The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1978
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- Summary of mineral resources, Glacier Bay National Monument Wilderness Study Area, southeastern Alaska (html)
- Uranium-thorium investigations of the Darby pluton, Seward Peninsula, Alaska (html)
- Quartzofeldspathic, mafic, and ultramafic granulites identified in the Kigluaik Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska (html)
- Seaward extension of the Fairweather fault (html)
- Upper Paleozoic volcanic rocks in the eastern and central Brooks Range (html)
- Southward-progressing stabilization of Holocene eolian sand on the western Arctic Coastal Plain (html)
- The Kanektok metamorphic complex, a rootless belt of Precambrian rocks in southwestern Alaska (html)
- Arctic Coastal Plain pingos in National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (html)
- Uranitite in sideritic nodules from Tertiary continental sedimentary rocks in the Healy Creek basin area, central Alaska (html)
- Intrusive rock belts of southeastern Alaska (html)
- Serpentinite bodies in the Willow Creek district, southwestern Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska (html)
- Potassium-argon age of granitic and volcanic rocks from the Ruby, Medfra, and adjacent quadrangles, west-central Alaska (html)
- Results of a preliminary paleomagnetic study of volcanic rocks from Nuyakuk Lake, southwestern Alaska (html)
- Two Upper Paleozoic sedimentary rock units identified in southwestern part of the Ruby quadrangle (html)
- Turbidite facies of the Sitka graywacke, southeastern Alaska (html)
- Significance of geotectonics in the metallogenesis and resource appraisal of southeastern Alaska: a progress report (html)
- The Wrangell terrane ("Wrangellia") in southeastern Alaska: the Tarr Inlet suture zone with its northern and southern extensions (html)
- Cretaceous radiolarians from the McHugh complex, south-central Alaska (html)
- The Cretaceous Nanushuk Group of the western and central North Slope, Alaska (html)
- Late Triassic fossils from a sequence of volcanic and sedimentary rocks on the Chilkat Peninsula, southeastern Alaska (html)
- Neoglacial sedimentation in Glacier Bay, Alaska (html)
- Potassium-argon ages and geochemistry of basalt dredged near Saint George Island, southern Bering Sea (html)
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Abstract
This circular describes the 1979 programs of the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska. The mission of the Geological Survey is to identify the Nation 's land, water, energy, and mineral resources; to classify federally-owned mineral lands and water-power sites; to resolve the exploration and development of energy and natural resources on Federal and Indian lands; and to explore and appraise the petroleum potential of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Alaska is at once the largest, the least populated, the least explored, and the least developed State in the Nation. More than half of the Nation 's 600 million acres of Outer Continental Shelf lies off Alaska 's coast, and nearly half of the remaining 762 million acres of Federal land are within its borders. Its resources of all kinds present an opportunity to demonstrate how the needs of both conservation and development can be met for the benefit of the American people.
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| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1978 |
| Series title | Circular |
| Series number | 804-B |
| DOI | 10.3133/cir804B |
| Year Published | 1979 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Publisher location | Arlington, VA |
| Contributing office(s) | Alaska Science Center |
| Description | vii, B163 p. |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alaska |