Ion association in natural brines
A.H. Truesdell, B.F. Jones
1969, Chemical Geology (4) 51-62
Natural brines, both surface and subsurface, are highly associated aqueous solutions. Ion complexes in brines may be ion pairs in which the cation remains fully hydrated and the bond between the ions is essentially electrostatic, or coordination complexes in which one or more of the hydration water molecules are...
Geochemistry of pore waters from Shell Oil Company drill holes on the continental slope of the northern Gulf of Mexico
F.T. Manheim, J. L. Bischoff
1969, Chemical Geology (4) 63-82
Pore waters were analyzed from 6 holes drilled from M.V. “Eureka” as a part of the Shell Oil Co. deeper offshore study. The holes were drilled in water depths of 600–3,000 ft. (approximately 180–550 m) and penetrated up to 1,000 ft. (300 m) of Pliocene-Recent clayey sediments. Salt and...
U.S. Geological Survey standards-I. Additional data on rocks G-1 and W-1, 1965-1967
M. Fleischer
1969, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (33) 65-79
Analyses of samples G-1 and W-1 made between 1965-1967 have been collected and "best values" for many elements are suggested....
U.S. Geological Survey standards-II. First compilation of data for the new U.S.G.S. rocks
F.J. Flanagan
1969, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (33) 81-120
Rock analyses, determinations of major and minor constituents, and determinations of 57 trace elements reported by analysts throughout the world are presented for the new series of U.S. Geological Survey rock samples. Averages for both the constituents generally reported in a rock analysis...
Geochemistry and origin of formation waters in the western Canada sedimentary basin-I. Stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen
B. Hitchon, I. Friedman
1969, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (33) 1321-1349
Stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen, together with chemical analyses, were determined for 20 surface waters, 8 shallow potable formation waters, and 79 formation waters from oil fields and gas fields. The observed isotope ratios can be explained by mixing of surface water...
Some triple-filament lead isotope ratio measurements and an absolute growth curve for single-stage leads
J. S. Stacey, M.E. Delevaux, T.J. Ulrych
1969, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (6) 15-25
Triple-filament analyses of three standard lead samples are used to calibrate a mass spectrometer in an absolute sense. The bias we measure is 0.0155 percent per mass unit, and the precision (for 95% confidence limits) is ±0.13% or less for all ratios relative to204Pb. Although its precision is not quite...
Determination of rhenium in molybdenite by X-ray fluorescence. A combined chemical-spectrometric technique
M.W. Solt, J.S. Wahlberg, A.T. Myers
1969, Talanta (16) 37-43
Rhenium in molybdenite is separated from molybdenum by distillation of rhenium heptoxide from a perchloric-sulphuric acid mixture. It is concentrated by precipitation of the sulphide and then determined by X-ray fluorescence. From 3 to 1000 μg of rhenium can be measured with a precision generally within...
Computer-produced tables, maps, and diagrams as tools in the interpretation of brine data from southeastern Kansas (U.S.A.)
J.M. McNellis, C.O. Morgan, B.H. Lowell
1969, Chemical Geology (4) 303-324
The applicability of computer-oriented techniques to assist in the interpretation of brine data is demonstrated by the use of six programs on data from two example areas. These programs include a data tabling routine; routines for producing Stiff, Piper, and Ropes diagrams;...
Blueschist-facies metamorphism related to regional thrust faulting
M.C. Blake Jr., W. P. Irwin, R. G. Coleman
1969, Tectonophysics (8) 237-246
Rocks of the blueschist (glaucophane schist) facies occur throughout the world in narrow tectonic belts associated with ultramafic rocks. In the Coast Range province of California, blueschist rocks are devloped in the eugeosynclinal Franciscan Formation of Late Mesozoic age. The blueschist rocks form a narrow belt for more than 800...
Lead isotopes in volcanic rocks and possible ocean-floor thrusting beneath island arcs
M. Tatsumoto
1969, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (6) 369-376
The isotopic composition of lead in the Japanese primary basalts gradually decreases in radiogenic character in a transverse from the Pacific Ocean side to the Japan Sea side, whereas the observed 238U204Pb">238U204Pb and 232Th204Pb">232Th204Pb ratios...
Beach lamination: Nature and origin
H.E. Clifton
1969, Marine Geology (7) 553-559
A distinctive two-fold sedimentation unit characterizes lamination in the upper swash zone of beaches. Within the unit a fine and/or a heavy mineral rich layer at the base grades upward into a coarser and/or a heavy mineral poor layer at the top. This...
Geologic structure between the Murray fracture zone and the Transverse Ranges
Roland E. von Huene
1969, Marine Geology (7)
The Murray fracture has been thought to extend ashore into the Transverse Ranges of California, but a geophysical study shows no evidence of structural continuity between these features. Instead, basement morphology typical of the Murray fracture zone ends where its known magnetic and...
