Ground-water, surface-water, and water-chemistry data, Black Mesa area, northeastern Arizona— 2005-06
Margot Truini, J. P. Macy
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1041
The N aquifer is the major source of water in the 5,400 square-mile Black Mesa area in northeastern Arizona. Availability of water is an important issue in northeastern Arizona because of continued water requirements for industrial and municipal use and the needs of a growing population. Precipitation in the Black...
Hydrogeology, Ground-Water-Age Dating, Water Quality, and Vulnerability of Ground Water to Contamination in a Part of the Whitewater Valley Aquifer System near Richmond, Indiana, 2002-2003
Paul M. Buszka, Lee R. Watson, Theodore K. Greeman
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5281
Assessments of the vulnerability to contamination of ground-water sources used by public-water systems, as mandated by the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996, commonly have involved qualitative evaluations based on existing information on the geologic and hydrologic setting. The U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program has identified...
Status of ground-water levels and storage volume in the Equus Beds aquifer Near Wichita, Kansas, January 2003-January 2006
Cristi V. Hansen
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5321
The Equus Beds aquifer northwest of Wichita, Kansas, was developed to supply water to Wichita residents and for irrigation in south-central Kansas. Ground-water pumping for city and agricultural use from the aquifer caused water levels to decline in a large part of the aquifer northwest of Wichita. Irrigation pumpage in...
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...
A Dreissena Risk Assessment for the Colorado River Ecosystem
Theodore A. Kennedy
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1085
Executive Summary Nonnative zebra and quagga mussels (Dreissena polymorpha and Dreissena bugensis, respectively; see photo above) were accidentally introduced to the Great Lakes in the 1980s and subsequently spread to watersheds of the Eastern United States (Strayer and others, 1999). The introduction of Dreissena mussels has been economically costly and has...
Crust and lithospheric structure – Global crustal structure
Walter D. Mooney
2007, Book chapter, Treatise on Geophysics
The Earth’s crust has played an important role in all aspects of this planet’s evolution. This chapter presents a review of our current understanding of the physical properties of the crust on a global basis. This understanding comes from extensive seismic measurements using many...
The U.S. Geological Survey Land Remote Sensing Program
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3021
The fundamental goals of the U.S. Geological Survey's Land Remote Sens-ing (LRS) Program are to provide the Federal Government and the public with a primary source of remotely sensed data and applications and to be a leader in defining the future of land remote sensing, nationally and internationally. Remotely sensed data...
Avian cholera
Michael D. Samuel, R. G. Botzler, G. A. Wobeser
Nancy J. Thomas, D. Bruce Hunter, Carter T. Atkinson, editor(s)
2007, Book chapter, Infectious diseases of wild birds
This chapter contains section titled:IntroductionSynonymsHistoryDistributionHost RangeEtiologyEpizootiologyClinical SignsPathogenesisPathologyDiagnosisImmunityPublic Health ConcernsDomestic Animal Health ConcernsWildlife Population ImpactsTreatment and ControlManagement ImplicationsUnpublished DataLiterature Cited...
Orthoreoviruses
Tuula E. Hollmen, Douglas E. Docherty
Nancy J. Thomas, D. Bruce Hunter, Carter T. Atkinson, editor(s)
2007, Book chapter, Infectious diseases of wild birds
This chapter contains section titled:IntroductionHistoryDistributionHost RangeEtiologyEpizootiologyClinical Signs and PathologyDiagnosisImmunityPublic Health ConcernsDomestic Animal Health ConcernsTreatment and ControlManagement ImplicationsLiterature Cited...
Avian pox
Charles van Riper III, Donald J. Forrester
Nancy J. Thomas, D. Bruce Hunter, Carter T. Atkinson, editor(s)
2007, Book chapter, Infectious diseases of wild birds
This chapter contains section titled:IntroductionSynonymsHistoryDistributionHost RangeEtiologyEpizootiologyClinical SignsPathogenesisPathologyDiagnosisImmunityPublic Health ConcernsDomestic Animal Health ConcernsWildlife Population ImpactsTreatment and ControlManagement ImplicationsAcknowledgementsLiterature Cited...
Avian herpesviruses
Erhard F. Kaleta, Douglas E. Docherty
Nancy J. Thomas, D. Bruce Hunter, Carter T. Atkinson, editor(s)
2007, Book chapter, Infectious diseases of wild birds
This chapter contains section titled:IntroductionSynonymsHistoryDistributionHost RangeEtiologyEpizootiologyClinical SignsPathologyDiagnosisImmunityPublic Health ConcernsDomestic Animal Health ConcernsWildlife Population ImpactsTreatment and ControlManagement ImplicationsAcknowlegementsLiterature Cited...
Beating effect identified from seismic responses of instrumented buildings
Mehmet Celebi
2007, Conference Paper, New Horizons and Better Practices
Beating effects observed in the recorded responses of buildings are examined in this paper. Beating is a periodic, resonating and prolonged vibrational behavior caused by distinctive close coupling of translational and torsional modes of a lightly damped structure. Repetitively stored potential...
Hydrologic conditions and water-quality conditions following underground coal mining in the North Fork of the Right Fork of Miller Creek drainage basin, Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah, 2004-2005
C.D. Wilkowske, J.L. Cillessen, P.N. Brinton
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5026
In 2004 and 2005, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management, reassessed the hydrologic system in and around the drainage basin of the North Fork of the Right Fork (NFRF) of Miller Creek, in Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah. The reassessment occurred 13 years after...
