K-Ar age of alunite alteration at Red Mountain, Lake City area, western San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Harald H. Mehnert, John F. Slack, Gerald T. Cebula
1979, Open-File Report 79-1642
The San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado are famous for rich vein deposits of base and precious metals and for patterns of conspicuous hydrothermal alteration. Areas of acid-sulfate alteration, characterized by extensive base leaching of volcanic rocks or hypabyssal plutons, are of current interest because of their local association with...
Water resources of the southern Powder River area of southeastern Montana
W. Roger Miller
1979, Open-File Report 79-343
The southern Powder River area comprises about 2,230 square miles in southeastern Montana. Sedimentary rocks beneath this area range in age from Cambrian to Holocene and attain a maximum thickness of about 12,000 feet. Rocks exposed in the study area range in age from Late Cretaceous to Holocene.Water for domestic,...
Basin-margin depositional environments of the Fort Union and Wasatch Formations in the Buffalo-Lake De Smet area, Johnson County, Wyoming
Stanley L. Obernyer
1979, Open-File Report 79-712
The Paleocene Fort Union and Eocene Wasatch Formations along the east flank of the Bighorn Mountains in the Buffalo-Lake De Smet area, Wyoming, consist of continental alluvial fan, braided stream, and poorly drained alluvial plain deposits. The Fort Union conformably overlies the Cretaceous Lance Formation, which is marine in its...
January 1979 water levels, and data related to water-level changes, western and south-central Kansas
Marilyn E. Pabst
1979, Open-File Report 79-925
This report contains hydrologic data on water-level measurements in observation wells in western and south-central Kansas. The measurements were made in mid-winter, mostly in January, when pumping was minimal and water levels had recovered from the effects of pumping during the previous irrigation season. This report also provides basic hydrologic...
Reconnaissance survey of helium in soil gas in the eastern half of the Richfield, Utah 1° x 2° quadrangle
G. Michael Reimer
1979, Open-File Report 79-1686
No abstract available....
Evaluation of Landsat multispectral scanner images for mapping altered rocks in the East Tintic Mountains, Utah
Lawrence C. Rowan, Michael J. Abrams
1979, Open-File Report 78-736
The East Tintic Mountains, Utah consist of folded and faulted Paleozoic sedimentary rocks, which are partly covered by Tertiary volcanic rocks. Clastic rocks dominate the lower one-third of the Paleozoic section, whereas carbonate rocks with subordinate amounts of shale and elastic rocks predominate in the remainder. Some of the rocks,...
Geologic evaluation of major Landsat lineaments in Nevada and their relationship to ore districts
Lawrence C. Rowan, Pamela Heald Wetlaufer
1979, Open-File Report 79-544
Analysis of diverse geologic, geophysical, and geochemical data shows that eight major lineament systems delineated in Landsat images of Nevada are morphological and tonal expressions of substantially broader structural zones. Southern Nevada is dominated by the 175 km-wide northwest-trending Walker Lane, a 150 km-wide zone of east-trending lineament systems consisting...
Mineral resources of the Big Frog Wilderness Study Area, Polk County, Tennessee and Fannin County, Georgia
John F. Slack, Gertrude C. Gazdik, Maynard L. Dunn
1979, Open-File Report 79-1209
The proposed Big Frog Wilderness is comprised of approximately 1820 hectares (18.2 km2) of mountainous terrain in the Cherokee and Chattahoochee National Forests south of the Ocoee River in Polk County, Tennessee, and Fannin County, Georgia. Rocks of the study area are greenschist-facies metasandstone, meta-arkose, metagraywacke, and dark slate of...
Floods of December 1978 in Kentucky
J.N. Sullavan, F. Quinones, Richard Foster Flint
1979, Open-File Report 79-977
In 1978, severe flooding throughout the State of Kentucky occurred from December 3-10 as a result of intense precipitation from two storms. The storms of December 3-5 and December 7-10 produced record peak discharges in several areas throughout central and eastern Kentucky, resulting in damages of nearly 50 million dollars...
Selected coal-related ground-water data, Wasatch Plateau-Book Cliffs area, Utah
C. T. Sumsion
1979, Open-File Report 79-915
The Wasatch Plateau-Book Cliffs%area as used in this report consists of about 8,000 square miles in east-central Utah. The major geographic features included in the area are the Wasatch Plateau, Book Cliffs, San Rafael Swell, Price River basin, and a small part of the Green River basin (pl. 1). The...
Single-Channel Seismic-Reflection Profiles and Side-Scan Sonar Records Collected During June 8-14, 1977, in the Middle Atlantic Shelf Area
David C. Twichell
1979, Open-File Report 79-580
A cruise aboard the R/V OCEANUS (Cruise 027) was completed by the U.S. Geological Survey during June 8-14, 1977evaluate the presence, extent, and activity of potentially mobile bedforms on the Middle Atlantic Continental Shelf, eastern United States. Based on information collected by the U.S. Geological Survey during·a geophysical survey in...
A one-dimensional, steady-state, dissolved-oxygen model and waste-load assimilation study for East Fork White River, Bartholomew County, Indiana
William G. Wilber, James G. Peters, Charles G. Crawford
1979, Open-File Report 79-1072
The Indiana State Board of Health is developing a State water-quality management plan that includes the establishing of limits for wastewater effluents discharged into Indiana streams. A digital model calibrated to conditions in East Fork White River was used to develop alternatives for future waste loadings that would be compatible...
