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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Water resources of the Roseau River Watershed, Northwestern Minnesota
The drainage area of the Roseau River consists of 2,060 square miles above its confluence with the Red River of the North. About 1,150 square miles lie in the United States and 910 square miles in Canada. This report deals only with that portion within the United States, except for a detailed analysis of low flow characteristics of tributary streams.
Most of the area is within Roseau County, but s
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Thomas C. Winter, R. W. Maclay, G.M. Pike
Water-bearing characteristics and occurrence of aquifers in Martin County, North Carolina
No abstract available.
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Granville G. Wyrick
Geological Survey research 1967, Chapter B
This collection of 49 short papers is the first published chapter of "Geological Survey Research 1967." The papers report on scientific and economic results of current work. by members of the Geologic, Topographic, and Water Resources Divisions of the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Measurement of peak discharge at width contractions by indirect methods
This chapter describes procedures for measuring peak discharges using open-channel width contractions. Field and office procedures limited to this method are described. The discharge equation based on the continuity and energy equations between an approach cross section and the contracted section under a bridge or contraction is given. Contractions are classified into four geometric types. Discha
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Howard Frederick Matthai
Measurement of peak discharge at dams by indirect methods
This chapter describes procedures for measuring peak discharges using dams, weirs, and embankments. Field and office procedures limited to this method are described. Discharge coefficients and formulas are given for three general classes of weirs-sharp-crested, broad-crested, and round-crested-and for highway embankments and weirs of unusual shape. The effects of submergence are defined for most
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Harry Hulsing
General field and office procedures for indirect discharge measurements
The discharge of streams is usually measured by the current-meter method. During flood periods, however, it is frequently impossible or impractical to measure the discharges by this method when they occur. Consequently, many peak discharges must be determined after the passage of the flood by indirect methods, such as slope-area, contracted-opening, flow-over-dam, and flow-through-culvert, rather
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M. A. Benson, Tate Dalrymple
Swatara Creek basin of southeastern Pennsylvania: An evaluation of its hydrologic system
Local concentrations of population in the Swatara Creek basin of Pennsylvania find it necessary to store, transport, and treat water because local supplies are either deficient or have been contaminated by disposal of wastes in upstream areas. Water in the basin is available for the deficient areas and for dilution of the coal-mine drainage in the northern parts and the sewage wastes in the southe
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Wilbur Tennant Stuart, William J. Schneider, James W. Crooks
Geology and ground water of the Savannah River Plant and vicinity, South Carolina
The area described in this report covers approximately 2,600 square miles in west-central South Carolina and includes the site of the Savannah River Plant, a major production facility of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The climate, surface drainage, and land forms of the study area are typical of the southern part of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Precipitation is normally abundant and fairly even
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George E. Siple
Ground-water reconnaissance in the Burnt River Valley area, Oregon
No abstract available.
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Don Price
Ground water in the Eola-Amity Hills area, northern Willamette Valley, Oregon
The Eola-Amity Hills area ,comprises about 230 square miles on the west side of the Willamette Valley between Salem and McMinnville, Oreg. The area is largely rural, and agriculture is the principal occupation.
Rocks ranging in age from Eocene to Recent underlie the area. The oldest rocks are a sequence more than 5,000 feet thick of marine-deposited shale and siltstone strata, with thin interb
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Don Price