San Andreas fault zone, California: M≥5.5 earthquake history
Tousson R. Toppozada, D.M. Branum, M.S. Reichle, C.L. Hallstrom
2002, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (92) 2555-2601
The San Andreas fault zone has been a very significant source of major California earthquakes. From 1812 to 1906 it generated four major earthquakes of M ∼7 or larger in two pairs on two major portions of the fault. A pair of major earthquakes occurred on the central to southern region, where...
Timing of large earthquakes since A.D. 800 on the Mission Creek strand of the San Andreas fault zone at Thousand Palms Oasis, near Palm Springs, California
T. E. Fumal, M. J. Rymer, G. G. Seitz
2002, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (92) 2841-2860
Paleoseismic investigations across the Mission Creek strand of the San Andreas fault at Thousand Palms Oasis indicate that four and probably five surface-rupturing earthquakes occurred during the past 1200 years. Calendar age estimates for these earthquakes are based on a chronological model that incorporates radiocarbon dates from 18 in situ burn layers...
Concordant paleolatitudes for Neoproterozoic ophiolitic rocks of the Trinity Complex, Klamath Mountains, California
E. A. Mankinen, N. Lindsley-Griffin, J. R. Griffin
2002, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (107) EPM 11-1-EPM 11-18
New paleomagnetic results from the eastern Klamath Mountains of northern California show that Neoproterozoic rocks of the Trinity ophiolitic complex and overlying Middle Devonian volcanic rocks are latitudinally concordant with cratonal North America. Combining paleomagnetic data with regional geologic and faunal evidence suggests that the Trinity Complex and related terranes...
Distribution and significance of small, artificial water bodies across the United States landscape
S. V. Smith, W. H. Renwick, J.D. Bartley, R. W. Buddemeier
2002, Science of the Total Environment (299) 21-36
At least 2.6 million small, artificial water bodies dot the landscape of the conterminous United States; most are in the eastern half of the country. These features account for approximately 20% of the standing water area across the United States, and their impact on hydrology, sedimentology, geochemistry, and ecology is...
Magnitude estimates of two large aftershocks of the 16 December 1811 New Madrid earthquake
S. E. Hough, S. Martin
2002, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (92) 3259-3268
The three principal New Madrid mainshocks of 1811-1812 were followed by extensive aftershock sequences that included numerous felt events. Although no instrumental data are available for either the mainshocks or the aftershocks, available historical accounts do provide information that can be used to estimate magnitudes and locations for the large...
The flora of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi
A. Leidolf, S. McDaniel, T. Nuttle
2002, SIDA, Contributions to Botany (20) 691-765
We surveyed the flora of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, U.S.A., from February 1994 to 1996. Occupying 118 square kilometers in east-central Mississippi, Oktibbeha County lies among 3 physiographic regions that include, from west to east, Interior Flatwoods, Pontotoc Ridge, and Black Prairie. Accordingly, the county harbors a diverse flora. Based on...
Coalbed gas play emerges in eastern Kansas basins
K.D. Newell, L. L. Brady, J.P. Lange, T.R. Carr
2002, Oil & Gas Journal (100) 36-41
Coalbed gas from Middle Pennsylvanian rocks in eastern Kansas is an emerging new energy play. Many of the critical geological parameters that will prove to be the major controls on the production fairways of this potential new resource have yet to be determined. Nevertheless, preliminary analyses indicate that recent leasing...
Re-analysis of a banding study to test the effects of an experimental increase in bag limits of mourning doves
David L. Otis, Gary C. White
2002, Journal of Applied Statistics (29) 479-495
In 1966-1971, eastern US states with hunting seasons on mourning doves (Zenaida macroura) participated in a study designed to estimate the effects of bag limit increases on population survival rates. More than 400 000 adult and juvenile birds were banded and released during this period, and subsequent harvest and return...
Timing and magnitude of Broad-winged Hawk migration at Montclair Hawk Lookout, New Jersey, and Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Pennsylvania
Mark W. Miller, E. M. Greenstone, W. Greenstone, Keith L. Bildstein
2002, The Wilson Bulletin (114) 479-484
The Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus) breeds in eastern and central Canada and the United States, and winters in Central America and northern and central South America. Birders and ornithologists count migrating Broad-winged Hawks at dozens of traditional watch sites throughout the northeastern United States. We modeled counts of migrating...
