Thickness of Santa Fe Group sediments in the Espanola Basin south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, as estimated from aeromagnetic data
Jeffrey D. Phillips, V. J. S. Grauch
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1354
In the southern Espa?ola basin south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, weakly magnetic Santa Fe Group sediments of Oligocene to Pleistocene age, which represent the primary aquifers for the region, are locally underlain by moderately to strongly magnetic igneous and volcaniclastic rocks of Oligocene age. Where this relationship exists, the...
Water-level changes 2000-2004 in the Chicot and Evangeline Aquifers, Houston-Galveston Region, Texas
Mark C. Kasmarek
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1407
This report depicts 2000–2004 water-level changes in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers in the Houston-Galveston region (figs. 1 and 2). The Houston-Galveston region comprises Harris, Galveston, Fort Bend, Waller, and Montgomery Counties and adjacent parts of Brazoria, Grimes, Walker, San Jacinto, Liberty, and Chambers Counties. The report was prepared in...
Environmental assessment survey of the vegetation surrounding a Lower Wilcox Group coal gas well site
John W. McCoy
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1405
This environmental assessment was conducted to examine the impacts on vegetation of the drilling and operation of a coal gas well located along Hwy 134 about 5 miles (8 km) east of Fairbanks, La. The drill site is 85 meters north of Hwy 134 and operations at the well were...
Water-quality and amphibian population data for Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, 2001-2004
Karen C. Rice, Robin E. Jung
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1401
Data on the chemical composition of water and on amphibian populations were collected at least annually from vernal pool and stream sites in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, from 2001 through 2004. The data were collected as part of long-term monitoring projects of the Northeast Region of the Amphibian Research...
Analyses of coal from the ferron sandstone member of the Mancos Shale near Emery, Utah
Charles E. Barker
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1279
Water resources in the Wardensville Area, Hardy County, West Virginia, October 2003-May 2004
Ronald D. Evaldi, Kurt J. McCoy
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1363
Communities within the Valley and Ridge Physiographic Province of West Virginia are concerned about the availability and sustainability of their water supplies. The water resources of the Wardensville area of West Virginia were investigated and data sources were reviewed that will be useful in similar resource assessments elsewhere in the...
China?s growing appetite for minerals
David Menzie, Pui-Kwan Tse, Mike Fenton, John Jorgenson, Hendrik van Oss
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1374
During the last 15 years, China's economy and consumption have grown rapidly. This report contains figures and notes from a talk that discusses China's increasing consumption of aluminum, cement, coal, copper, iron ore, petroleum, and steel in context of its developing economy....
Digital engineering aspects of karst map: A GIS version of Davies, W.E., Simpson, J.H., Ohlmacher, G.C., Kirk, W.S., and Newton, E.G., 1984, Engineering aspects of karst: U.S. Geological Survey, National atlas of the United States of America, scale 1:7,500,000
Bret D. Tobin, David J. Weary
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1352
These data are digital facsimiles of the original 1984 Engineering Aspects of Karst map by Davies and others. This data set was converted from a printed map to a digital GIS coverage to provide users with a citable national scale karst data set to use for graphic and demonstration purposes...
Bedrock geologic map of the Port Wing, Solon Springs, and parts of the Duluth and Sandstone 30' X 60' quadrangles, Wisconsin
S. W. Nicholson, W.F. Cannon, L. G. Woodruff, Connie Dicken
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1303
This Open-File Report provides digital data (shapefiles and .e00 files) for the bedrock geology in the Port Wing, Solon Springs, and parts of the Duluth and Sandstone quadrangles in Wisconsin. A Miscellaneous Investigations Series map (I map) is currently in review with analogous data in paper format.This map...
Binational digital soils map of the Ambos Nogales watershed, southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico
Laura Norman
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1335
We have prepared a digital map of soil parameters for the international Ambos Nogales watershed to use as input for selected soils-erosion models. The Ambos Nogales watershed in southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico, contains the Nogales wash, a tributary of the Upper Santa Cruz River. The watershed covers...
Results of coal bed methane drilling, Mylan Park, Monongalia County, West Virginia
Leslie F. Ruppert, Nick Fedorko, Peter D. Warwick, William C. Grady, Robert D. Crangle Jr., James Q. Britton
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1402
The Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory funded drilling of a borehole (39.64378 deg E , -80.04376 deg N) to evaluate the potential for coal bed methane and carbon dioxide sequestration at Mylan Park, Monongalia County, West Virginia. The drilling commenced on September 23, 2002 and was completed on...
Base-flow data in the Arnold Air Force Base area, Tennessee, June and October 2002
John A. Robinson, Connor J. Haugh
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1318
Arnold Air Force Base (AAFB) occupies about 40,000 acres in Coffee and Franklin Counties, Tennessee. The primary mission of AAFB is to support the development of aerospace systems. This mission is accomplished through test facilities at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC), which occupies about 4,000 acres in the center of...
Data on sediment quality and concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls from the Lower Neponset River, Massachusetts, 2002-03
Robert F. Breault, Matthew G. Cooke, Michael Merrill
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1280
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs Department of Fish and Game Riverways Program, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, studied sediment and water quality in the lower Neponset River, which is a tributary to Boston Harbor. Grab and core samples of sediment...
