Regional geologic map of San Andreas fault from Cholame area to Cuyama-Maricopa area, San Luis Obispo, Kern, and Kings Counties, California
T. W. Dibblee Jr.
1969, Open-File Report 69-72
No abstract available....
Selected hydrologic data, southern Utah and Goshen Valleys, Utah
R.M. Cordova
1969, Utah Basic-Data Release 16
The purpose of this report is to present basic geologic, ground-water, surface-water, and quality of water data that are useful for the study and effective development of the water resources of southern Utah and Goshen Valleys. This report supplements an interpretive report which will be published later.Much of the basic...
40Ar/36Ar analyses of historic lava flows
G. B. Dalrymple
1969, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (6) 47-55
The ratio40Ar/36Ar was measured for 26 subaerial historic lava flows. Approximately one-third of the samples had40Ar/36Ar ratios either higher or lower than the atmospheric value of 295.5 at the 95% confidence level. Excess radiogenic40Ar in five flows ranged from about 1 ×...
Aging small Canada geese by neck plumage
K.F. Higgins, L.J. Schoonover
1969, Journal of Wildlife Management (33) 212-214
The neck plumage method, a new technique for separating immature from adult Canada geese (Branta canadensis) in the hand, was evaluated by comparison with the notched tail feather and cloacal examination methods. Two (1.4 percent) of 141 geese examined were misaged, resulting in a 6 percent error in the immature-adult...
Selective feeding by juvenile diving ducks in summer
James C. Bartonek, J.J. Hickey
1969, The Auk (86) 443-457
Waterfowl often fail to use foods that seem plentiful to the investigator. The extent to which selective feeding or rejection of foods is a function of behavioral and morphological adaptations of the species, conditioned behavior of the individual, or individual preference for certain foods has not been appraised. The objectives...
Some triple-filament lead isotope ratio measurements and an absolute growth curve for single-stage leads
J. S. Stacey, M.E. Delevaux, T.J. Ulrych
1969, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (6) 15-25
Triple-filament analyses of three standard lead samples are used to calibrate a mass spectrometer in an absolute sense. The bias we measure is 0.0155 percent per mass unit, and the precision (for 95% confidence limits) is ±0.13% or less for all ratios relative to204Pb. Although its precision is not quite...
The rapids and the pools - Grand Canyon: Chapter D in The Colorado River region and John Wesley Powell (Professional Paper 669)
Luna Bergere Leopold
1969, Professional Paper 669-D
Through the Grand Canyon the Colorado drops in elevation about 2,200 feet in 280 miles; most of this drop occurs in rapids that account for only 10 percent of the distance. Despite the importance of rapids, there are no waterfalls. Depth measurements made at 1/10-mile intervals show that the bed...
Geochemical maps of an area northwest of the Chulitna River, central Alaska Range
C. C. Hawley, Allen L. Clark
1969, Open-File Report 69-123
An area northwest of the Chulitna River in west-central Alaska Range locally shows local anomalous concentrations of gold, silver, arsenic, copper, zinc, and lead in stream-sediment samples. Most stream sediments showing anomalous concentrations of metals can be correlated with either known or newly discovered deposits or occurrences described in Circular...
Geologic history of the Colorado River: Chapter C in The Colorado River region and John Wesley Powell (Professional Paper 669)
Charles B. Hunt
1969, Professional Paper 669-C
John Wesley Powell clearly recognized that the spectacular features of the Colorado River - its many grand canyons - were dependent upon the structural history of the mountainous barriers crossed by the river. He conceived of three different historical relationships between rivers and structural features: (1) Newly uplifted land surfaces...
Interaction of antimycin A and rotenone in fish bioassays
Robert M. Howland
1969, Progressive Fish-Culturist (31) 33-34
No abstract available. ...
New method for preparing ultrapure hydrofluoric acid
Mitsunobu Tatsumoto
1969, Analytical Chemistry (41) 2088-2089
No abstract available....
Lamprey control in the United States
Bernard R. Smith, Everett Louis King
1969, Annual Report 1968
No abstract available....
Loss of uranium from crystallized silicic volcanic rocks
J.N. Rosholt, D. C. Noble
1969, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (6) 268-270
Dense primarily crystallized silicic groundmass material from two welded ash-flow units and one lava flow of Tertiary age from the Western United States contain only 20 to 60 percent of the uranium present in nonhydrated glass from the rock units. These differences reflect...
Fractionation of gold in a differentiated tholeiitic dolerite
J.J. Rowe
1969, Chemical Geology (4) 421-427
Gold content was determined, by neutron-activation analysis, in samples from a drill core through the Great Lake sheet, Tasmania, a differentiated tholeiitic dolerite. The gold content of parts of the core seems to be related to the mafic index. The variation of...
