Wet Mountain thorium investigations, 1952-1954, Fremont and Custer Counties, Colorado
Robert Adam Christman, M. R. Brock, R. C. Pearson, Q. D. Singewald
1955, Open-File Report 55-27
Notes on a coal deposit on the Beluga River, Alaska
Farrell F. Barnes
1955, Open-File Report 55-5
This report is based on a brief examination of a locality on the Beluga River, about 50 miles west of Anchorage, Alaska (fig. 1), that had been reported to contain a coal bed of exceptional thickness and quality, possibly suitable for large-scale strip mining. I visited the locality on August...
The Garm-Lamoreaux mine, Lemhi County, Idaho
Frank Clarkson Armstrong, Paul L. Weis
1955, Open-File Report 55-2
The Garm-Lamoreaux property, Lemhi County, Idaho is known to have uranite and zippsite on two of its dumps. The property has been explored by five adits, two of which are now caved, and one of which is partly caved. The country rock is schistose micaceous quartzite and argillaceous quartzite of...
Geology of the Edison area, Sussex County, New Jersey
Donald Roy Baker
1955, Open-File Report 55-3
Surface and underground geologic map and sections of the Red Devil mine, Sleetmute area, central Kuskokwim region, Alaska
Wallace Martin Cady, R. E. Wallace
1955, Open-File Report 55-23
Subsurface exploration for stripping coal on Lower Deep Creek, Homer district, Kenai coal field, Alaska
Farrell F. Barnes, Daniel Sokol
1955, Open-File Report 55-6
The area described in this report is on the west side of the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska, near the mouth of Deep Creek, a stream of moderate size that enters Cook Inlet about 2 miles south of the village of Ninilchik (pl. 1). It is 37 miles by highway...
Maps showing radiometry and geochemical sampling done at Wilson's Prospect, Garland County, Arkansas
Ernest Pete Beroni
1955, Open-File Report 55-14
The petrology of Umnak and Bogoslof Islands, Alaska
F.M. Byers Jr.
1955, Open-File Report 55-22
Decriptions of 14 measured sections in southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky
Ralph H. Wilpolt, Douglas W. Marden
1955, Open-File Report 55-200
No abstract available. ...
Geology and ore deposits in the Reid Inlet area, Glacier Bay, Alaska, with added notes on a mineralized zone near Lituya Bay
Darwin L. Rossman
1955, Open-File Report 55-153
A gold-bearing area of about 7 1/2 square miles, first discovered by Mr. Joseph Ibach in 1924, exists near the head of Glacier Bay between Reid and Lamplugh glaciers.The dominant rock type in the area is granodiorite which is intruded into bedded rocks that may be of Paleozoic age. The...
Informe preliminar sobre la geologia del valle superior de La Paz, Bolivia
Ernest Dobrovolny
1955, Open-File Report 55-42
Preliminary geologic evaluation of the Chena area, Alaska
John R. Williams
1955, Open-File Report 55-198
It seems fitting at this session of the Alaska Science Conference, the first to be held in the Fairbanks area, to give a preliminary summary of the practical results of a geologic investigation of the Chena area east of Fairbanks. The work was done by the Geological Survey in 1950....
Status of ownership of part of the lands on which phosphate-bearing beds crop out in southeastern Idaho
Emerson Cannon Willey, T. M. Cheney, H.W. Pierce, L.T. Grose
1955, Open-File Report 55-194
This report and accompanying maps summarize the status of ownership of many phosphate bearing lands in southeastern Idaho. Ownership categories discussed are (1) phosphate rights owned by Federal Government, (2) phosphate rights not owned by Federal Government, and (3) ownership status uncertain....
Surface and underground geologic map of the DeCourcy Mountain mine, DeCourcy Mountain area, central Kuskokwim region, Alaska
Edward J. Webber
1955, Open-File Report 55-190
Status of ownership of part of the lands on which phosphate-bearing beds outcrop in Utah
Emerson Cannon Willey, T. M. Cheney, H.W. Pierce, L.T. Grose
1955, Open-File Report 55-195
This report and accompanying maps summarize the status of ownership of many phosphate bearing lands in the State of Utah. Ownership categories discussedare (1) phosphate rights owned by Federal Government, (2) phosphate rights not owned by Federal Government, and (3) ownership status uncertain....
Status of ownership of part of the lands on which phosphate-bearing beds outcrop in westernmost Wyoming
Emerson C. Willey, T. M. Cheney, H.W. Peirce, L.T. Grose
1955, Open-File Report 55-196
This report and accompanying maps summarize the status of ownership of many phosphate bearing lands in westernmost Wyoming. Ownership categories discussed are (1) phosphate rights owned by Federal Government, (2) phosphate rights not owned by Federal Government, and (3) ownership status uncertain....
Surficial geology of an area adjoining the edge of the Matanuska Valley, Alaska
Frank W. Trainer
1955, Open-File Report 55-182
Status of ownership of part of the lands on which phosphate-bearing beds outcrop in southwestern Montana and northeastern Idaho
Emerson C. Willey, E. R. Cressman, H.W. Peirce, T. M. Cheney
1955, Open-File Report 55-197
This report and accompanying maps summarize the status or ownership or many phosphate bearing lands in southwestern Montana and northeastern Idaho. Ownership categories discussed are (1) phosphate rights owned by Federal Government, (2) phosphate rights not owned by Federal Government, and (3) ownership status uncertain....
Pyrite deposits at Horseshoe Bay, Latouche Island, Alaska
Francis Adrien Stejer
1955, Open-File Report 55-175
Horseshoe Bay (see fig. 1) is in the southwest part of Prince William Sound at latitude 60°01'N and longitude 147°57'W. It is on the west side of Latouche Island about two miles southwest of the old mining camp of Latouche. Pyrite deposits crop out about one-half mile from the head...
Pegmatites of the Middletown area, Connecticut
Frederick Stugard Jr.
1955, Open-File Report 55-177
The pegmatites of the Middletown area in Connecticut have been mined almost continuously for feldspar and muscovite mica since about 1865, Pegmatites in this and other areas have recently become the subject of renewed interest because pegmatites are the potential source of beryl, the ore mineral of beryllium. During 1948...
Physical stratigraphy of the Phosphoria formation in northwestern Wyoming
Richard Porter Sheldon
1955, Open-File Report 55-163
Fossils from bore holes on the Eastern Shore Peninsula, Virginia
Ruth Todd, Julia A. Gardner, I. G. Sohn
1955, Open-File Report 55-181
This report lists Foraminifera, Mollusca, and Ostracoda in five bore holes that penetrated a maximum of 445 feet of section in sediments of Pleistocene and Miocene age, and discusses the paleoecologic and stratigraphic significance of the fossils. It includes the contents of references 6, 16, and 18 of Virginia Division...
Electrical resistivity measurements in the Neillsville area, Wisconsin
H. Cecil Spicer, George J. Edwards
1955, Open-File Report 55-173
Sixty-eight electrical depth profiles were completed in the vicinity of Neillsville, Wis. to obtain information on the water-bearing beds in the glacial moraine and consolidated sedimentary rocks in the area. No productive aquifers were found but the best areas for test drilling are described. The basic theory and interpretation procedures,...
Status of topographic and geologic mapping in the New England-New York region
Louis W. Currier
1955, Open-File Report 55-34
No abstract available. ...
Geologic maps and sections of the Nevada Scheelite mine, Regent district, Mineral County, Nevada
Robert F. Stopper, Konrad Bates Krauskopf
1955, Open-File Report 55-176