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GeoHEALTH-USGS Newsletter
GeoHEALTH-USGS Newsletter
The GeoHEALTH–USGS Newsletter—published since 2004—provides information on USGS science activities pertinent to safeguarding the health of fish, wildlife, domesticated animals, and people from environmental exposures to contaminants and pathogens.
Featured Science Activities
Featured Science Activities
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Reconnaissance investigation of water quality, bottom sediment, and biota associated with irrigation drainage in the Riverton Reclamation Project, Wyoming, 1988-89 Reconnaissance investigation of water quality, bottom sediment, and biota associated with irrigation drainage in the Riverton Reclamation Project, Wyoming, 1988-89
No abstract available.
Authors
D. A. Peterson, T. F. Harms, Pedro Ramirez, G.T. Allen, A.H. Christenson
User's manual for WATEQ4F, with revised thermodynamic data base and text cases for calculating speciation of major, trace, and redox elements in natural waters User's manual for WATEQ4F, with revised thermodynamic data base and text cases for calculating speciation of major, trace, and redox elements in natural waters
No abstract available.
Authors
J.W. Ball, D. Kirk Nordstrom
Water and tritium movement through the unsaturated zone at a low-level radioactive-waste disposal site near Sheffield, Illinois, 1981-85 Water and tritium movement through the unsaturated zone at a low-level radioactive-waste disposal site near Sheffield, Illinois, 1981-85
The movement of water and tritium through the unsaturated zone was studied at a low-level radioactive-waste disposal site near Sheffield, Bureau County, Illinois, from 1981 to 1985. Water and tritium movement occurred in an annual, seasonally timed cycle; recharge to the saturated zone generally occurred in the spring and early summer. Mean annual precipitation (1982-85) was 871...
Authors
P.C. Mills, R. W. Healy
Fate of silicate minerals in a peat bog Fate of silicate minerals in a peat bog
An investigation of silicate weathering in a Minnesota mire indicates that quartz and aluminosilicates rapidly dissolve in anoxic, organic-rich, neutral- pH environments. Vertical profiles of pH, dissolved silicon, and major cations were obtained at a raised bog and a spring fen and compared. Profiles of readily extractable silicon, diatom abundance, ash mineralogy, and silicate surface...
Authors
Philip C. Bennett, Donald I. Siegel, Barbara M. Hillier, Paul H. Glaser
The chemistry of iron, aluminum, and dissolved organic material in three acidic, metal-enriched, mountain streams, as controlled by watershed and in-stream processes The chemistry of iron, aluminum, and dissolved organic material in three acidic, metal-enriched, mountain streams, as controlled by watershed and in-stream processes
Several studies were conducted in three acidic, metal-enriched, mountain streams, and the results are discussed together in this paper to provide a synthesis of watershed and in-stream processes controlling Fe, Al, and DOC (dissolved organic carbon) concentrations. One of the streams, the Snake River, is naturally acidic; the other two, Peru Creek and St. Kevin Gulch, receive acid mine...
Authors
Diane M. McKnight, Kenneth E. Bencala
Discussion of “Gas‐Transfer Measurements Using Headspace Analysis of Propane” by John R. Thene and John S. Gulliver (November/December, 1990, Vol. 116, No. 6) Discussion of “Gas‐Transfer Measurements Using Headspace Analysis of Propane” by John R. Thene and John S. Gulliver (November/December, 1990, Vol. 116, No. 6)
No abstract available.
Authors
Ronald E. Rathbun
Comment on "Temperature dependence of the aqueous solubilities of highly chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins" Comment on "Temperature dependence of the aqueous solubilities of highly chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins"
No abstract available.
Authors
Cary T. Chiou, Milton Manes
Stoichiometry of mineral reactions from mass balance computations for acid mine waters, Iron Mountain, California Stoichiometry of mineral reactions from mass balance computations for acid mine waters, Iron Mountain, California
No abstract available.
Authors
Charles N. Alpers, D. Kirk Nordstrom
Use of tree-ring chemistry to document historical ground-water contamination events Use of tree-ring chemistry to document historical ground-water contamination events
The annual growth rings of tulip trees (Liriodendron tulipifera L.) appear to preserve a chemical record of ground-water contamination at a landfill in Maryland. Zones of elevated iron and chlorine concentrations in growth rings from trees immediately downgradient from the landfill are closely correlated temporally with activities in the landfill expected to generate iron and chloride
Authors
Don A. Vroblesky, Thomas M. Yanosky
Hazardous wastes from large-scale metal extraction. A case study Hazardous wastes from large-scale metal extraction. A case study
No abstract available
Authors
Johnnie N. Moore, Samuel N. Luoma
Solute transport with multisegment, equilibrium-controlled reactions: A feed forward simulation method Solute transport with multisegment, equilibrium-controlled reactions: A feed forward simulation method
The feed forward method (FF method) is one of the ways of formulating operational equations which simulate transport of solutes influenced by equilibrium-controlled reaction networks. The FF method provides increased solution efficiency by adapting its formulations to some of the network's fundamental features. In this study the FF method is further developed by adapting and testing it...
Authors
Jacob Rubin
Measurement of in situ rates of selenate removal by dissimilatory bacterial reduction in sediments Measurement of in situ rates of selenate removal by dissimilatory bacterial reduction in sediments
A radioisotope method for measurement of bacteria respiratory reduction of selenate to elemental selenium in aquatic sediments was devised. Sediments were labeled with [75Se]selenate, incubated, and washed, and 75Se0(s) was determined as counts remaining in the sediments. Core profiles of selenate reduction, sulfate reduction, and denitrification were made simultaneously in the sediments...
Authors
Ronald S. Oremland, Nisan A. Steinberg, Ann S. Maest, Laurence G. Miller, James T. Hollibaugh