Summary of floods in the United States during 1958
E. L. Hendricks
1964, Water Supply Paper 1660-B
This report describes the most outstanding floods that occurred in the United States during 1958.A series of storms from January 23 to February 16 brought large amounts of precipitation to northern California and produced damaging floods, particularly in the Lower Sacramento Valley where losses totaled about \$12 million.Major floods, notable...
Geology and ground-water resources of the upper Grande Ronde River basin, Union County, Oregon
E. R. Hampton, S. G. Brown
1964, Water Supply Paper 1597
The upper Grande Ronde River basin is a 1,400-square-mile area in northeastern Oregon, between the Blue Mountains to the west and the Wallowa Mountains to the east. The area is drained by the Grande Ronde River, which flows northeast through this region and is tributary to the Snake River. The...
Geohydrologic analogies between the Jordan Valleys of Utah and the holy land
Edward Bradley
1964, International Association of Scientific Hydrology - Bulletin (9) 12-23
The biblical Jordan River Valley, which extends from Lake Tiberias (the Sea of Galilee) to the Dead Sea, is decidedly similar to the Jordan River Valley of Utah, which joins Lake Utah and Great Salt Lake. Both Jordan Rivers drain relatively large fresh-water lakes and also are major sources of discharge into large salty lakes that have no outlets to the ocean.The...
Officer's cave, a pseudokarst feature in altered tuff and volcanic ash of the John Day formation in eastern Oregon
Garald G. Parker, Lynn M. Shown, Karl W. Ratzlaff
1964, Geological Society of America Bulletin (75) 393-402
Officer's Cave is the uppermost of four rapidly eroding cave levels constituting a cavern complex about 700 feet long developed chiefly in clay and silt. Its outer room is 35 feet by 43.5 feet by 100 feet and slopes about 45° east into the western end of a narrow linear hill called Officer's Cave Ridge. Dry valleys, blind valleys, hanging valleys, sinkholes, pipes,...
Ancient granite gneiss in the Black Hills, South Dakota
R. E. Zartman, J.J. Norton, T. W. Stern
1964, Science (145) 479-481
Granite gneiss, with an age of approximately 2.5 billion years, in the Black Hills, South Dakota , provides a link betweeen ancient rocks in western Wyoming and Montana and in eastern North and South Dakota and Minnesota. The discovery suggests that early Precambrian rocks covered an extensive area in northcentral...
Geology and ground-water resources of Nobles County, and part of Jackson County, Minnesota
Ralph F. Norvitch
1964, Water Supply Paper 1749
The area described in this report is in southwestern Minnesota, about 130 miles southwest of Minneapolis and St. Paul. It includes; Nobles County and the western tier of townships in Jackson County, a total of 864 square miles. Worthington, the Nobles County seat, is the largest city in the area,...
Geology and ground-water conditions of Clark County, Washington, with a description of a major alluvial aquifer along the Columbia River
Maurice John Mundorff
1964, Water Supply Paper 1600
This report presents the results of an investigation of the ground-water resources of the populated parts of Clark County. Yields adequate for irrigation can be obtained from wells inmost farmed areas in Clark County, Wash. The total available supply is sufficient for all foreseeable irrigation developments. In a few local...
Ground-water reconnaissance in the Burnt River valley, Baker County, Oregon
Don Price
1964, Open-File Report 64-128
The Burnt River valley in southern Baker County, Oreg., is underlain by rocks that range in age from pre-Tertiary to Quaternary. The pre-Tertiary rocks consist mainly of argillites, schists, limestones, and intrusive igneous rocks, while the Tertiary rocks consist mainly of felsic and mafic volcanic tuffs, lava flows and breccias,...
Records of wells and springs, water levels, and chemical quality of ground water in the East Portland area, Oregon
B. L. Foxworthy, G.M. Hogenson, E. R. Hampton
1964, Report
Data are presented on more than 300 wells, including many new ones whose records will not be a part of a forthcoming interpretative report on the occurrence of ground water in this area. A brief description of the geomorphic features is given, and the...
Ground-water conditions in the southern and central parts of the East Shore area, Utah, 1953-61
Ralph E. Smith, Joseph S. Gates
1963, Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey Water-Resources Bulletin 2
The East Shore area is in north-central Utah between the Wasatch Range and Great Salt Lake, and it has been divided into the Bountiful, Weber Delta, and Brigham ground-water districts, from south to north. The area described in this report includes the Bountiful and Weber Delta districts and the southernmost...
Geology and ground-water resources of northwestern King County, Washington
Bruce A. Liesch, Charles E. Price, Kenneth L. Walters
1963, Water Supply Bulletin 20
King County, in the west-central part of the State of Washington, includes about 2,135 square miles. The eastern part of the county lies in the Sierra-Cascade Mountains province and the remainder is in the Puget Trough of the Pacific Border province. The area covered by the present investigation is almost...
