Hydrology of the Ferron Sandstone aquifer and effects of proposed surface-coal mining in Castle Valley, Utah, with a section on stratigraphy and a section on leaching of overburden
Gregory C. Lines, Daniel J. Morrissey, Thomas A. Ryer, Richard H. Fuller
1983, Water Supply Paper 2195
Coal in the Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale of Cretaceous age has traditionally been mined by underground techniques in the Emery Coal Field in the southern end of Castle Valley in east-central Utah. However, approximately 99 million tons are recoverable by surface mining. Ground water in the Ferron...
Ground water in the northeast part of Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base, Bagdad area, California
J. H. Koehler
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4053
The hydrologic characteristics of the Bagdad area, in the northeast part of Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base, were investigated to determine the feasibility of obtaining a supply of ground water. Five test holes were drilled and three of these were completed with 6-inch casings. Ground water in the eastern part...
Structure, burial history, and petroleum potential of frontal thrust belt and adjacent foreland, southwest Montana
W. J. Perry Jr., B. R. Wardlaw, N. H. Bostick, E. K. Maughan
1983, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (67) 725-743
The frontal thrust belt in the Lima area of southwestern Montana consists of blind (nonsurfacing) thrusts of the Lima thrust system beneath the Lima anticline and the Tendoy thrust sheet to the west. The Tendoy sheet involves Mississippian through Cretaceous rocks of the southwest-plunging nose of the Mesozoic Blacktail-Snowcrest uplift...
Eastern Devonian shales: Organic geochemical studies, past and present
Irving A. Breger, Patrick G. Hatcher, L.A. Romankiw, F.P. Miknis
1983, Conference Paper, Preprints Symposia
The Eastern Devonian shales are represented by a sequence of sediments extending from New York state, south to the northern regions of Georgia and Alabama, and west into Ohio and to the Michigan and Ilinois Basins. Correlatives are known in Texas. The shale is regionally known by a number of...
The saltwater-freshwater interface in the Tertiary limestone aquifer, southeast Atlantic outer-continental shelf of the U.S.A.
R.H. Johnston
1983, Journal of Hydrology (61) 239-249
Hydrologic testing in an offshore oil well abandoned by Tenneco, Inc., determined the position of the saltwater-freshwater interface in Tertiary limestones underlying the Florida-Georgia continental shelf of the U.S.A. Previous drilling (JOIDES and U.S.G.S. AMCOR projects) established the existence of freshwater far offshore in this area. At the Tenneco well...
LITHOLOGIC MAPPING USING LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER DATA.
M. H. Podwysocki, J.W. Salisbury, O. D. Jones, D.L. Mimms
1983, Conference Paper
The paper is in abstract form. It discusses the Landsat-4 Thematic Mapper (TM), with its new near infrared bands centered at 1. 65 mu m and 2. 20 mu m and spatial resolution of 30 m, which has been used to distinguish rocks containing minerals having ferric-iron absorption bands in...
The compositionally zoned eruption of 1912 in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Katmai National Park, Alaska
W. Hildreth
1983, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (18) 1-56
On June 6–8, 1912, ∼ 15 km3 of magma erupted from the Novarupta caldera at the head of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes (VTTS), producing ∼ 20 km3 of air-fall tephra and 11–15 km3 of ash-flow tuff within ∼ 60 hours. Three discrete periods of ash-fall at Kodiak correlate, respectively, with Plinian...
Isotopic evidence from the eastern Canadian shield for geochemical discontinuity in the proterozoic mantle
L.D. Ashwal, J. L. Wooden
1983, Nature (306) 679-680
Most workers agree that Proterozoic anorthosite massifs represent the crystallization products of mantle-derived magmas1,2, although the composition of the parental melts is a major unsolved petrological problem 3. As mantle-derived rocks, the massifs can be used as geochemical probes of their late Precambrian upper mantle sources. We report here Nd...
Thermal areas on Kilauea and Mauna Loa Volcanoes, Hawaii
Thomas J. Casadevall, Richard W. Hazlett
1983, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (16) 173-188
Active thermal areas are concentrated in three areas on Mauna Loa and three areas on Kilauea. High-temperature fumaroles (115-362°C) on Mauna Loa are restricted to the summit caldera, whereas high-temperature fumaroles on Kilauea are found in the upper East Rift Zone (Mauna Ulu summit fumaroles, 562°C), middle East Rift Zone...
Eruptive history of Mount Mazama and Crater Lake Caldera, Cascade Range, U.S.A.
C. R. Bacon
1983, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (18) 57-115
New investigations of the geology of Crater Lake National Park necessitate a reinterpretation of the eruptive history of Mount Mazama and of the formation of Crater Lake caldera. Mount Mazama consisted of a glaciated complex of overlapping shields and stratovolcanoes, each of which was probably active for a comparatively short...
Hydrogeologic and water-quality characteristics of the Prairie du Chien-Jordan aquifer, Southeast Minnesota
J. F. Ruhl, R. J. Wolf, D. G. Adolphson
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4045
Quality of water in the Prairie du Chien-Jordan aquifer is generally good, except for some localized contamination, Coal-tar derivatives that contaminate the aquifer in St. Louis Park, a western suburb in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area, pose the most serious threat to water quality. High hardness and iron concentration limit...
Geologic map of the Mitten Lake, Half Dome Crag, Hyde Creek, East Glacier Park, Big Rock, and Magee Range quadrangles, Pondera and Glacier Counties, Montana
Melville Rhodes Mudge, R.L. Earhart, W. J. Perry Jr., R. G. Bohannon
1983, Open-File Report 82-1030
No abstract available....
