Role of water in urban planning and management
William Joseph Schneider, David A. Rickert, Andrew Maute Spieker
1973, Circular 601-H
Concentrations of people in urban areas intensify water problems such as flooding and pollution, but these deleterious effects on water resources can be minimized or corrected by comprehensive planning and management. Such planning of the water resources of an urban area must be based on adequate hydrologic data. Through the use...
CRIB; the mineral resources data bank of the U.S. Geological Survey
James Alfred Calkins, Olaf Kays, Eleanor K. Keefer
1973, Circular 681
The recently established Computerized Resources Information Bank (CRIB) of the U.S. Geological Survey is expected to play an increasingly important role in the study of United States' mineral resources. CRIB provides a rapid means for organizing and summarizing information on mineral resources and for displaying the results. CRIB consists of...
Water facts and figures for planners and managers
John Henry Frederick Feth
1973, Circular 601-I
Water is defined in terms of its chemical composition and dominant physical properties, such as expansion on freezing and high surface tension. Water on the earth is about 97 percent in the seas, 2 percent in glacier ice, principally Greenland and Antarctica. Man is left with less than 1 percent...
A review of benthic faunal surveys in San Francisco Bay
Frederic H. Nichols
1973, Circular 677
During the past 60 years, considerable effort has been expended in studies of the relations of the biotic community and physicochemical characteristics of San Francisco Bay water. In very recent years these studies have emphasized the relations between the 'state of health' of bottom-living invertebrates (the benthos) and the levels...
Storage analyses for water supply
H. C. Riggs, C.H. Hardison
1973, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations 04-B2
This manual briefly describes various methods of storage analysis and recommends one method for use by the U.S. Geological Survey to produce draft-storage relations useful to planners and designers. The recommended method is described in detail....
Surface water supply of the United States, 1966-70, Part 6, Missouri River basin, v. 3, Missouri River basin from Sioux City, Iowa to Nebraska City, Nebraska
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1973, Water Supply Paper 2118
United States Geological Survey Alaska program, 1973
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1973, Circular 683
This report on the Alaskan activities of the U.S. Geological Survey contains up-to-date accounts of recent results and summaries of plans for the summer of 1973. It is organized in six parts: (1) responsibilities and services of the Geological Survey; (2) organization of the U.S. Geological Survey; (3) Alaskan field...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1966-70, Part 3, Ohio River basin, v. 4, Ohio River basin below Wabash River
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1973, Water Supply Paper 2110
Surface water supply of the United States, 1966-70, Part 9, Colorado River basin, v. 1, Colorado River basin above Green River
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1973, Water Supply Paper 2124
Summary of United States mineral resources
Donald Albert Brobst, Walden P. Pratt, V.E. McKelvey
1973, Circular 682
Liquefaction, flow, and associated ground failure
T. Leslie Youd
1973, Circular 688
Ambiguities in the use of the term liquefaction and in defining the relation between liquefaction and ground failure have led to encumbered communication between workers in various fields and between specialists in the same field, and the possibility that evaluations of liquefaction potential could be misinterpreted or misapplied. Explicit definitions...
Lithium in surficial materials of the conterminous United States and partial data on cadmium
Hansford T. Shacklette, J.G. Boerngen, J.P. Cahill, R.L. Rahill
1973, Circular 673
Concentrations of lithium in 912 samples of soils and other regoliths from sites approximately 50 miles apart throughout the United States are represented on a map by symbols showing five ranges of values. A histogram of the lithium concentrations is also given. The geometric mean lithium concentration is 20.4 ppm...
Fluvial-sediment discharge to the oceans from the conterminous United States
Westley Farnsworth Curtis, James J. Culbertson, Edith B. Chase
1973, Circular 670
This report is a contribution to the UNESCO-sponsored project of the International Hydrological Decade called the World Water Balance. Annual fluvial-sediment discharge from the conterminous United States averages 491,449,600 short tons, of which 14,204,000 is discharged to the Atlantic Ocean, 378,179,000 to the Gulf of Mexico, and 99,066,600 to the...
