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...
Geohydrology of Muscatine Island, Muscatine County, Iowa
R.E. Hansen, W. L. Steinhilber
1977, Water Supply Bulletin 11
Muscatine Island is a wide segment of the west bank of the Mississippi River flood plain that covers about 50 square miles in Muscatine and Louisa Counties; the project area encompasses the 30 square miles in Muscatine County. The flood plain is underlain by thick, permeable alluvial deposits that comprise...
Winter bird populations in pine and pine-hardwood forest stands in East Texas
J.G. Dickson, C.A. Segelquist
1977, Report, Proceedings of the Annual Conference, Southeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
No abstract available....
International training in remote sensing
Donald T. Lauer
1977, Conference Paper, Eighth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Far East
The training and assistance programme at the Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota (United States of America), is designed to provide for the transfer of remote-sensing technology to land managers and resource specialists, both domestic and foreign. The programme does not emphasize research and development...
Earthquakes, October-November 1976
W. J. Person
1977, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (9) 32-36
October brought two damaging earthquakes to Ecuador and New Guinea. The Ecuador earthquake, although only magnitude 5.5, caused casualties and damage. The new Guinea earthquake, a major quake, caused a loss of life and damage. Two major earthquakes were experienced during November, in eastern Turkey on November 24 and in...
Heavy-mineral variability in bottom sediments of the lower Chesapeake Bay, Virginia
F. Firek, G. L. Shideler, P. Fleischer
1977, Marine Geology (23) 217-235
Heavy minerals in bottom-sediment samples of the lower Chesapeake Bay show distribution patterns and interrelationships that denote characteristic mineral suites associated with defined geographic provinces. The Baymouth province has a garnet-hornblende-pyroxene suite, which is largely attributed to the influx of littoral and shelf sediments; the Eastern Shore province has a...
Modeling chloride movement in the alluvial aquifer at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado
Leonard F. Konikow
1977, Water Supply Paper 2044
A solute-transport model that can be used to predict the movement of dissolved chemicals in flowing ground water was applied to a problem of ground-water contamination at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, near Denver, Colo. The model couples a finite-difference solution to the ground-water flow equation with the method-of-characteristics solution to...
Earthquake history of Tennessee
C. A. von Hake
1977, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (9) 37-39
The western part of the State was shaken strongly by the New Madrid, Mo., earthquakes of 1811-12 and by earthquakes in 1843 and 1895. The area has also experienced minor shocks. Additional activity has occurred in the eastern part of the State, near the North Carolina border. Forty shocks of...
Hydraulic conductivity and water quality of the shallow aquifer, Palm Beach County, Florida
W. B. Scott
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 76-119
Subsurface geophysical logs were correlated with logs of drill cuttings to determine the permeability of selected zones of the shallow aquifer, Palm Beach County, Fla. The hydraulic conductivity of the aquifer is estimated to range from 1 to 130 feet per day, based on lithology and physical properties. The yield...
Ground-water resources and geology of Walworth County, Wisconsin
Ronald G. Borman
1976, Wisconsin Geological & Natural History Survey Information Circular 34
Population growth in Walworth County, Wisconsin, requires an increasing amount of ground water. Good quality water is available from the sand-and gravel, Niagara, Galena-Platteville, and sandstone aquifers in the county. As much as 15 gallons per minute (0.95 liters per second) can be obtained from individual wells almost everywhere in...
Geology and ground-water resources of northern Mercer County, Pennsylvania
G. R. Schiner, G.E. Kimmel
1976, Water Resource Report 33
The Shenango and Stoneboro 15-minute quadrangles are in northwestern Pennsylvania and are about 60 miles north of Pitts burgh. These two quadrangles comprise the following 7%-minute quadrangles: Greenville West, Greenville East, Sharpsville, Fredonia, Hadley, New Lebanon, Jackson Center, and Sandy Lake. The area covered by the two quadrangles includes the...
