Detailed Sections from Auger Holes in the Roanoke Rapids 1:100,000 Map Sheet, North Carolina
Robert E. Weems, William C. Lewis
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1092
Introduction The Roanoke Rapids 1:100,000 map sheet straddles the Coastal Plain / Piedmont boundary in northernmost North Carolina (Figure 1). Sediments of the Coastal Plain underlie the eastern three-fourths of this area, and patchy outliers of Coastal Plain units cap many of the higher hills in the western one-fourth of the...
Geologic resource evaluation of Pu‘uhonua O Hōnaunau National Historical Park, Hawai‘i. Part II: Benthic habitat mapping
Susan A. Cochran, Ann E. Gibbs, Joshua B. Logan
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5258
In cooperation with the U.S. National Park Service (NPS), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has mapped the underwater environment in and adjacent to three parks along the Kona coast on the island of Hawai‘i. This report is the second of two produced for the NPS on the geologic resource evaluation...
Biomarker Benchmarks: Reproductive and Endocrine Biomarkers in Largemouth Bass and Common Carp from United States Waters
Steven L. Goodbred, Stephen B. Smith, Patricia S. Greene, Richard H. Rauschenberger, Timothy M. Bartish
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3026
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed a national database and report on endocrine and reproductive condition in two species of fish collected in U.S. streams and rivers. This information provides scientists with a national basis for comparing results of endocrine measurements in fish from individual sites throughout the country,...
Simulation of Flood Profiles for Fivemile Creek at Tarrant, Alabama, 2006
K.G. Lee, T.S. Hedgecock
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1030
A one-dimensional step-backwater model was used to simulate flooding conditions for Fivemile Creek at Tarrant, Alabama. The 100-year flood stage published in the current flood insurance study for Tarrant by the Federal Emergency Management Agency was significantly exceeded by the March 2000 and May 2003 floods in this area. A...
Enhanced Historical Land-Use and Land-Cover Data Sets of the U.S. Geological Survey
Curtis V. Price, Naomi Nakagaki, Kerie J. Hitt, Rick M. Clawges
2007, Data Series 240
Historical land-use and land-cover data, available from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for the conterminous United States and Hawaii, have been enhanced for use in geographic information systems (GIS) applications. The original digital data sets were created by the USGS in the late 1970s and early 1980s and were later...
Reproductive and Endocrine Biomarkers in Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) and Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) from United States Waters
Steven L. Goodbred, Stephen B. Smith, Patricia S. Greene, Richard H. Rauschenberger, Timothy M. Bartish
2007, Data Series 227
A nationwide reconnaissance investigation was initiated in 1994 to develop and evaluate a suite of reproductive and endocrine biomarkers for their potential to assess reproductive health and status in teleost (bony) fish. Fish collections were made at 119 sites, representing many regions of the country and land- and water-use settings....
Vertical gradients in water chemistry and age in the Northern High Plains Aquifer, Nebraska, 2003
P.B. McMahon, J.K. Böhlke, C. P. Carney
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5294
The northern High Plains aquifer is the primary source of water used for domestic, industrial, and irrigation purposes in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Despite the aquifer’s importance to the regional economy, fundamental ground-water characteristics, such as vertical gradients in water chemistry and age, remain poorly...
Proceedings of the Fourth Glacier Bay Science Symposium
John F. Piatt, Scott M. Gende
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5047
Foreword Glacier Bay was established as a National Monument in 1925, in part to protect its unique character and natural beauty, but also to create a natural laboratory to examine evolution of the glacial landscape. Today, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is still a place of profound natural beauty...
U.S. Geological Survey Ground-Water Climate Response Network
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3003
The U.S. Geological Survey serves the Nation by providing reliable hydrologic information used by others to manage the Nation's water resources. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) measures more than 20,000 wells each year for a variety of objectives as part of Federal programs and in cooperation with State and local agencies....
Geologic framework studies of South Carolina's Long Bay from Little River Inlet to Winyah Bay, 1999-2003: Geospatial data release
W. E. Baldwin, J. F. Denny, W. C. Schwab, P. T. Gayes, R. Morton, N. W. Driscoll
2007, Open-File Report 2005-1346
The northern South Carolina coast is a heavily developed region that supports a thriving tourism industry, large local populations and extensive infrastructure (Figure 1). The economic stability of the region is closely tied to the health of its beaches: primarily in providing support for local tourism and protection from storm...
Geologic Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Black Warrior Basin Province, Alabama and Mississippi
Joseph R. Hatch, Mark J. Pawlewicz
2007, Data Series 69-I
Introduction The purpose of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Oil and Gas Assessment is to develop geologically based hypotheses regarding the potential for additions to oil and gas reserves in priority areas of the United States. The USGS recently completed an assessment of undiscovered oil and gas potential of the Cambrian-Ordovician carbonate rocks, the...
Pesticides in surface water in the Bighorn River and North Platte River basins, Wyoming, 2006
Cheryl A. Eddy-Miller, Gregory K. Boughton, R. E. Woodruff
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3017
In 2006, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Wyoming Department of Agriculture, sampled five surface-water sites in Wyoming-three in the Bighorn River Basin (BRB) and two in the North Platte River Basin (NPRB) (fig. 1). The purpose of the sampling was to describe the occurrence of pesticides...
