Hydrologic effects of stress-relief fracturing in an Appalachian Valley
Granville G. Wyrick, James W. Borchers
1981, Water Supply Paper 2177
A hydrologic study at Twin Falls State Park, Wyoming County, West Virginia, was made to determine how fracture systems affect the occurrence and movement of ground water in a typical valley of the Appalachian Plateaus Physiographic Province. Twin Falls was selected because it is generally unaffected by factors that would...
Data file: the 1976 Atlantic Margin Coring (AMCOR) Project of the U.S. Geological Survey
Lawrence J. Poppe
Lawrence J. Poppe, editor(s)
1981, Open-File Report 81-239
In 1976, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted the Atlantic Margin Coring Project (AMCOR) to obtain information on stratigraphy, hydrology and water chemistry, mineral resources other than petroleum hydrocarbons, and geotechnical engineering properties at sites widely distributed along the Continental Shelf and Slope of the Eastern United States (Hathaway and others,...
Hydrology of area 14, Eastern Coal Province, Kentucky
F. Quinones
1981, Open-File Report 81-137
The general hydrology of Area 14, Eastern Coal Province, in Kentucky, is described. The area includes 4,423 square miles in the Kentucky, Licking, and Red River basins. Coal-bearing rocks of Pennsylvanian age underlie most of the area. Coal production in 1978 was about 38 million tons, 65% of which was...
Hydrology of area 18, Eastern Coal Province, Tennessee
V.J. May
1981, Open-File Report 81-492
The Eastern Coal Province is divided into 24 hydrologic reporting areas. This report describes the hydrology of area 18 which is located in the Cumberland River basin in central Tennessee near the southern end of the Province. Hydrologic information and sources are presented as text, tables, maps, and other illustrations...
Quality of surface water in the coal-mining areas of western Maryland and adjacent areas of Pennsylvania and West Virginia from April 1979 to June 1980
W. W. Staubitz
1981, Open-File Report 81-812
The U.S. Geological Survey is studying the water quality of streams within the Eastern Coal Province. This report contains streamflow, water-quality, and biologic data collected in the North Branch Potomac River basin and in the Maryland portion of the Youghiogheny and Casselman River basins. Data collected from 64 streams from...
Hydrology of area 25, Eastern Region, Interior Coal Province, Illinois
E.E. Zuehls, G.L. Ryan, D.B. Peart, K. K. Fitzgerald
1981, Open-File Report 81-636
The eastern region of the Interior Coal Province has been divided into 11 hydrologic study areas. Area 25, located in west-central Illinois, includes the Spoon River and small tributaries to the Illinois River. Pennsylvanian age rocks underlie most of the study area. Illinois, with the largest reserves of bituminous coal,...
Reconnaissance of the ground-water resources of Kings and Queens counties, New York
H. T. Buxton, Julian Soren, Alex Posner, P. K. Shernoff
1981, Open-File Report 81-1186
Western Long Island 's ground-water resources are being considered for redevelopment as a supplemental source of public water supply. The ground-water reservoir in Kings and Queens Counties had supplied an average of more than 120 million gallons per day for industrial and public water supply from 1904 to 1947. However,...
Potential hydrologic effects of developing coal and other geo-energy resources of Oregon; a review
W.C. Sidle
1981, Open-File Report 81-1014
Southwestern Oregon has several hundred million tons of good-quality minable coal. Because of the dip of the coal beds, the only economical method of mining would be by underground methods. In addition, minor occurrences of low-quality coal have been noted at more than 20 sites in both western and northeastern...
Hydrology of area 32, Eastern Region, Interior Coal Province, Indiana
David J. Wangsness, R. L. Miller, Z. C. Bailey, Charles G. Crawford
1981, Open-File Report 81-498
Hydrologic and water-quality information from the coal region in parts of 11 counties in southwestern Indiana are summarized. Pennsylvanian and Mississippian bedrock are overlain by drift and till from the Kansan, Illinoian, and Wisconsinan glaciers that covered two-thirds of the area. Most of the coal is mined from Pennsylvanian coal...
Hydrology of Area 35, Eastern region, Interior coal province, Illinois and Kentucky
E.E. Zuehls, G.L. Ryan, D.B. Peart, K. K. Fitzgerald
1981, Open-File Report 81-403
Hydrology of area 4, Eastern Coal Province, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia
Donald K. Roth, Morris J. Engelke Jr., and others
1981, Open-File Report 81-343
Area 4 (one of the 24 hydrologic areas defining the Eastern Coal Province) is located at the northern end of the Eastern Coal Province in eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. It is part of the upper Ohio River basin, which includes the Beaver, Mahoning, and Shenango Rivers....
Analysis and computer simulation of stream-aquifer hydrology, Arkansas River valley, southwestern Kansas
R.A. Barker, Lloyd E. Dunlap, C. G. Sauer
1981, Open-File Report 81-686
A study was made, in cooperation with the Division of Water Resources, Kansas State Board of Agriculture, to determine geohydrologic conditions underlying nearly 110,000 acres of the Arkansas River Valley between the Colorado-Kansas State line and the Bear Creek Fault zone in southwestern Kansas. The Arkansas River meanders atop and...
