The Minot area is in the north-central part of North Dakota and includes part of the Souris River valley. The region is covered by glacial drift of late Wisconsin age except in small areas where the Fort Union Formation ...

The U.S. Geological Survey completed an assessment of the undiscovered oil and gas potential of the Williston Basin Province in 2008. The assessment applied the total petroleum system concept, which includes mapping the ...

Accelerated sedimentation of reservoirs and riverine impoundments is a major concern throughout the United States. Sediments not only fill impoundments and reduce their effective life span, but they can reduce water quality ...

Melt-water channel deposits are among the most important aquifers in south-western Minnesota, but permeable zones within the deposits are difficult to locate, interpretation of the depositional history of proglacial channel ...

During 2011, excess precipitation resulted in widespread flooding in the Central United States with 33 fatalities and approximately $4.2 billion in damages reported in the Red River of the North, Souris, and Mississippi ...

Recognizing the importance of well-drained agricultural land and the need to maintain drainage capacity while still protecting valuable fish habitat, the governments of Manitoba and Canada initiated an inventory of the ...

In the aftermath of the 1997 Red River flood, archival materials were used to reconstruct the hydrologic history of the Red River prior to 1870 as part of the Geological Survey of Canada/Manitoba Geological Survey ...

This paper reports on an investigation of the capability of the bbe Moldaenke Fluoroprobe instrument for distinguishing major algal taxa. It employs a Department of Fisheries and Oceans database of Fluoroprobe data ...

In 2003, concerns about the phosphorus content of automatic dishwashing detergents prompted the passage of legislation requiring a comprehensive study of all of the sources and amounts of phosphorus entering publicly-owned ...

Canada is in the process of developing national biodiversity goals and targets for 2020. These 2020 goals and targets will help Canada to focus on biodiversity priorities and provide the basis for measuring and reporting ...