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...
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...
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...
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...
Tar Creek study, Sargent oil field, Santa Clara County, California
David L. Wagner, Bill Fedasko, J.R. Carnahan, Ross Brunetti, Leslie B. Magoon, Paul G. Lillis, T.D. Lorenson, Richard G. Stanley
2002, Report
Field work in the Tar Creek area of Sargent oil field was performed June 26 to 28, 2000. The Santa Clara County study area is located in Sections, 30, 31, and 32, Township 11 South, Range 4 East, M.D.B&M; and in Sections 25 and 36, Township 11 South, Range 3...
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...
Environmental setting and water-quality issues of the Mobile River Basin, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee
Gregory C. Johnson, Robert E. Kidd, Celeste A. Journey, Humbert Zappia, J. Brian Atkins
2002, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4162
The Mobile River Basin is one of over 50 river basins and aquifer systems being investigated as part of the U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. This basin is the sixth largest river basin in the United States, and fourth largest in terms of streamflow, encompassing parts of...
Hydrology and chemistry of floodwaters in the Yolo Bypass, Sacramento River system, California, during 2000
Laurence E. Schemel, Marisa H. Cox, Stephen W. Hager, Theodore R. Sommer
2002, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4202
Discharges to and floodwaters in the Yolo Bypass were sampled during winter and spring, 2000. The primary purpose of the study was to link changes in water quality in the Yolo Bypass to inflows from the Sacramento River (over Fremont Weir) and from four local streams that discharge to the...
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 data analysis of the upper Gunnison River watershed, Colorado, 1989-99
Jason J. Gurdak, Adrienne I. Greve, Norman E. Spahr
2002, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4001
Water-quality data from October 1969 to December 1999 for both surface water and ground water in the upper Gunnison River watershed were retrieved and compiled from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Storage and Retrieval databases. Analyses focused primarily on a subset...
Simulation of runoff and water quality for 1990 and 2008 land-use conditions in the Reedy Creek watershed, east-central Florida
Shaun Wicklein, Donna M. Schiffer
2002, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2002-4018
Hydrologic and water-quality data have been collected within the 177-square-mile Reedy Creek, Florida, watershed, beginning as early as 1939, but the data have not been used to evaluate relations among land use, hydrology, and water quality. A model of the Reedy Creek watershed was developed and applied to the period...
Hydrogeology and leachate plume delineation at a closed municipal landfill, Norman, Oklahoma
Carol Becker
2002, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4168
The City of Norman operated a solid-waste municipal landfill at two sites on the Canadian River alluvium in Cleveland County, Oklahoma from 1970 to 1985. The sites, referred to as the west and east cells of the landfill, were originally excavations in the unconsolidated alluvial deposits and were not lined....
Travel times and dispersion of soluble dye in thirteen New Hampshire rivers
Thor E. Smith
2002, Open-File Report 2002-226
Dye was injected and traced in 13 New Hampshire rivers in 2000 to determine the velocity at which a soluble substance spilled into the river would travel to drinking-water supply intakes. Travel times were studied on the Ammonoosuc, Androscoggin, Connecticut, Contoocook, East Branch Pemigewasset, Exeter, Lamprey, Mascoma, Merrimack, Oyster, Piscassic,...
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,...
Spatial digital database for the tectonic map of southeast Arizona
Harald Drewes, Robert A. digital database by Fields, Douglas M. Hirschberg, Karen S. Bolm
2002, IMAP 1109
A spatial database was created for Drewes' (1980) tectonic map of southeast Arizona: this database supercedes Drewes and others (2001, ver. 1.0). Staff and a contractor at the U.S. Geological Survey in Tucson, Arizona completed an interim digital geologic map database for the east part of the map in 2001,...
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...
Watershed models for decision support in the Yakima River basin, Washington
M. C. Mastin, J. J. Vaccaro
2002, Open-File Report 2002-404
A Decision Support System (DSS) is being developed by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Reclamation as part of a long-term project, the Watershed and River Systems Management Program. The goal of the program is to apply the DSS to U.S. Bureau of Reclamation projects in the western...
Lake belt study area: High-resolution seismic-reflection survey, Miami-Dade County Florida
Jack L. Kindinger
2002, Open-File Report 2002-325
Executive Summary The Northwest Dade County Freshwater Lake Plan Area (commonly referred to as the Lake Belt Area) is vital to the future planning and development of southeastern Florida. This area is located within one of the most environmentally sensitive parts of the state – the eastern borders of the...
