Geology of the Deep Creek area, Washington, and its regional significance
Robert Giertz Yates
1976, Open-File Report 76-537
This report, although primarily concerned with the stratigraphy and structure of a lead-zinc mining district in northern Stevens County, Washington, discusses and integrates the geology of the region about the Deep Creek area. Although the study centers in an area of about 200 square miles immediately south of the International...
Water resources of Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado and Utah
C. T. Sumsion
1976, Open-File Report 76-580
Dinosaur National Monument, partly in the Rocky Mountain System and partly in the Colorado Plateaus physiographic province, covers an area of 322 square miles (834 square kilometres) in northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah. The climate is generally cool and pleasant in May, early June, September, and October; winters are cold....
Waterlogging in an alluvial aquifer near Lake Minnequa, Pueblo, Colorado
Patrick J. Emmons
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-53
The Lake Minnequa area, located immediately south of the Arkansas River near Pueblo, Colo., is mantled with as much as 46 feet (14 meters) of alluvium covering bedrock of Pierre Shale and Niobrara Formation. Surface water enters the area by the Minnequa Canal and the St. Charles Flood Ditch. The...
Availability of ground water near Carmel, Hamilton County, Indiana
D. C. Gillies
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-46
A study of the hydraulic characteristics of the unconsolidated glacial deposits near the city of Carmel in central Indiana shows that 21.3 million gallons per day (933 litres per second) of additional water could be withdrawn from the aquifer for an indefinite period of time . This pumpage is approximately...
Measurement and prediction of sediment yields in Wisconsin streams
S. M. Hindall
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 75-54
Sediment data of some form have been collected by the U.S. Geological Survey at 118 stream-gaging sites throughout Wisconsin, beginning in 1935. The average concentration of suspended sediment for Wisconsin streams is low in comparison with that of many streams in the United States—110 milligrams per litre for Wisconsin, as...
Water-resources data for deep aquifers of eastern Montana
W.B. Hopkins
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-40
Water from aquifers of Mesozoic and Paleozoic age in eastern Montana is little used. This report presents maps and tables to assist in the evaluation of the water in terms of possible utility. In the southern third of eastern Montana water from the Madison Group or from the Tensleep Sandstone...
Principal facts for gravity stations in the Nevada portion of the Mariposa 2 degrees sheet
D.L. Healey
1976, Open-File Report 76-58
The northeast corner of the Mariposa 2° topographic sheet occurs within the State of Nevada (fig. 1) and includes parts of Mineral and Esmeralda Counties. In this area field crews of the U.S. Geological Survey have established 95 gravity observations in conjunction with geologic studies being made as part of...
Preliminary geologic maps showing Quaternary deposits of the Chowchilla area (Santa Rita Bridge, Bliss Ranch, Chowchilla, Berenda, and Kismet 7 1/2-minute quadrangles), eastern San Joaquin Valley, Madera and Merced Counties, California
Denis E. Marchand
1976, Open-File Report 76-839
No abstract available....
Regional flood limits of lower Yahara River, Lake Waubesa and south, in Dane County, Wisconsin
Carl L. Lawrence
1976, Open-File Report 76-805
The purpose of this report is to provide information on the extent , depth, and frequency of flooding of the lower Yahara River in Dane County, Wis. The report contains discharge-frequency data for flood peaks, flood–frequency profiles, and the regional flood– (100-year flood) inundation limits for the lower Yahara River. The...
Preliminary geologic maps of Newburyport West and East quadrangles, Massachusetts-New Hampshire
Andrew Fletcher Shride
1976, Open-File Report 76-488
No abstract available....
Ground-water resources of Wilson County, North Carolina
M. D. Winner Jr.
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-60
The most important sources of ground water for Wilson County, North Carolina are (1) the sand beds of the Cretaceous aquifer system in the Coastal Plain section in the eastern part of the county and (2) the bedrock aquifer system in the Piedmont section in the western part of the...
Analytical data from geologic sampling in the eastern San Juan Mountains, Colorado 1966 to 1968
William N. Sharp, James Louis Gualtieri
1976, Open-File Report 76-825
No abstract available....
High-resolution seismic reflection profiling for mapping shallow aquifers in Lee County, Florida
T.M. Missimer, Richard Alfred Gardner
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-45
High-resolution continuous seismic reflection profiling equipment was utilized to define the configuration of sedimentary layers underlying part of Lee County, Florida. About 45 miles (72 kilometers) of profile were made on the Caloosahatchee River Estuary and San Carlos Bay. Two different acoustic energy sources, a high resolution boomer and a...
Interpretation and description of seismic data from Lower Cook Inlet, Alaska
Michael A. Fisher
1976, Open-File Report 76-561
A coarse grid of 480 kilometres of seismic lines was collected in lower Cook Inlet, Alaska between Homer on the north and Cape Douglas on the south. Paper and mylar copies of the seismic sections and shot point maps are available to the public from NOAA in Boulder, Colorado.The seismic...
