Hydrologic and geologic reconnaissance of Pinto Basin, Joshua Tree National Monument, Riverside County, California
Fred Kunkel
1963, Water Supply Paper 1475-O
Pinto basin, in the north-central part of Riverside County, Calif., is a typical desert valley formed by downfaulting along several major fault zones. The valley is filled with alluvium, and ground water in the alluvium discharges as subsurface outflow through an alluvium-filled gap at the east end of the valley....
Ground-water resources of the Bryce Canyon National Park area, Utah, with a section on the drilling of a test well
I. Wendell Marine
1963, Water Supply Paper 1475-M
The water need at Bryce Canyon National Park in 1957 was about 1.3 million cubic feet for a tourist season that lasted from the middle of May to the middle of October. To evaluate the adequacy of water-supply sources, a hypothetical future need of 5 million cubic feet of water...
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,...
Geologic and hydrologic features of the San Bernardino area, California; with special reference to underflow across the San Jacinto fault
L.C. Dutcher, Arthur A. Garrett
1963, Water Supply Paper 1419
This is the second in a series of interpretive reports on subsurface outflow from the ground-water basins of San Bernardino County, Calif., prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the San Bernardino County Flood Control District. One principal purpose of the study was to estimate the ground-water outflow...
Geology of the Capitol Reef area, Wayne and Garfield Counties, Utah
J. Fred Smith Jr., Lyman C. Huff, E. Neal Hinrichs, Robert G. Luedke
1963, Professional Paper 363
The Capitol Reef area includes about 900 square miles in western Wayne and north-central Garfield Counties, Utah. It is along the border between the High Plateaus of Utah and the Canyon Lands sections of the Colorado' Plateaus province. Capitol Reef National Monument is in the eastern part of the mapped...
Economic geology of the Central City district, Gilpin County, Colorado
P.K. Sims, Avery A. Drake Jr., E. W. Tooker
1963, Professional Paper 359
The Central City district, in Gilpin County, Colo., is on the east flank of the Front Range, about 30 miles west of Denver. The district is the most important mining camp in the Front Range mineral belt, and has yielded more than $100 million worth of gold, silver, uranium, and...
Ground-water geology and pump irrigation in Frenchman Creek Basin above Palisade, Nebraska
W. D. E. Cardwell, Edward D. Jenkins
1963, Water Supply Paper 1577
This report describes the geography, geology, and ground-water resources of that part of the Frenchman Creek basin upstream from Palisade, Nebr., an area of about 4,900 square miles. The basin includes all of Phillips County, Colo., and Chase County, Nebr., and parts of Logan, Sedgwick, Washington, and Yuma Counties, Colo.,...
Effects of hydraulic and geologic factors on streamflow of the Yakima River Basin, Washington
Hallard B. Kinnison, Jack E. Sceva
1963, Water Supply Paper 1595
The Yakima River basin, in south-central Washington, is the largest single river system entirely within the confines of the State. Its waters are the most extensively utilized of all the rivers in Washington. The river heads high on the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains, flows for 180 miles in a...
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...
Salt-water encroachment, geology, and ground-water resources of Savannah area, Georgia and South Carolina
H. B. Counts, Ellis Donsky
1963, Water Supply Paper 1611
The Savannah area consists of about 2,300 square miles of the Coastal Plain along the coast of eastern Georgia and southeastern South Carolina. Savannah is near the center of the area. Most of the large ground-water developments are in or near Savannah. About 98 percent of the approximately 60 mgd...
Geology and hydrology of the Elk River, Minnesota, nuclear-reactor site
Ralph F. Norvitch, Robert Schneider, Richard G. Godfrey
1963, Bulletin 1133-C
The Elk River, Minn., nuclear-reactor site is on the east bluff of the Mississippi River about 35 miles northwest of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The area is underlain by about 70 to 180 feet of glacial drift, including at the top as much as 120 feet of outwash deposits (valley...
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...
Preliminary geologic map of part of the Rapid City East quadrangle, South Dakota
Ernest Dobrovolny
1963, Open-File Report 63-28
No abstract available....
Low-flow frequency curves for selected long-term stream gaging stations in eastern United States
Clayton H. Hardison, Robert O.R. Martin
1963, Water Supply Paper 1669-G
Curves showing the magnitude and frequency of annual low flow at 85 streamgaging stations located in 17 States east and 5 States west of the Mississippi River have been smoothed and adjusted to one of four long-term periods. They are presented to show the similarity and dissimilarity of curves even...
