Hydrologic monitoring for effects of geothermal and ground-water development, Long Valley caldera, California
C. D. Farrar, D. L. Lyster
1991, Conference Paper, Symposium on Subsurface Injection of Geothermal Fluids, Santa Rosa, California
Water resources data, New Mexico, water year 1990
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1991, Water Data Report NM-90
This annual hydrologic data report of New Mexico is one of a series of annual reports that document hydrologic data gathered from the U.S. Geological Survey's surface- and ground-water data-collection networks in each State, Puerto Rico, and the Trust Territories. These records of streamflow, ground-water levels, and water quality provide the...
Groundwater flow and solute movement to drain laterals, western San Joaquin Valley, California: 1. Geochemical assessment
S. J. Deverel, John L. Fio
1991, Water Resources Research (27) 2233-2246
A study was undertaken to quantitatively evaluate the hydrologic processes affecting the chemical and isotopic composition of drain lateral water in a drained agricultural field in the western San Joaquin Valley, California. The results elucidate the process of mixing of deep and shallow groundwater (below and within 6...
Groundwater flow and solute movement to drain laterals, western San Joaquin Valley, California: 2. Quantitative hydrologic assessment
John L. Fio, S. J. Deverel
1991, Water Resources Research (27) 2247-2257
Groundwater flow modeling was used to quantitatively assess the hydrologic processes affecting ground water and solute movement to drain laterals. Modeling results were used to calculate the depth distribution of groundwater flowing into drain laterals at 1.8 m (drain lateral 1) and 2.7 m (drain lateral 2) below land surface....
Geology of caves
I.M. Morgan
1991, Report
A cave is a natural opening in the ground extending beyond the zone of light and large enough to permit the entry of man. Occurring in a wide variety of rock types and caused by widely differing geological processes, caves range in size from single small rooms to intercorinecting passages...
Approaches to the conservation of coastal wetlands in the Western Hemisphere
K.L. Bildstein, G.T. Bancroft, P.J. Dugan, D.H. Gordon, R.M. Erwin, E. Nol, L.X. Payne, Stanley E. Senner
1991, The Wilson Bulletin (103) 218-254
Coastal wetlands rank among the most productive and ecologically valuable natural ecosystems on Earth. Unfortunately, they are also some of the most disturbed. Because they are productive and can serve as transportation arteries, coastal wetlands have long attracted human settlement. More than half of the U.S. population currently lives within...
Sedimentary facies and depositional environments of early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup basins, eastern North America
J. P. Smoot
1991, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (84) 369-423
The early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup consists of continental sedimentary rocks and basalt flows that occupy a NE-trending belt of elongate basins exposed in eastern North America. The basins were filled over a period of 30–40 m.y. spanning the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic, prior to the opening of the north...
Effects of wetlands creation on groundwater flow
B.R. Hensel, M.V. Miller
1991, Journal of Hydrology (126) 293-314
Changes in groundwater flow were observed near four Experimental Wetland Areas (EWAs) constructed along a reach of the Des Plaines River in northeastern Illinois. These changes were observed during monthly monitoring of groundwater elevation in nested piezometers and shallow observation wells before and after the wetlands were filled with water....
Geohydrologic, geochemical, and geologic controls on the occurrence of radon in ground water near Conifer, Colorado, USA
E. Lawrence, E. Poeter, R. Wanty
1991, Journal of Hydrology (127) 367-386
Integrated studies of geohydrology, geochemistry, and geology of crystalline rocks in the vicinity of Conifer, Colorado, reveal that radon concentrations do not correlate with variations in concentrations of other dissolved species. Concentrations of major ions show systematic variations along selected groundwater flowpaths, whereas radon concentrations are dependent on local geochemical...
Channel evolution and hydrologic variations in the Colorado River basin: Factors influencing sediment and salt loads
A. Gellis, R. Hereford, S. A. Schumm, B.R. Hayes
1991, Journal of Hydrology (124) 317-344
Suspended-sediment and dissolved-solid (salt) loads decreased after the early 1940s in the Colorado Plateau portion of the Colorado River basin, although discharge of major rivers - the Colorado, Green and San Juan - did not change significantly. This decline followed a period of high sediment yield caused by arroyo cutting....
Detectability of the effects of a hypothetical temperature increase on the Thornthwaite moisture index
G. J. McCabe Jr., D.M. Wolock
1991, Journal of Hydrology (125) 25-35
Climatic changes that result from increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide may affect the availability of water for vegetation, groundwater recharge, runoff, and human consumption. Most studies of the effects of climatic change on water resources focus on changes in mean characteristics of hydrologic variables and do not consider the...
