Water-balance model of a wetland on the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota
Kevin C. Vining
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5034
A numerical water-balance model was developed to simulate the responses of a wetland on the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota, to historical and possible extreme hydrological inputs and to changes in hydrological inputs that might occur if a proposed refinery is built on the reservation. Results from model simulations indicated...
Cenozoic environmental changes along the East Antarctic continental margin inferred from regional seismic stratigraphy
G.L. Leitchenkov, Y.B. Guseva, V.V. Gandyukhin
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1047-SRP-005
We interpret ~40,000 km of multichannelseismic reflection lines collected by the Russian Antarctic Expedition along the East Antarctic continental margin between 32° E and 115° E, and present a revised seismic stratigraphic model for depositional paleoenvironments of the region. Variations in acoustic facies characteristics observed across major seismic horizons are correlated...
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo Distribution, Abundance, and Habitat Use Along the Lower Colorado and Tributaries, 2006 Annual Report
Matthew J. Johnson, Jennifer A. Holmes, Christopher Calvo, Ivan Samuels, Stefani Krantz, Mark K. Sogge
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1097
Executive Summary This 2006 annual report details the first season of a 2-year study documenting western yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus occidentalis) distribution, abundance, and habitat use throughout the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Plan boundary area. We conducted cuckoo surveys at 55 sites within 17 areas, between 11 June and 13...
Ground-water, surface-water, and water-chemistry data, Black Mesa area, northeastern Arizona— 2005-06
Margot Truini, J. P. Macy
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1041
The N aquifer is the major source of water in the 5,400 square-mile Black Mesa area in northeastern Arizona. Availability of water is an important issue in northeastern Arizona because of continued water requirements for industrial and municipal use and the needs of a growing population. Precipitation in the Black...
Preliminary Geologic Map of the Lake Mead 30' X 60' Quadrangle, Clark County, Nevada, and Mohave County, Arizona
L. S. Beard, R.E. Anderson, D.L. Block, R. G. Bohannon, R.J. Brady, S.B. Castor, E. M. Duebendorfer, J. E. Faulds, T.J. Felger, K. A. Howard, M. A. Kuntz, V. S. Williams
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1010
Introduction The geologic map of the Lake Mead 30' x 60' quadrangle was completed for the U.S. Geological Survey's Las Vegas Urban Corridor Project and the National Parks Project, National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program. Lake Mead, which occupies the northern part of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area (LAME), mostly lies...
Hydrogeology, Ground-Water-Age Dating, Water Quality, and Vulnerability of Ground Water to Contamination in a Part of the Whitewater Valley Aquifer System near Richmond, Indiana, 2002-2003
Paul M. Buszka, Lee R. Watson, Theodore K. Greeman
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5281
Assessments of the vulnerability to contamination of ground-water sources used by public-water systems, as mandated by the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996, commonly have involved qualitative evaluations based on existing information on the geologic and hydrologic setting. The U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Program has identified...
Crust and lithospheric structure – Global crustal structure
Walter D. Mooney
2007, Book chapter, Treatise on Geophysics
The Earth’s crust has played an important role in all aspects of this planet’s evolution. This chapter presents a review of our current understanding of the physical properties of the crust on a global basis. This understanding comes from extensive seismic measurements using many...
The U.S. Geological Survey Land Remote Sensing Program
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
2007, Fact Sheet 2007-3021
The fundamental goals of the U.S. Geological Survey's Land Remote Sens-ing (LRS) Program are to provide the Federal Government and the public with a primary source of remotely sensed data and applications and to be a leader in defining the future of land remote sensing, nationally and internationally. Remotely sensed data...
Chemical and hydrologic data from the Cement Creek and upper Animas River confluence and mixing zone, Silverton, Colorado, September 1997
Laurence E. Schemel, Marisa H. Cox
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1048
Cement Creek, an acidic tributary, discharges into the circum-neutral Animas River (pH>7) in Silverton, Colorado located in the high-elevation San Juan Mountains. Mixing of Animas River water with acidic metal rich Cement Creek water raises water pH and produces metal precipitates. This report presents selected anion, cation, chloride, and sulfate...
