Ground-water resources in the tri-state region adjacent to the Lower Delaware River
Henry C. Barksdale, David W. Greenman, Solomon Max Lang, George Stockbridge Hilton, Donald E. Outlaw
1958, New Jersey Division of Water Policy and Supply Special Report 13
The purpose of this report is to appraise and evaluate the groundwater resources of a tri-state region adjacent to the lower Delaware River that is centered around Philadelphia, Pa., and Camden, N. J., and includes Wilmington, Del., and Trenton, N.J. Specifically, the region includes New Castle County, Del.; Burlington, Camden,...
Origin of manganese deposits of Busuanga Island, Philippines
Ronald Keith Sorem
1958, Open-File Report 58-98
The manganese deposits of Busuanga Island, Palawan, are tabular and broadly lenticular bodies which lie conformably within a thick sequence of deformed abort beds. The purpose of this study is to determine the probable mode of origin of the deposits. Similar deposits in other parts of the world have been...
The relation of phosphorites to ground water in Beaufort County, North Carolina
P.M. Brown
1958, Economic Geology (53) 85-101
Recent ground-water studies undertaken by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the North Carolina Division of Mineral Resources have delineated phosphorite deposits, tentatively regarded as being of middle Miocene age, in Beaufort County. These deposits lie unconforma-bly on limestone of Eocene age and are unconformably overlain by late Miocene...
Airborne radioactivity surveys in geologic exploration
R.M. Moxham
1958, Trace Elements Investigations 662
The value of airborne radioactivity surveys in guiding uranium exploration has been well established. Recent improvements in circuitry and development of semiquantitative analytical techniques permit a more comprehensive evaluation of the geologic distribution of radioactive materials that may prove useful in exploration for other minerals and in regional geologic studies....
Geology and ground-water resources of Galveston County, Texas
Ben McDowell Petitt, Allen George Winslow
1957, Water Supply Paper 1416
Galveston County, on the Texas gulf coast, is underlain by alternating beds of sand and clay. These sand and clay strata crop out in belts that roughly parallel the coastline and dip gently southeastward at an angle gre? +,er than the slope of the land, thereby creating artesian aquifers. The...
Water resources of the Yadkin-Pee Dee River basin, North Carolina
Robert Eugene Fish, H. E. LeGrand, G. A. Billingsley
1957, Water Supply Paper 1415
Sufficient water is available in the basin of the Yadkin and Pee Dee Rivers to meet present requirements and those for many years to come if water use increases at about the present rate. Data presented in this report show that the average annual streamflow from approximately 82 percent of...
The application, technique, and theory of Gish-Rooney instruments, methods, and interpretation in electrical resistivity measurements
H. Cecil Spicer
1957, Open-File Report 58-99
The foundations of electrical prospecting were laid by Fox (1830) and Barus (1882). The former discovered that electrical currents and potentials were developed by certain ore deposits in Cornwall, England. Fox made measurements of these potentials and determined the resistivities of the minerals and surrounding rocks also. The latter, invented...
Geology of possible petroleum provinces in Alaska
Don John Miller, Thomas G. Payne, George Gryc
1957, Open-File Report 57-72
The history of petroleum exploration in Alaska and the geology of possible petroleum provinces in Alaska are reviewed. Maps showing Alaska's major Mesozoic and Tertiary tectonic elements, possible petroleum provinces, and indications of petrol, are included in this report. Annotated references in Geological Survey publications relating to petroleum and oil...
Magmatic, connate, and metamorphic waters
Donald E. White
1957, GSA Bulletin (68) 1659-1682
Some major types of water of “deep” origin are believed to be recognizable from their chemical and isotopic compositions. Oil-field brines dominated by sodium and calcium chlorides differ markedly from average ocean water. In general, the brines are believed to be connate in origin (“fossil” sea water) with a negligible...
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...
Bentonite deposits in marine Cretaceous formations, Hardin district, Montana and Wyoming
Maxwell M. Knechtel, Sam H. Patterson
1956, Bulletin 1023
The bentonite deposits described in this report, which are roughly and tentatively estimated to include a minable reserve of 110 million short tons of montmorillonitic clay, are shown on a geologic map covering approximately 1,280 square miles, mostly in the Crow Indian Reservation, Big Horn County, Mont., but extending a...
Water resources of the Mobile area, Alabama, with a section on salinity of the Mobile River
W.H. Robinson, William J. Powell, Eugene Brown, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
1956, Circular 373
Water is an abundant resource of the Mobile area. The Mobile River has an estimated average flow of 60, 000 cubic feet per second (cfs), or about 39,000 million gallons per day (mgd). It is the largest single source of water. Water is available in substantial quantities from the many...
Water resources of the New Orleans area, Louisiana
Miles LeRoy Eddards, L. R. Kister, Glenn Scarcia
1956, Circular 374
Industry, commerce, and public utilities in 1954 withdrew about 1,500 mgd from surface- and groundwater sources in the New Orleans area. Most of the withdrawal was made from the Mississippi River. However, some withdrawal of surface water was made from Lake Pontchartrain. A large part of the withdrawal from both...
