Lime Hills Quadrangle NURE HSSR Study

OFR 97-492: Lime Hills Quadrangle NURE HSSR Study

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National Geochemical Database—Reformatted Data from the National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR) Program

By Steven M. Smith
Version 1.40 (2006)

Brief History and Description of Data

[See History of NURE HSSR Program for a summary of the entire program.]

Totals of 667 sediment and 671 water samples were collected at 675 locations in the Lime Hills quadrangle using standardized field procedures developed by the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL) during August - September of 1977 as part of the Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR) phase. LASL analyzed the samples for uranium and other elements (42 additional elements in sediments and 12 additional elements in waters), and released the data in the GJBX-29(79) report.

The following is a list of sample types collected for the Lime Hills quadrangle study.

*Summary of Lime Hills quadrangle sample types.*
Sediment Sample Type	Number of Samples	Water Sample Type	Number of Samples
Wet Streams	271	Streams	270
Dry Streams	3	Lakes	401
Wet Lakes	393
Total Sediments	667	Total Waters	671

These Lime Hills quadrangle samples were analyzed by one or more of the following methods:

Sediment Samples

LA1: Los Alamos Delayed-Neutron Counting Analysis of sediments for U.
LA2: Los Alamos Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of sediments for Ag, Bi, Cd, Cu, Nb, Ni, Pb, Sn, and W.
LA4: Los Alamos Arc-Source Emission Spectrography Analysis of sediments for Be and Li.
LA5: Los Alamos Neutron Activation Analysis of sediments for Al, Au, Ba, Ca, Ce, Cl, Co, Cr, Cs, Dy, Eu, Fe, Hf, K, La, Lu, Mg, Mn, Na, Rb, Sb, Sc, Sm, Sr, Ta, Tb, Th, Ti, V, Yb, and Zn.

Water Samples

LA6-FL: Los Alamos Fluorometry Analysis of waters for U.
LA7: Los Alamos Plasma-Source Emission Spectrography Analysis of waters for Ca, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mg, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb, Ti, and Zn.

Composition of the NEW-FORMAT NURE Data Files

The data in the NEW-FORMAT NURE data files consist of reformatted records from the GJBX-29(79) report. Any problems found during the reformatting process are noted in the REFORMAT comment field.

Values for dissolved oxygen in 526 samples were added from a table in the GJBX-29(79) report and can be found in the O_DISS field.

Download The Data

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 websites, 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).

Lime Hills Quadrangle Sediment Data - 667 records
Lime Hills Quadrangle Water Data - 671 records

Notes for Data Users

Water samples from this quadrangle are reported to have been acidified with nitric acid but NOT filtered in the field.

Other NURE Geochemical Data for the Lime Hills Quadrangle

A summary evaluation report was prepared for the Lime Hills quadrangle by C.C. Hawley and Associates of Anchorage, Alaska [PGJ/F-057(82)]. Additional samples of 471 stream sediments, 200 rocks, and 4 panned concentrates were collected in the quadrangle to "identify geologic environments favorable for the occurrence of uranium deposits." All of the stream sediment and rock samples were analyzed for uranium oxide by fluorometry and 111 of the stream sediment samples, 46 of the rock samples, and the 4 panned concentrates were analyzed for 29 additional elements by semi-quantitative emission spectrography. The panned concentrates were also analyzed for uranium oxide and Th by unspecified methods. These data were released only as microfiche appendices accompanying the summary report.

LASL compiled all of the regional HSSR data from Alaskan NURE studies and produced a report [GJBX-32(83)] that graphically displays the distribution of selected elements for most of the State. No additional geochemical data were released with this report.

Lime Hills Quadrangle NURE Bibliography

Hinderman, T.K., 1982, National Uranium Resource Evaluation, Lime Hills Quadrangle, Alaska: C.C. Hawley and Associates, Inc., U.S. Department of Energy, Grand Junction, Colo., PGJ/F-057(82), 18 p.
Jacobsen, S.I., Aamodt, P.L., and Sharp, R.R., Jr., 1979, Uranium hydrogeochemical and stream sediment reconnaissance of the Lime Hills and Tyonek NTMS quadrangles, Alaska, including concentrations of forty -three additional elements: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory informal report LA-7348-MS, Los Alamos, N.M., U.S. Department of Energy, Grand Junction, Colo., GJBX-29(79), 224 p.
Weaver, T.A., Freeman, S.H., Broxton, D.E., Bolivar, S.L., and others, 1983, The geochemical atlas of Alaska: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M., LA-9897-MS, U.S. Department of Energy, Grand Junction, Colo., GJBX-32(83), 57 p.

Links Within Open-File Report 97-492

Back to Alaska NURE data
Frequently Asked Questions Concerning NURE HSSR Data
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Page written by Andrew W. Holt and Steven M. Smith
Contact: Steven M. Smith (smsmith@usgs.gov)
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National Geochemical Database—Reformatted Data from the National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR) Program By Steven M. Smith Version 1.40 (2006)