Geology of the southeastern part of the Robinson Mountains, Yakataga district, Alaska
Don John Miller
1955, Open-File Report 55-114
This report gives the results of geologic investigations in the Yakataga district on the south coast of Alaska, including detailed geologic mapping in the southeastern part of the Robinson Mountains, and reconnaissance study of the stratigraphy and structure of adjoining areas. The geologic map that accompanies this report covers an...
Geochemical exploration for antimony in southeastern Alaska
C.L. Sainsbury
1955, Open-File Report 55-158
Preliminary geochemical prospecting by the Geological Survey was carried out in 1952 in muskeg-covered ground at Caamano Point, Cleveland Peninsula, Alaska, in an effort to delimit areas of stibnite concentrations. It was conducted to aid, if possible, a prospecting project of the Defense Minerals Exploration. Samples were collected from soil...
Engineering geology of the southern half of the Mount Hayes A-5 quadrangle, Alaska
Reuben Kachadoorian, Troy Lewis Pewe
1955, Open-File Report 55-78
Uranium in the Gas Hills area, Fremont and Natrona Counties, Wyoming
J. D. Love
1955, Open-File Report 55-98
Uranium minerals have been discovered in the Wind River formation of early Eocene age, strata of middle and late Eocene age, and the Thermopolis shale of early Cretaceous age in the Gas Hills area of central Wyoming. The localities of uranium mineralization were found independently by prospectors and by geologists...
Cowboy tungsten property, Pine Grove Hills, Lyon County, Nevada
Montis Ruhl Klepper
1955, Open-File Report 55-84
Geology of the Du Noir area, Fremont County, Wyoming
William Richard Keefer
1955, Open-File Report 55-81
The Du Noir area includes about 250 square miles in the northwestern part of the Wind River Basin, Fremont County, Wyoming. It is bounded on the south by the Wind River and Warm Spring Creek, which flow along the northeast flank of the Wind River Mountains, and on the north...
Photogeologic procedures in geologic interpretation and mapping
Richard G. Ray
1955, Open-File Report 55-144
In the past few years increasing use has been made of aerial photographs for geologic interpretation and mapping within the U.S. Geological Survey. As a specialized technique in interpretation and mapping, however, photogeologic procedures were extensively used (1947-1953) in the Survey's geologic mapping of Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 in...
Index Map and Maps of Six Mines in the Little Rocky Mountains, Montana
Gerald Francis Loughlin
1955, Open-File Report 55-97
Geologic maps of the Ord quicksilver mine area, Mazatzal Mountains, Arizona
James Franklin McAllister
1955, Open-File Report 55-101
Preliminary report on part of the Oat Hill quicksilver mine, Mayacmas district, Napa County, California
Philip Forsyth Fix
1955, Open-File Report 55-45
Oat Hill quicksilver mine, located in the Mayacmas district of northern California, and credited with having produced more than 160,000 flasks of quicksilver, was sampled cooperatively by the Buray of Mines and Geological Survey during 1944. 28 diamond drill holes totaling 8,120 feet were drilled by the Bureau of Mines...
Geology of waterpower sites on Scenery Creek, Cascade Creek, and Delta Creek near Petersburg, Alaska
John Charles Miller
1955, Open-File Report 55-115
Dam sites were examined at the outlets of Scenery Lake, Swan Lake, and Ruth Lake which are located on Scenery Creek, Cascade Creek, and Delta Creek, respectively. The Scenery Lake dam site is partly in quartz diorite and partly in hornblende plagioclase gneiss. The Swan Lake and Ruth Lake dam...
Ore deposits on northwestern Chichagof Island, Alaska
Darwin L. Rossman
1955, Open-File Report 55-154
The area mapped includes most of northwestern Chichagof Island. The work, started in 1946, is a continuation of the geologic mapping done in the adjoining Chichagof mining district by Reed and Coats. The gold-bearing zone recognized by these writers continues through the area mapped by the writer to the northern...
Geology of the Fourmile pegmatite area, Custer County, South Dakota
Jack Allison Redden
1955, Open-File Report 55-145
The Fournile pegmatite area covers 32 sq. mi. in the western part of the Custer pegmatite mining district, Custer County, South Dakota. This area has been one of the major sources of sheet mica in the United States, especially between 1906 and 1911, and it has been a significant source...
Occurrence of diatomaceous earth near Kenai, Alaska
George Plafker
1955, Open-File Report 55-139
Diatomaceous earth occurs in post-glacial lake deposits exposed along the shore of Cook Inlet north of the village of Kenai, Alaska. Diatomaceous earth is an unconsolidated earthy deposit formed by accumulation of the minute siliceous tests (skeletons) of diatoms, a type of algae. Diatomaceous earth is sometimes referred to...
Selected list of compilations of rock and mineral analyses
Marjorie Hooker
1955, Open-File Report 55-69
Selected list of periodicals and serials publishing rock and mineral analyses
Marjorie Hooker
1955, Open-File Report 55-70
Phosphate deposits in northern Alaska
William Wallace Patton Jr.
1955, Open-File Report 55-132
Deposits of low and medium grade phosphate rock were found recently at seven localities on the Arctic slope of Alaska. They were reported by field parties of the U.S. Geological Survey during the mapping of Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 and adjacent areas. The deposits are sedimentary in origin and...
Geology of two areas of pegmatite deposits in southeastern Alaska
C.L. Sainsbury
1955, Open-File Report 55-159
A pegmatite deposit about 600 feet in diameter crops on a high bluff less than one-half mile east of a small unnamed cove between Redfish and Byron Bays, on the west coast of Baranof Island, southeastern Alaska.The deposit which comprises several pegmatite bodies consists of quartz, albite-oligoclase, microcline and mica,...
A new species of Merychippus
J.P. Buwalda, G.E. Lewis
1955, Professional Paper 264-G
Middle Ordovician rocks of the Tellico-Sevier belt, eastern Tennessee
Robert B. Neuman
1955, Professional Paper 274-F
No abstract available....
Owl Creek (Upper Cretaceous) fossils from Crowleys Ridge, southeastern Missouri
L. W. Stephenson
1955, Professional Paper 274-E
Characteristic Jurassic mollusks from northern Alaska
R. W. Imlay
1955, Professional Paper 274-D
Foraminifera from the Arctic Slope of Alaska; Part 2, Jurassic foraminifera
Helen Tappan
1955, Professional Paper 236-B
Basal Eagle Ford fauna (Cenomanian) in Johnson and Tarrant Counties, Texas
L. W. Stephenson
1955, Professional Paper 274-C
Dakota group in northern Front Range foothills, Colorado
Karl M. Waage
1955, Professional Paper 274-B