Selected Streamflow Statistics for Streamgaging Stations in Delaware, 2003
Kernell G. Ries III
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1313
Flow-duration and low-flow frequency statistics were calculated for 15 streamgaging stations in Delaware, in cooperation with the Delaware Geological Survey. The flow-duration statistics include the 1-, 2-, 5-, 10-, 20-, 30-, 40-, 50-, 60-, 70-, 80-, 90-, 95-, 98-, and 99-percent duration discharges. The low-flow frequency statistics include the average...
Direct current resistivity profiling to study distribution of water in the unsaturated zone near the Amargosa Desert Research Site, Nevada
Jared D. Abraham, Jeffrey E. Lucius
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1319
In order to study the distribution of water in the unsaturated zone and potential for ground-water recharge near the Amargosa Desert Research Site south of Beatty, Nevada, the U.S. Geological Survey collected direct-current resistivity measurements along three profiles in May 2003 using an eight-channel resistivity imaging system. Resistivity data were...
Organic contaminants associated with suspended sediment collected during five cruises of the Mississippi River and its principal tributaries, May 1988 to June 1990
Colleen E. Rostad, LaDonna M. Bishop, Geoffrey S. Ellis, Thomas J. Leiker, Stephanie G. Monsterleet, Wilfred E. Pereira
2004, Open-File Report 93-360
Suspended-sediment samples were obtained from sites along the Mississippi River and its principal tributaries to determine the presence of halogenated hydrophobic organic compounds on the suspended sediment smaller than 63 micrometers. Sample collection involved pumping discharge-weighted volumes of river water along a cross section of the river into a continuous-flow...
Surface-water quality-assurance plan for the U.S. Geological Survey Washington Water Science Center
David L. Kresch, Stewart A. Tomlinson
2004, Open-File Report 2003-490
This Surface-Water Quality-Assurance Plan documents the standards, policies, and procedures used by the U.S. Geological Survey's Washington District, Water Resources Discipline office, also known as the Washington Water Science Center, for activities related to the collection, processing, storage, analysis, and publication of surface-water data. This plan serves as a guide...
A Forest Vegetation Database for Western Oregon
Richard T. Busing
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1249
Data on forest vegetation in western Oregon were assembled for 2323 ecological survey plots. All data were from fixed-radius plots with the standardized design of the Current Vegetation Survey (CVS) initiated in the early 1990s. For each site, the database includes: 1) live tree density and basal area of common...
Water-level altitudes 2003 and water-level changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper aquifers and compaction 1973–2015 in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers, Houston-Galveston region, Texas
M. C. Kasmarek, Jennifer Lanning-Rush
2004, Open-File Report 2003-109
This report is one in an annual series of reports that depicts water-level altitudes and water-level changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper aquifers, and compaction in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers in the Houston-Galveston region. The Houston-Galveston region comprises Harris, Galveston, Fort Bend, Waller, and Montgomery Counties and adjacent...
Guidelines for surveying bankfull channel geometry and developing regional hydraulic-geometry relations for streams of New York State
Rocky O. Powell, Sarah J. Miller, Britt E. Westergard, Christiane I. Mulvihill, Barry P. Baldigo, Anne S. Gallagher, Richard R. Starr
2004, Open-File Report 2003-92
Many disturbed streams within New York State are being restored in an effort to provide bank and bed stability and thereby decrease sedimentation and erosion. Efforts to identify and provide accurate indicators for stable-channel characteristics for ungaged streams have been hampered by the lack of regional equations or relations that...
Potentiometric surface of the upper Floridan aquifer in the St. Johns River Water Management District and vicinity, Florida, May 2003
Sandra L. Kinnaman, Leel Knowles Jr.
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1077
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Potentiometric Surface of the Upper Floridan Aquifer, West-Central Florida, May 2003
Robert Allen Blanchard, A.V. Seidenfeld, David S. McCulloch
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1079
Water-level altitudes 2004 and water-level changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper aquifers and compaction 1973-2003 in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers, Houston-Galveston region, Texas
Mark C. Kasmarek, Jennifer Lanning-Rush
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1084
This report is one in an annual series of reports that depicts water-level altitudes and water-level changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper aquifers, and compaction in the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers in the Houston-Galveston region. The Houston-Galveston region comprises Harris, Galveston, Fort Bend, Waller, and Montgomery Counties and adjacent...
Computation of Flow Through Water-Control Structures Using Program DAMFLO.2
Curtis L. Sanders Jr., Toby D. Feaster
2004, Open-File Report 2003-473
As part of its mission to collect, analyze, and store streamflow data, the U.S. Geological Survey computes flow through several dam structures throughout the country. Flows are computed using hydraulic equations that describe flow through sluice and Tainter gates, crest gates, lock gates, spillways, locks, pumps, and siphons, which are...
Benthic foraminiferal census data from Gulf of Mexico cores (Texas and Louisiana continental shelf)
Lisa E. Osterman, Kate Pavich, Jessica Caplan
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1209
