Documentation for 2003 USGS Seismic Hazard Maps for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
C.S. Mueller, A.D. Frankel, M.D. Petersen, E. V. Leyendecker
2003, Open-File Report 2003-379
Historical Dates of Ice-Affected Flows for 18 Rivers in New England
Glenn A. Hodgkins, James M. Caldwell, Robert W. Dudley
2003, Open-File Report 2003-245
Historical dates of ice-affected flows for 18 rivers in New England were compiled and are presented in this report. The length of this record for the rivers ranges from 48 to 71 years, with an average of 62 years. The minimum number of days of ice-affected flow in a water...
Data model and relational database design for the New Jersey Water-Transfer Data System (NJWaTr)
Steven Tessler
2003, Open-File Report 2003-197
The New Jersey Water-Transfer Data System (NJWaTr) is a database design for the storage and retrieval of water-use data. NJWaTr can manage data encompassing many facets of water use, including (1) the tracking of various types of water-use activities (withdrawals, returns, transfers, distributions, consumptive-use, wastewater collection, and treatment); (2) the...
Water and Sediment Quality in the Yukon River Basin, Alaska, During Water Year 2001
Paul F. Schuster
2003, Open-File Report 2003-427
Overview -- This report contains water-quality and sediment-quality data from samples collected in the Yukon River Basin during water year 2001 (October 2000 through September 2001). A broad range of chemical and biological analyses from three sets of samples are presented. First, samples were collected throughout the year at five...
Hydrologic, water-quality, and biological data for three water bodies, Texas Gulf Coastal Plain, 2000-2002
Jeffery W. East, Jennifer L. Hogan
2003, Open-File Report 2003-459
During July 2000–September 2002, the U.S. Geological Survey collected and analyzed site-specific hydrologic, water-quality, and biological data in Dickinson Bayou, Armand Bayou, and the San Bernard River in the Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas. Segments of the three water bodies are on the State 303(d) list. Continuous monitoring showed that...
Mapping the floor of Lake Mead (Nevada and Arizona): Preliminary discussion and GIS data release
David C. Twichell, VeeAnn A. Cross, Stephen D. Belew
2003, Open-File Report 2003-320
A Pictorial Survey of the Bedrock beneath Western Cape Cod, Massachusetts
B.W. Hallett, V.F. Paskevich, L. J. Poppe, S.G. Brand, D.S. Blackwood
2003, Open-File Report 2003-221
Paleomagnetism of basaltic lava flows in coreholes ICPP-213, ICPP-214, ICPP-215, and USGS 128 near the Vadose Zone Research Park, Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho
Duane E. Champion, Theodore C. Herman
2003, Open-File Report 2003-483
A paleomagnetic study was conducted on basalt from 41 lava flows represented in about 2,300 ft of core from coreholes ICPP-213, ICPP-214, ICPP-215, and USGS 128. These wells are in the area of the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center (INTEC) Vadose Zone Research Park within the Idaho National Engineering...
Spatial digital database for the geologic map of Oregon
George W. Walker, Norman S. MacLeod, Robert J. Miller, Gary L. Raines, Katherine A. Connors
2003, Open-File Report 2003-67
Introduction This report describes and makes available a geologic digital spatial database (orgeo) representing the geologic map of Oregon (Walker and MacLeod, 1991). The original paper publication was printed as a single map sheet at a scale of 1:500,000, accompanied by a second sheet containing map unit descriptions and ancillary data....
Lithologic coring in the lower Anacostia tidal watershed, Washington, D.C., July 2002
Frederick J. Tenbus
2003, Open-File Report 2003-318
Little is known about the volumetric flux of ground water to the lower tidal Anacostia River, or whether ground-water flow is an important component of the contaminant load in this part of the Anacostia River. The watershed is in the eastern part of Washington, D.C., and has been subjected to...
Selected hydrogeologic datasets for the Chicot Aquifer, Texas
Eric W. Strom, Natalie A. Houston, C. Amanda Garcia
2003, Open-File Report 2003-297
No abstract available....
Shapefile of the Elevation of the Bedrock Surface Beneath the Rocky Flats Alluvial Fan, Boulder and Jefferson Counties, Colorado
Daniel H. Knepper
2003, Open-File Report 2003-443
The Rocky Flats alluvial fan is a large early Pleistocene gravel deposit at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon along the eastern flank of the Colorado Front Range in Jefferson and Boulder Counties, Colorado. Elevations of the bedrock surface beneath the alluvial fan gravels have been compiled at selected...
Alaska resource data file: Juneau quadrangle
John C. Barnett, Lance D. Miller
2003, Open-File Report 2003-456
Descriptions of the mineral occurrences shown on the accompanying figure follow. See U.S. Geological Survey (1996) for a description of the information content of each field in the records. The data presented here are maintained as part of a statewide database on mines, prospects and mineral occurrences throughout Alaska....