Data collected to support monitoring of constructed emergent sandbar habitat on the Missouri River downstream from Gavins Point Dam, South Dakota and Nebraska, 2004-06
Ryan F. Thompson, Michaela R. Johnson, Michael J. Andersen
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1056
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has constructed emergent sandbar habitat on sections of the Missouri River bordering South Dakota and Nebraska downstream from Gavins Point Dam to create and enhance habitat for threatened and endangered bird species. Two areas near river miles 761.3 and 769.8 were selected for construction...
A GIS library of multibeam data for Massachusetts Bay and the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, offshore of Boston, Massachusetts
Bradford Butman, Page C. Valentine, Tammie J. Middleton, William W. Danforth
2007, Data Series 99
Introduction The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has mapped the sea floor of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary and western Massachusetts Bay, offshore of Boston, Massachusetts (figure 1a, figure 1b). The mapping was carried out using a Simrad Subsea EM1000 Multibeam Echo Sounder (95 kHz) on the Frederick G. Creed on...
Geological assessment of cores from the Great Bay National Wildlife Refuge, New Hampshire
Nora K. Foley, Robert A. Ayuso, Joseph D. Ayotte, Denise L. Montgomery, Gilpin R. Robinson Jr.
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5203
Geological sources of metals (especially arsenic and zinc) in aquifer bedrock were evaluated for their potential to contribute elevated values of metals to ground and surface waters in and around Rockingham County, New Hampshire. Ayotte and others (1999, 2003) had proposed that arsenic concentrations in ground water flowing through bedrock...
Assessment of artificial recharge at Sand Hollow Reservoir, Washington County, Utah, updated to conditions through 2006
Victor M. Heilweil, David D. Susong
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5023
Sand Hollow, Utah, is the site of a surface-water reservoir completed in March 2002 and operated by the Washington County Water Conservancy District (WCWCD) primarily as an aquifer storage and recovery project. The reservoir is an off-channel facility that receives water from the Virgin River, diverted near the town of...
Assessment of Areal Recharge to the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer, Spokane County, Washington, and Bonner and Kootenai Counties, Idaho
James R. Bartolino
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5038
A numerical flow model of the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie aquifer currently (2007) being developed requires the input of values for areally-distributed recharge, a parameter that is often the most uncertain component of water budgets and ground-water flow models because it is virtually impossible to measure over large areas. Data from...
The International Geomagnetic Reference Field, 2005
Kenneth S. Rukstales, Jeffrey J. Love
2007, Scientific Investigations Map 2964
This is a set of five world charts showing the declination, inclination, horizontal intensity, vertical component, and total intensity of the Earth's magnetic field at mean sea level at the beginning of 2005. The charts are based on the International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) main model for 2005 and secular...
Availability of Ground-Water Data for Idaho, Water Year 2006
A.M. Campbell
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3031
Introduction The Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with Federal, State, and local water agencies, collects a large amount of data each year pertaining to the ground-water resources of Idaho. These data constitute a valuable database for developing an improved understanding of the water resources of the...
Chemical weathering of a marine terrace chronosequence, Santa Cruz, California: Deciphering reaction rates from mineral depth profiles
Arthur F. White, Marjorie S. Schulz, Davison V. Vivit, David A. Stonestrom, Alex E. Blum
2007, Conference Paper, Water-Rock Interaction - Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, WRI-12
A soil chronosequence developed on marine terraces along coastal California, exhibits deeper and more intensively weathered mineral profiles with increasing age (65 to 226 kyrs). Feldspar concentrations generally increase linearly with terrace depth. The slope or weathering gradient is defined by the ratio...
Lithosphere stress and deformation
M.L. Zoback, M. Zoback
2007, Book chapter, Treatise on Geophysics
After several decades of investigation, a surprisingly simple view of the lithospheric state of stress has emerged. Broad regions of the lithosphere (scales up to thousands of kilometers) are characterized by remarkably uniform stress fields, both in terms of orientations and...
Dynamic triggering
D.P. Hill, S.G. Prejean
2007, Book chapter, Treatise on Geophysics
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that dynamic stresses propagating as seismic waves from large earthquakes are capable of triggering additional earthquakes ranging from aftershocks in the near-field (within one or two source dimensions of the mainshock epicenter) to remotely triggered...
Water-balance model of a wetland on the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota
Kevin C. Vining
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5034
A numerical water-balance model was developed to simulate the responses of a wetland on the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota, to historical and possible extreme hydrological inputs and to changes in hydrological inputs that might occur if a proposed refinery is built on the reservation. Results from model simulations indicated...
Cenozoic environmental changes along the East Antarctic continental margin inferred from regional seismic stratigraphy
G.L. Leitchenkov, Y.B. Guseva, V.V. Gandyukhin
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1047-SRP-005
We interpret ~40,000 km of multichannelseismic reflection lines collected by the Russian Antarctic Expedition along the East Antarctic continental margin between 32° E and 115° E, and present a revised seismic stratigraphic model for depositional paleoenvironments of the region. Variations in acoustic facies characteristics observed across major seismic horizons are correlated...
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo Distribution, Abundance, and Habitat Use Along the Lower Colorado and Tributaries, 2006 Annual Report
Matthew J. Johnson, Jennifer A. Holmes, Christopher Calvo, Ivan Samuels, Stefani Krantz, Mark K. Sogge
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1097
Executive Summary This 2006 annual report details the first season of a 2-year study documenting western yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus occidentalis) distribution, abundance, and habitat use throughout the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Plan boundary area. We conducted cuckoo surveys at 55 sites within 17 areas, between 11 June and 13...
