Hydrology of Yucca Mountain and vicinity, Nevada-California — Investigative results through mid-1983
R. K. Waddell, J. H. Robison, R. K. Blankennagel
1984, Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4267
Yucca Mountain, Nevada, is one of several sites under consideration for construction of the first repository for high-level nuclear waste. The climate is arid; few perennial streams are present in the region. Flash floods occasionally occur. The site is underlain by at least 1,800 meters of volcanic tuffs of Tertiary...
Quality of water in the alluvial aquifer, American Bottoms, East St. Louis, Illinois
David C. Voelker
1984, Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4180
Ground-water levels in the American Bottoms regions around East St. Louis, Illinois, have risen several feet since the early 1970's. Artificial dewatering of the aquifer by increased pumping is being investigated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to alleviate economic and health concerns resulting from elevated ground-water levels. A...
Impact of development on availability and quality of ground water in eastern Nassau County, Florida, and southeastern Camden County, Georgia
D.P. Brown
1984, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4190
The primary sources of water in the area are from the surficial and Floridan aquifers. The surficial aquifer, consisting of thin permeable zones of sand, shell, and limestone, provides limited water supplies (10-50 gallons per minute). Its estimated transmissivity ranges from less than 100 to 10,000 feet squared per day....
Aldicarb-pesticide contamination of ground water in eastern Suffolk County, Long Island, New York
Julian Soren, W. G. Stelz
1984, Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4251
Aldicarb, a toxic oxime-carbamate pesticide that was believed incapable of reaching ground water, was used in potato-farming areas of eastern Suffolk County, New York during 1975-80. In 1979, aldicarb was found in substantial concentrations in ground water throughout the area. The New York State Department of Health set a limit...
Irrigated acreage and other land uses on the Snake River Plain, Idaho and eastern Oregon
Gerald F. Lindholm, S. A. Goodell
1984, Open-File Report 84-452
No abstract available....
Analytical results, geology, and sample locality map of mercury-sulfur-gypsum mineralization at Crater, Inyo County, California
M. S. Erickson, S.P. Marsh, T. A. Roemer
1984, Open-File Report 85-512
The Crater mercury-su l fur-gypsum ~ineral ized area is located in east-central California along the crest of the Last Chance Range, west of the north end of Death Valley (fig. 1). The area is in the northwest quarter of the Last Chance Range 15-minute quadrangle and occupies the area between...
Quantity and quality of streamflow in the White River basin, Colorado and Utah
J. M. Boyle, K.J. Covay, D. P. Bauer
1984, Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4022
The water quality and flow of existing streams in the White River basin, located in northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah, are adequate for present uses, but future development (such as energy) may affect stream quality and quantity. Present conditions are described as a baseline to enable planners to allocate available...
The thrust belt in Southwest Montana and east-central Idaho
Edward T. Ruppel, David A. Lopez
1984, Professional Paper 1278
The leading edge of the Cordilleran fold and thrust in southwest Montana appears to be a continuation of the edge of the Wyoming thrust belt, projected northward beneath the Snake River Plain. Trces of the thrust faults that form the leading edge of the thrust belts are mostly concealed, but...
Glastonbury Gneiss and mantling rocks (a modified Oliverian dome) in south-central Massachusetts and north-central Connecticut: Geochemistry, petrogenesis, and isotopic age
G. W. Leo, R. E. Zartman, D. G. Brookins
1984, Professional Paper 1295
The Glastonbury dome is a long, narrow structure trending approximately 70 km north-northeast through Connecticut and Massachusetts along the west side of the Bronson Hill anticlinorium. Structurally and stratigraphically the dome is analogous to the Oliverian domes of New Hampshire. It is cored by Glastonbury Gneiss and is mantled by...
The Richmond and Greenwich slices of the Hamburg klippe in eastern Pennsylvania — Stratigraphy, sedimentology, structure, and plate tectonic implications
G. G. Lash, Avery A. Drake Jr.
1984, Professional Paper 1312
No abstract available....
Availability and quality of water from the Dakota aquifer, northwest Iowa
M. R. Burkart
1984, Water Supply Paper 2215
The Dakota aquifer in northwest Iowa consists of sandstones in the Dakota Formation. It underlies most of the study area and is the most extensive source of ground water in the area. Individual sandstone beds are from less than 10 to more than 150 feet thick. The cumulative thickness of...
Evaluation of the hydrologic system and potential effects of mining in the Dickinson lignite area, eastern slope and western Stark and Hettinger counties, North Dakota
C. A. Armstrong
1984, Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4194
The investigation of the water resources of the Dickinson lignite area, an area of about 500 square miles, was undertaken to define the hydrologic system of the area and to project probable effects of coal mining on the system.Aquifers occur in sandstone beds in: the Fox Hills Sandstone and the...
International strategic minerals inventory summary report; chromium
J.H. DeYoung Jr., M. P. Lee, B. R. Lipin
1984, Circular 930-B
Major world resources of chromium, a strategic mineral commodity, are described in this summary report of information in the International Strategic Minerals Inventory {ISMI}. ISMI is a cooperative data-collection effort of earth-science and mineral-resource agencies in Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of South Africa, and the...
Water withdrawn for irrigation in 1980 on the Snake River plain, Idaho and eastern Oregon
B. B. Bigelow, S. A. Goodell, G. D. Newton
1984, Open-File Report 84-434
No abstract available....
