USGS Responds to Near Record Flooding in Central Texas
USGS Responds to Near Record Flooding in Central TexasUSGS scientist Monica Langhorst measures gage height with a wire weight at Onion Creek at U.S. Highway 183 in Austin, TX.
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USGS scientist Monica Langhorst measures gage height with a wire weight at Onion Creek at U.S. Highway 183 in Austin, TX.
USGS scientist Monica Langhorst measures gage height with a wire weight at Onion Creek at U.S. Highway 183 in Austin, TX.
USGS scientists Craig Weiss and Michael Scheider make a streamflow measurement at Onion Creek at U.S. Highway 183 in Austin, TX.
USGS scientists Craig Weiss and Michael Scheider make a streamflow measurement at Onion Creek at U.S. Highway 183 in Austin, TX.
USGS scientist Monica Langhorst measures gage height with a wire weight at Onion Creek at U.S. Highway 183 in Austin, TX.
USGS scientist Monica Langhorst measures gage height with a wire weight at Onion Creek at U.S. Highway 183 in Austin, TX.
Sand Creek in Osage County, OK
USGS scientist Mark Warzecha makes a streamflow measurement with Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler downstream of a USGS streamgage station on the Blanco River at Interstate 35. The streamgage is not currently accessible, so a measurement is being made at the safest downstream location.
USGS scientist Mark Warzecha makes a streamflow measurement with Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler downstream of a USGS streamgage station on the Blanco River at Interstate 35. The streamgage is not currently accessible, so a measurement is being made at the safest downstream location.
Collection of a suspended-sediment sample by hydrologic technicians at U.S. Geological Survey station 08185000 Cibolo Creek at Selma, Texas, on May 25, 2013.
Collection of a suspended-sediment sample by hydrologic technicians at U.S. Geological Survey station 08185000 Cibolo Creek at Selma, Texas, on May 25, 2013.
Two of the main spring discharge points of Comal springs.
A new website now provides important information about streamflow in the Comal and San Marcos Rivers and springflow at Comal and San Marcos Springs.
Two of the main spring discharge points of Comal springs.
A new website now provides important information about streamflow in the Comal and San Marcos Rivers and springflow at Comal and San Marcos Springs.
Canton Lake - February 17, 2013
Drought conditions at Canton Lake, Oklahoma.
Stillwater Creek in drought conditions
Drought conditions at Lake Lone Chimney, Pawnee County, Oklahoma.
Drought conditions at Lake Lone Chimney, Pawnee County, Oklahoma.
Shoreline of Lake Altus.
Shoreline of Lake Altus.
North Fork Red River below Lake Altus, HWY 44.
North Fork Red River below Lake Altus, HWY 44.
Faulting in limestone outcrop downstream from where Greenwood Creek flows into the Colorado River, October 31, 2012 (photograph by Jennifer Wilson, U.S. Geological Survey).
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Faulting in limestone outcrop downstream from where Greenwood Creek flows into the Colorado River, October 31, 2012 (photograph by Jennifer Wilson, U.S. Geological Survey).
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Seeps along limestone outcrop downstream from where Jim John Creek flows into the Colorado River, October 31, 2012 (photograph by Jennifer Wilson, U.S. Geological Survey).
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Seeps along limestone outcrop downstream from where Jim John Creek flows into the Colorado River, October 31, 2012 (photograph by Jennifer Wilson, U.S. Geological Survey).
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Travertine deposits near site 4 (Post Oak Falls near Tow, Texas, October 31, 2012) (photograph by Jennifer Wilson, U.S. Geological Survey).
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Travertine deposits near site 4 (Post Oak Falls near Tow, Texas, October 31, 2012) (photograph by Jennifer Wilson, U.S. Geological Survey).
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Cimarron River at Coyle, Oklahoma.
Cimarron River at Coyle, Oklahoma.
Sam Rayburn Lake, September 2012. Photograph by David LaRue, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Sam Rayburn Lake, September 2012. Photograph by David LaRue, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Granger Lake, September 2012. Photograph by Ben Bohac, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Granger Lake, September 2012. Photograph by Ben Bohac, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Exposed Austin Group in road cut excavation located on south side of U.S. Highway 90 and approximately midway between Sabinal and Knippa Texas, eastern Uvalde County, Tex. Photograph taken May 29, 2012.
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Exposed Austin Group in road cut excavation located on south side of U.S. Highway 90 and approximately midway between Sabinal and Knippa Texas, eastern Uvalde County, Tex. Photograph taken May 29, 2012.
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Map of historic and current sage-grouse range in 2000, provided as a download from the old USGS Sagemap website.
Map of historic and current sage-grouse range in 2000, provided as a download from the old USGS Sagemap website.