Earthquakes in Alaska
Peter J. Haeussler, George Plafker
1995, Open-File Report 95-624
Earthquake risk is high in much of the southern half of Alaska, but it is not the same everywhere. This map shows the overall geologic setting in Alaska that produces earthquakes. The Pacific plate (darker blue) is sliding northwestward past southeastern Alaska and then dives beneath the North American plate...
Regional sampling of waters and sediments variably impacted by mine drainage in the Denver West 1:100,000 Quadrangle, October, 1994; preliminary data
1995, Open-File Report 95-804-B
No abstract available....
Estimated water use in Puerto Rico, 1988-89
Teresa Dopazo, W. L. Molina-Rivera
1995, Open-File Report 95-380
Flood magnitude and frequency of Eightmile Branch tributary at the culvert on New Jersey route 72, at Stafford Township, New Jersey
Paul Dunne
1995, Open-File Report 95-323
Summary statistics and graphical comparisons of specific conductance, temperature, and dissolved oxygen data, Buffalo Bayou, Houston, Texas, April 1986-March 1991
D. W. Brown, E.M. Paul
1995, Open-File Report 95-706
Buffalo Bayou is the major stream that drains the Houston, Texas, metropolitan area. The U.S. Geological Survey has provided specific conductance, temperature, and dissolved oxygen data to the City of Houston for three sites along a 7.7-mile reach of Buffalo Bayou since 1986. Summary statistics and graphical comparisons of the...
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, annual project summaries, XXXVI; Volume 2
Muriel L. Jacobson (compiler)
1995, Open-File Report 95-210
Bibliography of well-log applications annual update, October 1, 1994 to September 30, 1995
Stephen E. Prensky
1995, Open-File Report 95-817-A
Bibliography of well-log applications annual update, October 1, 1994 to September 30, 1995
Stephen E. Prensky
1995, Open-File Report 95-817-B
Reference manual for data base on Nevada well logs
E.M. Bauer, K. D. Cartier
1995, Open-File Report 95-460
The U.S. Geological Survey and Nevada Division of Water Resources are cooperatively using a data base for are cooperatively using a data base for managing well-log information for the State of Nevada. The Well-Log Data Base is part of an integrated system of computer data bases using the Ingres Relational...
Potential hazards from flood in part of the Chalone Creek and Bear Valley drainage basins, Pinnacles National Monument, California
Robert W. Meyer
1995, Open-File Report 95-426
Areas of Chalone Creek and Bear Valley drainage basins in Pinnacles National Monument, California, are subject to frontal storms that can cause major flooding from November to April in areas designated for public use. To enhance visitor safety and to protect cultural and natural resources, the U.S. Geological Survey in...
Nitrate concentrations in ground water of the central Columbia Plateau
Sarah J. Ryker, Joseph L. Jones
1995, Open-File Report 95-445
Potassium-argon apparent ages of rocks from the western Okanogan Range, the Methow Basin, and adjacent areas, north-central Washington
V. R. Todd
1995, Open-File Report 95-274
Water wells on Isla de Culebra, Puerto Rico
G.S. Cherry, Juan Ramos
1995, Open-File Report 95-369
Chemical analyses of major, minor, and trace elements including gold and the arsenic species, As(III) and As(V), in water samples collected along the Getchell Trend, Humboldt County, Nevada
D. J. Grimes, J. B. McHugh, A. L. Meier
1995, Open-File Report 95-636
No abstract available....
Annual yield and selected hydrologic data for the Arkansas River Basin Compact, Arkansas-Oklahoma, 1994 water year
J.E. Porter
1995, Open-File Report 95-474
The computed annual yield and deficiency of the subbasins as defined in the Arkansas River Basin Compact, Arkansas-Oklahoma, are given in tables for the 1994 water year. Actual runoff from the subbasins and depletion caused by major reservoirs in the compact area also are given in tabular form. Monthly maximum,...
