Map showing locations of damaging landslides in Napa County, California, resulting from 1997-98 El Nino rainstorms
Jonathan W. Godt, William Z. Savage, Raymond C. Wilson
1999, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 2325-A
Heavy rainfall associated with a strong El Nino caused over $150 million in landslide damage in the 10-county San Francisco Bay region during the winter and spring of 1998. A team of USGS scientists collected information on landslide locations and damage costs. Napa County was relatively unaffected in comparison to...
Map showing locations of damaging landslides in Contra Costa County, California, resulting from 1997-98 El Nino rainstorms
Russell W. Graymer, Jonathan W. Godt
1999, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 2325-E
Heavy rainfall associated with a strong El Nino caused over $150 million in landslide damage in the 10-county San Francisco Bay region during the winter and spring of 1998. A team of USGS scientists collected information on landslide locations and damage costs. About $27 million in damages were assessed in...
Map showing locations of damaging landslides in San Francisco City and County, California, resulting from 1997-98 El Nino rainstorms
John W. Hillhouse, Jonathan W. Godt
1999, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 2325-G
Heavy rainfall associated with a strong El Nino caused over $150 million in landslide damage in the 10-county San Francisco Bay region during the winter and spring of 1998. A team of USGS scientists collected information on landslide locations and damage costs. About $4 million in damages were assessed in...
Map showing locations of damaging landslides in Solano County, California, resulting from 1997-98 El Nino rainstorms
David G. Howell, Jonathan W. Godt
1999, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 2325-I
Heavy rainfall associated with a strong El Nino caused over $150 million in landslide damage in the 10-county San Francisco Bay region during the winter and spring of 1998. A team of USGS scientists collected information on landslide locations and damage costs. About $13.5 million in damages were assessed in...
Map showing locations of damaging landslides in Marin County, California, resulting from 1997-98 El Nino rainstorms
Meghan M. Morrissey, Gerald F. Wieczorek, Jonathan W. Godt
1999, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 2325-C
Heavy rainfall associated with a strong El Nino caused over $150 million in landslide damage in the 10-county San Francisco Bay region during the winter and spring of 1998. A team of USGS scientists collected information on landslide locations and damage costs. About $2.5 million in damages were assessed in...
Intraspecific phylogeography of Lasmigona subviridis (Bivalvia: Unionidae): Conservation implications of range discontinuity
T.L. King, M.S. Eackles, B. Gjetvaj, W.R. Hoeh
1999, Molecular Ecology (8) S65-S78
A nucleotide sequence analysis of the first internal transcribed spacer region (ITS-1) between the 5.8S and 18S ribosomal DNA genes (640 bp) and cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) (576 bp) was conducted for the freshwater bivalve Lasmigona subviridis and three congeners to determine the utility of these regions in identifying phylogeographic...
Lithogeochemical character of the near-surface bedrock in the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River Basins
Gilpin R. Robinson Jr., John D. Peper, Peter A. Steeves, Leslie A. DeSimone
1999, Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4000
This data layer shows the generalized lithologic and geochemical (lithogeochemical) character of near-surface bedrock in the Connecticut, Housatonic, and Thames River Basins and several other small basins that drain into Long Island Sound from Connecticut. The area includes most of Connecticut, western Massachusetts, eastern Vermont, western New Hampshire, and small...
Channel stability of the Neosho River downstream from John Redmond Dam, Kansas
Kyle E. Juracek
1999, Fact Sheet 088-99
The stability of the Neosho River channel downstream from John Redmond Dam, in southeast Kansas, was investigated using multi-date aerial photographs and stream-gage information. Bankfull channel width was used as the primary indicator variable to assess pre- and post-dam channel change. Five 6-mile river reaches and four stream gages were...
Data collection at US Geological Survey streamgaging stations
K. Michael Nolan, Jeff V. Phillips
1999, Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4120
Physical, chemical, and biological data for selected streams in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1981-94
Andrew G. Reif
1999, Open-File Report 99-216
Physical, chemical, and biological data were collected at 51 sampling sites in Chester County, Pa., from 1970 through 1994 as part of the Stream Conditions of Chester County Program. This report presents data collected from 1981 through 1994. Physical data include water temperature, instantaneous stream discharge, pH, alkalinity, specific conductance,...
Data on Holocene tephra (volcanic ash) deposits in the Alaska Peninsula and lower Cook Inlet region of the Aleutian volcanic arc, Alaska
J.R. Riehle, C.E. Meyer, Ronny T. Miyaoka
1999, Open-File Report 99-135
This site provides information about the number, thickness, and grainsize of Holocene volcanic ash deposits at 50 localities in the eastern Aleutian volcanic arc. In addition, the major-element compositions of the glasses separated from more than 350 samples of tephra from these localities, determined by electron microprobe, are presented as...
Digital data for the geologic framework of the Alaska Peninsula, southwest Alaska, and the Alaska Peninsula terrane
Frederic H. Wilson, Robert L. Detterman, Gregory D. DuBois
1999, Open-File Report 99-317
These digital databases are the result of the compilation and reinterpretation of published and unpublished 1:250,000- and 1:63,360-scale mapping. The map area covers approximately 62,000 sq km (23,000 sq mi) in land area and encompasses much of 13 1:250,000-scale quadrangles on the Alaska Peninsula in southwestern Alaska. The compilation was...
