Deposits of the manganese oxides
Richard G. Petersen
1960, Economic Geology (55) 1-55
One of the problems of the wartime program of studies of domestic manganese deposits concerned the identification of, and modes of origin of the manganese oxide minerals. Of the hundreds of specimens of the oxides collected in the United States, the minerals of about 250...
Ground-water hydrology and glacial geology of the Kalamazoo area, Michigan
Morris Deutsch, K.E. Vanlier, P.R. Giroux
1960, Progress Report 23
The Kalamazoo report area includes about 150 square miles of Kalamazoo County, Mich. The area is principally one of industry and commerce, although agriculture also is of considerable importance. It has a moderate and humid climate and lies within the Lake Michigan “snow belt”. Precipitation averages about 35 inches per...
Geology and ground-water resources of the island of Kauai, Hawaii
Gordon A. Macdonald, Dan A. Davis, Doak C. Cox
1960, Bulletin 13
Kauai is one of the oldest, and is structurally the most complicated, of the Hawaiian Islands. Like the others, it consists principally of a huge shield volcano, built up from the sea floor by many thousands of thin flows of basaltic lava. The volume of the Kauai shield was on...
Effect of crystal thickness and geometry on the alpha-particle resolution of CsI (Tl)
P. Martinez, F. E. Senftle
1960, Review of Scientific Instruments (31) 974-977
The resolution of CsI(Tl) for Po210 alpha particles has been measured as a function of crystal thickness. The best resolution of a ½‐in. diam cylindrical crystal was obtained for a thickness of 0.38 mm, and the effect of thickness on the resolution is discussed. Based on the proposed model, a conical crystal...
Determination of niobium in the parts per million range in rocks
F. S. Grimaldi
1960, Analytical Chemistry (32) 119-121
A modified niobium thiocyanate spectrophotometric procedure relatively insensitive to titanium interference is presented. Elements such as tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, and rhenium, which seriously interfere in the spectrophotometric determination of niobium, are separated by simple sodium hydroxide fusion and leach; iron and magnesium are used as carriers for the niobium. Tolerance...
Ground-water conditions and storage capacity in the San Joaquin Valley, California
G. H. Davis, J. H. Green, F. H. Olmsted, D. W. Brown
1959, Water Supply Paper 1469
The San Joaquin Valley includes roughly the southern two-thirds of the Great Central Valley of California. It is a broad structural trough surrounded by mountains. The northern part of the valley drains through the San Joaquin River northward to San Francisco Bay ; the southern part of the valley normally...
Geology and ground-water resources of the upper Lodgepole Creek drainage basin, Wyoming, with a section on chemical quality of the water
Louis Jay Bjorklund, R. A. Krieger, E. R. Jochens
1959, Water Supply Paper 1483
The principal sources of ground-water supply in the upper Lodgepole Creek drainage basin-the part of the basin west of the Wyoming-Nebraska State line-are the Brule formation of Oligocene age, the Arikaree formation of Miocene age, the Ogallala formation of Pliocene age, and the unconsolidated deposits of Quaternary age. The Brule...
Study and interpretation of the chemical characteristics of natural water
John David Hem
1959, Water Supply Paper 1473
The chemical composition of natural water is derived from many different sources of solutes, including gases and aerosols from the atmosphere, weathering and erosion of rocks and soil, solution or precipitation reactions occurring below the land surface, and cultural effects resulting from activities of man. Some of the processes of...
Ground-water resources of the lower Niobrara River and Ponca Creek basins, Nebraska and South Dakota
Thomas G. Newport, Robert A. Krieger
1959, Water Supply Paper 1460-G
This report describes the area in north-central Nebraska and south-central South Dakota drained by Ponca Creek and by the Niobrara River below Valentine, Nebr. The Niobrara River and Ponca Creek are neighboring eastward flowing tributaries of the Missouri River. The Dakota sandstone of Cretaceous age is the oldest formation tapped...
A field method of spectrographic analysis for use in geochemical exploration work
Uteana Oda, A.T. Myers, E.F. Cooley
1959, Open-File Report 59-91
The method to be described is a modification of an earlier method of semiquantitative procedure. Through its use 34 elements can be determined simultaneously in one sample, which may be a rock, soil, mineral, or an ore. For many of these elements concentration ranges from one to ten thousand parts...
Impact mechanics at Meteor Crater, Arizona
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
1959, Open-File Report 59-108
Meteor Crator is a bowl-shaped depression encompassed by a rim composed chiefly of debris stacked in layers of different composition. Original bedrock stratigraphy is preserved, inverted, in the debris. The debris rests on older disturbed strata, which are turned up at moderate to steep angles in the wall of the...
