Geology of the Knife River area, North Dakota
William Edward Benson
1953, Open-File Report 53-21
The Knife River area, consisting of six 15-minute quadrangles, includes the lower half of the Knife River valley in west-central North Dakota. The area, in the center of the Williston Basin, is underlain by the Tongue River member of the Fort Union formation (Paleocene) and the Golden Valley formation (Eocene)....
Preliminary report of the Centennial Range, Montana-Idaho
Frederick Sauli Honkala
1953, Open-File Report 53-123
Phosphate rock is present in the Phosphoria formation of Permian age in the Centennial Range of southwestern Montana and adjoining parts of Idaho. A Study was made to map the Phosphoria formation, study its stratigraphy, and to ascertain the reserves and mining problems. In the Centennial Range the Phosphoria formation...
Carnotite resources of the Dolores bench, Montrose County, Colorado
Daniel Alfred Jobin
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 214
The Dolores bench is about 2 miles northwest of Uravan, Montrose County, Colo. From 1913 to November 1952 about 95,000 short tons of ore averaging 0.40 percent U3O8 and 2.0 percent V2O5 was mined from the Dolores bench. The production represents three periods of activity--1913-18, 1938-43, and 1948-52. The ore deposits...
Geology of the Shinarump No. 1 uranium mine, Seven Mile Canyon area, Grand County, Utah
Warren Irvin Finch
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 287
The Shinarump No. 1 uranium mine is located about 12 miles northwest of Moab, Utah, in the Seven Mile Canyon area, Grand County, Utah. A study was made of the geology of the Shinarump No. 1 mine in order to determine the habits, ore controls, and possible origin of the...
Reconnaissance for radioactive deposits in the Fairbanks and Livengood Quadrangles, east-central Alaska, 1949
H. Wedow Jr., J.M. Stevens, G.E. Tolbert
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 197
Several mines and prospects in the Fairbanks and Livengood quadrangles, east-central Alaska, were examined for the possible presence of radioactive materials in the summer of 1949. Also tested were pre-Cambrian and Paleozoic metamorphic and sedimentary rocks crossed by the Elliott Highway, which extends from Fox, near Fairbanks, northward about 70...
Radioactive source materials in Los Estados Unidos de Venezuela
Donald G. Wyant, William N. Sharp, Carlos Ponte Rodriguez
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 222
This report summarizes the data available on radioactive source materials in Los Estados Unidos de Venezuela accumulated by geologists of the Direccions Tecnica de Geolgia and antecedent agencies prior to June 1951, and the writers from June to November 1951. The investigation comprised preliminary study, field examination, office studies, and the...
Quercetin as colorimetric reagent for determination of zirconium
F. S. Grimaldi, C. E. White
1953, Analytical Chemistry (25) 1886-1890
Methods described in the literature for the determination of zirconium are generally designed for relatively large amounts of this element. A good procedure using colorimetric reagent for the determination of trace amounts is desirable. Quercetin has been found to yield a sensitive color reaction with zirconium suitable for the determination...
Geology of the Quartz Creek Pegmatite District, Gunnison County Colorado
Mortimer H. Staatz, A.F. Trites
1952, Trace Elements Investigations 138
The Quartz Creek pegmatite district includes an area about 29 square miles in the vicinity of Quartz Creek in Gunnison County,. Colo. This area contains 1,803 pegmatites that are intruded into pre-Cambrian rocks. The rocks exposed in the district range in age from pre-Cambrian to Recent. The oldest pre-Cambrian rocks are...
Stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria formation measured and sampled in 1951
Thomas McGiffin Cheney, J.A. Peterson, M.A. Warner, R.A. Smart, R.G. Waring, R.P. Sheldon
1952, Open-File Report 52-23
The first four of a series of reports giving detailed stratigraphic sections and analyses of samples of the Phosphoria formation in the western phosphate field as described and sampled by the U. S. Geological Survey will soon be published as Circulars 208 through 211. Because of the needs of industry...
The coal deposits of the Alkali Butte, the Big Sand Draw, and the Beaver Creek fields, Fremont County, Wyoming
Raymond M. Thompson, Vincent L. White
1952, Circular 152
Large coal reserves are present in three areas located between 12 and 20 miles southeast of Riverton, Fremont County, central Wyoming. Coal in two of these areas, the Alkali Butte coal field and the Big Sand Draw coal field, is exposed on the surface and has been developed to some...
Heavy-mineral analysis of sedimentary rocks of northern Alaska
Robert Hamilton Morris
1952, Open-File Report 52-102
The Navy Oil Unit of the United States Geological Survey has been investigating the geology of Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, northern Alaska. As part of this program, heavy-mineral samples were prepared from cores of the test wells and core holes and studied to determine stratigraphic correlations. Using the following...
Preliminary report on the Comet area, Jefferson County, Montana
George Earle Becraft
1952, Trace Elements Investigations 282
Several radioactivity anomalies and a few specimens of sooty pitchblende and other uranium minerals have been found on the mine dumps of formerly productive base-and precious-metal mines along the Comet-Gray Eagle shear zone in the Comet area in southwestern Montana. The shear zone is from 50 to 200 feet wide...