Catalog of earthquakes in southern Alaska: January-March 1978
C.D. Stephens, J.C. Lahr, K.A. Fogleman, M.A. Allan, S.M. Helton
1979, Open-File Report 79-718
The National Center for Earthquake Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began a program of telemetered seismic recording in south-central Alaska in 1971. The principal objectives of this program have been to use data recorded by this network to precisely locate earthquakes in the active seismic zones of southern...
Headwater locations of U.S. streams tributary to St. Lawrence River basin between western Ohio and eastern New York, excluding Lake Champlain basin
Benjamin B. Eissler
1979, Open-File Report 79-255
The headwater locations of several thousand U.S. streams tributary to Lakes Ontario and Erie and the St. Lawrence and Niagara Rivers, from the Maumee River in Ohio to the western border of the Lake Champlain basin in New York, including parts of Pennsylvania, are listed by quadrangle. The location of...
Streamflow statistical summaries for Colorado streams through September 30, 1975: Volume 1: Missouri River, Arkansas River, and Rio Grande Basins
Harold E. Petsch
1979, Open-File Report 79-681
Statistical summaries of daily streamflow data for 246 stations east of the Continental Divide in Colorado and adjacent States are presented in this report. Duration tables, high-flow sequence tables, and low-flow sequence tables provide information about daily mean discharge. The mean, variance, standard deviation, skewness, and coefficient of variation are...
Comparison of selected cultural, physical, and water-quality characteristics of lakes in Washington
Gilbert Carl Bortleson, N. P. Dion
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-62
This report presents comparisons and a graphical overview of the relative magnitude and the regional and statewide distribution of 19 selected cultural, physical, and water-quality characteristics measured in a reconnaissance study of several hundred lakes in Washington. The selected characteristics presented for each lake include types of land use in...
Connector well experiment to recharge the Floridan Aquifer, East Orange County, Florida
P. W. Bush
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-73
An experimental connector well, screened in the shallow sand aquifer, finished with open hole in the Floridan aquifer, and cased through the confining layer between the two aquifers, was drilled in east Orange County, Florida, to obtain information on the nature and function of the shallow aquifer as related to...
Water resources of shallow aquifers in the Upper Poplar River basin, northeastern Montana
R.D. Feltis
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-51
The aquifer system studied in the upper Popular River basin in Montana ranges in age from Late Cretaceous to Holocene. Most wells obtain water from the Paleocene Fort Union Formation or younger rocks. The potentiometric surface of the Fort Union and overlying rocks indicates movement of water from the high...
Chemical quality of ground water in the eastern Sacramento Valley, California
Ronald P. Fogelman
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-124
The study area is about 1,300 square miles in the eastern Sacramento Valley, Calif., extending from the latitude of Roseville on the south to thelatitude of Chico on the north. Considering the increased agricultural development of the area, this report documents the chemical character of the ground water prior to...
Water-table map of Waukesha County, Wisconsin
J. B. Gonthier
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-43
A map (scale 1:100,000) was prepared of the water table in Waukesha County in southeastern Wisconsin using water levels from more than 1,700 wells. The work was done as part of a cooperative project between the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Wisconsin-Extension, Geological and Natural History Survey, and the...
Estimation of floods of various frequencies for the small ephemeral streams in eastern Washington
W.L. Haushild
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-81
Equations were developed to estimate the magnitude of floods for various occurrence frequencies at ungaged sites on ephemeral streams that drain small, relatively undeveloped basins in the semiarid part of eastern Washington. The equations were developed from regression analyses that used the logarithms of the longitude indexes of gaged sites,...
Water resources of the Port Madison Indian Reservation, Washington
W. E. Lum II
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-112
The study summarized in this report was made to provide Suquamish Tribal leaders with information on the reservation's surface- and ground-water resources. The Tribal leaders need this information to help them manage and protect their water resources against overdevelopment. The quantity of ground water that is estimated to be available...
Water quality of selected streams in the coal area of east-central Montana
P. W. McKinley
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-142
In October 1975 the U.S. Geological Survey established a network of nine data-collection stations on eight streams in Montana to monitor water quality in potential coal-mining areas. The report summarizes and evaluates the water-quality data that have been collected during the first 2 years (3 years for 1 station) of...
Water resources of the Nisqually Lake area, Pierce County, Washington
H. E. Pearson, N. P. Dion
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-101
This report presents data assembled during a July 1975 to August 1977 study of the water resources of an area within, and adjacent to, a part of the Fort Lewis Military Reservation that prior to 1917 was included in the Nisqually Indian Reservation. Because the area is within or near...
Ground-water quality in Bannock, Bear Lake, Caribou, and part of Power counties, southeastern Idaho
Harold R. Seitz, Ralph F. Norvitch
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-14
This report provides information about the current quality of ground waters in southeastern Idaho and discusses the natural and manmade environmental controls on that quality. This information will be useful in planning and monitoring the development and use of the ground-water resources of southeastern Idaho.The southeastern corner of Idaho, as...