Hydrologic budget of the Beaverdam Creek basin, Maryland
W. C. Rasmussen, Gordon E. Andreasen
1959, Water Supply Paper 1472
A hydrologic budget is a statement accounting for the water gains and losses for selected periods in an area. Weekly measurements of precipitation streamflow, surface-water storage, ground-water stage, and soil resistivity were made during a 2year period, April 1, 1950, to March 28, 1952, in the Beaverdam Creek basin, Wicomico...
Investigations of Sediment Transportation, Middle Loup River at Dunning, Nebraska: With Application of Data from Turbulence Flume
David Wellington Hubbell, Donald Quintin Matejka
1959, Water Supply Paper 1476
An investigation of fluvial sediments of the Middle Loup River at Dunning, Nebr., was begun in 1946 and expanded in 1949 to provide information on sediment transportation. Construction of an artificial turbulence flume at which the total sediment discharge of the Middle Loup River at Dunning, Nebr., could be measured...
Geology and ground-water resources of Medina County, Texas
Charles Lee Roy Holt
1959, Water Supply Paper 1422
The Edwards limestone of Cretaceous age is the principal water-bearing formation in Medina County and makes up the major part of a ground-water reservoir, or aquifier, which in places includes thinner limestone formations both above and below the Edwards. The Glen Rose limestone, also of Cretaceous age, yields moderate amounts...
Modern instruments for surveying and mapping
G.D. Whitmore, M.M. Thompson, J. L. Speert
1959, Science (130) 1059-1066
New surveying systems utilizing photogrammetry and electronics speed production of topographic maps....
Yellowstone Park area, Wyoming: A possible modern Lopolith
W. Hamilton
1959, GSA Bulletin (70) 225-228
No abstract available....
History of Imuruk Lake, Seward Peninsula, Alaska
David M. Hopkins
1959, GSA Bulletin (70) 1033-1046
A study of Imuruk Lake, a large, shallow lake in north-central Seward Peninsula, Alaska, illuminates the climatic history of northwestern Alaska and the tectonic history of central Seward Peninsula during Pleistocene and Recent time. Special interest attaches to the older lake sediments, because they contain evidence concerning the climate, fauna, and...
Ground-water provinces of India
George C. Taylor
1959, Economic Geology (54) 683-697
This paper gives a general resume of ground-water utilization and development and describes the occurrence of water in eight ground-water provinces of India. The paper is based in part on observations of the writer during 1951-55 and in part on earlier work of the Geological Survey of India. Ground water...
Tritium and deuterium content of atmospheric hydrogen
F. Begemann, Irving Friedman
1959, Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung A (14) 1024-1031
The tritium and deuterium content of 24 samples of atmospheric hydrogen collected at ground level near Buffalo. N.Y. (U.S.A.). Hamburg (Germany), and Nürnberg (Germany) during 1954 to 1956 was measured.At the beginning of 1954 the T/H-ratio was found to have been 9.18 · 10-14 i.e. about a factor of 10 higher...
Composition of monazites from pegmatites in eastern Minas Gerais, Brazil
K. J. Murata, C. V. Dutra, da Costa, J.J.R. Branco
1959, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (16) 1-14
Two zoned pegmatites in south-eastern Minas Gerais were sampled in detail for their content of monazite and xenotime and the monazite was analysed for certain of the rare-earth elements and thorium.The ratio of xenotime to monazite increases in both pegmatites from the wall toward the quartz core. The content of...
Determination of uranium in zircon
F. Cuttitta, G. J. Daniels
1959, Analytica Chimica Acta (20) 430-434
A routine fluorimetric procedure is described for the determination of trace amounts of uranium in zircon. It employs the direct extraction of uranyl nitrate with ethyl acetate using phosphate as a retainer for zirconium. Submicrogram amounts or uranium are separated in the presence of 100,000 times the amount of zirconium....
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...
Selected topics of fluid mechanics
Carl E. Kindsvater
1958, Water Supply Paper 1369-A
The fundamental equations of fluid mechanics are specific expressions of the principles of motion which are ascribed to Isaac Newton. Thus, the equations which form the framework of applied fluid mechanics or hydraulics are, in addition to the equation of continuity, the Newtonian equations of energy and momentum. These basic...
Physical properties of salt, anhydrite and gypsum : preliminary report
Eugene C. Robertson, Richard A. Robie, Kenneth G. Books
1958, Trace Elements Memorandum 1048
This summary is the result of a search of the available literature. Emphasis is placed on the mechanical and calorimetric properties of salt; the measurements of elastic, thermal, magnetic, and mass properties of salt are merely tabulated. Under hydrostatic pressure < 1,000 kg/cm2 at room temperature, salt deforms plastically to...
