The solusphere - its inferences and study
F. H. Rainwater, W. F. White
1958, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (14) 244-249
Water is a fundamental geologic agent active in rock decomposition, erosion, and synthesis. Solutes in water are of particular interest to geochemists as sources of raw material for synthesis or as products of decomposition. When geochemical studies move from the laboratory into natural environment many variables relating to solute hydrology...
Reconnaissance study of erosion and deposition produced by the flood of August 1955 in Connecticut
M. Gordon Wolman, J.P. Eiler
1958, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (39) 1-14
A large area in the valley bottoms in Connecticut was inundated by the flood of August 1955. Relative to the total area flooded that part permanently modified by the flow was surprisingly small. Although great in some places, the distribution of these permanent modifications of channel and flood plain was...
Mass control of insects: The effects on fish and wildlife
Oliver B. Cope, Paul F. Springer
1958, Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America (4) 52-56
The mass control of insects carried on during the past ten years has made possible the economical suppression and, in a few instances, the near eradication of pest insect populations over widespread areas. These large operations, usually featuring the use of the airplane for applying insecticides quickly and cheaply, have...
The deuterium content of water in some volcanic glasses
I. Friedman, R. L. Smith
1958, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (15) 218-228
The deuterium-hydrogen composition (relative to Lake Michigan water = 0.0) of water extractsd from coexisting perlite and obsidian from eleven different localities was determined. The water content of the obsidians is generally from 0.09 to 0.29 per cent by weight, though two samples from near Olancha, California, contain about 0.92...
Volumes and surface areas of pendular rings
W. Rose
1958, Journal of Applied Physics (29) 687-691
A packing of spheres is taken as a suitable model of porous media. The packing may be regular and the sphere size may be uniform, but in general, both should be random. Approximations are developed to give the volumes and surface areas of pendular rings that exist at points of sphere...
A combined deamination and nitro reduction method for nitroanilines
G. C. Finger, R.H. White
1958, Journal of Organic Chemistry (23) 1612-1613
The hypophosphorous acid-cuprous oxide deamination method on nitroanilines has been modified so that the nitro compounds which are formed are reduced in turn by cuprous oxide to the corresponding amines. Over-all yields of 55-65% are reported for three halogenated nitroanilines....
New host and locality record for Triaenophorus crassus forel (Cestoda: pseudophyllidea)
J. R. Uzmann, M. N. Hesselholt
1957, Journal of Parasitology (43) 205-208
The adult form of Triaenophorus crassus Forel, 1868 (= T. robustus Olsson, 1893; = T. tricuspidatus morpha megadentatus Wardle, 1932) occurs as an intestinal parasite in the pike, Esox lucius L., a holarctic species of wide distribution. Preliminary life-history stages include procercoid development in copepods of the genus Cyclops followed...
Uraniferous coal and carbonaceous shale in northeast Parana, Brazil
Donald D. Haynes, Charles T. Pierson
1957, Trace Elements Memorandum 1097
Uraniferous coal has been found in northeast Parana, Brazil, in the Rio Bonito formation of Pennsylvanian age. In the majority of coal samples taken the uranium oxide content ranges from 0.005 to 0.030 percent, but selected screened samples have contained as much as 0.445 percent uranium oxide. The sampled thickness...
Hydrology and water law: what is their future common ground?
Arthur M. Piper, Harold E. Thomas
1957, Open-File Report 57-90
We live in an age of social and economic evolution--evolution so deep reaching and rapid it constitutes ad revolution in numerous fields of human concern. Long-standing concepts of what is appropriate and orderly face drastic modification if they are to survive. To this situation the principles of applied hydrology and...
Water quality: a factor in Arkansas River development
T.B. Dover
1957, Open-File Report 57-40
One of the first requisites for intelligent planning of the utilization and control of water and for the administration of laws relating to its use, is data on the quantity, quality, and mode of occurrence of water supplies. The collections, evaluation, interpretation, and publication of such data constitute the primary...
Simplified methods for computing total sediment discharge with the modified Einstein procedure
B. R. Colby, D. W. Hubbell
1957, Open-File Report 57-21
Model '54 transmission and reflection fluorimeter for determination of uranium, with adaptation to field use
Ernest E. Parshall, L. F. Rader Jr.