Water use in Kansas, 1990 and 1995
J. F. Kenny
1999, Fact Sheet 090-99
This fact sheet illustrates comparative water use from ground and surface sources for 1990 and 1995 for the largest categories of use in Kansas: public supply, irrigation, industrial and mining, livestock, and thermoelectric power generation. Total populations, including those served by public-water suppliers and those using private wells, also are...
Identification of water-bearing fractures by the use of geophysical logs, May to July 1998, former Naval Air Warfare Center, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Randall W. Conger, Philip H. Bird
1999, Open-File Report 99-215
Between May and July 1998, 10 monitor wells were drilled near the site of the former Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC), Warminster, Bucks County, Pa., to monitor water levels and sample ground water in shallow and intermediate water-bearing fractures. The sampling will determine the horizontal and vertical distribution of contaminated...
Discharge of herbicides from the Mississippi River Basin to the Gulf of Mexico, 1991-97
Gregory M. Clark, Donald A. Goolsby
1999, Fact Sheet 163-98
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Digital map of water levels in 1980 for the High Plains Aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming
Joel R. Cederstrand, Mark F. Becker
1999, Open-File Report 99-263
This report contains digital data and accompanying documentation for contours for 1980 water-level elevations for the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. This digital data set was created by digitizing the 1980 water-level elevation contours from a 1:1,000,000-scale base...
Digital map of saturated thickness in 1980 for the High Plains Aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming
Joel R. Cederstrand, Mark F. Becker
1999, Open-File Report 99-262
This report contains digital data and accompanying documentation for saturated thickness contours of the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. This digital data set was created by digitizing the saturated thickness contours from a 1:1,000,000-scale base map created by...
Preliminary publications Book 1 from Project on Mineral Resources, Metallogenesis and Tectonics of Northeast Asia
Sodov Ariunbileg, Gombosuren Badarch, Nikolai A. Berzin, Alexander N. Bulgatov, Noosoi Chimed, Aleksey V. Deikunenko, Gunchin Dejidmaa, Michael F. Diggles, Elimir G. Distanov, Dangindorjiin Dorjgotov, Ochir Gerel, Ivan V. Gordienko, Ayurzana Gotovsuren, Duk-Hwan Hwang, Alexander I. Khanchuk, Richard D. Koch, Robert J. Miller, Warren J. Nokleberg, Alexander A. Obolenskiy, Masatsugu Ogasawara, Demberel Orolmaa, Vladimir S. Oxman, Leonid M. Parfenov, Ludmila I. Popeko, Andrey V. Prokopiev, Alexander P. Smelov, Vitaliy I. Sotnikov, Sadahisa Sudo, Vladimir F. Timofeev, Felix F. Tret’yakov, Valery A. Vernikovsky, Mao Ye, Alexander P. Zadgenizov
1999, Open-File Report 99-165
This report consists of preliminary data tables, maps, and interpretative articles compiled in late 1997 and early 1998 for a new project on the Mineral Resources, Metallogenesis, and Tectonics of Northeast Asia (Eastern and Southern Siberia, Mongolia, North-eastern China, South Korea, and Japan)....
Digital geologic map of Yellowstone National Park, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming and vicinity
Robert L. Christiansen, Ronald R. Wahl
1999, Open-File Report 99-174
The geology coverage was developed from the 1972 USGS Geologic Map of Yellowstone National Park. It contains polygons of bedrock formations, dikes, and faults. Errors in the 1972 map were corrected and an area outside the Park boundary on the west and south was added. Attributes attached to each polygon...
Digital data sets describing water use, toxic chemical releases, metropolitan areas, and population density of the conterminous United States
Curtis V. Price, Rick M. Clawges
1999, Open-File Report 99-78
Strategic directions for the Water Resources Division, 1998-2008
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1999, Open-File Report 99-249
Magnetotelluric study of the Pahute Mesa and Oasis Valley regions, Nye County, Nevada
Clifford J. Schenkel, Thomas G. Hildenbrand, Gary L. Dixon
1999, Open-File Report 99-355
Magnetotelluric data delineate distinct layers and lateral variations above the pre-Tertiary basement. On Pahute Mesa, three resistivity layers associated with the volcanic rocks are defined: a moderately resistive surface layer, an underlying conductive layer, and a deep resistive layer. Considerable geologic information can be derived from the conductive layer which...
Sedimentation and bathymetry changes in Suisun Bay: 1867-1990
Karen Cappiella, Chris Malzone, Richard Smith, Bruce Jaffe
1999, Open-File Report 99-563
Understanding patterns of historical erosion and deposition in San Francisco Bay is crucial in managing such issues as locating deposits of sediment-associated contaminants, and the restoration of wetland areas. These problems were addressed by quantitatively examining historical hydrographic surveys. The data from five hydrographic surveys, made from 1867 to 1990,...
Digital map of aquifer boundary for the High Plains Aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming
Joel R. Cederstrand, Mark F. Becker
1999, Open-File Report 99-267
This report contains digital data and accompanying documentation for aquifer boundaries for the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. This digital data set was compiled from a digital coverage that was created for publication of paper maps in McGrath...
Digital map of changes in water levels from predevelopment to 1980 for the High Plains Aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming
Joel R. Cederstrand, Mark F. Becker
1999, Open-File Report 99-265
This report contains digital data and accompanying documentation for contours of predevelopment to 1980 water-level elevation changes for the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. This digital data set was created by digitizing the contours for predevelopment to 1980...
