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-quality data from oil and gas wells in part of the Permian Basin, southeastern New Mexico and western Texas
William L. Hiss
1975, Open-File Report 75-579
Approximately 8,000 chemical analyses of water produced from formations of several geologic ages in south eastern New Mexico and western Texas are tabulated by both geographic location and geologic formation.Empirical and mathematical relationships between (1) the dissolved solids and the measured and computed resistivity of water, the chloride-ion concentration and...
Water resources of the Cedar River watershed, southeastern Minnesota
D.F. Farrell, W.L. Broussard, H. W. Anderson Jr., M. F. Hult
1975, Hydrologic Atlas 552
The Cedar River Watershed Unit (as established by the states of Minnesota) consists of 1,204 square miles (3,118 square kilometres) of flat or gently undulating plain. The watershed is drained by the Cedar River and several smaller streams that flow south into Iowa and eventually into the Mississippi River. Its easternmost neck...
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...
Tectonic framework of petroliferous rocks in Alaska
Arthur Grantz, C.E. Kirschner
1975, Open-File Report 75-149
Alaska, comprising 3.6 X 106 sq km (about 28 percent) of the land, shelf, and upper continental slope of the United States, has been estimated by the U.S. Geological Survey (1974) to contain about 25 percent of the Nation's petroleum resources. Some 11 billion barrels of petroleum liquids and 31...
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...
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...
Movement of spilled oil as predicted by estuarine nontidal drift
T. J. Conomos
1975, Limnology and Oceanography (20) 159-173
Information on water movement obtained from bimonthly releases of surface and seabed drifters in the San Francisco Bay and adjacent Pacific Ocean is used to understand major processes controlling dispersal of oil after a spill of 3,200 m3 of Bunker C in the bay in January 1971. River-induced nontidal estuarine...
Paleotectonic investigations of the Pennsylvanian System in the United States, Part I: Introduction and regional analyses of the Pennsylvanian System
Edwin D. McKee, Eleanor J. Crosby, George O. Bachman, Kenneth G. Bell, George H. Dixon, Sherwood E. Frezon, Ernest E. Glick, William P. Irwin, William W. Mallory, William J. Mapel, Edwin K. Maughan, George E. Prichard, Gerald L. Shideler, Gary F. Stewart, Harold R. Wanless, Richard F. Wilson
1975, Professional Paper 853-1
The Pennsylvanian is the fourth geologic system to be analyzed and synthesized by geologists of the U.S. Geological Survey in the form of a paleotectonic study covering the conterminous United States. Earlier investigations were of the Jurassic, Triassic, and Permian Systems. Results were published as Miscellaneous Geologic Investigation Maps I-175,...
Water and the South Florida environment
Howard Klein, J.T. Armbruster, B. F. McPherson, H.J. Freiberger
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 75-24
Ecological problems are a major concern to Florida as well as to the Nation. National attention was focused on these problems in September 1968, when the Port Authority of Dade County began to con-struct a jetport for supersonic aircraft on a 39-square-mile tract 6 miles north of Everglades National Park...
Middle tertiary volcanic field in the southern Rocky Mountains
T. A. Steven
1975, Memoir of the Geological Society of America (144) 75-94
A widespread volcanic field covered most of the Southern Rocky Mountains in middle Tertiary time, 40 to 25 m.y. ago (approximately Oligocene time). This field covered an erosion surface that beveled structures formed during the Laramide orogeny in Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary time. The source vents from which the...
Radiometric dates from Alaska: A 1975 compilation
D. L. Turner, Donald Grybeck, Frederic H. Wilson
1975, Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Special Report DGGS SR 10
The following table of radiometric dates from Alaska includes published material through 1972 as well as some selected later data. The table includes 726 mineral and whole-rock dates determined by the K-Ar, Rb-Sr, fission-track U-Pb, and Pb-alpha techniques.The data are organized in alphabetical order of the 1:250,000 scale quadrangles in...
Chemical compositions of Kilauea east-rift lava, 1968–1971
Thomas L. Wright, Don Swanson, Wendell A. Duffield
1975, Journal of Petrology (16) 110-133
The major element chemical compositions of lava from four eruptions on the east rift zone of Kilauea between August 1968 and October 1971 reflect three petrologic processes:Production of chemically distinct batches of magma in the mantle.Separation of olivine, augite, and plagioclase from liquid during flow in the rift-zone conduits.Mixing...
Chino Valley formation (Cambrian?) in northwestern Arizona
Richard Hereford
1975, GSA Bulletin (86) 677-682
A thin persistent unit (maximum thickness 13 m) of probable Cambrian age in the Chino Valley region of northwestern Arizona consists of three laterally equivalent, mutually exclusive lithofacies. These are, from west to east, lithic sandstone, pebble to boulder conglomerate, and dolomite. The unit, named the Chino Valley Formation, is...