Methods of analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey Organic Geochemistry Research Group--Determination of dissolved isoxaflutole and its sequential degradation products, diketonitrile and benzoic acid, in water using solid-phase extraction and liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry
Michael T. Meyer, Edward A. Lee, Elisabeth A. Scribner
2007, Techniques and Methods 5-A9
An analytical method for the determination of isoxaflutole and its sequential degradation products, diketonitrile and a benzoic acid analogue, in filtered water with varying matrices was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey Organic Geochemistry Research Group in Lawrence, Kansas. Four different water-sample matrices fortified at 0.02 and 0.10 ug/L (micrograms...
Chemical and hydrologic data from the Cement Creek and upper Animas River confluence and mixing zone, Silverton, Colorado, September 1997
Laurence E. Schemel, Marisa H. Cox
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1048
Cement Creek, an acidic tributary, discharges into the circum-neutral Animas River (pH>7) in Silverton, Colorado located in the high-elevation San Juan Mountains. Mixing of Animas River water with acidic metal rich Cement Creek water raises water pH and produces metal precipitates. This report presents selected anion, cation, chloride, and sulfate...
Characterization of habitat and biological communities at fixed sites in the Great Salt Lake basins, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, water years 1999-2001
Christine M. Albano, Elise M. P. Giddings
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5300
Habitat and biological communities were sampled at 10 sites in the Great Salt Lake Basins as part of the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment program to assess the occurrence and distribution of biological organisms in relation to environmental conditions. Sites were distributed among the Bear River, Weber River, and...
Application of a Two-Dimensional Reservoir Water-Quality Model of Beaver Lake, Arkansas, for the Evaluation of Simulated Changes in Input Water Quality, 2001-2003
Joel M. Galloway, W. Reed Green
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5302
Beaver Lake is considered a primary watershed of concern in the State of Arkansas. As such, information is needed to assess water quality, especially nutrient enrichment, nutrient-algal relations, turbidity, and sediment issues within the system. A previously calibrated two-dimensional, laterally averaged model of hydrodynamics and water quality was used for...
Geologic Mapping and Mineral Resource Assessment of the Healy and Talkeetna Mountains Quadrangles, Alaska Using Minimal Cloud- and Snow-Cover ASTER Data
Bernard E. Hubbard, Lawrence C. Rowan, Cynthia Dusel-Bacon, Robert G. Eppinger
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1046
On July 8, 2003, ASTER acquired satellite imagery of a 60 km-wide swath of parts of two 1:250,000 Alaska quadrangles, under favorable conditions of minimal cloud- and snow-cover. Rocks from eight different lithotectonic terranes are exposed within the swath of data, several of which define permissive tracts for various mineral...
Divisions of Geologic Time—Major Chronostratigraphic and Geochronologic Units
U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Names Committee
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3015
Effective communication in the geosciences requires consistent uses of stratigraphic nomenclature, especially divisions of geologic time. A geologic time scale is composed of standard stratigraphic divisions based on rock sequences and calibrated in years. Over the years, the development of new dating methods and refinement of previous ones have stimulated...
Streamflow and nutrient fluxes of the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin and subbasins for the period of record through 2005
Brent T. Aulenbach, Herbert T. Buxton, William A. Battaglin, Richard H. Coupe
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1080
U.S. Geological Survey has monitored streamflow and water quality systematically in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB) for more than five decades. This report provides streamflow and estimates of nutrient delivery (flux) to the Gulf of Mexico from both the Atchafalaya River and the main stem of the Mississippi River. This...
Floodwater chemistry in the Yolo Bypass during winter and spring, 1998
Laurence E. Schemel, Marisa H. Cox
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1025
A preliminary investigation of temporal and spatial variations in floodwater chemistry was conducted during winter and spring 1998 in the Yolo Bypass floodplain of the Sacramento River system. Samples were collected at locations along the eastern margin of the floodplain over the duration of the study and across the floodplain...
Geochemistry of Surface and Ground Water in Cement Creek from Gladstone to Georgia Gulch and in Prospect Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado
Raymond H. Johnson, Laurie Wirt, Andrew H. Manning, Kenneth J. Leib, David L. Fey, Douglas B. Yager
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1004
In San Juan County, Colo., the effects of historical mining continue to contribute metals to ground water and surface water. Previous research by the U.S. Geological Survey identified ground-water discharge as a significant pathway for the loading of metals to surface water in the upper Animas River watershed from both...
Sequential Extraction Results and Mineralogy of Mine Waste and Stream Sediments Associated With Metal Mines in Vermont, Maine, and New Zealand
N.M. Piatak, R.R. Seal II, R. F. Sanzolone, P. J. Lamothe, Z. A. Brown, M. Adams
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1063
We report results from sequential extraction experiments and the quantitative mineralogy for samples of stream sediments and mine wastes collected from metal mines. Samples were from the Elizabeth, Ely Copper, and Pike Hill Copper mines in Vermont, the Callahan Mine in Maine, and the Martha Mine in New Zealand. The...
Report on the final completion of the Unified Lunar Control Network 2005 and Lunar Topographic Model
Brent A. Archinal, Mark R. Rosiek, Randolph L. Kirk, Trent M. Hare, Bonnie L. Redding
2007, Conference Paper, ISPRS Working Group IV/7 Extraterrestrial Mapping: Advances in Planetary Mapping 2007
In order to highlight this project to the extraterrestrial mapping community, we repeat here our earlier abstract [1], with a corrected Figure 2. A report describing the Unified Lunar Control Network 2005 and the files associated with that network is now available as an on-line USGS Open-File Report [2] at...
Tectonic elements of the continental margin of East Antarctica, 38-164ºE
P. E. O’Brien, H.M.J. Stagg
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1047-SRP-085
The East Antarctic continental margin from 38–164ºE is divided into western and eastern provinces that developed during the separation of India from Australia–Antarctica (Early Cretaceous) and Australia from Antarctica (Late Cretaceous). In the overlap between these provinces the geology is complex and bears the imprint of both extension/spreading episodes, with...
