Radioactive springs geochemical data related to uranium exploration: basic data and use of multivariate factor scores
Robert Allen Cadigan, J. Karen Felmlee
1979, Open-File Report 79-1302
Radioactive springs and wells at 33 localities in the States of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico have been studied and sampled to obtain geochemical data to determine whether such data are useful in a uranium exploration program. Most samples were collected from mineral-rich springs probably related to hydrothermal systems...
Formation and resulfidization of a South Texas roll-type uranium deposit
Martin B. Goldhaber, Richard L. Reynolds, Robert O. Rye
1979, Open-File Report 79-1651
Core samples from a roll type uranium deposit in Live Oak County, south Texas have been studied and results are reported for Se, Mo, FeS2 and organic-carbon distribution, sulfide mineral petrology, and sulfur isotopic composition of iron-disulfide phases. In addition, sulfur isotopic compositions of dissolved sulfate and sulfide from the...
A study of reservoir characteristics of the Nanushuk and Colville groups, Umiat test well 11, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska
J. E. Fox, P. W. Lambert, Janet K. Pitman, C.H. Wu
1979, Circular 820
Cretaceous sandstones in the Umiat Anticline contain the largest volume of oil discovered to date in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Umiat test well 11, although dry and abandoned, penetrated the most complete sequence of Cretaceous rocks in the Umiat area. Cretaceous formations cored (oldest to youngest) were the...
A proposed ground water quality monitoring network for Idaho
R.L. Whitehead, D. J. Parliman
1979, Open-File Report 79-1477
A ground water quality monitoring network is proposed for Idaho. The network comprises 565 sites, 8 of which will require construction of new wells. Frequencies of sampling at the different sites are assigned at quarterly, semiannual, annual, and 5 years. Selected characteristics of the water will be monitored by both...
Subsurface stratigraphy and geochemistry of late Quaternary evaporites, Searles Lake, California, with a section on radiocarbon ages of stratigraphic units
George I. Smith, Minze Stuiver
1979, Professional Paper 1043
Searles Lake is a dry salt pan, about 100 km 2 in area, that lies on the floor of Searles Valley, in the desert of southeast California. Several salt bodies of late Quaternary age lie beneath the surface, mostly composed of sodium and potassium carbonate, sulfate, chloride, and borate minerals....
Water availability and flood hazards in the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon
Frank J. Frank, E. A. Oster
1979, Open-File Report 79-1487
The rock formations of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument area are aquifers that can be expected to yield less than 10 gallons of water per minute to wells. The most permeable of the geologic units is the alluvium that occurs at low elevations along the John Day River...
Arsenic, nitrate, iron, and hardness in ground water, Fairbanks area, Alaska
Paula R. Johnson, D.E. Wilcox, W.D. Morgan, Josephine Merto, Ruth McFadden
1979, Open-File Report 78-1034
Well water with concentrations of arsenic and nitrate exceeding U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards occurs sporadically throughout the hills north of Fairbanks, Alaska. The arsenic contamination has not been correlated with placer or other mining activity. The high levels of nitrate do not generally appear related to septic waste contamination....
Clay mineralogy of Pleistocene Lake Tecopa, Inyo County, California
Harry C. Starkey, Paul D. Blackmon
1979, Professional Paper 1061
Pleistocene Lake Tecopa in southeastern Inyo County, Calif., was formed when the Amargosa River was blocked at the southern end of its valley. The lake acted as a settling basin for detrital material being transported by the river. This detritus consisted of clays, quartz, feldspars, and micas which became mudstones...
Summary appraisals of the nation's ground-water resources– South Atlantic-Gulf region
D.J. Cedarstrom, E. H. Boswell, G. R. Tarver
1979, Professional Paper 813-O
Precipitation in the 270,000-square-mile South Atlantic-Gulf Region ranges from 44 to 80 inches, and the average runoff is about 15 inches. The ground-water discharge that forms the base flow of streams is conservatively estimated to be about 78,000 million gallons per day the equivalent of about 6 inches of precipitation....
Ground-water-quality data from the northern Powder River Basin, southeastern Montana
Roger W. Lee
1979, Open-File Report 79-1331
Water-quality data collected during 1973-77 for hydrologic studies in the northern Powder River basin of southeastern Montana provide a data base for shallow ground water. The 665 water samples collected were analyzed for major cations and anions. Of the samples, 516 were from wells and 149 were from springs. About...
Water-resources appraisal of the south-Arkansas lignite area
J. E. Terry, C. T. Bryant, A. H. Ludwig, J.E. Reed
1979, Open-File Report 79-924
The feasibility of developing lignite resources in south-central Arkansas is an important question at the present time (1978). Part of the concern is related to the possible impacts that mining and processing of lignite will have on water resources. Not only will the disturbance caused by excavating affect the quantity...
Hydrology and surface morphology of the Bonneville Salt Flats and Pilot Valley Playa, Utah
Gregory C. Lines
1979, Water Supply Paper 2057
The Bonneville Salt Flats and Pilot Valley are in the western part of the Great Salt Lake Desert in northwest Utah. The areas are separate, though similar, hydrologic basins, and both contain a salt crust. The Bonneville salt crust covered about 40 square miles in the fall of 1976, and...
Grain size, mineralogy, carbon/carbonate content, and age of Miocene and Pliocene samples from dredge hauls, DSDP holes 184B and 185, and the Sandy River Well, southern Bering Sea continental margin and Alaska Peninsula
Michael B. Underwood, T.L. Vallier, J.V. Gardner, J.A. Barron
1979, Open-File Report 79-450
A jointly supported program between the Bureau of Land Management and the U. S. Geological Survey, Pacific-Arctic Branch of Marine Geology was undertaken in the Southern Bering Sea with funds managed by the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program (OCSEAP) Office. This report provides data from analyses that were performed...
