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....
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...
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 =...
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...
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...
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,...
Summary of the mineralogy of the Colorado Plateau uranium ores
Alice D. Weeks, Robert Griffin Coleman, Mary E. Thompson
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 583
In the Colorado Plateau uranium has been produced chiefly from very shallow mines in carnotite ores (oxidized vanadiferous uranium ores) until recent deeper mining penetrated black unoxidized ores in water-saturated rocks and extensive exploration has discovered many deposits of low to nonvanadiferous ores. The uranium ores include a wide...
Rapid-scanning microphotometry
A.W. Helz
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 579
A rapid-scanning microphotometer is described with which a 10-inch spectrum may be scanned in two minutes. The resulting chart may be 60, 300, or 1,500 cm long (wavelength scale) and 4 cm high (intensity scale). Commercially available components are used....
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....
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...
Ground water in part of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Bannock and Bingham Counties, Idaho
S. W. West
1956, Open-File Report 56-131
Report on seismic survey at Ordnance Test Station, Maynard, Massachusetts
David F. Barnes
1956, Open-File Report 56-4
Annotated bibliography of Alaskan Paleozoic paleontology
J. Thomas Dutro Jr.
1956, Bulletin 1021-H
No abstract available....
Geology of the Trinidad-Aguilar area, Las Animas and Huerfano Counties, Colorado
R. L. Harbour, G. H. Dixon
1956, Oil and Gas Investigation Map 174
No abstract available....
Photogeologic map of the Kaiparowits Peak-2 quadrangle, Garfield County, Utah
J.S. Detterman
1956, IMAP 135
Dinnehotso NW quadrangle, Arizona-Utah
I. J. Witkind
1956, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 92
Geology and ground-water resources of the upper Niobrara River basin, Nebraska and Wyoming, with a section on chemical quality of the ground water
Edward Bradley, F. Rainwater
1956, Water Supply Paper 1368
No abstract available....
Index of surface-water records to September 30, 1955, part 3, Ohio River basin
Paul R. Speer
1956, Circular 383
Surface water supply of the United States, 1954, Part XII, Pacific slope basins in Washington and upper Columbia River basin
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1956, Water Supply Paper 1346
Index of surface-water records to September 30, 1955, part 1, North Atlantic slope basins
C. E. Knox
1956, Circular 381
Index of surface-water records to September 30, 1955, part 2, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins
Paul R. Speer, A.B. Goodwin
1956, Circular 382
Reservoirs in the United States
N.O. Thomas, G. Earl Harbeck Jr.
1956, Water Supply Paper 1360-A
Reservoir storage facilities in the United States play an important part in the national economy. Storage facilities have enabled the country to utilize to a much fuller extent one of the most valuable natural resources: water. During recent years the construction of reservoirs has continued at a high rate. This...
Geology and ground-water resources of the Prestonsburg quadrangle, Kentucky
William E. Price
1956, Water Supply Paper 1359
No abstract available....
Memorandum report on geologic and ground-water conditions in the Hubbard Brook watershed, New Hampshire
Edward Bradley, R.V. Cushman
1956, Open-File Report 56-11
Geology and ground-water resources of Buffalo County and adjacent areas, Nebraska
Raymond Lavern Schreurs, Frank Hays Rainwater
1956, Water Supply Paper 1358
No abstract available....