Water resources of the lower St. Croix river watershed, east-central Minnesota
Gerald F. Lindholm, J. O. Helgesen, W.L. Broussard, D.F. Farrell
1974, Hydrologic Atlas 490
The lower St. Croix River watershed is an elongate area of about 930 square miles bounded on the east by the St. Croix River. The St. Croix River forms the Minnesota-Wisconsin boundary along the eastern side of the watershed. Additional drainage to the St. Croix River includes areas of about 2,500...
Seawater intrusion, ground-water pumpage, ground-water yield, and artificial recharge of the Pajaro Valley area, Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties, California
K. S. Muir
1974, Water-Resources Investigations Report 74-9
The Pajaro Valley area, California, covering about 120 square miles (310 km2), extends from the southern part of Santa Cruz County to several miles south of the county line into Monterey County. It borders the Pacific Ocean on the west and the Santa Cruz Mountains on the east. The city...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1966-70, Part 2, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins, v. 1, Basins from James River to Savannah River
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1974, Water Supply Paper 2104
Water resources of the Snake River watershed, east-central Minnesota
Gerald F. Lindholm, J. O. Helgesen, W.L. Broussard, D.W. Ericson
1974, Hydrologic Atlas 488
Glacial drift overlies sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks in the Snake River watershed. The Snake River, which drains an area of about 1,030 square miles, originates in an extensive area of peat bogs in the northern part of the watershed. It flows southward across gently rolling glacial terrain in which the...
Quality of surface waters of the United States, 1970, Part 2, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1974, Water Supply Paper 2152
Preliminary geologic map of the east half of the Winston-Salem Quadrangle, North Carolina-Virginia-Tennessee
G.H. Espenshade, D.W. Rankin, K.W. Shaw, R. B. Neuman
1974, Open-File Report 74-1030
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Quality of surface waters of the United States, 1969, Part 2, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1974, Water Supply Paper 2142
An assessment of areal and temporal variations in streamflow quality using selected data from the National Stream Quality Accounting Network
Timothy Doak Steele, Edward J. Gilroy, Richard O. Hawkinson
1974, Open-File Report 74-217
Streamflow chemical-quality data and stream-temperature data at 88 stations throughout the United States and Puerto Rico were analyzed to develop and to evaluate methodologies for the general assessment of the variation of the Nation's streamflow-quality conditions in space and over time. The spatial variation is described by the use of...
Response of ground-water levels of flood control operations in three basins, south-eastern Florida
William A.J. Pitt
1974, Open-File Report 74-86
Three basins in southeastern Florida were investigated to determine the changes in ground-water levels and canal flows that occurred in response to operation of coastal water-control structures in each canal. All three basins are underlain by the Biscayne aquifer. They are, Snapper Creek Canal basin, where the Biscayne aquifer is...
Geologic and hydrologic considerations for various concepts of high-level radioactive waste disposal in conterminous United States
E. B. Ekren, G.A. Dinwiddie, J. W. Mytton, William Thordarson, J. E. Weir Jr., E. N. Hinrichs, L.J. Schroder
1974, Open-File Report 74-158
The purpose of this investigation is to evaluate and identify which geohydrologic environments in conterminous United States are best suited for various concepts or methods of underground disposal of high-level radioactive wastes and to establish geologic and hydrologic criteria that are pertinent to high-level waste disposal. The unproven methods of...
Water resources of the Crow River watershed, south-central Minnesota
Gerald F. Lindholm, D.F. Farrell, John O. Helgesen
1974, Hydrologic Atlas 528
The Crow River watershed, an area of about 2,760 square miles, is covered entirely by glacial deposits. A topographically high, east-west-trending end moraine divides most of the watershed into two drainage areas of approximately equal size. The North Fork Crow River drains a mixture of glacial outwash and till deposits,...
Influence of recharge basins on the hydrology of Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Long Island, New York
G.E. Seaburn, D. A. Aronson
1974, Water Supply Paper 2031
An investigation of recharge basins on Long Island was made by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Nassau County Department of Public Works, Suffolk County Department of Environmental Control, and Suffolk County Water Authority. The major objectives of the study were...
Stratigraphic relationships within the Baraga Group of Precambrian age, central Upper Peninsula, Michigan
W.F. Cannon, John S. Klasner
1974, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 47-51
Details of the stratigraphic section in parts of northern Michigan have been known for many years, but correlation of units between geographically separated areas has been partly speculative. Mapping in the Witch Lake quadrangle has filled the gap between well-studied areas of the Marquette trough and parts of Iron and...
Ultramafic rocks of the Eagle quadrangle, east-central Alaska
Helen L. Foster, Terry E.C. Keith
1974, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (2) 657-669
More than 97 separate occurrences of ultramafic rocks, some of which are included in a north west-trending zone of alpine-type ultramafic rocks, have been mapped in the Eagle quadrangle, east-central Alaska. They are divided into three groups primarily on the basis of degree of serpentinization. Group I consists of lens-shaped bodies...