Hydrology of the Ferron sandstone aquifer and effects of proposed surface-coal mining in Castle Valley, Utah
Gregory C. Lines, Daniel J. Morrissey
1981, Open-File Report 81-535
No abstract available....
Water resources data for Ohio, water year 1980: Volume 2. St. Lawrence River Basin
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1981, Water Data Report OH-80-2
Water resources data for the 1980 water year for Ohio consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage and contents, and water quality of lakes and reservoirs; and water levels and water quality of ground-water wells. This report in two volumes and one appendix contains records...
Geologic structure, hydrology, and water quality of the Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer in the Denver basin, Colorado
Stanley G. Robson
1981, Hydrologic Atlas 650
The Denver ground-water basin underlies a 6,700-square-mile area extending from Greeley in the north to Colorado Springs in the south, and from the Front Range in the west to near Limon in the east. The four major bedrock aquifers that occur in the basin are the Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer (the...
Water-level and saturated-thickness changes, predevelopment to 1980, in the High Plains aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming
Richard R. Luckey, Edwin D. Gutentag, John B. Weeks
1981, Hydrologic Atlas 652
Flood of July 1-5, 1978 on the Kickapoo River, southwestern Wisconsin
Peter E. Hughes, J.S. Hannuksela, W.J. Danchuk
1981, Hydrologic Atlas 653
The Kickapoo River valley in southwestern Wisconsin had a devastating flood ($10 million estimated damages) during July 1-5, 1978. The flash flooding was caused by intense storms on June 30 through July 2. Total rainfall accumulation ranged from 5.8 inches near Ontario to 9.5 inches at La Farge. The resulting...
Patterns of groundwater salinity changes in a deep continental-oceanic transect off the southeastern Atlantic coast of the U.S.A.
F.T. Manheim, C. K. Paull
1981, Journal of Hydrology (54) 95-105
Investigations of formation-fluid salinities in a transect from western Georgia to the edge of the Blake Plateau off the coast of Georgia show surprisingly similar hydrochemical features offshore and onshore. A fresh-brackish wedge of groundwater (<25 g/kg total dissolved solids) lies beneath the shelf to a depth of ∼ 900...
Geological considerations in hazardous waste disposal
K. Cartwright, R. H. Gilkeson, T.M. Johnson
1981, Journal of Hydrology (54) 357-369
Present regulations assume that long-term isolation of hazardous wastes - including toxic chemical, biological, radioactive, flammable and explosive wastes - may be effected by disposal in landfills that have liners of very low hydraulic conductivity. In reality, total isolation of wastes in humid areas is not possible; some migration of...
Subsurface injection of liquid waste in Florida, United States of America
John Vecchioli
1981, Science of Total Environment (21) 127-136
In 1979, liquid waste was injected into the subsurface of Florida by 10 injection systems at an aggregate average rate of 165,000 m3/d. All the systems inject into carbonate rocks that contain salty water. Extensive precautions are taken in the construction of the injection wells and in the monitoring of...
Role of numerical simulation in analysis of ground-water quality problems
Leonard F. Konikow
1981, Science of the Total Environment (21) 299-312
The increasing public awareness and concern about the hazards of toxic chemicals contaminating aquifers has created an increased need for predictive capabilities to analyze ground-water contamination problems. Several digital models to simulate the movement and concentration of ground-water contaminants have been documented recently. Most simulate the transport and dispersion of...
Reservoir analysis of the Denver earthquakes: A case of induced seismicity
Paul A. Hsieh, John D. Bredehoeft
1981, Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres (86) 903-920
Injection of fluid wastes into the fractured Precambrian crystalline bedrock beneath the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver triggered earthquakes in the 1960's. An analysis, based on the assumption that fluid flow in the fractured reservoir can be approximated by flow in a porous medium, is presented. The configuration and hydrologic...
Satellite observations of a geothermal submarine spring off Florida west coast
F. A. Kohout, R.C. Munson, R. M. Turner, W.R. Royal
Morris Deutch, Donald R. Wiesnet, Albert Rango, editor(s)
1981, Conference Paper, Satellite hydrology: proceedings of the Fifth Annual William T. Pecora Memorial Symposium on Remote Sensing, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, June 10-15, 1979
Maps for America: cartographic products of the U.S. Geological Survey and others
Morris M. Thompson
1981, Report
"Maps for America" was originally published in 1979 as a Centennial Volume commemorating the Geological Survey's hundred years of service (1879-1979) in the earth sciences. It was an eminently fitting Centennial Year publication, for, since its establishment, the Geological Survey has continuously carried on an extensive program of mapping to...
Selected irrigation acreage estimates in northern Florida from Landsat data
K. B. Webster, J. R. Lucas, R. J. Musgrove, A.L. Higer
1981, Conference Paper, Satellite hydrology: Proceedings of the Fifth Annual William T. Pecora Memorial Symposium on Remote Sensing
No abstract available....
