FD_BH: a program for simulating electromagnetic waves from a borehole antenna
Karl J. Ellefsen
2002, Open-File Report 2002-276
Program FD_BH is used to simulate the electromagnetic waves generated by an antenna in a borehole. The model representing the antenna may include metallic parts, a coaxial cable as a feed to the driving point, and resistive loading. The program is written in the C programming language, and the program...
Multielement geochemical dataset of surficial materials for the northern Great Basin
Mary Jane Coombs, Boris B. Kotlyar, Steve Ludington, Helen W. Folger, Victor G. Mossotti
2002, Open-File Report 2002-227
This report presents geochemical data generated during mineral and environmental assessments for the Bureau of Land Management in northern Nevada, northeastern California, southeastern Oregon, and southwestern Idaho, along with metadata and map representations of selected elements. The dataset presented here is a compilation of chemical analyses of over 10,200 stream-sediment...
Software user's guide for determining the Pennsylvania scour critical indicator code and streambed scour assessment rating for roadway bridges
M.F. Henneberg, J. L. Strause
2002, Open-File Report 2001-446
This report presents the instructions required to use the Scour Critical Bridge Indicator (SCBI) Code and Scour Assessment Rating (SAR) calculator developed by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and the U.S. Geological Survey to identify Pennsylvania bridges with excessive scour conditions or a high potential for scour. Use of...
Positional Accuracy of Airborne Integrated Global Positioning and Inertial Navigation Systems for Mapping in Glen Canyon, Arizona
Richard D. Sanchez, Larry D. Hothem
2002, Open-File Report 2002-222
High-resolution airborne and satellite image sensor systems integrated with onboard data collection based on the Global Positioning System (GPS) and inertial navigation systems (INS) may offer a quick and cost-effective way to gather accurate topographic map information without ground control or aerial triangulation. The Applanix Corporation?s Position and Orientation Solutions...
Environmental Database For Water-Quality Data for the Penobscot River, Maine: Design Documentation and User Guide
Sarah E. Giffen
2002, Open-File Report 2001-485
An environmental database was developed to store water-quality data collected during the 1999 U.S. Geological Survey investigation of the occurrence and distribution of dioxins, furans, and PCBs in the riverbed sediment and fish tissue in the Penobscot River in Maine. The database can be used to store a wide range...
Historical Ice-Out Dates for 29 Lakes in New England
Glenn A. Hodgkins, Ivan C. James III
2002, Open-File Report 2002-34
Historical ice-out dates for 29 lakes in New England were compiled and are presented in this report. The length of record for the lakes ranges from 64 to 163 years, with an average of 108 years. Many lakes in New England had their latest recorded ice-out date in 1888. Ice-out...
Report for borehole explosion data acquired in the 1999 Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment (LARSE II), southern California: Part II, data tables and plots
Janice M. Murphy, Gary S. Fuis, D. A. Okaya, Kristina Thygesen, Shirley A. Baher, Trond Rybert, Galen Kaip, Michael D. Fort, Isa Asudeh, Russell Sell
2002, Open-File Report 2002-179
The Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment (LARSE), a joint project of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), was conducted to produce seismic images of the subsurface in the Los Angeles region. Primary targets were major fault systems and sedimentary basins; the goal of the...
Preliminary geologic map of the Redman Quadrangle, Los Angeles and Kern counties, California
A. W. Ward, G. L. Dixon
2002, Open-File Report 93-695
Analysis of magnetotelluric profile data from the Ruby Mountains metamorphic core complex and southern Carlin Trend region, Nevada
Philip E. Wannamaker, William M. Doerner, John A. Stodt, Timothy L. Sodergen, Brian D. Rodriguez
2002, Open-File Report 2002-214
We have collected about 150 magnetotelluric (MT) soundings in northeastern Nevada in the region of the Ruby Mountains metamorphic core complex uplift and southern Carlin mineral trend, in an effort to illuminate controls on core complex evolution and deposition of world-class gold deposits. The region has experienced a broad range...
Merged digital aeromagnetic data for the middle Rio Grande and southern Espanola basins, New Mexico
Ronald E. Sweeney, V. J. S. Grauch, Jeffrey D. Phillips
2002, Open-File Report 2002-205
The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently conducted a multi-disciplinary study of the Middle Rio Grande basin (Bartolino and Cole, 2002; Fig. 1). The main purpose of this study was to gain a better multi-dimensional understanding of the basin's hydrogeologic framework and use this new understanding to construct an improved...
Potentiometric surface of the upper Floridan aquifer, west-central Florida, September 2001
A. D. Duerr
2002, Open-File Report 2002-188
No abstract available....
Toxic substances from coal combustion - A comprehensive assessment, phase II: Element modes of occurrence for the Ohio 5/6/7, Wyodak, and North Dakota coal samples
Allan Kolker, Stanley J. Mroczkowski, Curtis A. Palmer, Kristen O. Dennen, Robert B. Finkelman, John H. Bullock Jr.
2002, Open-File Report 2002-224
No abstract available....
