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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Bottom-sediment chemistry in Devil's Lake, northeast North Dakota
Devils Lake is a 200 km2 terminal lake that contains sodium sulfate type water. Dissolved solids concentrations range from about 3,500 mg/L to 10,000 mg/L depending on location To investigate geochemical processes in the bottom sediments of Devils Lake, sediment cores were collected at two sites in the western half of the lake during a period of bottom water oxygen depletion. The upper 10 cm of th
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S.C. Komor
Comparison of flank margin cave development on San Salvador island, Bahamas, and Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico
San Salvador Island, Bahamas is a 161 Km2 tectonically stable late Quaternary carbonate island located 600 km east-southeast of Miami FL. San Salvador contains numerous flank margin caves (phreatic karst features) that developed primarily in late Pleistocene eolianites. These caves developed during a short time in versy small fresh-water lenses. Cave elevations and Uranium-series ages from stalagm
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J. Mylroie, J.L. Carew, E.F. Frank, Matthew C. Larsen
University of Minnesota Aquifer Thermal-Energy Storage (ATES) project report on the third long-term cycle
No abstract available.
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M.C. Hoyer, J.P. Hallgren, M.H. Uebel, G. N. Delin, Steven J. Eisenreich, R.L. Sterling
Effects of sample isolation and handling on the recovery of purgeable organic compounds
This report compares the recovery of purgeable organic compounds (POCs) obtained by using a downhole isobaric sampler developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, a helical-rotor submersible pump, and a point source bailer to collect and isolate samples of ground water from three wells in Now York and New Jersey: the samples contained a total of 13 PCX's delectable at concentrations ranging from 0.5 μ
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Jacob Gibs, Thomas E. Imbrigiotta, James H. Ficken, James F. Pankow, M. E. Rosen
Potential effects of development on flow characteristics of two streams in the Raritan River Basin, New Jersey
Parts of the Raritan River basin in central New Jersey have undergone increasing development over the last several decades. The increasing population relies on the region's ground water and surface water sources for its residential, commercial, and industrial water supply. Urbanization, regionalized wastewater‐treatment facilities, stream channel alterations, and interbasin transfers of water can
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Thomas H. Barringer, Robert G. Reiser, Curtis V. Price
Pesticides detected in surface waters and fish of the Red River of the North drainage basin
The Red River of the North drainage basin (herein referred to as Red River Basin) within the United States is a study unit under the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) program. The overall goals of this program, initiated to better define the status and trends of the Nation’s water quality, are to address regional and national water-quality issues in a national
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Mark E. Brigham
Nitrogen concentrations near the water table of the Sheyenne Delta aquifer beneath cropland areas, Ransom and Richland Counties, North Dakota
No abstract available.
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T.K. Cowdery, K. Goff
Movements of water, solutes, and stable isotopes in the unsaturated zones of two sand plains in the upper Midwest
Four month-long field experiments investigated movements of water and solutes through unsaturated sand plains near Princeton, Minnesota, and Oakes, North Dakota. Atrazine and bromide were applied to bare soils and soils planted with corn. The field plots were irrigated according to local farming practices. At the end of each experiment, unsaturated soils were analyzed for atrazine and bromide conc
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Stephen C. Komor, Douglas G. Emerson
Evaluation of measurement scale using imbibition experiments in volcanic tuffs
A major issue in the site characterization at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, a potential site for a high-level nuclear waste repository, is the relevance of laboratory-scale measurements on cores to field-scale processes, particularly water flow. Calculation of Philip`s sorptivity parameter using imbibition of water into rock was selected as a simple test to describe hydrologic parameters at both laborat
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Alan L. Flint, Lorraine E. Flint, Kenneth A. Richards
Historical decline and current status of coho salmon in California
The southernmost populations of coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch occur in California where native coho stocks have declined or disappeared from all streams in which they were historically recorded. Coho salmon previously occurred in as many as 582 streams, from the Smith River near the Oregon border to the San Lorenzo River on the central coast. Information on the recent presence or absence of coh
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Larry R. Brown, Peter B. Moyle, Ronald M. Yoshiyama
Field and modeling studies of multiphase fluid flow at the Bemidji, Minnesota crude-oil spill site
No abstract available.
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Hedeff I. Essaid, William N. Herkelrath, L.A. Dillard