Results and interpretation of geophysical studies near the Picacho Fault, south-central Arizona
Leroy W. Pankratz, Hans D. Ackermann, Robert C. Jachens
1978, Open-File Report 78-1106
Earth fissuring attributed to ground-water withdrawal occurs throughout south-central Arizona. A large zone of active fissures is located near Picacho, Arizona on the eastern rim of a large subsidence bowl. The main fissure has been named the Picacho fault. During February and March 1977, approximately 6.5 km of seismic-refraction lines...
Lunar landscape morphometry
Richard J. Pike
1978, Open-File Report 78-812
This report outlines some general methods for analyzing the geometry of planetary topography and illustrates them with results obtained for the Moon. Its contents apply to selection of landing sites for spacecraft, planning traverses for vehicles, and to other aspects of planetary exploration that involve numerical expression of topographic form...
Principal facts for gravity stations in Flathead, Glacier, Pondera, and Teton Counties, Montana
Dolores M. Wilson
1978, Open-File Report 78-104
A 500-volt pulse transmitter for ice sounding
Charles J. Roubique
1978, Open-File Report 78-372
A high-voltage pulser developed by the U.S. Geological Survey for glacier soundings is a small battery-operated unit that weighs about one kg and was packaged in a case measuring 8.2 X 12 X 18.8 cm. It operates from an external 12 volt battery and supplies a 500-V pulse to a...
ADEPT: a program to estimate depth to magnetic basement from sampled magnetic profiles
Jeffrey D. Phillips
1978, Open-File Report 79-367
A fortran program computes depth to magnetic basement from the spatially varying autocorrelation function of a sampled magnetic profile. The depth calculation assumes a particular form for the autocorrelation function, and this assumption is tested against the measured autocorrelation function in order to reject invalid depth estimates....
Distribution of organic carbon and petroleum source rock potential of Cretaceous and lower Tertiary carbonates, south Florida basin: Preliminary results
James George Palacas
1978, Open-File Report 78-140
Analyses of 134 core samples from the South Florida Basin show that the carbonates of Comanchean age are relatively richer in average organic carbon (0.41 percent) than those of Coahuilan age (0.28 percent), Gulfian age (0.18 percent) and Paleocene age (0.20 percent). They are also nearly twice as rich as...
Principal facts for gravity stations in the Clearwater and Blackfoot River valleys, Montana
Dolores M. Wilson
1978, Open-File Report 78-103
A gravity survey was made in the Clearwater and Blackfoot River valleys to provide information on structural relationships and subsurface geology as part of the Big Fork-Avon environmental and land-use project undertaken by the U.S. Geological Survey and Missoula and Powell Counties, Montana....
Map showing surface faults in the southeastern Houston metropolitan area, Texas
E.R. Verbeek, U. S. Clanton
1978, Open-File Report 78-797
No abstract available....
The Bangui magnetic anomaly, Central African Empire: Final trip report
Robert D. Regan
1978, Open-File Report 78-1006
For the past 5 years the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have been involved in a joint project concerning the analysis of satellite magnetometer data for geological studies. The principal objectives of this project have been the detection, identification, and interpretation of...
Drilling during 1978 in the Danforth Hills coal field, Easton Gulch, Devils Hole Gulch, Axial, and Ninemile Gap quadrangles, Moffat and Rio Blanco Counties, Colorado
Marith J. Reheis
1978, Open-File Report 78-1031
Drilling during 1977 in the Danforth Hills coal field, Easton Gulch and Devils Hole Gulch quadrangles, Moffat County, Colorado
Marith J. Reheis
1978, Open-File Report 78-272
No abstract available....
Hydrologic reconnaissance of the Yampa River during low flow, Dinosaur National Monument, northwestern Colorado
Timothy Doak Steele, Dennis A. Wentz, James W. Warner
1978, Open-File Report 78-226
A hydrologic reconnaissance of a 74-kilometer reach of the Yampa River in Dinosaur National Monument was made during low flow in mid-August 1976. Stream discharge, which was measured along this reach every 16 to 24 kilometers, ranged from 9.4 to 10.6 cubic meters per second. Variations in streamflow were explained,...
January 1978 water levels, and data related to water-level changes since 1940 or 1950, western Kansas
Marilyn E. Pabst
1978, Open-File Report 78-409
This report contains basic data on water-level measurements in observation wells in western 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 data for...
Four maps showing lithologic distributions of selected parts of the Jurassic San Rafael Group and related units, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico
James C. Wright
1978, Open-File Report 78-572
No abstract available....
Improved inlet system for the U.S. Geological Survey helium sniffer
G. Michael Reimer, E.H. Denton
1978, Open-File Report 78-588
Least-squares refinement of powder diffraction data for unit cell parameters: Program listing for DEC 10 computer
George Van Trump, Phoebe L. Hauff
1978, Open-File Report 78-431
This FORTRAN computer program is a time-sharing version of the classic program of Appleman and Evans (1973) and Evans, Appleman, and Handwerker (1963), which indexes powder patterns and refines unit-cell dimensions. The program, originally written to be processed in batch mode for an IBM computer, was modified to run in...
Ore controls at the Mahd adh Dhahab gold mine, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ronald G. Worl
1978, Open-File Report 78-778
Mahd adh Dhahab is the largest of numerous ancient gold mines scattered through the Precambrian shield of Saudi Arabia and the only one with recent production. Free gold and silver, tellurides, pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite are in and associated with quartz veins and quartz veinlet stockworks. Country rocks consist...
Algorithm and BASIC program for ordinary least-squares regression in two and three dimensions
G.R. Olhoeft
1978, Open-File Report 78-876
Mineral exploration, Mahd adh Dhahab District, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ronald G. Worl
1978, Open-File Report 78-1073
Mahd adh Dhahab is the largest of numerous ancient gold mines scattered through the Precambrian shield of Saudi Arabia and the only one with recent production. During the period 1939-54, 765,768 fine ounces of gold and 1,002,029 ounces of silver were produced from the mines by the Saudi Arabian Mining...
Electrical properties of salt cored from Carlsbad, New Mexico
G.R. Olhoeft
1978, Open-File Report 78-463
Geophysical and lithologic logs for 1977 coal drilling in McKenzie County, North Dakota
John M. Spencer
1978, Open-File Report 78-451
Stamukhi shoals of the Arctic - some observations from the Beaufort Sea
Erk Reimnitz, Douglas K. Maurer
1978, Open-File Report 78-666
A number of linear shoals, representing pronounced topographic anomalies on the surface of the Arctic shelf, have been studied in the Prudhoe Bay area. These shoals have been referred to in several previous studies. Based on seismic reflection records, Reimnitz et al., (1972a), stated that the shoals are constructional features...
Core description, photographs, and core and x-ray analyses of portions of the Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde Group, Washakie Basin, Wyoming
Theodore F. Tyler
1978, Open-File Report 78-708
Storm surges in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea
Erk Reimnitz, Douglas K. Maurer
1978, Open-File Report 78-593
Selected geologic literature on energy resources and phosphate deposits in the northeastern Circum-Pacific region
Gary A. Younse, J.M. Denman
1978, Open-File Report 79-297