Seepage study of the Rocky Point Canal and the Grey Mountain-Pleasant Valley Canal systems, Duchesne County, Utah
R.W. Cruff, J. W. Hood
1976, Technical Publication 50
This report describes the study of the Rocky Point Canal system in the vicinity of Duchesne and the Grey Mountain-Pleasant Valley Canal system between Duchesne and Myton, in the Uinta Basin, Duchesne County, Utah. The Rocky Point Canal diverts from the left bank of the Duchesne River about 4 mi...
Digital-model analysis of the effects of water-use alternatives on spring discharges Gooding and Jerome Counties, Idaho
Joe A. Moreland
1976, Water Information Bulletin 42
Springs discharging from the Snake Plain aquifer contribute approximately 6,000 cubic feet per second (170 cubic metres per second) to flow in the Snake River between Milner and King Hill. Before irrigation began on the Snake River Plain north and east of the springs, total spring discharge was about 4,200...
Beacon Hill end moraine, Boston: new explanation of an important urban feature
Clifford A. Kaye
Donald R. Coates, editor(s)
1976, Book chapter, Urban Gomorphology (Geological Society of America, Special Paper 174)
The usefulness of geology to engineers is in direct proportion to how well it helps us predict the subsurface; these predictions, in turn, depend on our knowledge of the geomorphic processes that molded the terrain. The uncertainties of interpretation are particularly great in glaciated terrain because our understanding of both...
Geology and geophysics of the southern Raft River Valley geothermal area, Idaho, USA
Paul L. Williams, Don R. Mabey, Adel A. R. Zohdy, Hans D. Ackermann, Donald B. Hoover, Kenneth L. Pierce, Steven S. Oriel
1976, Conference Paper, Proceedings: second United Nations Symposium on the development and use of geothermal resources, San Francisco, California, USA, 20-29 May 1975
The Raft River valley, near the boundary of the Snake River plain with the Basin and Range province, is a north-trending late Cenozoic downwarp bounded by faults on the west, south, and east. Pleistocene alluvium and Miocene-Pliocene tuffaceous sediments, conglomerate, and felsic volcanic rocks aggregate 2 km in thickness. Large...
Regional geologic framework off northeastern United States
John Schlee, John C. Behrendt, John A. Grow, James M. Robb, Robert E. Mattick, P. T. Taylor, B. J. Lawson
1976, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (60) 926-951
Six multichannel seismic-reflection profiles taken across the Atlantic continental margin off the northeastern United States show an excess of 14 km of presumed Mesozoic and younger sedimentary rocks in the Baltimore Canyon trough and 8 km in the Georges Bank basin.Beneath the continental rise, the sedimentary prism thickness exceeds 7...
Tectonic framework of petroliferous rocks in Alaska: hydrocarbons
Arthur Grantz, C.E. Kirschner
1976, Book chapter, Circum-Pacific energy and mineral resources (AAPG Memoir 25)
Alaska, which contains about 28% of the land and continental shelf of the United States, is estimated by the U.S. Geological Survey to contain about one third of the nation's undiscovered oil and about one sixth of its undiscovered natural gas. The Survey estimates that fields discovered in Alaska through...
Incidence of lead shot in canvasbacks
Matthew C. Perry
1976, Book chapter, Transactions of the Canvasback Workshop : April 6-7, 1976, Ramada Inn, Jamestown, North Dakota
During 1975 and 1976, 2,544 canvasbacks (Aythya valisineria) from North Dakota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Maryland were flouroscoped to determine the incidence of body shot. A significant increase from west to east was detected in the incidence of shot for immatures from the four states. The incidence of shot...
Trace-metal variation in soils and sagebrush in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana
Jon J. Connor, John R. Keith, Barbara M. Anderson
1976, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (4) 49-59
A reconnaissance study of 28 trace metals in samples of surface soil (0-2.5 cm deep), subsurface soil (15-20 cm deep), and big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) that were collected from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana indicates that little variation occurs in nature at scales greater than about 35...