Analysis of borehole geophysical information across a uranium deposit in the Jackson Group, Karnes County, Texas
Jeffrey J. Daniels, James Henry Scott, Bruce D. Smith
1979, Open-File Report 79-585
Borehole geophysical studies across a uranium deposit in the Jackson Group, South Texas, show the three geochemical environments often associated with uranium roll-type deposits: an altered (oxidized) zone, an ore zone, and an unaltered (reduced) zone. Mineralogic analysis of the total sulfides contained in the drill core shows only slight...
Two oil types on the North Slope of Alaska: implications for future exploration
Leslie B. Magoon, George Edwin Claypool
1979, Open-File Report 79-1649
Forty oil samples from across the North Slope of Alaska have been analyzed by the U.S. Bureau of Mines and the U.S. Geological Survey. Results of these analyses suggest two separate genetic oil types. The first type, the Simpson-Umiat oil type, occurs in reservoir rocks of Cretaceous and Quaternary age...
Organic carbon content of Devonian shale sequence sampled in drill cuttings from eighteen wells in western Pennsylvania
George Edwin Claypool, Allan W. Stone
1979, Open-File Report 79-1665
This report contains results of organic carbon analyses performed by Rinehart Laboratories, Inc., Arvada, Colorado, under contract to the U.S. Geological Survey. The analytical method employs chemical (chromic acid) oxidation of an acid solution containing the rock residue. The detailed analytical specifications are contained in the Rinehart proposal in response...
Investigations needed to stimulate the development of Jordan's mineral resources
V.E. McKelvey
1979, Open-File Report 79-1569
The level of living that any society can attain is a direct function of the use it makes of all kinds of raw materials (soil, water, metals, nonmetals, etc.), all kinds of energy (both animate and inanimate), and all kinds of human ingenuity; and is an inverse function of the...
The corrosive well waters of Egypt's western desert
Frank Eldridge Clarke
1979, Water Supply Paper 1757-O
The discovery that ground waters of Egypt's Western Desert are highly corrosive is lost in antiquity. Inhabitants of the oases have been aware of the troublesome property for many decades and early investigators mention it in their reports concerning the area. Introduction of modern well-drilling techniques and replacements of native...
Spectra of altered rocks in the visible and near infrared
G.R. Hunt, Roger P. Ashley
1979, Economic Geology (74) 1613-1629
Visible and near-infrared (0.35 to 2.5 mu m) bidirectional reflection spectra were recorded for a suite of well-characterized hydrothermally altered rock samples. The spectra typically display well-defined bands caused by both electronic and vibrational processes in the individual mineral constituents.Electronic transitions in the iron-bearing constituent minerals produce diagnostic minima near...
Hydrologic conditions in Broward County, Florida, 1976
T.R. Beaven
1979, Open-File Report 79-1258
During the 1976 water year, rainfall was 3.6 percent below average in Broward County, Fla. Water levels in the Pompano Beach and Dixie well fields were lower during the peak of the 1976 dry season than the peak of the record low dry season in 1971. Flow in the major...
Major geochemical processes in the evolution of carbonate-Aquifer systems
B.B. Hanshaw, W. Back
1979, Journal of Hydrology (43) 287-312
As a result of recent advances by carbonate petrologists and geochemists, hydrologists are provided with new insights into the origin and explanation of many aquifer characteristics and hydrologic phenomena. Some major advances include the recognition that: (1) most carbonate sediments are of biological origin; (2) they have a strong bimodal...
Minerals, lands, and geology for the common defence and general welfare, Volume 1, Before 1879 : A history of public lands, federal science and mapping policy, and development of mineral resources in the United States
Mary C. Rabbitt
1979, Book
This volume, the first of a four-volume study, is concerned with events in the United States before the establishment of the U.S. Geological Survey, during the years in which geology evolved as a science and began to influence economic development and national policy. Subsequent volumes continue the story but focus...
Geohydrologic impacts of coal development in the Narragansett Basin, Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Michael H. Frimpter, Anthony Maevsky
1979, Water Supply Paper 2062
The hydrologic impacts of possible coal mining in the 900-square-mile Carboniferous Narragansett Basin in southeastern New England are described. Geophysical tests and hydrologic observations were made in thirteen 3-inch-diameter test holes which were 330 to 1,500 feet deep. Fractures and lithology, including graphite and coal, were identified and located from...
Rare earth abundances and Rb-Sr systematics of basalts, gabbro, anorthosite and minor granitic rocks from the Indian Ocean Ridge System, Western Indian Ocean
C. E. Hedge, K. Futa, C.G. Engel, R.L. Fisher
1979, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (68) 373-376
Basalts dredged from the Mid-Indian Ocean Ridge System have rare earth, Rb, and Sr concentrations like those from other mid-ocean ridges, but have slightly higher Sr87/Sr86 ratios. Underlying gabbroic complexes are similar to the basalts in Sr87/Sr86, but are poorer K, Rb, and in rare earths. The chemical and isotopic...
Low temperature basalt alteration by sea water: an experimental study at 70°C and 150°C
W.E. Seyfried Jr., J. L. Bischoff
1979, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (43) 1937-1947
Basaltic glass and diabase were reacted with seawater at 70°C at 1 bar and 150°C at 500 bars to determine fluid composition and alteration mineralogy. All experiments were performed at a water/ rock mass ratio of 10. The changes in seawater chemistry depended on temperature and crystallinity of the...