An inferred relationship between some uranium deposits and calcium carbonate cement in southern Black Hills, South Dakota
Garland B. Gott
1956, Trace Elements Memorandum 1000
Evidence resulting from geologic mapping in the southern Black Hills indicates that the areas marginal to some of the larger carbonate-cemented sandstones constitute favorable geochemical environments for the localization of uranium deposits. To determine whether these favorable environments are predictable a limited experimental core-drilling program was carried out. An extensive...
Geologic investigations of proposed Sheep Creek, Carlson Creek, and Turner Lake power sites, Alaska
George Plafker
1956, Open-File Report 56-95
Geologic conditions at Sheep Creek, Carlson Creek, and Turner Lake are discussed in relation to possible plans for hydroeletric power development. The proposed sites are on the rugged mainland of Southeastern Alaska along Gastineau Channel and Taku Inlet near Juneau. Bedrock in the area consists of a coastal strip of...
Reservoir capacity of mississippian limestones in the hopkinsville Quadrangle, Kentucky
Eugene H. Walker
1956, GSA Bulletin (67) 1431-1440
Beds composed of oölites or of shell fragments are more soluble than beds of fine-grained or earthy limestone. Vertical crevices are most likely to develop where joints traverse the more soluble beds; bedding-plane crevices in the same beds are likely to form directly above shale partings that are somewhat thicker...
Alteration of sandstone as a guide to uranium deposits and their origin, northern Black Hills, South Dakota
R.C. Vickers
1956, Trace Elements Memorandum 568
Several uranium deposits are present in the Fall River sandstone of Early Cretaceous age on the northeast flank of the Black Hills, Butte County, South Dakota. The deposits are within a fine-grained, well-sorted, persistent basal sandstone unit that ranges in thickness from 2 to 18 feet and dips about...
Geology and ore deposits of the Chicago Creek area, Clear Creek County, Colorado
J. E. Harrison, J. D. Wells
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 432
The Chicago Creek area, Clear Creek County, Colo., forms part of the Front Range mineral belt, which is a northeast-trending belt of coextensive porphyry intrusive rocks and hydrothermal veins of Tertiary age. More than $4.5 million worth of gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, and uranium was produced from the mines...
Status of sea lamprey control
James W. Moffett
1956, Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin (21) 14-17
Four experiments involving 873 bob-white quail (Colinus virginianus) chicks were conducted at the Patuxent Research Refuge, Laurel, Maryland. A comparison was made of calcium: phosphorus ratios of 1:1, 15:1, 1%: 1, 2:1, 2+:1,and 2%: 1in diets with phosphorus levels of 0.52, 0.75, 1.00, and 1.25 percent. The results indicate that...
Preliminary report on the geology and deposits of monazite, thorite, and niobium-bearing rutile of the Mineral Hill district, Lemhi County, Idaho
Edward Peck Kaiser
1956, Open-File Report 56-69
Deposits of minerals containing niobium (columbium), thorium, and rare earths occur in the Mineral Hill district, 30 miles northwest of Salmon, Lemhi County, Idaho. Monazite, thorite, allanite, and niobium-bearing rutile form deposits in metamorphic limestone layers less than 8 feet thick. The known deposits are small, irregular, and typically located...
Records of selected wells on the Eastern Shore peninsula, Virginia (including well logs and chemical analyses of ground water)
Allen Sinnott, G. Chase Tibbitts Jr.
1955, Virginia Division of Geology Mineral Resources Circular 3
No abstract available....
Water resources of southeastern Florida, with special reference to the geology and ground water of the Miami area
Garald G. Parker, G.E. Ferguson, S. K. Love
1955, Water Supply Paper 1255
The circulation of water, in any form, from the surface of the earth to the atmosphere and back again is called the hydrologic cycle. A comprehensive study of the water resources of any area must, therefore, include data on the climate of the area.The humid subtropical climate of southeastern Florida...
Reconnaissance of geology and ground water in the lower Grand River valley, South Dakota, with a section on Chemical quality of the ground water
Paul C. Tychsen, R.C. Vorhis, Eugene R. Jochens
1955, Water Supply Paper 1298
The area described in this report is the flood plain of the Grand River and the bordering benchlands in Perkins and Corson Counties, S. Dak., from a point about 6 miles west of the town of Shadehill to the confluence of the Grand and Missouri Rivers near Mobridge. The exposed bedrock...
Reconnaissance examination of the uranium deposits northeast of Winston, Broadwater County, Montana
George E. Becraft
1955, Trace Elements Memorandum 917
Anomalous radioactivity and a yellow secondary uranium mineral tentatively identified as carnotite have been found in Tertiary sedimentary rocks about 3 miles northeast of Winston, Mont. The uranium is in tuffs and tuffaceous shales and particularly in beds rich in organic matter. Carnotite(?) was identified from three localities, principally coating...
Interim report on results of test drilling in the Savannah area, Georgia and South Carolina
Stephen M. Herrick, Robert L. Wait
1955, Open-File Report 55-65
The purpose of this investigation which is being made in cooperation with the Georgia Department of Mines, Mining and Geology, Chatham County, and the City of Savannah, is to determine whether salt-water encroachment has occurred in the principal limestone aquifer in the Savannah area, and, if so, to delimit the...
