OFR 97-492: Casper Quadrangle NURE HSSR Study
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[See History of NURE HSSR Program for a summary of the entire program.]
LASL: Casper Quadrangle
Totals of 1,370 sediment and 536 water samples were collected from 1,553 locations in the Casper quadrangle between August and November, 1977 as part of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL) Casper Quadrangle NURE Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR) study. Sediment samples were analyzed by LASL for uranium and up to 42 additional elements. Water samples were analyzed by LASL for uranium only. These data were released in the Casper Quadrangle NURE HSSR study GJBX-144(80) report.
Summary Tables
The following is a list of sample types collected for the Casper quadrangle study.
Sediment Sample Type | Number of Samples | Water Sample Type | Number of Samples |
---|---|---|---|
Wet Streams | 161 | Streams | 165 |
Dry Streams | 981 | Wells | 148 |
Wet Springs | 198 | Springs | 223 |
Dry Springs | 30 | ||
Total Sediments | 1,370 | Total Waters | 536 |
These Casper quadrangle samples were analyzed by the following methods:
Sediment Samples
Water Samples
The Casper quadrangle sediment and water data consist of reformatted records from the Casper Quadrangle NURE HSSR study GJBX-144(80) report. The following problems were found and addressed during the comparison and reformatting stages for the Casper quadrangle data:
Sediment Records
Water Records
The NURE HSSR data are now available online in two databases: The sediment database (also includes data for soils and some rocks) at http://tin.er.usgs.gov/nure/sediment/ and the water database at http://tin.er.usgs.gov/nure/water/. From these two web sites, NURE HSSR data can be selected, examined, summarized, and downloaded by political boundaries (State and County), by quadrangle (1:250,000-scale, 1:100,000-scale, and 1:63,360-scale for Alaska or 1:24,000-scale for the Lower 48 States), and by hydrologic unit (drainage region, subregion, river basin, or sub-basin). Selected data can be downloaded as a dBase file, a shapefile, an HTML table, or ASCII text (tab- or comma-delimited).
Casper Quadrangle Sediment Data - 1,370 records
Casper Quadrangle Water Data - 536 records
None at this time.
Casper Quadrangle NURE Summary
The Bendix Field Engineering Corporation produced a summary evaluation report for the Casper quadrangle [PGJ/F-033(82)]. During this evaluation an additional 244 rock and 13 water samples were collected. The rocks were analyzed for U and several other elements while water was only analyzed for U. These data were released only as appendices on microfiche accompanying the summary report.
Uranium Anomalies in Wyoming
The Bendix Field Engineering Corporation identified and ranked 269 uranium anomalies from 23 quadrangles in and adjacent to Wyoming. These anomalies were based on an evaluation of the NURE HSSR data, aerial radiometric reconnaissance surveys and, to a lesser extent, geologic evaluations. This report [GJBX-3(83)] lists 12 uranium anomalies that were identified in the Casper quadrangle. No additional geochemical data accompany this report.
Great Divide Basin Potential Tonnage Assessment
The Bendix Field Engineering Corporation conducted a study to determine tonnage of potential uranium resources in fine-grained carbonaceous rocks from the Great Divide Basin area, which includes parts of the Casper, Lander, Rawlins, and Rock Springs quadrangles. This assessment was based primarily on data from some 600 boreholes. The report of this study [GJBX-225(82)] also includes appendices on microfiche that list data for analyses of drill core or cuttings for uranium (231 samples by fluorometric chemical analysis) and 18 selected elements (160 samples by emission spectroscopy analysis).
Red Desert Multidisciplinary Studies
The Bendix Field Engineering Corporation was involved in a detailed study of a small area in the Red Desert of Wyoming (about 13 square miles on the border between the Casper and Lander quadrangles) to investigate methods for identifying mineral halos associated with a known sandstone-type uranium deposit [GJBX-1(83)]. The text discusses the results of geochemical surveys that generated multielement data for 437 soil samples and 994 composited sections from drillholes. Although included tables give statistical summaries and figures show element distribution, none of the raw data for these samples were found or referenced in the text.
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