Floods of January-February 1957 in southeastern Kentucky and adjacent areas
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1964, Water Supply Paper 1652-A
Heavy rains over an extensive area on January 27-February 2, caused extreme flooding in southeastern Kentucky and adjacent areas in West Virginia, Virginia, and Tennessee. Total rainfall for the storm period ranged from 6-9 inches over most of the report area and was 12? inches at the eastern end of...
Use of ground-water reservoirs for storage of surface water in the San Joaquin Valley, California
G. H. Davis, B. E. Lofgren, Seymour Mack
1964, Water Supply Paper 1618
The San Joaquin Valley includes roughly the southern two-thirds of the Central Valley of California, extending 250 miles from Stockton on the north to Grapevine at the foot of the Tehachapi Mountains. The valley floor ranges in width from 25 miles near Bakersfield to about 55 miles near Visalia; it...
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 in eastern Cheyenne and Kiowa Counties, Colorado
Arnold J. Boettcher, C. Albert Horr
1964, Water Supply Paper 1779-N
No abstract available....
A summary of the occurrence and development of ground water in the southern High Plains of Texas
J.G. Cronin, B. N. Myers
1964, Water Supply Paper 1693
The Southern High Plains of Texas occupies an area of about 22,000 square miles in northwest Texas, extending from the Canadian River southward. about 250 miles and from the New Mexico line eastward an average distance of about 120 miles. The economy of the area is dependent largely upon irrigated...
Cambrian rocks of the Pioche mining district, Nevada: With a section on Pioche shale faunules
Charles Warren Merriam, Allison R. Palmer
1964, Professional Paper 469
The Pioche mining district in the Ely Range, southeastern Nevada, is one of several districts in the Great Basin where Cambrian rocks are hosts of important ore deposits. Cambrian strata underlying the Ely Range are intruded by porphyritic granite and other dikes. Tertiary volcanic rocks and Pliocene fresh-water clastic deposits...
Geology and ground-water resources of Washington, D.C., and vicinity, with a section on chemical quality of the water
Paul McKelvey Johnston, D. E. Weaver, Leonard Siu
1964, Water Supply Paper 1776
The area of this report includes 436 square miles centered about the District of Columbia. The area contains parts of two distinctly different physiographic provinces-the Piedmont and the Coastal Plain. The Fall Line, which separates the Piedmont province on the west from the Coastal Plain Province on the east, bisects...
Geology and ground-water resources of the Bristol-Plainville-Southington area, Connecticut
A. M. La Sala
1964, Water Supply Paper 1578
The Bristol-Plainville-Southington area straddles the boundary between the New England Upland and the Connecticut Valley Lowland sections of the New England physiographic province. The western parts of Bristol are Southington lie in the New England Upland section, an area of rugged topography underlain by metamorphic rocks of Palezoic age. The...
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...
Ground-water conditions in the Green Bay area, Wisconsin, 1950-60
Doyle B. Knowles
1964, Water Supply Paper 1669-J
The Green Bay area, which includes parts of Brown, Outagamie, and Shawano Counties, has an area of about 525 square miles in eastern Wisconsin at the south end of Green Bay. In 1960, it had a population estimated at 124,000; Green Bay, the largest city in the area, had a...
Artesian water in the Malabar coastal plain of southern Kerala, India
George C. Taylor, P.K. Ghosh
1964, Water Supply Paper 1608-D
The present report is based on a geological and hydrological reconnaissance during 1954 of the Malabar Coastal Plain and adjacent island area of southern Kerala to evaluate the availability of ground water for coastal villages and municipalities and associated industries and the potentialities for future development. The work was done...
Ground water in folded Cretaceous sandstone of the Bhachau area, Kutch, India, with reference to the Kandla Port water supply
George C. Taylor, H.M. Osa, A. Mitra, B.N. Sen
1964, Water Supply Paper 1608-B
This report is based on an investigation of the availability of ground-water supplies in the Bhachau area for the nearby Kandla Port and township development undertaken by the Government of India. This seaport lies on an estuary of the Gulf of Kutch in western India and in the eastern part...
Ground-water resources of the lower Mesilla Valley, Texas and New Mexico
E. R. Leggat, M.E. Lowry, J. W. Hood
1964, Water Supply Paper 1669-AA
The lower Mesilla Valley extends southward from the vicinity of Anthony, Tex., to the gorge of the Rio Grande north of El Paso and westward from the Franklin Mountains to the east edge of La Mesa. The increase in the use of ground water for the public water supply of...
