Transit losses and traveltimes for reservoir releases during drought conditions along the Neosho River from Council Grove Lake to Iola, east-central Kansas
W. J. Carswell, R. J. Hart
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 85-4003
Knowledge of the transit losses and water-wave traveltimes in the Neosho River for varying reservoir-release volumes and durations is necessary for proper management of water supply. Two reaches were studied along the Neosho River in east-central Kansas. The upper reach is from Council Grove Lake to John Redmond Reservoir, a...
Effects of climate, vegetation, and soils on consumptive water use and ground-water recharge to the Central Midwest Regional aquifer system, mid-continent United States
J. T. Dugan, J. M. Peckenpaugh
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 85-4236
The Central Midwest aquifer system, in parts of Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Texas, is a region of great hydrologic diversity. This study examines the relationships between climate, vegetation, and soil that affect consumptive water use and recharge to the groundwater system. Computations of potential...
Effects of surface coal mining and reclamation on ground water in small watersheds in the Allegheny Plateau, Ohio
Michael Eberle, A. C. Razem
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 85-4205
The hydrologic effects of surface coal mining in unlimited areas is difficult to predict, partly because of a lack of adequate data collected before and after mining and reclamation. In order to help provide data to assess the effects of surface mining on the hydrology of small basins in the...
Water-resources monitoring in the Cottonwood Creek area, Shasta and Tehama counties, California, 1982-83
R. P. Fogelman, K. D. Evenson
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4187
The Cottonwood Creek study area in the Redding basin, California , contains a network of wells established to provide baseline information on ground-water levels and quality prior to the completion of two proposed dams, one on Cottonwood Creek and one on South Fork Cottonwood Creek. Analysis of monthly ground-water levels...
Estimated water and nutrient inflows and outflows Lake Cochituate, eastern Massachusetts, 1977-79
F. B. Gay
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4315
Streamflow was the major source of water and nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) to Lake Cochituate, followed by ground water, and then precipitation during April 1978 through March 1979. Compared to all sources during that period, streams contributed 7,217 million gallons (a little over 82 percent) of water, 63 ,000 pounds...
Simulated effects of projected pumping on the availability of freshwater in the Evangeline Aquifer in an area southwest of Corpus Christi, Texas
George E. Groschen
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 85-4182
This study is an investigation of the continued availability of freshwater in the Evangeline aquifer along the Texas Gulf Coast and the potential for degradation of the water quality by salinewater intrusion. Recharge to the aquifer occurs by the infiltration of precipitation in the outcrop area and by cross-formational flow...
Transit losses and traveltimes for water-supply releases from Marion Lake during drought conditions, Cottonwood River, east-central Kansas
P. R. Jordan, R. J. Hart
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 85-4263
A streamflow routing model was used to calculate the transit losses and traveltimes. Channel and aquifer characteristics, and the model control parameters, were estimated from available data and then verified to the extent possible by comparing model simulated streamflow to observed streamflow at streamflow gaging stations. Transit losses and traveltimes...
A preliminary assessment of land-surface subsidence in the El Paso area, Texas
L. F. Land, C. A. Armstrong
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 85-4155
The northeast and southeast parts of the El Paso area are underlain by Hueco bolson deposits as much as 9,000 feet thick. The deposits consist of lenses of gravel, sand, silt, and clay. In the Rio Grande Valley, about 400 to 450 feet of these deposits have been eroded and...
Summary of northern Atlantic Coastal Plain hydrology and its relation to disposal of high-level radioactive waste in buried crystalline rock – A preliminary appraisal
O. B. Lloyd, J. D. Larson, R. W. Davis
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 85-4146
Interpretation of available hydrologic data suggests that some areas beneath the Coastal Plain in the States of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Virginia might have some potential for the disposal of nuclear waste in crystalline rock that is buried beneath the Coastal Plain sediments. The areas of major...
Potential effects of surface coal mining on the hydrology of the Horse Creek area, Sheridan and Moorhead coal fields, southeastern Montana
N. E. McClymonds
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4239
The Horse Creek area of the Sheridan and Moorhead coal fields, 16 miles east of the Decker Coal Mines near the Tongue River, contains large reserves of Federally owned coal that have been identified for potential lease sale. A hydrologic study was conducted in the area to describe existing hydrologic...
Water-supply potential of the Floridan aquifer in Osceola, eastern Orange, and southwestern Brevard counties, Florida
Michael Planert, W. R. Aucott
1985, Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4135
The city of Melbourne and adjacent areas in south Brevard County obtain their water supply from Lake Washington. As of 1982, the lake could provide a maximum of 15 million gallons per day but the projected need for the year 2000 is nearly three times that amount. As one alternative...
Bedrock aquifers of eastern San Juan County, Utah
Charles Avery
1985, Open-File Report 85-568
This study is one of a series of studies appraising the water-bearing properties of the Navajo Sandstone and associated formations in southern Utah. The study area is about 4,600 square miles, extending from the Utah-Arizona State line northward to the San Juan-Grand County line and westward from the Utah-Colorado State...
Emission spectrographic and atomic absorption analyses of rock, mineral occurrence, prospect, and deposit samples from the Mount Hayes quadrangle, eastern Alaska Range, Alaska
R. E. Zehner, R. M. O’Leary, G.W. Day, S. J. Sutley, W. J. Nokleberg, R. D. Koch
1985, Open-File Report 84-774
No abstract available....
