Shelled benthic fauna of the eastern Chukchi Sea
Dennis M. Mann
1977, Open-File Report 77-672
The purposes of this study were to identify the benthic shelled infauna and epifauna of the eastern Chukchi Sea, compile species lists and distribution maps, determine recurrent groups of species (communities), and examine the environmental parameters that may control the distribution of the faunal groups. The study was partly supported...
January 1977 water levels, and data related to water-level changes since 1950, western Kansas
Marilyn E. Pabst
1977, Open-File Report 77-264
This report contains basic data on water-level measurements in observation wells in western Kansas. Most of the measurements were made in January 1977; a few were made in December 1976 and in February 1977. The measurements were made in mid-winter when pumping was minimal and water levels had recovered from...
Hydrologic map of the Orlando East Quadrangle, Florida
W.D. Wood, L.J. Snell
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-134
No abstract available. ...
Hydrology of the Creeping Swamp Watershed, North Carolina with reference to potential effects of stream channelization
M.D. Winner, C.E. Simmons
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-26
Hydrologic data were collected for four years at six sites in the Creeping Swamp watershed in eastern North Carolina in a preliminary effort to study the effects of stream channelization on the hydrology of a small watershed. A water-budget evaluation for pre-channelized conditions showed that runoff accounts for about 17...
Studies related to the Charleston, South Carolina, earthquake of 1886: A preliminary report
Douglas W. Rankin
1977, Professional Paper 1028
PART A: The seismic history of the southeastern United States is dominated by the 1886 earthquake near Charleston, S.C. An understanding of the specific source and the uniqueness of the neotectonic setting of this large earthquake is essential in order to properly assess seismic hazards in the southeastern United States....
Geological studies on the COST No. B-2 well, U. S. Mid-Atlantic outer continental shelf area
Peter A. Scholle
1977, Circular 750
The COST No. B-2 well is the first deep stratigraphic test to be drilled on the United States Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (AOCS) area. The well was drilled on the eastern flank of the Baltimore Canyon trough to a total depth of 16,043 feet; it penetrated a section composed almost...
Water resources data for Washington, water year 1976, Vol. 2 - Eastern Washington
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1977, Water Data Report WA-76-2
Water resources data for the 1976 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 of ground water. This report contains discharge records for 248 gaging stations; stage only records for 3...
Hydrology of Lake Panasoffkee, Sumter County, Florida
G.F. Taylor
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-88
Lake Panasoffkee, in midwest Sumter County of central Florida, receives water from three creeks and discharges water through Outlet River at an average daily rate of 207 cubic feet per second. The eastern shore of the lake is marsh and wooded swamp with inflow to the lake coming from the...
Ground-water hydrology of the Lower Milliken-Sarco-Tulucay Creeks area, Napa County, California
Michael J. Johnson
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-82
The Sonoma Volcanics are the principal water-bearing materials in the lower Milliken-Sarco-Tulucay Creeks area, which occupies about 15 square miles (39 square kilometers) in and east of Napa, Calif. The distribution and composition of these volcanic units are highly variable and complex. Within the Sonoma Volcanics the tuffs constitute the...
Water-level changes in the northern high plains of Colorado, 1964 to 1976 and 1972 to 1976
Ronald G. Borman, Thomas J. Major
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-42
The northern High Plains of Colorado is an area of about 9,500 mi2 (24,600 km2) in the eastern part of the State (index map). The boundaries of the High Plains of Colorado are the State line and the limit of the Ogallala...
Triaxial and consolidation testing of cores from the 1976 Atlantic Margin Coring Project of the United States Geological Survey
Paul G. Swanson, Ralph E. Brown
1977, Open-File Report 78-124
This report contains the results of triaxial and consolidation-compression testing on selected cores taken by the Atlantic Margin Coring Project, a 60-day expedition to obtain core samples by drilling beneath the Continental Shelf and Slope of the eastern United States. The coring took place in July, August and September, 1976...
Municipal, industrial, and irrigation water use in Washington, 1975
N. P. Dion, W. E. Lum
1977, Open-File Report 77-308
An assessment of water use in 1975 in the 39 counties and 62 Water Resources Inventory Areas of Washington, indicated that 2.49 trillion gallons of water was used for municipal, industrial, and irrigation purposes. That amount represents a 10-percent increase over a similar water-use assessment in 1965, but a slight...
Significance of Mesozoic radiolarians from the pre-Nevadan rocks of the southern Klamath Mountains, California
W. P. Irwin, D. L. Jones, E.A. Pessagno Jr.
1977, Geology (5) 557-562
Ribbon cherts and siliceous tuffs of the North Fork and Rattlesnake Creek terranes of the Klamath Mountains yield Mesozoic radiolarians. Rocks of the North Fork terrane were previously considered to be of Paleozoic age and those of the Rattlesnake Creek to be of Paleozoic and Triassic age, on the basis...
Deposition of the Tapeats Sandstone (Cambrian) in central Arizona
Richard Hereford
1977, GSA Bulletin (88) 199-211
Grain size, bedding thickness, dispersion of cross-stratification azimuths, and assemblages of sedimentary structures and trace fossils vary across central Arizona; they form the basis for recognizing six facies (A through F) in the Tapeats Sandstone. Five of these (A through E), present in western central Arizona, are marine deposits containing...
