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...
Progress report on the geology and ground-water hydrology of the lower Platte River Valley, Nebraska, with a section on the chemical quality of the ground water
Herbert A. Waite, Herbert A. Swenson
1949, Circular 20
The occurrence of abundant ground-water supplies in the lower Platte River Valley has made possible the present agricultural and industrial economy of the area. Likewise, the future development of the area is dependent on the wise use of this important resource. The current investigation, on which this report is based,...
Ground-water supplies of the Ypsilanti area, Michigan
Charles L. McGuinness, O.F. Poindexter, E. G. Otton
1949, Water Supply Paper 1078
As of the date of this report (August 1945), the major water users in the Ypsilanti area are: (1) the city of Ypsilanti, (2) the Willow Run bomber plant, built by the Federal Government and operated by the Ford Motor Co., and (3) the war housing project of the Federal...
Ground water hydraulics as a geophysical aid
John G. Ferris
1948, Technical Report 1
The publication of the non-equilibrium formula in 1935 in a paper by Theis marked the opening of a new era in the analysis and understanding of the hydraulics of percolating ground waters. Through the past decade 9 an ever-increasing number of engineers and geologists have become familiar-with the application of...
Discharge and sediment loads in the Boise River drainage basin, Idaho 1939-40
S. K. Love, Paul Charles Benedict
1948, Water Supply Paper 1048
The Boise River project is a highly developed agricultural area comprising some 520 square miles of valley and bench lands in southwestern Idaho. Water for irrigation is obtained from the Boise River and its tributaries which are regulated by storage in Arrow Rock and Deer Flat reservoirs. Distribution of water...
Major winter and nonwinter floods in selected basins in New York and Pennsylvania
Walter Basil Langbein
1947, Water Supply Paper 915
The scientific design of flood-control works is based on an evaluation of the hydrologic factors basic to flood events, particularly how rainfall and snow runoff, soil conditions, and channel influences can combine to produce greater or lesser floods. For this purpose an analysis of the pertinent hydrologic data is needed....
Preliminary report on stratigraphy and structure of the area of Kigalik and Awuna Rivers, Alaska
C. L. Whittington, M. L. Troyer
1947, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 11
During the summer of. 1947, U. S. Geological Survey Party No. 2 made a reconnaissance survey of the area between Awuna River and the divide north of the Kigalik River. The westernmost observations were made along the Awuna anticline to longitude about 157°30' W. and along the Kigalik anticline to...
Stratigraphy and structure of the area of Maybe Creek
Richard G. Ray, William A. Fischer
1947, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 4
During the summer of 1946 the United States Geological Survey continued its program of stratigraphic and structural investigations in Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, northern Alaska. This report summarizes the results of work in the area of Maybe Creek (see inset, fig. 1). The area studied is southwest of Umiat...
Ground water in Pavant Valley
P. E. Dennis, G. B. Maxey, H. E. Thomas
1946, Technical Publication 3
The users of wells for irrigation in Pavant Valley, particularly in the Flowell district, have long been cognizant of their utter dependency upon ground water for livelihood, and were among the first in the State to make an organized effort to conserve supplies by prevention of waste. Since passage of...
Surface water resources of Iowa for the period October 1, 1940 to September 30, 1942
Lawrence C. Crawford
1944, Water Supply Bulletin 2
The State and Federal cooperative program for the systematic collection of stream-flow records in Iowa was initiated in L914, although a few records were obtained by special arrangements during an earlier period. Since the beginning of the cooperative program measurements of stage or discharge have been obtained at about 100...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1941, Part VIII, Western Gulf of Mexico basins
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1943, Water Supply Paper 928
Th!s volume is one of a series of 14 reports presenting results or measurements of stage and flow made on streams, lakes, and reservoirs in the United States during the water year ending September 30, 1941. The work was begun !n 1888 in connection with special studies relating to irrigation....
Summaries of yearly and flood flow relating to Iowa streams 1873-1940
Lawrence C. Crawford
1942, Water Supply Bulletin 1
As a result of the need for basic data and the lack of a current and convenient summary concerning the surface-water resources of Iowa, a synoptic inventory has been prepared as a part of the present State-wide program which is made possible by State and Federal cooperative action. These hydrologic...
Geologic structure and occurrence of gas in part of southwestern New York. Part 1, Structure and gas possibilities of the Oriskany sandstone in Steuben, Yates, and parts of the adjacent counties
W. H. Bradley, J. F. Pepper
1941, Bulletin 899-A
The area covered by this report is in southwestern New York and includes a little more than 3,000 square miles in Steuben and Yates counties and parts of the six adjacent counties. This area has been mapped to determine the structural attitude of the exposed rocks, so as to aid...