Interstitial brines in playa sediments
B.F. Jones, A. S. Van Denburgh, A.H. Truesdell, S.L. Rettig
1969, Chemical Geology (4) 253-262
Study of several closed drainages in the Great Basin has shown that the interstitial solutions of shallow, fine-grained playa deposits store a large quantity of dissolved solids and are often more concentrated than associated lakes and ponds, except in peripheral zones of stream or ground-water inflow. These interstitial fluids,...
New method for preparing ultrapure hydrofluoric acid
Mitsunobu Tatsumoto
1969, Analytical Chemistry (41) 2088-2089
No abstract available....
40Ar/36Ar analyses of historic lava flows
G. B. Dalrymple
1969, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (6) 47-55
The ratio40Ar/36Ar was measured for 26 subaerial historic lava flows. Approximately one-third of the samples had40Ar/36Ar ratios either higher or lower than the atmospheric value of 295.5 at the 95% confidence level. Excess radiogenic40Ar in five flows ranged from about 1 ×...
Uranium, thorium, and lead systematics in Granite Mountains, Wyoming
J.N. Rosholt, A.J. Bartel
1969, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (7) 141-147
Uranium, thorium and lead concentrations and isotopic compositions were determined on total rocks and a feldspar sample from widely separated parts of the Granite Mountains in central Wyoming. Linear relations defined by206Pb/204Pb −207Pb/204Pb and208Pb/204Pb −232Th/204Pb for the total rock samples define 2.8...
Phosphorus fractionation diagram as a quantitative indicator of crystallization differentiation of basaltic liquids
A. T. Anderson, L. P. Greenland
1969, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (33) 493-505
Distribution factors of phosphorus (P in mineral/P in liquid) between phenocryst minerals and coexisting basaltic groundmass are: olivine (Fa20: 0.04 to 0.02; orthopyroxene (Fs20): 0.01; augite: 0.02 to 0.01; plagioclase: 0.02; ilmenite: 0.04. Because of the smallness of these distribution factors the ratio of phosphorus in the initial liquid to...
Loss of uranium from crystallized silicic volcanic rocks
J.N. Rosholt, D. C. Noble
1969, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (6) 268-270
Dense primarily crystallized silicic groundmass material from two welded ash-flow units and one lava flow of Tertiary age from the Western United States contain only 20 to 60 percent of the uranium present in nonhydrated glass from the rock units. These differences reflect...
Fractionation of gold in a differentiated tholeiitic dolerite
J.J. Rowe
1969, Chemical Geology (4) 421-427
Gold content was determined, by neutron-activation analysis, in samples from a drill core through the Great Lake sheet, Tasmania, a differentiated tholeiitic dolerite. The gold content of parts of the core seems to be related to the mafic index. The variation of...
Saline water in southeastern New Mexico
W. L. Hiss, J.B. Peterson, T.R. Ramsey
1969, Chemical Geology (4) 341-360
Saline waters from formations of several geologic ages are being studied in a seven-county area in southeastern New Mexico and western Texas, where more than 30,000 oil and gas tests have been drilled in the past 40 years. This area of 7,500 sq. miles, which is stratigraphically complex, includes...
Geochemistry and hydrodynamics of the Paradox Basin region, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico
B.B. Hanshaw, G.A. Hill
1969, Chemical Geology (4) 263-294
The Paradox Basin region is approximately bounded by the south flank of the Uinta Basin to the north, the Uncompahgre uplift and San Juan Mountains to the east, the Four Corners structural platform to the southeast, the north rim of the Black Mesa Basin and the Grand Canyon to...
Equipment and techniques for low-altitude aerial sensing of water-vapor concentration and movement
R.L. Howell
1969, Remote Sensing of Environment (1) 13-18
Progress in the development of equipment and techniques for making rapid measurements of moisture movement through the atmosphere over a large area is described. Airborne sensing elements measure relative humidity, temperature, and air currents. These data are telemetered to a ground-based station...
Anorthosite belts, continental drift, and the anorthosite event
N. Herz
1969, Science (164) 944-947
Most anorthosites lie in two principal belts when plotted on a predrift continental reconstruction. Anorthosite ages in the belts cluster around 1300 ±...
Cliftonite: A proposed origin, and its bearing on the origin of diamonds in meteorites
R. Brett, G.T. Higgins
1969, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (33)
Cliftonite, a polycrystalline aggregate of graphite with spherulitic structure and cubic morphology, is known in 14 meteorites. Some workers have considered it to be a pseudomorph after diamond, and have used the proposed diamond ancestry as evidence of a meteoritic parent body of at least lunar dimensions. Careful examination of...
Pyrolysis of humic and fulvic acids
R.L. Wershaw, G.E. Bohner Jr.
1969, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (33) 757-762
Pyrolysis of humic and fulvic acids isolated from a North Carolina soil yields a variety of aromatic, heterocyclic and straight chain organ compounds. The pyrolysis products identified by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry indicate that humic and fulvic acids have aromatic and polysaccharide...
