Chemical analyses and calculated modes of the Oliverian magma series, Mt. Washington Quadrangle, New Hampshire
M.P. Billings, J.C. Rabbitt
1947, GSA Bulletin (58) 573-596
Complete chemical analyses, including the spectrographic determination of 44 trace elements, have been made of six representative specimens from each of the six map units constituting the Oliverian magma series in the Mt. Washington quadrangle of New Hampshire. Potash is systematically higher than soda. An increase in silica, which ranges...
Value of the electrical log for estimating ground‐water supplies and the quality of the ground water
B.A. Barnes, Penn Livingston
1947, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (28) 903-911
This paper gives a brief summary of studies of the value of the electrical log for estimating ground‐water supplies and the quality of the water in them made in Texas by the United States Geological Survey and cooperating parties.The electrical log has been found to be especially valuable in the...
Present investigations of radioactive raw materials by the Geological Survey and a recommended program for future work
A.P. Butler Jr., F.W. Stead
1947, Trace Elements Investigations 36
The Geological Survey's program of investigation of radioactive raw materials is presented herewith under present investigations, plans for future investigations, plan of operation, and cost of operation. This report was prepared at the request of the Atomic Energy Commission. Present investigations are summarized to show the scope of the present Trace...
Ground water in Pavant Valley
P. E. Dennis, G. B. Maxey, H. E. Thomas
1946, Technical Publication 3
The users of wells for irrigation in Pavant Valley, particularly in the Flowell district, have long been cognizant of their utter dependency upon ground water for livelihood, and were among the first in the State to make an organized effort to conserve supplies by prevention of waste. Since passage of...
Stratigraphy and structure of the area of the Killik, Chandler, Anaktuvuk, and Colville Rivers, Alaska
T. G. Payne, L.A. Warner, C. E. Kirschner, George Gryc, Karl Stefansson, Edward J. Webber, R. E. Fellows, R. M. Chapman, C. T. Bressler
1946, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 1
This report deals with results of field and laboratory studies carried out to May 1946 by the Geological Survey, largely as part of the Navy Department's program of petroleum investigations in northern Alaska. The immediate purpose of the work has been to collect and interpret stratigraphic and structural data pertinent...
Preliminary report on stratigraphy and structure of the Umiat anticline
Karl Stefansson, C. L. Whittington
1946, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 6
During the summer of 1946 the United States Geological Survey, as part of its program of stratigraphic and structural investigations in the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, had one field party investigating the Umiat area.The stratigraphy of the area was already fairly well known from earlier investigations. The main object...
Preliminary report on the stratigraphy and structure of the Kurupa, Colville, and Oolamnagavik Rivers, Alaska
Robert M. Chapman, R. F. Thurrell Jr.
1946, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 1
U. S. Geological Survey Party No. 4 covered the area between 68° 30' and 69° 08' N. latitude and between 154° and 155°20' W. longitude during the period May 18 to September 2. Traverses were confined mainly to the valleys of the Kurupa, Colville, and Oolamnagavik Rivers inasmuch as very...
The Ogden Valley artesian reservoir
H. E. Thomas
1945, Technical Publication 2
Ogden Valley, in Weber County, Utah, contains an artesian reservoir from which the city of Ogden obtains all except a small part of its municipal water supply. A detailed investigation of the ground-water resources of Ogden Valley, and particularly of this artesian reservoir, was made by the Geological Survey, United...
Engineering report on the Grayburg Cooperative and unit area, Eddy County, New Mexico
John A. Barnett, Merwin H. Soyster
1945, Open-File Report 45-41
This report covers the area committed to the Grayburg Cooperative and Unit Agreement (I-Sec. 370) approved by the Assistant Secretary of the Interior on October 5, 1943, hereafter referred to as the "unit area", embracing 4,769.44 acres of public land in T. 17 S., Rs. 29 and 30 E., Eddy...
Chemical analyses of surface waters in Oklahoma, September - December, 1944
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1945, Open-File Report 45-111
A preliminary survey of the industrial quality of surface waters in Oklahoma was started in August, 1944, by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Oklahoma Resources and Planning Board, with the Oklahoma A. & M. College, Engineering Experiment Station and Department of Chemistry. From September to December, 1944, three...
Petrography, structures, and petrofabrics of the Pinckneyville quartz diorite, Alabama
H.R. Gault
1945, GSA Bulletin (56) 181-246
The Pinckneyville quartz diorite complex underlies an area in eastern Alabama extending from the Coosa River in northwest Elmore County northeast through Coosa and Tallapoosa counties into Clay County.Dark-gray, coarse-grained quartz diorite gneiss constitutes the major part of the complex, but there are smaller amounts of granodiorite and granite gneiss....
The geology and nickel-copper deposits of Yakobi Island, southeastern Alaska
George C. Kennedy, Matt S. Walton Jr.
