Geology of the northern Black Hills bentonite mining district
Sam H. Patterson
1955, Open-File Report 55-131
Extensive deposits of bentonite are present in the Cretaceous sedimentary rock strata cropping out on the northern flank of the Black Hills. These deposits have been the subject of a study by the U.S. Geological Survey as part of the program of the Department of the Interior for appraisal of...
Selected list of periodicals and serials publishing rock and mineral analyses
Marjorie Hooker
1955, Open-File Report 55-70
Phosphate deposits in northern Alaska
William Wallace Patton Jr.
1955, Open-File Report 55-132
Deposits of low and medium grade phosphate rock were found recently at seven localities on the Arctic slope of Alaska. They were reported by field parties of the U.S. Geological Survey during the mapping of Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 and adjacent areas. The deposits are sedimentary in origin and...
Bedrock geology of the Narragansett Pier quadrangle, Rhode Island
David Ryden Nichols
1955, Open-File Report 55-124
No abstract available....
Preliminary report on part of the Oat Hill quicksilver mine, Mayacmas district, Napa County, California
Philip Forsyth Fix
1955, Open-File Report 55-45
Oat Hill quicksilver mine, located in the Mayacmas district of northern California, and credited with having produced more than 160,000 flasks of quicksilver, was sampled cooperatively by the Buray of Mines and Geological Survey during 1944. 28 diamond drill holes totaling 8,120 feet were drilled by the Bureau of Mines...
Selected list of compilations of rock and mineral analyses
Marjorie Hooker
1955, Open-File Report 55-69
Preliminary report on the geology of the upper La Paz Valley of Bolivia
Ernest Dobrovolny
1955, Open-File Report 55-42
Ore deposits on northwestern Chichagof Island, Alaska
Darwin L. Rossman
1955, Open-File Report 55-154
The area mapped includes most of northwestern Chichagof Island. The work, started in 1946, is a continuation of the geologic mapping done in the adjoining Chichagof mining district by Reed and Coats. The gold-bearing zone recognized by these writers continues through the area mapped by the writer to the northern...
Occurrence of diatomaceous earth near Kenai, Alaska
George Plafker
1955, Open-File Report 55-139
Diatomaceous earth occurs in post-glacial lake deposits exposed along the shore of Cook Inlet north of the village of Kenai, Alaska. Diatomaceous earth is an unconsolidated earthy deposit formed by accumulation of the minute siliceous tests (skeletons) of diatoms, a type of algae. Diatomaceous earth is sometimes referred to...
Geology of the Du Noir area, Fremont County, Wyoming
William Richard Keefer
1955, Open-File Report 55-81
The Du Noir area includes about 250 square miles in the northwestern part of the Wind River Basin, Fremont County, Wyoming. It is bounded on the south by the Wind River and Warm Spring Creek, which flow along the northeast flank of the Wind River Mountains, and on the north...
Geology of the Fourmile pegmatite area, Custer County, South Dakota
Jack Allison Redden
1955, Open-File Report 55-145
The Fournile pegmatite area covers 32 sq. mi. in the western part of the Custer pegmatite mining district, Custer County, South Dakota. This area has been one of the major sources of sheet mica in the United States, especially between 1906 and 1911, and it has been a significant source...
Studies of some early Tertiary red conglomerates of central Mexico
J.D. Edwards
1955, Professional Paper 264-H
A biofacies of Woodbine age in the southeastern Gulf Coast region
E.R. Applin
1955, Professional Paper 264-I
Fossil birds from Manix Lake, California
Hildegarde Howard
1955, Professional Paper 264-J
Geology of the Quartz Creek pegmatite district, Gunnison County, Colorado
M.H. Staatz, A.F. Trites Jr.
1955, Professional Paper 265
Geology of the Brandywine area and origin of the upland of southern Maryland
J.T. Hack
1955, Professional Paper 267-A
Hardpan soils of the coastal plain of southern Maryland
C.C. Nikiforoff
1955, Professional Paper 267-B
Shorter contributions to general geology 1954; Permafrost and ground water in Alaska
D.M. Hopkins, T. N. V. Karlstrom, and others
1955, Professional Paper 264-F
Investigations of woodcock, snipe, and rails in 1954
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1955, Special Scientific Report - Wildlife 28
Owl Creek (Upper Cretaceous) fossils from Crowleys Ridge, southeastern Missouri
L. W. Stephenson
1955, Professional Paper 274-E
Floras of the Pocono formation and Price sandstone in parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia
C.B. Read
1955, Professional Paper 263
Middle Ordovician rocks of the Tellico-Sevier belt, eastern Tennessee
Robert B. Neuman
1955, Professional Paper 274-F
No abstract available....
Geology of the Deep River coal field, North Carolina
J.A. Reinemund
1955, Professional Paper 246
Foraminifera of the Lodo Formation, central California; Part 2, Calcareous foraminifera (Miliolidae and Lagenidae, part)
M.C. Israelsky
1955, Professional Paper 240-B
Foraminifera from the Arctic Slope of Alaska; Part 2, Jurassic foraminifera
Helen Tappan
1955, Professional Paper 236-B