1957, Bulletin 1036-M
Stromatolites of the Belt Series in Glacier National Park and Vicinity, Montana
Richard Rezak
1957, Professional Paper 294-D
Eight zones of Precambrian stromatolites that are useful for local correlation are recognized in the Belt series of the Glacier National Park region, Montana. The zones vary in composition, thickness, and areal extent. Some are widespread and extend into neighboring regions, and others occur only in small areas. Their names...
Bathygalea, a genus of moderately deep-water and deep-water Miocene to Recent cassids
W. P. Woodring, A.A. Olsson
1957, Professional Paper 314-B
Ground-water geology of the Bruneau–Grand View area, Owyhee County, Idaho
Robert Thomas Littleton, E. G. Crosthwaite
1957, Water Supply Paper 1460-D
The Bruneau-Grand View area is part of an artesian basin in northern Owyhee County, Idaho. The area described in this report comprises about 600 square miles, largely of undeveloped public domain, much of which is open, or may be opened, for desert-entry filing. Many irrigation-entry applications to the Federal Government...
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...
Pegmatite geology of the Shelby district, North Carolina
Wallace R. Griffitts
1957, Open-File Report 58-40
The Shelby district is divided into a northwestern and a southeastern province. The rocks in the southeastern province include various units in the Battleground schist formation and the Yorkville granodiorite. Those in the northwestern province include the Carolina gneiss, with its Shelby gneiss member, and the Toluca quartz monzonite. The...
Geology and ground-water resources of Goshen County Wyoming with a section on chemical quality of the ground water
J. R. Rapp, F. N. Visher, R. T. Littleton, W. H. Durum
1957, Water Supply Paper 1377
Goshen County, which has an area of 2,186 square miles, lies in southeastern Wyoming. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ground-water resources of the county by determining the character, thickness, and extent of the waterbearing materials; the source, occurrence, movement, quantity, and quality of the ground water;...
Glacial features and surficial deposits of the Malaspina district, Alaska
George Plafker, Don John Miller
1957, Open-File Report 57-91
The Malaspina district extends about 50 miles along the north shore of the Gulf of Alaska from Icy Bay and the Guyot Glacier on the west to Yakutat Bay and Disenchantment Bay on the east (see index map). The district includes a coastal lowland flanked on the north by a...
Geology of the Basin Quadrangle, Montana
Edward Thompson Ruppel
1957, Open-File Report 58-87
The Basin quadrangle, in the northern part of the Boulder Mountains between Butte and Helena, Montana, is underlain principally by igneous rocks that include Late Cretaceous quartz latitic and andesitic Elkhorn Mountains volcanics, quartz monzonite and related rocks of the Boulder batholith, Oligocene(?) quartz latitic volcanic rocks, and late Miocene(?)-early...
Geology of the southern Elkhorn Mountains, Jefferson and Broadwater Counties, Montana
M. R. Klepper, R. A. Weeks, E. T. Ruppel
1957, Professional Paper 292
The geology of an area of about 270 square miles in the southern Elkhorn Mountains, west of Townsend in west-central Montana, is described. The mountains in the southern part of the area comprise northward-trending alternating ridges and valleys underlain principally by folded sedimentary rocks. They merge northward into the higher...
Volcanic rocks of the El Modeno area, Orange County, California
R. F. Yerkes
1957, Professional Paper 274-L
Notes on the structural geology of Puerto Rico
C. A. Kaye
1957, GSA Bulletin (68) 103-118
Two major structural and stratigraphic rock units occur in Puerto Rico: the older complex, ranging in known age from Late Cretaceous to late Paleocene or early Eocene and the middle Tertiary sequence, ranging from late Oligocene possibly to late Miocene. The former rocks are eugeosynclinal in character and are very...
Lithofacies of the salt wash member of the Morrison Formation, Colorado plateau
T. E. Mullens, V. L. Freeman
1957, Geological Society of America Bulletin (68) 505-526
The Salt Wash is the basal member of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation in parts of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Deposited by streams, it comprises lenticular beds of cross-laminated sandstone irregularly interbedded with mudstone, siltstone, claystone, and horizontally laminated sandstone. The term "lithofacies," as used in this paper,...
Discussion of “Application of the modified einstein procedure for computation of total sediment load”
K. B. Schroeder, C. H. Hembree
1957, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (38) 768-773
Basically, any theory consists of a set of assumptions and various conclusions which are logically derived therefrom. An assumption, as the term is to be used here, may be based on an observed fact or relationship, a definition, an undefined (but generally accepted and understood) concept; or it may be...