Hydrogeologic inferences from drillers' logs and from gravity and resistivity surveys in the Amargosa Desert, southern Nevada
W. J. Oatfield, J.B. Czarnecki
1991, Journal of Hydrology (124) 131-158
The Amargosa Desert of southern Nevada, in the Basin and Range province, is hydraulically downgradient from Yucca Mountain, the potential site of a repository for high-level nuclear waste. Groundwater flow paths and flow rates beneath the Amargosa Desert are controlled in part by the total saturated thickness and the hydraulic...
The temperature dependence of ponded infiltration under isothermal conditions
J. Constantz, F. Murphy
1991, Journal of Hydrology (122) 119-128
A simple temperature-sensitive modification to the Green and Ampt infiltration equation is described; this assumes that the temperature dependence of the hydraulic conductivity is reciprocally equal to the temperature dependence of the viscosity of liquid water, and that both the transmission zone saturation and the wetting front matric potential gradient...
A comparison of short-term measurements of lake evaporation using eddy correlation and energy budget methods
D.I. Stannard, D.O. Rosenberry
1991, Journal of Hydrology (122) 15-22
Concurrent short-term measurements of evaporation from a shallow lake, using eddy correlation and energy budget methods, indicate that sensible and latent heat flux between lake and atmosphere, and energy storage in the lake, may vary considerably across the lake. Measuring net radiation with a net radiometer on the lake appeared...
National water summary 1988–89 — Hydrologic events and floods and droughts
1991, Water Supply Paper 2375
National Water Summary 1988-89 - Hydrologic Events and Floods and Droughts documents the occurrence in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands of two types of extreme hydrologic events floods and droughts on the basis of analysis of stream-discharge data. This report details, for the first time,...
System requirements specification for the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water Information System II
Sharon B. Mathey, editor(s)
1991, Open-File Report 91-525
The U.S. Geological Survey's Water Resources Division is designing and developing a new computer software system for processing and storing hydrologic data. This system, the National Water Information System (NWIS-II) will replace the current water-data and information systems: the National Water Data Storage and Retrieval System (WATSTORE), the National Water...
Hydrologic data for the Big Spring basin, Clayton County, Iowa; water year 1989
S. J. Kalkhoff, R.L. Kuzniar
1991, Open-File Report 91-63
Hydrologic data were collected in the Big Spring Basin located in Clayton County, Iowa, during the 1989 water year. The data were collected in cooperation with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey Bureau, to provide information on variation and movement of agricultural chemicals in the hydrologic cycle in...
Hydrologic monitoring in the area of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Mississippi-Alabama, fiscal year 1987
Fred Morris III
1991, Open-File Report 91-477
Surface water-quality assessment of the lower Kansas River basin, Kansas and Nebraska: analysis of available water-quality data through 1986
P. R. Jordan, J. K. Stamer, editor(s)
1991, Open-File Report 91-75
Beginning in 1986, the U.S. Congress appropriated funds for the U.S. Geological Survey to test and refine concepts for a National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program. The long-term goals of the full-scale program are to: (1) provide a nationally consistent description of current water-quality conditions for a large part of the...
Hydrologic monitoring in the area of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Mississippi-Alabama, fiscal year 1990
Fred Morris III
1991, Open-File Report 91-521
Summary of Geotechnical and Hydrologic Data Collected From May 1, 1990 through April 30, 1991, for the Alani-Paty Landslide, Manoa Valley, Honolulu, Hawaii
Rex L. Baum, Mark E. Reid, Cynthia A. Wilburn, Jill D. Torikai
1991, Open-File Report 91-598
Water-resources activities, North Dakota District, fiscal year 1990
1991, Open-File Report 91-188
The mission of the U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, is to provide the hydrologic information and understanding needed for the optimum utilization and management of the Nation's water resources for the overall benefit of the people of the United States. This report describes waterresources activities of the Water Resources...
Selected hydrologic data for farmland treated with sewage sludge near Platteville, Colorado, 1985-91
David A. Johncox, Neville G. Gaggiani
1991, Open-File Report 91-529
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District, studied the ground-water-quality effects of the application of anaerobic digested municipal sewage sludge at agronomic rates to farmland near Platteville. Beginning in the fall of 1985, the sludge was injected annually into the sandy farmland in a...
Assessment of hydrogeologic conditions with emphasis on water quality and wastewater injection, Southwest Sarasota and West Charlotte counties, Florida
C. B. Hutchinson
1991, Open-File Report 90-709
No abstract available....
Hydrologic data for a study of pre-Illinoian glacial till in Linn County, Iowa, water year 1990
Phillip R. Bowman
1991, Open-File Report 91-459
Hydrologic data for a study of pre-lllinoian glacial till were collected during the 1990 water year at a site in Linn County, Iowa. A hydrologic-data-collection network, consisting of 22 observation wells and a meteorological station, was installed at the site to describe the hydraulic properties of the till. Recorders were...