Proceedings of the Paleoseismology Workshop; March 15, 1999, Tsukuba Japan
David P. Schwartz
Kenji Satake, editor(s)
1999, Open-File Report 99-400
Distribution of hydrogeologic units in the Black Hills area, South Dakota
Michael L. Strobel, Gregory J. Jarrell, J. Foster Sawyer, John R. Schleicher, Mark D. Fahrenbach
1999, Hydrologic Atlas 743
This report is a product of the Black Hills Hydrology Study, which was initiated in 1990 to assess the quantity, quality, and distribution of surface water and ground water in the Black Hills area of South Dakota (Driscoll, 1992). This long-term study is a cooperative effort between the U.S. Geological...
Hydrology and Water Quality of the Oljato Alluvial Aquifer, Monument Valley Area, Utah and Arizona
Larry E. Spangler, M.S. Johnson
1999, Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4074
The Navajo Indian Reservation in Utah and Arizona is situated in one of the most arid parts of the Western United States. Normal annual precipitation is less than 8 to about 10 in. over much of the region (Cooley and others, 1969). Generally, water supplies for residents on the Reservation...
Hydrogeologic interpretations from available ground-water data, Tutuila, American Samoa
S. K. Izuka
1999, Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4064
U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program: Proceedings of the technical meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999: Volume 3 (Part C)
David W. Morganwalp, Herbert T. Buxton, editor(s)
1999, Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018-C
This report contains papers presented at the seventh Technical Meeting of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Toxic Substances Hydrology (Toxics) Program. The meeting was held March 8-12, 1999, in Charleston, South Carolina. Toxics Program Technical Meetings are held periodically to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of results of...
Bathymetry of Bonnie Doone Lake, Kornbow Lake, Mintz Pond, and Glenville Lake, Cumberland County, North Carolina, 1996-98
M. J. Giorgino, R.E. Strain
1999, Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4029
Bathymetric surveys were conducted at four water-supply impoundments of Little Cross Creek in Cumberland County, North Carolina. The surveys were conducted in April 1996 at Mintz Pond and Glenville Lake, and in January 1998 at Bonnie Doone Lake and Kornbow Lake. The resulting bathymetric maps are the first to cover...
Distribution of salinity in ground water from the interpretation of borehole-geophysical logs and salinity data, Calf Pasture Point, Davisville, Rhode Island
Peter E. Church, William C. Brandon
1999, Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4153
The distribution of salinity in ground water at Calf Pasture Point, a small coastal peninsula bounded by Narragansett Bay on the east and Allen Harbor on the west, in Davisville, Rhode Island, was interpreted from borehole-geophysical data and previously collected salinity data to help identify potential flowpaths of contaminated ground...
West Florida Shelf: Sidescan-sonar and sediment data from shelf-edge habitats in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico
Peter R. Briere, Kathryn M. Scanlon, Christopher T. Gledhill, Christopher C. Koenig, Gary Fitzhugh
1999, Open-File Report 99-589
No abstract available....
Sedimentation survey of Lago Prieto, Puerto Rico, October 1997
L.R. Soler-Lopez, R. M. Webb
1999, Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4169
Estimates of ground-water discharge as determined from measurements of evapotranspiration, Ash Meadows area, Nye County, Nevada
R. J. Laczniak, G. A. DeMeo, S. R. Reiner, J. LaRue Smith, W. E. Nylund
1999, Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4079
Ash Meadows is one of the major discharge areas within the regional Death Valley ground-water flow system of southern Nevada and adjacent California. Ground water discharging at Ash Meadows is replenished from inflow derived from an extensive recharge area that includes the eastern part of the Nevada Test Site (NTS)....
High-Resolution Land Use and Land Cover Mapping
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1999, Fact Sheet 189-99
As the Nation?s population grows, quantifying, monitoring, and managing land use becomes increasingly important. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has a long heritage of leadership and innovation in land use and land cover (LULC) mapping that has been the model both nationally and internationally for over 20 years. At present,...
Geochemical data for environmental studies of mercury mines in Nevada
John E. Gray, Monique G. Adams, James G. Crock, Peter M. Theodorakos
1999, Open-File Report 99-576
Proceedings of the Workshop on Present and Future Directions in Volcano-Hazard Assessment; Menlo Park, California, September 23-24, 1998
C. R. Bacon, Thomas C. Hanks, W. E. Scott
M.C. Guffanti, editor(s)
1999, Open-File Report 99-339
No abstract available....
