Hydrology for land-use planning: The Hillside area, Anchorage, Alaska
Larry L. Dearborn, William W. Barnwell
1975, Open-File Report 75-105
Rapid residential growth of the Hillside area, Anchorage, Alaska, may cause depletion of aquifers and a change in quality of water resources as a result of extensive development of small-lot tracts. Ground-water yields are low and may be locally inadequate for single family requirements where wells produce from bedrock in...
The potentiometric surface and water quality of the Floridan aquifer; in southwest Hillsborough County, Florida, 1952-74
A. Dan Duerr
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 75-50
Large ground-water withdrawals and a 10-year period of below-normal rainfall have caused the potentiometric surface of the Floridan aquifer to decline more than 10 feet (3 metres) in most of a 200-square-mile (520-square-kilometre) area of southwest Hillsborough County (fig. 1). The lowered ground-water levels and the consequent threat of salt-water...
Data summary of June-July 1975 floods in eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota
K.L. Lindskov
1975, Open-File Report 75-565
Torrential rains during late June and early July 1975, combined with wet antecedent conditions, caused severe flooding, mainly along the lower reaches of the Sheyenne and Maple Rivers and their tributaries in North Dakota, and in the Buffalo and Wild Rice River basins in Minnesota. The Red River of the...
Availability of ground water in the Saco River Basin, east-central New Hampshire
John E. Cotton
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 74-39
No abstract available. ...
Sediment characteristics of streams in the eastern Piedmont and western Coastal Plain regions of North Carolina
Clyde E. Simmons
1975, Open-File Report 75-291
The sediment-transport characteristics of streams were determined in a 6,000-square-mile (15,500-square-kilometre) area of the Coastal Plain and Piedmont regions of eastern North Carolina during 1969-73. The study covered all or parts of 21 counties and included data for 28 sediment-sampling stations located in parts of 4 major river basins, the...
A predictive computer model of the Lower Cretaceous aquifer, Franklin area, southeastern Virginia
O. J. Cosner
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 51-74
The Lower Cretaceous aquifer of Southeastern Virginia is simulated in this study. The aquifer is only a few feet thick along the Fall Line, where it is near or at the surface, but it thickens and dips to the east. At Franklin where the top of the aquifer is 220...
Interim report on petroleum resource potential and geologic hazards in the outer continental shelf of the Gulf of Alaska Tertiary province
George Plafker, Terry R. Bruns, Robert A. Page
1975, Open-File Report 75-592
The potential for discovering large accumulations of petroleum on the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Alaska Tertiary Province cannot be evaluated with much confidence at present because of the inadequacies of the available offshore geological and geophysical data. The 22 deep test wells that have been drilled since...
Time-of-travel study: Lake Erie-Niagara River basins
Bernard Dunn
1975, Open-File Report 66-32
Time of travel was determined for 80.54 stream miles on Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Ellicott, Murder, and Tonawanda Creeks; Cazenovia Creek basin; and the Buffalo River. Two or three runs at different discharge rates were made in 13 subreaches on the 7 streams except for a subreach of Ellicott ·creek. In the Ellicott Creek subreach from...
Progress report on the water resources investigation of Martin County, Florida
James E. Earle
1975, Open-File Report 75-521
The base of the shallow aquifer ranges from 125 feet (38 m) below sea level in the northwest part of Martin County to about 280 feet (85.3 m) below sea level in the southeast part of the county. Test holes also indicate a thick, highly permeable zone in the east...
Evaluation of reservoir sites in North Carolina: Regional relations for estimating the reservoir capacity needed for a dependable water supply
F.E. Arteaga, E. F. Hubbard
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 74-46
Draft-storage-frequency relations, which show the storage required for a reservoir to furnish a specified withdrawal or draft are regionalized for four zones in the State, using the mean annual flow of the streams as an index. The differences between the zones primarily reflect differences in the variability of stream flow.To...
Digital models of a glacial outwash aquifer in the Pearl-Sallie Lakes area, west-central Minnesota
S. P. Larson, Mark S. McBride, R. J. Wolf
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 75-40
-p^e need for study of lake-ground-water interchange has been accentuated by eutrophication of lakes in the Pearl-Sallie Lakes area of west-central Minnesota. The local ground-water flow system is dominated by an outwash aquifer that is sandwiched between two till layers in the western part of the area and exposed at...
Stream reconnaissance for nutrients and other water-quality parameters, Greater Pittsburgh Region, Pennsylvania
Robert M. Beall
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 50-74
Eighty-five stream sites in and near the six-county Greater Pittsburgh Region were sampled in mid-June 1971 in mid-October 1972. Data are reported for 89 sites because 4 substitute sites were sampled in the second period. Drainage areas of the basins sampled ranged from 4.1 to 19,5000 square miles (10.6 to...
