Interim report on an appraisal of the uranium possibilities of Alaska
Helmuth Wedow, Max G. White, Robert M. Moxham
1952, Open-File Report 52-165
Summaries of the geology and mineral deposits, and appraisals of the uranium possibilities of the various regions of Alaska are presented in this report. A short statement on previous knowledge and investigation of radioactive materials in the Territory is also given. The review of data and appraisal for the Seward...
Fourth progress report on the cooperative investigation of springs and streamflow in the Tecolote Tunnel area of Santa Barbara County, California
C.E. Burgess
1952, Open-File Report 52-21
This is a continuation of annual progress reports giving the results of discharge measurements made in the Santa Ynez Mountains between Refugio Canyon on the west to San Marcos Pass and the Painted Cave area on the east. This portion of Santa Barbara County has been designated as the "Tecolote...
Memorandum on the ground-water resources of the Horse Creek and Cherry Creek drainage basins, Wyoming
H. M. Babcock
1952, Open-File Report 52-8
This report is one of several that are being made by the United States Geological Survey as part of the program of the Department of the Interior for the control, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the Missouri River basin. The purpose of this report is to...
Coal resources of Virginia
Andrew Brown, Henry L. Berryhill Jr., Dorothy A. Taylor, James V. A. Trumbull
1952, Circular 171
The U. S. Geological Survey and the Virginia Geological Survey have cooperated in preparing this reappraisal of the coal resources of Virginia, which is based on a study of all information" on the reserves of the State available in the publications and files of the two organizations, supplemented by mine...
Evaluation of streamflow records in Rogue River basin, Oregon
Donald Richardson
1952, Circular 187
This report presents data which are, in general, supplementary to those the surface-water investigations made in the past by the U. S. Geological Survey. Those have been essentially investigations of the operation of the many gaging stations on the Rogue River and tributaries. The data presented were obtained from a...
Water resources of the Lake Erie shore region in Pennsylvania
John William Mangan, Donald W. Van Tuyl, Walter F. White
1952, Circular 174
An abundant supply of water is available to the Lake Erie Shore region in Pennsylvania. Lake i£rie furnishes an almost inexhaustible supply of water of satisfactory chemical quality. Small quantities of water are available from small streams in the area and from the ground. A satisfactory water supply is one...
Floods in Youghiogheny and Kiskiminetas River basins, Pennsylvania and Maryland, frequency and magnitude
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1952, Circular 204
Engineers have long appreciated the fact that it is seldom economically sound to design hydraulic structures either for the maximum previous floods or for the computed maximum probable floods, unless failure of such structures involves loss of life or serious property damage. Such floods may not occur more often, on...
Pumice deposits in the Alaska Peninsula-Cook Inlet region
R.M. Moxham
1952, Open-File Report 52-103
Three principal areas of pumice deposition have been found in the Alaska Peninsula-Cook Inlet region: Katmai National Monument, Augustine Island, and the Veniaminof-Aniakchak area. Vast quantities of pumice were deposited in Katmai National Monument resulting from the eruption of Mt. Katmai and related volcanic action in 1912. The principal deposits in...
Stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria formation in Idaho (third Idaho report)
Frank W. O’Malley, D.F. Davidson, R.A. Hoppin, R.P. Sheldon
1952, Open-File Report 52-111
The first of a series of reports giving detailed stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria formation in the Western phosphate field as measured and described by the Geological Survey will soon be published as Circulars. Because of the needs of industry for many of these data during the 1951 field season,...
Geology and hydrology of dam sites on the island of St. Croix, Virgin Islands
R. R. Meyer
1952, Open-File Report 52-98
The Virgin Islands Corporation plans to build a series of small earth dams along some of the streams on the island of St. Croix, and field studies involving the selection and hydrology of possible sites was carried on by the Geological Survey during the months of August and September 1951....
Progress report on geologic study of the Crosby and Ironton area of the Cuyuna Range, Crow Wing County, Minnesota
Robert Gordon Schmidt, Carl E. Dutton
1952, Open-File Report 52-136
The detailed geology of part of the Guyana manganiferous iron-ore district was mapped during the summer and autumn of 1951. The only exposures of bedrock in or near this area are in the open-pit and underground mines where two or more layers of iron-formation and associated elastic sediments have been...
Stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria formation in Wyoming, 1947-48
Vincent Ellis McKelvey, L.E. Smith, R.A. Hoppin, F.C. Armstrong
1952, Trace Elements Investigations 184
As part of a comprehensive investigation of the phosphate deposits of the western field begun in 1947, the U. S. Geological Survey has measured and sampled the Permian Phosphoria formation at many localities in Wyoming and adjacent states. Because these data will not be fully synthesized for many years,...
Stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria in Montana, 1947-48
Roger Warren Swanson, M. R. Klepper, W.R. Lowell, F.S. Honkala, E. R. Cressman, D.A. Bostwick, O.A. Payne, E. T. Ruppel
1952, Trace Elements Investigations 186
The U. S. Geological Survey has recently measured and sampled the Phosphoria formation at many localities in Montana and other western states. These data will not be fully synthesized and analyzed for several years, but segments of the data, accompanied by little or no interpretation, will be published as...
Stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria formation in Utah, 1947-48
Vincent Ellis McKelvey, L.E. Smith, D.M. Kinney, J.W. Huddle, G.F. Hosford, R.S. Sears, D.P. Sprouse, M.D. Steward
1952, Trace Elements Investigations 185
As part of a comprehensive investigation of the phosphate deposits of the western field begun in 1947, the U. S. Geological survey has measured an sampled the full thickness of the Permian Phosphoria formation and its partial correlative, the Park City formation, at many localities in Utah and other western...
Stratigraphic sections of the Phosphoria formation in Idaho, 1947-48, Part I
Vincent Ellis McKelvey, D.F. Davidson, F. W. O’Malley, L.E. Smith, F.C. Armstrong, R.P. Sheldon
1952, Trace Elements Investigations 183
The Permian Phosphoria formation of the western states contains one of the world's largest reserves of phosphate. Although previous investigations (see especially Mansfield, 1927), including reconnaissance geologic mapping and sampling, established the location of most of the important deposits and their quality of scattered localities, they were not sufficiently detailed...
Nonsteady flow to a well of constant drawdown in an extensive aquifer
C.E. Jacob, S.W. Lohman
1952, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (33) 559-569
A mathematical theory is given for the discharge of a well of constant drawdown, discharging as by natural flow from an effectively infinite aquifer of uniform transmissibility and uniform compressibility. This theory is based on the solution by L. P. Smith of the analogous problem in heat conduction. The mathematical...
Nonsteady flow to a well of constant drawdown in an extensive aquifer
C.E. Jacob, S.W. Lohman
1952, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (33) 559-569
A mathematical theory is given for the discharge of a well of constant drawdown, discharging as by natural flow from an effectively infinite aquifer of uniform transmissibility and uniform compressibility. This theory is based on the solution by L. P. Smith of the analogous problem in heat conduction. The mathematical...
Preliminary summary review of thorium-bearing mineral occurrences in Alaska
Robert G. Bates, Helmuth Wedow Jr.
1952, Trace Elements Memorandum 339
Thorium-bearing minerals are known at 47 localities in Alaska. At these localities the thorium occurs as a major constituent or in minor amounts as an impurity in one or more of the following 12 minerals: allanite, columbite, ellsworthite, eschynite, gummite, monazite, orangite, parisite, thorianite, thorite, xenotime, and zircon....
Radioactive minerals in the Yakataga beach placers, southern Alaska
Robert M. Moxham
1952, Trace Elements Memorandum 326
Radioactivity of nine samples of beach placer deposits in the Yakataga area, southern Alaska, was studied in 1948. The samples were given to the Geological Survey by prospectors operating in the area operating in the area. The heavy-mineral fractions from the concentrates average 0.044 percent equivalent uranium....
Compilation of data on the uranium and equivalent uranium content of samples analyzed by U.S. Geological Survey during a program of sampling mine, mill, and smelter products
Marlene Louise Hall, Arthur Pierce Butler Jr.
1952, Trace Elements Investigations 242
In 1942 the Geological Survey began to collect, in response to a request made by the War Production Board, samples of mine, mill, and smelter products. About 1,400 such samples were collected and analyzed spectrographically for about 20 elements that were of strategic importance, in order to determine whether any...
Garo uranium deposits, Park County, Colorado
Garland B. Gott
1951, Trace Elements Memorandum 222
The uranium deposits, three-fourths of a mile south of Garo, Park County, Colo., were mined over 30 years ago for radium ore. The old workings are now abandoned and inaccessible. Forty tons of ore that contained 1.0 percent uranium are reported to have been mined from two light-gray sandstone beds that are stratigraphically about...
Preliminary report on the correlation between gamma-ray logs and permeability logs of the ore-bearing sandstone in the Morrison Formation Calamity Mesa, Mesa County, Colorado
David A. Phoenix
1951, Trace Elements Memorandum 270
A study of the hydrologic properties and geologic relations of the ore-bearing sandstone in the Salt Wash sandstone member of the Morrison formation has been undertaken because uranium and vanadium are believed to have been introduced into the sandstone by circulating ground water. This report describes the geologic and hydrologic characteristics of the ore-bearing sandstone...
Preliminary report on geobotanical exploration in the Yellow Cat District, Grand County, Utah
Helen L. Cannon
1951, Trace Elements Memorandum 273
Two geobotanical methods of prospecting have been applied to the search for uranium deposits in the Yellow Cat district, Grand County, Utah. The first method is based on the absorption and accumulation of uranium by plants from underlying uranium deposits. To demonstrate this method, several hundred samples of Juniperus monosperma, Atriplex confert ifolia, and Cowania...
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...
Geologic and magnetic data of the Sholdeis-Doane and Red Rock explorations, Iron County, Michigan
Kenneth L. Wier, Bruce E. Kennedy
1951, Open-File Report 51-86
