Lithostratigraphic and Hydrogeologic Characteristics of the Ordovician Sinnipee Group in the Vicinity of Waupun, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, 1995-96
Charles P. Dunning, Douglas J. Yeskis
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5114
Three boreholes were drilled at a farm site near Waupun, Wis., to improve the understanding of regional hydrogeology of the Ordovician Sinnipee Group. At the site the Sinnipee Group is the uppermost bedrock unit and is found to be about 183 ft thick. On the basis of core descriptions by...
Vascular Plant and Vertebrate Inventory of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Cecilia A. Schmidt, Brian F. Powell, William L. Halvorson
2007, Open-File Report 2006-1076
Executive Summary We summarized inventory and monitoring efforts for plants and vertebrates at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (NM) in Arizona. We used data from previous research to compile complete species lists for the monument and to assess inventory completeness. There have been 1,031 species of plants and vertebrates observed at the...
Publications of the Western Earth Surface Processes Team 2006
Charles L. Powell II, Paul Stone
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1227
The Western Earth Surface Processes Team (WESPT) of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducts geologic mapping, earth-surface process investigations, and related topical earth science studies in the western United States. This work is focused on areas where modern geologic maps and associated earth-science data are needed to address key societal...
Radiometric calibration status of Landsat-7 and Landsat-5
Julia A. Barsi, Brian L. Markham, Dennis Helder, Gyanesh Chander
2007, Conference Paper
Launched in April 1999, Landsat-7 ETM+ continues to acquire data globally. The Scan Line Corrector in failure in 2003 has affected ground coverage and the recent switch to Bumper Mode operations in April 2007 has degraded the internal geometric accuracy of the data, but the radiometry has been unaffected. The...
Land Subsidence and Aquifer-System Compaction in the Tucson Active Management Area, South-Central Arizona, 1987-2005
Rob Carruth, Donald R. Pool, Carl E. Anderson
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5190
The U.S. Geological Survey monitors land subsidence and aquifer-system compaction caused by ground-water depletion in Tucson Basin and Avra Valley - two of the three alluvial basins within the Tucson Active Management Area. In spring 1987, the Global Positioning System was used to measure horizontal and vertical positions for bench...
Concentrations of selected pharmaceuticals and antibiotics in south-central Pennsylvania waters, March through September 2006
Connie A. Loper, J. Kent Crawford, Kim L. Otto, Rhonda L. Manning, Michael T. Meyer, Edward T. Furlong
2007, Data Series 300
This report presents environmental and quality-control data from analyses of 15 pharmaceutical and 31 antibiotic compounds in water samples from streams and wells in south-central Pennsylvania. The analyses are part of a study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) to...
Proceedings of the first U.S. Geological Survey scientific information management workshop, March 21-23, 2006
Heather S. Henkel
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5232
In March 2006, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) held the first Scientific Information Management (SIM) Workshop in Reston, Virginia. The workshop brought together more than 150 SIM professionals from across the organization to discuss the range and importance of SIM problems, identify common challenges and solutions, and investigate the use...
Concentrations and Loads of Organic Compounds and Trace Elements in Tributaries to Newark and Raritan Bays, New Jersey
Timothy P. Wilson, Jennifer L. Bonin
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5059
A study was undertaken to determine the concentrations and loads of sediment and chemicals delivered to Newark and Raritan Bays by five major tributaries: the Raritan, Passaic, Rahway, Elizabeth, and Hackensack Rivers. This study was initiated by the State of New Jersey as Study I-C of the New Jersey Toxics...
Anthropogenic Organic Compounds in Ground Water and Finished Water of Community Water Systems near Dayton, Ohio, 2002-04
Mary Ann Thomas
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5035
Source water for 15 community-water-system (CWS) wells in the vicinity of Dayton, Ohio, was sampled to evaluate the occurrence of 258 anthropogenic compounds (AOCs). At least one AOC was detected in 12 of the 15 samples. Most samples contained a mixture of compounds (average of four compounds per sample). The...
Somerset County Flood Information System
Heidi L. Hoppe
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3090
The timely warning of a flood is crucial to the protection of lives and property. One has only to recall the floods of August 2, 1973, September 16 and 17, 1999, and April 16, 2007, in Somerset County, New Jersey, in which lives were lost and major property damage occurred,...
Hydrogeologic characteristics of the St. Croix River basin, Minnesota and Wisconsin: Implications for the susceptibility of ground water to potential contamination
Paul F. Juckem
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5112
Population growth in the St. Croix River Basin in Minnesota and Wisconsin has intensified concerns of county resource managers and the National Park Service, which is charged with protecting the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, about the potential for ground-water contamination in the basin. This report describes a previously...
Bankfull Regional Curves for Streams in the Non-Urban, Non-Tidal Coastal Plain Physiographic Province, Virginia and Maryland
Jennifer L. Krstolic, Jeffrey J. Chaplin
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5162
Natural-channel design involves constructing a stream channel with the dimensions, slope, and plan-view pattern that would be expected to transport water and sediment and yet maintain habitat and aesthetics consistent with unimpaired reaches. The adequate description of channel geometry in unimpaired reaches often is an important component of natural-channel design...
Regionalized equations for bankfull discharge and channel characteristics of streams in New York State — Hydrologic Regions 1 and 2 in the Adirondack Region of northern New York
Christiane I. Mulvihill, Amy Filopowicz, Arthur Coleman, Barry P. Baldigo
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5189
Equations that relate drainage area to bankfull discharge and channel characteristics (width, depth, and cross-sectional area) at gaged sites are needed to define bankfull-discharge and channel characteristics at ungaged sites and to provide information for watershed assessments, stream-channel classification, and design of stream-restoration projects. Such equations are most accurate if...
