Contour map of the base of Pennsylvanian strata in eastern Kentucky
T. Dennis Coskren
1978, Open-File Report 78-893
No abstract available....
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...
An instrument system for long-term sediment transport studies on the continental shelf
Bradford Butman, David W. Folger
1978, Open-File Report 78-1019
A bottom-mounted instrument system has been designed and built to monitor processes of bottom-sediment movement on the Continental Shelf. The system measures bottom current speed and direction, pressure, temperature, and light transmission, and photographs the bottom. The instrument operates in a burst sample mode. The system can be deployed for...
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...
Summary appraisals of the nation's ground-water resources – Missouri basin region
O. James Taylor
1978, Professional Paper 813-Q
The Missouri Basin Region lies in the north-central part of the United States and southern Canada. It includes parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada; parts of Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri, and all of Nebraska in the United States. The region includes...
Summary appraisals of the nation's ground-water resources – Souris-Red-Rainy region
Harold O. Reeder
1978, Professional Paper 813-K
A broad-perspective analysis of the ground-water resources and present and possible future water development and management in the Souris-Red-Rainy Region is presented. The region includes the basins of the Souris River within Montana and North Dakota; the Red River of the North in South Dakota, North Dakota, and Minnesota; and...
Ore deposits of the Gilman District, Eagle County, Colorado
T. S. Lovering, Ogden Tweto, T.G. Lovering
1978, Professional Paper 1017
The Gilman mining district, known also in the past as the Red Cliff district, is in the mountains of southeastern Eagle County, west-central Colorado. The district is the leading source of zinc in Colorado and one of the major base-metal mining districts in the State. As valued at the time...
A rainfall-runoff modeling procedure for improving estimates of T-year (annual) floods for small drainage basins
Robert W. Lichty, Fred Liscum
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-7
Maps depicting the influence of a climatic factor, C, on the magnitude of synthetic T-year (annual) floods were prepared for a large portion of the eastern United States. The climatic factors were developed by regression analysis of flood data using a parametric rainfall-runoff model and long-term rainfall records. Map estimates...
Surface mining and fish/wildlife needs in the eastern United States: proceedings of a symposium
David E. Samuel, Jay R. Stauffer, Charles H. Hocutt, William T. Mason
1978, FWS/OBS 78/81
Mined land reclamation for fish and wildlife in the eastern United States
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1978, FWS/OBS 78/95
Understanding natural systems; a perspective for land-use planning in Appalachian Kentucky
Wayne L. Newell
1978, Bulletin 1438
An eight-county area at the headwaters of the Kentucky River has been designated the Kentucky River Area Development District (KRADD) by the Appalachian Regional Commission. The objective of the project described in this report has been to provide materials to KRADD planners in a format and containing terminology usable by...
Potential hazards from future eruptions of Mount St. Helens Volcano, Washington
Dwight Raymond Crandell, Donal Ray Mullineaux
1978, Bulletin 1383-C
Mount St. Helens has been more active and more explosive during the last 4,500 years than any other volcano in the conterminous United States. Eruptions of that period repeatedly formed domes, large volumes of pumice, hot pyroclastic flows, and, during the last 2,500 years, lava flows. Some of this activity...
A gravity study of the northern part of the Arctic National Wildlife Range, Alaska
B. A. Kososki, H. N. Reiser, C. D. Cavit, R. L. Detterman
1978, Bulletin 1440
Interpretation of all publicly available onshore gravity data provides a basis for outlining regional elements of the basement and overlying structure in the northern part of the Arctic National Wildlife Range. Major post-Carboniferous sedimentary basins whose centers lie offshore on the Beaufort Shelf extend onshore in the northern part of...
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...
Physiography and surficial geology of the copper-nickel study region, northeastern Minnesota
P. G. Olcott, D. I. Siegel
1978, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-51
The Copper-Nickel study region lies in the Superior Upland physiographic province and is located approximately 60 miles north of Duluth and 100 miles southeast of International Falls, Minnesota. It straddles the Laurentian Divide, which separates Hudson Bay and Lake Superior drainage. The topography exhibits a southwesterly trending lineation that parallels...
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....
Hydrogeology of the karst of Puerto Rico
Ennio V. Giusti
1978, Professional Paper 1012
About one-fifth of Puerto Rico is covered by a tropical karst formed on a series of six limestone formations ranging in age from middle-Oligocene to middle Miocene. These formations strike east to west and crop out over the north coast of the island. Structurally, the rocks form a simple wedge...
The Potential for Prophyry Copper-Molybdenum Deposits in the Eastern United States
Robert Gordon Schmidt
1978, Professional Paper 907-E
Several significant porphyry-type deposits of Paleozoic age are known in New England and eastern Canada. Disseminated copper-molybdenum deposits of Paleozoic age are in the Southeastern United States, and copper is produced from porphyry-type deposits of both Precambrian and Paleozoic age in eastern Canada. Although these old deposits are surely less...
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...
The hydrothermal system of Long Valley Caldera, California
M.L. Sorey, Robert Edward Lewis, F. H. Olmsted
1978, Professional Paper 1044-A
Long Valley caldera, an elliptical depression covering 450 km 2 on the eastern front of the Sierra Nevada in east-central California, contains a hot-water convection system with numerous hot springs and measured and estimated aquifer temperatures at depths of 180?C to 280?C. In this study we have synthesized the results...
K-Ar geochronology of the Survey Pass, Ambler River and Eastern Baird Mountains quadrangles, southwestern Brooks Range, Alaska
Donald L. Turner, R. B. Forbes, C.F. Mayfield
1978, Open-File Report 78-254
We report 76 previously unpublished K-Ar mineral ages from 47 metamorphic and igneous rocks in the southwestern Brooks Range. The pattern of radiometric ages is complex, reflecting the complex geologic history of this area. Local and regional radiometric evidence suggests that the southern Brooks Range schist belt has, at least...
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...
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...
Mineral resources of the Cranberry Wilderness Study Area, Pocahontas and Webster counties, West Virginia
Charles R. Meissner Jr., John F. Windolph Jr., Peter C. Mory, Donald K. Harrison, Cornelia Clermont Cameron, Andrew E. Grosz, William J. Perry Jr., Frank Gardner Lesure
1978, Open-File Report 78-142
Cranberry Wilderness Study Area comprises 14,702 ha in the Monongahela National Forest, Pocahontas and Webster Counties, east-central West Virginia. The area is in the Yew Mountains of the Appalachian Plateaus and is at the eastern edge of the central Appalachian coal fields. Cranberry Glades, a peatland of botanical interest lies...
Geotechnical properties of sediments from the Continental Shelf south of Icy Bay, northeastern Gulf of Alaska
Paul R. Carlson, William P. Levy, Bruce F. Molnia, John C. Hampson Jr.
1978, Open-File Report 78-1071
Studies of geotechnical properties of marine sediments have recently intensified as the search for natural resources has expanded on the continental shelf. The U. S. Geological Survey has begun a detailed evaluation of geologic environmental conditions in continental shelf regions in order to facilitate safe development of continental shelf resources....