Submarine ground-water discharge and its role in coastal processes and ecosystems
Peter W. Swarzenski, John F. Bratton, John Crusius
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1226
Submarine ground-water discharge (SGD) has recently been recognized as a phenomenon that can strongly influence coastal water and geochemical budgets and drive ecosystem change. For example, the discharge of nutrient-enriched ground water into coastal waters may contribute significantly to eutrophication and blooms of harmful algae. Similarly, the quantity of SGD...
Suwannee River Basin and Estuary Initiative: Executive Summary
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1198
Maps showing estimated sediment yield from coastal landslides and active slope distribution along the Big Sur coast, Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties, California
Cheryl J. Hapke, Krystal R. Green, Kate Dallas
2004, Scientific Investigations Map 2852
The 1982-83 and 1997-98 El Ni?os brought very high precipitation to California?s central coast; this precipitation resulted in raised groundwater levels, coastal flooding, and destabilized slopes throughout the region. Large landslides in the coastal mountains of Big Sur in Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties blocked sections of California State...
Fish communities of the Buffalo River Basin and nearby basins of Arkansas and their relation to selected environmental factors, 2001-2002
James C. Petersen
2004, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5119
The Buffalo River lies in north-central Arkansas and is a tributary of the White River. Most of the length of the Buffalo River lies within the boundaries of Buffalo National River, a unit of the National Park Service; the upper 24 river kilometers lie within the boundary of the Ozark...
Water-level changes in the High Plains aquifer, predevelopment to 2003 and 2002 to 2003
Virginia L. McGuire
2004, Fact Sheet 2004-3097
No abstract available....
Organochlorine pesticides in the Johnson Creek Basin, Oregon, 1988-2002
Dwight Q. Tanner, Karl K. Lee
2004, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5061
Organochlorine pesticides were detected in unfiltered samples from Johnson Creek that were collected during a storm in March, 2002. Total DDT (the sum of DDT and its metabolites), as well as dieldrin, potentially exceeded Oregon chronic, freshwater criteria at all four Johnson Creek stream-sampling sites. The total DDT criterion was...
Characterization of the habitat of Lythrum salicaria L. in floodplain forests in western Turkey—Effects on stem height and seed production
Cengiz Ture, Nuket Akanil Bingol, Beth A. Middleton
2004, Wetlands (24) 711-716
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) is an invasive wetland perennial in North America native to Eurasia. Because light environment may limit the species’ distribution, information on the relationship of forest canopy coverage to relative height and seed set in its native environment could give insight into its control in North...
Drilling the central crater of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure: A first look
Ward E. Sanford, Gregory Gohn, David S. Powars, J. Wright Horton Jr., Lucy E. Edwards, Jean Self-Trail, Roger H. Morin
2004, Eos, Earth and Space Science News (85) 369-377
The late Eocene Chesapeake Bay impact structure is a well‐preserved example of one of Earth's largest impact craters, and its continental‐shelf setting and relatively shallow burial make it an excellent target for study. Since the discovery of the structure over a decade ago [Edwards et al., 2004; Poag et al., 2004], test drilling...
Water-rock interaction
Richard B. Wanty, Robert R. Seal, II, editor(s)
2004, Book
No abstract available....
Historical seismic activity in the central United States
William H. Bakun, Margaret G. Hopper
2004, Seismological Research Letters (75) 564-574
No abstract available....
A suspended sediment budget for Pool 13 and La Grange Pool of the upper Mississippi River system
Robert F. Gaugush
2004, Long Term Resource Monitoring Program Technical Report 2004-T004
The suspended sediment budget for Pool 13 of the Mississippi River and La Grange Pool of the Illinois River was examined over a 3-yr period (October 1995 through September 1997). Pool 13 output was between 3.07 and 3.64 million t (metric tons) of suspended sediment annually during the study period....
Quality of water from shallow wells in the rice-growing area in southwestern Louisiana, 1999 through 2001
Roland W. Tollett, Robert B. Fendick Jr.
2004, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4050
In 1999-2001, the U.S. Geological Survey installed and sampled 27 shallow wells in the rice-growing area in southwestern Louisiana as part of the Acadian-Pontchartrain Study Unit of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program. The purpose of this report is to describe the waulity of water from shallow wells in the...
Geologic map of the Hasty Quadrangle, Boone and Newton Counties, Arkansas
Mark R. Hudson, Kyle E. Murray
2004, Scientific Investigations Map 2847
This digital geologic map compilation presents new polygon (for example, geologic map unit contacts), line (for example, fault, fold axis, and structure contour), and point (for example, structural attitude, contact elevations) vector data for the Hasty 7.5-minute quadrangle in northern Arkansas. The map database, which is at 1:24,000-scale resolution,...
World heritage site - Bien du Patrimoine Mondial - Kluane/Wrangell-St. Elias/Glacier Bay/Tatshenshini-Alsek
Keith A. Labay, Frederic H. Wilson
2004, Scientific Investigations Map 2819
The four parks depicted on this map make up a single World Heritage Site that covers 24.3 million acres. Together, they comprise the largest internationally protected land-based ecosystem on the planet. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) established the World Heritage Program in 1972 for the identification...