External Quality Assurance Programs Managed by the U.S. Geological Survey in Support of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program/Mercury Deposition Network
Natalie E. Latysh, Gregory A. Wetherbee
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1170
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Branch of Quality Systems operates external quality assurance programs for the National Atmospheric Deposition Program/Mercury Deposition Network (NADP/MDN). Beginning in 2004, three programs have been implemented: the system blank program, the interlaboratory comparison program, and the blind audit program. Each program was designed to measure...
Questa baseline and pre-mining ground-water quality investigation. 19. Leaching characteristics of composited materials from mine waste-rock piles and naturally altered areas near Questa, New Mexico
Kathleen S. Smith, Philip L. Hageman, Paul H. Briggs, Stephen J. Sutley, R. Blaine McCleskey, K. Eric Livo, Philip L. Verplanck, Monique G. Adams, Pamela A. Gemery-Hill
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5165
The goal of this study is to compare and contrast the leachability of metals and the acidity from individual mine waste-rock piles and natural erosional scars in the study area near Questa, New Mexico. Surficial multi-increment (composite) samples less than 2 millimeters in diameter from five waste-rock piles, nine erosional-scar...
Land Cover Applications, Landscape Dynamics, and Global Change
Larry L. Tieszen
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3040
The Land Cover Applications, Landscape Dynamics, and Global Change project at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) seeks to integrate remote sensing and simulation models to better understand and seek solutions to national and global issues. Modeling processes related to population impacts, natural resource...
Streamflow of 2006 -- Water Year Summary
Harry F. Lins
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3062
The maps and graphs appearing in this summary describe streamflow conditions for water-year 2006 (October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2006) in the context of the 77-year period 1930-2006, unless otherwise noted. The illustrations are based on observed data from the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Streamflow Information Program. The...
Time scales and volumes of large ignimbrite-caldera eruptions in continental arc: Relation to assembly of subvolcanic batholiths
Peter W. Lipman
2007, Conference Paper, State of the Arc
Volcanoes and upper-crustal plutons in diverse geologic settings tend to share common features of mineral and chemical compositions, emplacement age, and magmatic volume. Voluminous silicic ignimbrites associated with caldera sources, widespread components of Cordilleran arcs, have commonly been interpreted as broadly concurrent with assembly of upper-crustal batholiths. Tertiary ignimbrites in...
Hydrology, Water Quality, and Surface- and Ground-Water Interactions in the Upper Hillsborough River Watershed, West-Central Florida
J.T. Trommer, L. A. Sacks, E. L. Kuniansky
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5121
A study of the Hillsborough River watershed was conducted between October 1999 through September 2003 to characterize the hydrology, water quality, and interaction between the surface and ground water in the highly karstic uppermost part of the watershed. Information such as locations of ground-water recharge and discharge, depth of the...
Halite brine in the Onondaga Trough near Syracuse, New York: Characterization and simulation of variable-density flow
Richard M. Yager, William M. Kappel, Niel Plummer
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5058
Halite brine (saturation ranging from 45 to 80 percent) lies within glacial-drift deposits that fill the Onondaga Trough, a 40-km long bedrock valley deepened by Pleistocene ice near Syracuse, N.Y. The most concentrated brine occupies the northern end of the trough, more than 15 kilometers (km) beyond the northern limit...
Investigation of ground-water contamination at a drainage ditch, Installation Restoration Site 4, Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, 2005–06
Don A. Vroblesky, Clifton C. Casey
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5155
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast, used newly developed sampling methods to investigate ground-water contamination by chlorobenzenes beneath a drainage ditch on the southwestern side of Installation Restoration Site 4, Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, during 2005-06. The drainage ditch,...
Sea-floor character and sedimentary processes of Great Round Shoal Channel, offshore Massachusetts
Lawrence J. Poppe, Seth D. Ackerman, David S. Foster, Dann S. Blackwood, S. Jeffress Williams, M. S. Moser, H.F. Stewart, K.A. Glomb
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1138
The imagery, interpretive data layers, and data presented herein were derived from multibeam echo-sounder and sidescan-sonar data collected in the vicinity of Great Round Shoal Channel, the main passage through shoals located at the eastern entrance to Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts, and from the stations occupied to verify these acoustic data...
Geologic and hydrogeologic information for a geodatabase for the Brazos River Alluvium Aquifer, Bosque County to Fort Bend County, Texas
Sachin D. Shah, Natalie A. Houston
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1031
During July-October 2006, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB), developed geologic and hydrogeologic information for a geodatabase for use in development of a Groundwater Availability Model (GAM) of the Brazos River alluvium aquifer along the Brazos River from Bosque County to Fort...
Areas Contributing Recharge to Wells in the Tafuna-Leone Plain, Tutuila, American Samoa
Scot K. Izuka, John M. Perreault, Todd K. Presley
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5167
To address the concerns about the potential for contamination of drinking-water wells in the Tafuna-Leone Plain, Tutuila, American Samoa, a numerical ground-water flow model was developed and used to delineate areas contributing recharge to the wells (ACRWs). Surveys and analyses were conducted to obtain or compile certain essential hydrogeologic information...
Development of a global slope dataset for estimation of landslide occurrence resulting from earthquakes
Kristine L. Verdin, Jonathan W. Godt, Christopher C. Funk, Diego Pedreros, Bruce Worstell, James Verdin
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1188
Landslides resulting from earthquakes can cause widespread loss of life and damage to critical infrastructure. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed an alarm system, PAGER (Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response), that aims to provide timely information to emergency relief organizations on the impact of earthquakes. Landslides are...
