Surficial and bedrock geologic map database of the Kelso 7.5 Minute quadrangle, San Bernardino County, California
David R. Bedford
2003, Open-File Report 2003-501
This geologic map database describes geologic materials for the Kelso 7.5 Minute Quadrangle, San Bernardino County, California. The area lies in eastern Mojave Desert of California, within the Mojave National Preserve (a unit of the National Parks system). Geologic deposits in the area consist of Proterozoic metamorphic rocks, Cambrian-Neoproterozoic sedimentary...
Public Water-Supply Systems and Associated Water Use in Tennessee, 2000
Ank Webbers
2003, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4264
Public water-supply systems in Tennessee provide water to meet customer needs for domestic, industrial, and commercial users and municipal services. In 2000, more than 500 public water-supply systems distributed about 890 million gallons per day (Mgal/d) of surface water and ground water to a population of about 5 million in...
Selected ground-water data for Yucca Mountain region, southern Nevada and eastern California, January 2000-December 2002
Glenn L. Locke, Richard J. La Camera
2003, Open-File Report 2003-387
The U.S. Geological Survey, in support of the U.S. Department of Energy, Yucca Mountain Project, collects, compiles, and summarizes hydrologic data in the Yucca Mountain region. The data are collected to allow assessments of ground-water resources during activities to determine the potential suitability or development of Yucca Mountain for storing...
Hydrological, chemical, and biological characteristics of a prairie pothole wetland complex under highly variable climate conditions: The Cottonwood Lake area, east-central North Dakota
Thomas C. Winter, Donald O. Rosenberry, James W. LaBaugh, George A. Swanson, Ned H. Jr. Euliss, Bruce A. Hanson, David M. Mushet, Karen A. Poiani, W. Carter Johnson
2003, Professional Paper 1675
Geologic deposits in the Cottonwood Lake area consist largely of silty, clayey glacial till that contains numerous fractures and small, randomly distributed sand and gravel deposits. The sand deposits can have a substantial effect on groundwater flow between wetlands in the area and can cause some to drain while others...
Earthquake recordings from the 2002 Seattle Seismic Hazard Investigation of Puget Sound (SHIPS), Washington state
Thomas L. Pratt, Karen L. Meagher, Thomas M. Brocher, Thomas Yelin, Robert Norris, Lynn Hultgrien, Elizabeth Barnett, Craig S. Weaver
2003, Open-File Report 2003-361
This report describes seismic data obtained during the fourth Seismic Hazard Investigation of Puget Sound (SHIPS) experiment, termed Seattle SHIPS . The experiment was designed to study the influence of the Seattle sedimentary basin on ground shaking during earthquakes. To accomplish this, we deployed seismometers over the basin to record...
Ground-water flow and saline water in the shallow aquifer system of the southern watersheds of Virginia Beach, Virginia
Barry S. Smith
2003, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4258
Population and tourism continues to grow in Virginia Beach, Virginia, but the supply of freshwater is limited. A pipeline from Lake Gaston supplies water for northern Virginia Beach, but ground water is widely used to water lawns in the north, and most southern areas of the city rely solely on ground water....
Ground-water flow and ground- and surface-water interaction at McBaine Bottoms, Columbia, Missouri-2000-02
Brenda J. Smith
2003, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4234
McBaine Bottoms southwest of Columbia, Missouri, is the site of 4,269 acres of the Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area operated by the Missouri Department of Conservation, about 130 acres of the city of Columbia wastewater-treat-ment wetlands, and the city of Columbia munici-pal-supply well field. The city of Columbia wastewater-treatment wetlands supply treated...
Development and testing of method for assessing and mapping agricultural areas susceptible to atrazine leaching in the state of Washington
Frank D. Voss
2003, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4173
In a joint effort by the Washington State Department of Agriculture, the Washington Department of Ecology, and the U.S. Geological Survey, the Environmental Protection Agency's Pesticide Root Zone Model and a Geographic Information System were used to develop and test a method for screening and mapping the susceptibility of ground...