Correlation of middle jurassic San Rafael Group and related rocks from Bridgeport to Ouray in Western Colorado
Robert B. O’Sullivan
2004, Scientific Investigations Map 2849
Quaternary stratigraphy and tectonics, and late prehistoric agriculture of the Safford Basin (Gila and San Simon river valleys), Graham County, Arizona
Brenda B. Houser, Phillip A. Pearthree, Jeffry A. Homburg, Lawrence C. Thrasher
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1062
This guidebook accompanied the 46th annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Cell of the Friends of the Pleistocene (FOP) and the 2002 Fall Field Trip of the Arizona Geological Society. The meeting and field trip were held in the Safford Basin, southeastern Arizona. The Friends of the Pleistocene is an...
Mercury and Methylmercury concentrations and loads in Cache Creek Basin, California, January 2000 through May 2001
Joseph L. Domagalski, Charles N. Alpers, Darrell G. Slotton, Thomas H. Suchanek, Shaun M. Ayers
2004, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5037
Concentrations and mass loads of total mercury and methylmercury in streams draining abandoned mercury mines and near geothermal discharge in Cache Creek Basin, California, were measured during a 17-month period from January 2000 through May 2001. Rainfall and runoff averages during the study period were lower than long-term averages. Mass...
Evaluation of conceptual models of natural organic matter (humus) from a consideration of the chemical and biochemical processes of humification
Robert L. Wershaw
2004, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5121
Natural organic matter (NOM) has been studied for more than 200 years because of its importance in enhancing soil fertility, soil structure, and water-holding capacity and as a carbon sink in the global carbon cycle. Two different types of models have been proposed for NOM: (1) the humic polymer models...
Evolutionary stability of mutualism: interspecific population regulation as an evolutionarily stable strategy
J. Nathaniel Holland, Donald L. DeAngelis, Stewart T. Schultz
2004, Proceedings of the Royal Society B (271) 1807-1814
Interspecific mutualisms are often vulnerable to instability because low benefit : cost ratios can rapidly lead to extinction or to the conversion of mutualism to parasite–host or predator–prey interactions. We hypothesize that the evolutionary stability of mutualism can depend on how benefits and costs to one mutualist vary with the...
Methods to Identify Changes in Background Water-Quality Conditions Using Dissolved-Solids Concentrations and Loads as Indicators, Arkansas River and Fountain Creek, in the Vicinity of Pueblo, Colorado
Roderick F. Ortiz
2004, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5024
Effective management of existing water-storage capacity in the Arkansas River Basin is anticipated to help satisfy the need for water in southeastern Colorado. A strategy to meet these needs has been developed, but implementation could affect the water quality of the Arkansas River and Fountain Creek in the vicinity of...
Water-quality and bottom-material characteristics of Cross Lake, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, 1997-99
Benton D. McGee
2004, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4135
Cross Lake is a shallow, monomictic lake that was formed in 1926 by the impoundment of Cross Bayou. The lake is the primary drinking-water supply for the City of Shreveport, Louisiana. In recent years, the lakeshore has become increasinginly urbanized. In addition, the land use of the...
Modeling Streamflow and Water Temperature in the North Santiam and Santiam Rivers, Oregon, 2001-02
Annett B. Sullivan, Stewart A. Roundsk
2004, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5001
To support the development of a total maximum daily load (TMDL) for water temperature in the Willamette Basin, the laterally averaged, two-dimensional model CE-QUAL-W2 was used to construct a water temperature and streamflow model of the Santiam and North Santiam Rivers. The rivers were simulated from downstream of Detroit and...
Water use, ground-water recharge and availability, and quality of water in the Greenwich area, Fairfield County, Connecticut and Westchester County, New York, 2000-2002
John R. Mullaney
2004, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4300
Ground-water budgets were developed for 32 small basin-based zones in the Greenwich area of southwestern Connecticut, where crystalline-bedrock aquifers supply private wells, to determine the status of residential ground-water consumption relative to rates of ground-water recharge and discharge. Estimated residential ground-water withdrawals for small basins (averaging 1.7 square miles (mi2))...
Riverbed elevations and water quality of the Missouri River at Sioux City, Iowa, 2002-03
Daniel E. Christiansen
2004, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5079
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the City of Sioux City, Iowa, conducted an investigation of the Missouri River, during 2002-2003, to assess changes in riverbed elevations from its confluence with the Big Sioux River, downstream to the area of the Sioux City municipal well field. Water-quality samples also...
Reductive dechlorination of chlorinated ethenes under oxidation-reduction conditions and potentiometric surfaces in two trichloroethene-contaminated zones at the Double Eagle and Fourth Street Superfund sites in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Christopher L. Braun
2004, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5050
The Double Eagle Refining Superfund site and the Fourth Street Abandoned Refinery Superfund site are in northeast Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, adjacent to one another. The Double Eagle facility became a Superfund site on the basis of contamination from lead and volatile organic compounds; the Fourth Street facility on the basis...