Map showing paleocurrent and clast-size data from the Devonian-Mississippian Endicott Group, northern Alaska
T.J. Donovan, I.L. Tailleur
1975, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 692
The Devonian-Mississippian Endicott Group (Tailleur and others, 1967) is an important geologic unit in the Brooks Range of northern Alaska. It reflects a major tectonic event in the middle and late Paleozoic history of the North American Cordillera. Tailleur and Brosge (1970) interpreted the Endicott as a clastic wedge derived...
Flood-prone areas of Gadsden County, Florida
Roger P. Rumenik, C.A. Pascale, D.F. Tucker
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 75-31
Gadsden County is an area of 508 square miles in northwest Florida. The topography of the county is diverse and ranges in altitude from about 50 to 300 feet above mean sea level. Well drained steep hillsides and narrow ridgetops give way to broad, nearly level, poorly drained plateaus which...
Flood of April 1975 at Meridian Township, Michigan
R. L. Knutilla, L.A. Swallow
1975, Open-File Report 75-301
On April 18 between 5 p.m. and 12 p.m. Meridian Township experienced an intense rain storm that caused the Red Cedar River to overflow its banks resulting in extensive flooding. The Federal Disaster Assistance Administration report that five homes were destroyed, and 332 homes and 10 businesses damaged. Early estimates...
Water resources of the Toppenish Creek Basin, Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 74-42
The Yakima River, which flows along the eastern margin of the Yakima Indian Reservation, provides about 93 percent of the irrigation water for the eastern part of the Toppenish Creek basin--the major agricultural area in the basin . During 1972, the total surface water diverted from all streams and from...
Flood of April 1975 at East Lansing, Michigan
R. L. Knutilla, L.A. Swallow
1975, Open-File Report 75-299
On April 18 between 5 p.m. and 12 p.m. the city of East Lansing experienced an intense rainstorm that caused the Red Cedar River to overflow its banks, resulting in the most devastating flood since 1904. During the period of flooding the U.S. Geological Survey obtained aerial photography of the...
A general outline of the water resources of the Toppenish Creek basin, Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington
Dean O. Gregg, Leslie Bostwick Laird
1975, Open-File Report 75-19
Increasing demands for water supplies, plans for irrigating new lands, proposals to divert water from the Yakima River by users downstream from the reservation, and ground-water problems have made an accounting of the overall availability of water very important to water management on the reservation. This report, which broadly outlines...
Magnitude and frequency of floods in Washington
J. E. Cummans, Michael R. Collings, Edmund George Nasser
1975, Open-File Report 74-336
Relations are provided to estimate the magnitude and frequency of floods on Washington streams. Annual-peak-flow data from stream gaging stations on unregulated streams having 1 years or more of record were used to determine a log-Pearson Type III frequency curve for each station. Flood magnitudes having recurrence intervals of 2,...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1966-70, Part 2, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins, v. 3, Basins from Apalachicola River to Pearl River
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1975, Water Supply Paper 2106
Hydrology of three sinkhole basins in southwestern Seminole County, Florida
Warren Anderson, G.H. Hughes
1975, Open-File Report 75-27
The southwestern part of Seminole County--in east-central Florida-is characterized by sinkholes formed by the subsidence of surficial deposits into solution cavities in the underlying limestone deposits. The area includes three sinkhole basins created by such subsidence: Cranes Roost, Palm Springs, and Grace Lake.Cranes Roost basin (drainage area, 5.02 square miles)...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1966-70, Part 2, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins, v. 2, Basins from Ogeechee River to Carrabelle River
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1975, Water Supply Paper 2105
Geologic map and coal resources of the White Butte NE quadrangle, Stark and Hettinger Counties, North Dakota
Kenneth S. Soward
1975, Coal Map 72
The White Butte NE, NW, East, and West quadrangles, were mapped as part of the U.S. Geological Survey program of classifying Federal lands and to make a systemic study and evaluation of the coal resources. Economic resources in the White Butte quadrangles consist of coal, oil and gas, sodium chloride, limestone,...
Age and tectonic significance of volcanic rocks on St. Matthew Island, Bering Sea, Alaska
William Wallace Patton Jr., Marvin A. Lanphere, Thomas P. Miller, Richard A. Scott
1975, Open-File Report 75-150
Reconnaissance investigations of the heretofore little known volcanic assemblage on St. Matthew Island provide significant information on the tectonic history of the Bering Sea shelf. St. Matthew Island is made up of approximately 500 m of subaerial calc-alkaline volcanic rocks ranging in composition from high-alumina basalt to rhyolite. Four K-Ar...
Geologic framework of the Alaskan Continental Terrace in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas
Arthur Grantz, Mark L. Holmes, B. A. Kososki
1975, Open-File Report 75-124
Seismic, magnetic and gravity data indicate that the Chukchi and Beaufort epicontinental seas off northern Alaska overlie three sedimentary basins, or provinces, separated by structural highs of regional extent. The basins trend west to northwest and become increasingly marine from south to north. The Chukchi-Beaufort continental margin is similar to...