Hydrologic conditions and water-quality conditions following underground coal mining in the North Fork of the Right Fork of Miller Creek drainage basin, Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah, 2004-2005
C.D. Wilkowske, J.L. Cillessen, P.N. Brinton
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5026
In 2004 and 2005, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management, reassessed the hydrologic system in and around the drainage basin of the North Fork of the Right Fork (NFRF) of Miller Creek, in Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah. The reassessment occurred 13 years after...
Geochemistry of Surface and Ground Water in Cement Creek from Gladstone to Georgia Gulch and in Prospect Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado
Raymond H. Johnson, Laurie Wirt, Andrew H. Manning, Kenneth J. Leib, David L. Fey, Douglas B. Yager
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1004
In San Juan County, Colo., the effects of historical mining continue to contribute metals to ground water and surface water. Previous research by the U.S. Geological Survey identified ground-water discharge as a significant pathway for the loading of metals to surface water in the upper Animas River watershed from both...
Streamflow and nutrient fluxes of the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin and subbasins for the period of record through 2005
Brent T. Aulenbach, Herbert T. Buxton, William A. Battaglin, Richard H. Coupe
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1080
U.S. Geological Survey has monitored streamflow and water quality systematically in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB) for more than five decades. This report provides streamflow and estimates of nutrient delivery (flux) to the Gulf of Mexico from both the Atchafalaya River and the main stem of the Mississippi River. This...
Sequential Extraction Results and Mineralogy of Mine Waste and Stream Sediments Associated With Metal Mines in Vermont, Maine, and New Zealand
N.M. Piatak, R.R. Seal II, R. F. Sanzolone, P. J. Lamothe, Z. A. Brown, M. Adams
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1063
We report results from sequential extraction experiments and the quantitative mineralogy for samples of stream sediments and mine wastes collected from metal mines. Samples were from the Elizabeth, Ely Copper, and Pike Hill Copper mines in Vermont, the Callahan Mine in Maine, and the Martha Mine in New Zealand. The...
Geologic Mapping and Mineral Resource Assessment of the Healy and Talkeetna Mountains Quadrangles, Alaska Using Minimal Cloud- and Snow-Cover ASTER Data
Bernard E. Hubbard, Lawrence C. Rowan, Cynthia Dusel-Bacon, Robert G. Eppinger
2007, Open-File Report 2007-1046
On July 8, 2003, ASTER acquired satellite imagery of a 60 km-wide swath of parts of two 1:250,000 Alaska quadrangles, under favorable conditions of minimal cloud- and snow-cover. Rocks from eight different lithotectonic terranes are exposed within the swath of data, several of which define permissive tracts for various mineral...
Developing methods to assess and predict the population and community level effects of environmental contaminants
John M. Emlen, Kathrine R. Springman
2007, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (3) 157-165
The field of ecological toxicity seems largely to have drifted away from what its title implies—assessing and predicting the ecological consequences of environmental contaminants—moving instead toward an emphasis on individual effects and physiologic case studies. This paper elucidates how a relatively new ecological methodology, interaction assessment (INTASS), could be useful...
Relation of specific conductance in ground water to intersection of flow paths by wells, and associated major ion and nitrate geochemistry, Barton Springs Segment of the Edwards Aquifer, Austin, Texas, 1978-2003
Bradley D. Garner, Barbara Mahler
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5002
Understanding of karst flow systems can be complicated by the presence of solution-enlarged conduits, which can transmit large volumes of water through the aquifer rapidly. If the geochemistry at a well can be related to streamflow or spring discharge (springflow), or both, the relations can indicate the presence of recent...
Field and laboratory data From an earthquake history study of scarps of the Lake Creek-Boundary Creek fault between the Elwha River and Siebert Creek, Clallam County, Washington
Alan R. Nelson, Stephen F. Personius, Jason Buck, Lee-Ann Bradley, Ray E. Wells, Elizabeth R. Schermer
2007, Scientific Investigations Map 2961
Fault scarps recently discovered on Airborne Laser Swath Mapping (ALSM; also known as LiDAR) imagery show Holocene movement on the Lake Creek–Boundary Creek fault on the north flank of the Olympic Mountains of northwestern Washington State. Such recent movement suggests the fault is a potential source of large earthquakes. As...
