Reconnaissance geology of the Madha Quadrangle, sheet 18/43 A, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
George Clarke Simmons
1979, Open-File Report 80-133
Knik Glacier, Alaska, May 1979 monument and glacier survey
Dennis C. Trabant, L.R. Mayo
1979, Open-File Report 80-48
From 1915, or earlier, to 1966, with the exception of 1963, Knik Glacier annually formed and released Lake George, the largest glacier-dammed lake in Alaska. Eleven geodetically controlled survey stations were defined in the basin, and 22 glacier surface altitudes were measured. This is the first effort in a continuing...
January 1979 water levels, and data related to water-level changes, western and south-central Kansas
Marilyn E. Pabst
1979, Open-File Report 79-925
This report contains hydrologic data on water-level measurements in observation wells in western and south-central Kansas. The measurements were made in mid-winter, mostly in January, when pumping was minimal and water levels had recovered from the effects of pumping during the previous irrigation season. This report also provides basic hydrologic...
Discrimination of alteration in the Crooks Gap, Wyoming, uranium district using laboratory and Landsat spectral reflectance data
Timothy E. Townsend
1979, Open-File Report 79-765
The Crooks Gap area is a major uranium producing district in south-central Wyoming. Uranium occurs there as roll-type deposits in Tertiary sandstones. Alteration of the host sandstones related to the formation of the uranium deposits, is marked at the surface by a pronounced red coloration, which has long been used...
Hydrogeology of the Gatlinburg area, Tennessee
Ann Zurawski
1979, Open-File Report 79-1167
A study of ground-water availability in the Gatlinburg area, Tenn., was undertaken to improve concepts of ground-water occurrence in the Blue Ridge and demonstrate that ground water is present in sufficient quantities to provide an alternative to surface water as a source of supply. Of 25 test wells, 8 produced...
Concerning the origin and occurrence of gold, platinum, and diamonds in the United States
R.M. Patterson, Rudolph W. Knopf
1979, Open-File Report 79-1223
Occurrence of uranium in rocks of the intrusive complex at Ekiek Creek, western Alaska
Alan R. Wallace
1979, Open-File Report 79-1653
Uranium in the Ekiek Creek Complex of western Alaska is related to a niobium-rich pyrochlore in the nepheline syenite of the complex. The complex consists of an aegirine-phlogopite pyroxenite that has been intruded and partly replaced by nepheline syenite. The contact zone between the two igneous units varies from a...
The Jabal Ishmas-Wadi Tathlith gold belt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ronald G. Worl
1979, Open-File Report 79-1519
The Jabal Ishmas-Wadi Tathlith gold belt is a north-south zone of numerous ancient gold mines in the southeastern Precambrian shield of Saudi Arabia, extending along long 43?30'E. between lat 18?N. and 21?30'N., a distance of about 390 km. The gold belt coincides with a major zone of faulting, shearing, and...
Alteration and vein mineralization, Ladwig uranium mine, Jefferson County, Colorado
Alan R. Wallace
1979, Open-File Report 79-1615
Uranium ore at the Ladwig mine, Jefferson County, Colo., occurs in steeply dipping, northwest-striking faults and related fractures with a carbonate-adularia assemblage that forms in altered wallrocks and fills veins. The faults occur between large intrusive pegmatites and garnetiferous gneisses of Precambrian age, and were reactivated as the result of...
Preliminary catalog of aftershocks of the Guatemala earthquake of February 4, 1976, from the area between Guatemala City and Lake Atitlan
R.A. White, David H. Harlow
1979, Open-File Report 79-864
A six-station seismic network, about 140 km in diameter, has been operated just west of Guatemala City since March 1975, as part of a cooperative project between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Institute Nacional de Sismologia, Vulcanologia, Meteorologia e Hidrologia (INSIVUMEH), of Guatemala. The purpose of this project was...
Geologic map of Mount Laguna 7 1/2' quadrangle, San Diego County, California
Victoria R. Todd
1979, Open-File Report 79-862
No abstract available....
Benthic invertebrates, periphyton, and bottom material and their trace-metal concentrations in Salmon Creek basin, Clark County, Washington
Amy C. White, Stuart W. McKenzie
1979, Open-File Report 79-978
In 1978, data were collected for identification and quantification of benthic invertebrates, periphyton, and bottom material and their trace-metals concentrations from three sites in Salmon Creek basin, Wash. Metal analyses included arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, zinc, selenium, and mercury. Physical data collected included water temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, discharge,...
Geology, coal resources, and chemical analyses of coal from the Fruitland Formation, Kimbeto EMRIA study site, San Juan County, New Mexico
Gary B. Schneider, Rick T. Hildebrand, Ronald H. Affolter
1979, Open-File Report 79-1090
The Kimbeto EMRIA study site, an area of about 20 square miles (52 km2), is located on the south margin of the San Juan Basin on the gently northward-dipping strata of the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland Formation and the Kirtland Shale. The coal beds are mainly in the lower 150 feet...
