Summary of the ground-water resources of the James River basin, Virginia
William Frances Lichtler, Robert L. Wait
1974, Open-File Report 74-139
Hydrology of the Dismal Swamp, Virginia-North Carolina
William Francis Lichtler, Patrick Neil Walker
1974, Open-File Report 74-39
The Dismal Swamp, on the border between eastern Virginia and North Carolina is one of the few remaining large (approximately 210,000 acres) areas of wet wilderness in the eastern United States. There has been much speculation concerning the hydrologic conditions that led to the formation of the swamp.Oaks and Coch...
Geothermal systems of northern Nevada
Richard Kenneth Hose, Bruce Edward Taylor
1974, Open-File Report 74-271
Hot springs are numerous and nearly uniformly distributed in northern Nevada. Most occur on the flanks of basins, along Basin and Range (late Miocene to Holocene) faults, while some occur in the inner parts of the basins. Surface temperatures of the springs range from slightly above ambient to, boiling; some...
Hydrology of the abandoned coal mines in the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania
Jerrald R. Hollowell
1974, Open-File Report 74-237
Mine-water discharge, into the Susquehanna River degrades the river's quality during periods of low flow to a point critical for subsistence of aquatic life. To determine what measures are required to provide a better quality mine-water discharge in the Wyoming Valley, mine hydrology and mine-water quality are related to mine-pool...
Analog-model studies of ground-water hydrology in the Houston District, Texas
Donald G. Jorgensen
1974, Open-File Report 74-113
The major water-bearing units in the Houston district are the Chicot and the Evangeline aquifers. The Chicot aquifer overlies the Evangeline aquifer, which is underlain by the Burkeville confining layer. Both aquifers consist of unconsolidated and discontinuous layers of sand and clay that dip toward the Gulf of Mexico. Heavy...
Summary appraisals of the Nation's ground-water resources; Texas Gulf region
E. T. Baker Jr., James Ray Wall
1974, Open-File Report 74-331
Ground water in the Texas-Gulf Region is a large and important resource that can provide a more significant percentage of the total water supply of the region. Total water requirements within the region are projected to rise sharply from 14 million acre-feet (17 cubic kilometres) in 1970 to nearly 26...
An investigation of basin effects on flood discharges in North Dakota
Orlo A. Crosby
1974, Open-File Report 74-346
An investigation of the relationship of peak discharge to causative storm variables and drainage-basin characteristics was made to provide guidelines for future analyses of frequency and magnitudes of floods from small drainage areas. The procedure used was (l) to estimate peak discharges on the ll study basins from multiple-regression models developed from the storm variables and...
Storage of low-level radioactive wastes in the ground; hydrogeologic and hydrochemical factors
Stavros Stefanu Papadopulos, Isaac Judah Winograd
1974, Open-File Report 74-344
The status of mathematical simulation techniques, as they apply to radioactive waste burial sites, is briefly reviewed, and hydrogeologic and hydrochemical data needs are listed in order of increasing difficulty and cost of acquisition. Predictive modeling, monitoring, and management of radionuclides dissolved and transported by ground water can best be...
Land-surface subsidence in the Houston-Galveston region, Texas
R.K. Gabrysch, C.W. Bonnet
1974, Open-File Report 74-123
The pumping of large amounts of ground water in the Houston-Galveston region, Texas, has resulted in water-level declines of as much as 200 feet (61 metres) in wells completed in the Chicot aquifer and as much as 325 feet (99 metres) in wells completed in the Evangeline aquifer during 1943-73....
Projected effects of the proposed Tennessee Colony Reservoir on ground-water conditions in the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer and Trinity River alluvium; Trinidad-Oakwood area, Texas
Sergio Garza
1974, Open-File Report 74-297
No abstract available....
Search for geothermal seismic noise in the East Mesa area, Imperial Valley, California
Hariharaiyer Mahadeva Iyer
1974, Open-File Report 74-96
The U. S. Geological Survey made seismic noise measurements in the East Mesa area of Imperial Valley, California, to find out if a noise anomaly was associated with the Mesa thermal anomaly. Thirty-three locations were occupied in the area using slow-speed tape-recording seismic systems. One of the stations (CEN) was...
