Solubility of cryolite at 25° C and 1 atmosphere pressure
C. E. Roberson, J.D. Hem
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 483-485
For natural cryolite from Greenland the activity product for the reaction (in water),Na3 Al F6 c --> 3Na+ + Al3+ + 6F-,was found to be 10-34.3 +/- 0.1. This is in good agreement with earlier work in which equilibrium was approached from supersaturation....
Boron-bearing potassium feldspar of authigenic origin in closed-basin deposits
Richard A. Sheppard, Arthur J. 3rd Gude 3rd
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 377-382
Silicic vitric tuffs in saline, alkaline lacustrine deposits are commonly altered to a variety of zeolites and potassium feldspar. The tuffs generally show a lateral gradation, in a basinward direction, of fresh glass to zeolites and then to potassium feldspar. Zeolites were formed early in diagenesis by reaction of the glass with the interstitial water....
Application of the source-area concept of storm runoff to a small Arizona watershed
F.E. Arteaga, S. E. Rantz
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 493-498
An attempt to demonstrate the source-area concept of storm runoff by analysis of the rainfall-runoff relation for the watershed of Queen Creek tributary in south-central Arizona was moderately successful. The demonstration was somewhat marred by the necessity to make several simplifying assumptions to eliminate some of the many basin variables of unknown magnitude. The percentage...
Ground water in Santa Barbara and southern San Luis Obispo counties, California
James W. Warner
1973, Report
No abstract available....
Water analysis
Marvin J. Fishman, David E. Erdmann
1973, Analytical Chemistry (45) 361-403
No abstract available....
Submarine chert-argillite slide-breccia of Paleozoic age in the southern Klamath Mountains, California
Dennis P. Cox, Walden P. Pratt
1973, Geological Society of America Bulletin (84) 1423-1438
A unique chert-argillite breccia—a breccia with an argillite matrix, in which nearly all the fragments are chert—underlies an area of at least 60 sq mi in the southern Klamath Mountains of California. Rocks of this composition have not been reported previously, in the Klamath Mountains or elsewhere, but in northwestern...
DDE: Interference with extra-renal salt excretion in the mallard
M. Friend, M. A. Haegele, R. Wilson
1973, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (9) 49-5
The effects of DDE on the function of the salt gland, the main route of sodium chloride excretion in marine birds, were investigated in mature mallards, Anas platyrhynchos, maintained on either fresh water or 1 percent salt water and given 0, 10, 100, or 1000 ppm DDE in the diet (12 birds...
Change in potentiometric head in the Lloyd Aquifer, Long Island, N.Y
G.E. Kimmel
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 345-350
The potentiometric surface of the Lloyd aquifer in 1970 locally was as much as 40 feet lower than in 1900. During this period, withdrawal of water from wells was estimated to exceed 300 billion gallons, and the amount of water released from aquifer storage by compressive forces was estimated to be 1.6 billion gallons...
Concepts of karst development in relation to interpretation of surface runoff
H. E. LeGrand, V. T. Stringfield
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 351-360
Some unusual characteristics of streamflow occur in regions underlain by carbonate rocks. The streamflow characteristics are related to processes of karstification, these processes being dependent on circulation of subsurface water and solution of the rock to form characteristic topography and underground cavern systems. Very highly cavernous and permeable unsaturated zones tend to keep the water...
Hydraulic sand-model studies of miscible-fluid flow
J.M. Cahill
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 243-250
Hydraulic sand models are useful physical tools in the investigation of the transition zone that occurs between salt and fresh ground water in coastal aquifers. Such models are used to demonstrate the effects of transport mechanisms that influence the dynamic behavior and the shape of the transition zone. The techniques employed in obtaining in-place measurements...
Microbiological aspects of ground-water recharge injection of purified unchlorinated sewage effluent at Bay Park, Long Island, N. Y.
G. G. Ehrlich, Theodore A. Ehlke, John Vecchioli
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 341-344
Unchlorinated, tertiary-treated sewage effluent was injected through a well at Bay Park, Long Island, N.Y., into a sand aquifer at a rate of 340 gpm for 10 days. Massive, biologically produced slime deposits formed in the filter pack immediately adjacent to the well screen. Observed head buildup in the recharge well was correlated with the...
Rapid reaction rates between water and a calcareous clay as observed by specific-ion electrodes
Warren W. Wood
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 237-241
Specific-ion electrodes were used to simultaneously determine the activity changes of calcium, hydrogen, sodium, fluoride, and divalent ions when 50 g of a natural, untreated material containing calcium-rich mixed-layer illite-montmorillonite clay, quartz sand, and calcium carbonate was added to 250 ml of natural Canadian River water containing 220 mg/1 Na. Calcium and magnesium were displaced from...
Summary of ground-water hydrological data in Michigan for 1971
G.C. Huffman, T. Thompson
1973, Report
No abstract available....
A rapid method for the determination of radioactive cesium isotopes in water
V.J. Janzer
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 113-115
Radioactive cesium in water is concentrated by ion-exchange on finely divided ammonium hexacyanocobalt ferrate (NCFC), and then determined by beta counting. No carrier is added, and the method can be used to determine beta-emitting cesium isotopes at the 10-pCi/l level using a 100-ml sample. Five samples can be prepared for...