Compilation of records of surface waters of the United States, October 1950 to September 1960: Part 2-B. South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins, Ogeechee River to Pearl River
E. L. Hendricks, A. N. Cameron, L.E. Carroon, F. N. Hansen, A. O. Patterson, W.H. Robinson
1963, Water Supply Paper 1724
No abstract available....
Surficial geology and soils of the Elmira-Williamsport region, New York and Pennsylvania, with a section on forest regions and great soil groups
Charles Storrow Denny, Walter Henry Lyford, J. C. Goodlett
1963, Professional Paper 379
The Elmira-Williamsport region, lying south of the Finger Lakes in central New York and northern Pennsylvania, is part of the Appalachian Plateaus physiographic province. A small segment of the Valley and Ridge province is included near the south border. In 1953 and 1954, the authors, a geologist and a soil...
Geology and ground-water resources of Montgomery County, Alabama
Doyle Blewer Knowles, H. L. Reade, J. C. Scott
1963, Water Supply Paper 1606
Montgomery County includes an area of 790 square miles in east-central Alabama. The economy of Montgomery County is related primarily to the growing and processing of agricultural products.The county is in the northern part of the Coastal Plain. It consists of parts of four divisions of the Coastal Plain: the...
Geologic history of the teays valley in West Virginia
E. C. Rhodehamel, C.W. Carlston
1963, Geological Society of America Bulletin (74) 251-274
The segment of the abandoned pre-Pleistocene Teays Valley between Scary and Huntington, W. Va. stands 130-240 feet above the Ohio and Kanawha rivers, and its bedrock floor slopes westward at about 0.6 foot per mile. The bedrock floor is overlain by highly weathered gravel in which a soil profile developed;...
Early pennsylvanian currents in the southern Appalachian Mountains
J. Schlee
1963, Geological Society of America Bulletin (74) 1439-1451
Measurement of more than 1200 cross-beds in lower Pennsylvanian sandstones of the southern Appalachian Mountains reveals a broad pattern of sediment transport to the southwest and west. Most of the sand appears to have been derived from the east and to have moved south-westward parallel to the axis of the...
Factors influencing the pore volume of fine-grained sediments under low-to-moderate overburden loads
R.H. Meade
1963, Sedimentology (2) 235-242
An anomalous increase of pore volume with increasing depth in the range 0—1,900 ft. occurs in fine‐grained sediments along the east side of the San Joaquin Valley of Cali‐ fornia. Several possible causes for the anomaly were inferred from a literature search and from study of the core samples. Statistical analyses of...
Two pollen diagrams from southeastern Minnesota: Problems in the regional late-glacial and postglacial vegetational history
H.E. Wright Jr., Thomas C. Winter, Harvey L. Patten
1963, Geological Society of America Bulletin (74) 1371-1396
Kirchner Marsh and Lake Carlson are located 3 miles apart in Dakota County about 15 miles south of Minneapolis in the St. Croix moraine, which was formed by the Superior lobe during the Gary phase of the Wisconsin glaciation. During the Mankato phase that followed, the Des Moines lobe advanced to within...
Early pennsylvanian currents in the southern Appalachian Mountains
John Schlee
1963, Geological Society of America Bulletin (74) 1439-1451
Measurement of more than 1200 cross-beds in lower Pennsylvanian sandstones of the southern Appalachian Mountains reveals a broad pattern of sediment transport to the southwest and west. Most of the sand appears to have been derived from the east and to have moved south-westward parallel to the axis of the Appalachian geosyncline. The pattern...
Reef Creek Detachment Fault, Northwestern Wyoming
William G. Pierce
1963, GSA Bulletin (74) 1225-1236
he Reef Creek fault is in northwestern Wyoming, a few miles east of the northeast border of Yellowstone National Park. It lies within the area covered by the more extensive Heart Mountain fault. Like that fault, it is a décollement or detachment fault in which strata became detached along a basal shearing...
Saline ground water — A little used and unmapped resource
J. L. Poole
1963, Groundwater (1) 18-20
Vast quantities of saline ground water await new commercial uses and economical demineralization processes for recognition as a valuable resource. Saline ground water is more widely distributed than any other natural resource, occurring throughout the United States and in geologic formations ranging from the oldest to the youngest. The Coastal Plain has the...
Composite dike of andesite and rhyolite at Klondyke, Arizona
Frank S. Simons
1963, Geological Society of America Bulletin (74) 1049-1056
A composite dike of probable Tertiary age intrudes Precambrian granodiorite 6 miles north of Klondyke, Arizona. The dike is exposed discontinuously for about 1500 feet along the strike and has a core of porphyritic rhyolite 15-20 feet thick flanked by coarsely porphyritic andesite 1-2 feet thick. Field evidence indicates that the rhyolite is later than...
