Lognormal field size distributions as a consequence of economic truncation
E. D. Attanasi, L.J. Drew
1985, Journal of the International Association for Mathematical Geology (17) 335-351
The assumption of lognormal (parent) field size distributions has for a long time been applied to resource appraisal and evaluation of exploration strategy by the petroleum industry. However, frequency distributions estimated with observed data and used to justify this hypotheses are conditional. Examination of various observed field size distributions across...
ANALYZING NUMERICAL ERRORS IN DOMAIN HEAT TRANSPORT MODELS USING THE CVBEM.
T. V. Hromadka II
Chung Jin S.Lunardini Virgil J.Chakrabarti S.K.Wang Y.S.Sodhi D.S.Karal K., editor(s)
1985, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the International Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering Symposium
Besides providing an exact solution for steady-state heat conduction processes (Laplace Poisson equations), the CVBEM (complex variable boundary element method) can be used for the numerical error analysis of domain model solutions. For problems where soil water phase change latent heat effects dominate the thermal regime, heat transport can be...
ON PREDICTING INFRAGRAVITY ENERGY IN THE SURF ZONE.
Sallenger Jr., Robert A. Holman
Billy L. Edge, editor(s)
1985, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the Coastal Engineering Conference
Flow data were obtained in the surf zone across a barred profile during a storm. RMS cross-shore velocities due to waves in the intragravity band (wave periods greater than 20 s) had maxima in excess of 0. 5 m/s over the bar crest. For comparison to measured spectra, synthetic spectra...
NEUTRALIZATION OF ACIDIC GROUND WATER NEAR GLOBE, ARIZONA.
James H. Eychaner, Kenneth G. Stollenwerk
Schmidt Kenneth D., editor(s)
1985, Conference Paper
Highly acidic contaminated water is moving through a shallow aquifer and interacting with streams near Globe, Arizona. Dissolved concentrations reach 3,000 mg/L iron, 150 mg/L copper, and 16,400 mg/L total dissloved solids; pH is as low as 3. 6. Samples from 16 PVC-cased observation wells include uncontaminated, contaminated, transition, and...
RUNOFF, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, AND SURFACE COLLAPSE AT A LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE-WASTE BURIAL SITE NEAR SHEFFIELD, ILLINOIS.
John R. Gray, Charles A. Peters
Graves Donald H., editor(s)
1985, Conference Paper, University of Kentucky, Office of Engineering Services, (Bulletin) UKY BU
Runoff, sediment transport, and precipitation were measured in three gaged basins composing two-thirds of the 20-acre site, and in a 3. 5-acre basin located 0. 3 mile south of the site. Locations and dimensions of surface collapses at the site were recorded by the site contractor. Volumes of collapsed material...
MAJOR SOURCE OF SIDE-LOOKING AIRBORNE RADAR IMAGERY FOR RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION: THE U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
Allan N. Kover, John Edwin Jones
Carver Keith R., editor(s)
1985, Conference Paper, Digest - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
The US Geological Survey (USGS) instituted a program in 1980 to acquire side-looking airbore radar (SLAR) data and make these data readily available to the public in a mosaic format comparable to the USGS 1:250,000-scale topographic map series. The SLAR data are also available as strip images at an acquisition...
NEW STUDIES OF URBAN FLOOD FREQUENCY IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES.
Vernon B. Sauer
Huffsey Ralph R.De Vore R.William, editor(s)
1985, Conference Paper, University of Kentucky, Office of Engineering Services, (Bulletin) UKY BU
Five reports dealing with flood magnitude and frequency in urban areas in the Southeastern United States have been published during the past 2 years by the U. S. Geological Survey. These reports are based on data collected in Tampa and Tallahassee, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia, and several cities in Alabama and...
REGIONAL GROUND-WATER-QUALITY NETWORK DESIGN.
William E. Templin
Schmidt Kenneth D., editor(s)
1985, Conference Paper
This paper describes the approach used in designing a regional network to monitor the complex ground-water-quality conditions in the San Joaquin Valley, California. The actual network approximates the ideal network with the constraint of primarily using wells that are already being monitored by someone for some purpose. Further inventories of...
Evidence for lower crustal ductile strain localization in southern New York
Mark D. Zoback, W.H. Prescott, S.W. Krueger
1985, Nature (317) 705-707
Historic triangulation data have been analysed to determine whether intraplate seismicity is associated with ongoing ductile deformation in the lower crust. The model we have attempted to test is basically analogous to strain accumulation and release along plate-boundary strike-slip faults like the San Andreas Fault in California. That is, beneath...
INTRABAND RADIOMETRIC PERFORMANCE OF THE LANDSAT 4 THEMATIC MAPPER.
Hugh H. Kieffer, Eric M. Eliason, Pat S. Chavez Jr.
Barker John L., editor(s)
1985, Conference Paper, NASA Conference Publication
This preliminary report examines those radiometric characteristics of the Landsat 4 Thematic Mapper (TM) that can be established without absolute calibration of spectral data. Analysis is based largely on radiometrically raw (B type) data of three daytime and two nighttime scenes; in most scenes, a set of 512 lines were...
Marine geology: Research beneath the sea
Sarah B. Griscom
1985, Report
Processing of Landsat imagery to map surface mineral alteration on the Alaska Peninsula: A section in USGS research on mineral resources, 1985 program and abstracts
Frederic H. Wilson, James York
1985, Circular 949
Landsat images were digitally processed to facilitate assessment of the mineral resources of the Port Moller, Stepovak Bay, and Simeonof Island 1:250,000 quadrangles. Field mapping and assessment of these quadrangles were begun in 1983 as part of the Alaska Mineral Resource Assessment Program (AMRAP). It was quickly realized that time...
