Mount Rainier: Living with perilous beauty
Kevin M. Scott, Edward W. Wolfe, Carolyn L. Driedger
1998, Fact Sheet 065-97
Mount Rainier is an active volcano reaching more than 2.7 miles (14,410 feet) above sea level. Its majestic edifice looms over expanding suburbs in the valleys that lead to nearby Puget Sound. USGS research over the last several decades indicates that Mount Rainier has been the source of many volcanic...
Quality of ground water beneath urban and agricultural lands in Las Vegas Valley and the Carson and Truckee River Basins, Nevada -- Implications for water supply
M.S. Lico
1998, Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4259
No abstract available....
Sevier-age thrust fault structures control the location of base- and precious-metal mining districts in the Oquirrh Mountains, Utah
E. W. Tooker
1998, Open-File Report 98-234
Watershed and River Systems Management Program; application to the Yakima River Basin, Washington
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
1998, Fact Sheet 037-98
Correlation of Jurassic San Rafael Group and related rocks from Blanding, Utah, to Dove Creek, Colorado
R. B. O'Sullivan
1998, IMAP 2667
A reconnaissance for sulfonylurea herbicides in waters of the Midwestern USA: An example of collaboration between the public and private sectors
William A. Battaglin, Edward T. Furlong, Carl John Peter
1998, Fact Sheet 046-98
No abstract available....
Water quality in the Georgia-Florida coastal plain, Georgia and Florida, 1992-96
Marian P. Berndt, Hilda H. Hatzell, Christy A. Crandall, Michael Turtora, John R. Pittman, Edward T. Oaksford
1998, Circular 1151
This report is intended to summarize major findings that emerged between 1992 and 1995 from the water-quality assessment of the Georgia-Florida Coastal Plain Study Unit and to relate these findings to water-quality issues of regional and national concern. The information is primarily intended for those who are involved in water-resource...
Water quality in the upper Snake River basin, Idaho and Wyoming, 1992-95
Gregory M. Clark, T.R. Maret, M.G. Rupert, M.A. Maupin, W. H. Low, D.S. Ott
1998, Circular 1160
This report is intended to summarize major findings that emerged between 1992 and 1995 from the water-quality assessment of the Upper Snake River Basin Study Unit and to relate these findings to water-quality issues of regional and national concern. This information is primarily intended for those who are involved in...
Water quality in the Ozark Plateaus, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, 1992-95
James C. Petersen, James C. Adamski, Richard W. Bell, Jerri V. Davis, Suzanne R. Femmer, David A. Freiwald, Robert L. Joseph
1998, Circular 1158
This report is intended to summarize major findings that emerged between 1992 and 1995 from the water-quality assessment of the Ozark Plateaus Study Unit and to relate these findings to water-quality issues of regional and national concern. The information is primarily intended for those who are involved in water-resource management....
Water quality in the Willamette Basin, Oregon, 1991-95
Dennis A. Wentz, Bernadine A. Bonn, Kurt D. Carpenter, Stephen R. Hinkle, Mary L. Janet, Frank A. Rinella, Mark A. Uhrich, Ian R. Waite, Antonius Laenen, Kenneth E. Bencala
1998, Circular 1161
This report is intended to summarize major findings that emerged between 1991 and 1995 from the water-quality assessment of the Willamette Basin Study Unit and to relate these findings to water-quality issues of regional and national concern. The information is primarily intended for those who are involved in water-resource management....
Pre-construction geologic section along the Cross Drift through the potential high-level radioactive waste repository, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada
Christopher J. Potter, Warren C. Day, Carma A. San Juan, Donald S. Sweetking, Ronald M. Drake II
1998, Open-File Report 98-530
Water quality in the San Joaquin-Tulare basins, California, 1992-95
Neil M. Dubrovsky, Charles R. Kratzer, Larry R. Brown, JoAnn M. Gronberg, Karen R. Burow
1998, Circular 1159
This report is intended to summarize major findings that emerged between 1992 and 1995 from the water-quality assessment of the San Joaquin-Tulare Basins Study Unit and to relate these findings to water-quality issues of regional and national concern. The information is primarily intended for those who are involved in water-resource...
