Water budget and water-surface fluctuations, Great Salt Lake, Utah
Ted Arnow
1978, Open-File Report 78-912
The water-budget equation for Great Salt Lakes is: Inflow = Outflow + or - Storage change. The average annual inflow for the period 1931-76 was about 2.9 million acre-feet; 1.9 million acre-feet from surface sources, about 900,000 acre-feet from direct precipitation, and about 75,000 acre-feet from ground water. The average...
Mixed-layer clay in the Pierre Shale and equivalent rocks, northern Great Plains region
Leonard Gene Schultz
1978, Professional Paper 1064-A
Climatography of the Front Range Urban Corridor and vicinity, Colorado
Wallace R. Hansen, Byron John Chronic, John Matelock
1978, Professional Paper 1019
No abstract available....
The Potential for Prophyry Copper-Molybdenum Deposits in the Eastern United States
Robert Gordon Schmidt
1978, Professional Paper 907-E
Several significant porphyry-type deposits of Paleozoic age are known in New England and eastern Canada. Disseminated copper-molybdenum deposits of Paleozoic age are in the Southeastern United States, and copper is produced from porphyry-type deposits of both Precambrian and Paleozoic age in eastern Canada. Although these old deposits are surely less...
Principal unconformities in Triassic and Jurassic rocks, western interior United States - A preliminary survey
G. N. Pipiringos, Robert Brett O'Sullivan
1978, Professional Paper 1035-A
The Triassic and Jurassic rocks in Western Interior United States contain nine unconformities each of which was destroyed to some extent by a younger unconformity. Regardless of extent, all are useful for correlation of rock sequences in areas where fossils or age dates are lacking. The purpose of this report...
Electron-microprobe study of chromitites associated with alpine ultramafic complexes and some genetic implications
M. L. Bird
1978, Open-File Report 78-119
Electron-microprobe and petrographic studies of alpine chromite deposits from around the world demonstrate that they are bimodal with respect to the chromic oxide content of their chromite. The two modes occur at 54 ? 4 and 37 ? 3 weight per cent chromic oxide corresponding to chromite designated as high-chromium...
Potential effects of deep-well waste disposal in western New York
Roger Milton Waller, John T. Turk, Robert James Dingman
1978, Professional Paper 1053
Mathematical and laboratory models were used to observe, respectively, the hydraulic and chemical reactions that may take place during proposed injection of a highly acidic, iron-rich waste pickle liquor into a deep waste-disposal well in western New York. Field temperature and pressure conditions were simulated in the tests. Hydraulic pressure...
Minimum average 7-day, 10-year flows in the Hudson River basin, New York, with release-flow data on Rondout and Ashokan reservoirs
Roger J. Archer
1978, Open-File Report 78-333
Minimum average 7-day, 10-year flow at 67 gaging stations and 173 partial-record stations in the Hudson River basin are given in tabular form. Variation of the 7-day, 10-year low flow from point to point in selected reaches, and the corresponding times of travel, are shown graphically for Wawayanda Creek, Wallkill...
Discharge, gage height, and elevation of 100-year floods in the Hudson River basin, New York
Roger J. Archer
1978, Open-File Report 78-332
The flood discharge that may be expected to be equaled or exceeded on the average of once in 100 years (100-year flood) was computed by the log-Pearson Type-III frequency relation for 72 stations in the Hudson River basin. These discharges and, where available, their corresponding gage height and elevation above...
South Texas continental shelf and continental slope: Late Pleistocene/Holocene evolution and sea-floor stability (an outline and notes relative to geologic hazards on the sea floor)
Henry L. Prepared by Berryhill, Anita R. Assisted by Trippet
1978, Open-File Report 78-514
Heat capacity equations for minerals at high temperatures
Richard A. Robie, B. S. Hemingway, C.M. Schafer, J.L. Haas
1978, Open-File Report 78-934
The Lyon Station-Paulins Kill nappe: The frontal structure of the Musconetcong nappe system in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Avery Drake Jr.
1978, Professional Paper 1023
No abstract available....
Scour and fill in a stream channel, East Fork River, western Wyoming
Edmund D. Andrews
1978, Open-File Report 78-928
Frequent soundings of 11 cross sections located on the East Fork River, western Wyoming, during a spring flood revealed two sequences of channel scour and fill. All sections either scoured or filled at the flood crests relative to their low-flow condition. The sections which scoured at high flow (called scouring...
