Bottom currents and bottom sediment distribution in Massachusetts Bay
Bradford Butman, John Stevens Schlee, Charles J. O’Hara, Robert H. Meade
1978, Open-File Report 78-369
Massachusetts Bay is a coastal Bay 100 km long and 40 km wide located in the western Gulf of Maine. The Bay is open only to the Gulf to the east; the opening is partially blocked by a shallow bank. The bottom sediment distribution in the bay is complex; fine...
Hydraulic geometry of river cross sections; theory of minimum variance
Garnett P. Williams
1978, Professional Paper 1029
This study deals with the rates at which mean velocity, mean depth, and water-surface width increase with water discharge at a cross section on an alluvial stream. Such relations often follow power laws, the exponents in which are called hydraulic exponents. The Langbein (1964) minimum-variance theory is examined in regard...
Neogene biostratigraphy of selected areas in the California Coast Ranges
Warren O. Addicott, editor(s)
1978, Open-File Report 78-446
These papers on the marine Neogene (Miocene and Pliocene) of California are intended to provide orientation and documentation for a field conference on the Neogene biostratigraphy of the California Coast Ranges. They also constitute status reports on the age and correlation of key sections in Neogene basins of coastal California....
Reconstruction of crustal blocks of California on the basis of initial strontium isotopic compositions of Mesozoic granitic rocks
Ronald Wayne Kistler, Zell E. Peterman
1978, Professional Paper 1071
Initial 87Sr/ 86 Sr was determined for samples of Mesozoic granitic rocks in the vicinity of the Garlock fault zone in California. These data along with similar data from the Sierra Nevada and along the San Andreas fault system permit a reconstruction of basement rocks offset by the Cenozoic lateral...
Hydrothermal adularia at Bodie, Mono County, California
Randolph A. Koski, C.W. Chesterman, M.L. Silberman, Brent P. Fabbi
1978, Open-File Report 78-942
Radioactive anomaly and mineralogy of the lower part of the Tabuk Formation, Al Qassim area, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
John J. Matzko, V. J. Flanigan, Mustafa Mawad, Ziad Al Kollak, M.I. Naqvi, Abdul Malik Helaby
1978, Open-File Report 78-520
Radiometric results and areal distribution for granitic samples from the Granite Mountains, Wyoming
John S. Stuckless, Carl M. Bunker, George Van Trump, Charles A Bush
1978, Open-File Report 78-803
Analyses of surface samples from the Granite Mountains, Wyoming, generally agree with the findings from drilling at two different localities. The dominant Precambrian granitic rock type is the biotitic phase of the granite of Lankin Dome. This rock type is characterized by high potassium and anomalously high thorium concentrations, and...
Geological and operational summary, COST No. GE-1 well, Southeast Georgia Embayment area, South Atlantic OCS
Roger V. Amato, J.W. Bebout
1978, Open-File Report 78-668
Lithium in rocks from the Lincoln, Helena, and Townsend areas, Montana
Elizabeth F. Brenner-Tourtelot, Allen L. Meier, Craig A. Curtis
1978, Open-File Report 78-430
In anticipation of increased demand for lithium for energy-related uses, the U.S. Geological Survey has been appraising the lithium resources of the United States and investigating occurrences of lithium. Analyses of samples of chiefly lacustrine rocks of Oligocene age collected by M. R. Mudge near Lincoln, Mont. showed as much...
Quality of water and time of travel in the Pearl River, Jackson to Byram, Mississippi
Gene A. Bednar, Fred Morris
1978, Open-File Report 78-1032
Estimated oil and gas reserves, Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf, January 1, 1977
Floyd T. Bryan, John H. Knipmeyer, E. Kenneth Schluntz
1978, Open-File Report 78-87
As of January 1, 1977, nearly 35 trillion cubic feet of gas and about 2.7 billion barrels of oil* are estimated to be the remaining reserves in 294 fields in the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf off Texas and Louisiana. Twenty-seven additional fields, discovered since January 1, 1976, in...