Water quality in the Western Lake Michigan Drainages, Wisconsin and Michigan, 1992-95
Charles A. Peters, Dale M. Robertson, David A. Saad, Daniel J. Sullivan, Barbara C. Scudder, Faith A. Fitzpatrick, Kevin D. Richards, Jana S. Stewart, Sharon A. Fitzgerald, Bernard N. Lenz
1998, Circular 1156
This report is intended to summarize major findings that emerged between 1992 and 1995 from the water-quality assessment of the Western Lake Michigan Drainages Study Unit and torelate these findings to water-quality issues of regional and national concern. The information in primarily intended for those who are involved in water-resource...
Water quality in the Albemarle-Pamlico drainage basin, North Carolina and Virginia, 1992-95
Timothy B. Spruill, Douglas A. Harned, Peter M. Ruhl, Jo Leslie Eimers, Gerard McMahon, Kelly E. Smith, David R. Galeone, Michael D. Woodside
1998, Circular 1157
The NAWQA Program is assessing the water-quality conditions of more than 50 of the Nation's largest river basins and aquifers, known as Study Units. Collectively, these Study Units cover about one-half of the United States and include sources of drinking water used by about 70 percent of the U.S. population....
Water-surface profile and flood boundaries for the computed 100-year flood, Tongue River, northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation and adjacent area, Montana
R. J. Omang, Charles Parrett
1998, Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4066
Geohydrology and quality of ground water in unconsolidated aquifers near South Bend, Indiana
K. K. Fowler, L. D. Arihood
1998, Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4139
IntroductionThe water supply for the City of South Bend, Indiana, and much of surrounding St. Joseph County is provided by 36 municipal and community well fields. Some of these well fields are located near known or potential sources of ground-water contamination that could affect ground-water supplies in the near future....
A microearthquake survey of the Mammoth Mountain area, Long Valley Caldera, California, summer 1997
G.R. Foulger, B.R. Julian, D.P. Hill, G. Sharer, L.E. Foulger, R. Perlroth, N. Dotson, A.D. Pitt, E. Brodsky
1998, Open-File Report 98-236
No abstract available....
Mississippi Basin Carbon Project science plan
E.T. Sundquist, R.F. Stallard, N.B. Bliss, H. W. Markewich, J.W. Harden, M.J. Pavich, M.D. Dean Jr.
1998, Open-File Report 98-177
Understanding the carbon cycle is one of the most difficult challenges facing scientists who study the global environment. Lack of understanding of global carbon cycling is perhaps best illustrated by our inability to balance the present-day global CO2 budget. The amount of CO2 produced by burning fossil fuels and by...
The Quaternary geologic map of Connecticut and Long Island Sound basin
J. R. Stone, J.P. Schafer, E.H. London, R. S. Lewis, Mary L. DiGiacomo-Cohen, W.B. Thompson
1998, Open-File Report 98-371
Probability of detecting atrazine/desethyl-atrazine and elevated concentrations of nitrate (NO2+NO3-N) in ground water in the Idaho part of the upper Snake River basin
Michael G. Rupert
1998, Water-Resources Investigations Report 98-4203
Draft Federal regulations may require that each State develop a State Pesticide Management Plan for the herbicides atrazine, alachlor, cyanazine, metolachlor, and simazine. This study developed maps that the Idaho State Department of Agriculture might use to predict the probability of detecting atrazine and desethyl-atrazine (a breakdown product of atrazine)...
Estimates of ultimate recovery of oil from California's giant fields (> 100 million barrels), 1923-1995
Marilyn E. Tennyson
1998, Open-File Report 98-513-A
Paleomagnetism of Pleistocene sediments from drill hole OL-92, Owens Lake, California; reevaluation of magnetic excursions using anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility
J. G. Rosenbaum, R. L. Reynolds, Robert Meyer
1998, Open-File Report 98-752
Digital geologic map of the Thirsty Canyon NW quadrangle, Nye County, Nevada
S.A. Minor, P. P. Orkild, K. A. Sargent, R.G. Warren, D.A. Sawyer, J.B. Workman
1998, Open-File Report 98-623
This digital geologic map compilation presents new polygon (i.e., geologic map unit contacts), line (i.e., fault, fold axis, dike, and caldera wall), and point (i.e., structural attitude) vector data for the Thirsty Canyon NW 7 1/2' quadrangle in southern Nevada. The map database, which is at 1:24,000-scale resolution, provides geologic...
Geologic map of the Atlanta 30' x 60' quadrangle, Georgia
M. W. Higgins, T. J. Crawford, R. L. Atkins, R. F. Crawford
1998, Open-File Report 98-245
No abstract available....
National Water Information System (NWIS)
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1998, Fact Sheet 027-98