Appraisal of water resources in the Hackensack River basin, New Jersey
L.D. Carswell
1976, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-74
The Hackensack River basin, in the northern part of the New Jersey-New York metropolitan area, includes some of the most highly urbanized areas in the United States as well as a largely undeveloped 23.4 square mile area of tidal marsh referred to as the Hackensack Meadows. Bedrock in the Hackensack...
Data for calibrating unsteady-flow sediment-transport models, East Fork River, Wyoming, 1975
Holly A. Mahoney, Edmund D. Andrews, William W. Emmett, Luna Bergere Leopold, Robert H. Meade, Robert M. Myrick, Carl F. Nordin
1976, Open-File Report 76-22
In 1975, data to calibrate a one-dimensional unsteady-flow and sediment-transport routing model were collected on a reach of the East Fork River of western Wyoming. The reach, 3.1 miles (5 kilometers) in length, wan immediately upstream from a previously established bedload sampling station. Nineteen channel cross sections were sounded at...
Summary appraisals of the nation's ground-water resources – Arkansas-White-Red region
M. S. Bedinger, R. T. Sniegocki
1976, Professional Paper 813-H
The Arkansas-White-Red Region, an area of265,000 square miles (6.86x1011 square metres), is characterized by diversity in geography, climate, and geology and, in turn, by diversity in water resources and water problems. The western semiarid part of the region is water deficient, that is, potential evapotranspiration exceeds precipitation. The eastern, humid part...
Trace-element variations at Summer Coon volcano, San Juan Mountains, Colorado, and the origin of continental-interior andesite
Robert A. Zielinski, Peter W. Lipman
1976, GSA Bulletin (87) 1477-1485
The Oligocene Summer Coon center, an eroded continental-interior volcano of the eastern San Juan Mountains, Colorado, was the source of magmas ranging in composition from basaltic andesite to rhyolite. Previous Pb and Sr isotope studies indicate derivation of the magmas from an isotopically homogeneous source. This study presents new data...
Metagraywacke in the Salinian Block, central Coast Ranges, California: And a possible correlative across the San Andreas Fault
Donald C. Ross
1976, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (4) 683-696
The schist of Sierra de Salinas is a monotonously homogeneous biotite quartzofeldspathic schist with minor amounts of quartzite, amphibolite, and marble that forms a northwest-trending outcrop belt that strikes across parts of the Santa Lucia and Gabilan Ranges and is traceable further south in the subsurface to where it is...
Volcanic rocks of the eastern and northern parts of the San Francisco volcanic field, Arizona
Richard B. Moore, Edward W. Wolfe, George E. Ulrich
1976, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (4) 549-560
The eastern and northern parts of the San Francisco volcanic field, between San Francisco Mountain and the Little Colorado River, contain about 175 cinder cones, many with one or more associated lava flows, and one center of silicic volcanism, O'Leary Peak. Basaltic flows and cones are divided into five groups,...
The aeromagnetic expression of bedrock geology between the Clinton-Newbury and Bloody Bluff fault zones, northeastern Massachusetts
Donald C. Alvord, Kenneth G. Bell, Maurice H. Pease Jr., Patrick J. Barosh
1976, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (4) 601-604
The pattern of mapped bedrock geology in northeastern Massachusetts bears a striking similarity to patterns of aeromagnetic anomalies in the area. The correspondence of the geology with the anomaly pattern and lineaments on aeromagnetic maps is especially well shown northwest of Boston between the Clinton-Newbury and Bloody Bluff fault zones....
Bicarbonate content of groundwater in carbonate rock in eastern North America
F.W. Trainer, R.C. Heath
1976, Journal of Hydrology (31) 37-55
In carbonate-rock terrane the most effective solution occurs where soil and vegetative cover facilitate biogenic production and storage of CO2 in the soil until part of it is carried downward in percolating water. Bicarbonate data for groundwater in eastern North America are examined in the light of these conditions, of...
Evidence of post-Pleistocene faults on New Jersey Atlantic outer continental shelf
R. E. Sheridan, H.J. Knebel
1976, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (60) 1112-1117
Recently obtained high-resolution seismic profiles (400-4,000-Hz band) show evidence of faults in shallow sedimentary strata near the edge of the Atlantic continental shelf off New Jersey. Apparent normal faults having a throw of about 1.5 m displace sediments to within 7 m of the sea floor. The faults appear to...
Revision of Mississippian stratigraphy, eastern Idaho and northeastern Utah
William Jasper Sando, J. Thomas Dutro Jr., Charles Sandberg, Bernard L. Mamet
1976, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (4) 467-479
New paleontologic evidence requires a revision of previous interpretations of the stratigraphy of Mississippian sequences in the Cordilleran miogeosyncline of eastern Idaho and northeastern Utah. A postulated unconformity between rocks of early Osagean age and rocks of middle Meramecian age is no longer tenable in the light of new data....
Mississippi carbonate shelf margins, western United States
Peter R. Rose
1976, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (4) 449-466
Regional linear carbonate shelf margins, or stratigraphic reefs, are postulated to have developed during Mississippian time along the eastern flank of the Cordilleran miogeosyncline in the Western United States. These shelf margins are analogous to well-documented ancient and modern geologic counterparts, such as the Guadalupian reef of the West Texas...