Geodetic determination of strain at the Nevada Test Site following the Handley event
James C. Savage, W. T. Kinoshita, W.H. Prescott
1974, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (64) 115-129
Repeated surveys of a trilateration network (aperture greater than 20 km) centered on ground zero for the HANDLEY event, a nuclear explosion at the Nevada Test Site with yield in excess of 1 megaton, suggest that the explosion induced an east-west extension of the network by more than 50 mm....
Radioactive waste storage in the arid zone
Isaac J. Winograd
1974, Eos Science News (55) 884-894
By the turn of the century, nuclear power may generate more than one-half of the electric energy, and about one-third of the total energy consumed in the United States [Thompson, 1971; Chapman et al., 1972]. By 2020, the total quantity of high-level radioactive wastes (HLW) generated as a byproduct of nuclear...
The 1973 distribution and abundance of breeding ospreys in the Chesapeake Bay
Charles J. Henny, Morton M. Smith, Vernon D. Stotts
1974, Chesapeake Science (15) 125-133
An aerial survey in association with several intensive ground surveys yielded the first estimate of the size of the osprey (Pandion haliaetus carolinensis) nesting population in Chesapeake Bay. The 1973 population was estimated at 1,450 ± 30 pairs, of which 713 were on the western shore and 737 on the...
Chert derived from magadiite in a lacustrine deposit near Rome, Malheur County, Oregon
Richard A. Sheppard, Arthur J. 3rd Gude 3rd
1974, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (2) 625-630
Nodules and thin beds of chert occur in the upper part of the informally named Rome beds, about 8 11 km southwest of Rome, Oreg. The chert is in green to gray mudstone, about 8 m beneath a conspicuous gray and yellow zeolitic tuff. The bedded chert contains molds of...
Correlation of uppermost Precambrian and lower Cambrian strata from southern to east-central Nevada
John H. Stewart
1974, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (2) 609-618
Study of exposed uppermost Precambrian and Lower Cambrian strata in southern and east-central Nevada and intervening areas indicates that the Johnnie Formation of southern Nevada and the McCoy Creek Group (restricted) are correlative. In detail, the uppermost units of both sequences, the Rainstorm Member of the Johnnie Formation and the...
Stratigraphy, structure, and geologic history of the Lunar Lake Caldera of northern Nye County, Nevada
E. B. Ekren, W. D. Quinlivan, R.P. Snyder, F. J. Kleinhampl
1974, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (2) 599-608
The Lunar Lake caldera is in northern Nye County, Nev., about 70 mi (110 km) east-northeast of Tonopah. It is the youngest caldera in the central Nevada multiple-caldron complex and the source of the tuff of Lunar Cuesta, a multiple-flow simple cooling unit of quarts latitic welded tuff that is...
Foods of breeding pintails in North Dakota
Gary L. Krapu
1974, Journal of Wildlife Management (38) 408-417
Food habits of breeding pintails (Anas acuta) were studied relative to sex, land use, and reproductive condition during the spring and summer of 1969, 1970, and 1971 in eastern North Dakota. Hens and drakes, respectively, consumed 79.2 percent and 30.0 percent animal matter on nontilled wetlands and consumed 16.6 percent...
Palynology and stratigraphy of Cretaceous strata in Long Island, New York, and Block Island, Rhode Island
Leslie A. Sirkin
1974, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (2) 431-440
Palynologic analysis of core samples from Fire Island well, S21,091T, in southern Long Island and of surface samples from Garvies Point in northern Long Island and from eastern Block Island indicates that the Cretaceous of this region includes Raritan, Magothy, Matawan, and Monmouth (as previously defined) strata, and ranges in...
Stratigraphic evidence on the age of the Roberts Mountains thrust, Eureka and White Pine Counties, Nevada
T. B. Nolan
1974, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (2) 416
Several stratigraphic discontinuities in Devonian and Mississippian sedimentary sequences in folded thrust plates east of the Roberts Mountains thrust of central Nevada indicate that the thrust was sporadically active during this interval. From estimates for displacement and time involved for the thrust, the average rate of movement was 1 cm/5...
Nature of the angular unconformity between the Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks and the mesozoic metavolcanic rocks in the eastern Sierra Nevada, California
C.A. Brook, Warren J. Nokleberg, Ronald W. Kistler
1974, GSA Bulletin (85) 571-576
Two major wall-rock sequences, the Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks and the Mesozoic metavolcanic rocks, in the eastern Sierra Nevada, California, are separated by an angular unconformity rather than by a fault as has been proposed by other investigators. The unconformity is parallel to formation contacts in the younger metavolcanic rocks and...
K-Ar Age Relations of Granodiorite Emplacement and Tungsten and Gold Mineralization near the Getchell Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada
Miles L. Silberman, B. R. Berger, Randolph A. Koski
1974, Economic Geology (69) 646-656
A granodiorite stock intrudes complexly folded and thrust-faulted Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in the Osgood Mountains of eastern Humboldt County, Nevada. Within the metamorphic aureole surrounding the pluton, the sedimentary rocks are converted to cordierite hornfels and marble; tungsten-bearing tactites developed along the contacts of the granodiorite. Cutting the granodiorite and...
