Undiscovered oil and gas resources underlying the U.S. portions of the Great Lakes, 2005
James L. Coleman Jr., Christopher S. Swezey, Robert T. Ryder, Ronald R. Charpentier
2006, Fact Sheet 2006-3049
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) completed an assessment of the undiscovered oil and gas potential of the U.S. portions of the Appalachian Basin and the Michigan Basin in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Following the assessments of these two basins, oil and gas allocations were assigned to the U.S. portions of...
Mineral facilities of Africa and the Middle East
J.M. Eros, Luissette Candelario-Quintana
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1135
This map displays over 1,500 mineral facilities in Africa and the Middle East. The mineral facilities include mines, plants, mills, or refineries of aluminum, cement, coal, copper, diamond, gold, iron and steel, nickel, platinum-group metals, salt, and silver, among others. The data used in this poster were compiled from multiple...
A database of lotic invertebrate traits for North America
Nicole M. K. Vieira, N. LeRoy Poff, Daren M. Carlisle, Stephen R. Moulton II, Marci L. Koski, Boris C. Kondratieff
2006, Data Series 187
The assessment and study of stream communities may be enhanced if functional characteristics such as life-history, habitat preference, and reproductive strategy were more widely available for specific taxa. Species traits can be used to develop these functional indicators because many traits directly link functional roles of organisms with controlling environmental...
Database for the geologic map of the Snoqualmie Pass 30-minute by 60-minute quadrangle, Washington (I-2538)
R. W. Tabor, V. A. Frizzell Jr., D. B. Booth, R. B. Waitt
2006, Data Series 186
This digital map database has been prepared by R.W. Tabor from the published Geologic map of the Snoqualmie Pass 30' X 60' Quadrangle, Washington. Together with the accompanying text files as PDF, it provides information on the geologic structure and stratigraphy of the area covered. The database delineates map units...
Geologic map of the Colonial Beach South 7.5-minute quadrangle, Virginia
Wayne L. Newell, Owen P. Bricker, Meredith S. Robertson
2006, Open-File Report 2005-1025
The Open-File Report includes a geologic map with cross section, and composite stratigraphic section of the Tertiary stratigraphy and of the Quaternary stratigraphy. The Tertiary map units are presented and interpreted for erodability and derived surficial deposits. The map area contains the George Washington Birthplace National Monument. The map facilitates the...
Geology, ground-water hydrology, geochemistry, and ground-water simulation of the Beaumont and Banning Storage Units, San Gorgonio Pass area, Riverside County, California
Diane L. Rewis, Allen H. Christensen, Jonathan Matti, Joseph Hevesi, Tracy Nishikawa, Peter Martin
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5026
Ground water has been the only source of potable water supply for residential, industrial, and agricultural users in the Beaumont and Banning storage units of the San Gorgonio Pass area, Riverside County, California. Ground-water levels in the Beaumont area have declined as much as 100 feet between the early 1920s...
Approach to an assessment of volatile organic compounds in the nation's ground water and drinking-water supply wells
Michael J. Moran, John S. Zogorski, Barbara L. Rowe
2006, Open-File Report 2005-1452
The National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) developed an approach for a national assessment of the occurrence, status, and distribution of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in samples of ground water from aquifer studies and in samples from drinking-water supply wells, specifically domestic and public wells....
Data collection for the assessment of aquatic communities in northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana, 2005
Peter R. Wright, David A. Peterson, Laura L. Hallberg
2006, Fact Sheet 2006-3047
Idaho and Montana non-fuel exploration database 1980-1997
David A. Buckingham, Carl A. DiFrancesco, Kenneth E. Porter, Donald I. Bleiwas, J. Douglas Causey, William B. Ferguson
2006, Data Series 173
This report describes a relational database containing information about mineral exploration projects in the States of Idaho and Montana for the years 1980 through 1997 and a spatial (geographic) database constructed using data from the relational database. The focus of this project was to collect information on exploration for mineral...
Assessment of hydrologic and water quality data collected in Abbotts Lagoon watershed, Point Reyes National Seashore, California, during water years 1999 and 2000
Charles R. Kratzer, Dina K. Saleh, Celia Zamora
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5261
Abbotts Lagoon is part of Point Reyes National Seashore, located about 40 miles northwest of San Francisco and about 20 miles south of Bodega Bay. Water-quality samples were collected quarterly during water year 1999 at a site in each of three connected lagoons that make up Abbotts Lagoon and at...
A guide for using the transient ground-water flow model of the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California
Joan B. Blainey, Claudia C. Faunt, Mary C. Hill
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1104
This report is a guide for executing numerical simulations with the transient ground-water flow model of the Death Valley regional ground-water flow system, Nevada and California using the U.S. Geological Survey modular finite-difference ground-water flow model, MODFLOW-2000. Model inputs, including observations of hydraulic head, discharge, and boundary flows, are summarized....
Rainfall, runoff, and water-quality data for the urban storm-water program in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, metropolitan area, water year 2004
Todd Kelly, Orlando Romero, Mike Jimenez
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1105
Urbanization has dramatically increased precipitation runoff to the system of drainage channels and natural stream channels in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, metropolitan area. Rainfall and runoff data are important for planning and designing future storm-water conveyance channels in newly developing areas. Storm-water quality also is monitored in accordance with the...
