Digital-model study of ground-water hydrology, Columbia Basin Irrigation Project Area, Washington
H.H. Tanaka, A. J. Hansen Jr., J.A. Skrivan
1974, Water Supply Bulletin 40
Since 1952 water diverted from the Columbia River at Grand Coulee Dam has been used to irrigate parts of the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project area in eastern Washington, and as a result ground-water levels generally have risen in the area. The rapid increases in ground-water inflow, outflow, and storage from...
The availability of water in the Little Lost River Basin, Idaho
Alfred Clebsch Jr., H.A. Waite, S.O. Decker
1974, Water Information Bulletin 37
The Little Lost River basin, an elongated, northwest trending structurally formed intermontane valley, drains an area of about 900 square miles into a closed depression near the northwestern edge of the Snake River Plain. Runoff from snowmelt and rainfall on the Lost River Range on the west and the Lemhi...
A progress report on results of test drilling and ground-water investigations of the Snake Plain aquifer, southeastern Idaho: Part 3: Lake Walcott-Bonanza Lake area
E. G. Crosthwaite
1974, Water Information Bulletin 38
Direct-current resistivity soundings and exploratory drilling suggest that the basalt of the Snake River Group is relatively thin in the area along the Snake River that is topographically suitable for pumping large quantities of ground water in exchange for surface water. The formations underlying the Snake River Group appear to...
Application of digital modeling to the prediction of radioisotope migration in ground water
J.B. Robertson
1974, Conference Paper, Isotope Techniques in Groundwater Hydrology
Recently developed numerical techniques have been adapted to the solution of transient radioactive solute migration problems in groundwater....
Quality of water in the Red River alluvial aquifer, Shreveport, to the mouth of the Black River, Louisiana
A. H. Ludwig
1974, Report
Chemical analyses of water samples from 296 wells in the Red River alluvial aquifer indicate that the ground water in the valley is generally hard (more than 120 milligrams per liter) and has a high iron concentration (greater than 6,000 micrograms per liter). The predominant ions found in the water...
Geology and ground-water resources of Gordon, Whitfield, and Murray Counties, Georgia
Charles W. Cressler
1974, Information Circular 47
No abstract available....
Hydrologic reconnaissance of the Wah Wah Valley drainage basin, Millard and Beaver Counties, Utah
Jerry C. Stephens
1974, Technical Publication 47
The Wah Wah Valley drainage basin is an area of about 600 square miles (1,550 km2) in Millard and Beaver Counties in southwestern Utah. Surface-water supplies of the area are negligible--total runoff averages about 7,800 acre-feet (9.62 hm3) annually, all streams are ephemeral or intermittent, and surface storage is negligible....
Hydrologic Data from the Piceance Basin, Colorado
John F. Ficke, John B. Weeks, Frank A. Welder
1974, Colorado Division of Water Resources Basic-Data Release 31
No abstract available....
Water resources data for California, 1973; Part 1: Surface water records; Volume 2: Northern Great Basin and Central Valley
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1974, Water Data Report CA-73-1-2
Surface-water records for the 1973 water year for California, including records of streamflow or reservoir storage at gaging stations, partial-record stations, and miscellaneous sites, are given in this report, Records for a few pertinent gaging stations in bordering States also are included, The records were collected and computed by the...
Water resources inventory of Connecticut Part 5: lower Housatonic River basin
William E. Wilson, Edward L. Burke, Chester E. Thomas Jr.
1974, Connecticut Water Resources Bulletin 19
The 557 square miles of the lower Housatonic River basin in western Connecticut include the basins of two major tributaries, the Pomperaug and Naugatuck Rivers. Nearly all water is derived from precipitation, which averaged 47 inches per year during 1931-60, In this period an additional 570 billion gallons of water...
Tour guide: John Wesley Powell Federal Building
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1974, Report
Data from 5,594 samples collected from 1931 through 2006 were used to describe naturally occurring fluoride concentrations in freshwater aquifers in Louisiana. Statistical analyses were used to summarize fluoride concentrations in the aquifers....
New activities at the U.S. Geological Survey
Vincent E. McKelvey
1974, Report
As the Nation's principal source of information about the configuration of the land surface, the composition and structure of the rocks at and beneath the surface, the distribution and character of its energy, mineral, and water resources, and the nature of natural geologic processes, the U. S. Geological Survey focuses...
Studying the Earth from space
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1974, Report
Pictures of the Earth's surface obtained from satellites are providing scientists with new tools to investigate tne Earth and its environment. A growing population and an everexpanding technology place demands on our natural resources. However, man can no longer treat his resources strictly according to immediate economic dictates; a balance...