Petroleum systems of the Po Basin Province of northern Italy and the northern Adriatic Sea; Porto Garibaldi (biogenic), Meride/Riva di Solto (thermal), and Marnoso Arenacea (thermal)
Sandra J. Lindquist
1999, Open-File Report 99-50-M
The Porto Garibaldi total petroleum system dominates the Po Basin Province of onshore northern Italy and offshore Italy and Croatia in the northern Adriatic Sea. Porto Garibaldi contains Pliocene (primarily) and Pleistocene (secondarily) biogenic gas ? approximately 16 TCF (2.66 BBOE) ultimately recoverable ? accumulated in co-eval siliciclastic reservoirs. This...
Probabilistic seismic hazard maps of Alaska
R. L. Wesson, A.D. Frankel, C.S. Mueller, S. C. Harmsen
1999, Open-File Report 99-36
Water resources of the Prairie Island Indian Reservation, Minnesota, 1994-97
Timothy K. Cowdery
1999, Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4069
This evaluation of the water resources on the Prairie Island Indian Reservation includes data collected from 8 surface-water sites and 22 wells during 1994–97 and historical data. The Mississippi River and the lakes and wetlands connected to it are separated from the Vermillion River and the lakes and wetlands connected...
Geologic map of the Sedan quadangle, Gallatin and Park Counties, Montana
Betty Skipp, D. R. Lageson, W. J. McMannis
1999, IMAP 2634
This quadrangle lies 6.4 km (4 mi) northeast of Bozeman, Mont., in southwestern Montana. Metamorphic, sedimentary, and volcanic rocks of Precambrian to Tertiary age are exposed in the Bridger Range and southwestern margin of the Crazy Mountains Basin in a crustal cross section and a structural triangle zone....
Inventory of debris flows and floods in the Lovingston and Horseshoe Mountain, VA, 7.5' quadrangles from the August 19/20, 1969, storm in Nelson County, Virginia
B. A. Morgan III, Giulio Iovine, Peter G. Chirico, G. F. Wieczorek
1999, Open-File Report 99-518
No abstract available....
Aeromagnetic map for the state of Idaho: A web site for distribution of data
A. E. McCafferty, R.P. Kucks, P. L. Hill, S. D. Racey
1999, Open-File Report 99-371
No abstract available. ...
U.S. Geological Survey Program on the South Florida Ecosystem; proceedings of South Florida Restoration Science Forum, May 17-19, 1999, Boca Raton, Florida
Sarah Gerould, Aaron Higer
1999, Open-File Report 99-181
The purpose of the forum is to highlight the powerful connection between science and management decisions in restoration efforts. The public's investment in science is paying off in support of better management decisions and restoration of imperiled south Florida Ecosystems, including the internationally recognized, globally significant Everglades. The forum affords...
Reconnaissance of chemical and physical characteristics of selected bottom sediments of the Caloosahatchee River and estuary, tributaries, and contiguous bays, Lee County, Florida, July 20-30, 1998
Mario Fernandez Jr., M. E. Marot, C. W. Holmes
1999, Open-File Report 99-226
This report summarizes a reconnaissance study, conducted July 20-30, 1998, of chemical and physical characteristics of recently deposited bottom sediments in the Caloosahatchee River and Estuary. Recently deposited sediments were identified using an isotopic chronometer, Beryllium-7 (7Be), a short-lived radioisotope. Fifty-nine sites were sampled in an area that encompasses the...
Notes on numerical reliability of several statistical analysis programs
J.M. Landwehr, Gary D. Tasker
1999, Open-File Report 99-95
This report presents a benchmark analysis of several statistical analysis programs currently in use in the USGS. The benchmark consists of a comparison between the values provided by a statistical analysis program for variables in the reference data set ANASTY and their known or calculated theoretical values. The ANASTY data...
Construction and calibration of numerical ground-water-flow models of the western half of the Milford-Souhegan glacial-drift aquifer, Milford, New Hampshire
P. T. Harte, R. H. Flynn, Thomas J. Mack
1999, Open-File Report 99-462
No abstract available....
pick_xwell, a program for interactive picking of crosswell seismic and radar data
K.J. Ellefsen
1999, Open-File Report 99-534
Program 'pick_xwell' is used to interactively pick travel times in crosswell seismic and radar data. In addition, the traces and the travel times can be plotted on the computer screen or printed to a file in postscript format. The program is written in the IDL programming language, and it is executed,...
Digital mining claim density map for federal lands in New Mexico: 1996
Paul C. Hyndman, Harry W. Campbell
1999, Open-File Report 99-411
This report describes a digital map generated by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to provide digital spatial mining claim density information for federal lands in New Mexico as of March 1997. Mining claim data is earth science information deemed to be relevant to the assessment of historic, current, and future...