The December 1872 Washington state earthquake
W. H. Bakun, R. A. Haugerud, M. G. Hopper, R.S. Ludwin
2002, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (92) 3239-3258
The largest historical earthquake in eastern Washington occurred on 15 December 1872. We used Modified Mercalli intensity (MMI) assignments for 12 twentieth-century earthquakes to determine attenuation relations for different regions in the Pacific Northwest. MMI attenuation for propagation paths east and west of the Cascade Mountains differs significantly only for...
Trends and temperature sensitivity of moisture conditions in the conterminous United States
G.J. McCabe, D.M. Wolock
2002, Climate Research (20) 19-29
Observed (1895-1999) trends in climatic moisture conditions in the conterminous United States (US) characterized by (1) annual precipitation minus annual potential evapotranspiration (PMPE), (2) annual surplus (water that eventually becomes streamflow), and (3) annual deficit (the amount of water that must be supplied by irrigation to grow vegetation at an...
Location, structure, and seismicity of the Seattle fault zone, Washington: Evidence from aeromagnetic anomalies, geologic mapping, and seismic-reflection data
R.J. Blakely, R.E. Wells, C.S. Weaver, S. Y. Johnson
2002, Geological Society of America Bulletin (114) 169-177
A high-resolution aeromagnetic survey of the Puget Lowland shows details of the Seattle fault zone, an active but largely concealed east-trending zone of reverse faulting at the southern margin of the Seattle basin. Three elongate, east-trending magnetic anomalies are associated with north-dipping Tertiary strata exposed in the hanging wall; the...
Distribution, abundance and habitat use of American White Pelicans in the Delta Region of Mississippi and along the Western Gulf of Mexico Coast
D.T. King, T.C. Michot
2002, Waterbirds (25) 410-416
Aerial surveys of American White Pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) were conducted over coastal Louisiana and the delta region of Mississippi on 1-2 days during December, February, and April each year from 1997 to 1999. Additional surveys were conducted in coastal Texas and Mexico during January 1998 and 1999. The numbers,...
Crustal structure and relocated earthquakes in the Puget Lowland, Washington, from high-resolution seismic tomography
T. M. Van Wagoner, R. S. Crosson, K. C. Creager, G. Medema, L. Preston, N. P. Symons, T.M. Brocher
2002, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (107) ESE 22-1-ESE 22-23
The availability of regional earthquake data from the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network (PNSN), together with active source data from the Seismic Hazards Investigation in Puget Sound (SHIPS) seismic experiments, has allowed us to construct a new high-resolution 3-D, P wave velocity model of the crust to a depth of about...
Spatial variability in water-balance model performance in the conterminous United States
Lauren E. Hay, Gregory J. McCabe
2002, Journal of the American Water Resources Association (38) 847-860
A monthly water-balance (WB) model was tested in 44 river basins from diverse physiographic and climatic regions across the conterminous United States (U.S.). The WB model includes the concepts of climatic water supply and climatic water demand, seasonality in climatic water supply and demand, and soil-moisture storage. Exhaustive search techniques...
Effects of forest fragmentation on brood parasitism and nest predation in eastern and western landscapes
J.F. Cavitt, T. E. Martin
2002, Conference Paper, Studies in Avian Biology
The fragmentation of North American forests by agriculture and other human activities may negatively impact the demographic processes of birds through increases in nest predation and brood parasitism. In fact, the effects of fragmentation on demographic processes are thought to be a major underlying cause of long-term population declines of...
Steady subsidence of Medicine Lake volcano, northern California, revealed by repeated leveling surveys
Daniel Dzurisin, Michael P. Poland, Roland Burgmann
2002, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (107) ECV 8-1-ECV 8-16
Leveling surveys of a 193‐km circuit across Medicine Lake volcano (MLV) in 1954 and 1989 show that the summit area subsided by as much as 302 ± 30 mm (−8.6 ± 0.9 mm/yr) with respect to a datum point near Bartle, California, 40 km to the southwest. This result corrects...