Report on laboratory testing of shallow sediments, Middle Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf
Daniel P. LaGatta, Karl Dalenberg, H.J. Knebel, D.A. Sangrey
1978, Open-File Report 78-578
Notes on availability of multi-channel seismic processing programs
Robert Brune
1978, Open-File Report 78-421
During the past two years, a seismic processing system has been developed within Western Region offices of the U.S. Geological Survey (Pacific-Arctic Branch of Marine Geology). This brief report describes some of the programs within this system that may be of value to others. We process seismic reflection data taken...
Quality of water and dye dispersion characteristics in Jourdan River and St. Louis Bay, Hancock and Harrison counties, Mississippi
Gene A. Bednar
1978, Open-File Report 78-584
Geological and geochemical appraisal of metallic mineral resources, southern National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska
Michael Churkin Jr., C.F. Mayfield, P. K. Theobald, Harlan Barton, W. J. Nokleberg, G. R. Winkler, Carl Huie
1978, Open-File Report 78-70-A
Reconnaissance drilling during 1976 in the Rattlesnake Butte Quadrangle, Routt County, Colorado
Michael E. Brownfield
1978, Open-File Report 78-364
Schlumberger soundings in Fish Lake Valley area, Nevada
Stephan A. Manydeeds, V. J. Flanigan, K. R. Christopherson, V. Farkash
1978, Open-File Report 78-373
Reconnaissance drilling during 1977 in the Yampa coal field, Moffat and Routt counties, Colorado
Michael E. Brownfield
1978, Open-File Report 78-365
Analyses of rock samples from the Big Delta Quadrangle, Alaska
Helen Laura Foster, R. M. O’Leary, Stephen McDanal, A. L. Clark
1978, Open-File Report 78-469
Selected hydrologic data, 1931-77, Wasatch Plateau-Book Cliffs coal-fields area, Utah
K.M. Waddell, H.L. Vickers, Robbin T. Upton, P. Kay Contratto
1978, Open-File Report 78-121
The Wasatch Plateau-Book Cliffs coal-fields area in east-central Utah includes a significant part of the State's coal resources and is currently (1977) the most active coal-mining area in the State.This report presents data gathered by the U.S. Geological Survey as part of a hydrologic reconnaissance carried out during the period...
Analytical results for 89 water samples from the Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona
Walter H. Ficklin, Wheeler Ashton, D. J. Preston, G.A. Nowlan
1978, Open-File Report 78-1092
Eighty-nine water samples were collected from the Papago Indian Reservation during 1977 and 1978 as a part of a mineral resource study. Each sample was analyzed for copper, zinc, molybdenum, arsenic, uranium, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, bicarbonate, sulfate, chloride, fluoride, and silica. Temperature, pH, and specific conductance were also measured....
Site evaluation for U.S. Bureau of Mines experimental oil-shale mine, Piceance Creek basin, Rio Blanco County, Colorado
John R. Ege, G.H. Leavesley, G.S. Steele, J.B. Weeks
1978, Open-File Report 78-390
The U.S. Geological Survey is cooperating with the U.S. Bureau of Mines in the selection of a site for a shaft and experimental mine to be constructed in the Piceance Creek basin, Rio Blanco County, Colo. The Piceance Creek basin, an asymmetric, northwest-trending large structural downwarp, is located approximately 40...
Water-quality records for the Hubbard Creek watershed, Texas, October 1974 - September 1976
Helen J. Davidson
1978, Open-File Report 78-98
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the West Central Texas Municipal Water District and the Texas Department of Water Resources, is conducting a continuing program to determine the chemical quality of surface waters in the Hubbard Creek watershed. This report provides a compilation of the records for the period...
1978 Water Quality Laboratory services catalog
Linda C. Friedman
1978, Open-File Report 78-502
The information in this catalog is provided to assist field personnel in the selection of determinations, the estimation of costs, the calculation of sample volume requirements, the identification of the necessary sample treatment and in the evaluation of the precision of the laboratory data. The major section of the catalog...
Hydrothermal alteration and self-sealing in Y-7 and Y-8 drill holes in northern part of upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Terry E.C. Keith, Donald Edward White, Melvin H. Beeson
1978, Professional Paper 1054-A
