Strong-motion earthquake accelerograms digitization and analysis
A. Gerald Brady, Virgilio Perez
1978, Open-File Report 78-941
This is the third of a series of reports planned to include the results of digitization and routine analyses of strong-motion earthquake accelerograms published by the U.S. Geological Survey. Serving as a model for this effort is the collection of data reports published by the Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory of...
Facts relating to Well No. 5, Lease OCS-P 0234, Pitas Point Unit area, and the earthquake of August 13, 1978, Santa Barbara Channel, California
Russell G. Wayland, A. Dewey Acuff, Thane M. McCulloh, C. Barry Raleigh, John G. Vedder, Keith A. Yenne
1978, Open-File Report 78-906
A build-up of pressures developed in an exploratory well being drilled in the Santa Barbara Channel during the period August 9 to 15, 1978. Nearly coincidentally, a sharp earthquake occurred 2 miles south of the city of Santa Barbara at 3:55 p.m. PDT on August 13, 1978. A task...
Ground-water data for the Salt Basin, Eagle Flat, Red Light Draw, Green River Valley, and Presidio Bolson in westernmost Texas
Donald Edward White, J. S. Gates, Joe T. Smith, B.J. Fry
1978, Open-File Report 77-575
From October 1971 through October 1974, the U.S. Geological Survey collected groundwater data in the basins in Texas west of the Pecos River drainage area and northwest of the Big Bend country. The basins included are, from east to west: The Presidio Bolson; the Salt Basin; Green River Valley, Eagle...
Hydrologic data for Mountain Creek, Trinity River basin, Texas, 1976
H.D. Buckner
1978, Open-File Report 77-800
The total drainage area of Mountain Creek, Texas, is 304 sq mi. The stream-gaging stations on Mountain Creek near Cedar Hill and Walnut Creek near Mansfield provide hydrologic data to define runoff characteristics from small drainage basins. They also serve as index stations for inflow into the reservoir and provide...
Documentation for alinement arrays, Motagua fault, Guatemala
R.C. Bucknam
1978, Open-File Report 78-880
The following brief report documents the locations and surveying data for four alinement arrays (fig. 1, p.-7-19) across the Motagua fault, Guatemala, which were installed to measure afterslip occurring along the fault. The arrays represent new monuments installed in areas where displacements had been measured as early as four days...
Principal facts for a set of regional gravity data for the Las Vegas 1 degree by 2 degrees sheet, Nevada
Denis Reidy, M. F. Kane, D.L. Healey, D. L. Peterson, H. E. Kaufmann
1978, Open-File Report 78-1012
Water-resources investigations of the U.S. Geological Survey in Wyoming, fiscal year 1978
F. C. Boner
1978, Open-File Report 78-239
This report contains lists of streamflow and reservoir stations, peak-flow partial-record stations, chemical-quality stations, sediment stations, and observation wells where water levels are measured in Wyoming. The locations of the basic-data sites are shown on maps. Thirty-two water-resources appraisal projects in Wyoming are also described, including many that are related...
Radon migration in the ground: a supplementary review
Allan B. Tanner
1978, Open-File Report 78-1050
Lithologic and geophysical logs for eight holes drilled during 1978 in the Rattlesnake Butte Quadrangle, Routt County, Colorado
A.E. Stevenson
1978, Open-File Report 78-1048
On the development of strong-motion instrument networks in the United States
R.B. Matthiesen
1978, Open-File Report 78-1024
This report outlines a plan for the distribution of strong-motion instrumentation throughout the United States. The present "national" network of strong-motion instrumentation has evolved through the merger of several programs initiated by different agencies and organizations with objectives ranging from research to regulation. It is the result of the coordination...
Results and interpretation of exploratory drilling near the Picacho Fault, south-central Arizona
Thomas L. Holzer
1978, Open-File Report 78-1016
Modern surface faulting along the Picacho fault, east of Picacho, Arizona, has been attributed to ground-water withdrawal. In September 1977, three exploratory test holes were drilled 5 km east of Picacho and across the Picacho fault to investigate subsurface conditions and the mechanism of the faulting. The holes were logged...
