Rainwater as a chemical agent of geologic processes; a review
Dorothy Carroll
1962, Water Supply Paper 1535-G
Chemical analyses of the rainwater collected at several localities are given to show the variations of the principal constitutents. In rock weathering and soil-forming processes, the chemical composition of rainwater has an important effect which has been evaluated for only a few arid areas. In humid regions the important amounts...
Reconnaissance of ground-water resources in the Eastern Coal Field Region, Kentucky
William E. Price, D. S. Mull, Chabot Kilburn
1962, Water Supply Paper 1607
In the Eastern Coal Field region of Kentucky, water is obtained from consolidated sedimentary rocks ranging in age from Devonian to Pennsylvanian and from unconsolidated sediments of Quaternary age. About 95 percent of the area is underlain by shale, sandstone, and coal of Pennsylvanian age. Principal factors governing the availability...
Study of natural glasses through their behavior as membrane electrodes, Part 2
Alfred Hemingway Truesdell
1962, Open-File Report 62-136
The exchange constants and regular solution constants for a number of exchange reactions involving analyzed natural and simulated natural glasses have been determined. The experimental method used provides quick and simple determination of these constants. The calculation of the internal energy differences of model ion exchange systems involving alkali and...
Reconnaissance of ground-water resources in the Western Coal Field Region, Kentucky
Bruce William Maxwell, Robert Washburn Devaul
1962, Water Supply Paper 1599
In the Western Coal Field region of Kentucky, water is obtained from consolidated sedimentary rocks of Mississippian and Pennsylvanian ages and from unconsolidated sediments of Cenozoic age. Pennsylvanian rocks crop out in more than 95 percent of the area and consist of shale and sandstone interbedded with some limestone and...
Ground-water studies and analog models
Charles Joseph Robinove
1962, Circular 468
Hydrologists make ground-water studies to aid managers and users of water resources in solving their problems in the development and management of ground water. Geologic and hydrologic information provides the basic knowledge for construction of electric analog models that portray the ground-water system in miniature. Analog models can be analyzed...
Water resources of the Utica-Rome area, New York
Henry N. Halberg, O. P. Hunt, F. H. Pauszek
1962, Water Supply Paper 1499-C
The Utica-Rome area is along the Mohawk River and New York State Erie (Barge) Canal about midway between Lake Ontario and Albany. It encompasses about 390 square miles centered around the industrial cities of Utica and Rome. The Mohawk River, its tributary West Canada Creek, and a system of reservoirs...
Theory of aquifer tests
J.G. Ferris, D.B. Knowles, R. H. Brown, R.H. Stallman
1962, Water Supply Paper 1536-E
The development of water supplies from wells was placed on a rational basis with Darcy's development of the law governing the movement of fluids through sands and with Dupuit's application of that law to the problem of radial flow toward a pumped well. As field experience increased, confidence in the...
A formula for computing transmissibility causing maximum possible drawdown due to pumping
G.M. Robinson, Herbert E. Skibitzke
1962, Water Supply Paper 1536-F
By modifying the Theis nonequilibrium formula a relation is found in which the maximum possible drawdown is expressed in terms of a unique value for the aquifer coefficient of transmissibility. The relation is valid for any specified period and rate of pumping, for a given aquifer coefficient of storage, and...
Manganese in the United States, exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii
Max D. Crittenden, Louis Pavlides
1962, Mineral Investigations Resource Map 23
The manganese deposits in the United States (exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii) are shown on the accompanying map. The deposits have been divided into several genetic types distinguished on the map by symbols. The principal distinction is between syngenetic deposits, in which the manganese was deposited contemporaneously with the enclosing...
Hydraulic model studies--stream gaging control structure for Carrizo-Corduroy Project, Arizona
E.V. Richardson
1962, Open-File Report 62-107
Geology of the Williston basin, North Dakota, Montana, and South Dakota, with reference to subsurface disposal of radioactive wastes
C. A. Sandberg
1962, Open-File Report 62-115
The southern Williston basin, which underlies about 110,000 square miles #n North Dakota, South Dakota, and eastern Montana, is part of a large structural and sedimentary basin. Its surface is a flat to gently rolling plain, standing about 1,500 to 3,500 feet above sea level and locally studded by a...
Titanium in the United States, exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii
Cleaves Lincoln Rogers, Marion Charlotte Jaster
1962, Mineral Investigations Resource Map 29
The accompanying map shows the location of the principal deposits of titanium minerals in the United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii). Four broad geologic categories of deposits have been distinguished on the map by the shapes of the symbols, and relative importance is indicated by their size. The smaller deposits...
Relation between ground water and surface water in Brandywine Creek basin, Pennsylvania
F. H. Olmsted, A. G. Hely
1962, Professional Paper 417-A
The relation between ground water and surface water was studied in Brandywine Creek basin, an area of 287 square miles in the Piedmont physiographic province in southeastern Pennsylvania. Most of the basin is underlain by crystalline rocks that yield only small to moderate supplies of water to wells, but the...