Results of the U. S. Geological Survey's Analytical Evaluation Program for Standard Reference Samples Distributed in March 2002
M.T. Woodworth, B.F. Conner
2002, Open-File Report 2002-243
This report presents the results of the U.S. Geological Survey's analytical evaluation program for six standard reference samples -- T- 169 (trace constituents), M- 162 (major constituents), N-73 (nutrient constituents), N-74 (nutrient constituents), P-38 (low ionic-strength constituents), and Hg-34 (mercury) -- that were distributed in March 2002 to laboratories enrolled...
Source water identification and chemical typing for nitrogen at the Kissimmee River, Pool C, Florida — Preliminary assessment
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2002, Open-File Report 2002-48
As part of the South Florida Water Management District's Ground Water-Surface Water Interactions Study, a project was undertaken to identify the ages and sources of water in the area of Pool C, Kissimmee River, Florida. Twenty-two water samples were collected along two transects: at a remnant river oxbows (Site D)...
U.S. Geological Survey 2002 petroleum resource assessment of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA): play maps and technically recoverable resource estimates
Kenneth J. Bird, David W. Houseknecht
2002, Open-File Report 2002-207
This report provides a summary of the estimated volume of technically recoverable undiscovered oil and nonassociated gas resources for each of the 24 plays evaluated in the U.S. Geological Survey 2002 petroleum resource assessment of the NPRA (Bird and Houseknecht, 2002). It also provides a set of illustrations showing the...
Deep-towed chirp profiles of the Blake Ridge collapse structure collected on USGS Cruises 92023 and 95023 aboard the R/V Cape Hatteras in 1992 and 1995
Jeffrey W. Nealon, William P. Dillon, William W. Danforth, Thomas F. O’Brien
2002, Open-File Report 2001-123
No abstract available....
Data on occurrence of selected trace metals, organochlorines, and semivolatile organic compounds in edible fish tissues from Lake Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, 1999
J. Bruce Moring
2002, Open-File Report 2002-16
A public-health assessment conducted for the Texas Department of Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry concluded that exposure to contaminants through the aquatic food chain is an indeterminate human-health hazard in Lake Worth, Fort Worth, Texas. In 1999, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the...
Distribution of volatile organic compounds in sediments near Sutton Brook Disposal Area, Tewksbury, Massachusetts, May 2001
P. E. Church, F. P. Lyford, Scott Clifford
2002, Open-File Report 2002-138
Ground water at the Sutton Brook Disposal Area, a former municipal landfill in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, located adjacent to Sutton Brook, a tributary of the Shawsheen River, is contaminated by volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Results from the use of passive-vapor-diffusion samplers show vapor concentrations of petroleum hydrocarbons as high as 500,000...
Progress on geoenvironmental models for selected mineral deposit types
Robert R. Seal, II, Nora K. Foley, editor(s)
2002, Open-File Report 2002-195
Since the beginning of economic geology as a subdiscipline of the geological sciences, economic geologists have tended to classify mineral deposits on the basis of geological, mineralogical, and geochemical criteria, in efforts to systematize our understanding of mineral deposits as an aid to exploration. These efforts have led to classifications...
Ground-water-quality data for Albany and surrounding areas, Southwest Georgia, 1951-99
Debbie Warner, Jamie A. Easoz, Sherlyn Priest
2002, Open-File Report 2002-124
This report presents ground-water-quality data from the surficial, Upper Floridan, Claiborne, Clayton, and Upper Cretaceous aquifers in the Albany and surrounding areas of southwest Georgia. Water-quality data from about 186 wells in Baker, Calhoun, Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Terrell, and Worth Counties are presented for the period from 1951 through 1999....
Fish, benthic-macroinvertebrate, and stream-habitat data from two estuaries near Galveston Bay, Texas, 2000-2001
Jennifer L. Hogan
2002, Open-File Report 2002-24
This report presents data on the status of fish, macroinvertebrates, and stream habitat collected from 10 sites in the lower (estuarine) parts of Armand and Dickinson Bayous near Galveston Bay, Texas, during summer 2000 and winter 2001. The total number of individual fish caught at the five Armand Bayou sites...
Experiments in seismometer azimuth determination by comparing the sensor signal outputs with the signal output of an oriented sensor
Gary L. Holcomb
2002, Open-File Report 2002-183
No abstract available. ...
Methods to achieve accurate projection of regional and global raster databases
E.L. Usery, J.C. Seong, D.R. Steinwand, M.P. Finn
2002, Open-File Report 2001-383
This research aims at building a decision support system (DSS) for selecting an optimum projection considering various factors, such as pixel size, areal extent, number of categories, spatial pattern of categories, resampling methods, and error correction methods. Specifically, this research will investigate three goals theoretically and empirically and, using the...
Gain-loss study of lower San Pedro Creek and the San Antonio River, San Antonio, Texas, May-October 1999
Darwin J. Ockerman
2002, Open-File Report 2002-23
Five streamflow gain-loss measurement surveys were made along lower San Pedro Creek and the San Antonio River from Mitchell Street to South Loop 410 east of Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, during May–October 1999. All of the measurements were made during dry periods, when stormwater runoff was...
Environmental atlas of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin
Andrew Beall, Jack Kindinger
Shea Penland, editor(s)
2002, Open-File Report 2002-206