Comparison between agricultural and urban ground-water quality in the Mobile River Basin, 1999–2001
James L. Robinson
2003, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4182
The Black Warrior River aquifer is a major source of public water supply in the Mobile River Basin. The aquifer outcrop trends northwest - southeast across Mississippi and Alabama. A relatively thin shallow aquifer overlies and recharges the Black Warrior River aquifer in the flood plains and terraces of the...
Preliminary volcano-hazard assessment for Great Sitkin Volcano, Alaska
Christopher F. Waythomas, Thomas P. Miller, Christopher J. Nye
2003, Open-File Report 2003-112
Great Sitkin Volcano is a composite andesitic stratovolcano on Great Sitkin Island (51°05’ N latitude, 176°25’ W longitude), a small (14 x 16 km), circular volcanic island in the western Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Great Sitkin Island is located about 35 kilometers northeast of the community of Adak on Adak...
Bathymetric mapping, sediment quality, and water quality of Lake Delhi, Iowa, 2001-02
Douglas J. Schnoebelen, Jason C. McVay, Kimberlee K. Barnes, Kent Becher
2003, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4085
Lake Delhi was formed in 1929 when the Interstate Power Company dammed the Maquoketa River near Delhi, Iowa, for generation of hydroelectric power. The resulting 450-acre lake became a popular area in eastern Iowa for boating, swimming, and fishing. Hydroelectric power generation ended in 1973, and lakeside residents purchased the...
Quaternary geology of the western United States
Don J. Easterbrook, Kenneth L. Pierce, John Gosse, Alan R. Gillespie, Ed Evenson, Ken Hamblin
2003, Book chapter, Quaternary geology of the United States; INQUA 2003 field guide volume
No abstract available....
Population status of Kittlitz's and Marbled Murrelets and surveys for other marine bird and mammal species in the Kenai Fjords area, Alaska
Thomas I. van Pelt, John F. Piatt
2003, Report
The Kittlitz's murrelet (Brachyramphus brevirostris) is a rare seabird that nests in alpine terrain and generally forages near tidewater glaciers during the breeding season. More than 95% of the global population breeds in Alaska, with the remainder occurring in the Russian Far East. A global population estimate using best-available data...
Global GIS database. Digital atlas of Europe
United States Geological Survey
2003, Data Series 62-G
No abstract available....
Soil seed banks and the potential restoration of forested wetlands after farming
Beth A. Middleton
2003, Journal of Applied Ecology (40) 1025-1034
1Changes in farming practice provide an opportunity to restore once extensive forested wetlands on agricultural land. In some parts of the world, however, it has proved difficult to restore the full complement of plant species through natural regeneration. Similarly, the restoration of forested wetlands by replanting has...
Field guide to hydrothermal alteration in the White River altered area and in the Osceola Mudflow, Washington
David A. John, James J. Rytuba, Roger P. Ashley, Richard J. Blakely, James W. Vallance, Grant R. Newport, Gary R. Heinemeyer
2003, Bulletin 2217
The Cenozoic Cascades arcs of southwestern Washington are the product of long-lived, but discontinuous, magmatism beginning in the Eocene and continuing to the present (for example, Christiansen and Yeats, 1992). This magmatism is the result of subduction of oceanic crust beneath the North American continent. The magmatic rocks are divided...
Residence times and nitrate transport in ground water discharging to streams in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Bruce D. Lindsey, Scott Phillips, Colleen A. Donnelly, Gary K. Speiran, Niel Plummer, John Karl Bohlke, Michael J. Focazio, William C. Burton, Eurybiades Busenberg
2003, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4035
One of the major water-quality problems in the Chesapeake Bay is an overabundance of nutrients from the streams and rivers that discharge to the Bay. Some of these nutrients are from nonpoint sources such as atmospheric deposition, agricultural manure and fertilizer, and septic systems. The effects of efforts to control...
