Ground-water quality protection; why it's important to you
Ank Webbers
1995, Open-File Report 95-376
Ground water is a valuable resource often used for industry, commerce, agriculture, and drinking water. In the 19080's, ground water provided 35 percent of the municipal water supplies in the United States and 95 percent of the rural, domestic drinking water. Scientists participating in ground-water studies may determine the...
Volcanic-hazard zonation for Mount St. Helens, Washington, 1995
E.W. Wolfe, T.C. Pierson
1995, Open-File Report 95-497
Volcanic-hazard zonation for Glacier Peak Volcano, Washington
R. B. Waitt, Larry Mastin, J. E. Beget
1995, Open-File Report 95-499
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory summary 92, part III: Electronic tilt data, January to December 1993
G. S. Puniwai, A. J. Largo
1995, Open-File Report 95-268
No abstract available....
Geologic radon potential of Guam and Puerto Rico
R.R. Schumann, editor(s)
1995, Open-File Report 93-292-K
No abstract available....
Coal geology of the Paleocene-Eocene Calvert Bluff Formation (Wilcox Group) and the Eocene Manning Formation (Jackson Group) in east-central Texas: Field trip guidebook for the Society for Organic Petrology, Twelfth Annual Meeting, The Woodlands, Texas, August 30, 1995
Peter D. Warwick, Sharon S. Crowley
1995, Open-File Report 95-595
The Jackson and Wilcox Groups of eastern Texas (fig. 1) are the major lignite producing intervals in the Gulf Region. Within these groups, the major lignite-producing formations are the Paleocene-Eocene Calvert Bluff Formation (Wilcox) and the Eocene Manning Formation (Jackson). According to the Keystone Coal Industry Manual (Maclean Hunter Publishing...
Characterization of Quaternary and suspected Quaternary faults, regional studies, Nevada and California
R.E. Anderson, R.C. Bucknam, A. J. Crone, K. M. Haller, M. N. Machette, S. F. Personius, T. P. Barnhard, M.J. Cecil, R. L. Dart
1995, Open-File Report 95-599
Index of stations— Surface-water data-collection network of Texas, September 1993
1995, Open-File Report 95-161
The U.S. Geological Survey's investigations of the water resources of Texas are conducted in cooperation with the Texas Water Development Board, river authorities, cities, counties, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, International Boundary and Water Commission, and others. Investigations are under the general direction of R.O. Hawkinson, District Chief,...
Altitude and configuration of the water table, western Cape Cod aquifer, Massachusetts, March 1993
Jennifer G. Savoie
1995, Open-File Report 94-462
No abstract available....
Talc resources of the conterminous United States
Robert C. Greene
1995, Open-File Report 95-586
Talc has been extracted from deposits in the United States for more than two centuries, some for dimension stone but most for ground talc products. This report is designed to summarize the current knowledge of the talc deposits and includes locations and descriptions of occurrences in 27 states, with emphasis...
Map production using print-on-demand capabilities
J.R. Evans, W.E. Vickers
1995, Open-File Report 95-653
Preliminary Geologic Map of the Big Pine Mountain Quadrangle, California
J. G. Vedder, Hugh McLean, R. G. Stanley
1995, Open-File Report 95-554
Reconnaissance geologic mapping of the San Rafael Primitive Area (now the San Rafael Wilderness) by Gower and others (1966) and Vedder an others (1967) showed s number of stratigraphic and structural ambiguities. To help resolve some of those problems, additional field work was done on parts of the Big Pine...
Land-cover sampling designs, data-collection procedures, and land-cover data for the Central Nebraska Basins, 1993-94
R. B. Zelt, J. T. Dugan, M.S. Kelley
1995, Open-File Report 95-166
Within the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program, land-cover data are used in characterizing drainage areas upstream from surface-water sampling sites and areas selected for spatially distributed ground-water sampling. During the period of time when the initial 20 NAWQA study study-unit investigations were evaluating existing land-cover data, a...
Selected hydrologic data for urban watersheds in South Carolina, 1983-90
S.W. Logan, M.R. Eckenwiler, L. R. Bohman
1995, Open-File Report 95-351
Rainfall and streamflow data were collected at 23 gaging stations located in urban watersheds in South Carolina from 1983-90. The site selection process and the instrumentation used to collect the data are described. A compilation of rainfall and streamflow data in graphic and tabular form for seven selected events at...
Preliminary map of peak horizontal ground acceleration for the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake of January 17, 1995, Japan
Carl M. Wentworth, Roger D. Borcherdt, R. K. Mark
1995, Open-File Report 95-259-A
Exploring storm surge
A. B. Tihansky, A. D. Duerr
1995, Open-File Report 95-295
This video provides a thorough discussion of storm surge, one of the most dangerous elements of hurricanes and major storms. This video illustrates basic storm surge principles, shows actual footage of storm surge damage and relates high-water level data collection by the U.S. Geological Survey to the task of recreating...
Hydrogeology of, ground-water withdrawals from, and saltwater intrusion in the shallow aquifer system of Cape May County, New Jersey
Paul F. Schuster, Mary Catherine Hill
1995, Open-File Report 94-714-W
Air temperature and precipitation data, Wolverine Glacier basin, Alaska, 1967-94
B.W. Kennedy
1995, Open-File Report 95-444
GSMGIS, a program to import and/or export data between GSMAP data bases and various commercial and public domain products including ARC/INFO, GRASS, IDRISI, Earth Vision, GIV, Rockware STEREO, and MAPINFO
Gary I. Selner, J. D. Hoffman, Gregory N. Green
1995, Open-File Report 95-570
Estimating heat capacity and heat content of rocks
Eugene C. Robertson, Bruch S. Hemingway
1995, Open-File Report 95-622
New heat-capacity measurements are reported for four rock types; Westerly granite from Bradford, RI, andesite from Lake County, OR, peridotite from Sonoma County, CA, and basalt from the Columbia River Group. Measurements were made on powders of the rocks in the temperature range of 340 to about 1000 K. Our measured...
Summary of research results on bacterial degradation of trifluoroacetate (TFA), November, 1994-May, 1995
R.S. Oremland, L.J. Matheson, J.R. Guidetti, J.K. Schaefer, P.T. Visscher
1995, Open-File Report 95-422
High-precision temperature logging at GISP2, Greenland, May 1992
G.D. Clow, R. W. Saltus, E.D. Waddington
1995, Open-File Report 95-490
Radiocarbon dates for the Nushagak Peninsula, southwestern Alaska
J. P. Galloway (compiler)
1995, Open-File Report 95-583
Descriptive, grade, and tonnage models for molybdenum-tungsten greisen deposits
B. B. Kotlyar, S. D. Ludington, D.L. Mosier
1995, Open-File Report 95-584
Documentation of AIR3D, an adaptation of the ground-water-flow code MODFLOW to simulate three-dimensional air flow in the unsaturated zone
C.J. Joss, A. L. Baehr
1995, Open-File Report 94-533
No abstract available....