Methods for quality-assurance review of water-quality data in New Jersey
G. Allan Brown, Edward A. Pustay, Jacob Gibs
2003, Open-File Report 2002-383
This report is an instructional and reference manual that describes methods developed and used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), New Jersey District, to assure the accuracy and precision of the results of analyses of surface- and ground-water samples received from analyzing laboratories and, ultimately, to ensure the integrity of...
Alaska resource data file: Valdez quadrangle
Travis L. Hudson
2003, Open-File Report 2003-30
The data presented here are maintained as part of a statewide database on mines, prospects and mineral occurrences throughout Alaska....
Map and database of Quaternary faults and lineaments in Brazil
Allaoua Saadi, Michael N. Machette, Kathleen M. Haller, Richard L. Dart, Lee-Ann Bradley, Angela Maria P. D. de Souza
2003, Open-File Report 2002-230
Principal facts for 408 gravity stations in the vicinity of the Talkeetna Mountains, south-central Alaska
Robert L. Morin, Jonathan M. G. Glen
2003, Open-File Report 2003-27
Gravity data were collected between 1999 and 2002 along transects in the Talkeetna Mountains of south-central Alaska as part of a geological and geophysical study of the framework geology of the region. The study area lies between 61° 30’ and 63° 45’ N. latitude and 145° and 151° W. longitude....
Regional sediment budget of the Columbia River littoral cell, USA: Analysis of bathymetric- and topographic-volume change
Maarten C. Buijsman, C. R. Sherwood, A. E. Gibbs, G. Gelfenbaum, G. M. Kaminsky, P. Ruggiero, J. Franklin
2003, Open-File Report 2002-281
In this Open-File Report we present calculations of changes in bathymetric and topographic volumes for the Grays Harbor, Willapa Bay, and Columbia River entrances and the adjacent coasts of North Beach, Grayland Plains, Long Beach, and Clatsop Plains for four intervals: pre-jetty - 1920s (Interval 1), 1920s - 1950s (Interval...
Cascadia Tsunami Deposit Database
Robert Peters, Bruce Jaffe, Guy Gelfenbaum, Curt Peterson
2003, Open-File Report 2003-13
The Cascadia Tsunami Deposit Database contains data on the location and sedimentological properties of tsunami deposits found along the Cascadia margin. Data have been compiled from 52 studies, documenting 59 sites from northern California to Vancouver Island, British Columbia that contain known or potential tsunami deposits. Bibliographical references are provided...
Alaska resource data file: Taku River quadrangle
John C. Barnett, Lance D. Miller
2003, Open-File Report 2003-38
No abstract available....
Brookian stratigraphic plays in the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska (NPRA)
David W. Houseknecht
2003, Open-File Report 2003-39
The Brookian megasequence in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) includes bottomset and clinoform seismic facies of the Torok Formation (mostly Albian age) and generally coeval, topset seismic facies of the uppermost Torok Formation and the Nanushuk Group. These strata are part of a composite total petroleum system...
Beaufortian stratigraphic plays in the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska (NPRA)
David W. Houseknecht
2003, Open-File Report 2003-40
The Beaufortian megasequence in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) includes Jurassic through lower Cretaceous (Neocomian) strata of the Kingak Shale and the overlying pebble shale unit. These strata are part of a composite total petroleum system involving hydrocarbons expelled from source rocks in three stratigraphic intervals, the...
Geochemistry of natural gas, North Slope, Alaska: Implications for gas resources, NPRA
Robert A. Burruss, Paul G. Lillis, Timothy S. Collett
2003, Open-File Report 2003-41
No abstract available....
Near-surface S-wave and P-wave seismic velocities of primary geological formations on the Piedmont and Atlantic Coastal Plain of South Carolina, USA
Jack K. Odum, Robert A. Williams, William J. Stephenson, David M. Worley
2003, Open-File Report 2003-43
No abstract available....
Results of the U.S. Geological Survey's analytical evaluation program for standard reference samples distributed in September 2002
Mark T. Woodworth, Brooke F. Connor
2003, Open-File Report 2002-481
This report presents the results of the U.S. Geological Survey's analytical evaluation program for six standard reference samples -- T-171 (trace constituents), M-164 (major constituents), N-75 (nutrient constituents), N-76 (nutrient constituents), P-39 (low ionic-strength constituents), and Hg-35 (mercury) -- that were distributed in September 2002 to laboratories enrolled in the...
Principal facts for gravity stations in the Dry Valley area, west-central Nevada and east-central California
Elizabeth A. Sanger, David A. Ponce
2003, Open-File Report 2003-6
In June, 2002, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) established 143 new gravity stations and 12 new rock samples in the Dry Valley area, 30 miles north of Reno, Nevada, on the California - Nevada border (see fig. 1). This study reports on gravity, magnetic, and physical property data intended for...
Results of elemental and stable isotopic measurements, and dietary composition of Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) collected in 2000 and 2001 from the Fortymile River Watershed, Alaska
J.G. Crock, R.R. Seal II, L. P. Gough, P. Weber-Scannell
2003, Open-File Report 2003-57
We report the results of the elemental and stable isotopic analyses, as well as the composition of stomach contents, of Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus), an ecologically important resident freshwater sport and subsistence fish in the Fortymile River Mining District of the Interior Highlands Ecoregion in eastern Alaska. These data are...
