Ground-water resources of the Ainsworth unit, Cherry and Brown Counties, Nebraska
James G. Cronin, Thomas G. Newport, R. A. Krieger
1956, Water Supply Paper 1371
The Ainsworth unit, so named by the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, is in north-central Nebraska and is in the drainage basin of the Niobrara River. It is an area of about 1,000 square miles in the east-central part of Cherry County and northern part of Brown County. The east-west...
Geology of southeastern Ventura Basin, Los Angeles County, California
Edward L. Winterer
1956, Open-File Report 56-134
The Ventura Basin (see index map, fig. 1) has long been one of the important oil-producing districts of California. The eastern part of the Basin includes some of the oldest oil fields in the state and also several of those most recently discovered. Since 1937 several new fields have been...
Floods of August 1955 in the Northeastern States
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1956, Circular 377
The floods of August 1955 were an unprecedented disaster in a arge area of the northeastern United States. They rank among the most destructive in the country's his ory. Augmented by the antecedent hurricane sto m of August 11-15, the rainfall of August 17-20 accompanying hurricane Diane reached maximum val...
Hydrology vs. water allocation in the eastern United States
H. E. Thomas
1956, Open-File Report 56-116
Geologic map of the eastern Beaver Divide-Gas Hills area, Fremont and Natrona Counties, Wyoming
Franklyn B. Van Houten, Joseph Leonard Weitz
1956, Oil and Gas Investigation Map 180
No abstract available....
Surface water supply of the United States, 1954 Part II-A, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins, James River to Savannah River
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1956, Water Supply Paper 1333
Geology and petrology of the Lava Mountains, San Bernardino County, California
George I. Smith
1956, Open-File Report 56-109
The Lava Mountains are a range of low mountains along the northern edge of the Mojave Desert, California. The pre-Tertiary rocks consist of a few swell pendants of metamorphic rocks in Atolia quartz monzonite. Overlying these are small patches of volcanic and sedimentary rocks, probably Tertiary, which project into the...
Zinc and copper mineralization of the Vazante area, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Samuel L. Moore
1956, Open-File Report 56-82
A large body of zinc and copper mineralization is exposed in a line of low hills about 5 kilometers east of the small village of Vazante in the northwestern part of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The Vazante area can be reached by roads leading north from the State...
Surficial geology and geomorphology of Potter County, Pennsylvania
C. S. Denny
1956, Professional Paper 288
Potter County is located in the Appalachian Plateaus of north-central Pennsylvania and contains the headwaters of the Genesee River, the Allegheny River, and the Susquehanna River. Drift of Wisconsin age covers the northeastern part of the county. This study includes a detailed survev of the surficial deposits of the Genesee...
Records of wells and springs, water levels, and quality of ground water in Lewis County, Washington
James Montgomery Weigle, Robert L. Washburn
1956, Open-File Report 56-130
This report covers an irregularly shaped area of about 830 square miles in the west and central parts of Lewis County, including most of its populated part. The area mapped spans the county from north to south within the Puget Trough and includes valleys extending eastward and westward up the...
Geophysical studies in the intermontane basins in southern California
Don R. Mabey
1956, Geophysics (21) 839-853
Geophysical surveys were made by the U. S. Geological Survey in Searles Lake basin and in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California to test the application of geophysical exploration to the study of the geologic problems associated with the intermontane basins of southern California. In Searles Lake basin a coordinated...
Tidal fluctuations of water level observed in wells in East Tennessee
R. M. Richardson
1956, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (37) 461-462
Semidiurnal water‐level fluctuations of tidal period have been observed in wells completed in the Chickamauga limestone of Middle and Late Ordovician age in east Tennessee. The periodic oscillations of the water level are similar to fluctuations in artesian pressure that in other localities have been recognized and correlated with earth...
A petrographic study of Gila Polychrome
E.B. Danson, R.M. Wallace
1956, American Antiquity (22) 180-183
Gila Polychrome pottery has been recognized since the time of the earliest archaeological work in the Southwest. Cushing, in 1887–88, recognized in the polychromes at Los Muertos and other Classic period sites of the Hohokam area the pottery type we now call Gila Polychrome. As more of the Southwest became...
