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...
Revision of the type Mankomen Formation (Pennsylvanian and Permian), Eagle Creek area, eastern Alaska Range, Alaska
Donald H. Richter, J. Thomas Dutro Jr.
1975, Bulletin 1395-B
No abstract available....
Geologic map and coal resources of the White Butte East quadrangle, Hettinger County, North Dakota
Kenneth S. Soward
1975, Coal Map 70
No abstract available....
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)...
Low-flow Characteristics of Eau Claire River Basin near Antigo, Wisconsin
B. K. Holmstrom
1975, Open-File Report 75-336
This report presents low-flow characteristics at six sites on streams in the Eau Claire River basin near Antigo, Wis., where applications for irrigation permits were made. The low-flow characteristics presented are the annual minimum 7-day mean flows at the 2-year recurrence interval and 10-year recurrence interval. A seepage run made...
Heavy-mineral trends in the Beaufort Sea
Gretchen Luepke
1975, Open-File Report 75-667
Sediments of the Beaufort Sea, off the North Slope of Alaska contain a great variety of heavy minerals. These include garnet, chrome spinel, augite, pigeonite, diopside, hornblende, enstatite, hypersthene, epidote, clinozoisite, zoisite, apatite, tourmaline, chloritoid, sphene, zircon, and opaque minerals. Much rarer constituents are glaucophane, lamprobolite, rutile, kyanite, staurolite, and...
Sediments, structural framework, petroleum potential, environmental conditions, and operational considerations of the United States South Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1975, Open-File Report 75-411
The area designated for possible oil and gas lease sale in Bureau of Land Management memorandum 3310 #43 (722) and referred to therein as part of the United States South Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) contains about 98,000 square kilometres of the continental margin seaward of the 3 mile offshore...
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...
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...
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. ...
Artificial recharge in the upper Santa Ana River area, San Bernardino County, California
Donald H. Schaefer, James W. Warner
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 75-15
The San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District began receiving its initial entitlement of 46,000 acre-feet (5.7 x 107 cubic metres) per year of imported northern California water in December 1972. By 1990, the district will be receiving 102,000 acre-feet (1.3 x 108 cubic metres) per year. Plans are to distribute...
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...
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...
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 of April 1975 at Williamston, Michigan
R. L. Knutilla, L.A. Swallow
1975, Open-File Report 75-289
On April 18 between 5 p.m. and 12 p.m. the city of Williamston experienced an intense rain storm that caused the Red Cedar River and the many small streams in the area to overflow their banks and resulted in the most devastating flood since at least 1904. Local officials estimated...
Digital-simulation and projection of water-level declines in basalt aquifers of the Odessa-Lind area, east-central Washington
J. E. Luzier, James A. Skrivan
1975, Water Supply Paper 2036
A digital computer program using finite-difference techniques simulates an intensively pumped, multilayered basalt-aquifer system near Odessa. The aquifers now developed are in the upper 1,000 feet of a regionally extensive series of southwesterly dipping basalt flows of the Columbia River Group. Most of the aquifers are confined. Those in the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sediments, structural framework, petroleum potential, environmental conditions, and operational considerations of the United States North Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1975, Open-File Report 75-353
The area designated for possible oil and gas lease sale as modified from BLM memorandum 3310 #42 (722) and referred to therein as the North Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) contains about 58,300 sq km of shelf beneath water depths of less than 200 m and lies chiefly within the...
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,...
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...
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...
