Airborne radioactivity survey of the Devils Tower area, Crook county, Wyoming
J. R. Henderson, R.M. Moxham
1953, Trace Elements Memorandum 605
The accompanying map shows the results of an airborne radioactivity survey covering 45 square miles northwest of Devils Tower, Crook County, Wyoming. The survey was made by the U.S. Geological Survey on September 4, 1952, as part of a cooperative program with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The survey...
Geology of the Hamm Canyon quadrangle, Colorado
Fred W. Cater Jr.
1953, Trace Elements Memorandum 698
The Hamm Canyon quadrangle is on eof eighteen 7 1/2-minute quadrangles covering the principal carnotite-producing area of southwestern Colorado. The geology of these quadrangles was mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Atomic Energy Commission as part of a comprehensive study of carnotite deposits. The rocks exposed...
Carnotite resources of the Spud Patch area, San Miguel County, Colorado
Henry Bell III
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 286
The Spud Patch area comprises about 8 square in T. 43 M., R. 18 and 19 W., San Miguel County, Colo., and is about 4 miles northeast of Egnar, Colo. Claims of the United States Vanadium Co. and the Vanadium Corp. of America cover about half the area. Claims of...
Geology of the Gypsum Gap quadrangle, Colorado
Fred W. Cater Jr.
1953, Trace Elements Memorandum 697
The Gypsum Gap quadrangle is one eighteen 7 1/2-minute quadrangles covering the principal carnotite-producing area of southwestern Colorado. The geology of these quadrangles was mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Atomic Energy Commission as part of a comparative study of carnotite deposits. The rocks exposed in...
Geology of the Gateway quadrangle, Mesa county Colorado
Fred W. Cater Jr.
1953, Trace Elements Memorandum 696
The Gateway quadrangle is one of eighteen 7 1/2-minute quadrangles covering the principal carnotite-producing area of southwestern Colorado. The geology of these quadrangles was mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Atomic Energy Commission as part of a comprehensive study of carnotite deposits. The rocks exposed in the eighteen...
Progress report on original-state core studies
George Edward Manger, George Laurence Gates
1953, Trace Elements Memorandum 509
No abstract available....
Stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria Formation in Idaho, 1949: part I
R.P. Sheldon, M.A. Warner, M.E. Thompson, H.W. Peirce
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 364
The U.S. Geological Survey has recently measured and sampled the Phosphoria formation at many localities in Idaho and other western states. These data will not be fully synthesized for many years, but segments of the data, accompanied by little or no interpretation, are published as preliminary reports as they...
Reconnaissance for uranium-bearing carbonaceous rocks in New Mexico, 1952
G.O. Bachman, E.H. Baltz, R.B. O’Sullivan
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 198
Reconnaissance for uranium in coal and black shale in New Mexico during 1952 was largely an extension of work initiated during the 1951 field season. No uranium deposits of economic interest were found, although minor amounts of uranium were noted at several localities....
Reconnaissance during 1952 for uranium-bearing carbonaceous rocks in parts of Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming
James D. Vine, Robert F. Flege Jr.
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 336
A reconnaissance for uranium-bearing carbonaceous rocks was made during the 1952 field season in 23 areas in Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Uranium in small amounts occurs in several of the areas examined, but no deposits were found that might have commercial possibilities. As much as 0.03 percent uranium is...
Stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria Formation in Montana, 1949-50: part I
E. R. Cressman, W.H. Wilson, C.W. Tandy, W.J. Garmoe
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 361
The U.S. Geological Survey has recently measured and sampled the Phosphoria formation at many localities in Montana and other western states. These data will not be fully synthesized for many years, but segments of the data, accompanied by little or no interpretation, are published as preliminary reports as they...
Stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria Formation in Idaho, 1949: part II
D.F. Davidson, R.A. Smart, H.W. Peirce, J.D. Weiser
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 365
The U.S. Geological Survey has recently measured and sampled the Phosphoria formation at many localities in Idaho and other western states. These data will not be fully synthesized and analyzed for several years, but segments of the data, accompanied by little or no interpretation, are published as preliminary reports as...
Reconnaissance for radioactive deposits in the Fairbanks and Livengood Quadrangles, east-central Alaska, 1949
H. Wedow Jr., J.M. Stevens, G.E. Tolbert
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 197
Several mines and prospects in the Fairbanks and Livengood quadrangles, east-central Alaska, were examined for the possible presence of radioactive materials in the summer of 1949. Also tested were pre-Cambrian and Paleozoic metamorphic and sedimentary rocks crossed by the Elliott Highway, which extends from Fox, near Fairbanks, northward about 70...
Numerical list of U.S. Geological Survey Trace Elements Reports to April 30, 1953
Virginia K. Blatcher, Jane H. Wallace
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 325
This report contains 1) a list in numerical order of U.S. Geological Survey Trace Elements Investigations and Memorandum Reports, and 2) an author index for these reports. It supercedes TEI-30, issued in November 1952. This report contains lists not only of reports that have been transmitted to the U.S Atomic Energy...
