Reports and maps of the Geological Survey released only in the open files, 1968
Betsy A. Weld, Margaret S. Griffin, George W. Brett
1969, Circular 568
Optical method for determining particle sizes of coarse sediment
John R. Ritter, Edward J. Helley
1969, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations 05-C3
A particle-size analyzer was used to determine particle sizes of sediment by an optical technique based on an adjustable circle of light which determines the intermediate axis of the sediment particles shown on a photograph. Data from counting particles in various size ranges can be presented either in the form...
Quality of surface waters of the United States, 1964, Parts 7 and 8, lower Mississippi River basin and western Gulf of Mexico basins
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1969, Water Supply Paper 1957
Quality of surface waters of the United States, 1964, Parts 5 and 6, Hudson Bay and upper Mississippi River basins and Missouri River basin
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1969, Water Supply Paper 1956
Laboratory theory and methods for sediment analysis
Harold P. Guy
1969, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations 05-C1
The diverse character of fluvial sediments makes the choice of laboratory analysis somewhat arbitrary and the pressing of sediment samples difficult. This report presents some theories and methods used by the Water Resources Division for analysis of fluvial sediments to determine the concentration of suspended-sediment samples and the particle-size distribution...
Surface water supply of the United States 1961-65: Part 7. Lower Mississippi River basin: Volume 2, Arkansas River basin
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1969, Water Supply Paper 1921
No abstract available....
Surface water supply of the United States 1961-65: Part 6, Missouri River basin: Volume 2. Missouri River basin from Williston, North Dakota to Sioux City, Iowa
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1969, Water Supply Paper 1917
No abstract available....
Water for the cities - The outlook
William Joseph Schneider, Andrew Maute Spieker
1969, Circular 601-A
Except perhaps for the arid Southwest, water resources are generally sufficient to meet the needs of cities for the foreseeable future. Cities will continue to expand and additional rural areas will be converted to urban and suburban complexes. Demands for urban water will continue to rise and this will place...
Disposal of liquid wastes by injection underground--Neither myth nor millennium
Arthur M. Piper
1969, Circular 631
Injecting liquid wastes deep underground is an attractive but not necessarily practical means for disposing of them. For decades, impressive volumes of unwanted oil-field brine have been injected, currently about 10,000 acre-feet yearly. Recently, liquid industrial wastes are being injected in ever-increasing quantity. Dimensions of industrial injection wells range widely...
Platinum, palladium, and rhodium analyses of ultramafic and mafic rocks from the Stillwater Complex, Montana
Norman J. Page, Leonard Benjamin Riley, Joseph Haffty
1969, Circular 624
Analyses by a combination fire- assay-solution-optical-emission spectrographic method of 137 rocks from the Stillwater Complex, Mont., indicate that platinum, palladium, and rhodium are preferentially concentrated in chromitite zones. The A chromitite zone (21 samples) has an average of 988.9 ppb (pans per billion, 10-9) Pt, 2290.2 ppb Pd, and 245.9...
Metalliferous deposits near Granite Mountain, eastern Seward Peninsula, Alaska
Thomas P. Miller, Raymond L. Elliott
1969, Circular 614
New deposits of lead, zinc, and silver were found in a large altered zone 18 miles long and 2 to 5 miles wide near Quartz Creek west of Granite Mountain in the eastern Seward Peninsula, Alaska. New deposits of molybdenum, bismuth, and silver were found associated with a previously reported...
Establishment of gold-quartz standard GQS-1
Hugh T. Millard, John Marinenko, John E. McLane
1969, Circular 598
A homogeneous gold-quartz standard, GQS-1, was prepared from a heterogeneous gold-bearing quartz by chemical treatment. The concentration of gold in GQS-1 was determined by both instrumental neutron activation analysis and radioisotope dilution analysis to be 2.61?0.10 parts per million. Analysis of 10 samples of the standard by both instrumental neutron...
Scientific or rule-of-thumb techniques of ground-water management--Which will prevail?
