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...
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...
Geology of waterpower sites on Scenery Creek, Cascade Creek, and Delta Creek near Petersburg, Alaska
John Charles Miller
1955, Open-File Report 55-115
Dam sites were examined at the outlets of Scenery Lake, Swan Lake, and Ruth Lake which are located on Scenery Creek, Cascade Creek, and Delta Creek, respectively. The Scenery Lake dam site is partly in quartz diorite and partly in hornblende plagioclase gneiss. The Swan Lake and Ruth Lake dam...
Geology of the southeastern part of the Robinson Mountains, Yakataga district, Alaska
Don John Miller
1955, Open-File Report 55-114
This report gives the results of geologic investigations in the Yakataga district on the south coast of Alaska, including detailed geologic mapping in the southeastern part of the Robinson Mountains, and reconnaissance study of the stratigraphy and structure of adjoining areas. The geologic map that accompanies this report covers an...
Cowboy tungsten property, Pine Grove Hills, Lyon County, Nevada
Montis Ruhl Klepper
1955, Open-File Report 55-84
Selected list of compilations of rock and mineral analyses
Marjorie Hooker
1955, Open-File Report 55-69
Geochemical exploration for antimony in southeastern Alaska
C.L. Sainsbury
1955, Open-File Report 55-158
Preliminary geochemical prospecting by the Geological Survey was carried out in 1952 in muskeg-covered ground at Caamano Point, Cleveland Peninsula, Alaska, in an effort to delimit areas of stibnite concentrations. It was conducted to aid, if possible, a prospecting project of the Defense Minerals Exploration. Samples were collected from soil...
Barite-fluorite deposits in the eastern belt of the Sweetwater barite district, Monroe County, Tennessee
John Crawford Dunlap
1955, Open-File Report 55-43
Preliminary report on the potential waterpower of Grant, Ptarmigan, Cooper and Crescent lakes on the Kenai Peninsula, near Seward, Alaska
Arthur Johnson
1955, Open-File Report 55-74
Grant, Ptarmigan, Cooper, and Crescent Lakes, located in the Kenai Mountains in the upper portion of the Kenai River Basin, approximately 25 miles to the north of Seward, present favorable opportunities for the development of waterpower. Grant and Ptarmigan Lakes can be made readily accessible by roads from the Seward-Anchorage...
Preliminary report on the geology of the upper La Paz Valley of Bolivia
Ernest Dobrovolny
1955, Open-File Report 55-42
Bedrock geology of the Narragansett Pier quadrangle, Rhode Island
David Ryden Nichols
1955, Open-File Report 55-124
No abstract available....
Geologic maps of the Ord quicksilver mine area, Mazatzal Mountains, Arizona
James Franklin McAllister
1955, Open-File Report 55-101
Selected list of periodicals and serials publishing rock and mineral analyses
Marjorie Hooker
1955, Open-File Report 55-70
Glacial geology of the Taunton quadrangle, Massachusetts
Joseph H. Hartshorn
1955, Open-File Report 55-61
Geology of two areas of pegmatite deposits in southeastern Alaska
C.L. Sainsbury
1955, Open-File Report 55-159
A pegmatite deposit about 600 feet in diameter crops on a high bluff less than one-half mile east of a small unnamed cove between Redfish and Byron Bays, on the west coast of Baranof Island, southeastern Alaska.The deposit which comprises several pegmatite bodies consists of quartz, albite-oligoclase, microcline and mica,...
Engineering geology of the southern half of the Mount Hayes A-5 quadrangle, Alaska
Reuben Kachadoorian, Troy Lewis Pewe
1955, Open-File Report 55-78
Quaternary stratigraphy of the La Sal Mountains, Utah
Gerald Martin Richmond
1955, Open-File Report 55-150
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...
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...
Waterfowl populations and breeding conditions - summer 1954
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1955, Special Scientific Report - Wildlife 27
Owl Creek (Upper Cretaceous) fossils from Crowleys Ridge, southeastern Missouri
L. W. Stephenson
1955, Professional Paper 274-E
Middle Ordovician rocks of the Tellico-Sevier belt, eastern Tennessee
Robert B. Neuman
1955, Professional Paper 274-F
No abstract available....
Basal Eagle Ford fauna (Cenomanian) in Johnson and Tarrant Counties, Texas
L. W. Stephenson
1955, Professional Paper 274-C
Dakota group in northern Front Range foothills, Colorado
Karl M. Waage
1955, Professional Paper 274-B
Volcanic-rich middle and upper Eocene sedimentary rocks northwest of Rattlesnake Hills, central Wyoming
F. B. Van Houten
1955, Professional Paper 274-A
