Metallogenic map of volcanogenic massive sulfide occurrences in Wyoming
R. S. Houston, W.D. Hausel, R.D. Woodfill, P. J. Graff
1992, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 1853-F
Volcanogenic massive sulfide occurrences of Late Archean age and Early Proterozoic age occur in metavolcanic and associated metasedimentary rocks in southeastern, eastern, and central Wyoming. Vein deposits in Archean volcanic terrane have accounted for a large part of the gold production in the State (Miners Delight, locality 8). Past production...
Water Resources Data, New York, Water Year 1991; Volume 1. Eastern New York; Excluding Long Island
Gary D. Firda, Richard Lumia, Patricia M. Murray
1992, Water Data Report NY-91-1
Water resources data for the 1991 water year for New York consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage; contents, and water quality of lakes and reservoirs; and ground-water levels. This volume contains records for water discharge at 110 gaging stations; stage only at 4 gaging...
Geohydrologic framework of the Snake River plain regional aquifer system, Idaho and eastern Oregon
R.L. Whitehead
1992, Professional Paper 1408-B
The Snake River Plain in southern Idaho is a major geologic structure of uncertain origin. Surface geology is generally well defined, but subsurface geology is poorly defined below about 500 feet. Rocks that underlie the plain form the framework for a regional ground-water system that supplies large quantities of water...
Potentiometric surface of the surficial aquifer system, deep zone in eastern Palm Beach County, Florida, May 1-5, 1989
Richard L. Kane
1992, Open-File Report 92-102
No abstract available....
Simulation of ground-water flow in the San Andres-Glorieta aquifer in the Acoma embayment and eastern Zuni uplift, west-central New Mexico
P. F. Frenzel
1992, Water-Resources Investigations Report 91-4099
No abstract available....
The Alaska Mineral Resource Assessment Program: Background information to accompany geologic and mineral-resource maps of the Cordova and Middleton Island quadrangles, southern Alaska
Gary R. Winkler, George Plafker, R.J. Goldfarb, J. E. Case
1992, Circular 1076
This report summarizes recent results of integrated geological, geochemical, and geophysical field and laboratory studies conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Cordova and Middleton Island 1°x3° quadrangles of coastal southern Alaska. Published open-file reports and maps accompanied by descriptive and interpretative texts, tables, diagrams, and pertinent references provide...
A geochemical investigation of selected areas in Greenville and Laurens Counties, South Carolina: Implications for mineral resources
John C. Jackson
1992, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 2205
The purpose of this study is to geochemically evaluate three areas within the Greenville 1° x 2° quadrangle (see index map) that have been shown by previous studies to contain anomalously high amounts of tin. Jackson and Moore (1992) reported the presence of cassiterite (SnO2)-bearing heavy-mineral concentrates from stream sediment...
Summary of ground-water hydrology of the Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system in the northern Midwest, United States
H. L. Young
1992, Professional Paper 1405-A
The Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system contains very productive aquifers throughout an area of about 161,000 square miles in the northern Midwest. The aquifer system is used extensively for industrial and rural water supplies and is the primary source of water for many municipalities in most of its area of occurrence, except...
Limnology of Big Lake, south-central Alaska, 1983-84
Paul F. Woods
1992, Water Supply Paper 2382
The limnological characteristics and trophic state of Big Lake in south-central Alaska were determined from the results of an intensive study during 1983-84. The study was begun in response to concern over the potential for eutrophication of Big Lake, which has experienced substantial residential development and recreational use because of...
Hydrogeology of the Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system in the northern Midwest, United States with a section on ground-water quality
H. L. Young, D. I. Siegel
1992, Professional Paper 1405-B
The Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system contains the most extensive and continuous aquifers in the northern Midwest of the United States. It is the source of water for many municipalities, industries, and rural water users. Since the beginning of ground-water development from the aquifer system in the late 1800's, hydraulic heads have...