Water-resources data collected in the Devils Hole area, Nevada, 1973-74
J. D. Larson
1974, Open-File Report 74-330
The U.S. Geological Survey collected water-level, spring-flow, and power-consumption data in the Devils Hole area from July 1973 through June 1974. The work for this second annual data report was financed by the National Park Service. The work for the first annual, report (Larson, 1974) was financed jointly by the...
Aeromagnetic map of the New Madrid region, Missouri-Kentucky-Arkansas-Tennessee
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1974, Open-File Report 74-360
No abstract available....
Summary of activities, U.S. Geological Survey Saudi Arabian project, 1950 to 1974
Thor H. Kiilsgaard
1974, Open-File Report 74-129
The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) first began work in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1950 under the sponsorship of the Ministry of Finance and National Economy. The basic objective of the work was to investigate the mineral and water resource potential in western Saudi Arabia, but little was...
Estimating mean streamflow in the Duchesne River basin, Utah
R.W. Cruff
1974, Open-File Report 74-214
Monthly, annual, and long-term mean streamflow were estimated for streams in the Duchesne River basin by use of the monthly measurement method. Monthly measurements were attempted at 44 sites in the basin during the 1971 and 1972 water years. Some measurements could not be made because some sites were not...
A special planning technique for stream-aquifer systems
C.T. Jenkins, O. James Taylor
1974, Open-File Report 74-242
The potential effects of water-management plans on stream-aquifer systems in several countries have been simulated using electric-analog or digital-computer models. Many of the electric-analog models require large amounts of hardware preparation for each problem to be solved and some become so bulky that they present serious space and access problems....
Sediment discharge in the Lake Tahoe basin, California, 1973 water year
Carl G. Kroll
1974, Open-File Report 74-259
Stratigraphy and nahcolite resources of the saline facies of the Green River Formation, Rio Blanco County, Colorado
John R. Dyni
1974, Open-File Report 74-56
Based on a study of 10 drill cores, a sequence of oil shale and associated nahcolite, nearly 2,000 feet thick, in the lacustrine Green River Formation (Eocene) in the Piceance Creek basin, Rio Blanco County, Colo., was divided in ascending order into zones 1 to 13, B-groove, Mahogany zone (with...
Response of ground-water levels of flood control operations in three basins, south-eastern Florida
William A.J. Pitt
1974, Open-File Report 74-86
Three basins in southeastern Florida were investigated to determine the changes in ground-water levels and canal flows that occurred in response to operation of coastal water-control structures in each canal. All three basins are underlain by the Biscayne aquifer. They are, Snapper Creek Canal basin, where the Biscayne aquifer is...
Oil Shale in the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1974, Open-File Report 74-1112
Shallow ground water in selected areas in the Fort Union coal region
U.S. Northern Great Plains Resources Programs Ground-water Subgroup
1974, Open-File Report 74-371
A program to compute aquifer-response coefficients
Thomas Maddock
1974, Open-File Report 75-612
An alternating direction technique is used to solve finite difference equations approximating the flow of water in an aquifer. The solutions produce response coefficients relating pumping from wells to drawdowns within those wells. The product of the response coefficient with the pumping values produces a linear algebraic technological function that...
Atlantic OCS resource and leasing potential
Richard Q. Foote, Robert E. Mattick, John Charles Behrendt
1974, Open-File Report 74-348
Thick marine sedimentary sections and geologic structures favorable for the accumulation of petroleum are indicated in Georges Bank basin, the Baltimore Canyon trough, and the Southeast Georgia embayment. Undiscovered recoverable resources of petroleum on the Atlantic OCS are estimated to be 10 billion to 20 billion barrels of oil and...
Selected stratigraphic sections and electric logs of Upper Cretaceous rocks in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1974, Open-File Report 74-1114
Ground-water management, Buzzards Bay coastal streams, Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Michael H. Frimpter
1974, Open-File Report 74-69
No abstract available....