79-1600
Data are presented to document some short-term biological and chemical consequences of a sewage spill in the southern area of San Francisco Bay and its receiving-water tributary, Coyote Creek. Sampling was conducted at fixed U.S. Geological Survey stations in South Bay, and at six new stations in Coyote Creek, on...
Geological studies of the COST GE-1 well, United States South Atlantic outer continental shelf area
Peter A. Scholle
1979, Circular 800
The COST No. GE-1 well is the first deep stratigraphic test to be drilled in the southern part of the U.S. Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (AOCS) area. The well was drilled within the Southeast Georgia Embayment to a total depth of 13,254 ft (4,040 m). It penetrated a section composed...
Geophysical logging of water wells for coal occurrences in northern Campbell County and eastern Sheridan County, Wyoming
Richard N. Babcock, Robert G. Hobbs
1979, Open-File Report 79-1213
Status of surface-water modeling in the U.S. Geological Survey
Marshall E. Jennings, Nobuhiro Yotsukura
1979, Circular 809
The U.S. Geological Survey is active in the development and use of models for the analysis of various types of surface-water problems. Types of problems for which models have been, or are being developed, include categories such as the following: (1)specialized hydraulics, (2)flow routing in streams, estuaries, lakes, and reservoirs,...