Annual dissolved nitrite plus nitrate and total phosphorous loads for the Susquehanna, St. Lawrence, Mississippi-Atchafalaya, and Columbia River basins, 1968-2004
Brent T. Aulenbach
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1087
Annual stream-water loads were calculated near the outlet of four of the larger river basins (Susquehanna, St. Lawrence, Mississippi-Atchafalaya, and Columbia) in the United States for dissolved nitrite plus nitrate (NO2 + NO3) and total phosphorus using LOADEST load estimation software. Loads were estimated for the period 1968-2004; although loads...
Water resources data Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C.,water year 2005, Volume 1. Surface-water data
Richard W. Saffer, Robert H. Pentz, Anthony J. Tallman
2006, Water Data Report MD-DE-DC-05-1
Water resources data for the 2005 water year for Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C. consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage and contents of lakes and reservoirs. This volume (Volume 1. Surface-Water Data) contains records for water discharge at 145 gaging stations; stage and contents...
USGS, NPS, educate the public on the risks, wonders of Alaska's volcanoes
Jennifer N. Adleman
2006, People, Land, and Water
No abstract available....
Quantification of mass loading to Strawberry Creek near the Gilt Edge mine, Lawrence County, South Dakota, June 2003
Briant A. Kimball, Robert L. Runkel, Katherine Walton-Day, Joyce E. Williamson
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5006
Although remedial actions have taken place at the Gilt Edge mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota, questions remain about a possible hydrologic connection along shear zones between some of the pit lakes at the mine site and Strawberry Creek. Spatially detailed chemical sampling of stream and inflow sites...
Processed 1938 aerial photography for selected areas of the lower Colorado River, southwestern United States
Laura M. Norman, Michael Gishey, Leila Gass, Brian Yanites, Edwin Pfeifer, Ron Simms, Ray Ahlbrandt
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1141
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) initiated a study of the Lower Colorado River to derive temporal-change characteristics from the predam period to the present. In this report, we present summary information on accomplishments under a USGS task for the Department of the Interior's Landscapes in the West project. We discuss...
Transport pathways in the lower reaches of Hood Canal
Marlene A. Noble, Anne L. Gartner, Anthony J. Paulson, Jingping Xu, Edward G. Josberger, Christopher Curran
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1001
In 2003, studies revealed that the waters in the lower reaches of Hood Canal in Washington State had very low dissolved-oxygen concentrations, low enough to cause some fish kills between June and October of that year. In order to determine the transport patterns and the persistence of the low oxygen...
Conodont and Radiolarian Data from the De Long Mountains Quadrangle and Adjacent Areas, Northern Alaska
Julie A. Dumoulin, Anita G. Harris, Charles D. Blome, Lorne E. Young
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1068
INTRODUCTION This report presents biostratigraphic data from 289 collections at 189 localities in the De Long Mountains, Misheguk Mountain, and Noatak quadrangles (fig. 1); most of these data have never been previously published. The collections were made during studies of the Red Dog massive sulfide deposit in 1998?2004 and in...
Groundwater in geologic processes, 2nd edition
Steven E. Ingebritsen, Ward E. Sanford, Christopher E. Neuzil
2006, Book
Interest in the role of Groundwater in Geologic Processes has increased steadily over the past few decades. Hydrogeologists and geologists are now actively exploring the role of groundwater and other subsurface fluids in such fundamental geologic processes as crustal heat transfer, ore deposition, hydrocarbon migration, earthquakes, tectonic deformation, diagenesis,...
Ground-water flow model of the Boone formation at the Tar Creek superfund site, Oklahoma and Kansas
T.B. Reed, John B. Czarnecki
2006, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5097
Extensive mining activities conducted at the Tar Creek Superfund site, one of the largest Superfund sites in the United States, pose substantial health and safety risks. Mining activities removed a total of about 6,000,000 tons of lead and zinc by 1949. To evaluate the effect of this mining on the...
Imperiled species and communities threatened by invasive species
Rachel Muir, Sharon Gross
2006, Fact Sheet 2005-3110
Rainfall thresholds for forecasting landslides in the Seattle, Washington, area — Exceedance and probability
Alan F. Chleborad, Rex L. Baum, Jonathan W. Godt
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1064
Empirical rainfall thresholds and related information form a basis for forecasting landslides in the Seattle area. A formula for a cumulative rainfall threshold (CT), P3=3.5–0.67P15, defined by rainfall amounts (in inches) during the last 3 days (72 hours), P3, and the previous 15 days (360 hours), P15, was developed from analysis of historical...
Mapa Geologico de Venezuela a Escala 1:750,000
Paul C. Hackley, Franco Urbani, Alex W. Karlsen, Christopher P. Garrity
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1109
Se presenta un mapa geologico digital de Venezuela sobre un fondo de relieve sombreado. Los datos geologicos e hidrologicos del norte del rio Orinoco proceden de la digitalizacion de mapas geologicos en papel a escala 1:500.000. Estos datos fueron integrados con el mapa geologico digital del Escudo de Guayana Venezolano,...
Magnetotelluric data collected near geophysically logged boreholes in the Española and Middle Rio Grande Basins, New Mexico
Jackie M. Williams, Brian D. Rodriguez
2006, Open-File Report 2006-1120
The Santa Fe region is growing rapidly. The Santa Fe Group aquifer in the Española Basin is the main source of municipal water for the region, and water shortfalls could have serious consequences. Future growth and land management in the region depend on accurate assessment and protection of the region's...
