Estimating Monthly Water Withdrawals, Return Flow, and Consumptive Use in the Great Lakes Basin
Kimberly H. Shaffer, Rosemary S. Stenback
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1211
Water-resource managers and planners require water-withdrawal, return-flow, and consumptive-use data to understand how anthropogenic (human) water use affects the hydrologic system. Water models like MODFLOW and GSFLOW use calculations and input values (including water-withdrawal and return flow data) to simulate and predict the effects of water use on aquifer and...
Western Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center--providing comprehensive earth science for complex societal issues
David G. Frank, Alan R. Wallace, Jill L. Schneider
2010, Circular 1363
Minerals in the environment and products manufactured from mineral materials are all around us and we use and come into contact with them every day. They impact our way of life and the health of all that lives. Minerals are critical to the Nation's economy and knowing where future mineral...
Historical files from Federal government mineral exploration-assistance programs, 1950 to 1974
David G. Frank
2010, Fact Sheet 2010-3109
Congress enacted the Defense Production Act in 1950 to provide funding and support for the exploration and development of critical mineral resources. From 1950 to 1974, three Department of the Interior agencies carried out this mission. Contracts with mine owners provided financial assistance for mineral exploration on a joint-participation basis....
Identification of tsunami deposits in the geologic record; developing criteria using recent tsunami deposits
Robert Peters, Bruce Jaffe
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1239
There is a need for a clear procedure to identify tsunami deposits in the geologic record. Data from published studies documenting recent tsunami deposits provide a means of developing identification criteria based on the sedimentary characteristics of unequivocal tsunami deposits. Recent tsunami deposits have many sedimentary characteristics in common. All...
The role of water in generating the calc-alkaline trend: New volatile data for aleutian magmas and a new tholeiitic index
Mindy M. Zimmer, Terry Plank, Erik H. Hauri, Gene Yogodzinski, Peter L. Stelling, Jessica Larsen, Brad Singer, Brian R. Jicha, Charlie Mandeville, Christopher J. Nye
2010, Journal of Petrology (51) 2411-2444
The origin of tholeiitic (TH) versus calc-alkaline (CA) magmatic trends has long been debated. Part of the problem stems from the lack of a quantitative measure for the way in which a magma evolves. Recognizing that the salient feature in many TH–CA discrimination diagrams is enrichment in Fe during magma...
Stream gage descriptions and streamflow statistics for sites in the Tigris River and Euphrates River Basins, Iraq
Dina K. Saleh
2010, Data Series 540
Statistical summaries of streamflow data for all long-term streamflow-gaging stations in the Tigris River and Euphrates River Basins in Iraq are presented in this report. The summaries for each streamflow-gaging station include (1) a station description, (2) a graph showing annual mean discharge for the period of record, (3) a...
Understanding beach health throughout the Great Lakes-Entering a new era of investigations
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2010, Fact Sheet 2010-3093
For over a decade, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has been a leader in the science of beach health. The overall mission of this work is to provide science-based information and methods that will allow beach managers to more accurately make beach closure and advisory decisions, understand the sources and...
Development of a channel classification to evaluate potential for cottonwood restoration, lower segments of the Middle Missouri River, South Dakota and Nebraska
Robert B. Jacobson, Caroline M. Elliott, Brittany L. Huhmann
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5208
This report documents development of a spatially explicit river and flood-plain classification to evaluate potential for cottonwood restoration along the Sharpe and Fort Randall segments of the Middle Missouri River. This project involved evaluating existing topographic, water-surface elevation, and soils data to determine if they were sufficient to create a...
Seasonal and spatial distribution patterns of finfish and selected invertebrates in coastal lagoons of northeastern Florida, 2002-2004
Michael Turtora, Elizabeth M. Schotman
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5131
The U.S. Geological Survey conducted a survey of juvenile fisheries resources, in cooperation with the St. Johns River Water Management District and Volusia County, to establish baseline data on spatial and temporal distribution patterns of estuarine fish. The survey was conducted from November 2001 to March 2005 and the baseline...
