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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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Limnology of Oneida Lake with emphasis on factors contributing to algal blooms

Oneida Lake is a naturally eutrophic lake that has existed for about 10,500 years. It has been in a eutrophic state for at least 350 years, and the geochemically derived dissolved materials entering the lake from the drainage basin are of sufficient quantity (449,700 tones per year) to support annual algal blooms. The greatest amount of the dissolved materials (72 percent) comes from the southern
Authors
Phillip E. Greeson

A proposed streamflow-data program for Texas

No abstract available.
Authors
Carter R. Gilbert, R.O. Hawkinson

Hydrology of two small river basins in Pennsylvania before urbanization, with a section on observation of stream fauna

Basic data on water quantity, chemical quality, and suspended sediment are tabulated to record the conditions existing in two basins near Philadelphia, each about 32 square miles in area. The basins in 1970 are agricultural land for the most part, but urban and industrial development is imminent as the Philadelphia metropolitan area expands. Hopefully, as changes caused by urbanization occur in fu
Authors
R. Adam Miller, John Troxell, Luna Bergere Leopold, Ruth Patrick, Robert R. Grant

Channel movement of meandering Indiana streams

The process of channel movement in a meander system involves rotation and translation of meander loops and an increasing path length. The amount of path-length increase is directly proportional to the impulse supplied by discharge and is inversely proportional to the silt-clay percentage of the material composing the channel perimeter. Comparable paths have been obtained by standardizing measureme
Authors
James F. Daniel

Aquifer-test design, observation, and data analysis

No abstract available.
Authors
Robert W. Stallman

Application of borehole geophysics to water-resources investigations

This manual is intended to be a guide for hydrologists using borehole geophysics in ground-water studies. The emphasis is on the application and interpretation of geophysical well logs, and not on the operation of a logger. It describes in detail those logging techniques that have been utilized within the Water Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey, and those used in petroleum investiga
Authors
W.S. Keys, L.M. MacCary