Photographs of the sea floor in western Massachusetts Bay, offshore of Boston, Massachusetts, July, 1999
Benjamin T. Gutierrez, Bradford Butman, Dann S. Blackwood
2001, Open-File Report 2000-427
This CD-ROM contains photographs and sediment sample analyses of the sea floor obtained at 142 sites in western Massachusetts Bay (Figure 1) during a research cruise (USGS cruise ISBL99024) aboard the Fishing Vessel (FV) Isabel S. (Figure 2) conducted July 18-21, 1999. These photographs and samples provide critical ground...
Precambrian basement map of the north Mid-Continent, U.S.A.; a digital representation of the 1990 P.K. Sims map
Connie L. Dicken, Shana G. Pimley, William F. Cannon
2001, Open-File Report 2001-21
Assessment of landslide hazards resulting from the February 13, 2001, El Salvador earthquake; a report to the government of El Salvador and the U. S. Agency for International Development
Rex L. Baum, Anthony J. Crone, Demetreo Escobar, Edwin L. Harp, Jon J. Major, Mauricio Martinez, Carlos Pullinger, Mark E. Smith
2001, Open-File Report 2001-119
On February 13, 2001, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred about 40 km eastsoutheast of the capital city of San Salvador in central El Salvador and triggered thousands of landslides in the area east of Lago de Ilopango. The landslides are concentrated in a 2,500-km2 area and are particularly abundant in areas underlain by thick deposits of poorly consolidated, late Pleistocene and...
The radiated seismic energy and apparent stress of interplate and intraplate earthquakes at subduction zone environments; implications for seismic hazard estimation
George L. Choy, John L. Boatwright, Stephen H. Kirby
2001, Open-File Report 2001-5
The radiated seismic energies (ES) of 980 shallow subduction-zone earthquakes with magnitudes ? 5.8 are used to examine global patterns of energy release and apparent stress. In contrast to traditional methods which have relied upon empirical formulas, these energies are computed through direct spectral analysis of broadband seismic waveforms. Energy...
Simple Techniques For Assessing Impacts Of Oil And Gas Operations On Public Lands: A Field Evaluation Of A Photoionization Detector (PID) At A Condensate Release Site, Padre Island National Seashore, Texas
James K. Otton, Robert A. Zielinski
2001, Open-File Report 2001-183
Simple, cost-effective techniques are needed for land managers to assess the environmental impacts of oil and gas production activities on public lands, so that sites may be prioritized for remediation or for further, more formal assessment. Field-portable instruments provide real-time data and allow the field investigator to extend an assessment...
Coal quality and resources of the Former Soviet Union; an ArcView project
Michael E. Brownfield, Douglas W. Steinhouer, Mikhail Y. Povarennykh, Ivan Eriomin, Mikhail Shpirt, Yevgeny Meitov, Irena Sharova, Nina Goriunova, Margarita V. Zyrianova
2001, Open-File Report 2001-104
Geophysical signatures used to constrain geologic mapping, narrowing the search for VMS deposits in southeast Alaska
Jeff Wynn, Jon P. Doucette, Susan M. Karl, Anne E. McCafferty, Bruce D. Smith, Peter Bittenbender
2001, Open-File Report 2001-44
No abstract available....
Magnetotelluric data across the Battle Mountain-Eureka and Carlin trends, north of Cortez, Nevada
Jackie M. Williams, Brian D. Rodriguez, Douglas P. Klein
2001, Open-File Report 2001-117
A comparative analysis of hazard models for predicting debris flows in Madison County, Virginia
Meghan M. Morrissey, Gerald F. Wieczorek, Benjamin A. Morgan
2001, Open-File Report 2001-67
During the rainstorm of June 27, 1995, roughly 330-750 mm of rain fell within a sixteen-hour period, initiating floods and over 600 debris flows in a small area (130 km2) of Madison County, Virginia. Field studies showed that the majority (70%) of these debris flows initiated with a thickness...
Chemical composition of deployed and indigenous aquatic bryophytes in a seep flowing from a phosphate mine waste pile and in the associated Angus Creek drainage, Caribou County, Southeast Idaho
J. R. Herring, C.J. Castle, Z. A. Brown, Paul H. Briggs
2001, Open-File Report 2001-26
Vegetative resistance to flow in South Florida: Summary of vegetation sampling in Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park, September 1997–July 1998
N. B. Rybicki, J. T. Reel, H. Ruhl, P. A. Gammon, Virginia Carter
2001, Open-File Report 2001-102
The U.S. Geological Survey is one of many agencies providing scientific support to the effort to restore the South Florida Everglades. In September and November 1997 and July 1998, vegetation was sampled at selected sites in the Everglades as part of a study to quantify vegetative resistance to flow. The...
