Estimating generalized flood skew coefficients for Michigan
H.M. Croskey, D. J. Holtschlag
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4194
Current estimates of station skew indicate that estimates of generalized skew obtained from the skew map of the United States prepared by the U.S. Water Resources Council have a -0.27 bias for Michigan. Station skew was recomputed using currently recommended statistical procedures of the Water Resources Council, and available data...
Hydrologic conditions in the Wheatland Flats area, Platte County, Wyoming
M. A. Crist
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4047
The area includes about 260 square miles in central Platte County that consists of Wheatland Flats and a border region. Wheatland Flats is an area of about 100 square miles that is bounded by Chugwater Creek on the east, the Laramie River on the north, and Sybille Creek on the...
Mineral deposit map of the Silver City 1° x 2° quadrangle, New Mexico and Arizona
D.H. Richter, Viki A. Lawrence
1983, IMAP 1310-B
No abstract available....
Reconnaissance of surface-water resources in the Kobuk River basin, Alaska, 1979-80
J.M. Childers, D.R. Kernodle
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4027
Surface water data were collected at selected sites in the Kobuk River Basin in northwest Alaska in August 1979 and April 1980. In August 1979, frequent heavy rains caused abnormally high flows in the basin; unit runoff values, computed from discharge measurements at 25 sites, ranged from 0.08 to 12.2...
Potential effects of surface coal mining on the hydrology of the Snider Creek area, Rosebud and Ashland coal fields, southeastern Montana
M. R. Cannon
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-4051
The Snider Creek area of the Rosebud and Ashland coal fields contains strippable reserves of Federal coal that have been identified for potential lease sale. A hydrologic study has been conducted in the potential lease area to describe the existing hydrologic systems and to assess potential impacts of surface coal...
Selected hydrologic characteristics of the South Platte River in the vicinity of the proposed Narrows Reservoir near Fort Morgan, Colorado
D.R. Minges
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-4071
Geology of the Tulare Formation and other continental deposits, Kettleman City area, San Joaquin Valley, California, with a section on ground-water management considerations and use of texture maps
R. W. Page
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4000
The Tulare Formation and other continental deposits of Pliocene to Holocene age crop out over most of the area near Kettleman City in the San Joaquin Valley of California. The deposits range in thickness from 0 to more than 4,000 feet and overlie the upper Mya zone of the San...
Aeromagnetic map of south-central Alabama
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1983, Open-File Report 83-611
No abstract available....
Improvement of flood-frequency estimates for selected small watersheds in eastern Kansas using a rainfall-runoff model
R.W. Clement
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4110
The U.S. Geological Survey rainfall-runoff model was used to estimate model parameters for 13 small watersheds in eastern Kansas with drainage areas of less than 11 square miles. Model parameters and rainfall data from three long-term rainfall stations were used in the model to synthesize long-term records of simulated annual...
Hydrogeology and simulation of water flow in the Kootenai aquifer of the Judith basin, central Montana
Julianne F. Levings
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4146
Five Jurassic and Cretaceous formations in the Judith basin of central Montana were investigated with a three-dimensional model to improve the understanding of water flow in the Kootenai aquifer. To accomplish this objective, of water flow in the aquifers and two intervening confining layers was constructed from existing data. A...
Controlled photomosaic of the Casius Southwest Quadrangle of Mars
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1983, IMAP 1525
Sediment transport in the Tanana River near Fairbanks, Alaska, 1980-81
R.L. Burrows, P.E. Harrold
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4064
Suspended-sediment- and bedload-transport rates for the Tanana River near Fairbanks, Alaska, can be related to water discharge. Annual sediment loads can be computed using these relations. For a site at Fairbanks, the annual loads in 1980 were 22.0 million metric tons of suspended sediment and 272,000 metric tons of bedload;...
A summary of ground-water pumpage in the Central Valley, California, 1961-77
Jonathan Diamond, A. K. Williamson
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4037
In the Central Valley of California, a great agricultural economy has been developed in a semiarid environment. This economy is supported by imported surface water and 9 to 15 million acre-feet per year of ground water. Estimates of ground-water pumpage computed from power consumption have been compiled and summarized. Under...
