The Accotink Schist, Lake Barcroft Metasandstone, and Popes Head Formation— Keys to an understanding of the tectonic evolution of the northern Virginia Piedmont
Avery Ala Drake, Peter T. Lyttle
1981, Professional Paper 1205
The newly named Accotink Schist and Lake Barcroft Metasandstone of the Eastern Fairfax sequence are the structurally lowest metamorphic rocks in the northernmost Piedmont of Virginia. The Accotink consists of beds of pelitic schist that have thin basal intervals containing graded, very fine grained metasiltstone, as well as interbeds of...
Water quality in the tidal Potomac River and estuary, hydrologic data report, 1979 water year
Stephen F. Blanchard, D. C. Hahl
1981, Open-File Report 81-1074
This report contains data on the physical and chemical properties measured during the 1979 water year for the tidal Potomac River and estuary. Data were collected routinely at five major stations and periodically at 14 intervening stations. Each major station represents a cross section through which the transport of selected...
Deformation of host rocks and flow of magma during growth of minette dikes and breccia-bearing intrusions near Ship Rock, New Mexico
Paul T. Delaney, David D. Pollard
1981, Professional Paper 1202
We have studied a small group of minette dikes and plugs that crop out within a flat-lying sequence of siltstone and shale near Ship Rock, a prominent volcanic throat of tuff breccia in northwestern New Mexico. Seven dikes form a radial pattern about Ship Rock we describe in detail the...
Evaluation of ground-water monitoring network, Santa Cruz County, California
G. G. Blankenbaker, Christopher D. Farrar
1981, Open-File Report 81-139
The Santa Cruz County Flood Control and Water Conservation District seeks to improve the existing network of observation wells to monitor water levels and ground-water quality in the Pajaro Valley subarea and the Aptos-Soquel, San Lorenzo, and Santa Cruz Coastal subbasins in California. The proposed network , consisting of 92...
Completion and testing of Madison Limestone test well 3, NW1/4SE1/4 sec. 35, T.2N., R.27E., Yellowstone County, Montana
Richard K. Blankennagel, Lewis W. Howells, W. Roger Miller
1981, Open-File Report 81-528
Selected intervals in the lower and upper parts of the Mission Canyon Limestone of Mississippian age, and the Amsden Formation and Tensleep Sandstone of Pennsylvanian age, containing water with dissolved-solids concentrations of 3,000 milligrams per liter or less, were perforated through 7-inch casing that was cemented to the wells of...
Magnetic surveys in the Hajrah-Hamdah area, including a ground survey of the Hajr ancient mine, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
H. Richard Blank, Maher A. Bazzari
1981, Open-File Report 81-1216
Surface geology of the Jeptha Knob cryptoexplosion structure, Shelby County, Kentucky
Earle Rupert Cressman
1981, Professional Paper 1151-B
The Jeptha Knob crytoexplosion structure, described by Bucher in 1925, was remapped in 1973 as part of the U.S. Geological Survey and the Kentucky Geological Survey cooperative mapping program. The knob is in the western part of the Blue Grass region. Hilltops in the rolling farmland adjacent to the knob...
Tectonics of southeastern Arizona
Harald D. Drewes
1981, Professional Paper 1144
Deepwell monitoring of strain-sensitive parameters over the Greater Southern California uplift
Thomas L. Henyey, Ta-liang Teng, Douglas E. Hammond, C.G. Sammis, J.K. McRaney, P.E. Malin, Liang-Fang Sun, D.V. Manov, L.G. Miller, N.L. Scott
1981, Open-File Report 81-90
Floodflow characteristics of the Sacramento River in the vicinity of Gianella Bridge, Hamilton City, California
J. C. Blodgett
1981, Open-File Report 81-328
Floodflow, channel, and geomorphic data were assembled to evaluate the characteristics of flooding of the Sacramento River at the Gianella Bridge on State Highway 32 at Hamilton City, Calif. The bridge, constructed with a large center pier and drawrest structure in 1908, constricts floodflows at the site. Variations in river...
