Botanical prospecting for uranium in the Circle Cliffs area, Garfield County, Utah
F. J. Kleinhampl, Carl Koteff
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 604
<Plant-analysis prospecting may be used to locate uranium deposits in the Circle Cliffs area where the deposits lie as much as 70 feet beneath the surface of benches developed on the Shinarump member of the Chinle formation. The Shinarump comprising the benches is thicker than 70 feet at many...
Some observations on rutherfordine
Joan R. Clark, C. L. Christ
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 584
The optical properties of rutherfordine, UO2CO3, previously determined on microscopic crystals, have been redetermined on considerably larger crystals; and the relations among the indices of refraction, the morphology, and the crystal structure have been examined. Rutherfordine is orthorhombic, biaxial positive, with α = 1.715, β = 1.730, γ =...
Bibliography and index of literature on uranium and thorium and radioactive occurrences in the United States, parts 5, 6, and 7: northeastern section
Margaret Cooper
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 580
No abstract available....
Behavior of Colorado Plateau uranium minerals during oxidation
Robert Minard Garrels, C. L. Christ
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 588
Uranium occurs as U(VI) and U(IV) in minerals of the Colorado Plateau ores. The number of species containing U(VI) is large, but only two U(IV) minerals are known from the Plateau: uraninite, and oxide, and coffinite, a hydroxy-silicate. These oxidize to yield U(VI) before reacting significantly with other...
A fluorimetric study of the thorium-morin system
Robert G. Milkey, Mary H. Fletcher
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 589
Thorium reacts with morin to yield a yellow complex that fluoresces when irradiated with ultraviolet light. The effect on the fluorescence of such variable as concentration of acid, alcohol, thorium, morin, and complex; time, temperature, and wavelength of exciting light are studied to determine experimental conditions yielding maximum fluorescence....
The determination of calcium in phosphate, carbonate, and silicate rocks by flame photometer
Henry Kramer
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 623
A method has been developed for the determination of calcium in phosphate, carbonate, and silicate rocks using the Beckman flame photometer, with photomultiplier attachement. The sample is dissolved in hydrofluoric, nitric, and perchloric acids, the hydrofluoric and nitric acids are expelled, a radiation buffer consisting of aluminum, magnesium, iron, sodium, potassium,...
Duttonite, a new quadrivalent vanadium oxide from the Peanut mine, Montrose County, Colorado
Mary Eleanor Thompson, Carl Houston Roach, Robert Meyrowitz
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 582
Duttonite, a new quadrivalent vanadium oxide from the Peanut mine, Montrose County, Colo., has the formula VO(OH)2. The mineral occurs as crusts and coatings of pale-brown transparent platy crystals, as one of the first oxidation products of montroseite ore. It is associated with melanovanadite and abundant crystals of hexagonal...
Uranium in carbonaceous rocks in the Townsend and Helena valleys, Montana
George E. Becraft
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 581
Uranium-bearing carbonaceous shale and lignite beds are exposed in five areas in the Townsend and Helena Valleys in western Montana. The greatest number of exposures is in an area of several square miles northeast of Winston in the Townsend Valley. The uranium-bearing beds are in the lower part...
Temple Mountain member, a new member of the Chinle formation in the San Rafael Swell, Utah
Raymond C. Robeck
1956, Trace Elements Memorandum 800
A lithologic unit, referred to as mottled purple and white, or the 'pinto bed,' in the San Rafael Swell has E?nough thickness and continuity to be formally named the Temple Mountain member of the Chinle formationo The member is characterized by the presence of: the interfingering of siltstone, mudstone, and...
Comparison of the pebbles of the Shinarump and Moss Back members of the Chinle formation
Howard Franklin Albee
1956, Trace Elements Memorandum 832
Lithology, color, size, sphericity, and roundness of pebbles from the Shinarurnp and Moss Back members of the Chinle formation were analyzed and compared. The difference in the quartz:quartzite:chert ratios of the pebbles, the presence of limestone and siltstone pebbles, and to a lesser degree,the difference in color of pebbles serve...
Geology and uranium occurrences in the Miller Hill area, Carbon County, Wyoming
James David Vine, George E. Prichard
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 227
Uranium resources of the San Rafael district, Emery County, Utah : a regional synthesis
H.S. Johnson Jr.
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 546
Geologic investigations of radioactive deposits: Semiannual progress report for June 1 to November, 1956
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 640
Classification and distribution of uranium-bearing veins in the United States
George Walton Walker, Frank W. Osterwald
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 486
The gold pan as a quantitative tool
Paul Kellogg Theobald Jr.
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 487
Selected annotated bibliography of the geology of uraniferous and radioactive native bituminous substances, exclusive of coals, in the United States
Harriet Nell Jones
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 536
Native bituminous substances are divided into two groups, 1) bitumens and, 2) pyrobitumens. Bitumens are composed principally of hydrocarbons substantially free from oxygenated bodies, are fusible, and are soluble in carbon disulfide. Native bitumens occur in liquid and solid forms. The native liquid bitumens include all petroleums or crude oils....
Selected annotated bibliography of the geology and occurrence of uranium-bearing marine black shales in the United States
Carolyn E. Fix
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 535
The bibliography consists of annotations or abstracts of selected reports that pertain to the geology and occurrence of uranium in marine black shales and their metamorphic equivalents in the United States. Only those reports that were available to the public prior to June 30, 1956, are included. Most of the...
Selected annotated bibliography of the uranium geology of igneous and metamorphic rocks in the United States and territories
Diane Curtis
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 534
Notes on the geology of uranium
Montis Ruhl Klepper, D.G. Wyant, Donald Cave Duncan, Walter Danilchik, M.H. Staatz, Harley Barnes, V.E. McKelvey
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 529
Stratigraphy of the uranium-bearing rocks of the Karnes County area, south-central Texas -- a preliminary report
D. Hoye Eargle, John L. Snider
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 488
The selective precipitation of thorium iodate from a tartaric acid-hydrogen peroxide medium : Application to the rapid spectrophotometric determination of thorium in silicate rocks and in ores
F. S. Grimaldi, Lillie B. Jenkins, Mary H. Fletcher
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 489
Diatremes and craters attributed to natural explosions
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
1956, Trace Elements Memorandum 1090
Diatremes - volcanic pipes attributed to explosion - and craters have been studied to infer the ultimate causes and physical conditions attending natural explosive processes. Initial piercement of diatremes on the Navajo reservation, Arizona was probably along a fracture propagated by a high-pressure aqueous fluid. Gas rising at high velocity along...
Sub-glacial volcanic eruptions
Donald Edward White
1956, Trace Elements Memorandum 1089
The literature on sub-glacial volcanic eruptions and the related flood phenomena has been reviewed as a minor part of the larger problem of convective and conductive heat transfer from intrusive magma. (See Lovering, 1955, for a review of the extensive literature on this subject.) This summary of data on sub-glacial...
Thick sequences of silicate and carbonate rocks of sedimentary origin in North America an interim report
John David Love
1956, Trace Elements Memorandum 1088
Thick sequences of silicate and carbonate rocks of sedimentary origin have been investigated in 64 areas in North America. The areas containing the thickest and most homogeneous stratigraphic sections more than 1,000 feet thick, buried at depths greater than 10,000 feet are: 1. Uinta Basin, Utah, where the Mancos shale...
Results of geologic drilling, 1953, land-pebble phosphate district, Florida
James Bachelder Cathcart, Laurence James McGreevy
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 576