Mineral resources of the Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Buncombe County, North Carolina
Frank Gardner Lesure, A. E. Grosz, B. B. Williams, Gertrude C. Gazdik
1978, Open-File Report 78-1091
The Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area covers about 550 hectares of the Pisgah National Forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina (fig. 1). The area is 21 km northeast of Asheville, Buncombe County, N.C., and 11 km southwest of Mount Mitchell, the highest point in eastern North...
Ground-water quality near the northwest 58th Street solid-waste disposal facility, Dade County, Florida
H. C. Mattraw Jr., John E. Hull, Howard Klein
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-45
The Northwest 58th Street solid-waste disposal facility, 3 miles west of a major Dade County municipal water-supply well field, overlays the Biscayne aquifer, a permeable, solution-riddled limestone which transmits leachates eastward at a calculated rate of 2.9 feet per day. A discrete, identifiable leachate plume has been recognized under and...
Land use, land cover, and drainage on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula, Eastern North Carolina, 1974
C.C. Daniel
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-134
A land use, land cover, and drainage map of the 2,000-square-mile Albermarle-Pamlico peninsula of eastern North Carolina has been prepared, at a scale of 1:125,000, as part of a larger study of the effects of large-scale land clearing on regional hydrology. The peninsula includes the most extensive area of wetland...
Fluvial sediment study of Fishtrap and Dewey Lakes drainage basins, Kentucky-Virginia
William F. Curtis, Russell F. Flint, Frederick H. George, John F. Santos
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-123
Fourteen drainage basins above Fishtrap and Dewey Lakes in the Levisa Fork and Johns Creek drainage basins of eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia were studied to determine sedimentation rates and origin of sediment entering the two lakes. The basins ranged in size from 1.68 to 297 square miles. Sediment yields...
Hydrologic overlay maps of the Titusville Quadrangle, Brevard County, Florida
James M. Frazee Jr., Charles P. Laughlin
1978, Open-File Report 78-192
Brevard County is an area of some 1,300 square miles located on the east coast of central Florida. The Titusville quadrangle, in northern Brevard, includes part of the Atlanta Coastal Ridge, an area of relatively high sand ridges that are generally above 30 feet in altitude (sheet 1). Approximately the...
Hydrologic overlay maps of the Titusville SW Quadrangle, Brevard County, Florida
James M. Frazee Jr., Charles P. Laughlin
1978, Open-File Report 78-190
Brevard County is an area of some 1,300 square miles located on the east coast of central Florida. The Titusville SW Quadrangle, in northern Brevard, includes part of the St. Johns River channel and valley with extensive areas of relatively low marshlands. Approximately one half of the quadrangle area lies...
Potential hazards from future eruptions in the vicinity of Mount Shasta Volcano, northern California
C. Dan Miller
1978, Open-File Report 78-827
Mount Shasta has erupted, on the average, at least once per 800 years during the last 10,000 years, and about once per 600 years during the last 4,500 years. The last known eruption occurred about 200 radiocarbon years ago. Eruptions during the last 10,000 years produced lava flows and domes...
The Lyon Station-Paulins Kill nappe: The frontal structure of the Musconetcong nappe system in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Avery Drake Jr.
1978, Professional Paper 1023
No abstract available....
Floodflow characteristics of the Arkansas River at East Belt Freeway, in Pulaski County, Arkansas
James Lee Patterson
1978, Open-File Report 78-225
No abstract available. ...
Geologic map of the Boulder-Fort Collins-Greeley area, Colorado
Roger B. Colton
1978, IMAP 855-G
This digital map shows the geographic extent of rock stratigraphic units (formations) as compiled by Colton in 1976 under the Front Range Urban Corridor Geology Program. Colton used his own geologic mapping and previously published geologic maps to compile one map having a single classification of geologic units....
Sediment yields for selected streams in Texas
C.T. Welborn, R. Bryce Bezant
1978, Open-File Report 78-83
The U.S. Geological Survey began a study to determine sediment yields for selected streams in Texas during the 1966 water year to provide information for areas in which sediment-yield data were meager or lacking. These data will aid in delineating problem areas and planning for water-resources development in the State....
Calibration of a simple oilspill trajectory model using the Argo Merchant spill
Timothy Wyant
1978, Open-File Report 78-334
An oil spill risk analysis was conducted to determine the relative envionmental hazards of developing oil in different regions of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf lease area. The study analyzed the probability of spill occurrence, likely paths of the spills, and locations in space and time of...
An oilspill risk analysis for the eastern Gulf of Mexico (proposed sale 65) Outer Continental Shelf lease area
Timothy Wyant, James R. Slack
1978, Open-File Report 78-132
An oilspill risk analysis was conducted to determine the relative environmental hazards of developing oil in different regions of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf lease area. The study analyzed the probability of spill occurrence, likely paths of the spills, and locations in space and time of such...
Ground-water records for eastern Oklahoma, Part 2; water-quality records for wells, test-holes, and springs
1978, Open-File Report 78-357
The U. S. Geological Survey has collected data on Oklahoma's ground-water resources since 1934. Most of these data were collected as part of specific ground-water studies conducted in cooperation with various Federal, State, and local agencies. Data on construction, yield, water levels, and other physical well parameters are given in...
