Electrochemical stabilization as a means of preventing ground failure in railroads
D.I. Solntzev, V.S. Sorkov, V.P. Sokoloff (translator)
1947, Open-File Report 47-27-B
Laboratory and field data on electrochemical stabilization of clays, by three Russian authors, are here presented in translation. Abstracts of the Russian papers were published in May 1947 issue of the Engineering News Record (pp. 100-101). There exists also a small body of literature, in German and English, dealing with...
Best site for black shale mining on the basis of current data
Thomas A. Hendricks
1947, Trace Elements Memorandum 47
Major winter and nonwinter floods in selected basins in New York and Pennsylvania
Walter Basil Langbein
1947, Water Supply Paper 915
The scientific design of flood-control works is based on an evaluation of the hydrologic factors basic to flood events, particularly how rainfall and snow runoff, soil conditions, and channel influences can combine to produce greater or lesser floods. For this purpose an analysis of the pertinent hydrologic data is needed....
Available data on the content of radioactive elements in recent marine sediments and sea water
Frank W. Stead
1947, Trace Elements Memorandum 49
Preliminary report on stratigraphy and structure of the Wolf Creek anticline, Alaska
Karl Stefansson, R. F. Thurrell Jr., J. H. Zumberge
1947, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 14
In 1946 U. S. Geological Survey Party 2 was assigned the task of carrying out detailed structural and stratigraphic investigations in the area of Maybe Creek*. Field studies indicated the presence of a large anticlinal structure whose axis lies just south of Wolf Creek. Later structural data compiled from aerial...
Preliminary report on stratigraphy and structure of the area of Kigalik and Awuna Rivers, Alaska
C. L. Whittington, M. L. Troyer
1947, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 11
During the summer of. 1947, U. S. Geological Survey Party No. 2 made a reconnaissance survey of the area between Awuna River and the divide north of the Kigalik River. The westernmost observations were made along the Awuna anticline to longitude about 157°30' W. and along the Kigalik anticline to...
Stratigraphy and structure of the area of Maybe Creek
Richard G. Ray, William A. Fischer
1947, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 4
During the summer of 1946 the United States Geological Survey continued its program of stratigraphic and structural investigations in Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, northern Alaska. This report summarizes the results of work in the area of Maybe Creek (see inset, fig. 1). The area studied is southwest of Umiat...
Preliminary report on the general geology and engineering geology of Noonan quadrangle, North Dakota
R. C. Townsend
1947, Report
The Noonan quadrangle is in northwestern North Dakota adjacent to the Dominion of Canada and approximately 35 miles east of Montana. The small coal-mining, farm, and railroad town of Noonan is located near the eastern edge of this sparsely populated area. The east-west State Highway 5 bisects the quadrangle.Cultural development...
Delineation of parallel folds and measurement of stratigraphic dimensions
J.B. Mertie Jr.
1947, Geological Society of America Bulletin (58) 779-802
The delineation of parallel folds in structural sections, and the extraction therefrom of stratigraphic information, has generally been done with considerable personal interpretation. If profiles must be drawn, or sections measured, from structural observations used in pairs, this is unavoidable; but superior results may be obtained if more than two...
Stratigraphy and structure of the area of the Kurupa, Oolamnagavik, Killik, and Colville Rivers
Robert M. Chapman, R. F. Thurrell Jr.
1947, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 5
The area between 68° 3C' and 69° 08 N. latitude and between 154° and 155° 20 W. longitude was covered by U. S. Geological Survey party 4 during the period May 18 to September 2. Traverses were confined mainly to the valleys of the Kurupa, Oolamnagavik, and Colville Rivers inasmuch...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