1944, Open-File Report 44-85
This report briefly describes the nickel-copper deposits of Yakobi Island, southeastern Alaska, as well as the general geology of the island. It also interprets and summarizes the geological data obtained during drilling tests in 1941 and 1942 by the Bureau of Mines and magnetometer exploration in 1943 by the Geological...
Exploratory water-well drilling in the Houston District, Texas
Nicholas A. Rose, W. N. White, Penn Poore Livingston
1944, Water Supply Paper 889-D
In the spring and summer of 1939 a program of exploratory drilling wad undertaken in the Houston district, Tx., in conjunction with a general initiation of the water resources of the district. The main purposes of the program were to determine the thickness and character of water-bearing sands down to...
Ground-water resources of the Houston district, Texas
Walter N. White, N.A. Rose, William F. Guyton
1944, Water Supply Paper 889-C
This report covers the current phase of an investigation of the supply of ground water available for the Houston district and adjacent region, Texas,- that has been in progress during the past 10 years. The field operations included routine inventories of pumpage, measurements of water levels in observation wells and...
Texas floods of 1938 and 1939
Seth D. Breeding, Tate Dalrymple
1944, Water Supply Paper 914
In January, June, and July 1938, and June 1939 parts of Texas experienced floods that exceeded previously recorded stages at many places and that were unusually high over reaches of several hundred miles on the streams of the State. This report presents records of precipitation at several hundred places; 10 isohyetal...
Surface water resources of Iowa for the period October 1, 1940 to September 30, 1942
Lawrence C. Crawford
1944, Water Supply Bulletin 2
The State and Federal cooperative program for the systematic collection of stream-flow records in Iowa was initiated in L914, although a few records were obtained by special arrangements during an earlier period. Since the beginning of the cooperative program measurements of stage or discharge have been obtained at about 100...
The influence of grain‐selection on the meaning of quartz‐diagrams
Robert E. Fellows
1944, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (25) 653-659
The most important factor which would reduce confusion in fabric analyses is the expanded use of partial diagrams. The purpose of this paper is to stress the significance of partial diagrams in a consideration of some confusing aspects of petrofabrics.Any statistical study results in the accumulation of a mass of...
Differences in basin‐characteristics as reflected by precipitation‐runoff relations in San Bernardino and Eastern San Gabriel Mountain drainages
H.M. Stafford, H.C. Troxell
1944, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (25) 21-35
In interpretation and use of basic hydrological data as basis for planning any public works for conservation or control of water, there is great need for a careful and thorough analysis of the precipitation‐runoff relations. Moreover, when such relations may have been worked out for one particular basin, experience has...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1941, Part VIII, Western Gulf of Mexico basins
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1943, Water Supply Paper 928
Th!s volume is one of a series of 14 reports presenting results or measurements of stage and flow made on streams, lakes, and reservoirs in the United States during the water year ending September 30, 1941. The work was begun !n 1888 in connection with special studies relating to irrigation....
Occurrence of manganese in eastern Aroostook County, Maine
Walter S. White
1943, Bulletin 940-E
Manganiferous rocks are found in two areas in eastern Aroostook County, Maine, one west and northwest of Presque Isle and the other south of Houlton. The manganiferous deposits are sedimentary lenses, up to 150 feet thick and half a mile long, in middle Silurian argilllte. The rocks of both areas...
A frequency‐method of evaluating ground‐water levels
Lyman C. Huff
1943, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (24) 573-580
Water‐levels in wells, which are utilized by the hydrologist as a measure of ground‐water storage, customarily are measured in terms of distance below a convenient measuring point and expressed with reference to a fixed datum. Datum‐planes or surfaces of several types have been used—each serving some particular purpose advantageously. These...
Appendix C—Report on research in the field of ground water being conducted by oil companies
N.A. Rose
1943, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (24) 420-421
In view of the shortness of time since the appointment of the writer to the Committee on Ground Water this report is confined to the technology and problems in the Gulf Coast Oil Province. Of course, many of the methods and practices would apply to most parts of the country...
The age, growth, and bathymetric distribution of Reighard's chub, Leucichthys reighardi koelz, in Lake Michigan
1943, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (72) 108-135
Reighard's chub has come to be one of the most important species of the group since the serious decline in abundance of the larger representatives of the genus Leucichthys in Lake Michigan. An understanding of the biology of as many species of chubs as possible is essential if further...
Eastern Siberia terrain intelligence
U.S. Geological Survey Military Geology Branch
1942, Report
The following folio of terrain intelligence maps, charts and explanatory tables represent an attempt to bring together available data on natural physical conditions such as will affect military operations in Eastern Siberia. The area covered is the easternmost section of the U.S.S.R.; that is the area east of the Yenisei...
Possibilities of obtaining an additional water supply near Hingham, Massachusetts
M.L. Brashears Jr.
1942, Open-File Report 50-57
In February 1942 the War Production Board requested the U.S. Geological Survey to furnish information on the possibilities of obtaining additional water supply near the shore at Hingham, Mass. It was estimated that 300,000 to 500,000 gallons a day was needed. On February 25 and 26, 1942, a brief field study...
