Water-quality and amphibian population data for Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, 2001-2004
Karen C. Rice, Robin E. Jung
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1401
Data on the chemical composition of water and on amphibian populations were collected at least annually from vernal pool and stream sites in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, from 2001 through 2004. The data were collected as part of long-term monitoring projects of the Northeast Region of the Amphibian Research...
Science for the changing Great Basin
Erik Beever, David A. Pyke
2004, Fact Sheet 2004-3071
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), with its multidisciplinary structure and role as a federal science organization, is well suited to provide integrated science in the Great Basin of the western United States. A research strategy developed by the USGS and collaborating partners addresses critical management issues in the basin, including...
Conventional natural gas resource potential, Alaska North Slope
David W. Houseknecht
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1440
An estimate of total natural gas resource potential of northern Alaska can be obtained by summing known gas reserves in oil and gas fields (35 TCF), mean estimates of undiscovered nonassociated (61 TCF) and associated (12 TCF) gas resources in NPRA, and mean estimates of undiscovered nonassociated (4 TCF) and...
Geostatistical analysis of effective vertical hydraulic conductivity and presence of confining layers in the Shallow Glacial Drift Aquifer, Oakland County, Michigan
E.G. Bissell, Stephen S. Aichele
2004, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5167
About 400,000 residents of Oakland County, Mich., rely on ground water for their primary drinking-water supply. More than 90 percent of these residents draw ground water from the shallow glacial drift aquifer. Understanding the vertical hydraulic conductivity of the shallow glacial drift aquifer is important both in identifying areas of...
Seismic response analysis of a 13-story steel moment-framed building in Alhambra, California
Janise E. Rodgers, Ahmet K. Sanli, Mehmet Çelebi
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1338
The seismic performance of steel moment-framed buildings has been of particular interest since brittle fractures were discovered at the beam-column connections of some frames following the M6.7 1994 Northridge earthquake. This report presents an investigation of the seismic behavior of an instrumented 13-story steel moment frame building located in the...
Digital files for northeast Asia geodynamics, mineral deposit location, and metallogenic belt maps, stratigraphic columns, descriptions of map units, and descriptions of metallogenic belts
Warren J. Nokleberg, Gombosuren Badarch, Nikolai A. Berzin, Michael F. Diggles, Duk-Hwan Hwang, Alexander I. Khanchuk, Robert J. Miller, Vera V. Naumova, Alexander A. Obolensky, Masatsugu Ogasawara, Leonid M. Parfenov, Andrei V. Prokopiev, Sergey M. Rodionov, Hongquan Yan
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1252
This is the online version of a CD-ROM publication. It contains all of the data that are on the disc but extra files have been removed: index files, software installers, and Windows autolaunch files. This publication contains a a series of files for Northeast Asia geodynamics, mineral deposit location, and...
Water resources in the Wardensville Area, Hardy County, West Virginia, October 2003-May 2004
Ronald D. Evaldi, Kurt J. McCoy
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1363
Communities within the Valley and Ridge Physiographic Province of West Virginia are concerned about the availability and sustainability of their water supplies. The water resources of the Wardensville area of West Virginia were investigated and data sources were reviewed that will be useful in similar resource assessments elsewhere in the...
Environmental assessment survey of the vegetation surrounding a Lower Wilcox Group coal gas well site
John W. McCoy
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1405
This environmental assessment was conducted to examine the impacts on vegetation of the drilling and operation of a coal gas well located along Hwy 134 about 5 miles (8 km) east of Fairbanks, La. The drill site is 85 meters north of Hwy 134 and operations at the well were...
China?s growing appetite for minerals
David Menzie, Pui-Kwan Tse, Mike Fenton, John Jorgenson, Hendrik van Oss
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1374
During the last 15 years, China's economy and consumption have grown rapidly. This report contains figures and notes from a talk that discusses China's increasing consumption of aluminum, cement, coal, copper, iron ore, petroleum, and steel in context of its developing economy....
Bedrock geologic map of the Port Wing, Solon Springs, and parts of the Duluth and Sandstone 30' X 60' quadrangles, Wisconsin
S. W. Nicholson, W.F. Cannon, L. G. Woodruff, Connie Dicken
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1303
This Open-File Report provides digital data (shapefiles and .e00 files) for the bedrock geology in the Port Wing, Solon Springs, and parts of the Duluth and Sandstone quadrangles in Wisconsin. A Miscellaneous Investigations Series map (I map) is currently in review with analogous data in paper format.This map...
Quantification of metal loading to Silver Creek through the Silver Maple Claims area, Park City, Utah, May 2002
Briant A. Kimball, Kevin K. Johnson, Robert L. Runkel, Judy I. Steiger
2004, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4296
The Silver Maple Claims area along Silver Creek, near Park City, Utah, is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. To quantify possible sources of elevated zinc concentrations in Silver Creek that exceed water-quality standards, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted a mass-loading study in May 2002 along a 1,400-meter reach...
Trends in Streamflow Characteristics in Hawaii, 1913-2002
Delwyn S. Oki
2004, Fact Sheet 2004-3104
The surface-water resources of Hawaii have significant cultural, aesthetic, ecologic, and economic importance. In Hawaii, surface-water resources are developed for both offstream uses (for example, drinking water, agriculture, and industrial uses) and instream uses (for example, maintenance of habitat and ecosystems, recreational activities, aesthetic values, maintenance of water quality, conveyance...