Approximate ground-water-level contours, April 1981, for the Soquel-Aptos area, Santa Cruz County, California
Richard M. Bloyd
1981, Open-File Report 81-680
Ground-water levels in selected wells were measured in the Soquel-Aptos, Calif., area in April 1981. On the basis of these measurements approximate ground-water-level contours were constructed. The general direction of ground-water movement in the Soquell-Aptos area is from the ridges in the northern part of the area, toward the adjacent...
Chemical analyses of soils and other surficial materials of the conterminous United States
Josephine G. Boerngen, Hansford T. Shacklette
1981, Open-File Report 81-197
Principal facts for gravity stations in the Ajo 1 degree x 2 degrees Quadrangle and the Papago Indian Reservation, Southwest Arizona
Frances M. Boler, M. Baer
1981, Open-File Report 81-993
Stratigraphy, paleontology, and geology of the central Santa Cruz Mountains, California Coast Ranges
Joseph C. Clark
1981, Professional Paper 1168
Principal facts for gravity stations in the Pueblo 1 degree x 2 degrees Quadrangle, south-central Colorado
Frances M. Boler
1981, Open-File Report 81-357
Digital-model simulation of the Toppenish alluvial aquifer, Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington
E.L. Bolke, James A. Skrivan
1981, Open-File Report 81-425
Increasing demands for irrigating additional lands and proposals to divert water from the Yakima River by water users downstream from the Yakima Indian Reservation have made an accounting of water availability important for present-day water management in the Toppenish Creek basin. A digital model was constructed and calibrated for the...
Geotechnical properties and slope stability analysis of surficial sediments on the Baltimore Canyon continental slope
James S. Booth, Richard A. Farrow, Thomas L. Rice
1981, Open-File Report 81-733
Geotechnical properties and slope stability analysis of surficial sediments on the Georges Bank continental slope
James S. Booth, Richard A. Farrow, Thomas L. Rice
1981, Open-File Report 81-566
Reflection and refraction of P and type-I S waves at plane interfaces in elastic and anelastic media
Roger D. Borcherdt
1981, Open-File Report 81-392
Water-level records for the northern High Plains of Colorado, 1977-81
Ronald G. Borman, Thomas S. Meredith
1981, Open-File Report 81-637
Water-level measurements were made in 661 wells in the winter of 1980-81 in the northern High Plains of Colorado. Measurements for the winter of 1980-81 and the four preceding winters are given in a table. (USGS)...
Submarine topography and physiography of lower Cook Inlet, Alaska
Arnold H. Bouma
1981, Open-File Report 81-1335
The submarine topography of lower Cook Inlet, Alaska, is complex because the bathymetric aspects and water depths change rapidly over short distances. The folded upper Tertiary subbottom was eroded during the first of five major Quaternary glacial advances over the inlet, and later fluvial, fluvioglacial, glacial, and marine erosional and...
Drainage areas of streams at selected locations in Kentucky
David E. Bower, W. H. Jackson
1981, Open-File Report 81-61
The drainage areas for more than 2,000 selected sites throughout Kentucky were determined. Areas of limestone terrain characterized by sinkholes are indicated in basins where they have been determined. Each location is referenced by U.S. Geological Survey station number (where assigned), latitude, longitude, county code, topographic quadrangle, river distance, and...
Availability of cores, cuttings, and petrographic thin-sections from the Ellesmerian strata of 16 test wells, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska
Arthur Leroy Bowsher, Irvin L. Tailleur
1981, Open-File Report 81-1171
Availability of petrographic thin-section slides from the Fortress Mountain Formation, central North Slope, Alaska
Arthur Leroy Bowsher, Irvin L. Tailleur
1981, Open-File Report 81-1094
Availability of petrographic thin sections from thirty-five wells from National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, North Slope, Alaska
Arthur Leroy Bowsher, Irvin L. Tailleur, H.A. Gibson
1981, Open-File Report 81-1307