A proposed ground water quality monitoring network for Idaho
R.L. Whitehead, D. J. Parliman
1979, Open-File Report 79-1477
A ground water quality monitoring network is proposed for Idaho. The network comprises 565 sites, 8 of which will require construction of new wells. Frequencies of sampling at the different sites are assigned at quarterly, semiannual, annual, and 5 years. Selected characteristics of the water will be monitored by both...
Palladium, platinum, and rhodium concentrations in mafic and ultramafic rocks from the Kizildag and Guleman areas, Turkey, and the Faryab and Esfandagheh-Abdasht areas, Iran
Norman J. Page, Tandogan Engin, Joseph Haffty
1979, Open-File Report 79-840
The Kizildag and Guleman areas, Turkey, and the Faryab and Esfandagheh-Abdasht areas, Iran, have produced chromite from ophiolite complexes consisting of harzburgite tectonite, dunite tectonite containing chromitite, pyroxenite, wehrlite, and gabbro. Forty-six samples from these complexes were analyzed in order to investigate the possibility of platinum-group metals being present that...
Particulate organic carbon in San Francisco Bay, California, 1971-1977
Laurence E. Schemel, Lee A. Dedini
1979, Open-File Report 79-512
The organic-carbon content of suspended particulate matter is determined by wet oxidation and analysis of the resulting CO2 with an infrared analyzer. Modifications of methods and improved designs of apparatus are presented.Results of particulate organic carbon (POC) analyses from 1971 through 1977 show that concentrations in North San Francisco Bay...
Potential hydrologic effects of peat mining in the Red Lake Peatlands, north-central Minnesota— A project plan
Donald I. Siegel
1979, Open-File Report 79-1591
Peat is being considered for fuel in Minnesota. This study will investigate the potential effects of large-scale surface mining of peat on the hydrology and water quality of Upper Red Lake and the Tamarac River. The major aspects of the study are the characterization of the surface-water and groundwater hydrology...
Lag deposits of boulders in Stefansson Sound, Beaufort Sea, Alaska
Erk Reimnitz, Robin Ross
1979, Open-File Report 79-1205
The subsurface geology of the Florida-Hatteras shelf, slope, and inner Blake Plateau
Charles K. Paull, William P. Dillon
1979, Open-File Report 79-448
The structure and stratigraphy of the Florida-Hatteras Slope and inner Blake Plateau was studied by means of 4,780 km of single-channel air gun seismic reflection profiles. Control for the seismic stratigraphy is provided by correlating reflecting units and paleontologically dated stratigraphic units identified in offshore wells and dredge hauls. Many...
Upper Cretaceous tectonic activity on lineaments in western South Dakota
George W. Shurr
1979, Open-File Report 79-1374
Lineaments mapped on satellite images in western South Dakota define a geometry of basement blocks, and paleotectonic activity on these lineament-bound blocks is recorded in sedimentary rocks. Mapping on seven Landsat images in an area of about 100,000 km2 reveals that lineaments are best developed along azimuths of N. 60°...
Investigation of the Hosgri fault, offshore southern California, Point Sal to Point Conception
C. M. Payne, O. E. Swanson, B. A. Schell
1979, Open-File Report 79-1199
A high-resolution seismic reflection survey of the inner continental shelf between Point Sal and Point Conception has revealed faults that displace post-Wisconsin strata (less than 17,000-20,000 years). These faults are the Hosgri fault, the Offshore Lompoc fault, and smaller unnamed faults. Faults trending offshore from the adjacent shoreline such as...
Upper Cretaceous rocks at Lake Traverse in western Minnesota
George W. Shurr
1979, Open-File Report 79-379
Evaluation of a color-coded Landsat 5/6 ratio image for mapping lithologic differences in western South Dakota
Gary L. Raines, R.F. Bretz, George W. Shurr
1979, Open-File Report 79-596
From analysis of a color-coded Landsat 5/6 ratio, image, a map of the vegetation density distribution has been produced by Raines of 25,000 sq km of western South Dakota. This 5/6 ratio image is produced digitally calculating the ratios of the bands 5 and 6 of the Landsat data and...
Water resources of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
Eugene H. Walker
1979, Open-File Report 79-558
Implications of evaporites in the Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician Notch Peak Formation, southern House Range, western Utah
Michael E. Taylor, Richard K. Glanzman
1979, Open-File Report 79-1428
This report describes a preliminary study of some evaporites that occur in the Upper Cambrian part of the Notch Peak Formation in the southern House Range of western Utah (Taylor and Glanzman, 1979). The occurrences of halite and gypsum were first reported by James F. Miller in a guidebook article...