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Floods on White Rock Creek above White Rock Lake at Dallas, Texas
The White Rock Creek watershed within the city limits of Dallas , Texas, presents problems not unique in the rapid residential and industrial development encountered by many cities throughout the United States. The advantages of full development of the existing area within a city before expanding city boundaries, are related to both economics and civic pride. The expansion of city boundaries usually results in higher per capital costs for the operation of city governments. Certainly no responsible city official would oppose reasonable development of watersheds and flood plains and thus sacrifice an increase in tax revenue. Within the words "reasonable development" lies the problem faced by these officials. They are aware that the natural function of a stream channel, and its associated flood plain is to carry away excess water in time of flood. They are also aware that failure to recognize this has often led to haphazard development on flood plains with a consequent increase in flood damages. In the absence of factual data defining the risk involved in occupying flood plains, stringent corrective and preventative measures must be taken to regulate man's activities on flood plains to a point beyond normal precaution. Flood-flow characteristics in the reach of White Rock Creek that lies between the northern city boundary of Dallas and Northwest Highway (Loop 12) at the upper end of White Rock Lake, are presented in this report. Hydrologic data shown include history and magnitude of floods, flood profiles, outlines of areas inundated by three floods, and estimates of mean velocities of flow at selected points. Approximate areas inundated by floods of April 1942 and July 1962 along White Rock Creek and by the flood of October 1962 along Cottonwood Creek, Floyd Branch, and Jackson Branch, are delineated on maps. Greater floods have undoubtedly occurred in the past but no attempt is made to show their probable overflow limits because basic data on such floods could not be obtained. Depths of inundation can be estimated from the information shown. Elevations shown are in feet above mean sea level, datum of 1929. The data and computations supporting the results given herein are in the files of the Geological Survey in Austin, Texas.
Geologic description of selected strong-motion accelerograph sites; Part V
This report is a summary of geologic and engineering data for strong-motion accelerograph sites. The data are taken from published and unpublished sources on file with the Seismic Engineering Branch, U.S. Geological Survey.
FENCE, a computer program to create files of borehole data and to construct fence sections of boreholes interactively
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Direct-wire procedures for transferring files among IBM-PCs, COMPUSTARs and LEXITRONs
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DLG2ISM, a Fortran program to read DLG-3 optional format digital data files into the VAX/VMS version of the interactive surface modeling software package
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Bibliography for update and revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado -- a 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel, Part A - Paper copy --Bibliography data file disks
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Vermont landslide map, digital version computer file : a digital data set for IBM PC and compatible microcomputers
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Bibliography of synthetic pyrethroid insecticides in the environment
Citations from the scientific literature on the environmental behavior and occurrence of synthetic pyrethroid insecticides were obtained from three computerized bibliographic databases: Agricola, Chemical Abstracts, and Selected Water Resources Abstracts. Approximately 10,000 citations were found but more than half were eliminated because they were directed strictly toward agricultural or industrial uses. The remaining 4,000 were categorized by environmental process, occurrence, analysis, toxicity, or physical/chemical property. The information is available in ASCII files on 3 1/2-inch diskette.
An ARC/Info point coverage of Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS) locations in eleven western states
This ARC/Info coverage, derived from the USGS Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS), contains 60,490 records that fall within the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming. The dataset has 13 fields containing information on record identification, location, commodity, geology, and deposit type. The data for this report was retrieved from the master database as a tab text file and imported into a Microsoft Access database. The data was then imported into ESRI’s ArcView where shape files were created. These shape files were then converted into an ARC/INFO coverage.
Archiving of source code for the finite-difference flow model and the post-processors and input and output files for the Columbia Plateau Regional Aquifer System, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho
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Vermont landslide map, digital version computer file : a digital data set for IBM PC and compatible microcomputers, Part A
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Merged aeromagnetic data for Washington: A web site for distribution of gridded data and plot files
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Program to convert SUDS2ASC files to a single binary SEGY file
This program, SUDS2SEGY, converts and combines ASCII files created using SUDS2ASC Version 2.60, to a single SEGY file. SUDS2ASC has been used previously to create an ASCII file of three-component seismic data for an individual recording station. However, many seismic processing packages have difficulty reading in ASCII data. In addition, it may be cumbersome to process a separate file for each recording station, particularly if traces from different recording stations contain a different number of data samples and/or a different start time. This new program - SUDS2SEGY - combines these recording station files into a single SEGY file. In addition, SUDS2SEGY normalizes the trace times so that each trace starts at a given time and consists of a fixed number of samples. This normalization allows seismic data from many different stations to be read in as a single "data gather". SUDS2SEGY also produces a report summarizing the offset and maximum absolute amplitude for each component in a station file. These data are output separately to an ASCII file and can be subsequently input to a plotting package.