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 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...
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 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;...
Simplified methods for computing total sediment discharge with the modified Einstein procedure
B. R. Colby, D. W. Hubbell
1957, Open-File Report 57-21
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...
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...
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...
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
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
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...
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...
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...
Thermal waters of volcanic origin
Donald E. White
1957, GSA Bulletin (68) 1637-1658
Waters of widely differing chemical compositions have been considered at least in part volcanic in origin, and are commonly associated with each other in the same area. Do any or all of these types contain volcanic components, and if so, how are the different types derived?To determine the probable characteristics...
Modified determination of radium in water
F. B. Barker, L. L. Thatcher
1957, Analytical Chemistry (29) 1573-1575
The proposed method embodies a barium sulfate carrier precipitation, filtration through molecular filter membranes, and collection of activity after prescribed aging period. The method is sufficiently accurate and precise to indicate the potability of water and for use in general studies of radium in chemical hydrology. Amounts of radium as...
Modified zirconium-Eriochrome Cyanine R determination of fluoride
L. L. Thatcher
1957, Analytical Chemistry (29) 1709-1712
The Eriochrome Cyanine R method for determining fluoride in natural water has been modified to provide a single, stable reagent solution, eliminate interference from oxidizing agents, extend the concentration range to 3 p.p.m., and extend the phosphate tolerance. Temperature effect was minimized; sulfate error was eliminated by precipitation. The procedure...
Structure and growth of scales of yellow perch of Green Bay
Leonard S. Joeris
1957, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (86) 169-194
The appearance of the scales of yellow perch differs with the location on the fish's body. Comparison of scales of Green Bay perch taken above and below the lateral line reveals the former to have more sharply defined circuli and to exhibit fewer false annuli and less of the shading...
Geographic names of Antarctica
U.S. Board on Geographic Names, Department of the Interior, Meredith F. Burrill, Kenneth J. Bertrand, Fred G. Alberts
1956, Gazetteer 14
The geographic nomenclature of Antarctica was long in need of an overall systematic treatment, objective in approach and based upon thorough examination of all the evidence. The results of such treatment over a period of about three years were presented in Geographical Names of Antarctica, Special Publication No. 86 of...
Fifty-sixth Christmas Bird Count. 147. Southern Dorchester County, Md
Fred A. Johnson, B. Kenneth Williams, J.D. Nichols, J.E. Hines, W. L. Kendall, G.W. Smith, David F. Caithamer
1956, Audubon Field Notes (10) 565-583
Summary and Recommendations: We suggest that managers are approaching the limits of their ability to improve waterfowl harvest management, primarily because the information needed to make better decisions is being sacrificed by the current approach to setting regulations. We propose an actively adaptive management strategy in which regulatory...
Fifty-sixth Christmas Bird Count. 147. Southern Dorchester County, Md
C.S. Robbins
1956, Audubon Field Notes (10) 112-113
Summary and Recommendations: We suggest that managers are approaching the limits of their ability to improve waterfowl harvest management, primarily because the information needed to make better decisions is being sacrificed by the current approach to setting regulations. We propose an actively adaptive management strategy in which regulatory...
Duttonite, a new quadrivalent vanadium oxide from the Peanut mine, Montrose County, Colorado
Mary Eleanor Thompson, Carl Houston Roach, Robert Meyrowitz
1956, Trace Elements Investigations 582
Duttonite, a new quadrivalent vanadium oxide from the Peanut mine, Montrose County, Colo., has the formula VO(OH)2. The mineral occurs as crusts and coatings of pale-brown transparent platy crystals, as one of the first oxidation products of montroseite ore. It is associated with melanovanadite and abundant crystals of hexagonal...
