Water availability and flood hazards in the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon
Frank J. Frank, E. A. Oster
1979, Open-File Report 79-1487
The rock formations of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument area are aquifers that can be expected to yield less than 10 gallons of water per minute to wells. The most permeable of the geologic units is the alluvium that occurs at low elevations along the John Day River...
Chemical analyses of coal and coal-associated rock samples from the Coalmont Formation, McCallum and Coalmont areas, North Park, Jackson County, Colorado
Joseph R. Hatch, Dawn Madden, Ronald H. Affolter
1979, Open-File Report 79-1099
As part of a continuing program by the U.S. Geological Survey to collect and chemically analyze representative samples of U.S. coals, 44 coal and coal-associated rock samples were collected from the Paleocene and Eocene, Coalmont Formation in the McCallum and Coalmont areas, North Park, Jackson County, Colorado. Twenty-eight samples (24...
Ultramafic inclusions and host alkali olivine basalts of the southern coastal plain of the Red Sea, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Edward D. Ghent, Robert Griffin Coleman, Donald G. Hadley
1979, Open-File Report 79-1509
A variety of mafic and ultramafic inclusions occur within the pyroclastic components of the Al Birk basalt, erupted on the southern Red Sea coastal plain of Saudi Arabia from Pleistocene time to the present. Depleted harzburgites are the only inclusions contained within the basalts that were erupted through Miocene oceanic...
Chemical analyses of deep core coal and shale samples from the Almond Formation, Washakie Basin, Sweetwater County, Wyoming
Joseph R. Hatch, C.S. Venable Barclay
1979, Open-File Report 79-1249
During gas and oil exploration efforts in the Washakie Basin in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, undertaken by Ladd Petroleum Co. (a subsidiary of Utah International Inc.) core from the Upper Cretaceous Almond Formation of the Mesaverde Group was collected from their 1-22 Federal well. (See figure 1 for location.) From this...
Chemical analyses of coal from the Emery and Ferron Sandstone members of the Mancos Shale, Henry Mountains Field, Wayne and Garfield counties, Utah
Joseph R. Hatch, Ronald H. Affolter, Ben E. Law
1979, Open-File Report 79-1097
As part of a continuing program by the U.S. Geological Survey to collect and chemically analyze representative samples of U.S. coals, 18 samples were collected from the Upper Cretaceous Emery and Ferron Sandstone Members of the Mancos Shale in the Henry Mountains coal field, Wayne and Garfield Counties, Utah (fig....
Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Gulkana Quadrangle, Alaska
Edward Huntington Cobb
1979, Open-File Report 79-1247
These summaries of references are designed to aid in library research on metallic and nonmetallic (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) mineral occurrences in the Gulkana quadrangle, Alaska. All references to most reports of the Geological Survey, the U.S. Bureau of Mines, and the State of Alaska Division of...
Preliminary results of the Sabkhah Hazawza gravity project, Wadi as Sirhan area, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Mark E. Gettings
1979, Open-File Report 79-1660
One hundred thirty seven new gravity stations at an average station density of one station per 17.5 km2 have been established in a 40 x 60 km area centered on Sabkhah Hazawza in the northwestern part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A successful tie to existing Arabian American Oil...
Gazetteer of coastal and offshore features of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Arc
Marybeth Gerin
1979, Open-File Report 79-1219
This gazetteer presents the names of seafloor and coastal features of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Arc. It is the second of three gazetteers that cover the offshore and coastal features of Alaska. Alaska was divided into three major regions - the Gulf of Alaska (Gerin and Molnia, 1978), the...
Potential geologic hazards and constraints for blocks in proposed North Atlantic OCS oil and gas lease sale 42
Robert W. Hall
1979, Open-File Report 79-1285
Analysis of side-scan sonar, 3.5 kHz subbottom profiler, sparker, and fathometer data (approximately 9,900 km) from 206 blocks originally selected for proposed Outer Continental Shelf Lease Sale 42 disclosed potential hazards to oil and gas exploration and development operations. These potential hazards are a shallow gas deposit in one proposed...
Gazetteer of coastal and offshore features of the Chukchi and Beaufort seas
Marybeth Gerin, Tau Rho Alpha
1979, Open-File Report 79-1563
This gazetteer presents the names of seafloor and coastal features of the Alaskan Arctic Coast. It includes the named features of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas south of 74°N latitude and the Alaskan coast from the Bering Strait to Demarcation Point. The gazetteer of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas is...
Seismicity of the Tihamat-Asir region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Habib M. Merghelani
1979, Open-File Report 79-1191
Knowledge of the seismicity of the west coast of Saudi Arabia is vitally important to the Kingdom. The eastern margin of the Red Sea, which includes all of the west coast of Saudi Arabia, is possibly cut by transform faults that may be capable of producing earthquakes large enough to...
