Tioga County Research Articles

Nonpoint Source Pollution from Agricultural Runoff

An operational procedure has been developed which is suitable for estimating nonpoint source water pollution due to runoff from agricultural land and is sensitive to regional variations in weather, soils, and crop management. Although not presently applicable to snowmelt runoff, the procedure could be extended to winter runoff by use of suitable snowmelt estimating methods. Nitrogen and phosphorus in agricultural runoff were estimated for a five-watershed area totaling 578 sq km in Broome and Tioga Counties, N.Y., for the years 1971 and 1972. Comparison was made with two other estimates which were obtained using areal loading factors (losses of nutrients per unit area). Although the three different estimates were of comparable orders of magnitude, the loading factor estimates were not sensitive to the soils, weather, and crop distributions of the study region, and may overestimate losses of nitrogen in agricultural runoff.

Labor discontent in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, 1865–1905: The Gutman thesis, a test case

Labor discontent in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, 1865–1905: The Gutman thesis, a test case

DDT levels in fish, streams, stream sediments, and soil before and after DDT aerial spray application for fall cankerworm in northern pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters used DDT early in 1965 to suppress an extensive outbreak of the fall cankerwork (Alsophila pometaria) in northern hardwood stands in Potter and Tioga counties. Aerial application was made in May 1965 to approximately i05~000 acres of forest land. The area treated consisted of maple~ beech~ birch~ cherry~ and oak in mixed stands growing in terrain characterized by high ridges and narrow valleys interspersed with small streams containing native brook trout~(Salvelinus fontinalis) and varying populations of white suckers (Catostomus commersoni). The area is accessible only by a few unpaved roads and contains almost no habitation~ being over 90 percent state forest land. There were no previous records of DDT or other chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticide used in the area and much of it was seldom visited by humans~ except for occasional hunters and fisherman.

Gravity investigation in north‐central Pennsylvania

A gravity survey of about 900 sq mi in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, is described. Within this area a positive anomaly of 22 mgals is observed. It is shown that the greater part of this could be accounted for by the presence of a buried intrusion of diabase or peridotite.

Effect of sprayer-wheel injury on the yield of potatoes

A comparison of yield from sprayer-wheel injured and uninjured replicates of 24 varieties of potatoes grown in 1947 in Tioga County, New York, seem to justify the following conclusions: 1. Under favorable conditions of high elevation, high soil fertility level, and ample rainfall for potato plant growth, yield may be reduced from 10 to more than 50 per cent by vine injury caused by sprayer and tractor wheels. 2. In any well planned variety test a few instances of no yield reduction from wheel injury may occur. These must be explained on the basis of experimental error, soil variability or some other influential factor not always obvious. 3. The extent of wheel injury to the growing potato plant does not appear to bear any significant relation to season of maturity or habit of growth of the variety. 4. Potato experiments and particularly potato variety yield tests should be so designed that the factor of sprayer-wheel injury can be either neutralized or taken into account in the interpretation of results.

Amphibians and Reptiles of Tioga County, New York

The collecting of the herpetological fauna of the county seems to have begun about 90 years ago. DeKay (1842) mentions no definite collections, but a few years later, from 1853-62, A. Mayor and others were sending specimens of salamanders, frogs, snakes, and turtles to Professor Agassiz at Harvard. These specimens are preserved in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge. Eckel and Paulmier (1902), however, do not cite specific records from the county.

The Place Names of Tioga County, Pennsylvania

The Place Names of Tioga County, Pennsylvania

Oriskany as a Source of Gas and Oil in Pennsylvania and Adjacent Areas

The discoveries of relatively large volumes of gas in the Oriskany sandstone in the Wayne-Dundee field in Schuyler County, New York, in March, 1930, and in the Tioga field in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, in September, 1930, first focused attention on this Lower Devonian formation as a potential source of gas in the northern Appalachian Plateau province. The areal distribution, thickness, and physical characteristics of the Oriskany sandstone are described. Most of the Oriskany gas production in the northern part of the province has come from eight pools located in south-central New York and north-central Pennsylvania. Their location, size, structure, and other pertinent features are described. Oil in commercial quantities in the Oriskany has been encountered in only two sm ll pools in eastern Ohio. Analyses of connate waters from the Oriskany sandstone from several widely separated areas are given. A relationship between the composition of the hydrocarbon gases found in the Oriskany and the degree of metamorphism of the associated strata is pointed out. Possible reserves in the Oriskany in Pennsylvania are discussed.

Subsurface Distribution of Hamilton Group of New York and Northern Pennsylvania

The rocks of the Hamilton group crop out in a narrow belt in New York and Pennsylvania, which forms a great semi-ellipse extending from Lake Erie in the vicinity of Buffalo eastward to the Hudson River valley near Albany, thence south and southwest into Pennsylvania and New Jersey near Port Jervis, New York, and thence by the curving highly folded Appalachian belt westward and southwestward through Pennsylvania into Maryland. The area within this semi-ellipse is approximately 250 miles east and west and 125 miles north and south. The Hamilton is buried under younger Devonian rocks within this area and practically no information was available concerning its character until the discovery of natural gas in the Oriskany sand in Schuyler County, New York, and Tioga County, Pennsylvania, in 1930. Since then more than 100 scattered deep wells in southern New York and northern Pennsylvania have been drilled through the rocks composing this group from most of which samples of drill cuttings have been collected and described. Studies of logs of these wells have revealed certain information about the Hamilton which will be of interest to those engaged in solving the complex problem of the lateral change in the Devonian strata in this region and of usefulness to those geologists engaged in the oil and gas industry.