Alaska resource data file: Talkeetna Mountains quadrangle
Robert K. Rogers, Jeanine M. Schmidt
2003, Open-File Report 2003-457
Descriptions of the mineral occurrences shown on the accompanying figure follow. See U.S. Geological Survey (1996) for a description of the information content of each field in the records. The data presented here are maintained as part of a statewide database on mines, prospects and mineral occurrences throughout Alaska....
Selected hydrogeologic datasets for the Ogallala Aquifer, Texas
Natalie A. Houston, C. Amanda Garcia, Eric W. Strom
2003, Open-File Report 2003-296
No abstract available....
Archive of digital boomer seismic reflection data collected during USGS cruises 94GFP01, 95GFP01, 96GFP01, 97GFP01, and 98GFP02 in Lakes Pontchartrain, Borgne, and Maurepas, Louisiana, 1994-1998
Karynna Calderon, Shawn V. Dadisman, Jack L. Kindinger, S. Jeffress Williams, James G. Flocks, Shea Penland, Dana S. Wiese
2003, Open-File Report 2003-497
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the University of New Orleans, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the University of Georgia, conducted five geophysical surveys of Lakes...
Selected hydrogeologic datasets for the Evangeline Aquifer, Texas
Eric W. Strom, Natalie A. Houston, C. Amanda Garcia
2003, Open-File Report 2003-298
No abstract available....
An Allocation of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources to Gauley River National Recreation Area and New River Gorge National River, West Virginia
Christopher J. Schenk, Timothy R. Klett, Ronald R. Charpentier, Troy A. Cook, Robert A. Crovelli, Richard M. Pollastro, Robert C. Milici
2003, Open-File Report 2003-396
The U.S. Geological Survey estimated volumes of undiscovered oil and gas resources that may underlie Gauley River National Recreation Area and New River Gorge National River in West Virginia. Using the results of an assessment of undiscovered resources from ten assessment units in the Appalachian Basin Province that include these...
Geologic map of the Winchester quadrangle, Frederick County, Virginia
Randall C. Orndorff, David J. Weary, Ronald A. Parker
2003, Open-File Report 2003-461
The Winchester 1:24,000-scale quadrangle is one of several quadrangles in Frederick County, Virginia being mapped by geologists from the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, VA with funding from the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program. This work is part of a project being lead by...
Assessment of the Mesaverde Total Petroleum System in Southwestern Wyoming Province: a petroleum system approach to assessing undiscovered oil and gas resources
Ronald C. Johnson, Thomas M. Finn
2003, Open-File Report 2003-472
The U.S. Geological Survey, in a recent assessment of the undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Southwestern Wyoming Province using a Total Petroleum System (TPS) approach, estimated a mean of 84.6 trillion cubic feet of gas (TCFG), 131 million barrels of oil (MMBO)...
MODFLOW-2000, the U.S. Geological Survey Modular Ground-Water Model--Documentation of the SEAWAT-2000 Version with the Variable-Density Flow Process (VDF) and the Integrated MT3DMS Transport Process (IMT)
Christian D. Langevin, W. Barclay Shoemaker, Weixing Guo
2003, Open-File Report 2003-426
SEAWAT-2000 is the latest release of the SEAWAT computer program for simulation of three-dimensional, variable-density, transient ground-water flow in porous media. SEAWAT-2000 was designed by combining a modified version of MODFLOW-2000 and MT3DMS into a single computer program. The code was developed using the MODFLOW-2000 concept of a process, which...
Chemical analyses of ground and surface waters, Ester Dome, central Alaska, 2000-2001
P. L. Verplanck, S. H. Mueller, E. K. Youcha, R.J. Goldfarb, R. F. Sanzolone, R. Blaine McCleskey, Paul H. Briggs, M. Roller, M. Adams, D. Kirk Nordstrom
2003, Open-File Report 2003-244
Water analyses are reported for ground and surface waters collected at 33 sites on and near Ester Dome, Fairbanks area, central Alaska during 2000-2001. This interdisciplinary study focused on documenting the temporal and spatial chemical variations in arsenic concentrations to elucidate the processes that lead to elevated arsenic concentrations in...
Fish distribution and valley segment type data from Ohio Aquatic Gap Analysis Project (GAP)
S. Alex Covert, Stephanie P. Kula
2003, Open-File Report 2003-194
Selected hydrogeologic datasets for the Jasper Aquifer, Texas
Eric W. Strom, Natalie A. Houston, C. Amanda Garcia
2003, Open-File Report 2003-299
No abstract available....
Deaggregation of U.S. Seismic Hazard Sources: The 2002 Update
S. C. Harmsen, A.D. Frankel, M.D. Petersen
2003, Open-File Report 2003-440