Analyses and description of geochemical samples, Mill Creek Wilderness Study Area, Giles County, Virginia
Open-File Report
78-1077-D
By: Leung Mei and Frank Gardner Lesure
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Abstract
Semiquantitative emission spectrographic analyses for 64 elements on 62 stream sediment and 71 rock samples from Mill Creek Wilderness Study area, Giles County, Virginia, are reported here in detail. Locations for all samples are given in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates. Brief descriptions of rock samples are also included. Rocks analysed are mostly sandstone. Samples of hematitic sandstone of the Rose Hill Formation and limonite-cemented sandstone of the Rocky Gap Sandstone contain high values of iron; these rocks are submarginal iron resources. Some of the same iron-rich samples have a little more barium, copper, cobalt, lead, silver, and/or zinc then is in average sandstone, but they do not suggest the presence of economic deposits of these metals. No other obviously anomalous values related to mineralized rock are present in the data.
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Mei, L., and Lesure, F.G., 1978, Analyses and description of geochemical samples, Mill Creek Wilderness Study Area, Giles County, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-1077, 18 p. ;28 cm., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr781077D.
ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Analyses and description of geochemical samples, Mill Creek Wilderness Study Area, Giles County, Virginia |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 78-1077 |
| Chapter | D |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr781077D |
| Year Published | 1978 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey, |
| Description | 18 p. ;28 cm. |