Geologic structure and occurrence of gas in part of southwestern New York
Wilmot H. Bradley, James F. Pepper, G. B. Richardson
1941, Bulletin 899
The area covered by this report is in southwestern New York and includes a little more than 3,000 square miles in Steuben and Yates counties and parts of the six adjacent counties. This area has been mapped to determine the structural attitude of the exposed rocks, so as to aid...
Maximum discharges at stream-measurement stations through December 31, 1937, with a supplement including additions and changes through September 30, 1938
Gordon R. Williams, Lawrence C. Crawford, William Stewart Eisenlohr Jr.
1940, Water Supply Paper 847
This report is a compilation of the highest known discharges at most gaging stations in the United States and at several places on boundary streams in Canada and Mexico. In the design and operation of a variety of engineering works on rivers, such as dams, spillways, bridges, dikes, and floodways,...
Floods of Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, January-February 1937, with a section on the Flood deposits of the Ohio River, January-February 1937
Nathan Clifford Grover, George Rogers Mansfield
1938, Water Supply Paper 838
In January and February 1937 the Ohio and mid-Mississippi Rivers experienced floods which, over reaches many hundreds of miles in length, exceeded all previously recorded stages. When measured by the loss of life and property, extent of damage, and general disruption of human activities, these floods constituted a major catastrophe. The...
Flow‐duration characteristics of Illinois streams
J. H. Morgan
1936, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (17) 418-426
The paper entitled “An investigation of the flow‐duration characteristics of North Carolina streams,” by Thorndlke Saville and John Dargan Watson, which was published by the American Geophysical Union in its report of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting in 1933 (pp. 406–425), stimulated the writer, who is familiar with the streams discussed,...
Stream measurement work: Chapter 7 in Fifteenth biennial report of the State Engineer to the governor of Utah: 1925-1926
A.B. Purton
1926, Utah State Engineer Biennial Report 15-7
The general stream measurement work has been continued during the biennium by the United States Geological Survey under cooperative agreement with the State Engineer. This agreement is essentially the same as that outlined in previous reports and the details of the stream gauging operations carried on under these agreements can...
The artesian water supply of the Dakota sandstone in North Dakota, with special reference to the Edgeley quadrangle
Oscar E. Meinzer, Herbert A. Hard
1925, Water Supply Paper 520-E
The Dakota sandstone and the overlying dense plastic shales form the most remarkable artesian basin in the United States with respect to its great extent, the long distances through which its water has percolated from the outcrops of the sandstone in the western mountains to the areas of artesian flow,...
Stream measurement work: Chapter 9 in Thirteenth biennial report of the State Engineer to the governor of Utah: 1921-1922
A.B. Purton
1922, Utah State Engineer Biennial Report 13-9
Systematic stream measurement work was probably first undertaken in Utah when the United States Geological Survey in 1888 began collecting records of flow of certain streams in the West in connection with special studies relating to irrigation in the arid sections. Since 1895 Congress has made small appropriations “for gaging...
Surface waters of Kansas, 1895-1919
R.C. Rice
1921, Report
Kansas is preeminently an agricultural state. According to the United States census of 1910, the area in farms was 43,384,799 acres, or 67,789 square miles, 83 per cent of the total area of the state —82,158 square miles. The products of these farms rank high in value among those of farms...
Hydrometric work carried on in co-operation with the United States Geological Survey: Chapter 3 in Twelfth biennial report of the State Engineer to the governor of Utah: 1919-1920
A.B. Purton
1920, Utah State Engineer Biennial Report 12-3
The work of collecting stream flow data in Utah during the past two years has been continued under co-operative agreement between the State Engineer and the United States Geological Survey. Details of this agreement have been fully outlines in the previous reports of the State Engineer....
Geothermal data of the United States, including many original determinations of underground temperature
Nelson Horatio Darton
1920, Bulletin 701
The purpose of this report is to present all available published data bearing on the rate of increase of underground temperature with increasing depth in the United States, together with several hundred original observations by myself and my associates. A canvass of the governmental, State, and serial publications has yielded...
Accuracy of stream-flow data
Nathan Clifford Grover, John Clayton Hoyt
1916, Water Supply Paper 400-D
Water resources of the Penobscot River basin, Maine
Harold Kilbrith Barrows, Cyrus Cates Babb
1912, Water Supply Paper 279
This report on the Penobscot River drainage system, the largest and one of the most important in Maine, has been compiled chiefly from the records, reports, and maps of the United States Geological Survey and from the results of surveys made in cooperation with the Maine State Survey Commission. The...
