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Use of oxygen-18 and deuterium to assess the hydrology of groundwater-lake systems

A thorough understanding of a lake's hydrology is essential for many lake studies. In some situations the interactions between groundwater systems and lakes are complex; in other cases the hydrology of a multilake system needs to be quantified. In such places, stable isotopes offer an alternative to the more traditional piezometer networks, which are costly to install and time-consuming to maintai
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David P. Krabbenhoft, Carl J. Bowser, Carol Kendall, Joel R. Gat

Plan of study to determine the effect of changes in herbicide use on herbicide concentrations in Midwestern streams, 1989-94

An approach was developed to determine if recent changes in the use of herbicides has affected herbicide concentrations in Midwestern streams. This approach also provides a plan to determine if the abnormally high rainfall and flooding in 1993 has an effect on nitrate concentrations in 1994 in streams that flooded in 1993. The approach involves sampling 53 stream sites, 50 of which were sampled in
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Donald A. Goolsby, Laurie L. Boyer, William A. Battaglin

Studies of the San Francisco Bay, California, estuarine ecosystem: Pilot regional monitoring program results, 1993

Water samples were collected in the San Francisco Bay estuary during 22 cruises from January through December 1993. Conductivity, temperature, light attenuation, turbidity, oxygen, and in-vivo fluorescence were measured 1ongitudinally and vertically in the main channel of the estuary from south of the Dumbarton Bridge in the southern part of the bay to Rio Vista on the Sacramento River. Discrete w
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J.M. Caffrey, B.E. Cole, J. E. Cloern, J. Rudek, A.C. Tyler, A.D. Jassby

Major ions, nutrients, and trace elements in the Mississippi River near Thebes, Illinois, July through September 1993

Extensive flooding in the upper Mississippi River Basin during summer 1993 had a significant effect on the water quality of the Mississippi River. To evaluate the change in temporal distribution and transport of dissolved constituents in the Mississippi River, six water samples were collected by a discharge-weighted method from July through September 1993 near Thebes, Illinois. Sampling at this lo
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Howard E. Taylor, Ronald C. Antweiler, Terry I. Brinton, David A. Roth, John A. Moody

Herbicides and nitrate in near-surface aquifers in the midcontinental United States, 1991

The occurrence and distribution of selected herbicides, atrazine metabolites, and nitrate were determined for near-surface aquifers (within 50 feet of land surface) in the corn- and soybean-producing region of the midcontinental United States. The study region included all or parts of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wi
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Dana W. Kolpin, Michael R. Burkart, E. Michael Thurman

Assessment of nonpoint-source contamination of the High Plains Aquifer in south-central Kansas, 1987

Ground-water quality was assessed in a 5,000-square-mile area of the High Plains aquifer in south-central Kansas that is susceptible to nonpoint-source contamination from agricultural and petroleum-production activities. Of particular interest was the presence of agricultural chemicals and petroleum-derived hydrocarbons that might have been associated with brines that formerly were disposed into u
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John O. Helgesen, Lloyd E. Stullken, A. T. Rutledge