Geology of the Davis Mesa quadrangle, Colorado
Fred W. Cater Jr., Leonid Bryner
1953, Trace Elements Memorandum 694
The Davis Mesa quadrangle is one of eighteen 7 1/2-minute quadrangles covering the principal carnotite-producing area of southwestern Colorado. The geology of these quadrangles was mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Atomic Energy Commission as part of a comprehensive study of carnotite deposits. The rocks exposed in...
Stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria formation in Montana, 1951
James A. Peterson
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 375
The U.S. Geological Survey has recently measured and sampled the Phosphoria formation at many localities in Montana and other western states. These data will not be fully synthesized and analyzed for several years, but segments of the data, accompanied by little or no interpretation, are published as preliminary reports as...
A quantitative radiochemical method for the determination of the major sources of natural radioactivity in ores and minerals
John Nicholas Rosholt Jr.
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 318
The determination of Th232, Rn222, and Pb210 by isolation and subsequent activity analysis of some of their short-lived daughter products is described. The sulfides of bismuth and polonium are precipitated out of solutions of thorium or uranium ores, and the alpha particle activity of PO214. PO212 and PO210 is determined...
Geology of the Calamity Mesa quadrangle, Mesa county, Colorado
Fred W. Cater Jr., Harold K. Stager
1953, Trace Elements Memorandum 693
The Calamity Mesa quadrangle is one of eighteen 7 1/2-minute quadrangles covering the principal carnotite-producing area of southwestern Colorado. The geology of these quadrangles was mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Atomic Energy Commission as part of a comprehensive study of carnotite deposits. The rocks exposed...
Rosamond Prospect, Kern county, California
George W. Walker
1953, Trace Elements Memorandum 514
Small quantities of autunite and gummite (?) occur in tuffaceous sedimentary rocks of the Rosamond formation of Miocene age at the Rosamond prospect. The property is about 10 miles south of Mojave, Jern County, California, in the western Mojave Desert. Examination of the propert in January 1952, by George W....
Uranium deposits at Shinarump Mesa and some adjacent areas in the Temple Mountain district, Emery County, Utah
Donald G. Wyant
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 51
Deposits of uraniferous hydrocarbons are associated with carnotite in the Shinarump conglomerate of Triassic age at Shinarump Mesa and adjacent areas of the Temple Mountain district in the San Rafael Swell of Emery County, Utah. The irregular ore bodies of carnotite-bearing sandstone are genetically related to lenticular uraniferous ore bodies...
Reconnaissance for radioactive materials in northeastern United States during 1952
Francis A. McKeown, Harry Klemic
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 317
Reconnaissance for radioactive materials was made in parts of Maine, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The primary objective was to examine the iron ore deposits and associated rocks in the Adirondack Mountains of New York and the Highlands of New Jersey. In addition, several deposits known or reported to...
Airborne radioactivity survey of parts of the Atlantic Ocean beach, North and South Carolina
J. L. Meuschke, R.M. Moxham, T.E. Bortner
1953, Trace Elements Memorandum 673
The accompanying map shows the results of an airborne radioactivity survey along the Atlantic Ocean beach between Edisto Island, South Carolina and Cape Fear, North Carolina. The survey was made May 20, 1953, as part of a cooperative program with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The survey was...
Geology of Bull Canyon quadrangle, Montrose and San Miguel counties, Colorado
Fred W. Cater Jr.
1953, Trace Elements Memorandum 692
The Bull Canyon quadrangle is one of eighteen 7 1/2-minute quadrangles covering the principal carnotite-producing area of southwestern Colorado. The geology of these quadrangles was mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Atomic Energy Commission as part of a comprehensive study of carnotite depots. The rocks exposed...
Preliminary geologic map of the Comb Ridge area, San Juan county, Utah
J. D. Sears, R.D. Sample
1953, Trace Elements Memorandum 671
No abstract available....
Progress report on the stratigraphy of the Triassic and associated formations in part of the Colorado Plateau region
G.A. Williams, R. A. Cadigan, H. F. Albee, John H. Stewart
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 313
Stratigraphic studies involving regional stratigraphy, sedimentary structures, pebbles, and sedimentary petrology are designed to furnish information regarding areal distribution, stratigraphic relationship, source areas, and depositional environment of the Triassic Shinarump conglomerate....
Geology of the Atkinson Creek quadrangle, Montrose county, Colorado
E. J. McKay
1953, Trace Elements Memorandum 691
The Atkinson Creek quadrangle is one of eighteen 7 1/2-minute quadrangles covering the principal carnotite-producing area of southwestern Colorado. The geology of the quadrangles was mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Atomic Energy Commission as part of a comprehensive study of carnotite deposits. The rocks exposed in...