Antelope Valley - East Kern Water Agency area, California, showing ground-water subunits and areas, location of wells, and lines of equal depth to water for spring 1978
G. G. Blankenbaker
1978, Open-File Report 78-937
The U.S. Geological Survey has released to the open file a map showing ground-water subunits and areas, and depth to water for spring 1978, in the Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency area, California....
A preliminary study of the Santa Barbara, California, earthquake of August 13, 1978, and its major aftershocks
William Hung Kan Lee, C.E. Johnson, T.L. Henyey, R.L. Yerkes
1978, Circular 797
The ML5.1 Santa Barbara earthquake of August 13, 1978 occurred at lat 34' 22.2'N., long 119 ? 43.0' 4 km south of Santa Barbara, Calif. at a depth of 12.5 km in the northeast Santa Barbara Channel, part of the western Transverse Ranges geomorphic-structural province. This part of the province...
Geochemical map showing the distribution and abundance of copper in stream sediments in the Seward and Blying Sound quadrangles, Alaska
R. B. Tripp, W.D. Crim, E.F. Cooley, G.W. Day
1978, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 880-E
Reconnaissance geochemical and mineralogical sampling was done in the Seward and Blying Sound quadrangles during 1975 and 1976 as part of the Alaska Mineral Resources Assessment Program (AMRAP). This map shows the distribution and abundance of copper in stream-sediment samples. Stream-sediment samples were collected at 569 sites from active stream channels...
Stream quality in the San Lorenzo River Basin, Santa Cruz County, California
Marc A. Sylvester, Kenneth J. Covay
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-19
Stream quality in the San Lorenzo River basin, Calif., was studied from November 1973 through June 1975 to determine areal and temporal variations in water quality, problem areas and times of water quality degradation, and compliance with State and local water-quality objectives. Sampling from November 1973 through July 1974 was...
Floods of July 19-20, 1977 in the Johnstown area, western Pennsylvania
Stan A. Brua
1978, Open-File Report 78-963
Intense rainfall on the evening of July 19 and early morning hours of July 20, 1977, resulted in moderate to record flooding throughout much of an eight-county area of southwest Pennsylvania. In a 400-square-mile area directly north and east of Johnstown, rainfall totals of 6 to 12 inches were measured...
Hydrologic environment of the Silurian salt deposits in parts of Michigan, Ohio, and New York
Stanley E. Norris
1978, Open-File Report 78-684
The aggregate thickness of evaporites (salt, gypsum, and anhydrite) in the Silurian Salina sequence in Michigan exceeds 1200 feet in areas near the periphery of the Michigan basin, where the salt beds are less than 3000 feet below land surface. In northeast Ohio the aggregate thickness of salt beds is...
Water levels in artesian and nonartesian aquifers of Florida, 1975-76
Henry G. Healy
1978, Open-File Report 78-458
From May 1975 through May 1976, water levels in the Floridan aquifer through most of north and central peninsular Florida declined 2 to 4 feet, on the basis of water-level measurements in 664 wells. These 664 were selected from a network of about 2,100 observation wells for which water-level measurements...
Analyses of rock samples from the Hunt Fork Shale and related Upper Devonian rocks, Philip Smith Quadrangle, Arctic Alaska
J. Thomas Dutro, David E. Detra
1978, Open-File Report 78-559
More than 1400 m of fine-grained clastic rocks and reefoid limestones constitute the lower part of an Upper Devonian transgressive-regressive cycle in the central Brooks Range, Alaska (Dutro and others, 1977). The Hunt Fork Shale and an underlying heterogeneous unit (unnamed) were measured and sampled on the east side of...
Appraisal of shallow ground-water resources and management alternatives in the Upper Peace and Eastern Alafia River Basins, Florida
C. B. Hutchinson
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-124
In southwest Florida, the shallow aquifer system underlying the 1,250-square-mile upper Peace and eastern Alafia River basins is a relatively untapped source of supply. The aquifer system ranges between 50 and 300 feet thick and is composed of a surficial sand unit underlain by a limestone unit. Sand and clay...
Scour and fill in a stream channel, East Fork River, western Wyoming
Edmund D. Andrews
1978, Open-File Report 78-928
Frequent soundings of 11 cross sections located on the East Fork River, western Wyoming, during a spring flood revealed two sequences of channel scour and fill. All sections either scoured or filled at the flood crests relative to their low-flow condition. The sections which scoured at high flow (called scouring...
Multichannel seismic reflection and sonobuoy refraction data in the outer southern California Borderland
James K. Crouch, M.L. Holmes, T. H. McCulloh, A. T. Long, R.H. Brune
1978, Open-File Report 78-706
During the L1-78-SC cruise of the USGS research vessel S. P. Lee (April 25 - May 11, 1978) seven sonobuoy profiles and 200 km of 24-channel seismic reflection data were recorded in the outer southern California Continental Borderland. These data were obtained, at the request of the Deep Sea Drilling...
