Basement rock clasts in the Temblor Range, California: some descriptions and problems
Donald Clarence Ross
1979, Open-File Report 79-935
Description of and directions to selected Salinian Block basement rock outcrops, Santa Lucia and Gabilan Ranges, California
Donald Clarence Ross
1979, Open-File Report 79-383
Evaluation of Landsat multispectral scanner images for mapping altered rocks in the East Tintic Mountains, Utah
Lawrence C. Rowan, Michael J. Abrams
1979, Open-File Report 78-736
The East Tintic Mountains, Utah consist of folded and faulted Paleozoic sedimentary rocks, which are partly covered by Tertiary volcanic rocks. Clastic rocks dominate the lower one-third of the Paleozoic section, whereas carbonate rocks with subordinate amounts of shale and elastic rocks predominate in the remainder. Some of the rocks,...
Geologic evaluation of major Landsat lineaments in Nevada and their relationship to ore districts
Lawrence C. Rowan, Pamela Heald Wetlaufer
1979, Open-File Report 79-544
Analysis of diverse geologic, geophysical, and geochemical data shows that eight major lineament systems delineated in Landsat images of Nevada are morphological and tonal expressions of substantially broader structural zones. Southern Nevada is dominated by the 175 km-wide northwest-trending Walker Lane, a 150 km-wide zone of east-trending lineament systems consisting...
Puerto Rico seismic program seismological data summary, July 1, 1975-December 31, 1977
Rirchard L. Dart, David Carver, Mary Kay Wharton, Arthur C. Tarr
1979, Open-File Report 79-870
The purpose of this data summary is to compile and make available preliminary data acquired from a network of seismic stations (Tarr and King, 1976) in order to facilitate current studies of earthquake occurrence. ...
A note on the simple Bouguer gravity field in the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington
Byron D. Ruppel
1979, Open-File Report 79-1674
The use of soil-gas helium concentrations for earthquake prediction: Studies of factors causing diurnal variation
G. Michael Reimer
1979, Open-File Report 79-1623
The diurnal variation in the soil-gas helium concentration was monitored at depths of 0.5-2 m. Barometric pressure, air temperature, wind speed, soil temperature, soil moisture, relative humidity, and precipitation were also monitored. The helium variation below a 1-m sampling depth usually did not exceed the analytical sensitivity limit of +10...
Ancient mines of the Farah Garan area, southwestern Saudi Arabia
C. W. Smith, H. Richard Blank
1979, Open-File Report 79-1659
Ancient miners, in quest of oxidized copper minerals, gold, silver, and possibly zinc, mined gossans to approximately 20 m depth in an area 1.1 by 0.5 km in extent at Farah Garan. The gossans, derived from sulfides, are ordinarily found at contacts between marble lenses and metavolcanic-metasedimentary rocks, but in...
Availability of ground water on Federal land near the Ak-Chin Indian Reservation, Arizona— A reconnaissance study
Richard P. Wilson
1979, Open-File Report 79-1165
Sufficient ground water to provide about 2.1 million acre-feet in a 25-year period is available for delivery to the Ak-Chin Indian Reservation from Federal land in the Vekol Valley, Waterman Wash area, and Bosque area in south-central Arizona. Withdrawal of 85,000 acre-feet per year as required by the Ak-Chin water-supply...
Principal facts for gravity profiles near South Penobscot, Maine
Robert W. Simpson, Paul LaPierre
1979, Open-File Report 79-767
Changes in channel characteristics, 1938-74, of the Homochitto River and tributaries, Mississippi
K. V. Wilson
1979, Open-File Report 79-554
Channel characteristics in the lower reaches of the Homochitto River in southwest Mississippi and some of its tributaries changed following the completion of cutoffs and channelization projects between 1938 and 1940. Channel degradation and accelerated bank sloughing began during the early 1940's in the vicinity of Doloroso, a short distance...
