Geological Survey, U. S. Department

The Geological Survey puts out Publications of the Geological Survey, which is revised every five years, and is kept up to date with monthly and annual announcements of new items. This publication, and the periodic supplements, are available free on request from Geological Survey, U.S. Department of Interior, Washington 25, D.G. 

DOI. 1984. A study of the mechanisms controlling gasoline hydrocarbon partitioning and transport in groundwater systems. Contract no. 14-08-001-G-832. Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior. Project no. 370706. 

U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the hiterior, Iowa City, lA 53344... 

J. W. Hasler, M. H. Miller, and R. M. Chapman, United States Mineral Eesources Geological Survey Professional Paper 820, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1973, p. 96. 

The Failure and Inventory Reporting System (FIRS) program was developed by the Geological Survey Division of the U.S. Department of the Interior for safety and pollution prevention devices on offshore structures that produce or process hydrocarbons. The program collected data on mechanical and some electromechanical systems on offshore oil platforms. About 8,000 failure events were documented. Access has been limited to internal materials management system use. No real-time access or periodic output products have been available. 

Information on surface soils is available from a number of sources, including surface soil maps compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey and the geological surveys of various states. At the present time, the coverage of such maps is not complete, nor has any systematic data on air permeability of soils been compiled. However reports issued by the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture contain information on most soils on a county-by-county basis. While no direct air permeability information is contained in these reports, the data and descriptive material contained there may be useful in estimating air permeabilities. 

I also acknowledge the technical assistance provided in early phases of this project by numerous scientists and editors from other U.S. Department of the Interior installations, especially researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey Columbia Environmental Research Center, and by scientists from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, various universities, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Canadian Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Department of Energy. 

The U.S. Department of the Interior is conducting research under the U.S. Geological Survey to determine the impacts of highway de-icing chemicals on the groundwater quality of shallow, unconsolidated aquifers in Ohio, and to determine the salt concentration present in the soil and unsaturated zones. This research will include some analyses for dissolved cyanide in monthly samples from eight sites across Ohio. 

This research was supported in part by a grant from the U. S. Department of Interior, U. S. Geological Survey, Grant No. 14-08-0001-G933. 

Parkhurst, D. L. Appelo, C. A. J. 1999. User s Guide to PHREEQC (Version 2). A Computer Program for Speciation, Batch-Reaction, One-Dimensional Transport and Inverse Geochemical Calculations, USGS, 312 pp. Water Resources Investigations Report 99-4259. U.S. Department of the Inaterior U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado. 

Golightly, D. W., and Simon, F. O. 1989. Methods for Sampling and Inorganic Analysis of Coal. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin No. 1823. U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, DC. 

The National Atlas of the United States of America U. S. Department of Interior Geological Survey Washington, DC, 1970. 

Seven maps were included in this study. Six of them were U.S. Department of Interior, Geological Survey maps of areas of North Carolina identified below. A Civil War map, Lab No. 7, was included in the study. 

Drever, J. I. Blum, A. E. Processes Controlling the Composition of Infiltrating Water in Forested Watersheds prepared for U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Wyoming Water Research Center, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 1984. 

United States Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries, U.S. Department of the Interior, Gale A. Norton, Secretary, U.S. Government Printing Office. Washington, 2006. Available at http //minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/mcs/. 

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