Hydrologic effects associated with the January 17, 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake
E.G. Quilty, C. D. Farrar, D. L. Galloway, S. N. Hamlin, R. J. Laczniak, E.A. Roeloffs, M.L. Sorey, D.E. Woodcock
1995, Open-File Report 95-813
This report compiles hydrologic observations in southern California associated with the 1994 Mw = 6.7 Northridge, California earthquake. In southern California, the largest ground water level change was a drop of 52 cm at Crystalaire. Most of the steplike water-level changes recorded following the Northridge earthquake agreed in direction with...
Some fluid-inclusion measurements for geothermal drill holes in California, Nevada, El Salvador, and Russia
Keith E. Bargar
1995, Open-File Report 95-826
The purpose of this report is to make available fluid-inclusion information from drill holes in five geothermal areas: The Geysers and Long Valley caldera in northern California; Steamboat Springs, Nevada; the Ahuachapan field of El Salvador, Central America; and the Mutnovsky geothermal field, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. These data were produced...
Water-quality conditions of inflow, outflow, and impounded water at Rathbun Reservoir, Iowa, Clinton and Pomona Lakes, Kansas, and Harlan County Reservoir, Nebraska, May through August 1993
A.C. Ziegler, P.P. Rasmussen, M.D. Carlson, D. A. Hargadine
1995, Open-File Report 95-472
During May through August 1993, water-quality samples were collected twice from selected sites in Rathbun Reservoir, Iowa, Clinton and Pomona Lakes, Kansas, and Harlan County Reservoir, Nebraska. Samples were analyzed for selected physical and chemical properties, bacteria, major ions, nutrients, selected metals, total organic carbon, selected herbicides, and chlorophyll-a and...
Water-resources investigations in Tennessee; programs and activities of the U.S. Geological Survey, 1992-94
B.H. Balthrop, H. C. Mattraw
1995, Open-File Report 94-498
The report contains summaries of projects and activities in the Tennessee District of the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, from 1992-1994. Each summary includes the location, the objective of the project, the progress of the study to date, and the names of the cooperators and the project...
Organic geochemical analysis and thermochronologic modeling of potential petroleum source rocks in the Malheur, Jordan and Andrews resource areas, southeastern Oregon
C.E. Barker
1995, Open-File Report 95-637
A preliminary assessment of the occurrence and possible sources of MTBE in ground water of the United States, 1993-94
P. J. Squillace
1995, Open-File Report 95-456
The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments require fuel oxygenates to be added to gasoline used in some metropolitan areas to reduce atmospheric concen- trations of carbon monoxide or ozone. Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), is the most commonly used fuel oxygenate and is a relatively new gasoline additive. Nevertheless, out of...
Water-quality data for the Santa Clara-Calleguas hydrologic unit, Ventura County, California, October 1989 through December 1993
J. A. Izbicki, P. M. Martin, J.N. Densmore, D. A. Clark
1995, Open-File Report 95-315
More than 700 water samples were collected from 232 wells and 34 surface-water sites in the Santa Clara-Calleguas Hydrologic Unit, Ventura County, California, from October 1989 through December 1993 as part of the U.S. Geological Survey's Southern California Regional Aquifer-System Analysis study. Most samples were analyzed for major ions, nutrients,...
USGS spectral response maps and their relationship with seismic design forces in building codes
E. V. Leyendecker, D. M. Perkins, Sylvester Theodore Algermissen, P.C. Thenhaus, S.L. Hanson
1995, Open-File Report 95-596
Hydrocarbon source rock characterization and maturity based on rock-eval pyrolysis and vitrinite reflectance of Eocene strata, southern Oregon Coast Range, Douglas and Coos Counties, southwest Oregon
Paul G. Lillis, T.A. Daws, M. J. Pawlewicz, A. R. Niem, In-Chang Ryu
1995, Open-File Report 95-75-G
Statistical property of the earth reflectivity and fractal seismic deconvolution
Myung W. Lee
1995, Open-File Report 95-697
