The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1979
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- Blocks and belts of blueschist and greenschist in the northwestern Valdez quadrangle (html)
- Surficial deposits of the Valdez quadrangle, Alaska (html)
- Geologic reconnaissance of the east half of Kantishna River quadrangle and adjacent areas (html)
- Orthogneiss of Mount Juneau - an early phase of coast mountains plutonism involved in Barrovian regional metamorphism near Juneau (html)
- Distribution of gas-charged sediment and pockmarks in the northeastern Gulf of Alaska, Yakutat Bay to Cross Sound (html)
- New data concerning the geology of the North Bradfield River iron prospect, southeastern Alaska (html)
- Depth changes in Icy Bay, Alaska caused by sedimentation and melting of ice-cored moraine (html)
- Unusually diverse and well preserved Eocene foraminifers in dredge samples from the eastern Gulf of Alaska continental shelf (html)
- K-Ar measurements of obsidian from the Little Indian River locality in interior Alaska (html)
- Age of basalt flows in the Blue River valley, Bradfield Canal quadrangle (html)
- Benthic foraminifers as indicators of the Pleistocene - Holocene boundary in the eastern Gulf of Alaska (html)
- The Chilkat - Prince of Wales plutonic province, southeastern Alaska (html)
- Structural relations along the leading edge of the Wrangellia terrane in the Clearwater Mountains, Alaska (html)
- Deglaciation and sea-level fluctuations in Port Valdez, Alaska (html)
- Recognition of the Wrangellia terrane in the Clearwater Mountains and vicinity, south-central Alaska (html)
- Upper Triassic volcanogenic massive-sulfide metallogenic province identified in southeastern Alaska (html)
- Minimum age of beach deposits north of Teshekpuk Lake, Alaskan Arctic Coastal Plain (html)
- Lower Paleozoic radiolarian chert and associated rocks in the Tikchik Lakes area, southwestern Alaska (html)
- Revised ages of Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks in the Talkeetna quadrangle, south-central Alaska (html)
- Geologic constraints for petroleum development of the lower Cook Inlet, Alaska, outer continental shelf lease area (html)
- Newly recognized alkali granite stock, southwestern Kupreanof Island, Alaska (html)
- Structural and stratigraphic significance of Upper Devonian and Mississippian fossils from the Cannery Formation, Kupreanof Island, southeastern Alaska (html)
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Abstract
This circular describes the 1980 programs of the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska. A brief description of the Alaskan operations of each major division of the Survey is followed by project descriptions arranged by geographic regions in which the work takes place. 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 waterpower 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. The land area of Alaska contains 375 million acres, 16 percent of the onshore land of the Nation. 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 1979 |
| Series title | Circular |
| Series number | 823-B |
| DOI | 10.3133/cir823B |
| Year Published | 1981 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Publisher location | Alexandria, VA |
| Contributing office(s) | Alaska Science Center |
| Description | viii, 151 p. |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alaska |