Cross sections of Lower Ordovician carbonate depositional lithofacies and Mississippi Valley-type zinc-and iron-sulfide mineralization in the Caufield district, east-central part of Harrison 1 degree by 2 degrees Quadrangle, Arkansas and Missouri
Timothy S. Hayes, James R. Palmer, Gary Krizanich
1992, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 1994-C
As part of the Harrison 1° X 2° CUSMAP study, we examined eight drill cores from the Caulfield district (see index map) in south-central Missouri. This report presents the results of the core study and cross sections and correlation diagrams compiled from the core data (cross sections A-A' and B-B' and...
Hydrology and digital simulation of the regional aquifer system, eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho
S. P. Garabedian
1992, Professional Paper 1408-F
The occurrence and movement of water in the regional aquifer system that underlies the eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho, de- pend on the transmissivity and storage capacity of rocks that compose the geologic framework and on the distribution and amount of recharge and discharge of water within that frame- work....
Analytical results and sample locality map of stream-sediment and heavy-mineral-concentrate samples from the Kelly-Cayuse Wilderness--Proposed and Cook Mountain and East Weitas Special Management Areas, Clearwater National Forest, Clearwater and Idaho counties, Idaho
B. M. Adrian, H. N. Barton, R.T. Hopkins, J. M. Motooka, B. H. Roushey
1992, Open-File Report 90-672
No abstract available....
Contrasting P‐T‐t paths: Thermochronologic evidence for a Late Paleozoic final assembly of the Avalon Composite Terrane in the New England Appalachians
R. P. Wintsch, J. F. Sutter, Michael J. Kunk, John N. Aleinikoff, Michael J. Dorais
1992, Tectonics 672-689
Strongly contrasting pressure‐temperature‐time paths for the Avalon composite terrane and the structurally overlying Putnam‐Nashoba zone in eastern New England obtained from thermochronologic and thermobarometric data are best explained by a late Paleozoic underthrusting of cover rocks by the Avalon composite terrane. We present new Ar and U‐Pb thermochronologic data that...
Correlation of pre-Carboniferous carbonate successions of northern Alaska
Julie A. Dumoulin, Anita G. Harris
Dennis K. Thurston, Kazuya Fujita, editor(s)
1992, Conference Paper, Proceedings: 1992 international conference on Arctic margins (MMS 94-0040)
Fault-bounded successions of pre-Carboniferous (meta)carbonate rocks occur throughout northern Alaska. Successions studied in detail are those in the York Mountains (Seward Peninsula), the western and eastern Baird Mountains (western Brooks Range), the Snowden Mountain area (central Brooks Range), and the Sublik and Sadlerochit Mountains (eastern Brooks range); they are correlated...
Rare earth, major and trace element composition of Leg 127 sediments
R.W. Murray, Marilyn R. Buchholtz ten Brink, Hans-Juergen Brumsack, David C. Gerlach, G. Price Russ
1992, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results
The relative effects of paleoceanographic and paleogeographic variations, sediment lithology, and diagenetic processes on the final preserved chemistry of Japan Sea sediments are evaluated by investigating the rare earth element (REE), major element, and trace element concentrations in 59 squeeze-cake whole-round and 27 physical-property sample residues from Sites 794, 795,...
Holocene coastal development on the Florida peninsula
Richard Davis, Albert C. Hine, Eugene A. Shinn
1992, SEPM Special Publication (48) 193-212
The Florida peninsula contains five distinct coastal sections, each resulting from its own spectrum of coastal processes and sediment availability during a slowly rising, late Holocene sea level. The east coast barrier system is wave-dominated and has a large cuspate foreland (Cape Canaveral) near its middle. The Florida Keys and...
Contaminant transport in Massachusetts Bay
Bradford Butman
1992, Report
Construction of a new treatment plant and outfall to clean up Boston Harbor is currently one of the world's largest public works projects, costing about $4 billion. There is concern about the long-term impact of contaminants on Massachusetts Bay and adjacent Gulf of Maine because these areas are used extensively...
