Surficial geologic map of the Northeast Memphis quadrangle, Shelby County, Tennessee
Randel Tom Cox
2004, Scientific Investigations Map 2839
The depiction of geology on this map is designed to aid in urban planning and analysis of potential damage in the event of strong earthquake motion. The geologic map by itself does not analyze potential earthquake damage, but is designed to be used by seismologists who perform such analyses....
Landslide types and processes
Lynn Highland (compiler)
2004, Fact Sheet 2004-3072
Natural remediation of arsenic contaminated ground water associated with landfill leachate
Kenneth G. Stollenwerk, John A. Colman
2004, Fact Sheet 2004-3057
No abstract available....
Isostatic residual gravity map of The Santa Clara Valley and vicinity, California
Carter W. Roberts, Robert C. Jachens, David A. Ponce, Victoria E. Langenheim
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1297
The Alaska Volcano Observatory - Expanded monitoring of volcanoes yields results
Steven R. Brantley, Robert G. McGimsey, Christina A. Neal
2004, Fact Sheet 2004-3084
Recent explosive eruptions at some of Alaska's 52 historically active volcanoes have significantly affected air traffic over the North Pacific, as well as Alaska's oil, power, and fishing industries and local communities. Since its founding in the late 1980s, the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) has installed new monitoring networks and...
Preliminary 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of igneous intrusions from Uvalde County, Texas: Defining a more precise eruption history for the southern Balcones Volcanic Province
Daniel P. Miggins, Charles D. Blome, David V. Smith
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1031
No abstract available....
Use of short-term (5-Minute) and long-term (18-Hour) leaching tests to characterize, fingerprint, and rank mine-waste material from historical mines in the Deer Creek, Snake River, and Clear Creek Watersheds in and around the Montezuma Mining District, Colorado
Philip L. Hageman
2004, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5104
Precipitation-induced runoff from historical mine-waste located adjacent to the headwaters of the Snake River, Deer Creek, Saints John Creek, Grizzly Gulch, Stevens Gulch, and Leavenworth Creek contributes to the degradation of water quality in these streams. Because historical mine-waste piles have had long-term exposure to the atmosphere, it is surmised...
Occurrence, Distribution, Instantaneous Loads, and Yields of Dissolved Pesticides in the San Joaquin River Basin, California, During Summer Conditions, 1994 and 2001
Larry R. Brown, Sandra Y. Panshin, Charles R. Kratzer, Celia Zamora, JoAnn M. Gronberg
2004, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5083
Water samples were collected from 22 drainage basins for analysis of 48 dissolved pesticides during summer flow conditions in 1994 and 2001. Of the 48 pesticides, 31 were reported applied in the basin in the 28 days preceding the June 1994 sampling, 25 in the 28 days preceding the June...
Sembar Goru/Ghazij Composite Total Petroleum System, Indus and Sulaiman-Kirthar Geologic Provinces, Pakistan and India
C. J. Wandrey, B. E. Law, Haider Ali Shah
2004, Bulletin 2208-C
Geochemical analyses of rock samples and produced oil and gas in the Indus Basin have shown that the bulk of the hydrocarbons produced in the Indus Basin are derived from the Lower Cretaceous Sembar Formation and equivalent rocks. The source rocks of the Sembar are composed of shales that were...
Marine geology and earthquake hazards of the San Pedro Shelf region, southern California
Michael A. Fisher, William R. Normark, Victoria E. Langenheim, Andrew J. Calvert, Ray Sliter
2004, Professional Paper 1687
High-resolution seismic-reflection data have been com- bined with a variety of other geophysical and geological data to interpret the offshore structure and earthquake hazards of the San Pedro Shelf, near Los Angeles, California. Prominent structures investigated include the Wilmington Graben, the Palos Verdes Fault Zone, various faults below the western part of the shelf and slope,...
Abstracts of the annual meeting of planetary geologic mappers, Flagstaff, Arizona, 2004
Kenneth L. Tanaka, R. Stephen Saunders
Tracy Gregg, editor(s)
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1289
Geologic Map of the Woodland Quadrangle, Clark and Cowlitz Counties, Washington
Russell C. Evarts
2004, Scientific Investigations Map 2827
The Woodland 7.5' quadrangle is situated in the Puget-Willamette Lowland approximately 50 km north of Portland, Oregon (fig. 1). The lowland, which extends from Puget Sound into west-central Oregon, is a complex structural and topographic trough that lies between the Coast Range and the Cascade Range. Since late Eocene time,...
A formulation of directivity for earthquake sources using isochrone theory
Paul Spudich, Brian S.J. Chiou, Robert Graves, Nancy Collins, Paul Somerville
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1268
A functional form for directivity effects can be derived from isochrone theory, in which the measure of the directivity-induced amplification of an S body wave is c, the isochrone velocity. Ground displacement of the near-, intermediate-, and far-field terms of P and S waves is linear in isochrone velocity for...
