Updating flood maps efficiently using existing hydraulic models, very-high-accuracy elevation data, and a geographic information system: A pilot study on the Nisqually River, Washington
Joseph L. Jones, Tana Haluska, David L. Kresch
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4051
A method of updating flood inundation maps at a fraction of the expense of using traditional methods was piloted in Washington State as part of the U.S. Geological Survey Urban Geologic and Hydrologic Hazards Initiative. Large savings in expense may be achieved by building upon previous Flood Insurance Studies and...
Sediment deposition and trends and transport of phosphorus and other chemical constituents, Cheney Reservoir watershed, south-central Kansas
D.P. Mau
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4085
Sediment deposition, water-quality trends, and mass transport of phosphorus, nitrogen, selected trace elements, and selected pesticides within the Cheney Reservoir watershed in south-central Kansas were investigated using bathymetric survey data and reservoir bottom-sediment cores. Sediment loads in the reservoir were investigated by comparing 1964 topographic data to 1998 bathymetric survey...
Regional seismic lines in West Virginia; a preliminary look at the Rome Trough and its implication for energy resources
C. S. Kulander
2001, Open-File Report 2001-127-B
Effects of Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper and Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus radiometric and geometric calibrations and corrections on landscape characterization
James E. Vogelmann, Dennis Helder, Ron Morfitt, Mike Choate, James W. Merchant, Henry Bulley
2001, Remote Sensing of Environment (78) 55-70
The Thematic Mapper (TM) instruments onboard Landsats 4 and 5 provide high-quality imagery appropriate for many different applications, including land cover mapping, landscape ecology, and change detection. Precise calibration was considered to be critical to the success of the Landsat 7 mission and, thus, issues of calibration were given high...
Selected hydrologic and water-quality data for Kamas Valley and vicinity, Summit County, Utah, 1997-2000
Peter L. Haraden, L.E. Spangler, L.E. Brooks, Bernard J. Stolp
2001, Open-File Report 2001-155
This report contains hydrologic and water-quality data collected in the Kamas Valley vicinity during a study from 1997 to 2000. The study area is in Summit County in north-central Utah and is part of the Middle Rocky Mountains Physiographic Province described by Fenneman (1931). Data were collected in Kamas Valley...
PTCOUNT - a Fortran-77 computer program to calculate the areal distribution of mapped data points using count-circle methodology
William Z. Savage, Jeffrey A. Coe, Ronald E. Sweeney
2001, Open-File Report 2001-2
Tampa Bay integrated science pilot project
Lisa L. Robbins, Kimberly K. Yates
2001, Open-File Report 2001-243
Geology, geochronology, geochemistry, and Pb-isotopic compositions of Proterozoic rocks, Poachie region, west-central Arizona — A study of the east boundary of the Proterozoic Mojave crustal province
Bruce Bryant, J. L. Wooden, L. David Nealey
2001, Professional Paper 1639
The Poachie region at the south edge of the Colorado Plateau transition zone in western Arizona is underlain by early and middle Proterozoic plutonic rocks locally separated by screens of amphibolite-facies early Proterozoic metamorphic rocks and is in the eastern part of the Mojave crustal province, as shown by 35...
Selected field and analytical methods and analytical results in the Dutch Flats area, western Nebraska, 1995-99
Ingrid M. Verstraeten, G. V. Steele, J. C. Cannia, J. K. Bohlke, T.E. Kraemer, D.E. Hitch, K.E. Wilson, A.E. Carnes
2001, Open-File Report 2000-413
A study of the water resources of the Dutch Flats area in the western part of the North Platte Natural Resources District, western Nebraska, was conducted from 1995 through 1999 to describe the surface water and hydrogeology, the spatial distribution of selected water-quality constituents in surface and ground water, and...
Floods of July 19-25, 1999, in the Wapsipinicon and Cedar River basins, northeast Iowa
J.L. Ballew, D. A. Eash
2001, Open-File Report 2001-13
Severe flooding occurred during July 19-25, 1999, in the Wapsipinicon and Cedar River Basins following two thunderstorms over northeast Iowa. During July 18-19, as much as 6 inches of rainfall was centered over Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Mitchell, and Worth Counties. During July 20-21, a second storm occurred in which an...
Geochemistry of the Big Lost River drainage basin, Idaho
Colleen Carkeet, J.J. Rosentreter, R. C. Bartholomay, L.L. Knobel
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4031
The evolution of the lower Missouri River; a discussion of the geology and a proposal for research at Lisbon Bottom
Jeffrey Spooner
2001, Open-File Report 2001-176
Regional seismic lines in West Virginia— A preliminary look at the Rome Trough and its implications for energy resources
C. S. Kulander
2001, Open-File Report 2001-127-A
No abstract available....