Geologic implications of earthquake source parameters in central and eastern North America
R. L. Wheeler, A. C. Johnston
1992, Seismological Research Letters (63) 491-514
The relations between geology and earthquakes remain mostly enigmatic in North America east of the Rocky Mountains. Hypocentral depths and the dips of rupture zones (preferred nodal planes) are among the seismological variables most likely associated with geologic structure in the stable continental region (SCR) of central and eastern North...
Annual survival rates of adult and immature eastern population tundra swans
James D. Nichols, J. Bart, Roland J. Limpert, William J.L. Sladen, James E. Hines
1992, Journal of Wildlife Management (56) 485-494
Tundra swans (Cygnus columbianus) of the eastern population were neckbanded in Maryland, North Carolina, and Alaska from 1966 through 1990. These swans were resighted and recaptured during autumn, winter, and spring, 1966-1990. Although the original motivation for this study involved swan movements, we wanted to use the resulting data to...
Band reporting rates of mallards in the Mississippi alluvial valley
Kenneth J. Reinecke, Charles W. Shaiffer, Don Delnicki
1992, Journal of Wildlife Management (56) 526-531
We captured 2,182 mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) in eastcentral Arkansas and marked 730 with standard bands, 728 with 10 reward bands, and 724 with 'dummy' radio transmitters during November 1986-89 to estimate band reporting rates in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV). Assuming all transmitters were reported, reporting rates were 0.16 (SE=0.049)...
Reply to Dr. Stoesselfs comment on “Reaction paths and equilibrium end-points in solid-solution aqueous-solution systems”
Pierre D. Glynn, Eric J. Reardon, Niel Plummer, Eurybiades Busenberg
1992, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (56) 2559-2572
In reply to the Critical Comment of R. K. Stoessell (this issue), limiting activity coefficients of bromide in halite (γNaBr) have been calculated by least-squares fitting of Simons et al.'s (1952) bromide distribution coefficient data for the Na(Cl,Br)-NaOH-H2O system at 35°C. Regular and subregular solidsolution model fits give γNaBr...
Seismicity and geometry of a 110‐km‐long blind thrust fault 1. The 1985 Kettleman Hills, California, earthquake
E. Ekstrand, Ross Stein, J. P. Eaton, D. Eberhart-Phillips
1992, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (97) 4843-4864
The August 4, 1985, Kettleman Hills earthquake was the third in a sequence of moderate shocks to occur beneath the northern half of a 110‐km‐long fold chain bounding the eastern California Coast Ranges. The 1982 MW =5.4 New Idria, 1983 MW=6.5 Coalinga, and 1985 MW=6.1 Kettleman Hills events define a southward...
Thin, low‐velocity crust beneath the southern Yukon‐Tanana Terrane, east central Alaska: Results from Trans‐Alaska crustal transect refraction/wide‐angle reflection data
Bruce C. Beaudoin, Gary S. Fuis, Walter D. Mooney, Warren J. Nokleberg, Nikolas I. Christensen
1992, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (97) 1921-1942
A seismic refraction/wide‐angle reflection survey for the Trans‐Alaska Crustal Transect program reveals a thin, reflective crust beneath the southern Yukon‐Tanana terrane (YTT) in east central Alaska. These data are the first detailed refraction survey of the southern YTT and compose a 130‐km‐long reversed profile along the Alaska...
Allochthonous impact-shocked rocks and superimposed deformations at the Beaverhead site in southwest Montana
R.B. Hargraves, Karl S. Kellogg, P.S. Fiske, S.B. Hougen
1992, GSA Special Papers (293) 225-235
Upward-pointing shatter cones in sandstones of uncertain age (Middle Proterozoic? to Lower Cambrian?) and older crystalline basement rocks are exposed over an area of approximately 25 × 8 km in southwestern Montana. These shatter cones, together with pseudotachylites and breccias of various types (particularly in basement gneisses), are inferred to...