Lower Tertiary biostratigraphy of the northern Santa Lucia Range, California
Richard Z. Poore, William V. Sliter, M. H. Link
1977, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (5) 735-745
Lower Tertiary strata in .the northern Santa Lucia Range of California are correlated by means of planktonic and benthonic foraminifers. Benthonic foraminiferal assemblages from eight stratigraphic sections range in age from Ynezian to possible basal Refugian. The Paleocene mudstone contains a Ynezian benthonic foraminiferal assemblage. The Ulatisian benthonic assemblage of...
Age and tectonic setting of lower Paleozoic alkalic and mafic rocks, carbonatites, and thorium veins in South-central Colorado
Jerry C. Olson, Richard F. Marvin, Raymond Laurence Parker, Harald H. Mehnert
1977, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (5) 673-687
Alkalic igneous rocks were emplaced into heterogeneous terrane of Precambrian X and Precambrian Y rocks about 570 m.y. ago (Cambrian or upper Precambrian) in the Powderhorn area in Gunnison County and about 520 m.y. ago (Cambrian) in the McClure Mountain, Gem Park, and Democrat Creek areas in the northern Wet...
Geology of the gabbroic complex along the northern border of the Josephine Peridotite, Vulcan Peak area, southwestern Oregon
R. A. Loney, Glen R. Himmelberg
1977, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (5) 761-781
The terrane bordering the alpine-type Josephine Peridotite on the north in the Vulcan Peak area, southwestern Oregon, is composed of intrusive hornblende gabbro (Middle Jurassic) and scattered remnants of clinopyroxene-bearing ultramafic rocks and amphibolite. The amphibolite, which preliminary analyses suggest is of andesitic composition, has undergone regional metamorphism to the...
A Galerkin, finite-element analysis of steady-state flow and heat transport in the shallow hydrothermal system in the East Mesa area, Imperial Valley, California
R.E. Miller
1977, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (5) 497-509
A steady-state simulation model was applied to the shallow hydrothermal system in the East Mesa area of Imperial Valley, Calif. The steady-state equations of flow and heat transport were solved by use of a Galerkin, finite-element method. A solution was obtained by iterating between the temperature and pressure equations, using...
Duck nesting in intensively farmed areas of North Dakota
K.F. Higgins
1977, Journal of Wildlife Management (41) 232-242
A study to determine the major factors limiting duck nesting and production on intensively farmed areas in eastern North Dakota was conducted from 1969 through 1974. A total of 186 duck nests was found during searches on 6,018 ha of upland. Nest density per km2 for 5 major habitat types...
Geology and water-supply potential of the Anoka Sand Plain aquifer, Minnesota
J. O. Helgesen, G. F. Lindholm
1977, Technical Paper 6
Intensified land development on the Anoka sand plain necessitates a better understanding of the hydrogeology of the surficial outwash deposits of the area. The Anoka sand-plain aquifer consists of outwash attributable to two different ice lobes. Predominant grain size of the upper outwash decreases and sorting coefficient increases from west...
Mercury in oil shale from the mahogany zone of the Green River formation, eastern Utah and western Colorado
John R. Donnell, Van E. Shaw
1977, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (5) 221-226
Mercury has been reported in concentrations as high as 4 parts per million from oil shale in the Green River Formation near the Federal oil-shale prototype lease-tracts U-a and U-b in eastern Utah. This high concentration of mercury if present throughout a minable zone, would be of concern in commercial...
Pleistocene fishes from Alameda County, California
Richard W. Casteel, David P. Adam
1977, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (5) 209-215
Six types of freshwater fishes were recovered from an early Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) locality on the east side of San Francisco Bay, Alameda County, Calif. The fauna includes one centrarchid, one salmonid, three cyprinids, and one catostomid. The fauna indicates fluvial and slow-moving or lacustrine aquatic environments. One of the...
Delaware River: Evidence for its former extension to Wilmington Submarine Canyon
D.C. Twichell, H.J. Knebel, D. W. Folger
1977, Science (195) 483-485
Seismic-reflection profiles indicate that during the Pleistocene the Delaware River flowed across the continental shelf east of Delaware Bay and emptied into Wilmington Submarine Canyon. The ancestral valley (width, 3 to 8 kilometers; relief, 10 to 30 meters) is buried, is not reflected in the surface topography,...
Geology of the Waynesboro East and Waynesboro West Quadrangles, Virginia
Thomas M. Gathright II, William S. Henika, John L. Sullivan
1977, Book, Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Publication
The Waynesboro East and Waynesboro West Quadrangles comprise an area of approximately 117 square miles (304 sq km) in portions of Albemarle, Augusta, and Nelson counties in north-central Virginia. Included in the quadrangles are portions of the Piedmont, Blue Ridge, and Valley and Ridge physiographic provinces and two major regional...
The effect of the Faka Union Canal system on water levels in the Fakahatchee Strand, Collier County, Florida
Leo J. Swayze, Benjamin F. McPherson
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-61
The Faka Union Canal system, constructed in the western Big Cypress Swamp, Fla., in the early 1970's, lies about 3.5 miles west of the centerline of the Fakahatchee Strand, a forested water course which the State of Florida has designated as an Area of Critical State Concern in order to...