Charles Lee McGuinness
1969, Circular 608
Emphasis in ground-water development, once directed largely to quantitatively minor (but sociologically vital) service of human and stock needs, is shifting: aquifers are treated as possible regulating reservoirs managed conjunctively with surface water. Too, emphasis on reducing stream pollution is stimulating interest in aquifers as possible waste-storage media. Such management...
Measurement of discharge by the moving-boat method
George F. Smoot, Charles E. Novak
1969, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations 03-A11
This chapter describes the procedures for measuring discharge in large streams by the moving-boat technique. During the traverse of a boat across a stream, a sonic sounder records the geometry of the cross section, and a continuously operating current meter senses the combined stream and boat velocities. These data are...
Gold-bearing jasperoid in the Drum Mountains, Juab and Millard Counties, Utah
Joseph Howard McCarthy, R. E. Learned, J.M. Botbol, T.G. Lovering, J.R. Watterson, R. L. Turner
1969, Circular 623
Mercury in soil gas and air--A potential tool in mineral exploration
Joseph Howard McCarthy, W.W. Vaughn, R. E. Learned, J. L. Meuschke
1969, Circular 609
The mercury content in soil gas and in the atmosphere was measured in several mining districts to test the possibility that the mercury content in the atmosphere is higher over ore deposits than over barren ground. At Cortez, Nev., the distribution of anorhalous amounts of mercury in the air collected...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1961-65: Part 1. North Atlantic slope basins: Volume 1. Basins from Maine to Connecticut
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1969, Water Supply Paper 1901
No abstract available....
Revision of some of Girty's invertebrate fossils from the Fayetteville Shale (Mississippian) of Arkansas and Oklahoma
Mackenzie Gordon Jr., William J. Sando, John Pojeta Jr., Ellis L. Yochelson, I. G. Sohn
1969, Professional Paper 606
J.n 1910, G. H. Girty published a paper on the fauna of the Fayetteville Shale of northern Arkansas and northeastern Oklahoma in which he described 110 new taxa of fossil invertebrates. He did not, however, designate any type specimens or divulge the localities at which •the fossils were collected, nor...
Seismic activity during the 1968 test pumping at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal disposal well
Donald B. Hoover, J.A. Dietrich
1969, Circular 613
During the 1968 pumping tests at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal disposal welt, the U.S. Geological Survey was responsible for monitoring earthquakes occurring in the area of the arsenal and making chemical analysis of the fluids removed, three criteria were established to suspend the pumping if anomalous earthquake activity occurred during...
Quantitative comparison of some aesthetic factors among rivers
Luna Bergere Leopold
1969, Circular 620
It is difficult to evaluate the factors contributing to aesthetic or nonmonetary aspects of a landscape. In contrast, aspects which lend themselves to cost-benefit comparisons are now treated in a routine way. As a result, nonmonetary values are described either in emotion-loaded words or else are mentioned and thence forgotten.The...
Micromineralogy of galena ores, Burgin mine, East Tintic district, Utah
A. S. Radtke, C.M. Taylor, H. T. Morris
1969, Professional Paper 614-A
Distribution of thorium, uranium, and potassium in igneous rocks of the Boulder batholith region, Montana, and its bearing on radiogenic heat production and heat flow
R.I. Tilling, David Gottfried
1969, Professional Paper 614-E
Physiographic, stratigraphic, and structural development of the Quadrilatero Ferrifero, Minas Gerais, Brazil
J. V. N. Dorr
1969, Professional Paper 641-A
The Quadrilatero Ferrifero is an area of some 7,000 square kilometers in central Minas Gerais, Brazil centered about lat. 20°15' S, long. 43°30' W. For 250 years the region has poured forth a variety of mineral riches, now totaling more than $2 billion, and future production will undoubtedly be even...
Carboniferous megafaunal and microfaunal zonation in the northern Cordillera of the United States
W.J. Sando, B. L. Mamet, J.T. Dutro Jr.
1969, Professional Paper 613-E
Sample size and meaningful gold analysis
H.E. Clifton, R. E. Hunter, F. J. Swanson, R. L. Phillips
1969, Professional Paper 625-C