Evaluation of three potential pumped storage sites, Mokelumne River basin, California
David E. Wilson, Frank W. Smith
1979, Open-File Report 79-1678
A uranium occurrence in an altered volcanic flow near Essex, California
James K. Otton, Richard K. Glanzman, Elizabeth Brenner-Tourtelot
1979, Open-File Report 79-1523
Composite geophysical and lithologic logs and coal analyses for core-hole drilling in the Kaiparowits coal field, Garfield County, Utah
H. D. Zeller
1979, Open-File Report 79-1529
Sediment discharge and channel change in the North Fork Teton River, 1977-78, Fremont and Madison counties, Idaho
Rhea P. Williams
1979, Open-File Report 79-1335
The Teton Dam failure flood of June 5, 1976, severely disrupted the geomorphic character of North Fork Teton River in Idaho. Extensive channel restoration was required to contain expected normal spring flows. Six principal sites were established on the 17-mile reach of the river to study sediment transport and channel...
Reconnaissance snow surveys of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, April 1977 and April-May 1978
Charles E. Sloan, Dennis Trabant, William Glude
1979, Open-File Report 79-1342
Reconnaissance snow surveys of the NPRA (National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska) were made in April 1977 and April-May 1978 to ascertain general snow characteristics and distribution patterns. Thirty-nine sites in 1977 and forty-one sites in 1978 were sampled to determine snow depth, density, structure, and snow-soil interface temperature. In addition,...
Selected well inventory and chemical analyses of ground water, parts of Missoula and Powell counties, Montana
Kathleen R. Wilke
1979, Open-File Report 79-1491
Ground-water data collected in 1975-76 in the Swan and Avon valleys of western Montana and in 1978 in southwestern Missoula are presented in two tables. Table 1 is an inventory of 146 selected wells and table 2 lists chemical analyses of ground water from 52 wells. (Woodard-USGS)...
Rock Analysis Storage System (RASS), Saudi Arabia; an introduction to the system and sample submittal manual, 1978
Lamont O. Wilch, L.D. North
1979, Open-File Report 79-591
The U.S. Geological Survey Saudi Arabian Mission has the responsibility for implementing a computer-based file known as the Rock Analysis Storage System (RASS), which is principally a geochemical data bank or library. Geologic parameters are necessarily provided for, but are far from comprehensive; nevertheless, nine years of operation in the...
A one-dimensional, steady-state, dissolved-oxygen model and waste-load assimilation study for Silver Creek, Clark and Floyd counties, Indiana
William G. Wilber, Charles G. Crawford, James G. Peters
1979, Open-File Report 79-1253
The Indiana State Board of Health is developing a State water-quality management plan that includes establishing limits for wastewater effluents discharged into Indiana streams. A digital model calibrated to conditions in Silver Creek was used to develop alternatives for future waste loadings that would be compatible with Indiana stream water-quality...
A one-dimensional, steady-state, dissolved-oxygen model and waste-load assimilation study for East Fork White River, Bartholomew County, Indiana
William G. Wilber, James G. Peters, Charles G. Crawford
1979, Open-File Report 79-1072
The Indiana State Board of Health is developing a State water-quality management plan that includes the establishing of limits for wastewater effluents discharged into Indiana streams. A digital model calibrated to conditions in East Fork White River was used to develop alternatives for future waste loadings that would be compatible...
Magnetometer traverse on Plum Island near Newburyport, Massachusetts
Robert W. Simpson, Wallace A. Bothner
1979, Open-File Report 79-435
Several large faults of regional tectonic significance circle around Boston and disappear offshore at Plum Island south of Newburyport, Massachusetts (Castle and others, 1976; Barosh and others, 1977). The traces of these faults are, in places, well defined by aeromagnetic anomalies (Harwood and Zietz, 1977), The purpose of this traverse...
Appraisal of ground water in the vicinity of the Leadville drainage tunnel, Lake County, Colorado
John T. Turk, O. James Taylor
1979, Open-File Report 79-1538
Ground water in the Leadville mining district occurs in granite, quartzite, limestone, sandstone, porphyry dikes, and unconsolidated material. These rocks form a single aquifer system because the formations are hydraulically connected through contact, mine workings, faulting, and fracturing. The aquifer is recharged by precipitation and water moves toward California Gulch...
Analytical data on the Schwartzwalder uranium deposit, Jefferson County, Colorado
Edward J. Young
1979, Open-File Report 79-968
U.S. Geological survey coal exploratory program coal drilling activities — FY 79
Gary B. Schneider
1979, Open-File Report 79-1356
No abstract available....
Inventory of clay-rich bedrock and metamorphic derivatives in eastern Nevada, excluding the Nevada Test Site
H. Simpson, J. E. Weir, Lee A. Woodward
1979, Open-File Report 79-760