Map showing occurrences of spring-deposited travertine in the conterminous Western United States
J. H. Feth, Ivan Barnes
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-35
Extinct travertine terraces occur hundreds of meters above present levels of spring activity and have potentials for interpretation of ancient hydrologic systems, rates of downcutting, or rates of tectonic uplift that remain virtually unexploited. The abundance and size of extinct travertine deposits suggest that in many places, such as pinnacles...
Urban storm-runoff modelling; Madison, Wisconsin
R. Stephen Grant, Gerald Goddard
1979, Open-File Report 79-1273
The Illinois Urban Drainage Area Simulator was used to analyze the effects that (1) physical changes to storm-sewer conduits, and (2) increased runoff detention and infiltration would have on storm runoff in four urban basins in Madison, Wisconsin. The model was calibrated using monitoring data for the four basins collected...
Supplement to floods in the upper Des Moines River basin, Iowa
Albert J. Heinitz
1979, Open-File Report 79-1486
Data on the East Fork Des Moines River for the August 1979 flood between river miles 330.4 and 408.8 is being published as a supplement to the report "Floods in the Upper Des Moines River basin, Iowa" (Schwab, 1970). Elevation profiles of the 1979 flood, along with previously published profiles, are shown in figures...
Geology and physiography of the continental margin north of Alaska and implications for the origin of the Canada Basin
Arthur Grantz, Stephen L. Eittreim, O.T. Whitney
1979, Open-File Report 79-288
The continental margin north of Alaska is of Atlantic type. It began to form probably in Early Jurassic time but possibly in middle Early Cretaceous time, when the oceanic Canada Basin of the Arctic Ocean is thought to have opened by rifting about a pole of rotation near the Mackenzie...
Bedrock aquifers in the lower Dirty Devil River Basin area, Utah, with special emphasis on the Navajo sandstone
J. W. Hood, T. W. Danielson
1979, Open-File Report 79-1163
The lower Dirty Devil River basin area in southeastern Utah has an area of about 4,300 square miles (11,1140 square kilometers) and ranges in altitude from about 3,700 to more than 11,000 feet (1,130 to 3,350 meters) above mean sea level. Precipitation, the main source of water in the area,...
Leveling data; Eglington fault scarp, Las Vegas Valley, Nevada
Thomas L. Holzer
1979, Open-File Report 79-950
Quaternary stratigraphic sections with radiocarbon dates, Chandalar Quadrangle, Alaska
Thomas D. Hamilton
1979, Open-File Report 79-751
Surficial geologic mapping of the Chandalar quadrangle was carried out during 1975 and 1976 as part of the Arctic Environmental Program of the U.S. Geological Survey. Ten organic samples were collected at that time for radiocarbon dating. Six samples have been dated by Stephen W. Robinson at the U.S. Geological...
The use of Vacutainer tubes for collection of soil samples for helium analysis
Margaret Hinkle, James E. Kilburn
1979, Open-File Report 79-1441
Measurements of the helium concentration of soil samples collected and stored in Vacutainer-brand evacuated glass tubes show that Vacutainers are reliable containers for soil collection. Within the limits of reproducibility, helium content of soils appears to be independent of variations in soil temperature, barometric pressure, and quantity of soil moisture...
Pesticide residues in agricultural drains, southeastern desert area, California
Lawrence A. Eccles
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-16
A study is being made to determine the occurrence and distribution of pesticides in the agricultural drains for approximately 3/4 million irrigated acres in the southeastern desert area of California. This report describes the results of the first year of sampling and analyzing (1) water in the drains , (2)...
Ground-water availability in parts of the Chicopee and Mill River basins, near Wilbraham, Massachusetts
David F. Delaney
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-72
Ground water in the Wilbraham area occurs in glacial drift and in underlying bedrock. Stratified sand and gravel deposits form the principal unconsolidated aquifers. These aquifers are generally less than 50 feet thick in most of the study area; however, an area in north-central Wilbraham, near the Chicopee River, is...
Urban stormwater data management system with applications to south Florida studies
Robert A. Miller, W. Harry Doyle Jr., Larry D. Wilson
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-93
A data management system was developed to store and retrieve urban stormwater data collected from four small urban basins in south Florida. The system is event oriented in that all data from one storm are stored together on the computer file. The data include descriptive information about the storm and...
