Depositional setting and diagenetic evolution of some Tertiary unconventional reservoir rocks, Uinta Basin, Utah
Janet K. Pitman, T. D. Fouch, M. B. Goldhaber
1982, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (66) 1581-1596
The Douglas Creek Member of the Tertiary Green River Formation underlies much of the Uinta basin, Utah, and contains large volumes of oil and gas trapped in a complex of fractured low-permeability sandstone reservoirs. In the southeastern part of the basin at Pariette Bench, the Eocene Douglas Creek Member is...
Morphology, distribution, and development of submarine canyons on the United States Atlantic continental slope between Hudson and Baltimore Canyons
David C. Twichell, David G. Roberts
1982, Geology (10) 408-412
The distribution and morphology of submarine canyons off the eastern United States between Hudson and Baltimore Canyons have been mapped by long-range sidescan sonar. In this area canyons are numerous, and their spacing correlates with overall slope gradient; they are absent where the gradient is less than 3°, are 2...
Nocturnal activity and foraging of prairie raccoons (Procyon lotor) in North Dakota
Raymond J. Greenwood
1982, American Midland Naturalist (107) 238-243
Nocturnal activity and foraging of 39 radio-equipped raccoons (Procyon lotor) in eastern North Dakota were studied from April-July in 1974-1976. Sixteen of the raccoons were collected after foraging bouts for stomach content analysis. Raccoon activity consisted of running (13%), walking (49%) and local movement in confined areas (38%). Local movement...
Stratigraphic reference section for Georges Bank Basin - Depositional model for New England passive margin.
C. Wylie Poag
1982, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (66) 1021-1041
A multichannel seismic reflection profile (U.S. Geological Survey line 19), calibrated with the COST G-1, COST G-2, and Shell Mohican I-100 wells, and seismic-sequence analysis shows that the chronostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic units and depositional history of the Georges Bank basin are similar to those of the Scotian basin. Carbonate rocks...
Holocene sedimentation in the shallow nearshore zone off Nauset Inlet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
D.G. Aubrey, D.C. Twichell, S.L. Pfirman
1982, Marine Geology (47) 243-259
Present conditions and sedimentary evolution of the shallow offshore region near Nauset Inlet on Cape Cod, Massachusetts were clarified using high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles, sidescan-sonar records, surface grab samples and current meter measurements. The study area contains three provinces: (1) a nearshore province (shallower than 18 m) with a relatively steep...
Acid rain, air pollution, and tree growth in southeastern New York
L.J. Puckett
1982, Journal of Environmental Quality (11) 376-381
Whether dendroecological analyses could be used to detect changes in the relationship of tree growth to climate that might have resulted from chronic exposure to components of the acid rain-air pollution complex was determined. Tree-ring indices of white pine (Pinus strobus L.), eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis (L.) Cart.), pitch pine...
Post 12 m.y. rotation of southwest Washington
James R. Magill, Ray E. Wells, Robert W. Simpson, Allan Cox
1982, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (87) 3761-3776
Paleomagnetic field directions from the basalt of Pack Sack Lookout are compared to those from the Pomona Member of the Saddle Mountains Basalt of the Columbia River Basalt Group. The Pomona crops out over a wide region on the Columbia Plateau east of the Cascade Range, and the basalt of...
Tilt measurements at Long Valley caldera, California, May-August 1982
Daniel Dzurisin, K. V. Cashman, D. A. Johnston, Arthur G. Sylvester
1982, Open-File Report 82-893
The Mammoth Lakes area in east-central California has experienced unusual seismicity and ground deformation since 1978, highlighted by four M>6 earthquakes in May 1980 and by the discovery soon thereafter of a broad uplift within Long Valley caldera. Recurrent seismic swarms during June 1980-May 1982 raised concern over the possibility...
Impact of Mount St. Helens eruption on hydrology and water quality
J. E. Bonelli, Howard E. Taylor, J.M. Klein
1982, Technical Report N-8311538
The 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens in southeast Washington resulted in a pronounced effect on the surface and ground water resources of the state. In response to the volcanic activity, the U.S. Geological Survey intensified statewide surface and ground water sampling programs to determine the nature and magnitude of...
Assessing the risk of earthquakes in the eastern United States
Henry Spall, editor(s)
1981, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (13) 175-178
Shorebirds of the eastern Bering Sea
J.A. Calder, Donald W. Hood
1981, Book chapter, The Eastern Bering Sea Shelf: Oceanography and Resources
Largely on the basis of work conducted in western Alaska since 1975, we present an overview of the shorebird resources of the region and discuss their relationship to the littoral and supralittoral habitats of the area. Thirty species of shorebirds occur regularly and comprise an important component of the eastern...
Water resources inventory of Connecticut Part 7: upper Connecticut River basin
Robert B. Ryder, Mendall P. Thomas, Lawrence A. Weiss
1981, Connecticut Water Resources Bulletin 24
The 508 square miles of the upper Connecticut River basin in north-central Connecticut include the basins of four major tributaries: the Scantic, Park, and Hockanum Rivers, and the Farmington River downstream from Tariffville. Precipitation over this area averaged 44 inches per year during 1931-60. In this period, an additional 3,800...