Some aspects of resource uncertainty and their economic consequences in assessment of the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Emil D. Attanasi, John H. Schuenemeyer
2002, Natural Resources Research (11) 109-120
Exploration ventures in frontier areas have high risks. Before committing to them, firms prepare regional resource assessments to evaluate the potential payoffs. With no historical basis for directly estimating size distribution of undiscovered accumulations, reservoir attribute probability distributions can be assessed subjectively and used to project...
Topographic stress perturbations in southern Davis Mountains, west Texas 2. Hydrogeologic implications
R. H. Morin, W. Z. Savage
2002, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (107) ETG 6-1-ETG 6-10
As part of a regional groundwater investigation, geophysical logs were obtained in two municipal water wells located near the west Texas city of Alpine. These boreholes are 252 and 285 m deep and penetrate extrusive rocks of Tertiary age. The deeper well was drilled in the central valley and the...
Cripple Creek and other alkaline-related gold deposits in the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA: Influence of regional tectonics
Karen D. Kelley, Steve Ludington
2002, Mineralium Deposita (37) 38-60
Alkaline-related epithermal vein, breccia, disseminated, skarn, and porphyry gold deposits form a belt in the southern Rocky Mountains along the eastern edge of the North American Cordillera. Alkaline igneous rocks and associated hydrothermal deposits formed at two times. The first was during the Laramide orogeny (about 70–40 Ma), with deposits restricted...
Historical Aerial Photography for the Greater Everglades of South Florida: The 1940, 1:40,000 Photoset
Thomas J. Smith III, Anne M. Foster, Peter R. Briere, Alisa W. Coffin, John W. Jones, Carson Van Arsdall, Laurinda J. Frye
2002, Open-File Report 2002-327
IntroductionThe Greater Everglades Ecosystem comprises a vast swath of wetlands beginning in central Florida with the headwaters of the Kissimmee River and continuing southward through Lake Okeechobee and then to Florida Bay (Davis 1943). The ecosystem runs some 450 km, north to south, and over 100 km east to west,...
Lithogeochemical character of near-surface bedrock in the New England coastal basins
Gilpin R. Robinson Jr., Joseph D. Ayotte, Denise L. Montgomery, Leslie A. DeSimone
2002, Open-File Report 2002-7
This geographic information system (GIS) data layer shows the generalized lithologic and geochemical, termed lithogeochemical, character of near-surface bedrock in the New England Coastal Basin (NECB) study area of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. The area encompasses 23,000 square miles in western and central...
Historical contributions of phosphorus from natural and agricultural sources and implications for stream water quality, Cheney Reservoir watershed, south-central Kansas
Larry M. Pope, Chad R. Milligan, David P. Mau
2002, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4021
An examination of soil cores collected from 43 nonagricultural coring sites in the Cheney Reservoir watershed of south-central Kansas was conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey in September 1999. The cores were collected as part of an ongoing cooperative study with the city of Wichita, Kansas. The 43 sites (mostly...
Water quality and environmental isotopic analyses of ground-water samples collected from the Wasatch and Fort Union Formations in areas of coalbed methane development — Implications to recharge and ground-water flow, eastern Powder River Basin, Wyoming
Timothy T. Bartos, Kathy Muller Ogle
2002, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4045
Chemical analyses of ground-water samples were evaluated as part of an investigation of lower Tertiary aquifers in the eastern Powder River Basin where coalbed methane is being developed. Ground-water samples were collected from two springs discharging from clinker, eight monitoring wells completed in the Wasatch aquifer, and 13 monitoring or coalbed...
Water Resources Data, New York, Water Year 2001; Volume 1. Eastern New York; Excluding Long Island
Gerard K. Butch, Patricia M. Murray, J.A. Robideau, J. A. Gardner II
2002, Water Data Report NY-01-1
Water resources data for the 2001 water year for New York consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage, contents, and water quality of lakes and reservoirs; and ground-water levels. This volume contains records for water discharge at 144 gaging stations; stage only at 10 gaging...