A total intensity magnetic anomaly map of the Red Sea and its interpretation
Stuart A. Hall
1979, Open-File Report 80-131
All available total intensity magnetic field data have been used to prepare a total intensity magnetic anomaly map of the Red Sea at a scale of 1:2,000,000. These include airborne surveys at various elevations and numerous sea surveys. The data have been digitised at approximately one kilometre intervals and the...
Preliminary geologic map of Fairfax County, Virginia
Avery Drake Jr., A.E. Nelsen, L.M. Force, A.J. Froelich, P. T. Lyttle
1979, Open-File Report 79-398
Potential geologic hazards and constraints for blocks in proposed North Atlantic OCS oil and gas lease sale 42
Robert W. Hall
1979, Open-File Report 79-1285
Analysis of side-scan sonar, 3.5 kHz subbottom profiler, sparker, and fathometer data (approximately 9,900 km) from 206 blocks originally selected for proposed Outer Continental Shelf Lease Sale 42 disclosed potential hazards to oil and gas exploration and development operations. These potential hazards are a shallow gas deposit in one proposed...
Ground-water quality in selected areas of Wisconsin
S. M. Hindall
1979, Open-File Report 79-1594
Analysis of 2,071 ground-water samples from 970 wells throughout Wisconsin indicate large variations in ground-water quality. Ground water in Wisconsin is generally suitable for most uses, but in some areas concentrations of chemical constituents exceed recommended drinking-water standards. Iron, manganese, and nitrate commonly exceed recommended drinking-water standards and dissolved solids,...
Ground-water availability in carbonate rocks of the Dandridge area, Jefferson County, Tennessee
E. F. Hollyday, P.L. Goddard
1979, Open-File Report 79-1263
Groundwater in Jefferson County, Tenn., occurs in solution openings that follow bedding planes and strike joints in the dense limestone and dolomite. Recharge beginning at topographic highs in the northwest moves across strike to lows in the southeast; it is intercepted and collected by high permeability beds in the middle...
Hydrologic data for wells, springs, and streams in Boulder County, Colorado
Dennis C. Hall, Elaine L. Boyd, Doug Cain
1979, Open-File Report 79-979
Hydrologic data collected in 1975-77 as part of a comprehensive water-resources investigation of Boulder County, Colo., by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Boulder County Health Department and the Colorado Geological Survey are presented in this report. The data, in tabular and graphic form, consist of water-quality analyses...
Preliminary map of chromite provinces in the conterminous United States
T. P. Thayer, B. R. Lipin
1979, Open-File Report 79-576-R
Preliminary chart showing electric log correlation section D-D' of some Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks, east flank Rock Springs Uplift, Wyoming
Theodore F. Tyler
1979, Open-File Report 79-1217
Preliminary results of mineralogic and diagenetic studies of low-permeability sandstones of Late Cretaceous age, Piceance Creek basin, northwestern Colorado
Paula L. Hansley, Ronald C. Johnson
1979, Open-File Report 79-1702
Electrical conductivity from 200 degrees to 1000 degrees for 264 rocks and minerals (from data in Parkhomenko and Bondarenko, 1972)
Gary R. Olhoeft
1979, Open-File Report 79-846
This report summarizes and plots the data from a book (in Russian) that is not generally available. ...
Mesozoic stratigraphy: the key to tectonic analysis of southern and central Alaska
David Lawrence Jones, Norman J. Silberling
1979, Open-File Report 79-1200
Southern and central Alaska constitutes an enormous tectonic mosaic composed of separate structural blocks and fragments that accreted to North America during Mesozoic and early Cenozoic time. Some of these blocks are far traveled, as shown by paleomagnetic and paleontologic studies. More than 25 discrete tectonostratigraphic terranes now are known,...
Water resources data for South Dakota, water year 1978
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1979, Water Data Report SD-78-1
No abstract available. ...
Chemical analyses of deep core coal and shale samples from the Almond Formation, Washakie Basin, Sweetwater County, Wyoming
Joseph R. Hatch, C.S. Venable Barclay
1979, Open-File Report 79-1249
During gas and oil exploration efforts in the Washakie Basin in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, undertaken by Ladd Petroleum Co. (a subsidiary of Utah International Inc.) core from the Upper Cretaceous Almond Formation of the Mesaverde Group was collected from their 1-22 Federal well. (See figure 1 for location.) From this...
Gravity data and interpretation of detailed gravity profiles in the Livermore Valley area, California
Andrew Griscom, Carter W. Roberts, K. D. Holden
1979, Open-File Report 79-549