Stratigraphy, conodont dating, and paleotectonic interpretation of the type Milligen Formation (Devonian), Wood River area, Idaho
Charles Sandberg, Wayne E. Hall, John N. Batchelder, Claus Axelsen
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 707-720
The Milligen Formation at and near its type locality in the Wood River area is considerably older than and unrelated to rocks of Early Mississippian age called Milligen Formation in the Lost River Range and other ranges of east-central Idaho. Conodont faunas were found in limestones of a thin upper...
Silurian and Devonian miogeosynclinal and transitional rocks of the Fish Creek Reservoir window, central Idaho
Betty A. Skipp, Charles Sandberg
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 691-706
Documentation of Devonian continental-shelf shallow-water carbonate rocks in the core of the Fish Creek Reservoir window shifts the known westernmost limit of the Devonian miogeosyncline 50 km (30 mi) southwest across the structural grain from the well-known miogeosynclinal sequence in the Lost River Range. The miogeosynclinal carbonate sequence in the...
Structure and Paleozoic stratigraphy of a complex of thrust plates in the Fish Creek Reservoir area, south-central Idaho
Betty A. Skipp, Wayne E. Hall
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 671-689
Permian, Pennsylvanian, Mississippian, Devonian, and Silurian marine rocks of diverse facies are brought together in a complex of six thrust sheets in the Fish Creek Reservoir area on the north edge of the Snake River Plain, Idaho. The lowest structural element, the parautochthon, is made of more than 450 m...
Tectonic setting of the Tertiary volcanic rocks of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Wallace M. Cady
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 573-582
Lower and middle Eocene abyssal and Hawaiian type tholeiitic basalts form two accumulations that apparently were once far out on the east flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, within the Juan de Fuca plate. One of these (more than 15 km thick) is near the eastern and southeastern periphery...
Quaternary faults at San Diego Bay, California
George W. Moore, Michael P. Kennedy
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 589-595
Acoustic-reflection profiles of subbottom strata reveal numerous faults that cut Quaternary deposits within and directly outside of San Diego Bay. These faults, together with previously mapped onshore faults, constitute the Rose Canyon fault zone that forms the local west boundary of the Santa Ana tectonic block, which is bounded on...
A typical cross section based on magnetic data of lower and middle Keweenawan volcanic rocks, Ironwood area, Michigan
Elizabeth R. King
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 543-546
A north-trending aeromagnetic profile of a sequence of east-striking Keweenawan volcanic rocks near Ironwood, Mich., can be matched to a calculated profile over a model consisting of a series of dipping layers. (The dips were those measured by H. A. Hubbard along the north-trending valley of the Black River.) Remanent...
New tritium data on movement of groundwater in western Fresno County, California
Joseph Fairfield Poland, Gordon L. Stewart
1975, Water Resources Research (11) 716-724
Well waters along two traverse lines were sampled in 1963 and tested for tritium concentration. Haskell et al. [1966] estimated from the apparent thermonuclear tritium concentrations that groundwater had moved westward in the lower water‐bearing zone at a maximum velocity of 14–16.5 mi (23–27 km) in 9 yr. The maximum velocities...
Palynological evidence for late Cretaceous, Paleocene, and early and middle Eocene ages for strata in the kaolin belt, central Georgia
Robert H. Tschudy, Sam H. Patterson
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 437-445
Falynomorphs of Late Cretaceous (Maestrichtian), Paleocene, Paleocene or early Eocene (Wilcox), and middle Eocene (Claiborne) ages have been found in lignitic and carbonaceous clays and silts in the Tuscaloosa Formation, as used in central and east-central Georgia. The occurrence of palynomorphs of Maestrichtian (Navarro) age above thick kaolin deposits at...
Ordovician and middle Silurian rocks of the Wildhorse window, northeastern Pioneer Mountains, central Idaho
James H. Dover, Reuben James Ross Jr.
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 431-436
Along Wildhorse Creek in the northeastern Pioneer Mountains, autochthonous Ordovician and Silurian rocks of an eastern carbonate assemblage are exposed in a structural window through allochthonous flysch deposits of the Mississippian Copper Basin Group. Graptolite-bearing Middle and Upper Ordovician dolomite and cherty dolomite 210 ft (64 m) thick are lithologically...
An empirical note on firm performance in government contract markets
Emil D. Attanasi, S. R. Johnson
1975, The Journal of Industrial Economics (23) 313-320
Public construction and, in particular, highway construction account for a large proportion of the non-defense expenditures by the government. Con- tracts for highway construction are let almost exclusively through a sealed tender process. Competitive bidding is used to encourage price competition. There is, however, a problem in insuring that the...
Magma beneath Yellowstone National Park
G. P. Eaton, R.L. Christiansen, H. M. Iyer, A.D. Pitt, D. R. Mabey, H. R. Blank Jr., I. Zietz, M. E. Gettings
1975, Science (188) 787-796
The Yellowstone plateau volcanic field is less than 2 million years old, lies in a region of intense tectonic and hydrothermal activity, and probably has the potential for further volcanic activity. The youngest of three volcanic cycles in the field climaxed 600,000 years ago with a voluminous ashflow eruption and...
