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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Geology and ground-water resources of Galveston County, Texas
Galveston County, on the Texas gulf coast, is underlain by alternating beds of sand and clay. These sand and clay strata crop out in belts that roughly parallel the coastline and dip gently southeastward at an angle gre? +,er than the slope of the land, thereby creating artesian aquifers. The formations that yield potable water to wells are the Lissie formation, the "Alta Loma" sand and other sand
Authors
Ben McDowell Petitt, Allen George Winslow
Ground-water geology of the Bruneau–Grand View area, Owyhee County, Idaho
The Bruneau-Grand View area is part of an artesian basin in northern Owyhee
County, Idaho. The area described in this report comprises about 600 square
miles, largely of undeveloped public domain, much of which is open, or may be
opened, for desert-entry filing. Many irrigation-entry applications to the Federal
Government are pending, and information about ground-water geology is needed
by lo
Authors
Robert Thomas Littleton, E. G. Crosthwaite
Geology and ground-water resources of Outagamie County, Wisconsin
Outagamie County is in east-central Wisconsin. It has no serious groundwater problem at present, but the county is important as a recharge area for the principal aquifers supplying water to Brown County and industrial Green Bay to the east.
The county is covered by glacial drift and lake deposits of the Wisconsin stage of glaciation. In the northwestern quarter of the county these deposits rest up
Authors
E. F. LeRoux
Preliminary survey of the saline-water resources of the United States
Basic hydrologic data available in the field offices of the U. S. Geological Survey and reports issued by the Survey furnish evidence that saline water (defined in this report as water containing more than 1,000 parts per million of dissolved solids) is available under diverse geologic and hydrologic conditions throughout the United States.The number of areas in which undeveloped supplies of fresh
Authors
Robert A. Krieger, J.L. Hatchett, J. L. Poole
Water resources of the Yadkin-Pee Dee River basin, North Carolina
Sufficient water is available in the basin of the Yadkin and Pee Dee Rivers to meet present requirements and those for many years to come if water use increases at about the present rate. Data presented in this report show that the average annual streamflow from approximately 82 percent of the basin area during the 25-year period, 1929-53, was about 6,200 mgd, representing essentially the total av
Authors
Robert Eugene Fish, H. E. LeGrand, G. A. Billingsley
Ground-water possibilities south of the Snake River between Twin Falls and Pocatello, Idaho
The Snake River Plain and tributary valleys south of the Snake River between
Twin Falls and Pocatello, Idaho (here called the South Side area), contain about
180,000 acres of irrigated land, of which 145,000 acres is irrigated with surface
water and 35,000 is irrigated wholly or partly with ground water. The area also
contains more than 200,000 acres of arable land that is idle or used only for gr
Authors
E. G. Crosthwaite
Water resources of the Neuse River Basin, North Carolina
No abstract available.
Authors
G. A. Billingsley, Robert Eugene Fish, R.G. Schipf
On the postglacial history of the Devils Lake Region, North Dakota
Devils and Stump lakes in eastern North Dakota have been diminishing in area more or less continuously since the land around them was settled in the 1880's. Desiccations similar to the current one have occurred at least once and possibly two or more times in the past and are indicated directly and indirectly by tree stumps recently uncovered as the lake water receded and by lacustrine deposits con
Authors
Saul Aronow
Progress report of hydrology and sedimentation in Bixler Run, Corey Creek, and Elk Run watersheds, Pennsylvania
This report describes the results of an investigation in progress and presents some tentative findings from a study of hydrology and sedimentation of three small watersheds where soil conservation practices are being applied. The study was begun in April 1954, to determine precipitation, runoff, probable sources and yields of sediment, and channel changes in two small watersheds in Pennsylvania. T
Authors
J.K. Culbertson
Ground-water levels in observation wells in Kansas, 1956
No abstract available.
Authors
V.C. Fishel, B.J. Mason
Ground-water resources of the Ladder Creek area in Kansas, with a section on The chemical quality of water, by R.A. Krieger
No abstract available.
Authors
Edward Bradley, C. R. Johnson, R. A. Krieger
Development of a balanced stream-gaging program for Kansas
No abstract available.
Authors
L.W. Furness