Map and tables describing areas of metalliferous mineral resource potential in the Ketchikan and Prince Rupert quadrangles, Alaska
Henry C. Berg, Raymond L. Elliott, Richard D. Koch
1978, Open-File Report 78-73-M
Ground-water levels and quality data for Georgia, 1977
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1978, Open-File Report 79-213
This report begins a publication format that will present annually both water-level and water-quality data. In this format the information is presented in two-page units: the left page includes text which summarizes the information for an area or subject and the right page consists of one or more illustrations. Daily...
Dissolved-oxygen depletion and other effects of storing water in Flaming Gorge Reservoir, Wyoming and Utah
E.L. Bolke
1978, Open-File Report 78-92
The circulation of water in Flaming Gorge Reservoir is caused chiefly by insolation, inflow-outflow relationships, and wind, which is significant due to the geographical location of the reservoir. During 1970-75, there was little annual variation in the thickness, dissolved oxygen, and specific conductance of the hypolimnion near Flaming Gorge Dam....
Transport and dispersion of fluorescent tracer particles for the dune-bed condition, Atrisco Feeder Canal near Bernalillo, New Mexico
R. E. Rathbun, Vance C. Kennedy
1978, Professional Paper 1037
A fluorescent tracer technique was used to study the rates of transport and dispersion of sediment particles of various diameters and specific gravities for a dune-bed condition in an alluvial channel, Atrisco Feeder Canal near Bernalillo, N. Mex. The total transport rates of bed material measured by the steady-dilution and...
Rotation of Alaska and the opening of the Canada Basin
Gary Wynn Boucher
1978, Open-File Report 78-96
Medicine Lodge thrust system, east-central Idaho and Southwest Montana
Edward Thompson Ruppel
1978, Professional Paper 1031
Sedimentation in Hot Creek in vicinity of Hot Creek Fish Hatchery, Mono County, California
D. E. Burkham
1978, Open-File Report 78-661
An accumulation of fine-grained sediment in Hot Creek downstream from Hot Creek Fish Hatchery created concern that the site may be deteriorating as a habitat for trout. The accumulation is a phenomenon that probably occurs naturally in the problem reach. Fluctuation in the weather probably is the basic cause of...
Reconnaissance geology and geochronology of the Precambrian of the Granite Mountains, Wyoming
Zell E. Peterman, Robert A. Hildreth
1978, Professional Paper 1055
The Precambrian of the western part of the Granite Mountains, Wyoming, contains a metamorphic complex of gneisses, schists, and amphibolites that were derived through amphibolite-grade metamorphism from a sedimentary-volcanic sequence perhaps similar to that exposed in the southeastern Wind River Mountains. Whole-rock Rb-Sr dating places the time of metamorphism at...
Interpretation of electromagnetic extra-low-frequency soundings in the Randsburg, California, Known Geothermal Resource Area
Walter L. Anderson
1978, Open-File Report 78-562
An electromagnetic (EM) controlled source survey was made during the period Nov. 30, 1977, to Dec. 13, 1977, in the Randsburg, California, Known Geothermal Resource Area (KGRA). This report summarizes the observed extra-low-frequency (ELF) data and least squares interpretation using a computer program developed by Anderson (1977). The results are...
Cooling and vesiculation of Alae lava lake, Hawaii
Dallas L. Peck
1978, Professional Paper 935-B
Seismic model study of Patrick Draw field, Wyoming: a stratigraphic trap in the Upper Cretaceous Almond Formation
Robert C. Anderson, Robert T. Ryder
1978, Open-File Report 78-496
The Patrick Draw field, located on the eastern flank of the Rock Springs uplift in the Washakie basin of southwestern Wyoming, was discovered in 1959 without the use of geophysical methods. The field is a classic example of a stratigraphic trap, where Upper Cretaceous porous sandstone units pinch out on...
Petroleum potential, geologic hazards, and technology for exploration in the outer continental shelf of the Gulf of Alaska Tertiary Province
George Plafker, T.R. Bruns, P.R. Carlson, B. F. Molnia, E. W. Scott, Rodger Kahler, Charles Wilson
1978, Open-File Report 78-490
