Characteristics of aquifers in the northern Uinta Basin area, Utah and Colorado
J. W. Hood
1976, Technical Publication 53
This report presents a part of the results of an investigation of the hydrology of the northern Uinta Basin area by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Division of Water Rights, Utah Department of Natural Resources. The purpose of the report is to summarize the hydraulic and geohydrologic...
Digital-model analysis of the effects of water-use alternatives on spring discharges Gooding and Jerome Counties, Idaho
Joe A. Moreland
1976, Water Information Bulletin 42
Springs discharging from the Snake Plain aquifer contribute approximately 6,000 cubic feet per second (170 cubic metres per second) to flow in the Snake River between Milner and King Hill. Before irrigation began on the Snake River Plain north and east of the springs, total spring discharge was about 4,200...
Textural distribution of sea-floor sediments, south Texas Outer Continental Shelf
Gerald L. Shideler
1976, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (4) 703-713
The general texture of sea-floor sediments along the south Texas Outer Continental Shelf was evaluated in terms of gravel, sand, silt, and clay components. The gravel component is quantitatively minor and is concentrated mainly in the southern sector; it consists, for the most part, of relict biogenic detritus dominated by...
Audio-magnetotelluric methods in reconnaissance geothermal exploration
D.B. Hoover, C. L. Long
1976, Conference Paper, Proceedings: second United Nations Symposium on the development and use of geothermal resources, San Francisco, California, USA, 20-29 May 1975
An audio-magnetotelluric (AMT) system has been developed by the U.S. Geological Survey for low-cost reconnaissance exploration of geothermal regions. This is an electromagnetic sounding technique in which the scalar or Cagniard resistivity is computed at 12 frequencies logarithmically spaced from 7.5 to 18 600 Hz. Our system uses natural source...
Rise of a variable-viscosity fluid in a steadily spreading wedge-shaped conduit with accreting walls
Arthur H. Lachenbruch, Manuel Nathenson
1976, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (4) 181-188
Relatively rigid plates making up the outer 50 to 100 km of the Earth are steadily separating from one another along narrow globe-circling zones of submarine volcanism, the oceanic spreading centers. Continuity requires that the viscous underlying material rise beneath spreading centers and accrete onto the steadily diverging plates. It...
Saline water in the Little Arkansas River Basin area, south-central Kansas
Robert B. Leonard, Melvin K. Kleinschmidt
1976, Chemical Quality Series 3
Ground water in unconsolidated deposits of Pleistocene age in part of the Little Arkansas River basin has been polluted by the influx of saline water. The source of the saline water generally is oil-field brine that leaked from disposal ponds on the land surface. Locally, pollution by saline water also...
Seepage study of the Rocky Point Canal and the Grey Mountain-Pleasant Valley Canal systems, Duchesne County, Utah
R.W. Cruff, J. W. Hood
1976, Technical Publication 50
This report describes the study of the Rocky Point Canal system in the vicinity of Duchesne and the Grey Mountain-Pleasant Valley Canal system between Duchesne and Myton, in the Uinta Basin, Duchesne County, Utah. The Rocky Point Canal diverts from the left bank of the Duchesne River about 4 mi...
Bouguer gravity map of California, San Jose
Stephen L. Robbins, Howard W. Oliver, K. D. Holden
1976, Report
Glaciomarine deposits of Miocene through Holocene age in the Yakataga Formation along the Gulf of Alaska margin, Alaska
George Plafker, W.O. Addicott
Thomas P. Miller, editor(s)
1976, Conference Paper, Recent and ancient sedimentary environments in Alaska: Proceedings of the Alaska Geological Society Symposium held April 2-4, 1975, at Anchorage, Alaska
Perhaps the world's longest and most complete onshore sedimentary record of late Cenozoic glaciation is preserved in the Gulf of Alaska Tertiary province that extends 800 km along the coast of southern Alaska. The Yakataga Formation, with an aggregate outcrop thickness of about 5,000 m, is characterized by variable amounts...
A portable helium sniffer
Irving Friedman, E.H. Denton
1976, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (4) 35-36
A portable helium sniffer has been developed for field use. The instrument is mounted in a four-wheel-drive pickup truck and can detect 50 parts per billion of helium in soil gas. The usefulness of helium sniffing in soil is being investigated as a prospecting tool in gas, oil, uranium, and...
Hydrologic reconnaissance of the Pine Valley drainage basin, Millard, Beaver, and Iron counties, Utah
Jerry C. Stephens
1976, Technical Publication 51
The Pine Valley drainage basin is an area of about 730 square miles (1,890 square kilometres) in Millard, Beaver, and Iron Counties in southwestern Utah. Total annual precipitation in the basin averages about 410,000 acre-ft (acre-feet) or 506 hm3 (cubic hectometres). Less than 500 acre-ft (0.6 hm3) of runoff reaches...
Journal of Research of the U. S. Geological Survey, 1976, volume 4, issue 6
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Journal of Research of the U. S. Geological Survey, 1976, volume 4, issue 5
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Journal of Research of the U. S. Geological Survey, 1976, volume 4, issue 3
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Journal of Research of the U. S. Geological Survey, 1976, volume 4, issue 4
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Journal of Research of the U. S. Geological Survey, 1976, volume 4, issue 2
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Journal of Research of the U. S. Geological Survey, 1976, volume 4, issue 1
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National Cartographic Information Center Newsletter No. 4
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1976, Newsletter 4
Last week, the editor of this publication was told to start signing the introduction. Something to do with credit given for work done. We look at it in the unfortunate light of accountability; our days under the bushel of anonymity are over. Speaking of accountability, it's about time we gave...
National Cartographic Information Center Newsletter No. 5
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1976, Newsletter 5
The profile in this issue describes the Map Section of the Geological Survey Library....
United States Geological Survey Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1975
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1976, Report
The Survey resumes the practice of annually summarizing the progress it has made in identifying the Nation's land, water, energy, and mineral resources, classifying federally owned mineral lands and waterpower sites, and in supervising the exploration and development of energy and mineral resources on Federal and Indian lands. The Annual...
Chart of conversion factors: From English to metric system and metric to English system
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1976, Report
The conversion factors in the following tables are for conversion of our customary (English) units of measurement to SI*units, and for convenience, reciprocals are shown for converting SI units back to the English system. The first table contains rule-of-thumb figures, useful for "getting the feel" of SI units or mental...
Man against volcano: The eruption on Heimaey, Vestmann Islands, Iceland
R.S. Williams Jr., J.G. Moore
1976, Report
The U.S. Geological Survey carries out scientific studies in the geological, hydrological, and cartographic sciences generally within the 50 states, but also in cooperation with scientific organizations in many foreign countries for the investigation of unusual earth science phenomena throughout the world. The following material discusses the impact of the...
Floods in New York, 1973 and 1974
F.L. Robison, W.N. Embree, Bernard Dunn
1976, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Report of Investigations RI-15
Nature . . . an environmental yardstick
William T. Pecora
1976, Information and Technology Report 72-21
To one who has spent his professional career in geologic science, conservation always has had special meaning. In the measurements so necessary to his work the geologist develops an integrity in the use of numbers and in the qualifications attending the validity of numbers. Scientific analysis of geologic events and...
Water-resources investigations of the U.S. Geological Survey in the major coal and oil shale areas of Wyoming, 1975-76
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