Surface water supply of the United States, 1953, Part III-A, Ohio River basin, Ohio River basin except Cumberland and Tennessee River basins
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1955, Water Supply Paper 1275
Ground water in the Yelm area, Thurston and Pierce counties, Washington
Maurice John Mundorff, James M. Weigle, Glen D. Holmberg
1955, Circular 356
This report presents the results of an investigation of the ground-water resources of the Yelm area, Pierce and Thurston Counties, Wash. It was made at the request of the Division of Water Resources, Washington State Department of Conservation and Development, for the purpose of determining the availability of ground water...
Reconnaissance for uranium-bearing carbonaceous materials in southern Utah
H. D. Zeller
1955, Circular 349
A reconnaissance investigation for uranium-bearing carbonaceous materials was made in three major areas of southern Utah: Kaiparowits Plateau, Henry Mountains, and Kolob Terrace. No uranium deposits of economic interest were found. A few l- to 2-foot beds of carbonaceous shale in the Dakota(?) sandstone contain 0.006-0.007 percent uranium. Other carbonaceous...
Geology and ground-water supplies of the Fort Wingate Indian School area, McKinley County, New Mexico
Joseph Thomas Callahan, Robert L. Cushman
1955, Circular 360
Coal reserves of the Pittsburgh (No. 8) bed in Belmont County, Ohio
Henry L. Berryhill
1955, Circular 363
Remaining coal reserves totaling 1,929 million tons have been appraised in the Pittsburgh (No. 8) coal bed in Belmont County, Ohio. Of these, 508 million tons are classified as measured and 1,421 million tons are classified as indicated. All the coal has less than 1,000 feet of overburden, and most...
Floods in Missouri, magnitude and frequency
James K. Searcy
1955, Circular 370
Surface water supply of the United States, 1952, Part I-B, North Atlantic slope basins, New York to York River
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1955, Water Supply Paper 1232
Water levels and artesian pressures in observation wells in the United States in 1952, part 1. Northeastern states
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1955, Water Supply Paper 1221
No abstract available....
Wet Mountain thorium investigations, 1952-1954, Fremont and Custer Counties, Colorado
Robert Adam Christman, M. R. Brock, R. C. Pearson, Q. D. Singewald
1955, Open-File Report 55-27
Surface and underground geologic map and sections of the Red Devil mine, Sleetmute area, central Kuskokwim region, Alaska
Wallace Martin Cady, R. E. Wallace
1955, Open-File Report 55-23
Geology of the Edison area, Sussex County, New Jersey
Donald Roy Baker
1955, Open-File Report 55-3
The petrology of Umnak and Bogoslof Islands, Alaska
F.M. Byers Jr.
1955, Open-File Report 55-22
Notes on a coal deposit on the Beluga River, Alaska
Farrell F. Barnes
1955, Open-File Report 55-5
This report is based on a brief examination of a locality on the Beluga River, about 50 miles west of Anchorage, Alaska (fig. 1), that had been reported to contain a coal bed of exceptional thickness and quality, possibly suitable for large-scale strip mining. I visited the locality on August...
Subsurface exploration for stripping coal on Lower Deep Creek, Homer district, Kenai coal field, Alaska
Farrell F. Barnes, Daniel Sokol
1955, Open-File Report 55-6
The area described in this report is on the west side of the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska, near the mouth of Deep Creek, a stream of moderate size that enters Cook Inlet about 2 miles south of the village of Ninilchik (pl. 1). It is 37 miles by highway...
Maps showing radiometry and geochemical sampling done at Wilson's Prospect, Garland County, Arkansas
Ernest Pete Beroni
1955, Open-File Report 55-14
The Garm-Lamoreaux mine, Lemhi County, Idaho
Frank Clarkson Armstrong, Paul L. Weis
1955, Open-File Report 55-2
The Garm-Lamoreaux property, Lemhi County, Idaho is known to have uranite and zippsite on two of its dumps. The property has been explored by five adits, two of which are now caved, and one of which is partly caved. The country rock is schistose micaceous quartzite and argillaceous quartzite of...
Decriptions of 14 measured sections in southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky
Ralph H. Wilpolt, Douglas W. Marden
1955, Open-File Report 55-200
No abstract available. ...
Informe preliminar sobre la geologia del valle superior de La Paz, Bolivia
Ernest Dobrovolny
1955, Open-File Report 55-42
Geology and ore deposits in the Reid Inlet area, Glacier Bay, Alaska, with added notes on a mineralized zone near Lituya Bay
Darwin L. Rossman
1955, Open-File Report 55-153
A gold-bearing area of about 7 1/2 square miles, first discovered by Mr. Joseph Ibach in 1924, exists near the head of Glacier Bay between Reid and Lamplugh glaciers.The dominant rock type in the area is granodiorite which is intruded into bedded rocks that may be of Paleozoic age. The...
Ground-water reconnaissance in five Eskimo villages in the lower Kuskokwim-Yukon River area, Alaska
Roger Milton Waller
1955, Open-File Report 55-186
In response to a request from the Sanitation and Engineering Section of the Alaska Department of Health, a reconnaissance of the possibility of obtaining ground-water supplies for the five villages in the lower Kuskokwim-Yukon River area was made by the Geological Survey early in June 1955. The five Eskimo villages--Kwethluk,...
Physical stratigraphy of the Phosphoria formation in northwestern Wyoming
Richard Porter Sheldon
1955, Open-File Report 55-163
Electrical resistivity measurements in the Neillsville area, Wisconsin
H. Cecil Spicer, George J. Edwards
1955, Open-File Report 55-173
Sixty-eight electrical depth profiles were completed in the vicinity of Neillsville, Wis. to obtain information on the water-bearing beds in the glacial moraine and consolidated sedimentary rocks in the area. No productive aquifers were found but the best areas for test drilling are described. The basic theory and interpretation procedures,...
Preliminary geologic evaluation of the Chena area, Alaska
John R. Williams
1955, Open-File Report 55-198
It seems fitting at this session of the Alaska Science Conference, the first to be held in the Fairbanks area, to give a preliminary summary of the practical results of a geologic investigation of the Chena area east of Fairbanks. The work was done by the Geological Survey in 1950....
Status of topographic and geologic mapping in the New England-New York region
Louis W. Currier
1955, Open-File Report 55-34
No abstract available. ...
Status of ownership of part of the lands on which phosphate-bearing beds outcrop in westernmost Wyoming
Emerson C. Willey, T. M. Cheney, H.W. Peirce, L.T. Grose
1955, Open-File Report 55-196
This report and accompanying maps summarize the status of ownership of many phosphate bearing lands in westernmost Wyoming. Ownership categories discussed are (1) phosphate rights owned by Federal Government, (2) phosphate rights not owned by Federal Government, and (3) ownership status uncertain....