Preliminary report on the coal resources of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska
G. C. Martin, James E. Callahan
1978, Open-File Report 78-1033
NPR-A, located on the Arctic slope of Northern Alaska, is underlain by a thick sequence of sedimentary rocks of Cretaceous age which attain a thickness of as much as 4600 m (15,000 feet). The bulk of the coal resources occurs in rocks of the Nanushuk Group of Early and Late...
FORTRAN program for Shapiro-Wilk W test for normality for Honeywell Multics System
R. K. Mark
1978, Open-File Report 78-1069
Preliminary hypocenters of earthquakes in the Healdsburg (1:100,000) quadrangle, Lake Berryessa to Clear Lake, California, October 1969 - December 1976
S.M. Marks, C. G. Bufe
1978, Open-File Report 78-953
No abstract available....
Preliminary geologic maps showing Quaternary deposits of the lower Tuolumne and Stanislaus alluvial fans and along the lower San Joaquin River, Stanislaus County, California (Westley, Brush Lake, Ripon, and Salida 7 1/2' quadrangles)
Denis E. Marchand, J.W. Harden
1978, Open-File Report 78-656
No abstract available....
The establishment of strong-motion instrumentation programs in Southeast Asia: Phase II, Implementation
Richard P. Maley
1978, Open-File Report 78-1023
Hydrological data for urban studies in the Houston, Texas metropolitan area, 1976
James S. Hutchison
1978, Open-File Report 78-128
No abstract available....
Short papers of the Fourth International Conference, Geochronology, Cosmochronology, Isotope Geology, 1978
Robert E. Zartman, editor(s)
1978, Open-File Report 78-701
No abstract available....
Hydrologic data for urban studies in the Dallas, Texas metropolitan area, 1976
B.B. Hampton, C.M. Wood
1978, Open-File Report 78-437
Hydrologic investigations of urban watersheds in Texas were begun by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1954. These studies are now in progress in Austin, Dallas, Dallas County, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio....
The structure and stratigraphy of the Pen Argyl Member of the Martinsburg Formation in Lehigh and Berks counties, Pennsylvania
Gary George Lash
1978, Open-File Report 78-391
The Pen Argyl Member, the upper claystone slate member of the Martinsburg Formation, was studied in three quadrangles in Lehigh and Berks Counties, Pennsylvania. Graptolites collected from the Pen Argyl Member at Lehigh Gap indicate a lower Upper Ordovician (Edenian-Maysvillian) age for the Pen Argyl Member. The Pen Argyl Member...
Computer programs for slope profile analysis
Joseph R. Davis
1978, Open-File Report 78-907
Water level measurements in 52 shallow boreholes in the San Francisco Bay region
Edward F. Roth
1978, Open-File Report 78-935
Water-level measurements have been read in 52 cased boreholes in the San Francisco bay region. These measurements are compared to water-table depths determined by P-wave velocity. A velocity in excess of 1200 m/s is taken as the depth of the upper surface of the water table. This method works best...
Water-quality data for the Village Creek Watershed, northeast Arkansas
T.E. Lamb
1978, Open-File Report 78-497
The results of a 1-year study of surface-water quality in the Village Creek Watershed are presented to document conditions before implementation of Soil Conservation Service programs. Analysis of samples collected at six sites showed that most of the concentrations found are in the range to be expected of drainage from...
Rainfall-runoff data for selected basins, Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, 1973-77
Antonius Laenen, Gary L. Solin
1978, Open-File Report 78-291
In the Portland-Vancouver area, storms and floods are presently being studied in 16 basins with drainage areas ranging from 0.21 to 6.63 square miles and with various basin slopes, degrees of imperviousness, and mixes of land use. Fanno Creek basin in Portland has the longest period of rainfall-runoff record, starting...
A lithologic log of the Oak Grove core, northeastern Virginia
James R. Estabrook, Juergen Reinhardt
1978, Open-File Report 78-855
The Oak Grove core was taken as part of a multifaceted project to develop a stratigraphic and tectonic framework for the Rappahannock drainage basin, northeastern Virginia. This core is at present the only continuously cored Cretaceous and Tertiary section on the Northern Neck of Virginia and is one of the...