Archive of Digital Chirp Sub-bottom profile data collected during USGS cruise 09CCT01 offshore of Sabine Pass and Galveston, Texas, March 2009
Arnell S. Forde, Shawn V. Dadisman, James G. Flocks, Timothy M. Dellapenna, Jordan M. Sanford, Dana S. Wiese
2010, Data Series 526
This Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) publication was prepared by an agency of the United States Government. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other...
Guidelines for the use of the semipermeable membrane device (SPMD) and the polar organic chemical integrative sampler (POCIS) in environmental monitoring studies
David A. Alvarez
2010, Techniques and Methods 1-D4
The success of an environmental monitoring study using passive samplers, or any sampling method, begins in the office or laboratory. Regardless of the specific methods used, the general steps include the formulation of a sampling plan, training of personnel, performing the field (sampling) work, processing the collected samples to recover...
Characterization of geologic deposits in the vicinity of US Ecology, Amargosa Basin, southern Nevada
Emily M. Taylor
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5134
Multiple approaches have been applied to better understand the characteristics of geologic units exposed at the surface and buried at depth in the vicinity of US Ecology (USE), a low-level commercial waste site in the northern Amargosa Desert, Nevada. Techniques include surficial geologic mapping and interpretation of the subsurface using...
Surface-water quantity and quality, aquatic biology, stream geomorphology, and groundwater-flow simulation for National Guard Training Center at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, 2002-05
Michael J. Langland, Peter J. Cinotto, Douglas C. Chichester, Michael D. Bilger, Robin A. Brightbill
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5155
Base-line and long-term monitoring of water resources of the National Guard Training Center at Fort Indiantown Gap in south-central Pennsylvania began in 2002. Results of continuous monitoring of streamflow and turbidity and monthly and stormflow water-quality samples from two continuous-record long-term stream sites, periodic collection of water-quality samples from five...
Trends in live-bed pier scour at selected bridges in South Carolina
Andral W. Caldwell, Stephen T. Benedict
Susan E. Burns, Shobha K. Bhatia, Catherine Avila, Beatrice E. Hunt, editor(s)
2010, Conference Paper, Scour and Erosion
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the South Carolina Department of Transportation, used ground-penetrating radar to collect measurements of live-bed pier scour at 78 bridges in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain physiographic provinces of South Carolina. The 141 measurements of live-bed pier-scour depth ranged from 0.5 to 5.1 meters....
Potentiometric Surface of the Upper Floridan Aquifer, West-central Florida, May 2010
A.G. Ortiz
2010, Scientific Investigations Map 3139
The Floridan aquifer system consists of the Upper and Lower Floridan aquifers separated by the middle confining unit. The middle confining unit and the Lower Floridan aquifer in west-central Florida generally contain highly mineralized water. The water-bearing units containing fresh water are herein referred to as the Upper Floridan aquifer....
Quantity and sources of base flow in the San Pedro River near Tombstone, Arizona
Jeffrey R. Kennedy, Bruce Gungle
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5200
Base flow in the upper San Pedro River at the gaging station (USGS station 09471550) near Tombstone, Arizona, is an important factor in the long-term sustainability of the river's riparian ecosystem. Most base flow occurs during the non-summer months (typically, from November to May), because evapotranspiration (ET) is greater...
Bathymetric surveys at highway bridges crossing the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri, using a multibeam echo sounder, 2010
Richard J. Huizinga
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5207
Bathymetric surveys were conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Transportation, on the Missouri River in the vicinity of nine bridges at seven highway crossings in Kansas City, Missouri, in March 2010. A multibeam echo sounder mapping system was used to obtain channel-bed elevations...
Seamounts and ferromanganese crusts within and near the U.S. EEZ off California - Data for RV Farnella cruise F7-87-SC
James R. Hein, Jane A. Reid, Tracey A. Conrad, Rachel E. Dunham, David A. Clague, Marjorie S. Schulz, Alice S. Davis
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1069
The purpose of this report is to present and briefly describe ship-board and laboratory data for a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research cruise aboard the RV Farnella that took place December 3-21, 1987 (cruise F7-87-SC). The purpose of the cruise was to survey seamounts and ferromanganese crusts within and near...
