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All of our publications are accessible through the USGS Publication Warehouse. Publications by scientists of the Oregon Water Science Center are listed below.

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The dynamic relationship between ground water and the Columbia River: using deuterium and oxygen-18 as tracers

Deuterium and oxygen-18 were used as natural tracers to investigate the hydraulic relationship between the Columbia River and the Blue Lake gravel aquifer near Portland, Oregon. A time series of stable-isotope data collected from surface and ground waters during a March 1990 aquifer test confirms that the river and aquifer are hydraulically connected. Calculations based on simple mixing show that
Authors
K. A. McCarthy, W. D. McFarland, J.M. Wilkinson, L. D. White

Bibliography of hydrogeology for the Willamette Valley, Oregon

No abstract available.
Authors
David S. Morgan, D.G. Weatherby

Surface-water-quality assessment of the Yakima River basin, Washington; pesticide and other trace-organic-compound data for water, sediment, soil, and aquatic biota, 1987-91

No abstract available.
Authors
J. F. Rinella, S. W. McKenzie, J. K. Crawford, W.T. Foreman, Paul M. Gates, G. J. Fuhrer, M.L. Janet

Sources and causes of dissolved iron in water from a dune-sand aquifer near Coos Bay and North Bend, Oregon

No abstract available.
Authors
Gilbert C. Bortleson, M. A. Jones, J.R. Evans, P.P. Hearn