Ground water in perspective
R. L. Nace
1973, JAWRA (9) 18-24
Owing to their enormous capacity, ground‐water reservoirs are at least equal in importance to the ground water itself. As regulators of water movement in the hydrological cycle, these reservoirs surpass all lakes combined, natural and manmade. While many aquifers are not well understood, data on many others are adequate for...
Contrasting compositions of the youngest Columbia River basalt flows in Union and Wallowa Counties, northeastern Oregon
George W. Walker
1973, Geological Society of America Bulletin (84) 425-429
Note: This paper is dedicated to Aaron and Elizabeth Waters on the occasion of Dr. Waters' retirement.Several new chemical analyses of flows confined to a structural downwarp in northeastern Oregon indicate the first reported occurrence of Late-Yakima–type basalt in the region and the close stratigraphic association of Yakima–type and Late-Yakima–type...
Ironside Mountain, Oregon: A late Tertiary volcanic and structural enigma
T. P. Thayer, C. Ervin Brown
1973, Geological Society of America Bulletin (84) 489-498
Note: This paper is dedicated to Aaron and Elizabeth Waters on the occasion of Dr. Waters' retirement.Ironside Mountain is a 6- by 10-km block of folded rhyolite, andesite, and basalt flows of the Strawberry Volcanics bounded by a horse-shoe-shaped reverse fault and surrounded by Mesozoic rocks. The toe of the...
Petrology of Newberry Volcano, central Oregon
Michael W. Higgins
1973, Geological Society of America Bulletin (84) 455-487
Note: This paper is dedicated to Aaron and Elizabeth Waters on the occasion of Dr. Waters' retirement.The eastern flank of the central and southern Cascade Mountains is bordered by a belt of shield volcanoes that appears to be a subprovince of the Oregon high-alumina plateau basalt petrologic province. Most of...
Geochronology of Precambrian rocks of the Teton Range, Wyoming
John C. Reed Jr., R. E. Zartman
1973, Geological Society of America Bulletin (84) 561-582
Note: This paper is dedicated to Aaron and Elizabeth Waters on the occasion of Dr. Waters' retirement.The oldest rocks in the Teton Range are complexly deformed interlayered biotite gneiss, plagioclase gneiss, amphibole gneiss, and amphibolite. Also, within these rocks, there are concordant bodies of strongly lineated quartz monzonite gneiss, here...
Pahoehoe flows from the 1969–1971 Mauna Ulu eruption, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Donald A. Swanson
1973, Geological Society of America Bulletin (84) 615-626
Note: This paper is dedicated to Aaron and Elizabeth Waters on the occasion of Dr. Waters' retirement.Three types of chemically similar pahoehoe flows were observed to form during the 1969–1971 Mauna Ulu eruption. (1) A cavernous type called shelly pahoehoe, characterized by fragile gas cavities, small tubes, and buckled fragments...
Miocene tholeiitic basalts of coastal Oregon and Washington and their relations to coeval basalts of the Columbia Plateau
Parke D. Snavely Jr., Norman S. MacLeod, Holly C. Wagner
1973, Geological Society of America Bulletin (84) 387-424
Note: This paper is dedicated to Aaron and Elizabeth Waters on the occasion of Dr. Waters' retirement.Tholeiitic basalt flows and breccias of Miocene age in western Oregon and Washington form three distinct stratigraphic units. Each unit was erupted from coastal vents marked by dikes and sills of the same composition...
Flow of lava into the sea, 1969–1971, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
James G. Moore, R. L. Phillips, R.W. Grigg, D. W. Peterson, Don Swanson
1973, GSA Bulletin (84) 537-546
Lava from the Mauna Ulu eruption on Kilauea Volcano entered the sea on the south coast of the Island of Hawaii three times from 1969 to 1971. Two of these flows were investigated underwater by divers, one while lava was actively flowing.The June 1969 flow entered the sea as a...
Origin of Comb Layering and Orbicular Structure, Sierra Nevada Batholith, California
James G. Moore, J. P. Lockwood
1973, GSA Bulletin (84) 1-20
A new descriptive term, comb layering, is proposed to replace the informal term Willow Lake-type layering, first introduced by Poldervaart and Taubeneck (1959) to describe layering in granitoid rocks in which constituent crystals are oriented approximately perpendicular to individual layers. The term schlieren layering is proposed to describe the “normal” layering of granitic rocks...
Silica-carbonate alteration of serpentine: Wall rock alteration in mercury deposits of the California Coast Ranges
I. Barnes, J. R. O’Neil, J. B. Rapp, D. E. White
1973, Economic Geology (68) 388-398
Chemical, isotopic, and thermodynamic properties have been measured of CO 2-rich ground waters in the central California Coast Ranges. The acidic CO 2-rich waters react with serpentine to form silica-carbonate rock, the host rock of many mercury deposits in the Coast Range of California. In part the waters are of a metamorphic...
Annual compilation and analysis of hydrologic data for Pin Oak Creek, Trinity River basin, Texas, 1971
B.B. Hampton
1973, Report
The U.S. Soil Conservation Service is actively engaged in the installation of flood- and soil-erosion reducing measures in Texas under the authority of "The Flood Control Act of 1936 and 1944" and "Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act" (Public Law 566), as amended. The Soil Conservation Service has found a...