Ground-water resources, Allegheny River basin and part of the Lake Erie basin, New York
M. H. Frimpter
1974, Basin Planning Report ARB-2
Water resources data for New Mexico, water year 1973; Part 1. Surface water records
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1974, Water Data Report NM-73-1
Surface-water records for the 1973 calendar year for New Mexico, including records of streamflow or reservoir storage at gaging stations, partial-record stations, and miscellaneous sites, are given in this report and their locations shown in figures 1, 2. Records for a 'few pertinent gaging stations in bordering States also are...
Ground-water resources of the western Oswego River basin, New York
L.J. Crain
1974, Basin Planning Report ORB-5
Abstracting and indexing guide
U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Water Resources Research
1974, Monograph 501
These instructions have been prepared for those who abstract and index scientific and technical documents for the Water Resources Scientific Information Center (WRSIC). With the recent publication growth in all fields, information centers have undertaken the task of keeping the various scientific communities aware of current and past developments. An...
Obsidian hydration profile measurements using a nuclear reaction technique
R.R. Lee, D.A. Leich, T.A. Tombrello, J.E. Ericson, I. Friedman
1974, Nature (250) 44-47
AMBIENT water diffuses into the exposed surfaces of obsidian, forming a hydration layer which increases in thickness with time to a maximum depth of 20–40 µm (ref. 1), this layer being the basic foundation of obsidian dating2,3....
Measurement in a marine environment using low cost sensors of temperature and dissolved oxygen
F.A. Godshall, R. L. Cory, D.E. Phinney
1974, Chesapeake Science (15) 178-181
Continuous records of physical parameters of the marine environment are difficult as well as expensive to obtain. This paper describes preliminary results of an investigative program with the purpose of developing low cost time integrating measurement and averaging devices for water temperature and dissolved oxygen.Measurements were made in an estuarine...
The status of the light-footed clapper rail
S.R. Wilbur
1974, American Birds (28) 868-870
Only 12 California marsh areas are presently believed to be inhabited by the Light-footed Clapper Rail, and eight of these appear to support only 5-15 birds apiece. Tentative estimates for the other four are: Anaheim Bay 200, Upper Newport 30-35, Los Penasquitos 30, and Tijuana Estuary 150. These...
Range expansion and population increase of the gadwall in eastern North America
Charles J. Henny, N.E. Holgersen
1974, Wildfowl (25) 95-101
A disjunct breeding population of Gadwall in eastern North America was first recorded in 1939 This population has extended its range during recent years to the point where it is now found breeding in more than thirty locations (primarily National Wildlife Refuges and Wildlife Management Areas). These are 1,600-2,000 km...
Percutaneous absorption of several chemicals, some pesticides included, in the red-winged blackbird
J.G. Rogers Jr., R.H. Cagan, M.R. Kare
1974, Environmental Physiology and Biochemistry (4) 104-111
Percutaneous absorption in vivo through the skin of the feet of the red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) has been investigated. Absorption after 18-24 hours exposure to 0.01 M solutions of salicylic acid, caffeine, urea, 2,4-D, dieldrin, diethylstilbesterol, and DDT was measured. Of these, only DDT and diethylstilbesterol were not...
The National Center of the U.S. Geological Survey
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1974, Report
In August of 1973, the U. S. Geological Survey moved its first group of employees into the John Wesley Powell Federal Building of its newly constructed National Center at Reston, Virginia. The move signaled the fruition of more than a decade of planning and work to consolidate the agency's widespread...
An Anvilian (early pleistocene) marine fauna from western Seward Peninsula, Alaska
D.M. Hopkins, R.W. Rowland, R.E. Echols, P. C. Valentine
1974, Quaternary Research (4) 441-470
Cover sediments of the York Terrace exposed near the California River, western Seward Peninsula, Alaska, yield mollusks, ostracodes, and foraminifera that lived during the Anvilian transgression of early Pleistocene age. The fossiliferous sediments lie at the inner edge of the York Terrace, a...
Bimodal tholeiitic-dacitic magmatism and the Early Precambrian crust
F. Barker, Z. E. Peterman
1974, Precambrian Research (1) 1-12
Interlayered plagioclase-quartz gneisses and amphibolites from 2.7 to more than 3.6 b.y. old form much of the basement underlying Precambrian greenstone belts of the world; they are especially well-developed and preserved in the Transvaal and Rhodesian cratons. We postulate that these basement rocks are largely a metamorphosed, volcanic, bimodal suite...
