Hydrologic conditions and distribution of selected constituents in water, Snake River Plain aquifer, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho, 1996 through 1998
Roy C. Bartholomay, B.J. Tucker, L.C. Davis, M.R. Greene
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4192
Droughts in Georgia
Nancy L. Barber, Timothy C. Stamey
2000, Open-File Report 2000-380
Droughts do not have the immediate effects of floods, but sustained droughts can cause economic stress throughout the State. The word 'drought' has various meanings, depending on a person's perspective. To a farmer, a drought is a period of moisture deficiency that affects the crops under cultivation - even two...
Water-quality characteristics for selected streams in Lawrence County, South Dakota, 1988-92
Joyce E. Williamson, Timothy Scott Hayes
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4220
During the 1980?s, significant economic development and population growth began to occur in Lawrence County in the northern part of the Black Hills of western South Dakota. Rising gold prices and heap-leach extraction methods allowed the economic recovery of marginal gold ore deposits, resulting in development of several large-scale, open-pit...
Alaska resource data file: Survey Pass quadrangle
S. M. Nelson
2000, Open-File Report 2000-328
No abstract available....
Digital Map of Water-Level Changes in the High Plains Aquifer in Parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming, 1980 to 1997
Brian C. Fischer, Keith M. Kollasch, Virginia L. McGuire
2000, Open-File Report 2000-96
This data set consists of digital water-level-change contours for the High Plains aquifer in the central United States, 1980 to 1997. The High Plains aquifer extends from south of 32 degrees to almost 44 degrees north latitude and from 96 degrees 30 minutes to 104 degrees west longitude....
Archive of boomer subbottom data collected during USGS cruise MGNM 00014, central South Carolina, 13-30 March 2000
S. V. Dadisman, J. C. Hill, W. C. Schwab
2000, Open-File Report 2000-463
Archive of datasonics SIS-1000 CHIRP subbottom data collected during USGS cruise MGNM 00014, central South Carolina, 13-30 March 2000
S. V. Dadisman, J. C. Hill, W. C. Schwab
2000, Open-File Report 2000-462
Velocity and stage data collected in a laboratory flume for water-surface slope determination using a pipe manometer
Jonathan K. Lee, H. M. Visser, H. L. Jenter, M. P. Duff
2000, Open-File Report 2000-393
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) hydrologists and ecologist are conducting studies to quantify vegetative flow resistance in order to improve numerical models of surface-water flow in the Florida Everglades. Water-surface slope is perhaps the most difficult of the flow resistance parameters to measure in the Everglades due to the very low...
Ground-water quality in regional, agricultural, and urban settings in the Puget Sound Basin, Washington and British Columbia, 1996-1998
E. L. Inkpen, A. J. Tesoriero, J.C. Ebbert, S. R. Silva, Mark W. Sandstrom
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4100
No abstract available....
Pesticides and their metabolites in selected surface-water public supplies in New York State, 1999
Patrick J. Phillips, David A. Eckhardt, Melissa Smith, Larry Rosenmann
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4119
Sixteen different pesticides or their metabolites (degradations products) where detected in water samples collected in 1999 from three networks of lakes and reservoirs in upstate New York that are sources of public water supply. The networks sampled included the New York City network (10 reservoirs); the Finger Lakes-Great Lakes network...
Archive of water gun subbottom data collected during USGS cruise SEAX 96004, New York Bight, 1 May - 9 June 1996
Jenna C. Hill, William C. Schwab, David S. Foster
2000, Open-File Report 2000-396
Beginning in 1995, the USGS, in cooperation with the U.S Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), New York District, began a program to generate reconnaissance maps of the sea floor offshore of the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area, one of the most populated coastal regions of the United States. The goal...
Autobiography of Philip B. King
Philip Burke King
2000, Open-File Report 2000-443
Philip Burke King's interests and methods of scientific inquiry were those of a field geologist who obtains his data from the rocks exposed at the Earth's surface and from them derives inferences as to the history and behavior of the Earth. He was especially interested in the sedimentary rocks, and...
Ground-water and aquifer-system-compaction data from the Lorenzi Site, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1994-99
Michael T. Pavelko
2000, Open-File Report 2000-362
Use of air-pressurized slug tests to estimate hydraulic conductivity at selected piezometers completed in the Santa Fe Group aquifer system, Albuquerque area, New Mexico
Carole L. Thomas, Conde R. Thorn
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4253
The City of Albuquerque Public Works Department, Water Resources Management (City), is interested in quantifying aquifer hydraulic properties in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, area to better understand and manage water resources in the Middle Rio Grande Basin. In 1998, the City and the U.S. Geological Survey entered into a cooperative...