Uranium content of ground and surface waters in western Kansas, eastern Colorado, and the Oklahoma Panhande
E.R. Landis
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 624
During 1954, 1955, and 1956, 324 water samples were collected in western Kansas, eastern Colorado, the Oklahoma Panhandle, and northeastern New Mexico, to determine the uranium content of water from the various rock units and geologic terranes in the region, and to locate areas in which, large amounts of uranium...
Geology and ore deposits of the Chicago Creek area, Clear Creek County, Colorado
J. E. Harrison, J. D. Wells
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 432
The Chicago Creek area, Clear Creek County, Colo., forms part of the Front Range mineral belt, which is a northeast-trending belt of coextensive porphyry intrusive rocks and hydrothermal veins of Tertiary age. More than $4.5 million worth of gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, and uranium was produced from the mines...
Ground water in northeastern Louisville, Kentucky with reference to induced infiltration
M. I. Rorabaugh
1956, Water Supply Paper 1360-B
In cooperation with the city of Louisville, Ky., the U. S. Geological Survey made a detailed investigation during the period February 1945 to March 1947 of the ground-water resources of a 3-square-mile area along the Ohio River north-east of Louisville. Test drilling shows that the principal aquifer consists of about...
Ground-water geology of the coastal zone, Long Beach-Santa Ana area, California
J. F. Poland, A. M. Piper
1956, Water Supply Paper 1109
This paper is the first chapter of a comprehensive report on the ground-water features in the southern part of the coastal plain in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, Calif., with special reference to the effectiveness of the so-called coastal barrier--the Newport-Inglewood structural zone--in restraining landwar,-1 movement of saline water. The...
Histopathology of kidney disease in fish
E. M. Wood, W. T. Yasutake
1956, American Journal of Pathology (32) 591-603
Kidney disease is one of the most puzzling fish diseases known to exist in the United States. In less than Io years it has invaded the Pacific Northwest, exacting a heavy toll of hatchery salmon. Its first appearance apparently was in Massachusetts where Belding and Merrill' described a disease similar...
Records of selected wells on the Eastern Shore peninsula, Virginia (including well logs and chemical analyses of ground water)
Allen Sinnott, G. Chase Tibbitts Jr.
1955, Virginia Division of Geology Mineral Resources Circular 3
No abstract available....
Macracanthorhynchus ingens from raccoons in Maryland
Carlton M. Herman
1955, Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington (22) 105-105
There have been very few published records of the occurrence of the acanthocephalan parasite Macracanthorhynchus ingens (von Linstow, 1897) in North America. Chandler (1942) and Moore (1946) reported 11 o 13 raccoons (Procyon lotor) trapped in Angelina County, Texas, infected with these intestinal parasites. From 1 to 90 worms occurred...
Geology of the Fourmile pegmatite area, Custer County, South Dakota
Jack Allison Redden
1955, Open-File Report 55-145
The Fournile pegmatite area covers 32 sq. mi. in the western part of the Custer pegmatite mining district, Custer County, South Dakota. This area has been one of the major sources of sheet mica in the United States, especially between 1906 and 1911, and it has been a significant source...
Water-power resources in upper Carson River basin, California - Nevada
Harold L. Pumphrey
1955, Water Supply Paper 1329-A
West Fork Carson River offers the best opportunity for power development in the Carson River basin. The Hope Valley reservoir site could be developed to provide adequate storage regulation and concentration of fall would permit utilization of 1,400 feet of head in 51h miles below the clam site, or 1,900...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1953, Part II-B, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins, Ogeechee River to Pearl River
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1955, Water Supply Paper 1274
Radioactivity and uranium content of the Sharon Springs member of the Pierre shale and associated rocks in western Kansas and eastern Colorado
Edwin R. Landis
1955, Trace Elements Investigations 573
As a part of the Geological Survey's program of investigating uranium-bearing carbonaceous rocks on behalf of the Division of Raw Materials of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, a reconnaissance of the Sharon Springs member of the Pierre shale in western Kansas and eastern Colorado was conducted during 1954. The Sharon Springs...
Ground-water conditions between Oracle and Oracle Junction, Pinal County, Arizona
L.A. Heindl
1955, Open-File Report 55-63
The development of the San Manuel copper prospect has greatly increased traffic along State Highway 77. Considerable interest in commercial possibilities along that road has resulted in a request by the Arizona State Land Department for information about the ground-water conditions between Oracle and Oracle Junction. This request came too...
