Surficial geology and geomorphology of Potter County, Pennsylvania
C. S. Denny
1956, Professional Paper 288
Potter County is located in the Appalachian Plateaus of north-central Pennsylvania and contains the headwaters of the Genesee River, the Allegheny River, and the Susquehanna River. Drift of Wisconsin age covers the northeastern part of the county. This study includes a detailed survev of the surficial deposits of the Genesee...
Data and understanding
Luna Bergere Leopold
Gilbert F. White, editor(s)
1956, Conference Paper, The future of arid lands: Papers and recommendations from the International Arid Lands Meetings
In the year 1534 when Cabeza de Vaca escaped from the aborigines of southern Texas by whom he had been enslaved for six years, he made his way on foot from the vicinity of Galveston to the west coast of Mexico. Although his Relación was not printed until 1542, the...
Reconnaissance of geology and ground water in the lower Grand River valley, South Dakota, with a section on Chemical quality of the ground water
Paul C. Tychsen, R.C. Vorhis, Eugene R. Jochens
1955, Water Supply Paper 1298
The area described in this report is the flood plain of the Grand River and the bordering benchlands in Perkins and Corson Counties, S. Dak., from a point about 6 miles west of the town of Shadehill to the confluence of the Grand and Missouri Rivers near Mobridge. The exposed bedrock...
Chemical quality of surface waters in Devils Lake basin, North Dakota
Herbert Swenson, Bruce R. Colby
1955, Water Supply Paper 1295
Devils Lake basin, a closed basin in northeastern North Dakota, covers about 3,900 square miles of land, the topography of which is morainal and of glacial origin. In this basin lies a chain of waterways, which begins with the Sweetwater group and extends successively through Mauvais Coulee, Devils Lake, East...
Computations of total sediment discharge, Niobrara River near Cody, Nebraska
Bruce R. Colby, C. H. Hembree
1955, Water Supply Paper 1357
A natural chute in the Niobrara River near Cody, Nebr., constricts the flow of the river except at high stages to a narrow channel in which the turbulence is sufficient to suspend nearly the total sediment discharge. Because much of the flow originates in the sandhills area of Nebraska, the...
Sediment investigations of the Platte River near Overton, Nebraska
C.D. Albert, H.P. Guy
1955, Report
This report contains results of sediment-transport investigations on the Platte River near Overton,. Nebr. from January 1950 to September 1953. The basic data of suspended-sediment studies, results of bed-material analyses, and determinations of water-surface slopes from staff readings are given. The data indicate that a reliable determination of suspended sediment, hence...
Geology and ground-water resources of Wichita and Greeley Counties, Kansas
G.C. Prescott Jr., J.R. Branch, W.W. Wilson
1954, Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin (108)
This report describes the geography, geology, and ground-water resources of Wichita and Greeley counties in western Kansas. The area consists of a flat to gently rolling plain, which slopes eastward [at] about 15 feet per mile. A short reach of Ladder Creek (Beaver) is the only perennially flowing stream in...
Floods in Devils and Pecos River basins of Texas, June 27-28, 1954 - miscellaneous data
S.D. Breeding
1954, Open-File Report 54-27
Record-breaking floods occurred June 27, 28, 1954, in the Devils and lower Pecos Rivers and in some tributaries to those streams, caused by heavy rainfall of June 26-28. At the time of the flood the geological Survey was not operating a gaging station in the Devils River basin or in...
Water resources of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, Minnesota
Charles Henry Prior, Robert Schneider, W. H. Durum
1953, Circular 274
The water supply of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area is adequate to satisfy present requirements and requirements for many years to come if the area continues to develop at about the present rate. The flow of -the Mississippi River at the Twin Cities is more than sufficient to meet the demands of...
Floods of November-December 1950 in the Central Valley basin, California
C. G. Paulsen
1953, Water Supply Paper 1137-F
The flood of November-December 1950 in the Central Valley basin was the greatest in most parts of the basin since the turn of the century and probably was exceeded in the lower San Joaquin River basin only by the historic flood of 1862. In respect to monetary loss, the 1950...
Fifth progress report on the cooperative investigation of springs and streamflow in the Tecolote Tunnel area of Santa Barbara County, California
Walter Hofmann
1953, Open-File Report 53-121
This report is the fifth in a continuing series of annual progress reports giving the results of discharge measurements made at more than 120 selected sites in the "Tecolote Tunnel Area" of the Santa Ynez Mountains. This area derives its name from the tunnel now being built by the Bureau...
Summary of annual records of chemical quality of water of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma and Arkansas, 1945-1952
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1953, Open-File Report 53-288
This report summarizes information collected to date in the Arkansas River Basin in Oklahoma and Arkansas, and shows, within the limitations of present information, the chemical quality of water in the Arkansas River downstream from the Oklahoma-Kansas State line to its junction with the Mississippi River, and the influence of...