Surface-Water Conditions in Georgia, Water Year 2005
Jaime A. Painter, Mark N. Landers
2007, Data Series 252
INTRODUCTION The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Georgia Water Science Center-in cooperation with Federal, State, and local agencies-collected surface-water streamflow, water-quality, and ecological data during the 2005 Water Year (October 1, 2004-September 30, 2005). These data were compiled into layers of an interactive ArcReaderTM published map document (pmf). ArcReaderTM is a product...
Land-Cover Change in the Southern Lake Tahoe Basin, California and Nevada, 1940-2002
Christian G. Raumann
2007, Scientific Investigations Map 2962
The Lake Tahoe basin has been subject to significant landscape-altering human activity since the mid-1850s; in particular, widespread timber harvest from the 1850s to 1920s and urban development from the 1950s to the present. The consequences of changes such as impacted water quality, degraded biotic communities, and increased fire hazard...
Estimated water use and availability in the Pawtuxet and Quinebaug River basins, Rhode Island, 1995-99
Emily C. Wild, Mark T. Nimiroski
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5154
Water availability became a concern in Rhode Island during a drought in 1999, and an investigation was needed to assess demands on the hydrologic system from withdrawals during periods of little to no precipitation. The low water levels during the drought prompted the U.S. Geological Survey and the Rhode Island...
Hydrogeology and Simulated Ground-Water Flow in the Salt Pond Region of Southern Rhode Island
John P. Masterson, Jason R. Sorenson, Janet Radway Stone, S. Bradley Moran, Andrea Hougham
2007, Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5271
The Salt Pond region of southern Rhode Island extends from Westerly to Narragansett Bay and forms the natural boundary between the Atlantic Ocean and the shallow, highly permeable freshwater aquifer of the South Coastal Basin. Large inputs of fresh ground water coupled with the low flushing rates to the open...
Urgent processing and control of lunar data
Brent A. Archinal, Lisa R. Gaddis, Randolph L. Kirk, Trent M. Hare, Mark R. Rosiek
2007, Conference Paper, Workshop on Science Associated with the Lunar Exploration Architecture
There is an urgent, time-critical need to begin tying together (geodetically controlling) all past and current lunar data, and to establish the cartographic foundation needed to make maximum use of future planned lunar data. Proper control of lunar datails required to properly support both lunar science and exploration, and at...
Resolution effects in radarclinometry
Randolph L. Kirk, Jani Radebaugh
2007, Conference Paper, ISPRS Working Group IV/7: Extraterrestrial Mapping Workshop: Advances in Planetary Mapping 2007
Data from the Cassini-Huygens mission, in particular images from the Cassini Titan Radar Mapper (RADAR) have revealed Saturn's giant moon, Titan to be a world whose geologic diversity and complexity approach those of the Earth itself. Estimates of topographic relief are, naturally, of enormous interest in the effort to understand...
The HRSC DTM test
Christian Heipke, Jurgen Oberst, Jeorg Albertz, Maria Attwenger, Peter Dorninger, Egon Dorrer, M. Ewe, Stephan Gehrke, Klaus Gwinner, H. Hirschmuller, J.R. Kim, Randolph L. Kirk, H. Mayer, Jan-Peter Muller, Rajagopalan Rengarajan, M. Rentsch, R. Schmidt, Frank Scholten, J. Shan, Michael Spiegel, M. Wahlisch, Gerhard Neukum, HRSC Co-Investigator Team
2007, Conference Paper, ISPRS Working Group IV/7: Extraterrestrial Mapping: Advances in Planetary Mapping 2007
The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC, [1]) is part of the orbiter payload on the Mars Express (MEX) mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), orbiting the Red Planet in a highly elliptical orbit since January 2004. For the first time in planetary exploration, a camera system has especially been...
Water-Temperature Data for the Colorado River and Tributaries Between Glen Canyon Dam and Spencer Canyon, Northern Arizona, 1988-2005
Nicholas Voichick, Scott Wright
2007, Data Series 251
The regulation of flow of the Colorado River by Glen Canyon Dam began in 1963. This resulted in significant changes to the downstream ecosystem of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, contributing to the initiation of the Glen Canyon Environmental Studies program in 1982, followed by establishment of the Glen...
