Assessing Metallic Resources in Alaska
Donald A. Singer, A. Thomas Ovenshine
1979, American Scientist (67) 582-589
In the last two decades federal and state governments have become in creasingly preoccupied with classi fying public lands according to the uses that may be made of them. One outcome of the classifying can be a change in the land's legal status from one in which any use...
Revised geomagnetic polarity time scale for the interval 0–5 m.y. B.P.
Edward A. Mankinen, G. Brent Dalrymple
1979, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (84) 615-626
A change in the constants used in K‐Ar dating and a significant increase in new data have made a recompilation and recomputation of data used to define the Late Cenozoic K‐Ar polarity time scale highly desirable at this time. All available data in the range 0–5 m.y. have been recalculated...
Records of ground-water recharge and discharge for the Edwards aquifer in the San Antonio area, Texas, 1934-77
R.W. Maclay, R. A. Rappmund
1979, Edwards Underground Water District Bulletin 37
No abstract available....
Nesting ecology of Arctic loons
Margaret R. Petersen
1979, The Wilson Bulletin (91) 608-617
Arctic Loons were studied on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, from the time of their arrival in May to their departure in September, in 1974 and 1975. Pairs arrived on breeding ponds as soon as sufficient meltwater was available to allow their take-off and landing. Loons apparently do not initiate nests...
The Survey’s first venture into seismology
M. C. Rabbitt
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 50-52
The occurrence of two small but widely felt earthquakes in the Eastern United States in 1884 led an editor of the research journal Science to suggest, in the October 3 issue of the magazine, that an "earthquake club" be formed. Its purpose was so that observers and students of "this branch...
Physical stratigraphy and trilobite biostratigraphy of the Carrara Formation (Lower and Middle Cambrian) in the southern Great Basin
Allison R. Palmer, Robert B. Halley
1979, Professional Paper 1047
No abstract available....
Modification of a commercial micrometer hanging mercury drop electrode
J. E. Bonelli, H. E. Taylor, R. K Skogerboe
1979, Analytical Chemistry (51) 2412-2413
U.S. Geological Survey...
A selected bibliography of remote sensing applications to soil science
Thomas R. Loveland, Daniel B. Carter, William C. Draeger
1979, Report
The bibliography contains approximately 200 references dealing with the application of remote sensing technology to the identification and analysis of soils. The scientific papers and reports listed describe procedures and methods used in data collection and include specific applications of those data to soil studies. Most citations discuss current work...
A “natural and legitimate ambition . . . .”
S. J. Pyne
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 53-57
Grove Karl Gilbert (1843-1918) was Chief Geologist for the U.S Geological Survey from 1889 to 1892. Still working for the Survey, he was in Berkeley when the 1906 earthquake struck San Francisco. Immediately on waking, he began to study the motion of the light fixture hanging from the ceiling, trying...
Lignite drilling during 1978 in western North Dakota: Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burke, Golden Valley, Hettinger, McKenzie, McLean, and Slope Counties
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, North Dakota Geological Survey
1979, Open-File Report 79-1051
No abstract available....
Water resources data for Maryland and Delaware, water year 1977
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1978, Water Data Report MD-DE-77-1
No abstract available. ...
Numerical simulation of steady state three-dimensional groundwater flow near lakes
Thomas C. Winter
1978, Water Resources Research (14) 245-254
Numerical simulation of three-dimensional groundwater flow near lakes shows that the continuity of the boundary encompassing the local groundwater flow system associated with a lake is the key to understanding the interaction of a lake with the groundwater system. The continuity of the boundary can be determined by the presence...
Age of the last major scabland flood of the Columbia Plateau in eastern Washington
D. R. Mullineaux, R.E. Wilcox, W.F. Ebaugh, R. Fryxell, M. Rubin
1978, Quaternary Research (10) 171-180
Pumice layers of set S from Mount St. Helens can be correlated with certain ash beds associated with young flood deposits of the channeled scabland. The correlation points to an age of about 13,000 14C yr B.P. for the last major flood to have crossed the scabland. Until recently, the...