Arsenic in New England: Mineralogical and geochemical studies of sources and enrichment pathways
Robert A. Ayuso, Nora K. Foley
2003, Open-File Report 2002-454
Detailed mineralogical, geochemical and radiogenic isotopic studies of iron-sulfide and secondary iron oxy-hydroxide minerals in natural bedrock in coastal Maine and New Hampshire test the link between arsenic-rich sulfide minerals in bedrock and secondary oxy-hydroxide minerals. Samples were selected from over 70 bedrock localities, including 22 within the regionally extensive...
40Ar/39Ar dating studies of minerals and rocks in various areas in Mexico : USGS/CRM scientific collaboration. Part 1
Alexander Iriondo, Michael J. Kunk, Jeffrey A. Winick, Consejo de Recursos Minerales
2003, Open-File Report 2003-20
Occurrence of the diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin littoralis) at South Deer Island in Galveston Bay, Texas, April 2001-May 2002
Jennifer L. Hogan
2003, Open-File Report 2003-22
One-hundred thirty-five terrapins were captured (116 individuals, 19 recaptures) in occurrence and nesting and basking surveys at South Deer Island in Galveston Bay, Texas, during April 2001–May 2002. Along the southern shore of the island, terrapins were captured in crab traps placed in shallow water offshore; in the lagoon on...
Design and construction of a gamma-ray spectrometer system for determining natural radioelement concentrations in geological samples at the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia
Stephen L. Snyder, Joseph S. Duval
2003, Open-File Report 2003-29
Preliminary soil-slip susceptibility maps, southwestern California
Douglas M. Morton, Rachel M. Alvarez, Russell H. Campbell, Kelly R. Bovard, D. T. Brown, K. M. Corriea, J. N. Lesser
2003, Open-File Report 2003-17
This group of maps shows relative susceptibility of hill slopes to the initiation sites of rainfall-triggered soil slip-debris flows in southwestern California. As such, the maps offer a partial answer to one part of the three parts necessary to predict the soil-slip/debris-flow process. A complete prediction of the process would...
Hydrogeology of the Waverly-Sayre area in Tioga and Chemung Counties, New York and Bradford county, Pennsylvania
Richard J. Reynolds
2003, Open-File Report 2002-284
The hydrogeology of a 135-square-mile area centered at Waverly, N.Y. and Sayre, Pa. is summarized in a set of five maps and a sheet of geologic sections, all at 1:24,000 scale, that depict locations of wells and test holes (sheet 1), surficial geology (sheet 2), altitude of the water table...
A spatial database of bedding attitudes to accompany Geologic Map of Boulder-Fort Collins-Greeley area, Colorado
Roger B. Colton, Theodore R. Brandt, David W. Moore, Kyle E. Murray
2003, Open-File Report 2003-24
This digital map shows bedding attitude data displayed over the geographic extent of rock stratigraphic units (formations) as compiled by Colton in 1976 (U.S.Geological Survey Map I-855-G) under the Front Range Urban Corridor Geology Program. Colton used his own mapping and published geologic maps having varied map unit schemes...
Water-quality, bed-sediment, and biological data, for streams in the upper Prickly Pear Creek watershed, Montana, 2001
Terry L. Klein, Joanna N. Thamke, David D. Harper, Aida M. Farag, David A. Nimick, David L. Fey
2003, Open-File Report 2003-32
The upper Prickly Pear Creek watershed encompasses the upstream 15 miles of Prickly Pear Creek, south of Helena, Montana (fig. 1). The headwaters of Prickly Pear Creek and its tributaries (Beavertown Creek, Clancy Creek, Dutchman Creek, Golconda Creek, Lump Gulch, Spring Creek, and Warm Springs Creek) are primarily in the...
Rainfall and groundwater level monitoring data (1981-1984) at Weeks Creek landslide, California
Gerald F. Wieczorek
2003, Open-File Report 2003-34
Correlation of the Klamath Mountains and Sierra Nevada
William P. Irwin
2003, Open-File Report 2002-490
This report graphically portrays the broadly parallel tectonic development of the Klamath Mountains and Sierra Nevada from early Paleozoic to Early Cretaceous time. It is dedicated to J.S. Diller of the U.S. Geological Survey who, during his pioneer field studies a century ago, recognized significant similarities between these two important...
A spatial database of bedding attitudes to accompany Geologic map of the greater Denver area, Front Range Urban Corridor, Colorado
Donald E. Trimble, Michael N. Machette, Theodore R. Brandt, David W. Moore, Kyle E. Murray
2003, Open-File Report 2003-25
This digital map shows bedding attitude symbols display over the geographic extent of surficial deposits and rock stratigraphic units (formations) as compiled by Trimble and Machette 1973-1977 and published in 1979 (U.S. Geological Survey Map I-856-H) under the Front Range Urban Corridor Geology Program. Trimble and Machette compiled their...
