Comprehensive Areal Model of Earthquake-Induced Landslides: Technical Specification and User Guide
Scott B. Miles, David K. Keefer
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1072
This report describes the complete design of a comprehensive areal model of earthquakeinduced landslides (CAMEL). This report presents the design process, technical specification of CAMEL. It also provides a guide to using the CAMEL source code and template ESRI ArcGIS map document file for applying CAMEL, both of which can...
Preliminary Surficial Geology of the Dove Spring Off-Highway Vehicle Open Area, Mojave Desert, California
David M. Miller, Lee Amoroso
2007, Open-File Report 2006-1265
Introduction As part of a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) monitoring plan to evaluate the environmental impact of off-highway vehicle (OHV) use on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in California, this report presents results of geologic studies in the Dove Spring OHV Open Area. This study produced baseline data, which when...
Geographic Analysis and Monitoring Program
Jon C. Campbell
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3030
The surface of the Earth is changing rapidly, at local, regional, national, and global scales, with significant repercussions for people, the economy, and the environment. Some changes have natural causes, such as wildland fires or hurricanes, while other changes on the land, such as resource extraction, agricultural practices, and urban...
Summary of ground-water-quality data in the Anacostia River watershed, Washington, D.C., September-December 2005
Cheryl A. Klohe, Linda M. Debrewer
2007, Open-File Report 2006-1392
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the District Department of the Environment (formerly the District of Columbia, Department of Health, Environmental Health Administration), conducted a ground-water-quality investigation in the Anacostia River watershed within Washington, D.C. Samples were collected and analyzed from 17 ground-water monitoring wells located within the study...
Hydraulic Geometry Characteristics of Continuous-Record Streamflow-Gaging Stations on Four Urban Watersheds Along the Main Stem of Gwynns Falls, Baltimore County and Baltimore City, Maryland
Edward J. Doheny, Gary T. Fisher
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5190
Four continuous-record streamflow-gaging stations are currently being operated by the U.S. Geological Survey on the main stem of Gwynns Falls in western Baltimore County and Baltimore City, Maryland. The four streamflow-gaging stations drain urban or suburban watersheds with significantly different drainage areas. In addition to providing continuous- record discharge data...
Petroleum systems and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas in the Raton Basin – Sierra Grande Uplift Province, Colorado and New Mexico — USGS Province 41
Debra K. Higley
2007, Data Series 69-N
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 resources of the...
Color shaded-relief and surface-classification maps of the Fish Creek Area, Harrison Bay Quadrangle, Northern Alaska
John L. Mars, Christopher P. Garrity, David W. Houseknecht, Lee Amoroso, Donald C. Meares
2007, Scientific Investigations Map 2948
The northeastern part of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) has become an area of active petroleum exploration during the past five years. Recent leasing and exploration drilling in the NPRA requires the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to manage and monitor a variety of surface activities that...
Methods for Estimating Annual Wastewater Nutrient Loads in the Southeastern United States
Gerard McMahon, Larinda Tervelt, William Donehoo
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1040
This report describes an approach for estimating annual total nitrogen and total phosphorus loads from point-source dischargers in the southeastern United States. Nutrient load estimates for 2002 were used in the calibration and application of a regional nutrient model, referred to as the SPARROW (SPAtially Referenced Regression On Watershed attributes)...
Archival policies and collections database for the Woods Hole Science Center's marine sediment samples
Brian J. Buczkowski, Sarah A. Kelsey
2007, Open-File Report 2006-1187
The Woods Hole Science Center of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has been an active member of the Woods Hole research community, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, for over 40 years. In that time there have been many projects that involved the collection of sediment samples conducted by USGS scientists and technicians...
Vegetation response to climate change in Alaska: examples from the fossil record
Thomas A. Ager
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1096
Preface: This report was presented as an invited paper at the Fish & Wildlife Service Climate Forum held in Anchorage, Alaska on February 21-23, 2007. The purpose of the talk was to provide some examples of past climate changes that appear to have caused significant responses in Alaskan vegetation. These examples...
Seismology inside the fault zone: Applications to fault-zone properties and rupture dynamics
W.L. Ellsworth, P.E. Malin, K. Imanishi, S.W. Roecker, R. Nadeau, V. Oye, C.H. Thurber, F. Waldhauser, N. L. Boness, S.H. Hickman, M.D. Zobach
2007, Scientific Drilling 84-87
No abstract available....
Joint IODP-ICDP Workshop examines challenges of fault zone drilling
H. Tobin, H. Ito, Stephen H. Hickman, Gaku Kimura
2007, Scientific Drilling 5-16
No abstract available....
