Maps showing Quaternary geology and liquefaction susceptibility in the Napa, California, 1:100,000 sheet
J.M. Sowers, J.S. Noller, W. R. Lettis
1995, Open-File Report 95-205
Southern Californians cope with earthquakes
Kenneth W. Hudnut, James J. Mori, William H. Prescott, Peter H. Stauffer
1995, Fact Sheet 225-95
Pneumatic testing in 45-degree-inclined boreholes in ash-flow tuff near Superior, Arizona
G.D. LeCain
1995, Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4073
Matrix permeability values determined by single-hole pneumatic testing in nonfractured ash-flow tuff ranged from 5.1 to 20.3 * 1046 m2 (meters squared), depending on the gas-injection rate and analysis method used. Results from the single-hole tests showed several significant correlations between permeability and injection rate and between permeability and test...
Utah braces for the future
Michael N. Machette, William M. Brown
1995, Fact Sheet 166-95
Almost 75 percent of Utah's population lives near the Wasatch Fault. Earth scientists have shown that this fault has repeatedly experienced strong earthquakes of magnitude 7 or larger and will continue to do so in the future. Efforts to increase public awareness of earthquake hazards in Utah have resulted in...
Preliminary geologic map of the Mountain Falls quadrangle, Frederick and Shenandoah Counties, Virginia, and Hampshire County, West Virginia
R. C. McDowell
1995, Open-File Report 95-620
No abstract available....
Physical and hydrologic properties of outcrop samples from a nonwelded to welded tuff transition, Yucca Mountain, Nevada
C.A. Rautman, L. E. Flint, A. L. Flint, J.D. Istok
1995, Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4061
Quantitative material-property data are needed to describe lateral and vertical spatial variability of physical and hydrologic properties and to model ground-water flow and radionuclide transport at the potential Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository site in Nevada. As part of ongoing site characterization studies of Yucca Mountain directed toward this understanding of...
Analysis of nutrient and ancillary water-quality data for surface and ground water of the Willamette Basin, Oregon, 1980-90
B. A. Bonn, S.R. Hinkle, D.A. Wentz, M.A. Uhrich
1995, Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4036
An analysis of historical water-quality data for surface and ground water collected in the Willamette and Sandy River Basins during the 1980-90 water years was performed. For surface water, most data were concentrated at sites on the main stem Willamette River or near the mouths of major tributaries. All seasons...
Estimates of inferred reserves for the 1995 USGS National Oil and Gas Resource Assessment
David H. Root, E. D. Attanasi, R. F. Mast, D. L. Gautier
1995, Open-File Report 95-75-L
Environmental factors used to subdivide the western Lake Michigan drainages into relatively homogeneous units for water-quality site selection
Dale M. Robertson, David A. Saad
1995, Fact Sheet 220-95
In 1991, the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program was fully implemented by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The goals of the NAWQA program are to (1) provide a nationally consistent description of water-quality conditions for a large part of the Nation’s water resources; (2) define long-term trends (or lack of...
Saving lives through better design standards
Mehmet Çelebi, Paul A. Spudich, Robert A. Page, Peter H. Stauffer
1995, Fact Sheet 176-95
Over the past 30 years, scientists have put together a more complete picture of how the ground shakes during earthquakes. They have learned that shaking near the source of earthquakes is far more severe than once thought and that soft ground shakes more strongly than hard rock.This knowledge has enabled...
Estimates of ground-water recharge rates for two small basins in central Nevada
R.W. Lichty, P. W. McKinley
1995, Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4104
Estimates of ground-water recharge rates developed from hydrologic modeling studies are presented for 3-Springs and East Stewart basins. two small basins (analog sites) located in central Nevada. The analog-site studies were conducted to aid in the estimation of recharge to the paleohydrologic regime associated with ground water in the vicinity...
Stream Gaging and Flood Forecasting : A Partnership of the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Weather Service
Mason Jr., Benjamin A. Weiger
1995, Fact Sheet 209-95
Preliminary determination of epicenters; monthly listing October-December, 1995
National Earthquake Information Center
1995, Open-File Report 95-600-D
Averting Surprises in the Pacific Northwest
Brian F. Atwater, Thomas S. Yelin, Craig S. Weaver, James W. Hendley II
1995, Fact Sheet 111-95
Potentiometric-surface map, 1993, Yucca Mountain and vicinity, Nevada
Patrick Tucci, D.J. Burkhardt
1995, Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4149
Adsorption of sulfur hexafluoride onto crushed tuffs from the Yucca Mountain area, Nye County, Nevada
Gordon W. Rattray, Robert G. Striegl, In C. Yang
1995, Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4057
Economics and undiscovered conventional oil and gas accumulations in the 1995 National Assessment of U.S. oil and gas resources, Alaska
E. D. Attanasi, Kenneth J. Bird
1995, Open-File Report 95-75-J
Conceptualization and simulation of runoff generation from rainfall for three basins in Thurston County, Washington
S.N. Berris
1995, Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4038
A method to conceptualize and simulate the generation of runoff from rainfall was applied to three small drainage basins in north-central Thurston County, Washington. Because the study basins face continued urban development, this method was developed to provide a technique for assessing the effects of alternative urban-development plans on runoff...
Geohydrology and vertical distribution of volatile organic compounds in ground water, Fischer and Porter Company Superfund Site, Warminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Ronald A. Sloto, Paola Macchiaroli, Randall W. Conger
1995, Water-Resources Investigations Report 95-4220
The Fischer and Porter Company Superfund Site is underlain by sedimentary rocks of the Upper Triassic Stockton Formation, which consists of interbedded siltstone, very-fine grained to coarse-grained sandstone, and conglomerate in crudely defined, upward fining cycles. These rocks form a complex, heterogeneous, leaky, multiaquifer system comprised of a series of...
Water-resources investigations in Wisconsin, 1995
D. E. Maertz (compiler)
1995, Open-File Report 95-328
The statewide average precipitation of 30.66 inches for the 1994 water year was 96 percent of the normal annual precipitation of 31.79 inches for water years 1961-90. Average precipitation values ranged from 81 percent of normal in southeastern Wisconsin to 103 percent of normal in west-central Wisconsin (Pamela Naber Knox,...
Preliminary determination of epicenters. Monthly listing for July-September 1995
National Earthquake Information Center
1995, Open-File Report 95-600-C
Preliminary determination of epicenters. Monthly listing for January-March 1995
National Earthquake Information Center
1995, Open-File Report 95-600-A
Preliminary determination of epicenters. Monthly listing for April-June 1995
National Earthquake Information Center
1995, Open-File Report 95-600-B
3500-year B.P. record of climatic change in estuarine deposits of south San Francisco Bay, California
Mary McGann
Elizabeth S. Sangine, D. W. Andersen, A. V. Buising, editor(s)
1995, Book chapter, Recent geologic studies in the San Francisco Bay area
No abstract available....
Jurassic thrusting of Precambrian basement over Paleozoic cover in the Clipper Mountains, southeastern California
Keith A. Howard, K.J.W. McCaffrey, J. L. Wooden, D.A. Foster, S.E. Shaw
1995, GSA Special Papers (299) 375-392
The Clipper Mountains in the eastern Mojave Desert expose evidence of Jurassic plutonic intrusion along what was an active thrust at the east fringe of the exposed Cordilleran Jurassic magmatic arc. This event occurred during a period of widespread arc magmatism and intra-arc thrusting in the Cordillera related to subduction...