Developing a state water plan: Ground-water conditions in Utah, spring of 1978
Joseph S. Gates, W.N. Jibson, L. R. Herbert, R. W. Mower, A. C. Razem, R.M. Cordova, V.L. Jensen, M. D. ReMillard, D. C. Emett, C.T. Sumison, P.A. Carroll, M.J. DeGrand, G. W. Sandberg
1978, Cooperative Investigations Report 17
This report is the fifteenth in a series of annual reports that describe ground-water conditions in Utah. Reports in this series, prepared cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Utah Division of Water Resources, provide data to enable interested parties to keep abreast of changing ground-water conditions.This report, like...
New ages on intrusive rocks and altered zones in the Alaska Peninsula: A section in The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1977
Frederic H. Wilson, Robert L. Detterman, Miles L. Silberman
1978, Circular 772-B
Preliminary potassium-argon dating of intrusive rocks and altered zones in the Chignik and Sutwik Island quadrangles of the Alaska Peninsula seems to indicate at least three and possibly four Tertiary ages of alteration and mineralization....
Behavior of different segments of the San Andreas fault
1978, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (10) 126-130
No abstract available....
Earthquake history of Washington
1978, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (10) 28-33
No abstract available....
Ground-water resources and geology of Columbia County, Wisconsin
C.A. Harr, L. C. Trotta, Ronald G. Borman
1978, Wisconsin Geological & Natural History Survey Information Circular 37
The increasing need for water of good Quality in Columbia County, caused by a steadily increasing population, can be met from the sand-and-gravel and sandstone aquifers. As much as 15 gallons per minute can be obtained from wells almost everywhere. Yields of more than 1,000 gallons per minute are available...
Geologic framework of lower Cook Inlet, Alaska
Michael A. Fisher, Leslie B. Magoon
1978, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (62) 373-402
Three seismic reflectors are present throughout the lower Cook Inlet basin and can be correlated with onshore geologic features. The reflections come from unconformities at the base of the Tertiary sequence, at the base of Upper Cretaceous rocks, and near the base of Upper Jurassic strata.A contour map of the...
In situ analysis of coal using a 252CF-Ge(Li) borehole sonde
F. E. Senftle, A.B. Tanner, P. W. Philbin, G. R. Boynton, C.W. Schram
1978, Mining Engineering (30) 666-674
Geology and groundwater resources of northern Berks County, Pennsylvania
Charles R. Wood, David B. MacLachlan
1978, Water Resource Report 44
The area of investigation comprises approximately 540 square miles and lies entirely within the Great Valley section of the Valley and Ridge physiographic province. The Great Valley is underlain chiefly by carbon ate rocks in the south and by shale and graywacke in the north. Most of the carbonate rocks...
Guidebook to Rio Grande rift in New Mexico
1978, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Circular 163
Discusses the details of geologic features along the rift zone. Included are short papers on topics relative to the overall region. These papers and the road logs are of special interest to any one pursuing further study of the rift. This book is a comprehensive guide to the middle and...
Ground-water resources in the Libby area, northwestern Montana
A. J. Boettcher, K.R. Wilke
1978, Bulletin 106
Hydrologic reconnaissance of the Dugway Valley-Government Creek area, West-Central Utah
Jerry C. Stephens, C. T. Sumsion
1978, Technical Publication 59
The Dugway Valley-Government Creek area covers about 890 square miles (2,300 square kilometers) in west-central Utah. Total annual precipitation on the area averages about 380,000 acre-feet (470 cubic hectometers). Most streams are ephemeral except for a few in their upper reaches--all are ephemeral below the altitude of about 6,000 feet...
Hydrology of the Beaver Valley area, Beaver County, Utah, with emphasis on ground water
R. W. Mower
1978, Technical Publication 63
Beaver Valley includes 534 square miles in southwestern Utah, in the Basin and Range physiographic province. The project area consists of a valley plain underlain by unconsolidated to partly consolidated material. The valley plain is bounded by mountains that are composed of partly consolidated to consolidated rocks of Pennsylvanian through...