Subsurface Devonian and Silurian sections across northern Pennsylvania and southern New York

Research Article| June 30, 1933 Subsurface Devonian and Silurian sections across northern Pennsylvania and southern New York CHARLES R. FETTKE CHARLES R. FETTKE 2Published with the permission of the State Geologist of Pennsylvania. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar GSA Bulletin (1933) 44 (3): 601–660. https://doi.org/10.1130/GSAB-44-601 Article history received: 28 Feb 1933 first online: 02 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation CHARLES R. FETTKE; Subsurface Devonian and Silurian sections across northern Pennsylvania and southern New York. GSA Bulletin 1933;; 44 (3): 601–660. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/GSAB-44-601 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentBy SocietyGSA Bulletin Search Advanced Search Abstract IntroductionAn open flow of 3,500,000 cubic feet of natural gas per day in the upper part of the Tully limestone in a well northwest of Richburg in Allegany County, New York, in September, 1928, started an active drilling campaign which has extended over a large part of west-central New York and adjacent parts of north-central Pennsylvania. This led to the discovery of the Wayne-Tyrone gas pool in Schuyler County, New York, in March, 1930; the Tioga pool in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, in September, 1930; and the Hebron pool in Potter County, Pennsylvania, in November, 1931. In these three pools the gas occurs in the Oriskany sandstone.From a great many of the wells complete sets of drill cutting samples have been taken, so that accurate sections of the strata penetrated can be constructed. Through the courtesy of companies and individual operators engaged in drilling in this area, samples from . . . This content is PDF only. Please click on the PDF icon to access. First Page Preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this article.

Glacial Lake Cowanesque

Research Article| June 30, 1932 Glacial Lake Cowanesque BRADFORD WILLARD BRADFORD WILLARD 2Published with the permission of the State Geologist of Pennsylvania. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar GSA Bulletin (1932) 43 (2): 441–448. https://doi.org/10.1130/GSAB-43-441 Article history received: 10 Feb 1932 first online: 02 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation BRADFORD WILLARD; Glacial Lake Cowanesque. GSA Bulletin 1932;; 43 (2): 441–448. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/GSAB-43-441 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentBy SocietyGSA Bulletin Search Advanced Search Abstract IntroductionCowanesque River flows eastward across Tioga County, in north central Pennsylvania, to join the Tioga at Lawrenceville. For 15 miles of its course, from Westfield to Nelson, the river meanders across flats three-quarters of a mile wide that broaden to 2 miles between Elkland and Osceola. Here, channel, banks, and valley sides are almost devoid of bedrock outcrops; but below and above the flats the stream flows through straighter, narrower valleys with plentiful rock outcrops. The flat is interpreted as the bed of a Pleistocene lake here named Glacial Lake Cowanesque.The probability of lake occupancy of the Cowanesque valley was announced by Alden and Fuller,3 who concluded that such a lake originally formed in front of ice advancing from the northeast, which blocked and probably eventually filled the valley. A recurrence of lacustrine conditions accompanied ice withdrawal. Since the terminal moraine lies to the south and west, the . . . This content is PDF only. Please click on the PDF icon to access. First Page Preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this article.

Deep Sand Development in Tioga County, Pennsylvania

The Tioga County gas field, in the northern part of Tioga County, in Farmington Township, was discovered on September 10, 1930, by the Allegany Gas Company, producing company of the North Penn Gas Company, in its Palmer No. 1, at a total depth of 4,010 feet. Production of 22,000,000 cubic feet of gas of 1,050 B. T. U. and 0.58 specific gravity and with no trace of sulphur was found in the Oriskany sand of Lower Devonian age. The field is on a dome on the Sabinsville anticline with an indicated closure of more than 200 feet. Twelve other wells are being drilled on this and adjacent anticlines. This development is strictly wildcat as the discovery well is 40 miles from any commercial production. Maps, cross sections, and tables show the subsurface structure, generalized well log, and the development on February 20, 1931.

EPIDEMIC JAUNDICE IN NEW YORK STATE, 1921-1922

During the winter of 1921-1922, New York State was visited over a very wide area by so-called infectious or epidemic jaundice. This disease was present at the same time in other parts of the country. Previous to the epidemic, localized outbreaks had been studied by the New York State Department of Health in the village of Philadelphia, Jefferson County, in the winter of 1915-1916; at Berkshire, Tioga County, in March, 1920, and in Chenango County during February, 1921. The disease as it appeared at Cooperstown, N. Y., during the recent state-wide epidemic, has already been described. 1 It may be noted that during 1896 there occurred at Albany a well-marked outbreak of epidemic jaundice. At Hudson, N. Y., a similar epidemic occurred a few years previously. Reports from practitioners indicate that at certain localities in Delaware County, Allegany County and especially in St. Lawrence County repeated outbreaks of epidemic jaundice