Surficial Geologic Map of the West Franklin Quadrangle, Vanderburgh and Posey Counties, Indiana, and Henderson County, Kentucky
David W. Moore, Wayne L. Newell, Ronald C. Counts, Gordon S. Fraser, David A. Fishbaugh, Theodore R. Brandt
2007, Scientific Investigations Map 2967
The valley of the Ohio River is filled with alluvium and outwash (unit Qal), which total 33-39 m thick under the land surface in the southeast part of the West Franklin quadrangle in Indiana, and 30.5-35 m thick under Diamond Island in the southwest corner of the quadrangle. The...
Questa baseline and pre-mining ground-water quality investigation 15.—Methods of phase II and III well installation and development and results of well logging, hydraulic testing, and water-level measurements in the Red River Valley, New Mexico, 2002-04
Paul J. Blanchard, James R. Bartolino, Lisa C. Donohoe, Douglas P. McAda, Cheryl A. Naus, Roger H. Morin
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5246
In April 2001, the U.S. Geological Survey and the New Mexico Environment Department began a cooperative study to infer the pre-mining ground-water chemistry at the Molycorp molybdenum mine site in the Red River Valley of north- central New Mexico. This report is one in a series of reports that can...
Effects of climatic extremes on ground water in western Utah, 1930-2005
Joseph S. Gates
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5045
Climatic extremes affect ground-water levels and quality in the basins of western Utah. The five droughts since 1930: 1930-36, 1953-65, 1974-78, 1988-93, and 1999-2004—resulted in much-less-than-average recharge, and the pronounced wet period of 1982-86 resulted in much-greater-than-average recharge. Decreased recharge lowered the ground-water level, and increased recharge raised it. These...
The National Map - Orthoimagery Layer
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3008
Many Federal, State, and local agencies use a common set of framework geographic information databases as a tool for economic and community development, land and natural resource management, and health and safety services. Emergency management and homeland security applications rely on this information. Private industry, nongovernmental organizations, and individual citizens...
Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3016
Description Fact sheet introduces the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) with images from a section of the mosaic over McMurdo Station, descriptions of the four versions of LIMA, where to access and download LIMA, and a brief explanation of the Antarctic Web portal....
ArcView Coal Evaluation User's Guide
William Watson
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1091
Purpose: The objective of the ArcView Coal Evaluation (ACE) is to estimate the amount and location of coal available to be mined by various coal mining technologies, based on the geologic coverages developed in the National Coal Resource Assessment (NCRA) which are the starting coverages used in the Geographic Information Systems...
Rainforest birds: A land manager's guide to breeding bird habitat in young conifer forests in the Pacific Northwest
Bob Altman, Joan Hagar
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5304
This document (hereafter Guide) has been prepared to assist land managers interested in conducting conservation and management activities to benefit breeding birds associated with young conifer forests in the Pacific Northwest. Audiences targeted for use of the Guide include land trusts, watershed councils, non-commercial private land owners, forest products companies,...
Site Report for USGS Test Holes Drilled at Cape Charles, Northampton County, Virginia, in 2004
Gregory S. Gohn, Ward E. Sanford, David S. Powars, J. Wright Horton Jr., Lucy E. Edwards, Roger H. Morin, Jean M. Self-Trail
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1094
The U.S. Geological Survey drilled two test holes near Cape Charles, Virginia, during May and June 2004, as part of an investigation of the buried, late Eocene Chesapeake Bay impact structure. The first hole is designated as the USGS-Sustainable Technology Park test hole #1 (USGS-STP1). This test hole was abandoned...
Terrestrial LIDAR investigation of the December 2003 and January 2007 activations of the Northridge Bluff landslide, Daly City, California
Brian D. Collins, Robert Kayen, Thomas Reiss, Nicholas Sitar
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1079
On December 20, 2003 and again on January 1, 2007, landslides occurred along the coastal bluff that forms the west boundary of Daly City, California sending debris as far as 290 meters downhill and 90 meters into the ocean. This area is known for large landslide events where 150-meter tall...
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 Map and Map Database of Eastern Sonoma and Western Napa Counties, California
R. W. Graymer, E. E. Brabb, D. L. Jones, J. Barnes, R.S. Nicholson, R.E. Stamski
2007, Scientific Investigations Map 2956
Introduction This report contains a new 1:100,000-scale geologic map, derived from a set of geologic map databases (Arc-Info coverages) containing information at 1:62,500-scale resolution, and a new description of the geologic map units and structural relations in the map area. Prepared as part of the San Francisco Bay Region Mapping Project,...
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...
A Roundtable on a National Framework for Natural Hazard Risk Reduction and Management: Developing a Research AgendaSummary Report
Carl D. Shapiro, Richard L. Bernknopf, Susan M. Wachter
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1106
Introduction This report summarizes discussion at the Roundtable on a National Framework for Risk Reduction and Management held on November 15, 2006, at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C. The Roundtable was cosponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Association of American Geographers (AAG), and The Wharton School, University of...
