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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Hydrology and surface morphology of the Bonneville Salt Flats and Pilot Valley Playa, Utah
The Bonneville Salt Flats and Pilot Valley are in the western part of the Great Salt Lake Desert in northwest Utah. The areas are separate, though similar, hydrologic basins, and both contain a salt crust. The Bonneville salt crust covered about 40 square miles in the fall of 1976, and the salt crust in Pilot Valley covered 7 square miles. Both areas lack any noticeable surface relief (in 1976, 1.
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Gregory C. Lines
Magnitudes, nature, and effects of point and nonpoint discharges in the Chattahoochee River Basin, Atlanta to West Point Dam, Georgia
During the period April 1975 to June 1978, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted a river-quality assessment of the Upper Chattahoochee River basin in Georgia. One objective of the study was to assess the magnitudes, nature, and effects of point and non-point discharges in the Chattahoochee River basin from Atlanta to the West Point Dam.
On an average annual basis and during the storm period of
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J. K. Stamer, Rodney N. Cherry, R.E. Faye, R.L. Kleckner
Dissolved-oxygen depletion and other effects of storing water in Flaming Gorge Reservoir, Wyoming and Utah
The circulation of water in Flaming Gorge Reservoir is caused chiefly by insolation, inflow-outflow relationships, and wind, which is significant due to the geographical location of the reservoir. During 1970-75, there was little annual variation in the thickness, dissolved oxygen, and specific conductance of the hypolimnion near Flaming Gorge Dam. Depletion of dissolved oxygen occurred simultaneo
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E.L. Bolke
History, landforms, and vegetation of the estuary's tidal marshes
No abstract available.
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B.F. Atwater, S.G. Conrad, J.N. Dowden, C.W. Hedel, R.L. MacDonald, W. Savage
Multiyear low flow in southeastern Kansas
Many existing water supplies in southeastern Kansas are proving inadequate to meet current and expanded future needs. One of the methods in which the use of highly variable streamflow in the area can be evaluated is with the aid of multiyear low-flow frequency information. Data from 19 stream-gaging stations in the study area and a base period of 1940-77 were used to develop maps from which discha
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William J. Carswell
An appraisal of pumping effects on the Edgeley Aquifer, La Moure County, North Dakota, as determined by a digital model
A finite-difference digital model simulated hydrologic conditions in the Edgeley aquifer, which is an unconfined glacial-drift aquifer. The calibrated model supported the hypothesis that under natural steady-state conditions, recharge is from precipitation and discharge is through evapotranspiration. This hypothesis was further supported by comparing simulated water levels to observed water levels
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M. R. Burkart
The geochemistry of the Fox Hills-Basal Hell Creek Aquifer in southwestern North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota
The Late Cretaceous Fox Hills Formation and the basal portion of the overlying Hell Creek Formation constitute an important aquifer in the Fort Union coal region. Throughout most of southwestern North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota the aquifer is at depths ranging from 1000 to 2000 ft, except for exposures along the Cedar Creek anticline. Water flows in the aquifer from southwest to northeas
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Donald C. Thorstenson, Donald W. Fisher, Mack G. Croft
Records of ground-water recharge and discharge for the Edwards aquifer in the San Antonio area, Texas, 1934-77
No abstract available.
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R. W. Maclay, R. A. Rappmund
Water-quality records for selected reservoirs in Texas, 1974-75 water years
No abstract available.
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Jack Rawson, E. S. Chitwood
Chemical and physical characteristics of water in estuaries of Texas, October 1973-September 1974
No abstract available.
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W. B. Lind, Karl W. Ratzlaff
Ground-water resources of the Palo Duro Creek basin, Texas and Oklahoma
No abstract available.
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Paul L. Rettman
January 1979 water levels, and data related to water-level changes, western and south-central Kansas
This report contains hydrologic data on water-level measurements in observation wells in western and south-central Kansas. The measurements were made in mid-winter, mostly in January, when pumping was minimal and water levels had recovered from the effects of pumping during the previous irrigation season. This report also provides basic hydrologic data for relating water-level changes from a "base
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Marilyn E. Pabst