Preliminary assessment of trends in static water levels in bedrock wells in New Hampshire, 1984 to 2007
Joseph D. Ayotte, Brandon M. Kernen, David R. Wunsch, Denise M. Argue, Derek S. Bennett, Thomas J. Mack
2010, Open-File Report 2010-1189
Analysis of nearly 60,000 reported values of static water level (SWL, as depth below land surface) in bedrock wells in New Hampshire, aggregated on a yearly basis, showed an apparent deepening of SWL of about 13 ft (4 m) over the period 1984–2007. Water-level data were one-time measurements at each...
Lithologic and physicochemical properties and hydraulics of flow in and near the freshwater/saline-water transition zone, San Antonio segment of the Edwards aquifer, south-central Texas, based on water-level and borehole geophysical log data, 1999-2007
Rebecca B. Lambert, Andrew G. Hunt, Gregory P. Stanton, Michael B. Nyman
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5122
The freshwater zone of the San Antonio segment of the Edwards aquifer in south-central Texas (hereinafter, the Edwards aquifer) is bounded to the south and southeast by a zone of transition from freshwater to saline water (hereinafter, the transition zone). The boundary between the two zones is the freshwater/saline-water interface...
Woodpecker densities in the big woods of Arkansas
J.D. Luscier, David G. Krementz
2010, Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (1) 102-110
Sightings of the now-feared-extinct ivory-billed woodpecker Campephilus principalis in 2004 in the Big Woods of Arkansas initiated a series of studies on how to best manage habitat for this endangered species as well as all woodpeckers in the area. Previous work suggested that densities of other woodpeckers, particularly pileated Dryocopus...
Thermal constraints to the sporogonic development and altitudinal distribution of avian malaria Plasmodium relictum in Hawai'i
Dennis A. LaPointe, M.L. Goff, Carter T. Atkinson
2010, Journal of Parasitology (96) 318-324
More than half of the Hawaiian honeycreepers (Drepanidinae) known from historical records are now extinct. Introduced mosquito-borne disease, in particular the avian malaria Plasmodium relictum, has been incriminated as a leading cause of extinction during the 20th century and a major limiting factor in the recovery of remaining species populations....
ARCTOS: a relational database relating specimens, specimen-based science, and archival documentation
Gordon H. Jarrell, Cindy A. Ramotnik, D.L. McDonald
2010, Conference Paper, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Data are preserved when they are perpetually discoverable, but even in the Information Age, discovery of legacy data appropriate to particular investigations is uncertain. Secure Internet storage is necessary but insufficient. Data can be discovered only when they are adequately described, and visibility increases markedly if the data are related...
Biological water-quality assessment of selected streams in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District Planning Area of Wisconsin, 2007
Barbara C. Scudder Eikenberry, Amanda H. Bell, Daniel J. Sullivan, Michelle A. Lutz, David A. Alvarez
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5166
Changes in the water quality of stream ecosystems in an urban area may manifest in conspicuous ways, such as in murky or smelly streamwater, or in less conspicuous ways, such as fewer native or pollution-sensitive organisms. In 2004, and again in 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey sampled stream organisms—algae, invertebrates,...
Global mineral resource assessment: porphyry copper assessment of Mexico: Chapter A in Global mineral resource assessment
Jane M. Hammarstrom, Gilpin R. Robinson Jr., Steve Ludington, Floyd Gray, Benjamin J. Drenth, Francisco Cendejas-Cruz, Enrique Espinosa, Efren Perez-Segura, Martin Valencia-Moreno, Jose Luis Rodriguez-Castaneda, Rigobert Vasquez-Mendoza, Lukas Zürcher
2010, Scientific Investigations Report 2010-5090-A
Mineral resource assessments provide a synthesis of available information about distributions of mineral deposits in the Earth’s crust. A probabilistic mineral resource assessment of undiscovered resources in porphyry copper deposits in Mexico was done as part of a global mineral resource assessment. The purpose of the study was to (1)...
