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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Relations between pesticide use and riverine flux in the Mississippi River Basin
In an intensive subcontimental study of pesticides in surface waters of the United States, concentrations of 26 high-use pesticides were measured at nine sites in the Mississippi River basin from May 1991 through March 1992. Calculated total fluxes were combined with agricultural-use data to estimate the percentage of applied pesticide reaching the mouths of the Mississippi River and six major tri
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Steven J. Larson, Paul D. Capel, Donald A. Goolsby, Steven D. Zaugg, Mark W. Sandstrom
Ubiquitous tar balls with a California-source signature on the shorelines of Prince William Sound, Alaska
Although the shorelines of Prince William Sound still bear traces of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, most of the flattened tar balls that can be found today on these shorelines are not residues of Exxon Valdez oil. Instead, the carbon-isotopic and hydrocarbon-biomarker signatures of 61 tar ball samples, collected from shorelines throughout the northern and western parts of the sound, are all rema
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K. A. Kvenvolden, F. D. Hostettler, P. R. Carlson, J. B. Rapp, C. N. Threlkeld, A. Warden
Hydrological processes and the water budget of lakes
Lakes interact with all components of the hydrological system: atmospheric water, surface water, and groundwater. The fluxes of water to and from lakes with regard to each of these components represent the water budget of a lake. Mathematically, the concept of a water budget is deceptively simple: income equals outgo, plus or minus change in storage. In practice, however, measuring the water fluxe
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Thomas C. Winter
The interaction of groundwater with prairie pothole wetlands in the Cottonwood Lake area, east-central North Dakota 1979-90
No abstract available.
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Thomas C. Winter, Donald O. Rosenberry
Stable isotopes in mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems: Interactions between fluids, minerals, and organisms
Studies of abundance variations of light stable isotopes in nature have had a tremendous impact on all aspects of geochemistry since the development, in 1947, of a gas source isotope ratio mass spectrometer capable of measuring small variations in stable isotope ratios (Nice, 1947]. Stable isotope geochemistry is now a mature field, as witnessed by the proliferation of commercially available mass
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Wayne C. Shanks, John K. Böhlke, Robert R. Seal
Preliminary results from the hydrodynamic element of the 1994 entrapment zone study
This article discusses preliminary results from analyses of USGS hydrodynamic data collected as part of the 1994 Interagency Ecological Program entrapment zone study. The USGS took part in three 30-hour cruises and deployed instruments for measuring currents and salinity from April to June. This article primarily focuses on the analysis of data from five Acoustic Doppler Current ProUers (ADCPs) de
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J.R. Burau, M. Stacey, J. W. Gartner
Ground Water Atlas of the United States: Segment 12, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont
The State of New York and the six New England States of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island compose Segment 12 of this Atlas (fig. 1). The seven States have a total land area of about 116,000 square miles (table 1); all but a small area in southwestern New York has been glaciated. Population in the States of Segment 12 totals about 30,408,000 (table 1) and i
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Perry G. Olcott
Water resources data, Utah, water year 1994
No abstract available.
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M. D. ReMillard, G. A. Birdwell, T.K. Lockner, L. R. Herbert, D.V. Allen, D.D. Canny
Water resources data Texas, water year 1995, volume 4. Ground water
No abstract available.
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S. C. Gandara, R. E. Jones
Water resources data Texas, water year 1994, volume 3. Colorado River basin, Lavaca River basin, Guadalupe River basin, Nueces River basin, Rio Grande basin, and intervening coastal basins
No abstract available.
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S. C. Gandara, W.J. Gibbons, F.L. Andrews, J.C. Fisher, B.A. Hinds, R. E. Jones
Water resources data Texas, water year 1994, volume 2. San Jacinto River basin, Brazos River basin, San Bernard River basin, and intervening coastal basins
No abstract available.
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S. C. Gandara, W.J. Gibbons, F.L. Andrews, J.C. Fisher, B.A. Hinds, R. E. Jones
Water resources data Texas, water year 1994, volume 1. Arkansas River basin, Red River basin, Sabine River basin, Neches River basin, Trinity River Basin, and intervening coastal basins
No abstract available.
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S. C. Gandara, W.J. Gibbons, F.L. Andrews, J.C. Fisher, B.A. Hinds, R. E. Jones