REM (relative element magnitude): program explanation and computer program listing
George Van Trump, Henry V. Alminas
1978, Open-File Report 78-1014
The REM (relative element magnitude) program is designed as an aid in the characterization of geochemical anomalies. The program ranks the magnitudes of anomalies of individual elements within a multielement geochemical anomaly....
Geophysical logs for 18 holes drilled during 1977 in the Round Bottom area, Yampa coal field, Moffat County, Colorado
Edward A. Johnson
1978, Open-File Report 78-229
Water levels in artesian and nonartesian aquifers of Florida, 1975-76
Henry G. Healy
1978, Open-File Report 78-458
From May 1975 through May 1976, water levels in the Floridan aquifer through most of north and central peninsular Florida declined 2 to 4 feet, on the basis of water-level measurements in 664 wells. These 664 were selected from a network of about 2,100 observation wells for which water-level measurements...
Geology of the uranium prospect at Camp Smith, New York, with a new model for the formation of uranium deposits in metamorphosed submarine volcanogenic rocks
Richard I. Grauch
1978, Open-File Report 78-949
Uraninite of Precambrian age occurs locally in and around a massive sulfide deposit at Camp Smith, Westchester and Putnam Counties, New York. The host rocks are believed to be part of a sequence of marine sediments and submarine volcanogenic rocks that were metamorphosed to leucogneisses, amphibolites, and amphoholite gneisses in...
Recent and projected changes in Dead Sea level and effects on mineral production from the sea
Stanley P. Sauer
1978, Open-File Report 78-176
Hydrologic data for the Dead Sea area were reviewed to assess the probable magnitude and rate of change of the water level of the Dead Sea. Historical average annual Dead Sea levels range from a minimum of 399.4 meters below sea level in about 1818 to a maximum of 388.6...
Preliminary results of 1978 coal exploratory drilling in the Trinidad-Raton coal region, Las Animas County, Colorado
Walter Danilchik
1978, Open-File Report 78-1101
Discharge data at water-quality monitoring stations in Arkansas, 1977 water year
R.K. Knott
1978, Open-File Report 78-824
This is a brief summary of the objectives, accomplishments, and work plans of the cooperative program between the Arkansas Department of Pollution Control and Ecology and the U.S. Geological Survey....
Terrain-analysis procedures for modeling radar backscatter
Gerald G. Schaber, Richard J. Pike, Graydon Lennis Berlin
1978, Open-File Report 79-1088
The collection and analysis of detailed information on the surface of natural terrain are important aspects of radar-backscattering modeling. Radar is especially sensitive to surface-relief changes in the millimeter- to-decimeter scale four conventional K-band (~1-cm wavelength) to L-band (~25-cm wavelength) radar systems. Surface roughness statistics that characterize these changes in...
Effect of controlled land application of sludge on ground-water quality, Ocean County, New Jersey
William Kam
1978, Open-File Report 78-492
Percolation of contaminants from the controlled land application of domestic anaerobic digested liquid sludge has affected the quality of ground water in the highly permeable unconfined Miocene Cohansey Sand aquifer at Colliers Mills and Webbs Mill areas of the Pine Barrens region in Ocean County, New Jersey.The sludge, containing five...
Allocation of subsamples of Apollo 17 lunar rocks from the boulder at station 7, for study by the International Consortium
Jean A. Minkin, Carolyn L. Thompson, E. C. T. Chao
1978, Open-File Report 78-511
The International Consortium was organized, under the leadership of E. C. T. Chao, to conduct a systematic interdisciplinary study of four lunar rock samples (77135, 77115, 77075 and 77215) collected by the Apollo 17 astronauts as representative of the four lithologies they recognized in the boulder at station 7. Tables...
Quality of water and time of travel in the Pearl River, Byram to near Terry, Mississippi
Fred Morris III
1978, Open-File Report 78-909
Hydrologic data for North Creek, Trinity River basin, Texas, 1976
C.C. Kidwell
1978, Open-File Report 77-732
The U.S. Soil Conservation Service is actively engaged in the installation of flood- and soil-erosion reducing structures in Texas under the authority of "The Flood Control Act of 1936 and 1944" and Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act" (Public Law 566), as amended. The Soil Conservation Service has found that...