Effect of the proposed Cooper River rediversion on sedimentation in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
G. G. Patterson
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4198
The rates of sedimentation and of resultant maintenance dredging in Charleston Harbor increased dramatically in the 1940s, following two major modifications to the harbor. One modification, the Santee-Cooper diversion project, caused a twentyfold increase in freshwater inflow to the harbor. The other modification was deepening of the navigation channels in...
Potential effects of surface coal mining on the hydrology of the Bloomfield coal tract, Dawson County, eastern Montana
M. R. Cannon
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4229
The Bloomfield coal tract in Dawson County, Montana, contains about 420 million tons of recoverable coal reserves within the Pust coal bed. About 136 million tons of coal within the tract is Federally owned, of which 98 million tons has been identified for potential lease sale. A hydrologic study has...
Meteorological, water-temperature, and discharge data for the Mattole River basin, Humboldt County, California
R.D. Noble, Alan P. Jackman
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-81
To overcome a major difficulty in the testing of the validity of river-temperature models - the lack of adequate precise synoptic data for an entire river basin - synoptic meteorologic, water-temperature, and discharge data were obtained in the Mattole River Basin in northern California during the period June 10 through...
Major geochemical processes related to the hydrology of the Madison aquifer system and associated rocks in parts of Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming
J.F. Busby, R. W. Lee, B.B. Hanshaw
1983, Water-Resources Investigations Report 83-4093
Streamflow and water-quality data for lake and wetland inflows and outflows in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, Minnesota, 1981-82
Luanne Nelson, R. G. Brown
1983, Open-File Report 83-543
A study of runoff to selected lakes was done in the Twin Cities metropolitan area from July 1981 to December 1982. The purpose of the study was to determine differences in nutrient-loading characteristics for lakes with and without wetlands and settling ponds. The study also quantified nutrient loading to lakes...
Ground water in the southeastern Uinta Basin, Utah and Colorado
Walter F. Holmes, Briant A. Kimball
1983, Open-File Report 83-271
The potential for developing oil-shale resources in the southeastern Uinta Basin of Utah and Colorado has created the need for information on the quantity and quality of water available in the area. This report describes the availability and chemical quality of ground water, which might provide a source or supplement...
Hydrologic data for Point MacKenzie area, south-central Alaska
R. L. Glass
1983, Open-File Report 83-142
Studies related to the Charleston, South Carolina, earthquake of 1886 — Tectonics and seismicity
David Gottfried, C. S. Annell, G. R. Byerly, Marvin A. Lanphere, Jeffrey D. Phillips, Gregory S. Gohn, Brenda B. Houser, Ray R. Schneider, Hans D. Ackermann, B. R. Yantis, John K. Costain, F. Steve Schilt, Larry Brown, Jack E. Oliver, Sidney Kaufman, Robert Morrison Hamilton, John C. Behrendt, V. James Henry, Kenneth C. Bayer, David L. Daniels, Isidore Zietz, Peter Popenoe, T. M. Chowns, C. T. Williams, Robert E. Dooley, J. Wampler, William P. Dillon, Kim D. Klitgord, Charles K. Paull, Lyle D. McGinnis, James W. Dewey, Arthur C. Tarr, Susan Rhea, Carl M. Wentworth, Marcia Mergner-Keefer, G. A. Bollinger
Gregory S. Gohn, editor(s)
1983, Professional Paper 1313
Since 1973, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), with support from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has conducted extensive investigations of the tectonic and seismic history of the Charleston, S.C., earthquake zone and surrounding areas. The goal of these investigations has been to discover the cause of the large intraplate Charleston earthquake...
Digital gravity and magnetic data collected in 1980 in the northern Bering Sea
Alan K. Cooper, Michael S. Marlow, Harold Magistrale
1983, Open-File Report 83-519
SIROTEM II IEEE 488-1978 interface and controlling software
Jerry Bradley, Paul Raab
1983, Open-File Report 83-249
Preliminary assessment of long-term probabilities for large earthquakes along selected fault segments of the San Andreas fault system, California
Allan Goddard Lindh
1983, Open-File Report 83-63
Application of Gauss algorithm and Monte Carlo simulation to the identification of aquifer parameters
Timothy J. Durbin
1983, Open-File Report 81-688
The Gauss optimization technique can be used to identify the parameters of a model of a groundwater system for which the parameter identification problem is formulated as a least squares comparison between the response of the prototype and the response of the model. Unavoidable uncertainty in the true stress on...
