Publications
Scientific reports, journal articles, or general interest publications by USGS scientists in the Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center are listed below. Publications span from 1898 to the present.
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Applying indicators of hydrologic alteration to Texas streams: overview of methods with examples from the Trinity River basin
Streamflow is a component of aquatic ecosystem health, and long-term alteration of streamflow characteristics can produce large changes in aquatic ecosystem structure and function. The physical, chemical, and biological properties of aquatic ecosystems are all affected by the magnitude and frequency of streamflow. For example, the physical structure (hydrogeomorphology) of aquatic habitats is a pr
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Richard L. Kiesling
Hydrologic, water-quality, and biological data for three water bodies, Texas Gulf Coastal Plain, 2000-2002
During July 2000–September 2002, the U.S. Geological Survey collected and analyzed site-specific hydrologic, water-quality, and biological data in Dickinson Bayou, Armand Bayou, and the San Bernard River in the Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas. Segments of the three water bodies are on the State 303(d) list. Continuous monitoring showed that seasonal variations in water temperature, specific conductanc
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Jeffery W. East, Jennifer L. Hogan
Occurrence of and trends in selected sediment-associated contaminants in Caddo Lake, East Texas, 1940-2002
Bottom-sediment cores were collected from four sites in Caddo Lake in East Texas during May 2002 for analyses of radionuclides (for age dating), organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and major and trace elements, and to describe the occurrence and trends of these sediment-associated contaminants. The Goose Prairie Creek and Harrison B
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Jennifer T. Wilson
Assessment of selected water-quality data collected in the lower Red River (main stem) basin, Texas, 1997-98
The Texas part of the Red River Basin has been divided into five reaches or subbasins (fig. 1) to facilitate improved planning, monitoring, geographical analysis, and dissemination of information. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Red River Authority of Texas, is studying the five subbasins, each for a period of about 1 year. Baldys and Phillips (1998) discuss various comp
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Stanley Baldys, Danna K. Hamilton
A chronicle of organochlorine contamination in Clear Creek, Galveston and Harris Counties, Texas, 1960-2002, as recorded in sediment cores
Clear Creek flows through the Texas Coastal Plain from its headwaters southeast of Houston, Texas, to Clear Lake, which empties into Galveston Bay. Segments of Clear Creek were on the State of Texas 303(d) list for 1998, 1999, and 2000 as a result of a fish consumption advisory issued by the Texas Department of Health. One of the contaminants for which the fish consumption advisory was issued is t
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Barbara Mahler, Peter Van Metre
The Norman Landfill environmental research site: What happens to the waste in landfills?
No abstract available.
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Scott C. Christenson, Isabelle M. Cozzarelli
Selected hydrogeologic datasets for the Ogallala Aquifer, Texas
No abstract available.
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Natalie A. Houston, C. Amanda Garcia, Eric W. Strom
Selected hydrogeologic datasets for the Chicot Aquifer, Texas
No abstract available.
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Eric W. Strom, Natalie A. Houston, C. Amanda Garcia
Selected hydrogeologic datasets for the Evangeline Aquifer, Texas
No abstract available.
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Eric W. Strom, Natalie A. Houston, C. Amanda Garcia
Selected hydrogeologic datasets for the Jasper Aquifer, Texas
No abstract available.
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Eric W. Strom, Natalie A. Houston, C. Amanda Garcia
Baseline assessment of fish communities, benthic macroinvertebrate communities, and stream habitat and land use, Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas, 1999-2001
The Big Thicket National Preserve comprises 39,300 hectares in the form of nine preserve units connected by four stream corridor units (with two more corridor units proposed) distributed over the lower Neches and Trinity River Basins of southeastern Texas. Fish and benthic macroinvertebrate data were collected at 15 stream sites (reaches) in the preserve during 1999–2001 for a baseline assessment
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J. Bruce Moring
Oxidation-reduction processes in ground water at Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Dallas, Texas
Concentrations of trichloroethene in ground water at the Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant in Dallas, Texas, indicate three source areas of chlorinated solvents?building 1, building 6, and an off-site source west of the facility. The presence of daughter products of reductive dechlorination of trichloroethene, which were not used at the facility, south and southwest of the source areas are ev
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S.A. Jones, Christopher L. Braun, Roger W. Lee