Hydrologic data for wells, springs, and streams in Boulder County, Colorado
Dennis C. Hall, Elaine L. Boyd, Doug Cain
1979, Open-File Report 79-979
Hydrologic data collected in 1975-77 as part of a comprehensive water-resources investigation of Boulder County, Colo., by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Boulder County Health Department and the Colorado Geological Survey are presented in this report. The data, in tabular and graphic form, consist of water-quality analyses...
Coal exploratory drilling; a cost percentage comparison of three methods
Robert G. Hobbs
1979, Open-File Report 79-1100
Texas Instruments Model 59 hand-calculator program to calculate theoretical MT planewave soundings over a structure of up to 10 horizontal layers
David L. Campbell
1979, Open-File Report 79-1613
No abstract available. ...
Guidelines for logging, describing, and sampling cores and cuttings of coal and associated rocks at the drill site
Robert G. Hobbs
1979, Open-File Report 79-1522
Geologic conditions in the Baltimore Canyon Trough area: A summary of USGS first year environmental studies
David W. Folger
1979, Open-File Report 79-1552
This report is a summary of the principal objectives, results, and conclusions of the environmental studies conducted by the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) in the Baltimore Canyon Trough area from July 1, 1975 to June 30, 1976. Environmental studies in the Baltimore Canyon Trough area were funded by the...
Depositional environments of the uranium-bearing Cutler Formations, Lisbon Valley, Utah
John A. Campbell, Brenda A. Steele-Mallory
1979, Open-File Report 79-994
The Cutler Formation in Lisbon Valley, San Juan County, Utah, is composed predominantly of fluvial arkosic sandstones, siltstones, shales, and mudstones that were deposited by meandering streams that flowed across a flood plain and tidal flat close to sea level. Two types of channel deposits are recognized from their sedimentary...
Summary of references to mineral occurrences (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) in the Kenai and Tyonek quadrangles, Alaska
Edward Huntington Cobb
1979, Open-File Report 80-86
This summary of references is designed to aid in library research on metallic and nonmetallic (other than mineral fuels and construction materials) mineral deposits in the Kenai and Tyonek quadrangles, Alaska. References to most reports of the Geological Survey, U.S. Bureau of Mines, and State of Alaska Division of Geological...
Water quality in the Merced River above and below the El Portal sewage treatment plant near Yosemite National Park, California, 1975-77
Ray J. Hoffman
1979, Open-File Report 79-679
A study was made to evaluate the effects that treated sewage has on some characteristics of water quality in a reach of the Merced River near Yosemite National Park. Streamflow and water-quality data were collected from July through October 1975 and from July through November 1977 at five stations on...
Geologic map of Sweeney Pass Quadrangle, San Diego County, California
Wendy C. Hoggatt
1979, Open-File Report 79-754
K-Ar age of alunite alteration at Red Mountain, Lake City area, western San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Harald H. Mehnert, John F. Slack, Gerald T. Cebula
1979, Open-File Report 79-1642
The San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado are famous for rich vein deposits of base and precious metals and for patterns of conspicuous hydrothermal alteration. Areas of acid-sulfate alteration, characterized by extensive base leaching of volcanic rocks or hypabyssal plutons, are of current interest because of their local association with...
The quality of surface water on Sanibel Island, Florida, 1976-77
Benjamin F. McPherson, T.H. O’Donnell
1979, Open-File Report 79-1478
The quality of surface water in parts of the interior of Sanibel Island has been periodically degraded by high concentrations of salt or macronutrients and by low concentrations of dissolved oxygen. In 1976 the chloride concentration of surface water ranged from about 500 milligrams per liter to almost that of...
Ground-water availability in carbonate rocks of the Dandridge area, Jefferson County, Tennessee
E. F. Hollyday, P.L. Goddard
1979, Open-File Report 79-1263
Groundwater in Jefferson County, Tenn., occurs in solution openings that follow bedding planes and strike joints in the dense limestone and dolomite. Recharge beginning at topographic highs in the northwest moves across strike to lows in the southeast; it is intercepted and collected by high permeability beds in the middle...
A slingram survey on the Nevada Test Site: part of an integrated geologic geophysical study of site evaluation for nuclear waste disposal
Vincent J. Flanigan
1979, Open-File Report 79-277
A slingram geophysical survey was made in early 1978 as part of the integrated geologlcal-geophysical study aimed at evaluating the Eleana Formation as a possible repository for nuclear waste. The slingram data were taken over an alluvial fan and pediments along the eastern flank of Syncline Ridge about 45 km...
Texas Instruments Model 59 hand-calculator program to calculate magnetic anomaly over 2-D prisms of up to 12 vertices
Donald N. Haines, David L. Campbell
1979, Open-File Report 79-1620
No abstract available. ...