Development of coastal flow and transport models in support of everglades restoration
Christian D. Langevin, Eric D. Swain, John D. Wang, Melinda A. Wolfert, Raymond W. Schaffranek, Ami L. Riscassi
2004, Fact Sheet 2004-3130
Sheet-flow velocities and factors affecting sheet-flow behavior of importance to restoration of the Florida Everglades
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2004, Fact Sheet 2004-3123
Water Resources Data, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, Water Year 2003
R.S. Socolow, J.L. Zanca, T.R. Driskell, L.R. Ramsbey
2004, Water Data Report MA-RI-03-1
Water resources data for the 2003 water year for Massachusetts and Rhode Island consists of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; contents of lakes and reservoirs; and water levels of ground-water wells. This report contains discharge records for 108 gaging stations, stage records for 2 gaging stations,...
Characterization and simulation of flow in the lower Arkansas River alluvial aquifer, south-central Kansas
Xiaodong Jian, Lanna J. Combs, Cristi V. Hansen
2004, Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5204
Large parts of the lower Arkansas, Ninnescah, and Walnut River Basins in south-central Kansasan area that includes Wichita, the largest city in Kansasare experiencing rapid population growth and, consequently, increasing demands on surface- and ground-water resources in addition to agricultural irrigation in the area. The quantity and quality of water...
PHAST--a program for simulating ground-water flow, solute transport, and multicomponent geochemical reactions
David L. Parkhurst, Kenneth L. Kipp, Peter Engesgaard, Scott R. Charlton
2004, Techniques and Methods 6-A8
The computer program PHAST simulates multi-component, reactive solute transport in three-dimensional saturated ground-water flow systems. PHAST is a versatile ground-water flow and solute-transport simulator with capabilities to model a wide range of equilibrium and kinetic geochemical reactions. The flow and transport calculations are based on a modified version of HST3D...
Load estimator (LOADEST): a FORTRAN program for estimating constituent loads in streams and rivers
Robert L. Runkel, Charles G. Crawford, Timothy A. Cohn
2004, Techniques and Methods 4-A5
LOAD ESTimator (LOADEST) is a FORTRAN program for estimating constituent loads in streams and rivers. Given a time series of streamflow, additional data variables, and constituent concentration, LOADEST assists the user in developing a regression model for the estimation of constituent load (calibration). Explanatory variables within the regression model include...
Selected Streamflow Statistics for Streamgaging Stations in Delaware, 2003
Kernell G. Ries III
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1313
Flow-duration and low-flow frequency statistics were calculated for 15 streamgaging stations in Delaware, in cooperation with the Delaware Geological Survey. The flow-duration statistics include the 1-, 2-, 5-, 10-, 20-, 30-, 40-, 50-, 60-, 70-, 80-, 90-, 95-, 98-, and 99-percent duration discharges. The low-flow frequency statistics include the average...
Data compilation, synthesis, and calculations used for organic-carbon storage and inventory estimates for mineral soils of the Mississippi River Basin
Gary R. Buell, Helaine W. Markewich
2004, Professional Paper 1686-A
U.S. Geological Survey investigations of environmental controls on carbon cycling in soils and sediments of the Mississippi River Basin (MRB), an area of 3.3 x 106 square kilometers (km2), have produced an assessment tool for estimating the storage and inventory of soil organic carbon (SOC) by using soil-characterization data from Federal, State,...
FFTDC2: a one-dimensional Fourier transform with forward and inverse data conditioning for non-complex data
Robert E. Bracken
2004, Open-File Report 2003-228
A subroutine (FFTDC2) coded in Fortran 77 is described, which performs a Fast Fourier Transform or Discrete Fourier Transform together with necessary conditioning steps of trend removal, extension, and windowing. The source code for the entire library of required subroutines is provided with the digital release of this report. But,...
The inverse of winnowing: a FORTRAN subroutine and discussion of unwinnowing discrete data
Robert E. Bracken
2004, Open-File Report 2003-229
This report describes an unwinnowing algorithm that utilizes a discrete Fourier transform, and a resulting Fortran subroutine that winnows or unwinnows a 1-dimensional stream of discrete data; the source code is included. The unwinnowing algorithm effectively increases (by integral factors) the number of available data points while maintaining the original...
Landslides mapped using LIDAR imagery, Seattle, Washington
William H. Schulz
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1396
Thickness of Santa Fe Group sediments in the Espanola Basin south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, as estimated from aeromagnetic data
Jeffrey D. Phillips, V. J. S. Grauch
2004, Open-File Report 2004-1354
In the southern Espa?ola basin south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, weakly magnetic Santa Fe Group sediments of Oligocene to Pleistocene age, which represent the primary aquifers for the region, are locally underlain by moderately to strongly magnetic igneous and volcaniclastic rocks of Oligocene age. Where this relationship exists, the...
Restoring an urban river — Polychlorinated biphenyls and other contaminants in bottom sediment of the lower Neponset River, Massachusetts
Robert F. Breault, Matthew G. Cooke
2004, Fact Sheet 2004-3083
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