Preliminary catalog of earthquakes in northern Imperial Valley, California, January 1, 1977 to March 31, 1977
Madeline Schnapp, Gary S. Fuis
1978, Open-File Report 78-74
The northern section of the Imperial Valley region in Southern California is an area of known geothermal resources and an area of high seismicity. To study in detail the relationship between geothermal areas and earthquakes, the U.S. Geological Survey has been monitoring seismicity in the Imperial Valley with a sixteen...
Catalog of earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault system in Central California for the year 1976
C.A. McHugh, F.W. Lester
1978, Open-File Report 78-1051
No abstract available. ...
Installation of water and gas-sampling wells in low-level radioactive-waste burial trenches, West Valley, New York
David E. Prudic
1978, Open-File Report 78-718
A low-level radioactive-waste burial site, West Valley, N.Y., operated from 1963 to 1975, contains 12 refuse-filled trenches about 20 feet deep in till. Twenty-eight wells, 1.25 inch in diameter, were driven to selected depths in 11 of the 12 trenches to obtain gas and water samples for chemical and radiochemical...
Methodology of determining the uncertainty in the accessible geothermal resource base of identified hydrothermal convection systems
Manuel Nathenson
1978, Open-File Report 78-1003
In order to quantify the uncertainty of estimates of the geothermal resource base in identified hydrothermal convection systems, a methodology is presented for combining estimates with uncertainties for temperature, area, and thickness of a geothermal reservoir into an estimate of the stored energy with uncertainty. Probability density functions for temperature,...
Analyses and description of geochemical samples, Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study area, Buncombe County, North Carolina
Jerry M. Motooka, John D. Sharkey, Frank Gardner Lesure
1978, Open-File Report 78-856
Semiquantitative spectrographic analyses for 30 elements and atomic absorption analyses for gold and zinc on 24 bulk stream sediments, 22 panned concentrates, and 50 rock samples from the Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study area and vicinity, Buncombe County, North Carolina, are reported here in detail. Locations for all samples are given...
Core drilling in 1978, Willow Springs Quadrangle, Emery and Sevier Counties, Utah
Gary M. Edson
1978, Open-File Report 78-1049
A minicomputer-based emission spectrographic analysis system: the program
Catharine P. Thomas
1978, Open-File Report 78-982
Summary of the water resources of Puerto Rico
H.J. McCoy
1978, Open-File Report 78-971
The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) is the lead agency in the Federal Interagency Study of the Economy of Puerto Rico. At the request of DOC the U.S. Geological Survey is providing a discussion of the water resources of the island for inclusion in the study's section on macroeconomic assessment.Two...
A computer program for simulating salinity loads in streams
Kent C. Glover
1978, Open-File Report 78-884
A FORTRAN IV program that simulates salinity loads in streams is described. Daily values of stream-discharge in cubic feet per second, or stream-discharge and specific conductance in micromhos, are used to estimate daily loads in tons by one of five available methods. The loads are then summarized by computing either...
Minor and trace element contents of kimberlites of the Front Range, Colorado and Wyoming
M. E. McCallum, C.B. Smith
1978, Open-File Report 78-1011
Since 1960 about 90 separate occurrences of kimberlite have been discovered in the Front Range of northern Colorado and southern Wyoming, and in the Laramie Range, Wyoming (e.g., McCallum, Eggler, and Burns, 1975; McCallum, Eggler, Coopersmith, Smith, and Mabarak, 1977; Smith and others, 1977 and in press). All but two...
Hydrologic information for land-use planning, Fairbanks vicinity, Alaska
Gordon L. Nelson
1978, Open-File Report 78-959
The flood plain on the Chena and Tanana Rivers near Fairbanks, Alaska, has abundant water in rivers and in an unconfined alluvial aquifer. The principal source of ground water is the Tanana River, from which ground water flows northwesterly to the Chena River. Transmissivity of the aquifer commonly exceed 100...
Analysis of urban storm-water quality for seven basins near Portland, Oregon
Timothy L. Miller, Stuart W. McKenzie
1978, Open-File Report 78-662
Over a 1.5-year period, water-quality data were collected for seven small drainage basins in urban aeas of Portland, Oreg. Analysis of the data followed three approaches. First, the constituent concentrations were analyzed. Average concentrations of suspended sediment, settleable solids, and fecal coliform bacteria generally exceeded levels expected for secondary waste-treatment...
Reconnaissance of chemical quality of surface water and fluvial sediment in the Dirty Devil River basin, Utah
J. C. Mundorff
1978, Open-File Report 78-957