Physical and chemical characteristics of water in coal-mine ponds, eastern Oklahoma, June to November 1977-81
L. J. Slack, S. P. Blumer
1984, Open-File Report 84-446
Water at 102 sites in 59 coal-mine ponds in eastern Oklahoma was sampled at lease twice during June to November 1977-81 to determine temperature, specific conductance, dissolved oxygen, pH, and dissolved sulfate, chloride, iron, and manganese--as part of a study of the hydrology of the Oklahoma coalfield. These determinations show...
The Conterminous United States Mineral Appraisal Program; background information to accompany folio of geologic, geochemical, geophysical, and mineral resources maps of the Walker Lake 1 degree x 2 degrees Quadrangle, California and Nevada
John Harris Stewart, M.A. Chaffee, J. C. Dohrenwend, D. A. John, R. W. Kistler, F. J. Kleinhampl, W. D. Menzie, Donald Plouff, L. C. Rowan, Norman J. Silberling
1984, Circular 927
The Walker Lake 1? by 2? quadrangle in eastern California and western Nevada was studied by an interdisciplinary research team to appraise its mineral resources. The appraisal is based on geological, geochemical, and geophysical field and laboratory investigations, the results of which are published as a folio of maps, figures,...
Compilation of selected geophysical references for the Snake River plain, Idaho and eastern Oregon
R.L. Whitehead
1984, Open-File Report 84-587
This report is one in a series resulting from the U.S. Geological Survey's Snake River Plain RASA (Regional Aquifer System Analysis) study that began in October 1979. ...
Foraminifers and calcareous nannofossils of Tertiary strata in Maryland and Virginia: A summary
T. G. Gibson, Laurel M. Bybell
1984, Book chapter, Cretaceous and Tertiary stratigraphy, paleontology, and structure, southwestern Maryland and northeastern Virginia: Field trip volume and guidebook, October 17, 1984
No abstract available....
Guidebook for the annual field conference of Pennsylvania geologists: Geology of an accreted terrane; the eastern Hamburg Klippe and surrounding rocks, eastern Pennsylvania
Peter T. Lyttle, Jack B. Epstein, Gary George Lash
1984, Book
No abstract available....
Canyon-filling lavas and lava dams on the Boise River, Idaho, and their significance for evaluating downcutting during the last 2 million years
Keith A. Howard, John W. Shervais, E.H. McKee
Bill Bonnichsen, R.M. Breckenridge, editor(s)
1984, Report, Cenozoic geology of Idaho
Basalts that periodically dammed the Boise River and its South Fork over the last 2 million years reveal the canyon history and illustrate how lava interacted with impounded river water. Intracanyon basalt flows record a granite canyon successively filled by lava and then recut at least five times in the...
Origin of Hawaiian tholeiite: A metasomatic model
Thomas L. Wright
1984, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (89) 3233-3252
Two voluminous magma types generated in the mantle underlying the Pacific plate are mid‐ocean ridge tholeiite (MORB) erupted at the East Pacific Rise spreading center and Hawaiian tholeiite (HT) erupted above the Hawaiian hot spot or melting anomaly. MORB has low initial 87Sr/86Sr ratios and low amounts of all incompatible trace...
Deformation in the White Mountain seismic gap, California-Nevada, 1972-1982
James C. Savage, Michael Lisowski
1984, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (89) 7671-7687
A 100×40 km trilateration network extending from Bishop, California, to near Hawthorne, Nevada, crosses the east end of the Long Valley caldera, site of renewed magma inflation in the 1979–1980 interval, and spans most of the White Mountain seismic gap. The network was surveyed in 1972, 1973, 1976, 1979, 1980,...
Regional deformation near Palmdale, California, 1973-1983 (USA)
N.E. King, James C. Savage
1984, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (89) 2471-2477
The Tehachapi trilateration network spans the intersection of the San Andreas and Garlock faults in southern California in the “Big Bend” region of the San Andreas fault. Analysis of data from 1973–1983 shows strain differences between the northwest and southeast regions of the network and slip at...
Transport and concentration controls for chloride, strontium, potassium and lead in Uvas Creek, a small cobble-bed stream in Santa Clara County, California, U.S.A.: 1. Conceptual model
V. C. Kennedy, A. P. Jackman, S.M. Zand, G. W. Zellweger, R.J. Avanzino
1984, Journal of Hydrology (75) 67-110
Stream sediments adsorb certain solutes from streams, thereby significantly changing the solute composition; but little is known about the details and rates of these adsorptive processes. To investigate such processes, a 24-hr. injection of a solution containing chloride, strontium, potassium, sodium and lead was made at the head of a...
Biological communities at the Florida Escarpment resemble hydrothermal vent taxa
C. K. Paull, Barbara Hecker, R. Commeau, R. P. Freeman-Lynde, C. Neumann, W.P. Corso, S. Golubic, J.E. Hook, E. Sikes, J. Curray
1984, Science (226) 965-967
Dense biological communities of large epifaunal taxa similar to those found along ridge crest vents at the East Pacific Rise were discovered in the abyssal Gulf of Mexico. These assemblages occur on a passive continental margin at the base of the Florida Escarpment, the interface between the relatively impermeable hemipelagic...