The effects of urbanization on the biological, physical, and chemical characteristics of coastal New England streams
James F. Coles, Thomas F. Cuffney, Gerard McMahon, Karen M. Beaulieu
2004, Professional Paper 1695
During August 2000, responses of biological communities (invertebrates, fish, and algae), physical habitat, and water chemistry to urban intensity were compared among 30 streams within 80 miles of Boston, Massachusetts. Sites chosen for sampling represented a gradient of the intensity of urban development (urban intensity) among drainage basins that had...
A dataset of magnetic susceptibility, metalization, and alteration for samples from the Stinkingwater Mining District, Absaroka Mountains, Wyoming
Mark E. Gettings
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1253
Magnetic susceptibility was measured for 700 samples of drill core from thirteen drill holes in the porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit of the Stinkingwater mining district in the Absaroka Mountains, Wyoming. Measurements were performed on splits from 3 m (10 ft) sections of pulverized core. The measurements constitute a useful dataset because...
Coastal circulation and sediment dynamics along West Maui, Hawaii: Part III: Flow and particulate dynamics during the 2003 summer coral spawning season
Curt D. Storlazzi, Michael E. Field, Andrea S. Ogston, Joshua B. Logan, M. Kathy Presto, Dave G. Gonzales
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1287
High-resolution measurements of currents, temperature, salinity and turbidity were made over the course of three months off West Maui in the summer and early fall of 2003 to better understand coastal dynamics in coral reef habitats. Measurements were made through the emplacement of a series of bottom-mounted instruments in water...
Alaska resource data file: Mount Hayes quadrangle, Alaska
William Ellis, Charles C. Hawley, Samuel Dashevsky
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1266
No abstract available....
Geochemistry of mine waste and mill tailings, meadow deposits, streambed sediments, and the general hydrology and water quality for the Frohner Meadows area, upper Lump Gulch, Jefferson County, Montana
Terry L. Klein, Michael R. Cannon, David L. Fey
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1254
Frohner Meadows, an area of low-topographic gradient subalpine ponds and wetlands in glaciated terrane near the headwaters of Lump Gulch (a tributary of Prickly Pear Creek), is located about 15 miles west of the town of Clancy, Montana, in the Helena National Forest. Mining and ore treatment of lead-zinc-silver veins...
Analytical results from ground-water sampling using a direct-push technique at the Dover National Test Site, Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, June-July 2001
William R. Guertal, Marie Stewart, Jeffrey R. Barbaro, Timthoy J. McHale
2004, Open-File Report 2003-380
A joint study by the Dover National Test Site and the U.S. Geological Survey was conducted from June 27 through July 18, 2001 to determine the spatial distribution of the gasoline oxygenate additive methyl tert-butyl ether and selected water-quality constituents in the surficial aquifer underlying the Dover National Test Site...
A theory for modeling ground-water flow in heterogeneous media
Richard L. Cooley
2004, Professional Paper 1679
Construction of a ground-water model for a field area is not a straightforward process. Data are virtually never complete or detailed enough to allow substitution into the model equations and direct computation of the results of interest. Formal model calibration through optimization, statistical, and geostatistical methods is being applied to...
Quality of water in the fractured-bedrock aquifer of New Hampshire
Richard Bridge Moore
2004, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5093
Over the past few decades, New Hampshire has experienced considerable population growth, which is forcing some communities to look for alternative public and private water supplies in the bedrock aquifer. Because the quality of water from the aquifer can vary, the U.S. Geological Survey statistically analyzed well data from 1,353...
Hydrology and ground-water quality in the mine workings within the Picher Mining District, Northeastern Oklahoma, 2002-03
Kelli L. DeHay, William J. Andrews, Michael P. Sughru
2004, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5043
The Picher mining district of northeastern Ottawa County, Oklahoma, was a major site of mining for lead and zinc ores in the first half of the 20th century. The primary source of lead and zinc were sulfide minerals disseminated in the cherty limestones and dolomites of the Boone Formation of...
Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2000
Susan S. Hutson, Nancy L. Barber, Joan F. Kenny, Kristin S. Linsey, Deborah S. Lumia, Molly A. Maupin
2004, Circular 1268
Estimates of water use in the United States indicate that about 408 billion gallons per day (one thousand million gallons per day, abbreviated Bgal/d) were withdrawn for all uses during 2000. This total has varied less than 3 percent since 1985 as withdrawals have stabilized for the two largest uses?thermoelectric...
Geochemical Characterization of Mine Waste at the Ely Copper Mine Superfund Site, Orange County, Vermont
Nadine M. Piatak, Jane M. Hammarstrom, Robert R. Seal II, Paul H. Briggs, Allen L. Meier, Timothy L. Muzik, John C. Jackson
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1248
Characterization of channel substrate, and changes in suspended-sediment transport and channel geometry in white sturgeon spawning habitat in the Kootenai River near Bonners Ferry, Idaho, following the closure of Libby Dam
Gary J. Barton
2004, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4324
Many local, State, and Federal agencies have concerns over the declining population of white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) in the Kootenai River and the possible effects of the closure and subsequent operation of Libby Dam in 1972. In 1994, the Kootenai River white sturgeon was listed as an Endangered Species. A...