The concept of entropy in landscape evolution
Luna Bergere Leopold, Walter Basil Langbein
1962, Professional Paper 500-A
The concept of entropy is expressed in terms of probability of various states. Entropy treats of the distribution of energy. The principle is introduced that the most probable condition exists when energy in a river system is as uniformly distributed as may be permitted by physical constraints. From these general...
Thermodynamic properties of minerals
Richard A. Robie
1962, Trace Elements Investigations 816
In the ten years since the publication of the national Bureau of Standards comprehensive tables of thermochemical properties, by Rossini and other (1952), a very large body of modern calorimetric and equilibrium data has become available. Because of the complex interrelations among many thermochemical data and the necessity for internal...
Tuscaloosa formation in Tennessee
M.V. Marcher, R. G. Stearns
1962, Geological Society of America Bulletin (73) 1365-1386
Late Cretaceous Tuscaloosa Formation occurs as discontinuous remnants that cap many of the ridges in the Western Highland Rim. Typically the formation consists of well-rounded, poorly sorted chert gravel which is trimodal in size distribution. The gravel fraction (mode 15 to 40+ mm) consists of Devonian and Mississippian chert and a small percentage of...
Observations on the pyrite deposits of the huelva district, Spain, and their relation to volcanism
A.R. Kinkel Jr.
1962, Economic Geology (57) 1071-1080
The felsitic porphyritic rocks that occur with Lower Carboniferous shale or slate in the Huelva district, Spain, were examined at the Rio Tinto, Tharsis, and La Zarza mines. Most of the bodies of porphyry are not intrusive into the shale, but instead consist of rhyolite flows overlain by variable thicknesses...
Trace element distribution in the searchlight, Nevada quartz monzonite stock
J.N. Shrivastava, P.D. Proctor
1962, Economic Geology (57) 1062-1070
Gold, silver, copper, and lead-bearing veins, non-radially zoned, occur just beyond the southern and western margins of the Searchlight, Nevada, quartz monzonite stock. Seven samples of the quartz monzonite and purified individual constituent minerals of the rock, representing apophyses and marginal and interior parts of the intrusive mass, were analyzed petrographically...
The origin of jasperoid in limestone
T.G. Lovering
1962, Economic Geology (57) 861-889
The name jasperoid has been applied to rocks that consist mainly of silica and that have formed by replacement. This paper considers only those jasperoids formed by replacement of limestone. Major problems involved in the origin of such jasperoid include: source of the silica; nature of solutions that dissolve, transport, and precipitate silica; and...
Distribution and composition of sulfide minerals at Balmat, New York
Bruce R. Doe
1962, Geological Society of America Bulletin (73) 833-854
In the Balmat area in northern New York, tabular deposits of sulfide minerals parallel the layering in folded, siliceous magnesian marbles of a metamorphic complex commonly referred to as the Precambrian Granville Series. Sphalerite, pyrite, and, locally, pyrrhotite and galena have replaced the carbonate minerals in parts of the marble units. The contacts...
Temperature dependence of decay time and intensity of alpha pulses in pure and thallium-activated cesium iodide
F. E. Senftle, P. Martinez, V. P. Alekna
1962, Review of Scientific Instruments (33) 819-822
The intensity and decay time of Po210 alpha particle scintillations produced in pure and thallium‐activated cesium iodide have been measured with a fast electronic system as a function of temperature down to 77°K. Three modes of decay due to alpha excitation have been observed for CsI(Tl), and two for CsI. Other than...
A photoelectric amplifier as a dye detector
Wesley J. Ebel
1962, Technical Report 4
A dye detector, based on a modified photoelectric amplifier, has been planned, built, and tested. It was designed to record automatically the time of arrival of fluorescein dye at predetermined points in a stream system. Laboratory tests and stream trials proved the instrument to be efficient. Small changes in color...
Water and the arid zone of the United States
Luna Bergere Leopold
1962, Conference Paper
In a pluvial period associated with Wisconsin glaciation the closed basin of the Estancia Valley in New Mexico held a lake which, at its maximum extent, was 150 feet deep and had a surface area of 450 square miles. This basin, with a mean elevation of about 6,000 feet, has...
Geology and ground-water resources of Sumner County, Kansas
K.L. Walters
1961, Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin (151)
This report describes the geography, geology, and ground-water resources of Sumner County in south-central Kansas. The hydrologic and geologic data upon which this report is based were obtained in the field during the summers of 1955 and 1956. Records of 300 wells and 2 springs, chemical analyses of 219 water...
Botanical Evidence of the Modern History of Nisqually Glacier, Washington
Robert S. Sigafoos, E. L. Hendricks
1961, Professional Paper 387-A
A knowledge of the areas once occupied by mountain glaciers reveals at least part of the past behavior of these glaciers. From this behavior, inferences of past climate can be drawn. The maximum advance of Nisqually Glacier in the last thousand years was located, and retreat from this point is...