Freshwater runoff and salinity distribution in the Loxahatchee River estuary, southeastern Florida, 1980-82
G.M. Russell, B. F. McPherson
1984, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4244
Freshwater mixed with seawater over a distance of 5 to 10 river miles in the Loxahatchee River estuary during a recent study. Large freshwater inflows vertically stratified the estuary and shifted the mixing zone seaward. In the northwest fork of the estuary, the saltwater-freshwater interface moved daily about 0.5 to...
Hydrogeology of a zone of secondary permeability in the surficial aquifer of eastern Palm Beach County, Florida
L. J. Swayze, W. L. Miller
1984, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4249
The surficial aquifer is the primary source of freshwater for the heavily developed coastal area in eastern Palm Beach County, Florida. Well fields are generally located in a discontinuous zone of higher secondary permeability, the northernmost extension of the Biscayne aquifer in the surficial aquifer, that extends from the Juno...
Nutrient input from the Loxahatchee River Environmental Control District sewage-treatment plant to the Loxahatchee River Estuary, southeastern Florida
W. H. Sonntag, B. F. McPherson
1984, Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4020
Two test discharges of treated-sewage effluent were made to the Loxahatchee River in February and September 1981 from the ENCON sewage-treatment plant to document nutrient loading and downstream transport of the effluent to the estuary under maximum daily discharge allowable by law (4 million gallons per day). Concentrations of total...
Quality of water recovered from a municipal effluent injection well in the Floridan aquifer system, Pompano Beach, Florida
D.J. McKenzie, G. A. Irwin
1984, Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4100
Approximately 69 million gallons of backflow from an injection well used for the disposal of secondary treated municipal effluent in the Floridan aquifer system near Pompano Beach, Florida, was periodically sampled for inorganic quality from March 1975 through March 1977. Analyses of the backflow effluent showed a concomitant increase in...
Attenuation of stormwater contaminants from highway runoff within unsaturated limestone, Dade County, Florida
Bradley G. Waller, Howard Klein, Lawrence J. Lefkoff
1984, Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4083
Infiltration of stormwater in heavily urbanized parts of Dade County, Florida, is a prime source of recharge to the unconfined Biscayne aquifer, the sole source of drinking water for southeast Florida. Ponded stormwater at the test site contained greater concentrations of lead, zinc, manganese, nitrogen (except nitrate), and phosphorus than...
Water resources data for Maryland and Delaware, water year 1983
R.W. James, R.H. Simmons, B.F. Strain
1984, Water Data Report MD-DE-83-1
No abstract available. ...
Addresses, topics of interest, and geographic distribution of professors working on landslides in the United States
E. E. Brabb, Ann R. FitzSimmons
1984, Report
The effect of composition of selected groundwaters from the Basin and Range Province on plutonium, neptunium, and Americium speciation
Terry F. Rees, Jess M. Cleveland, Kenneth L. Nash
1984, Nuclear Technology (65) 131-137
The speciation of plutonium, neptunium, and americium was determined in groundwaters from four sources in the Basin and Range Province: the lower carbonate aquifer, Nevada Test Site (NTS) (Crystal Pool); alluvial fill, Frenchman Flat, NTS (well 5C); Hualapai Valley, Arizona (Red Lake south well); and Tularosa Basin, New Mexico (Rentfrow...
A transect of metamorphic rocks along the Copper River, Cordova and Valdez Quadrangles, Alaska: A section in The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1982
Marti L. Miller, Julie A. Dumoulin, S.W. Nelson
1984, Circular 939
The lower Tertiary Orca Group is juxtaposed against the Upper Cretaceous Valdez Group along the Contact fault system (Winkler and Plafker, 1974, 198; Plafker and others, 1977)(fig. 33). In both groups, turbidites are the dominant rock type, with lesser mafic volcanic rocks (table 10). The Valdez Group, on the north,...
Developing a state water plan: Ground-water conditions in Utah, spring of 1984
Charles Avery, L. R. Herbert, Donald A. Bischoff, David W. Clark, Ralph L. Seiler, Kevin Guttormson, Melanie S. Elizondo, V.L. Jensen, Michael Enright, D. C. Emett, Carole B. Burden, M.R. Eckenwiler, G. W. Sandberg
1984, Cooperative Investigations Report 24
This is the twenty-first in a series of annual reports that describe ground-water conditions in Utah. Reports in this series, published cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Utah Division of Water Resources, provide data to enable interested parties to keep abreast of changing ground-water conditions.This report, like the...
Floods of May to June, 1983, along the northern Wasatch Front, Salt Lake City to North Ogden, Utah
K.L. Lindskov
1984, Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey Water-Resources Bulletin 24
Determinations of peak discharge for floods of May to June 1983 were made for 11 streams along the northern Wasatch Front from Salt Lake City to North Ogden. At nine of the streams, the floods during the spring of 1983 equaled or exceeded the 100-year flood. The peak discharge at...
Flooding: A unique year
A.L. Putnam
1984, Report, United States Geological Survey Yearbook, Fiscal Year 1983
Floods have been and continue to be one of the most destructive hazards facing the people of the United States. Of all the natural hazards, floods are the most widespread and the most ruinous to life and property. Today, floods are a greater menace to our welfare than ever before...
Colorado amethyst
T.C. Michalski
1984, Rocks & Minerals (59) 7-12
No abstract available. ...
