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...
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...
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)...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
Environmental atlas of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin
Andrew Beall, Jack Kindinger
Shea Penland, editor(s)
2002, Open-File Report 2002-206
Abstracts of the annual Planetary Geologic Mappers Meeting, June 18-19, 2001, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Kenneth L. Tanaka, David A. Senske
Thomas J. Parker, editor(s)
2002, Open-File Report 2002-78
The annual Planetary Geologic Mappers Meeting serves two purposes. In addition to giving mappers the opportunity to exchange ideas, experiences, victories, and problems with others, presentations are reviewed by the Geologic Mapping Subcommittee (GeMS) to provide input to the Planetary Geology and Geophysics Mapping Program review panel’s consideration of new...
Rare Earth Element Mines, Deposits, and Occurrences
Greta J. Orris, Richard I. Grauch
2002, Open-File Report 2002-189
Data on rare earth (including yttrium) mines, deposits, and occurrences were compiled as part of an effort by the USGS and the University of Arizona Center for Mineral Resources to summarize current knowledge on the supply and demand outlook and related topics for this group of elements. Economic competition and...
Water-quality monitoring and studies of the formation and fate of trihalomethanes during the third injection, storage and recovery test at Lancaster, Antelope Valley, California, March 1998 through April 1999
Miranda S. Fram, Joshua K. Berghouse, Brian A. Bergamaschi, Roger Fujii, Kelly D. Goodwin, Jordan F. Clark
2002, Open-File Report 2002-102
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works and the Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency, conducted three cycles of injection, storage, and recovery tests to evaluate the feasibility of artificially recharging ground water in the Lancaster area of Antelope Valley, California. During the...
Methods of installing United States National Seismographic Network (USNSN) stations -- a construction manual
John R. McMillan
2002, Open-File Report 2002-144
User's guide to HYPOINVERSE-2000, a Fortran program to solve for earthquake locations and magnitudes
Fred W. Klein
2002, Open-File Report 2002-171
Hypoinverse is a computer program that processes files of seismic station data for an earthquake (like p wave arrival times and seismogram amplitudes and durations) into earthquake locations and magnitudes. It is one of a long line of similar USGS programs including HYPOLAYR (Eaton, 1969), HYPO71 (Lee and Lahr, 1972),...
Borehole velocity measurements at five sites that recorded the Cape Mendocino, California earthquake of 25 April, 1992
James F. Gibbs, John C. Tinsley III, David M. Boore
2002, Open-File Report 2002-203
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), as part of an ongoing program to acquire seismic velocity and geologic data at locations that recorded strong-ground motions during earthquakes, has investigated five sites in the Fortuna, California region (Figure 1). We selected drill sites at strong-motion stations that recorded high accelerations (Table 1)...
Bedrock and soil geochemistry from Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota
Laurel G. Woodruff, William F. Cannon, Connie L. Dicken, Shana Pimley
2002, Open-File Report 2002-196
Bedrock, forest floor, and mineral soil sampling in Voyageurs National Park (VNP), Minnesota in 2000 and 2001 is part of a multidisciplinary project that includes the U. S. Geological Survey, National Park Service, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources....
Evaluation of economically extractable coal resources in the Gillette coal field, Powder River basin, Wyoming
Margaret S. Ellis, Carol L. Molnia, Lee M. Osmonson, Allan M. Ochs, Timothy J. Rohrbacher, Tracy J. Mercier, Laura N.R. Roberts
2002, Open-File Report 2002-180
No abstract available....
Magnetotelluric data along the Tangle Lakes profile, Alaska
Jay A. Sampson, Brian D. Rodriguez
2002, Open-File Report 2002-177
The 89 km long Tangle Lakes profile of 14 magnetotelluric (MT) stations begins 4 km south of the confluence of Augustana Creek and the Delta River in south central Alaska. The northernmost station, TLM13, is located just south of the Denali Fault in the rugged Clearwater Mountains. The north-south profile...
Quality of economically extractable coal beds in the Gillette coal field as compared with other Tertiary coal beds in the Powder River basin, Wyoming and Montana
Margaret S. Ellis
2002, Open-File Report 2002-174
The Powder River Basin, and specifically the Gillette coal field, contains large quantities of economically extractable coal resources. These coal resources have low total sulfur content and ash yield, and most of the resources are subbituminous in rank. A recent U.S Geological Survey study of economically extractable coal in the...
Asbestos: Geology, Mineralogy, Mining, and Uses
Robert L. Virta
2002, Open-File Report 2002-149
The term asbestos is a generic designation referring usually to six types of naturally occurring mineral fibers that are or have been commercially exploited. These fibers belong to two mineral groups: serpentines and amphiboles. The serpentine group contains a single asbestiform variety: chrysotile; five asbestiform varieties of amphiboles are known:...
Molybdenum recycling in the United States in 1998
John W. Blossom
2002, Open-File Report 2002-165
This report describes the flow of molybdenum in the United States in 1998 with emphasis on the extent to which molybdenum was recycled. Molybdenum was mostly recycled from products of molybdenum-bearing steels and superalloys, with some molybdenum products recovered specifically for their high molybdenum content. In 1998, 8,000 metric tons...
Data from theodolite measurements of creep rates on San Francisco Bay region faults, California: 1979-2001
Jon S. Galehouse
2002, Open-File Report 2002-225
My purpose is to make our creep data on San Francisco Bay region active faults available to the scientific research community. My student research assistants and I measured creep (aseismic slip) rates on these faults from 1979 until my retirement from the project in 2001. These data are further described...