Eustrongylides and pesticide levels in a great blue heron shot in Wisconsin
R. M. Windingstad, D. M. Swineford
1981, Prairie Naturalist (13) 161-162
The parasitic roundworm, Eustrongylides ignotus Jagersk, has been known to cause mortality and morbidity in members of the heron family in the eastern states of North America. To date no previous records exist for this nematode in Wisconsin. Even though eustrongylidiosis was first detected in the District of Columbia in...
Canyon Creek: A late Pleistocene vertebrate locality in interior Alaska
F. R. Weber, T. D. Hamilton, D.M. Hopkins, C.A. Repenning, H. Haas
1981, Quaternary Research (16) 167-180
The Canyon Creek vertebrate-fossil locality is an extensive road cut near Fairbanks that exposes sediments that range in age from early Wisconsin to late Holocene. Tanana River gravel at the base of the section evidently formed during the Delta Glaciation of the north-central Alaska Range. Younger layers and lenses of...
Contemporary doming of the Adirondack Mountains: Further evidence from releveling
Y.W. Isachsen
1981, Tectonophysics (71) 95-96
The Adirondack Mountains constitute an anomalously large, domical uplift on the Appalachian foreland. The dome has a NNE—SSW axis about 190 km long, and an east—west dimension of about 140 km. It has a structural relief of at least 1600 m, and a local topographic relief of up to 1200...
Samples from the United States eastern continental margin collected by the U.S. Geological Survey
Wayne M. Ferrebee, Donald K. McElroy
1981, Open-File Report 81-467
As part of the National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center's (NGSDC's) project to maintain a computer-accessed list of marine geological samples, the U.S. Geological Survey has inventoried 3,949 samples from the continental margin of the Eastern United States (Fig. 1). Most (3,868) of these samples are grab and dredge samples...
Hydrologic conditions at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho, emphasis: 1974-1978
Jack T. Barraclough, Barney D. Lewis, Rodger G. Jensen
1981, Open-File Report 81-526
The Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) site covers about 890 square miles of the eastern Snake River Plain and overlies the Snake River Plain aquifer. Low concentrations of aqueous chemical and radio-active wastes have been discharged to shallow ponds and to shallow or deep wells on the site since 1952....
Hydrology of Area 33, eastern region, Interior Coal Province, Indiana and Kentucky
David J. Wangsness
1981, Open-File Report 81-423
No abstract available....
Preliminary map showing recently active breaks along the Maacama Fault zone between Hopland and Laytonville, Mendocino County, California
E. H. Pampeyan, Philip W. Harsh, J.M. Coakley
1981, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 1217
The southernmost 15 km of this map is a product of a study that began in 1975 as part of a study of recency of faulting in coastal California (Ziony and others, 1974; Buchanan-Banks and others, 1978; Pampeyan , 1979). In February 1975, after being shown evidence of recent faulting...
Bimodal Silurian and Lower Devonian volcanic rock assemblages in the Machias-Eastport area, Maine
Olcott Gates, R. H. Moench
1981, Professional Paper 1184
Exposed in the Machias-Eastport area of southeastern Maine is the thickest (at least 8,000 m), best exposed, best dated, and most nearly complete succession of Silurian and Lower Devonian volcanic strata in the coastal volcanic belt, remnants of which crop out along the coasts of southern New Brunswick, Canada, and...
Geologic mapping of Kentucky: A history and evaluation of the Kentucky Geological Survey--U.S. Geological Survey Mapping Program, 1960-1978
Earle Rupert Cressman, Martin C. Noger
1981, Circular 801
In 1960, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Kentucky Geological Survey began a program to map the State geologically at a scale of 1:24,000 and to publish the maps as 707 U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Maps. Fieldwork was completed by the spring of 1977, and all maps were published...
Water resources data, Washington, water year 1981: Vol. 2 - Eastern Washington
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1981, Water Data Report WA-81-2
Water-resources data for the 1981 water year for Washington consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage, contents, and water quality of lakes and reservoirs; and water levels and water quality of ground-water. This report, in two volumes, contains records for water discharge at 229 gaging...
Geology and potential hazards of the continental slope between Lindenkohl and South Toms Canyons, offshore mid-Atlantic United States
James M. Robb, John C. Hampson Jr., John R. Kirby, David C. Twichell
1981, Open-File Report 81-600
Because sediment instability, or slumping, has been identified as a potential hazard to petroleum development of the east-coast Continental Slope, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, began a detailed study of a segment of the Continental Slope between Lindenkohl and South Toms Canyons...
Background hydrologic information in potential lignite mining areas in Mississippi, August 1980
J. K. Arthur
1981, Open-File Report 81-421
The U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with Mississippi Bureau of Geology is conducting a hydrologic data-collection program in the potential lignite-producing areas in Mississippi. During the week of August 25-28, 1980, hydrologic data on channel characteristics were collected at 15 sites on small streams draining potential lignite mining areas in...
Records of water levels in unconsolidated deposits in eastern South Dakota
Wendell L. Bradford
1981, Open-File Report 81-924
This report, prepared in cooperation with the South Dakota Department of Water and Natural Resources and the South Dakota Geological Survey, contains a tabulation of water levels measured by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and State agencies.Wells owned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) were measured as part of...