Preliminary report on geophysics of the Verde River headwaters region, Arizona
Victoria E. Langenheim, J. S. Duval, Laurie Wirt, Ed DeWitt
2000, Open-File Report 2000-403
This report summarizes the acquisition, data processing, and preliminary interpretation of a high-resolution aeromagnetic and radiometric survey near the confluence of the Big and Little Chino basins in the headwaters of the Verde River, Arizona. The goal of the aeromagnetic study is to improve understanding of the geologic framework as...
MORPH-II, a software package for the analysis of scanning-electron-micrograph images for the assessment of the fractal dimension of exposed stone surfaces
Victor G. Mossotti, A. Raouf Eldeeb
2000, Open-File Report 2000-13
Turcotte, 1997, and Barton and La Pointe, 1995, have identified many potential uses for the fractal dimension in physicochemical models of surface properties. The image-analysis program described in this report is an extension of the program set MORPH-I (Mossotti and others, 1998), which provided the fractal analysis of electron-microscope images...
Towards policy relevant environmental modeling: contextual validity and pragmatic models
Scott B. Miles
2000, Open-File Report 2000-401
"What makes for a good model?" In various forms, this question is a question that, undoubtedly, many people, businesses, and institutions ponder with regards to their particular domain of modeling. One particular domain that is wrestling with this question is the multidisciplinary field of environmental modeling. Examples of environmental models...
Geologic map database of the El Mirage Lake area, San Bernardino and Los Angeles Counties, California
David M. Miller, David R. Bedford
2000, Open-File Report 2000-222
This geologic map database for the El Mirage Lake area describes geologic materials for the dry lake, parts of the adjacent Shadow Mountains and Adobe Mountain, and much of the piedmont extending south from the lake upward toward the San Gabriel Mountains. This area lies within the western Mojave Desert...
Occurrence of pesticides in five rivers of the Mississippi Embayment Study Unit, 1996-98
Richard H. Coupe
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4159
The occurrence and temporal distribution of more than 80 pesticides and pesticide metabolites were determined in five rivers of the Mississippi Embayment National Water-Quality Assessment study unit from February 1996 through January 1998. More than 230 samples were collected and analyzed during the 2-year study. The five rivers sampled included...
Hydrogeology of the Beaver Kill Basin in Sullivan, Delaware, and Ulster Counties, New York
Richard J. Reynolds
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4034
The hydrogeology of the 299-square-mile Beaver Kill basin in the southwestern Catskill Mountains of southeastern New York is depicted in a surficial geologic map and five geologic sections, and is summarized through an analysis of low-flow statistics for the Beaver Kill and its major tributary, Willowemoc Creek. Surficial geologic data...
Preliminary hydraulic analysis and implications for restoration of Noyes Slough, Fairbanks, Alaska
Robert L. Burrows, Dustin E. Langley, David M. Evetts
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4227
The present-day channels of the Chena River and Noyes Slough in downtown Fairbanks, Alaska, were formed as sloughs of the Tanana River, and part of the flow of the Tanana River occupied these waterways. Flow in these channels was reduced after the completion of Moose Creek Dike in 1945, and...
Regional evaluation of evapotranspiration in the Everglades
E. R. German
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4217
Nine sites in the Florida Everglades were selected and instrumented for collection of data necessary for evapotranspiration-determination using the Bowen-ratio energy-budget method. The sites were selected to represent the sawgrass or cattail marshes, wet prairie, and open-water areas that constitute most of the natural Everglades system. At each site, measurements...
USGS East-Coast sediment analysis: Procedures, database, and georeferenced displays
Lawrence J. Poppe, C. F. Polloni
2000, Open-File Report 2000-358
No abstract available....
Aeromagnetic Survey of the Amargosa Desert, Nevada and California: A Tool for Understanding Near-Surface Geology and Hydrology
Richard J. Blakely, Victoria E. Langenheim, David A. Ponce, Gary L. Dixon
2000, Open-File Report 2000-188
A high-resolution aeromagnetic survey of the Amargosa Desert and surrounding areas provides insights into the buried geology of this structurally complex region. The survey covers an area of approximately 7,700 km2 (2,970 mi2), extending from Beatty, Nevada, to south of Shoshone, California, and includes parts of the Nevada Test Site...
Pesticides detected in urban streams during rainstorms in King and Snohomish Counties, Washington, 1998
Frank D. Voss, Sandra S. Embrey
2000, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2000-4098