Appendix containing averaged geological survey data of the Scottsbluff quadrangle to accompany an aerial gamma ray and magnetic survey of the Alliance and Scottsbluff quadrangles in Nebraska.

Appendix containing averaged geological survey data to accompany an aerial gamma ray and magnetic survey of the Alliance and Scottsbluff quadrangles of Nebraska.

From introductory: Report of the survey party on the Great Sioux Reservation for determining any coal-beds of economic value.

From abstract and introduction: Mineralogic and stratigraphic studies of the lower part of the Pierre Shale of Late Cretaceous age along the Missouri River indicate correlations different from those generally accepted. The purposes of this paper are to present evidence for the new correlations and to resolve problems of formal nomenclature that result from them.

This dataset includes data tables and graphs for the Accumulated Winter Season Severity Index (AWSSI) for Omaha, Nebraska during the December 2016-January 2017 winter with comparative charts for snow, temperature, and overall AWSSI.

Document outlining state-specific goals for carbon dioxide emissions and energy efficiency through 2030 for the state of Nebraska.

Final report regarding the National Logging Program for the National Uranium Resource Evaluation

Report documenting the suitability of Nebraska for plant locations to produce synthetic liquid fuels, based on raw materials, water sources, and local interest

Final report of the airborne gamma ray and total magnetic field survey for the Sterling quadrangle, Colorado-Nebraska-Kansas. Sections I through IV of this report present information and results associated with this specific survey. Section V gives the data acquisition and the processing procedures.

"The purpose of this report is to present the results of a study of the performance of the three relief well systems [along the Missouri River] during the July 1951 and April 1952 floods, and to compare their performance with design predictions. [...] The report includes observed uplift and well-flow data, descriptions of relief well operations during the floods, and an analysis of the effectiveness of the well systems together with discussion and comments on several experimental and test wells" (p. 2).

From abstract: Most of the formations in the Wray area are fair foundation materials, although good construction materials are scarce. The gravel of the Grand Island formation and the gravels in the Ogallala formation contain large quantities of clay, silt, sand, and calcium carbonate, and have very few pebbles larger than one-half inch in diameter.

Data collected as part of a report on the Alliance Quadrangle in Nebraska and South Dakota including laboratory data on well water and stream sediments as well as field data.

Report discussing investigations seeking uranium in deposits of black shale around the geographical areas of the Western States

A report about the uranium content of the Sharon Springs member of the Pierre shale in South Dakota and northeastern Nebraska.

Report discussing a reconnaissance search for uranium in shale during August 1953 in western Nebraska and southern South Dakota. The reconnaissance was part of the U.S. Geological Survey's search for uranium in carbonaceous materials.

Report discussing uranium occurrences in carnotite, sabugalite, and autunite of oligocene gypsum and gypsiferous clay located near Chadron in Dawes County, Nebraska.

"This bulletin deals with soil and water conservation problems which relate to agriculture of the northern Great Plains [of the United States]." -- p. i. "The major portion of this bulletin, beginning on page 18, is devoted to a discussion of the controls and cures for land misuse. These suggested practices, in the main, represent the methods of control that are now being used in the several demonstration areas of the Soil Conservation Service. The use of these practices in a few specific demonstration areas is included in the section beginning on page 47. The last section (p. 76) points out a democratic procedure whereby landowners and operators may effect a more appropriate use of the land through soil conservation districts." -- p. 2

"This bulletin deals with those cultivated forage crops that seem of greatest promise for the dry-farming districts of northern Nebraska and the Dakotas west of the ninety-eighth meridian. Frequent crop failures in the more arid portions of these States result from a low annual precipitation, the irregularity of its amount and distribution during the growing season, and high evaporation. Under conditions of extreme drought, cultivated crops can seldom be economically substituted for native vegetation, and the utilization of such lands for grazing and the cutting of wild hay is most generally advisable. Greater forage production on the better lands may be effected by growing certain cultivated legumes, grasses, and roots." -- p. ii.

This bulletin tools and methods of tilling which can help reduce or control soil blowing and soil erosion on farms in the northern Great Plains of the United States. Among the crops discussed with relation to tilling methods are beans, corn, sorghum, potatoes, alfalfa, and sweet clover.

"The information given in this bulletin should enable farmers in the Great Plains and Western States to select from the more common species of grasses some one or more suited to their needs [for soil and water conservation]. Common harvesting equipment and farm machinery can be adapted to the proper handling of native grasses. This brings the cost of such work within the means of most farmers." -- p. i. Among the grasses discussed are wheatgrass, buffalo grass, bluestem, grama, Bermuda grass, wild rye, hilaria, Sudan grass, bluegrass, panic grasses, dropseed, and needlegrass.

"Among the most striking manifestations of the destruction of soils and crops by the windstorms of recent years are the gigantic sand dunes that have formed on some of the lighter soils of the Great Plains. Specialists of the Soil Conservation Service who were assigned to a study of the problem have been successful in devising methods by which these immense piles of sand, which have covered cultivated lands and good native sod, can be leveled and stabilized. Of still greater value to the farmers and ranchers in areas subject to this soil shifting are the methods of cultivation and land use that recent study and experiments have revealed as the best means of protection against the formation of dunes. This bulletin is written for the benefit of those farmers and ranchers who are faced with the problem of protecting their lands against possible damage from dune formation of with the more immediate problem of restoring lands that have been made temporarily useless by the invasion of these monstrous wind-blown piles of sand." -- p. i

This report discusses grasshoppers, which destroy sugar beets and truck crops, and methods for controlling grasshoppers in the light of recent outbreaks in the mid-western United States, particularly in Kansas. The reproductive practices of grasshoppers and their preferred climatic conditions are given special attention.

This bulletin discusses the uses of sorghum grain, including in animal feeds, human food, and alcohol production.

"Sweet clover is now grown successfully on many farms in the corn belt, both in rotation and as a catch crop to be plowed under. It has proved excellent for hay and pasture, and is unequaled by any other legume for soil improvement. Sweet clover may be used to good advantage for silage, and on some farms, with proper management, it is a profitable seed crop. Mixed with bluegrass, it makes a pasture of nearly double the carrying capacity of bluegrass alone. The object of this bulletin is to present details of management and of the more important farm practices followed on some of the successful corn-belt farms on which sweet clover is grown as one of the principal crops of the rotation. Cropping systems are outlined for farms of different types, and special attention is called to the three essentials of success in growing the crop -- lime, inoculation, and scarified seed." -- p. 2