Carnotite resources of the upper group area, San Miguel County, Colorado
Charles Francis Withington
1951, Trace Elements Investigations 145
The Upper group area, which consists of 10 Government claims and adjoining public land, is 2 miles southeast of Slick Rock, San Miguel County, Colo., in unsurveyed secs. 5 and 6, T. 43 N., R. 18 W., New Mexico principal meridian. The area is equidistant from mills at Monticello, Utah,...
Ground water in the Mohall area, Bottineau and Renville Counties, North Dakota
P.D. Akin
1951, Open-File Report 51-91
The Mohall area includes about 120 square miles in Bottineau and Renville Counties in northwestern North Dakota. Mohall, whose 1950 population was 1,073, is the only town in the area. The area is part of the Drift Prairie section of the Central Lowland physiographic province. It is characterized by the...
Public water supplies in western Texas
W. L. Broadhurst, R.W. Sundstrom, D. E. Weaver
1951, Water Supply Paper 1106
This report gives a summarized description of the public water supplies in a region comprising 81 counties of western Texas and lying generally west of the hundredth meridian. It is the fourth and last of this series of reports concerning the public water supplies of the State. It gives the...
Ground-water resources of the Paintrock irrigation project, Wyoming, with a section on the quality of the water
Frank Albert Swenson, W. Kenneth Bach, Herbert A. Swenson
1951, Circular 96
The ground-water conditions of the area covered by the Paintrock irrigation project, in north-central Wyoming, were investigated during the summer of 1947. The purpose of the study was to obtain a general evaluation of ground-water recharge, discharge, and storage in the area now irrigated and in the adjacent areas where...
Geologic map of the baritic carbonate body near Mountain Pass, San Bernardino County, California
William N. Sharp, Jerry Chipman Olson
1951, Open-File Report 51-38
A geologic map of an important deposit of rare earth metals studied recently by Geological Survey geologists near Mountain Pass, California has been completed Secretary of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman announced today. The discovery of this deposit was announced on January 16, and because of the great interest that...
Ground water in the Escalante Valley, Beaver, Iron, and Washington Counties, Utah
Philip F. Fix, W.B. Nelson, B. E. Lofgren, R.G. Butler
1950, Technical Publication 6
Escalante Valley in southwestern Utah is one of the largest and most important ground-water areas of the State, with 1,300 square miles of arid land and an additional 1,500 square miles in its tributary drainage basin. Ground water is obtained from gravel and sand beds in the unconsolidated valley fill....
A glossary of uranium- and thorium-bearing minerals
Judith Weiss Frondel, Michael Fleischer
1950, Circular 74
During 1980, an estimated 121 million gallons of water per day was pumped in a 26-county area in east-central Georgia from sand aquifers of Paleocene and Late Cretaceous age. Maximum withdrawals were at the kaolin mining and processing centers in Twiggs, Wilkinson, and Washington Counties, where water levels have declined...
Ground-water resources of Gregg County, Texas, with a section on Stream runoff
W. L. Broadhurst, S.D. Breeding
1950, Water Supply Paper 1079-B
Field work in the island of St. Croix, V. I., was carried on from December 1938 to April 1939 in connection with a test-drilling program for water sup- plies. The island is 21 miles long and has a maximum width of 6 miles. Its western part consists of a range...
Mineral constituents in water and their significance
T.B. Dover
1950, Open-File Report 50-69
Pure water does not exist in nature. Because water is a powerful solvent, every drop of rain water carries dissolved or suspended material - dust, pollen, and smoke, as well as the atmospheric gases, oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide. When rain falls, the water running over the rocks and percolating...
Structural geology of the Terlingua quicksilver district, Texas
George Albert Thompson Jr.
1950, Open-File Report 50-9
Geologic mapping, supplemented by detailed investigations at the mines, has revealed new information about the geologic structure of the Terlingua quicksilver district, Texas. Attention is focused on the nature and origin of domes, grabens, and breccia pipes, structures that are unusually well developed in the area. The sedimentary rocks, of...
Geology and ground-water hydrology of the Heart River irrigation project and the Dickinson area, North Dakota
Paul C. Tychsen, Herbert A. Swenson
1950, Circular 34
The Heart River irrigation project, in southwestern North Dakota, lies in the Missouri Plateau section of the Great Plains physiographic province, which extends from the Missouri escarpment to and beyond the western border of the State. The area ranges in altitude from 1,620 to 2,275 feet and locally has strong...
Geology and ground-water hydrology of the Angostura irrigation project, South Dakota, with a section on the mineral quality of the waters
Robert T. Littleton, Herbert A. Swenson
1949, Circular 54
The lands to be irrigated from water stored in the Angostura Reservoir are situated on the lover of two terraces along the southeast side of the Cheyenne River in northeastern Fall River County and on the terrace known as Harrison Plat in southeastern Custer County, S. Dak. The terrace deposits...
Ground-water supplies of the Ypsilanti area, Michigan
Charles L. McGuinness, O.F. Poindexter, E. G. Otton
1949, Water Supply Paper 1078
As of the date of this report (August 1945), the major water users in the Ypsilanti area are: (1) the city of Ypsilanti, (2) the Willow Run bomber plant, built by the Federal Government and operated by the Ford Motor Co., and (3) the war housing project of the Federal...
