Publications
This list of Water Resources Mission Area publications includes both official USGS publications and journal articles authored by our scientists. A searchable database of all USGS publications can be accessed at the USGS Publications Warehouse.
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Color variations within glacial till, east-central North Dakota--A preliminary investigation
Color variations (orange zones within buff-colored till) in drift in east-central North Dakota are believed to represent two tills of separate origin. Mean size, standard deviation, and number and type of pebbles show greater difference between the two tills than do skewness, kurtosis, and partial chemical analyses. Probably blocks of older till were moved by the last glacier crossing the area and
Authors
T. E. Kelly, Claud H. Baker
Hydrologic and climatologic data, 1965, Salt Lake County, Utah
An investigation of the water resources of Salt Lake County, Utah, was undertaken by the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey in July 1963. This investigation is a cooperative project financed equally by the State of Utah and the Federal Government in accordance with an agreement between the State Engineer and the Geological Survey. The Utah Water and Power Board, Utah Fish and G
Authors
W.V. Iorns, Reed W. Mower, C. A. Horr
Hydrologic and climatologic data collected through 1964, Salt Lake County, Utah
An investigation of the water resources of Salt Lake County, Utah, was undertaken by the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey in July 1963. This investigation is a cooperative project financed equally by the State of Utah and the Federal Government in accordance with an agreement between the State Engineer and the Geological Survey. The Utah Water and Power Board, Utah Fish and G
Authors
W.V. Iorns, Reed W. Mower, C. A. Horr
Records of precipitation, aquifer head, and ground-water recharge to the Edwards and associated limestones, San Antonio area, Texas, 1965
No abstract available.
Authors
Paul Rettman
Ground-water discharge from the Edwards and associated limestones, San Antonio area, Texas, 1965
No abstract available.
Authors
Sergio Garza
Chemical analyses of water from observation wells in the Edwards and associated limestones, San Antonio area, Texas, 1965
No abstract available.
Authors
Sergio Garza
Ground-water recharge to the Edwards and associated limestones, San Antonio area, Texas, 1964
No abstract available.
Authors
Sergio Garza
Glacier mass budget measurements by hydrologic means
Ice storage changes for the South Cascade Glacier drainage basin were determined for the 1957–1964 period using basin runoff and precipitation measurements. Measurements indicate that evaporation and condensation are negligible compared with the large runoff and precipitation values. Runoff, measured by a stream discharge station, averaged 4.04 m/yr; precipitation, determined by snow accumulation
Authors
Wendell V. Tangborn
A sampler for coring sediments in rivers and estuaries
A portable sampler developed to core submerged unconsolidated sediments collects cores that are 180 cm long and 4.75cm in diameter. The sampler is used from a 12-m boat in water depths up to 20 m and in flow velocities up to 1.5m per second to sample river and estuarine deposits ranging from silty clay to medium sand. Even in sand that cannot be penetrated with conventional corers, the sampler ach
Authors
Edmund A. Prych, D. W. Hubbell
Determination of Columbia River flow times from Pasco, Washington using radioactive tracers introduced by the Hanford reactors
Radioactive tracers introduced into the Columbia River in cooling water from the Hanford reactors were used to measure flow times downstream from Pasco, Washington, as far as Astoria, Oregon. The use of two tracer methods was investigated. One method used the decay of a steady release of Na24 (15-hour half-life) to determine flow times to various downstream locations, and flow times were also dete
Authors
Jack L. Nelson, R.W. Perkins, W. L. Haushild
Sediment movement on the continental shelf near Washington and Oregon
The nuclides zinc-65 and cobalt-60 associated with river-borne particulate matter are incorporated in sediment on the Continental Shelf near the Colum- ia River. Changes in the relative concentrations of zinc-65 and cobalt-60 and in the ratio of the activity of zinc-65 and cobalt-60 suggest that radioactive sediment moves northward 12 to 30 kilometers per year along the shelf and 2.5 to 10 kilomet
Authors
M. Grant Gross, Jack L. Nelson