Uranium, thorium, and lead systematics in Granite Mountains, Wyoming
J.N. Rosholt, A.J. Bartel
1969, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (7) 141-147
Uranium, thorium and lead concentrations and isotopic compositions were determined on total rocks and a feldspar sample from widely separated parts of the Granite Mountains in central Wyoming. Linear relations defined by206Pb/204Pb −207Pb/204Pb and208Pb/204Pb −232Th/204Pb for the total rock samples define 2.8...
Chemical composition of selected Kansas brines as an aid to interpreting change in water chemistry with depth
R.J. Dingman, E.E. Angino
1969, Chemical Geology (4) 325-339
Chemical analyses of approximately 1,881 samples of water from selected Kansas brines define the variations of water chemistry with depth and aquifer age. The most concentrated brines are found in the Permian rocks which occupy the intermediate section of the geologic column of this area. Salinity decreases below the...
Geochemistry and hydrodynamics of the Paradox Basin region, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico
B.B. Hanshaw, G.A. Hill
1969, Chemical Geology (4) 263-294
The Paradox Basin region is approximately bounded by the south flank of the Uinta Basin to the north, the Uncompahgre uplift and San Juan Mountains to the east, the Four Corners structural platform to the southeast, the north rim of the Black Mesa Basin and the Grand Canyon to...
The isotopic composition of lead in potassium feldspars from some 1.0-b.y. old North American igneous rocks
R. E. Zartman, G.J. Wasserburg
1969, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (33) 901-942
The isotopic composition of lead and the uranium, thorium and lead concentrations in potassium feldspars are determined for more than 30 1.0-b.y. old North American igneous rocks. Samples representing a broad spectrum in petrographic type and mode of occurrence were chosen; an effort was made to include only rocks having...
Water in Kentucky
Robert A. Krieger, Robert Vittum Cushman, N.O. Thomas
1969, Kentucky Geological Survey Special Publication 16-10
No abstract available....
Lithium and potassium absorption, dehydroxylation temperature, and structural water content of aluminous smectites
Leonard Gene Schultz
1969, Clays and Clay Minerals (17) 115-149
X-ray analysis of Li+- and K+-saturated samples, differential thermal analysis (DTA), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), and chemical analysis of 83 samples enable a distinction to be made between Wyoming, Tatatilla, Otay, Chambers, and non-ideal types of montmorillonite, and between ideal and non-ideal types of beidellite. The Greene-Kelly Li+-test differentiates between...
Lead isotopes in volcanic rocks and possible ocean-floor thrusting beneath island arcs
M. Tatsumoto
1969, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (6) 369-376
The isotopic composition of lead in the Japanese primary basalts gradually decreases in radiogenic character in a transverse from the Pacific Ocean side to the Japan Sea side, whereas the observed 238U204Pb">238U204Pb and 232Th204Pb">232Th204Pb ratios...
Extraction of vanadium into isobutyl methyl ketone
Hans J. Crump-Wiesner, W.C. Purdy
1969, Talanta (16) 124-129
Because of its advantages in atomic-absorption spectroscopy, isobutyl methyl ketone was chosen as organic solvent for an extraction study on vanadium. Of eight chelating agents which were evaluated for completeness of extraction, ease of use, working pH range, and freedom from interference, cupferron was judged best.<div...
Alpine-type sensu strictu(ophiolitic) peridotites: Refractory residues from partial melting or igneous sediments? A contribution to the discussion of the paper: "The origin of ultramafic and ultrabasic rocks" by P.J. Wyllie
T. P. Thayer
1969, Tectonophysics (7) 511-516
Although Alpine peridotites and basaltic lavas are widely associated in eugeosynclines and oceanic areas, their genetic ties are obscure. Three major characteristics of olivine-rich Alpine peridotite and dunite—relict cumulus textures, aggregated masses of chromitite, and intimate association with magnesium-rich gabbro — cannot be...
Determination of rhenium in molybdenite by X-ray fluorescence. A combined chemical-spectrometric technique
M.W. Solt, J.S. Wahlberg, A.T. Myers
1969, Talanta (16) 37-43
Rhenium in molybdenite is separated from molybdenum by distillation of rhenium heptoxide from a perchloric-sulphuric acid mixture. It is concentrated by precipitation of the sulphide and then determined by X-ray fluorescence. From 3 to 1000 μg of rhenium can be measured with a precision generally within...
The morphology and chronology of a landslide near Dillon Dam, Dillon, Colorado
E.E. Wahlstrom, T. C. Nichols Jr.
1969, Engineering Geology (3) 149-174
Investigations were made of a landslide at the Dillon Dam site, Dillon, Colo., that included detailed laboratory and field analyses of the mineralogy, chemistry, and physical properties of landslide materials and the bedrock formations from which they were derived. These investigations provide an understanding of the relative importance of various...