Changes in chemical quality of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma and Arkansas (1946-52)
T.B. Dover, J.W. Geurin
1953, Open-File Report 53-289
Systematic chemical quality-of-water investigations have been carried on in both Oklahoma and Arkansas by the Geological Survey in cooperation with State and Federal agencies during the past several years. Results of the Survey's quality-of-water investigations are usually published in the annual Water-Supply Papers. However, as the Geological Survey has made...
Ground water in the Gila River Basin and adjacent areas, Arizona: a summary
Leonard Cameron Halpenny
1952, Open-File Report 172
This report is a resume' of the principal facts collected by the Geological Survey in the period 1890-1952 about the ground-water resources of the Gila River basin and certain other areas in Arizona. Since 1939 the Geological Survey has been making ground-water investigations on a continuing basis in cooperation with...
Evaluation of streamflow records in Rogue River basin, Oregon
Donald Richardson
1952, Circular 187
This report presents data which are, in general, supplementary to those the surface-water investigations made in the past by the U. S. Geological Survey. Those have been essentially investigations of the operation of the many gaging stations on the Rogue River and tributaries. The data presented were obtained from a...
Hydrologic reconnaissance of the Green River in Utah and Colorado
H. E. Thomas
1952, Circular 129
The Green River, rising in Wyoming and draining high mountains in that state, northeast Utah and northwest Colorado, is a major tributary of the Colorado River. In the late summer, after the snow has melted from these mountains, the flow in the Green River reaches its minimum for the year....
Geology and hydrology of dam sites on the island of St. Croix, Virgin Islands
R. R. Meyer
1952, Open-File Report 52-98
The Virgin Islands Corporation plans to build a series of small earth dams along some of the streams on the island of St. Croix, and field studies involving the selection and hydrology of possible sites was carried on by the Geological Survey during the months of August and September 1951....
Memorandum on the ground-water resources of the Horse Creek and Cherry Creek drainage basins, Wyoming
H. M. Babcock
1952, Open-File Report 52-8
This report is one of several that are being made by the United States Geological Survey as part of the program of the Department of the Interior for the control, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the Missouri River basin. The purpose of this report is to...
Fourth progress report on the cooperative investigation of springs and streamflow in the Tecolote Tunnel area of Santa Barbara County, California
C.E. Burgess
1952, Open-File Report 52-21
This is a continuation of annual progress reports giving the results of discharge measurements made in the Santa Ynez Mountains between Refugio Canyon on the west to San Marcos Pass and the Painted Cave area on the east. This portion of Santa Barbara County has been designated as the "Tecolote...
Evaluation of streamflow records in Flathead River basin, Montana
R.T. Plunkett
1952, Circular 182
This report presents data which are, in general, supplementary to those of the surface-water investigations made in the past by the Geological Survey. Those investigations have consisted essentially of the operation of the many gaging stations on the Flathead River and tributaries. The data presented were obtained from a detailed...
Discussion of “tide‐producing forces and artesian pressures”
Tom Culbertson, William O. George, Frederick E. Romberg
1952, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (33) 597-600
I was an employee of the Texas State Board of Water Engineers in charge of the Fort Stockton field office at the time that the data for this paper were gathered. Since I have done both extensive and detailed ground‐water work in the Fort Stockton area, including the setting and...
Ground-water resources of the Paintrock irrigation project, Wyoming, with a section on the quality of the water
Frank Albert Swenson, W. Kenneth Bach, Herbert A. Swenson
1951, Circular 96
The ground-water conditions of the area covered by the Paintrock irrigation project, in north-central Wyoming, were investigated during the summer of 1947. The purpose of the study was to obtain a general evaluation of ground-water recharge, discharge, and storage in the area now irrigated and in the adjacent areas where...
Geology and ground-water resources of the northern part of the Ranegras Plain area, Yuma County, Arizona
Donald George Metzger
1951, Open-File Report 51-28
The Ranegras Plain area is part of the Basin and Range province in west-central Arizona. The report discusses rocks of pre-Cambrian, pre-Cambrian (?), Paleozoic (?), Mesozoic (?), Cretaceous (?), Cretaceous and Tertiary, Tertiary (?), Quaternary (?), and Quaternary age. All the Paleozoic (?) and Cretaceous (?) rocks and parts of the...
A glossary of uranium- and thorium-bearing minerals
Judith Weiss Frondel, Michael Fleischer
1950, Circular 74
During 1980, an estimated 121 million gallons of water per day was pumped in a 26-county area in east-central Georgia from sand aquifers of Paleocene and Late Cretaceous age. Maximum withdrawals were at the kaolin mining and processing centers in Twiggs, Wilkinson, and Washington Counties, where water levels have declined...
Techniques used in mine-water problems of the east Tennessee zinc district
Deane Frederick Kent
1950, Circular 71
A study of ground water as related to mining in cavernous limestones and dolomites in eastern Tennessee was made in 1946 by the U. S. Geological Survey. Surface and subsurface mapping indicated the geologic control of underground channels. Several methods of tracing water were tried and new techniques in using...