Quality of surface waters of the United States, 1962, Parts 1 and 2, North Atlantic slope basins and South Atlantic and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins
S. K. Love
1964, Water Supply Paper 1941
Geologic reconnaissance of the Antelope-Ashwood area, north-central Oregon, with emphasis on the John Day Formation of late Oligocene and early Miocene age
Dallas L. Peck
1964, Bulletin 1161-D
This report briefly describes the geology of an area of about 750 square miles in Jefferson, Wasco, Crook, and Wheeler Counties, Oregon. About 16,000 feet of strata that range in age from pre-Tertiary to Quaternary are exposed. These include the following units: pre-Tertiary slate, graywacke, conglomerate, and meta-andesite; Clarno Formation...
Water resources of the English River, Old Mans Creek, and Clear Creek basins in Iowa
H.H. Schwob
1964, Open-File Report 64-141
The surface and ground water resources of a 991 square mile area comprising the drainage basins of English River, Old Mans Creek and Clear Creek are presented. These basins lie to the west and southwest of Iowa City, Iowa, and all three streams are tributary to the Iowa River. The...
Geology and mineral deposits of the Osgood Mountains quadrangle, Humboldt County, Nevada
Preston Enslow Hotz, Charles Ronald Willden
1964, Professional Paper 431
The Osgood Mountains quadrangle is in north-central Nevada northeast of Winnemucca, the principal town in the region. The quadrangle includes two north-northeast-trending mountain ranges, the Osgood Mountains on the east and the Hot Springs Range on the west, which are separated by a narrow valley and are bounded on the east...
Geology and ground-water resources of Uvalde County, Texas
F.A. Welder, R.D. Reeves
1964, Water Supply Paper 1584
The principal aquifer in Uvalde County is the Edwards and associated limestones of Cretaceous age. The aquifer underlies an extensive area in south-central Texas extending along the Balcones fault zone from Kinney County eastward to San Antonio, and thence northeastward to Hays County. The hydrologic unit making up the Edwards...
Inventory of published and unpublished chemical analyses of surface waters in the continental United States and Puerto Rico, 1961
Thomas H. Woodard, Sumner Griggs Heidel
1964, Water Supply Paper 1786
This inventory contains a list of published and unpublished chemical analyses obtained through September 30, 1961, by agencies associated with the Subcommittee on Hydrology. Bulletin 6 of Subcommittee on Hydrology includes references to all surface-water analyses for states east of the Mississippi River known to exist in the files of...
A magnetic anomaly of possible economic significance in southeastern Minnesota
Isidore Zietz
1964, Circular 489
An aeromagnetic survey in southeastern Minnesota by the U. S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the State of Minnesota has revealed a high-amplitude, linear, and narrow magnetic feature that suggests a possible source of Precambrian iron-formation of economic value. For the past few years the U. S. Geological Survey has...
Ground water in the Navajo Sandstone at the east entrance, Zion National Park, Utah
J. S. Gates
1964, Open-File Report 64-58
No abstract available....
Water resources of the Flint area, Michigan
Sulo Werner Wiitala, K.E. Vanlier, Robert A. Krieger
1964, Water Supply Paper 1499-E
This report describes the water resources of Genesee County, Mich., whose principal city is Flint. The sources of water available to the county are the Flint and Shiawassee Rivers and their tributaries, inland lakes, ground water, and Lake Huron. The withdrawal use of water in the county in 1958 amounted...
Aeromagnetic map of eastern Los Angeles, California and vicinity
G. E. Andreasen, J. A. Pitkin, F.A. Petrafeso
1964, Geophysical Investigations Map 465
No abstract available....
Ground water east of Jackson Lake, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Laurence J. McGreevy, Ellis D. Gordon
1964, Circular 494
The project area, which lies east of and adjacent to Jackson Lake is on the downthrown eastern block of the Teton fault, a normal fault that trends northward along the west edge of Jackson Lake. Rocks of pre-Cretaceous age are deeply buried beneath this area. Sedimentary rocks of Cretaceous age...
Oxidized zinc districts in California and Nevada
Allen Van Heyl, C. N. Bozion
1964, Mineral Investigations Resource Map 39
Deposits of oxidized zinc-bearing ores are widely distributed in Nevada, except in the northwest corner, and are abundant in Inyo and San Bernardino Counties in the northern desert region of California. Known deposits elsewhere in the two States are few, widely spaced, and generally small. The main production has been...
