Map, tables, and summary of fossil and isotopic age data, Mount Hayes Quadrangle, eastern Alaska range, Alaska
Warren J. Nokleberg, John N. Aleinikoff, J. Thomas Dutro Jr., Marvin A. Lanphere, Norman J. Silberling, Steven R. Silva, Thomas E. Smith, Donald L. Turner
1992, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 1996-D
This report describes, summarizes, and interprets all known bedrock fossil and isotopic age studies for the Mount Hayes quadrangle, eastern Alaska Range, Alaska. The accompanying map shows the location of all known bedrock fossil and isotopic sample localities in the quadrangle on a generalized geologic base map. These fossil and...
Ages of rocks in southwestern Washington and northwestern Oregon as indicated by paleontological and isotopic dates
Wendy Adams Niem, Alan R. Niem
1992, Open-File Report 92-344
This report presents a compilation of 1,019 paleontologic dates and 301 isotopic dates of rocks in southwestern Washington and northwestern Oregon. The study area extends from Portland, Oregon (latitude 45°30' N.) to Bellevue, Washington (latitude 47°35' N.) and from the east flank of the Cascade Range (longitude 121°20' W.) to...
Hydrogeology and analysis of the ground-water-flow system of the Eastern Shore, Virginia
Donna L. Richardson
1992, Open-File Report 91-490
No abstract available. ...
Geologic map and fold- and thrust-belt interpretation of the southeastern part of the Charley River quadrangle, east-central Alaska
J. H. Dover
1992, IMAP 1942
No abstract available....
Bedrock geology and mineral resources of the Knoxville 1° x 2° quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina
Gilpin R. Robinson Jr., Frank G. Lesure, J. I. Marlowe, Nora K. Foley, S. H. Clark
1992, Bulletin 1979
The Knoxville 1° x 2° quadrangle spans the Southern Blue Ridge physiographic province at its widest point from eastern Tennessee across western North Carolina to the northwest corner of South Carolina. The quadrangle also contains small parts of the Valley and Ridge province in Tennessee and the Piedmont province in...
Hydrologic data for a study of pre-Illinoian glacial till in Linn County, Iowa, water year 1991
P.R. Bowman
1992, Open-File Report 92-500
Hydrologic data for a study of pre-lllinoian glacial till were collected during the 1991 water year at a site in Linn County, east-central Iowa. A hydrologic-data-collection network, consisting of a meteorological station, 22 observation wells, and a water-quality minimonitor, was installed at the site to investigate the hydraulic properties of...
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...
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...
Mineral and energy resources of the BLM Roswell Resource Area, east-central New Mexico
Susan B. Bartsch-Winkler, editor(s)
1992, Open-File Report 92-261
The sedimentary formations of the Roswell Resource Area have significant mineral and energy resources. Some of the pre-Pennsylvanian sequences in the Northwestern Shelf of the Permian Basin are oil and gas reservoirs, and Pennsylvanian rocks in Tucumcari basin are reservoirs of oil and gas as well as source rocks for...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
Alleghanian development of the Goat Rock fault zone, southernmost Appalachians: Temporal compatibility with the master decollement
Mark G. Steltenpohl, S. Goldberg, T.B. Hanley, Michael J. Kunk
1992, Geology (20) 845-848
The Goat Rock and associated Bartletts Ferry fault zones, which mark the eastern margin of the Pine Mountain Grenville basement massif, are controversial due to the suggestion that they are rare exposed segments of the late Paleozoic southern Appalachian master decollement. The controversy in part stems from reported middle Paleozoic...
Evolution of sedimentary basins: Eastern Great Basin
1992, Bulletin 1988
No abstract available....
Geographic Variation in Hirundo pyrrhonota (Cliff Swallow) from Northern North America
M. Ralph Browning
1992, Western Birds (23) 21-29
The number of subspecies recognized in Hirundo pyrrhonota Vieillot (Cliff Swallow) from Alaska, Canada, and the northern contiguous United States ranges from one (Peters 1960) to three (e.g., Jewett et al. 1953, Oberholser, 1920, breeding from central Alaska to the central Great Basin, and two disjunct populations of nominate pyrrhonota,...
Source region of a granite batholith: evidence from lower crustal xenoliths and inherited accessory minerals
Calvin F. Miller, John M. Hanchar, Joseph L. Wooden, Victoria C. Bennett, T. Mark Harrison, David A. Wark, David A. Foster
P.E. Brown, B. W. Chappell, editor(s)
1992, Book chapter, The Second Hutton Symposium on the Origin of Granites and Related Rocks
Like many granites, the Late Cretaceous intrusives of the eastern Mojave Desert, California, have heretofore provided useful but poorly focused images of their source regions. New studies of lower crustal xenoliths and inherited accessory minerals are sharpening these images.Xenoliths in Tertiary dykes in this region are the residues of an...