Crustal structure beneath the southern Appalachians: Nonuniqueness of gravity modeling
Deborah R. Hutchinson, John A. Grow, Kim D. Klitgord
1983, Geology (11) 611-615
Gravity models computed for a profile across the long-wavelength paired negative-positive Bouguer anomalies of the southern Appalachian Mountains show that the large negative anomaly can be explained by a crustal root zone, whereas the steep gradient and positive anomaly east of the root may be explained equally well by three...
Effects of land use on ground-water quality in the East Everglades, Dade County, Florida
B.G. Waller
1982, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-4093
Groundwater quality characteristics of the Biscayne aquifer from September 1978 through June 1979 were determined for seven land use areas within the East Everglades in Dade County, Florida. Four agricultural areas, two low-density residential areas, and Chekika Hammock State Park were investigated. The effects of land use on the groundwater...
Effects of land use on surface-water quality in the East Everglades, Dade County, Florida
Bradley G. Waller
1982, Water-Resources Investigations Report 81-59
Water-quality characteristics were determined at five developed areas in the East Everglades, Dade County, Florida, during the 1978 wet season (June through October). These areas are designated as: Coopertown; Chekika Hammock State Park; residential area; rock-plowed tomato field; and Cracker Jack Slough agricultural area. Data from the developed areas were...
Assessment of water quality in canals of eastern Broward County, Florida, 1969-74
Bradley G. Waller, Wesley L. Miller
1982, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-3
An intensive water-quality monitoring program was started in 1969 to determine the effects of man-induced contaminants on the water quality in the primary canal system of eastern Broward County, Florida. This report covers the first 6 years of the program and provides a data base that can be used to...
Water resources inventory of Connecticut Part 10: Lower Connecticut River basin
Lawrence A. Weiss, James W. Bingham, Mendall P. Thomas
1982, Connecticut Water Resources Bulletin 31
The lower Connecticut River basin study area in south-central Connecticut includes 639 square miles and is drained principally by the Connecticut River and by seven smaller streams that flow directly to Long Island Sound between the West River on the west and the Connecticut River on the east. The population...
Channel systems and lobe construction in the Mississippi Fan
L. E. Garrison, Neil H. Kenyon, A.H. Bouma
1982, Geo-Marine Letters (2) 31-39
Morphological features on the Mississippi Fan in the eastern Gulf of Mexico were mapped using GLORIA II, a long-range side-scan sonar system. Prominent is a sinuous channel flanked by well-developed levees and occasional crevasse splays. The channel follows the axis and thickest part of the youngest fan lobe; seismic-reflection profiles...
Distribution and status of Vicia menziesii Spreng. (Leguminosae): Hawai'i's first officially listed endangered plant species
F. R. Warshauer, J.D. Jacobi
1982, Biological Conservation (23) 111-126
Vicia menziesii Spreng., Hawai'i's first officially listed endangered plant species, formerly occurred across a large area in the upper montane-mesic forest habitat on the windward side of the island of Hawai'i. Until this species was ‘rediscovered’ in 1974, it had last been seen in 1915, and it was presumed to...
Anarbylus switaki Murphy: An addition to the herpetofauna of the United States with comments on relationships with Coleonyx
T. H. Fritts, H.L. Snell, R.L. Martin
1982, Journal of Herpetology (16) 39-52
Anarbys switaki, a species previously known only from Baja California Sur, Mexico, occurs in eastern San Diego and southwestern Imperial Counties in California. In California, specimens tend to have continuous transverse bars on the body, are lighter in color, and more slender in body form than in southern Baja California....
The Giles County, Virginia, seismogenic zone-- Seismological results and geological interpretations
G. A. Bollinger, Russell L. Wheeler
1982, Open-File Report 82-585
This paper describes and interprets a newly-recognized 40-km-long seismogenic zone, which is inferred to have been the locus of a damaging earthquake in 1897. That shock was the second largest known to have occurred in the southeastern United States (MMI VIII, mb estimated at 5.8, felt over 725,000 km2). It...
Geological studies of the COST nos. G-1 and G-2 wells, United States North Atlantic outer continental shelf
Chiye R. Wenkam
Peter A. Scholle, editor(s)
1982, Circular 861
The COST Nos. G-1 and G-2 wells (fig. 1) are the second and third deep stratigraphic test wells drilled in the North Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf of the United States. COST No. G-1 was drilled in the Georges Bank basin to a total depth of 16,071 ft (4,898 m). G-1...
The geology of the Kutztown and Hamburg 7 1/2-minute quadrangles, eastern Pennsylvania
G. G. Lash
1982, Open-File Report 82-493
No abstract available....
Geochemical survey of the Cohutta Wilderness and the Hemp Top Roadless Area, northern Georgia and southeastern Tennessee
Jacob E. Gair
1982, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 1415-B
The contiguous Cohutta Wilderness and Hemp Top Roadless Area are in the western part of the Blue Ridge physiographic province of northern Georgia and southeastern Tennessee (fig. 1). All of the study area is in Georgia except an irregular strip of land about 1 mi at its widest on the...
Water resources data, New York, water year 1981; Volume 1. Eastern New York excluding Long Island
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1982, Water Data Report NY-81-1
Water resources data for the 1981 water year for New York consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage, contents, and water quality of lakes and reservoirs; and water levels of ground-water wells. This volume contains records for water discharge at 105 gaging stations; stage only...