Reports and maps of the Geological Survey released only in the open files, 1972
Betsy A. Weld, Kathleen T. Iseri, Marvin L. Millgate
1973, Circular 668
Occurrence and distribution of selected metals in streams near Huntsville, Alabama
E. R. German, Alfred L. Knight
1973, Circular 679
Arsenic, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, lead, mercury, and zinc are widely distributed around Huntsville, Ala. However, concentrations of these metals in streamflow in the vicinity of the Huntsville municipal water intake during June, August, and September 1971 did not exceed the limits recommended for a public drinking water supply. The occurrence...
Report on water injectivity test, lease OCS-P 0241, Well No. B-49-1, Dos Cuadras Field, Santa Barbara Channel, off California
Maurice V. Adams
1973, Circular 687
Quality of surface waters of the United States, 1968, Parts 4 and 5, St. Lawrence River basin and Hudson Bay and upper Mississippi River basins
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1973, Water Supply Paper 2094
Bibliography of the geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, to March 1, 1973
Marjorie C. Mullens
1973, Circular 675
Hydrogeology of glacial drift, Mesabi Iron Range, northeastern Minnesota
Thomas C. Winter
1973, Water Supply Paper 2029-A
Stratified fluvial sediments occur within the glacial drift at many places in the Mesabi Iron Range area. These sediments, which are important aquifers, occur extensively between the three main till units. The thickest and most extensive aquifer consists of glaciofluvial sediments that lie between the surficial till and the middle...
Effects of the May 5-6, 1973, storm in the Greater Denver area, Colorado
Wallace R. Hansen
1973, Circular 689
Rain began falling on the Greater Denver area the evening of Saturday, May 5, 1973, and continued through most of Sunday, May 6. Below about 7,000 feet altitude, the precipitation was mostly rain; above that altitude, it was mostly snow. Although the rate of fall was moderate, at least 4...
Mineral resource potential of the Stillwater Complex and adjacent rocks in the northern part of the Mount Wood and Mount Douglas quadrangles, southwestern Montana
Norman J. Page, John C. Dohrenwend
1973, Circular 684
The Stillwater Complex contains the largest potential chromite and platinum metal resources and second largest nickel resources in the United States. The Ultramafic zone has produced about 900,000 long tons of chromite concentrate and contains unmined reserves equivalent to 2,520,000 long tons of Cr2O3. Nickel and copper sulfide minerals that...
Mineral resources of the Idaho Primitive Area and vicinity, Idaho; an evaluation of the mineral potential of the area, with a section on the Thunder Mountain District and a section on aeromagnetic interpretation
Fred W. Cater, B. F. Leonard, W. E. Davis, D. M. Pinckney, W.B. Hamilton, R. L. Parker, R.D. Weldin, T. J. Close, N. T. Zilka
1973, Bulletin 1304
No abstract available....
Gold anomaly in soil of the West End Creek area, Yellow Pine District, Valley County, Idaho
B. F. Leonard
1973, Circular 680
A gold anomaly recently found by soil sampling near the Yellow Pine mine is accompanied by a silver anomaly and by conspicuous though minor mercury, antimony, arsenic, and tungsten anomalies. The anomalies are not completely delimited by the sampling, but preliminary results indicate that a gold anomaly extends 600 feet...
Generalization of stream-temperature data in Washington
M. R. Collings
1973, Water Supply Paper 2029-B
The effect of water temperature on the ecosystem of streams necessitates an analysis of various physical characteristics that influence stream temperatures. This study was conducted to determine (1) the effective relations that define site-to-site variation in stream temperatures, (2) equations and methods to estimate stream temperatures at sites where little...
Stream temperatures in Washington state
M. R. Collings, G.T. Higgins
1973, Hydrologic Atlas 385
