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A. M. Preissler
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Ground-water flow and simulated effects of development in Stagecoach Valley, a small, partly drained basin in Lyon and Storey counties, western Nevada
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Water resources data, Nevada, water year 1991
Water-resources data published herein for the 1991 water year comprise the following records: Water discharge for 142 gaging stations on streams, canals, and drains. Discharge data for 131 peak-flow stations and miscellaneous sites, and 57 springs. Stage and contents for 21 lakes and reservoirs. Water-quality data for 131 stream, canal, and drain sites, and 140 wells. Precipitation totals for 7 streams. Precipitation totals for 12 high elevation sites. Water levels for 33 continous record wells, and 493 observation wells. Additional water-data. collected at various sites that are not part of the systematic data-collection program, are published as miscellaneous measurements. These data represent that part of the National Water Data System operated by the U.S. Geological Survey and cooperating State and Federal agencies in Nevada.
Geothermal resources of the western arm of the Black Rock Desert, northwestern Nevada: Part II, aqueous geochemistry and hydrology
The western arm of the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, includes several distinct hydrothermal systems, some of which exceed 150 C and may exceed 200 C at depth, determined on the basis of chemical geothermometry. The cation composition of the thermal water appears to be controlled by aluminosilicate minerals that are common in other active geothermal systems. Estimates of the equilibrium temperatures at which some mineral pairs are stable, when compared with the more commonly applied geothermometer estimates, indicate that thermodynamic data may be useful for estimating deep aquifer temperatures. Thermal water at Great Boiling and Mud Springs, which has a chloride concentration of about 2,000 mg/L and a total dissolved-solids concentration of 4 ,500 mg/L, appears to have been affected by shallow evapotranspiration in an adjacent playa prior to deep circulation. This model of recharge within the basin floor is distinctly different from models proposed for most other geothermal systems in the northern Great Basin.