Rockford, Illinois; Wisconsin
U.S. Army Map Service
1963, Report
Topographic map of the Rockford, Illinois area and adjacent Wisconsin area....
Crustal structure from San Francisco, California, to Eureka, Nevada, from seismic-refraction measurements
Jerry P. Eaton
1963, Crustal Studies Technical Letter 11
Seismic-refraction measurements from chemical explosions near San Francisco, California, and Fallon and Eureka, Nevada, were made along a line extending nearly 700 km inland from San Francisco across the Coast Ranges, Great Valley, Sierra Nevada, and Basin and Range Province. The velocity of Pg in the Basin and Range Province...
Traveltimes and amplitudes from nuclear explosions; Nevada Test Site to Ordway, Colorado
Alan Ryall, David J. Stuart
1963, Crustal Studies Technical Letter 10
This paper treats the results of a study of seismic waves generated by eight nuclear explosions and recorded at 31 locations between the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and Ordway, Colorado. The line of recording stations crosses the eastern part of the Basin and Range Province, the Colorado Plateau, the southern...
Structure of the crust and upper mantle in the western United States
L. C. Pakiser
1963, Crustal Studies Technical Letter 8
Seismic waves generated by underground nuclear and chemical explosions have been recorded in a network of nearly 2,000 stations in the western conterminous United States as a part of the VELA UNIFORM program. The network extends from eastern Colorado to the California coastline and from central Idaho to the border...
Seismic-refraction measurements of crustal structure between Santa Monica Bay and Lake Mead
John C. Roller, John H. Healy
1963, Crustal Studies Technical Letter 7
A reversed seismic-refraction profile was recorded between Santa Monica Bay, California, and Lake Mead, Nevada, during November 1961. Depth to the Mohorovicic discontinuity was determined to be approximately 29 km at Santa Monica Bay, 36 km under the Transverse Ranges, 26 km under the Mojave Desert, and 30 km at...
Nesting ecology and reproductive rate of the red-winged blackbird in tidal marshes of the upper Chesapeake Bay region
B. Meanley, J.S. Webb
1963, Chesapeake Science (4) 90-100
The nesting ecology and reproductive rate of the polygynous red-winged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus, were studied in the tidal marshes of Maryland during the period of 1958 through 1961. Sixteen nesting colonies were located in six major marsh communities of the Eastern Shore and were visited approximately twice a week from...
Aeromagnetic map of the east-central part of the Death Valley National Monument, Inyo County, California
G. E. Andreasen, F.A. Petrafeso
1963, Geophysical Investigations Map 428
No abstract available....
Structure-contour map of the Olive Hill Clay Bed in northeastern Kentucky
John W. Hosterman
1963, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 261
The gently dipping Olive Hill Clay Bed of Crider (1913) crops out in belt about 15 miles \vidc and 60 miles long from the Ohio River near Portsmouth, Ohio, south-southwesterly to Frenchburg, Ky. (see inset map).The purpose of the structure-contour map presented here is to aid exploration by showing the...
Geology of the east Thermopolis area, Hot Springs and Washakie Counties, Wyoming
George Henry Horn
1963, Oil and Gas Investigation Map 213
No abstract available. ...
Aeromagnetic map of Georgetown and vicinity, east-central Texas
G. E. Andreasen, F.A. Petrafeso
1963, Geophysical Investigations Map 416
No abstract available....
Geologic map of the eastern Rub Al Khali quadrangle, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
E.L. Elberg Jr., Ruel D. Gierhart, Leon F. Ramirez
1963, IMAP 215-A
Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Arabian American Oil Company under the joint sponsorship of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the U.S. Department of State....
Geology of the Inyan Kara Mountain quadrangle, Crook and Weston Counties, Wyoming
W. J. Mapel, C. L. Pillmore
1963, Bulletin 1121-M
The Inyan Kara Mountain quadrangle includes about 215 square miles on the west side of the Black Hills, in Crook and Weston Counties, Wyo. It is about 10 miles south of Sundance, 6 miles east of Upton, and 10 miles northeast of Newcastle, Wyo.Exposed sedimentary rocks, exclusive of surficial deposits,...
Geology of the Anlauf and Drain quadrangles, Douglas and Lane counties, Oregon
Linn Hoover
1963, Open-File Report 59-56
The Anlauf and Drain quadrangles, Oregon, lie about 20 miles south of the City of Eugene, in Douglas and Lane Counties. They constitute an area of about 435 square miles that includes parts of both the Cascade Range and Coast Range physiographic provinces.A sequence of lower Tertiary sedimentary and volcanic...
Geology and ore deposits of the South Silverton mining area, San Juan County, Colorado
David J. Varnes
1963, Professional Paper 378-A
The South Silverton mining area is immediately southeast of the town of Silverton, San Juan County, in southwestern Colorado (fig. 1). The town of Silverton itself lies in a relatively flat and open reach of the Animas Valley, called Bakers Park, in the western part of the San Juan Mountains. (See...
