Ground-water resources and geology of the Gila Bend and Dendora areas, Maricopa County, Arizona
P.W. Johnson, J.M. Cahill
1955, Open-File Report 55-75
The contemplated construction of an earth-fill flood-control dam on the Gila River in the vicinity of Gila Bend, Ariz., required a preliminary evaluation of the effects of such a structure upon the water supply of the area. The proposed dam would temporarily impound teh occasional floods that constitute the only...
Chemical character of surface waters in the central and southern Florida flood control district
Eugene Brown, J.W. Crooks
1955, Open-File Report 55-19
Progress and future of the ground-water investigations in the lower Delaware River Basin
H.C. Barksdale
1955, Open-File Report 55-4
No abstract available....
Detailed logs of 28 wildcat wells in Lee, Wise, Buchanan, Montgomery, and Dickenson Counties, Virginia
Mary Beth McFarlan, Eloise T. Jacobsen
1955, Open-File Report 55-72
The Clinchfield Coal Company No. 102 well was drilled in the western part of Buchanan County near the Dickinson County line. The well started in the Pennsylvanian Norton formation and originally stopped in the Big Stone Gap shale. It was later deepened during 1950 to a total depth of 5847...
Double Moutain Fork Brazos River between Lubbock and Buffalo Lakes, Texas
J.O. Joerns
1955, Open-File Report 55-73
The purpose of this investigation was to study quantity, quality, and possible sources of the low flow and spring inflow of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River between the Lubbock sewage disposal plant, 3 miles southeast of Lubbock, and a County Road crossing about 15 miles downstream and...
Interim report on results of test drilling in the Savannah area, Georgia and South Carolina
Stephen M. Herrick, Robert L. Wait
1955, Open-File Report 55-65
The purpose of this investigation which is being made in cooperation with the Georgia Department of Mines, Mining and Geology, Chatham County, and the City of Savannah, is to determine whether salt-water encroachment has occurred in the principal limestone aquifer in the Savannah area, and, if so, to delimit the...
Ground-water conditions between Oracle and Oracle Junction, Pinal County, Arizona
L.A. Heindl
1955, Open-File Report 55-63
The development of the San Manuel copper prospect has greatly increased traffic along State Highway 77. Considerable interest in commercial possibilities along that road has resulted in a request by the Arizona State Land Department for information about the ground-water conditions between Oracle and Oracle Junction. This request came too...
Records of wells and water-level fluctuations in the Aberdeen-Springfield area, Bingham and Power counties, Idaho in 1954
Harold G. Sisco
1955, Open-File Report 55-165
This report contains records of observation wells and water-level fluctuations for the calendar year 1954 in the Aberdeen-Springfield area, Bingham and Power Counties, Idaho. Systematic observations in the Aberdeen-Springfield area were begun by the Geological Survey in 1952. Each year a progress report is issued and this report is number 3...
Ground-water-supply possibilities in parts of Bear Lake and Caribou Counties, Idaho
R. C. Scott
1955, Open-File Report 55-162
Ground-water possibilities in parts of Bear Lake and Caribou counties, Idaho, were studied briefly, with special reference to the vicinities of Dingle and Montpelier and to the availability of ground water for expected industrial developments. The work was part of the ground-water investigations by the Geological Survey in cooperation with...
Water supplies for irrigation in the Northeast
C.H. Hardison, O. M. Hackett
1955, Open-File Report 55-57
The subject of this paper as given on the program is "Water Supplies for Irrigation in the Northeast." Both surface-water and ground-water resources are discussed, although with somewhat differing approaches. First we discuss the use of streamflow data in estimating the surface-water supplies available for irrigation use. Then we treat...
Data on wells and test borings in the Slocum quadrangle, Rhode Island
G.W. Hahn
1955, Open-File Report 55-56
No abstract available. ...
Photogeologic map, Circle Cliffs-12 quadrangle, Garfield County, Utah
R.J. Hackman
1955, Open-File Report 55-54
Flood of May 27-28, 1954, in Panola and Lafayette Counties, Mississippi
W.H. Goines
1955, Open-File Report 55-48
As a result of heavy rains during the late afternoon and night of May 27, 1954, record-breaking floods occurred on small streams in Panola and Lafayette Counties. All flooding was in rural areas, and no loss of life was reported. The Agriculture Stabilization Committees at Sardis and at Oxford estimated...
Geology of the Canyon Reservoir site on the Guadalupe River, Comal County, Texas
William O. George, Frank A. Welder
1955, Open-File Report 55-47
In response to a request by Colonel Harry O. Fisher, District Engineer of the Fort Worth District of the Corps of Engineers, United States Army (letter of Dec. 13, 1954), a reconnaissance investigation was made of the geology of the Canyon (F-1) reservoir site on the Guadalupe River in Comal...
A search for aquifers of sand and gravel by electrical-resistivity methods in north-central New Castle County, Delaware
H. Cecil Spicer, Richard A. McCullough, Frederick K. Mack
1955, Open-File Report 55-174
A search for aquifers in an area immediately north of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in New Castle, Del., has been made by an electrical resistivity study. The search located 32 sites that may be underlain by sand and gravel. The thicker deposits are significant with respect to the occurrence...
Ground water investigations in Oklahoma
Leon V. Davis
1955, Open-File Report 55-36
Prior to 1937, ground-water work in Oklahoma consisted of broad scale early-day reconnaissance and a few brief investigations of local areas. The reconnaissance is distinguished by C. N. Gould's "Geology and Water Resources of Oklahoma" (Water-Supply Paper 148, 1905), which covers about half of the present State of Oklahoma. Among...
Wet Mountain thorium investigations, 1952-1954, Fremont and Custer Counties, Colorado
Robert Adam Christman, M. R. Brock, R. C. Pearson, Q. D. Singewald
1955, Open-File Report 55-27
Photogeologic map, White Canyon-2 quadrangle, San Juan and Garfield Counties, Utah
John Calvin Reed
1955, Open-File Report 55-148
No abstract available....
Pegmatites of the Crystal Mountain district, Larimer County, Colorado
W. R. Thurston
1955, Bulletin 1011
Photogeologic map, Straight Cliffs-3 quadrangle, Kane County, Utah
Bion H. Kent
1955, Open-File Report 55-83
No abstract available. ...
X-ray diffractometer studies of some vanadium silicates
John C. Hathaway
1955, Trace Elements Investigations 542
Geology of the Wolf Point quadrangle, Montana
Roger B. Colton
1955, Geologic Quadrangle 67
Photogeologic map of the Circle Cliffs-14 quadrangle, Garfield and Kane Counties, Utah
R.J. Hackman
1955, IMAP 29
Stratigraphy of the Morrison and related formations, Colorado Plateau region, a preliminary report
Lawrence C. Craig, and others
1955, Bulletin 1009-E
Three subdivisions of the Jurassic rocks of the Colorado Plateau region are: the Glen Canyon group, mainly eolian and fluvial sedimentary rocks; the San Rafael group, marine and marginal marine sedimentary rocks; and the Morrison formation, fluvial and lacustrine sedimentary rocks. In central and eastern Colorado the Morrison formation has...
Photogeologic map of the Bluff-12 quadrangle, San Juan County, Utah
P. P. Orkild
1955, IMAP 80