Environmental contaminants in eastern Cooper's hawk eggs
Oliver H. Pattee, Mark R. Fuller, T. Earl Kaiser
1985, Journal of Wildlife Management (49) 1040-1044
No abstract available. ...
Comparison of fire fuel maps produced using MSS and AVHRR data
Wayne A. Miller, David C. Johnston
1985, Conference Paper, Pecora 10 Symposium
The fuel information, in support of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) national fire program, has been obtained through the manila interpretation of Landsat multi-spectral scanner images and digital image analysis of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data. The BLM, in cooperation with the Earth Resources Observation Systems...
Organochlorine concentrations, whole body weights, and lipid content of black skimmers wintering in Mexico and in south Texas, 1983
Donald H. White, C. A. Mitchell, C. J. Stafford
1985, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (34) 513-517
Since 1978, a large proportion of the black skimmers (Rynchops niger) nesting along the Texas coast have had high concentrations of DDE in their eggs. Of 284 eggs collected from 5 sites during 1978-81, 99.5% contained detectable (> 0.i0 ppm) w levels of DDE, ranging up to 86 ppm wet-weight;...
Origin and tectonic evolution of the Maclaren and Wrangellia terranes, eastern Alaska Range, Alaska
Warren J. Nokleberg, D. L. Jones, Norman J. Silberling
1985, GSA Bulletin (96) 1251-1270
Major portions of the eastern Alaska Range, south of the Denali fault, in the McCarthy, Nabesna, Mount Hayes, and eastern Healy quadrangles, consist predominantly of the Maclaren and Wrangellia tectono-stratigraphic terranes. The Maclaren terrane consists of the Maclaren Glacier metamorphic belt and the regionally deformed and metamorphosed East Susitna batholith....
Geologic setting, petrology, and geochemistry of stratiform sphalerite-galena-barite deposits, Red Dog Creek and Drenchwater Creek areas, northwestern Brooks Range, Alaska
Ian M. Lange, Warren J. Nokleberg, J.T. Plahuta, H.R. Krouse, B. R. Doe
1985, Economic Geology (80) 1896-1926
Similar stratiform sphalerite-galena-barite deposits occur in the Red Dog Creek area, De Long Mountains quadrangle, and in the Drenchwater Creek area, Howard Pass quadrangle, northwestern Brooks Range, Alaska. The deposits, located approximately 180 km apart, are hosted by Mississippian and Pennsylvanian strata of the Kagvik structural sequence of late Paleozoic...
An aerial photographic census of Chesapeake Bay and North Carolina canvasbacks
G.M. Haramis, J.R. Goldsberry, D.G. McAuley, E.L. Derleth
1985, Journal of Wildlife Management (49) 449-454
We used conventional 35-mm photography to conduct an aerial photographic census of canvasbacks (Aythya valisineria) throughout Chesapeake Bay (tidal Maryland and Virginia) and coastal North Carolina, 26-30 January 1981. Flock size and sex ratio characteristics were determined from examination of color transparencies of 165 canvasback flocks totaling over 95,000 birds....
Recent Red-shouldered Hawk range expansion north into Oregon including first specimen record
Charles J. Henny, John E. Cornely
1985, Murrelet (66) 29-31
In this paper we review 46 Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) observation records from Oregon between 1971 and 1983. The literature contained only two records prior to 1971: Johnson's (1880) record without a specific date or locality from the Willamette Valley of western Oregon, and Bendire's (1892) two nests located...
Paleomagnetism and geology of Eocene volcanic rocks of southwest Washington, implications for mechanisms of tectonic rotation
Ray E. Wells, Robert S. Coe
1985, Journal of Geophysical Research (90) 1925-1947
Paleomagnetic and geologic investigations in Eocene volcanic rocks of the southwest Washington Coast Range demonstrate a close relationship between tectonic rotations and the local structural geology. The allochthonous middle Eocene submarine basalt basement of the Crescent Formation consists of...
New York Bight fault
Deborah R. Hutchinson, John A. Grow
1985, Geological Society of America Bulletin (96) 975-989
High-resolution, single-channel and multichannel seismic-reflection profiles in the New York Bight provide 7 crossings of a 50-km-long fault that trends north-northeast for 30 km from its southern end, then bends northeast, and may continue northward beneath Long Island. Displacement, which is consistently down to the west, decreases upsection and suggests...
Kinds of damage that could result from a great earthquake in the central United States
M. G. Hooper, S. T. Algermissen
1985, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (17) 84-97
In the winter of 1811-12 a series of three great earthquakes occurred in the New Madrid, Missouri seismic zone in the central United States. In addition to the three principal shocks, at least 15 other earthquakes of intensity VIII or more occurred within a year of the first large earthquake...
A note on the effect of bottom currents on an ocean bottom seismometer
Anne M. Trehu
1985, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (75) 1195-1204
Two three-component ocean bottom seismometers and a current meter were deployed a few hundred meters apart on the southern Blake Plateau off the United States eastern coast to study the effect of near-bottom currents on the background noise level of seismometers. Although analysis of the data is limited somewhat by...
Block Island fault: A Paleozoic crustal boundary on the Long Island platform
Deborah R. Hutchinson, Kim D. Klitgord, R. S. Detrick
1985, Geology (13) 875-879
A major fault cutting through most of the crust can be identified and mapped on the Long Island platform using multichannel seismic reflection profiles and magnetic data. The fault, here called the Block Island fault (BIF), strikes north-northeast, dips westward at low angle, and does not resemble the thin-skinned thrust...