Nutrient and chlorophyll relations in selected streams of the New England coastal basins in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, June-September 2001
Melissa L. Riskin, J. R. Deacon, M. L. Liebman, K. W. Robinson
2003, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4191
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is developing guidance to assist states with defining nutrient criteria for rivers and streams and to better describe nutrient-algal relations. As part of this effort, 13 wadeable stream sites were selected, primarily in eastern Massachusetts, for a nutrient-assessment study during the summer of 2001. The...
Atmospheric deposition of nutrients, pesticides, and mercury in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, 2002
M. Alisa Mast, Donald H. Campbell, George P. Ingersoll, William T. Foreman, David P. Krabbenhoft
2003, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4241
Nutrients, current-use pesticides, and mercury were measured in atmospheric deposition during summer in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado to improve understanding of the type and magnitude of atmospheric contaminants being deposited in the park. Two deposition sites were established on the east side of the park: one at an...
Ground-water quality of the southern High Plains aquifer, Texas and New Mexico, 2001
Lynne Fahlquist
2003, Open-File Report 2003-345
In 2001, the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program collected water samples from 48 wells in the southern High Plains as part of a larger scientific effort to broadly characterize and understand factors affecting water quality of the High Plains aquifer across the entire High Plains. Water samples were...
Questa baseline and pre-mining ground-water quality investigation. 2. Low-flow (2001) and snowmelt (2002) synoptic/tracer water chemistry for the Red River, New Mexico
R. Blaine McCleskey, D. Kirk Nordstrom, Judy I. Steiger, Briant A. Kimball, Philip L. Verplanck
2003, Open-File Report 2003-148
Water analyses are reported for 259 samples collected from the Red River, New Mexico, and its tributaries during low-flow(2001) and spring snowmelt (2002) tracer studies. Water samples were collected along a 20-kilometer reach of the Red River beginning just east of the town of Red River and ending at the U.S. Geological Survey streamflow-gaging station located east...
Data report: geology of reef-front carbonate sediment deposits around Oahu, Hawaii
Monty A. Hampton, Charles T. Blay, Christopher Murray, Laura Z. Torresan, Cathy S. Frazee, Bruce M. Richmond, Charles H. Fletcher
2003, Open-File Report 2003-441
This Open-File Report presents data and derivative products from an investigation of carbonate sediment deposits on the reef front in four areas around the island of Oahu, Hawaii - in Kailua Bay off Oahu's windward (east) side, off the leeward (west) coast from Makua to Kahe Point, off the north...
Low-flow characteristics and profiles for the Rocky River in the Yadkin-Pee Dee River basin, North Carolina, through 2002
J. Curtis Weaver, Jason M. Fine
2003, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4147
An understanding of the magnitude and frequency of low-flow discharges is an important part of protecting surface-water resources and planning for municipal and industrial economic expansion. Low-flow characteristics are summarized for 12 continuous-record gaging stations and 44 partial-record measuring sites in the Rocky River basin in North Carolina. Records of...
North Alaska petroleum system analysis: The regional map compilation
Richard W. Saltus, Kenneth J. Bird
2003, Open-File Report 2003-330
The U.S. Geological Survey initiated an effort to model north Alaskan petroleum systems. The geographic and geologic basis for modeling systems is provided by a set of regional digital maps that allow evaluation of the widest possible extent of each system. Accordingly, we laid out a rectangular map grid 1300...
Helicopter electromagnetic and magnetic survey data and maps, Seco Creek area, Medina and Uvalde counties, Texas
Bruce D. Smith, David V. Smith, Patricia L. Hill, Victor F. Labson
2003, Open-File Report 2003-226
A helicopter electromagnetic and magnetic (HEM) survey was completed of a 209 square kilometer (81 square miles) area of the central Edwards aquifer. This open-file report is a release of the airborne geophysical data and a summary of the hydrologic application. The survey area was centered on the Valdina Farms...