Statistical Summary of Hydrologic and Water-Quality Data from the Halawa, Haiku, and Kaneohe Drainage Basins Before, During, and After H-3 Highway Construction, Oahu, Hawaii, 1983-99
Michael F. Wong, Stacie T. M. Young
2001, Open-File Report 2001-64
This report provides statistical summaries of rainfall, streamflow, suspended-sediment, and water-quality data collected in the Halawa, Haiku, and Kaneohe drainage basins before, during, and after construction of the H-3 Highway on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Methods of data collection also are described. Data collected during water years 1983 through...
Long-term patterns of vegetation and salinity change in the Lake Pontchartrain region, Louisiana
Debra A. Willard, T. M. Cronin, S. E. Ishman, Marci Marot
2001, Open-File Report 2000-520
No abstract available....
An algorithm for estimating gas-production potential using digital wire-line log data (Cretaceous of northern Montana)
Timothy C. Hester
2001, Open-File Report 2001-12
This District Surface Water Quality-Assurance Plan documents the standards, policies, and procedures used by the South Carolina District for activities related to the collection, processing, storage, analysis, and publication of surface-water data....
A digital liquefaction susceptibility map for the HAZUS earthquake loss estimation of the San Juan metropolitan area, Puerto Rico
Marilyn Santiago, Jesús Rodríguez-Martínez
2001, Open-File Report 2000-275
Aeromagnetic surveying Wisconsin 1996; digital data files
Stephen L. Snyder
2001, Open-File Report 2000-500
No abstract available....
Index of stations— Surface-water data-collection network of Texas, September 1999
2001, Open-File Report 2001-103
As of September 30, 1999, the surface-water data-collection network of Texas (table 1) included 321 continuous-record streamflow stations (D), 20 continuous-record gage-height only stations (G), 24 crest-stage partial-record stations (C), 40 floodhydrograph partial-record stations (H), 25 low-flow partial-record stations (L), 1 continuous-record temperature station (M1), 25 continuous-record temperature and specific...
Geology and ground-water appraisal of the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Training Center, California, with a section on the estimated runoff in Pipes Creek
Francis S. Riley, George Frank Worts, Walter Hofmann
2001, Open-File Report 98-167
A cruise report of the Joint National Geographic Society U.S. Geological Survey Lake Tanganyika, River-Lake interactions expedition, July 8-27, 1999 in Tanzania
Peter W. Swarzenski
2001, Open-File Report 2000-381
Study design and analytical results used to evaluate carry-over contamination by volatile organic compounds in surface- and ground-water sampling procedures
Brandon L. Taglioli, Gregory C. Delzer, John S. Zogorski
2001, Open-File Report 2000-384
Chemical analysis and modes of occurrence of selected trace elements in a Powder River basin coal and its corresponding simulated cleaned coal
Curtis A. Palmer, Stanley J. Mroczkowski, Allan Kolker, Robert B. Finkelman, John H. Bullock Jr.
2001, Open-File Report 2000-323
This report provides semi-quantitative data on modes of occurrence of 19 elements in as-mined Powder River Basin coal and its corresponding simulated cleaned coal. The data are in support of the project "Prediction of Trace Element Removal from Coal" --a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with CQ Inc. The...
Geologic map and database of the Roseburg 30' x 60' quadrangle, Douglas and Coos Counties, Oregon
Ray E. Wells, A. S. Jayko, A. R. Niem, G. Black, T. Wiley, E. Baldwin, K. M. Molenaar, K.L. Wheeler, C. B. DuRoss, R. W. Givler
2001, Open-File Report 2000-376
The Roseburg 30' x 60' Quadrangle covers the southeastern margin of the Oregon Coast Range and its tectonic boundary with Mesozoic terranes of the Klamath Mountains (see figures 1 and 2 in pamphlet, also shown on map sheet). The geologic framework of the Roseburg area was established by the pioneering...
Characterization of Northern California petroleum by stable carbon isotopes
Paul G. Lillis, Leslie B. Magoon, Richard G. Stanley, Robert J. McLaughlin, Augusta Warden
2001, Open-File Report 99-164
The purpose of this study is to characterize natural occurrences of petroleum at the surface and in the subsurface within northern California in order to define and map petroleum systems for U.S. Geological Survey energy resource assessments. Furthermore, the chemical characterization and mapping of natural petroleum occurrences could also be...
Microfossils from Chesapeake Bay sediments; illustrations and species database
Thomas M. Cronin, Robert S. Wagner, Moira Slattery
2001, Open-File Report 99-45
Testing and application of diffusion samplers to identify temporal trends in volatile-organic compounds
Philip T. Harte, M.J. Brayton, Wayne Ives, Sharon Perkins, Carroll Brown, Richard E. Willey
2001, Open-File Report 2000-196
No abstract available....