Methods of analysis by the U. S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Laboratory-Determination of organic plus inorganic mercury in filtered and unfiltered natural water with cold vapor; atomic fluorescence spectrometry
John R. Garbarino, Donna L. Damrau
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4132
An analytical method using cold vapor-atomic fluorescence spectrometry was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey in 2001 for the determination of organic plus inorganic mercury in filtered and unfiltered natural water. This method was developed to eliminate the use of acid dichromate preservative and to provide capability to measure ambient...
Hydrogeologic framework of stratified-drift aquifers in the glaciated Northeastern United States
A. D. Randall
2001, Professional Paper 1415-B
Stratified glacial deposits in major valleys or lowlands constitute important aquifers in the Northeastern United States. In many locations, stratified drift can be divided into a series of morphosequences, which represent successive time intervals during deglaciation. Deposits are more heterogeneous proximal to the ice contact that at the distal end...
Quality of life on the Colorado Plateau: a report to the respondents in southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico
Phadrea Ponds
2001, Open-File Report 2001-233
During the fall of 1998, scientists from the Midcontinent Ecological Science Center (MESC) of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) a?? sent a survey by mail to residents in southwest Colorado and northwest New Mexico to better understand quality of life issues in this area of the Colorado Plateau. Collaborators...
Maps showing the extent of mining, locations of mine shafts, adits, air shafts, and bedrock faults, and thickness of overburden above abandoned coal mines in the Boulder-Weld coal field, Boulder, Weld, and Adams Counties, Colorado
S. B. Roberts, J. L. Hynes, C. L. Woodward
2001, IMAP 2735
No abstract available....
Methods of analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey Organic Geochemistry Research Group--Update and additions to the determination of chloroacetanilide herbicide degradation compounds in water using high-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry
E.A. Lee, J.L. Kish, L.R. Zimmerman, E. Thurman
2001, Open-File Report 2001-10
An analytical method using high-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (HPLC/MS) was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1999 for the analysis of selected chloroacetanilide herbicide degradation compounds in water. These compounds were acetochlor ethane sulfonic acid (ESA), acetochlor oxanilic acid (OXA), alachlor ESA, alachlor OXA, metolachlor ESA, and metolachlor OXA....
Magnetotelluric and audiomagnetotelluric data collected in Alaska by the U. S. Geological Survey, 1985-1992
D. L. Campbell, J. A. Sampson, R. A. Wise, J. M. Williams
2001, Open-File Report 2001-53
No abstract available....
Simulated Ground-Water-Flow Responses to Geohydrologic Characteristics, Corinna, Maine
Thomas J. Mack, Robert W. Dudley
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4079
Ground-water-flow simulations of an idealization of surficial and bedrock aquifers of the East Branch Sebasticook River Valley, in Corinna, Maine, were done to test the effects of known or hypothesized geohydrologic characteristics on the local and regional ground-water-flow system. The purpose of the simulations was to develop a better understanding...
Water quality of the Delaware and Raritan Canal, New Jersey, 1998-99
Jacob Gibs, Bonnie Gray, Donald E. Rice, Steven Tessler, Thomas H. Barringer
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4072
Since 1934, the Delaware and Raritan Canal has been used to transfer water from the Delaware River Basin to the Raritan River Basin. The water transported by the Delaware and Raritan Canal in New Jersey is used primarily for public supply after it has been treated at drinking-water treatment plants...
Ground-water conditions in Georgia, 2000
A. M. Cressler, D.K. Blackburn, K.B. McSwain
2001, Open-File Report 2001-220
Ground-water conditions in Georgia during 1999 and for the period of record were evaluated using data from U.S. Geological Survey ground-water-level and ground-water-quality monitoring networks. Data for 1999 included in this report are from continuous water-level records from 130 wells and chloride analyses from 14 wells. Data from one well...
Evaluation of the streamflow-gaging network of Texas and a proposed core network
Raymond M. Slade Jr., Teresa Howard, Roberto Anaya
2001, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4155
The U.S. Geological Survey streamflowgaging network in Texas is operated as part of the National Streamgaging Program and is jointly funded by the Geological Survey and Federal, State, and local agencies. This report documents an evaluation of the existing (as of October 1, 1999) network with regard to four major objectives of streamflow data; and on the...
Borehole geophysical data from Eastland Woolen Mill Superfund site, Corinna, Maine, March 1999
Bruce P. Hansen, William J. Nichols, Robert W. Dudley
2001, Open-File Report 2001-186
Borehole-geophysical data were collected in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in seven bedrock wells at the Eastland Woolen Mill Superfund site, Penobscot County, Corinna, Maine, in March, 1999. The data were collected as part of a reconnaissance investigation to provide information needed to address concerns about the distribution and fate of contaminants in ground-water at...
A parallel-processing approach to computing for the geographic sciences
Michael Crane, Dan Steinwand, Tim Beckmann, Greg Krpan, Jim Haga, Brian Maddox, Mark Feller
2001, Open-File Report 2001-244
The overarching goal of this project is to build a spatially distributed infrastructure for information science research by forming a team of information science researchers and providing them with similar hardware and software tools to perform collaborative research. Four geographically distributed Centers of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are developing their...
