Placer deposits map of central Alaska
Edward Huntington Cobb
1977, Open-File Report 77-168-B
Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) of Late Pleistocene age from Amchitka, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Frank Clifford Whitmore Jr., Leonard Meade Gard Jr.
1977, Professional Paper 1036
Preliminary study of heavy minerals from the Beluga and Sterling Formations exposed near Homer, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
K. T. Biddle
1977, Open-File Report 77-874
Map showing metalliferous and selected nonmetalliferous mineral deposits in eastern southern Alaska
E.M. MacKevett Jr., Carleen D. Holloway
1977, Open-File Report 77-169-A
No abstract available....
Map showing metalliferous mineral deposits in the western part of southern Alaska
E.M. MacKevett Jr., Carleen D. Holloway
1977, Open-File Report 77-169-F
No abstract available....
Geologic framework of lower Cook Inlet, Alaska
Michael A. Fisher, Leslie B. Magoon
1977, Open-File Report 77-136
Lower Cook Inlet is located in south-central Alaska between lat 58°45' and 60°30' N. and between long 151° and 154° W. (fig. 1). Geographic features on the perimeter of the area are the Aleutian Range on the northwest, Kalgin Island on the northeast, the Kenai Peninsula on the east, the...
Bibliography of reports by members of the U.S. Geological Survey on the water resources of Alaska: 1870 through 1976
Alvin John Feulner, Katherine M. Reed
1977, Open-File Report 77-687
This bibliography lists publications prepared by members of the U.S. Geological Survey and published either by the Survey or by the other agencies and organizations between 1870 and the end of December 1976. The titles included are those whose primary topic is hydrology, water resources, or other aspects of water...
Shelled benthic fauna of the eastern Chukchi Sea
Dennis M. Mann
1977, Open-File Report 77-672
The purposes of this study were to identify the benthic shelled infauna and epifauna of the eastern Chukchi Sea, compile species lists and distribution maps, determine recurrent groups of species (communities), and examine the environmental parameters that may control the distribution of the faunal groups. The study was partly supported...
Combined Ice and Water Balances of Maclure Glacier, California, South Cascade Glacier, Washington, and Wolverine and Gulkana Glaciers, Alaska, 1967 Hydrologic Year
Wendell V. Tangborn, Lawrence R. Mayo, David R. Scully, Robert M. Krimmel
1977, Professional Paper 715-B
Combined ice and water balances were measured in the 1967 hydrologic year (October 1-September 30) on four glaciers in western North America ranging in latitude from 37 deg to 63 deg N. This hydrologic year was characterized by heavier than normal winter precipitation in California and Washington and abnormally dry...
Delineation of an anomalous lead-zinc area in the Philip Smith Mountains A-2 Quadrangle, Alaska
D.E. Detra
1977, Open-File Report 77-223
Ground-water investigation at the alluvial fan of the South Fork River, Anchorage, Alaska: results of test drilling, 1976
Larry L. Dearborn
1977, Open-File Report 77-493
In late 1976, at Anchorage, Alaska, a ground-water exploration well was drilled to a depth of 487 feet on the South Fork Eagle River fan near the confluence with the mainstream. The well penetrated four sand and gravel strata of low water-yielding capacity and extended 37 ft into metamorphic bedrock....
Artificial recharge experiments on the Ship Creek alluvial fan, Anchorage, Alaska
Gary S. Anderson
1977, Water-Resources Investigations Report 77-38
During the summers of 1973 and 1974, water from Ship Creek was diverted at an average rate of approximately 6 cubic feet per second to an 11-acre recharge basin. Maximum sustained unit recharge for the basin was approximately 1.4 feet per day. Dur-ing 1975 a second basin of 8 acres...
Organic geochemistry, lithology, and paleontology of Tertiary and Mesozoic rocks from wells on the Alaska Peninsula
Hugh James McLean
1977, Open-File Report 77-813
Core chips and drill cuttings from eight of the nine wells drilled along the Bering Sea lowlands of the Alaska Peninsula were subjected to lithologic and paleontologic analyses. Results suggest that at least locally, sedimentary rocks of Tertiary age contain oil and gas source and reservoir rocks capable of generating...
Genesis of a zoned granite stock, Seward Peninsula, Alaska
Travis Hudson
1977, Open-File Report 77-35
A composite epizonal stock of biotite granite has intruded a diverse assemblage of metamorphic rocks in the Serpentine Hot Springs area of north-central Seward Peninsula, Alaska. The metamorphic rocks include amphibolite-facies orthogneiss and paragneiss, greenschist-facies fine-grained siliceous and graphitic metasediments, and a variety of carbonate rocks. Lithologic units within the...
Geologic interpretation of a radioactivity anomaly near the west fork of the Buckland River, western Alaska
Thomas P. Miller
1977, Open-File Report 77-372
A large part of western Alaska has been included in a uranium- thorium metallogenic province (Clark and others, 1974; Miller and Bunker, 1976; Miller, 1976) chiefly because of the occurrence of uraniferous plutonic rocks with local concentrations of uranium minerals. Recently, however, anomalous amounts of uranium and thorium have been...
Reported observations of icebergs from Columbia Glacier in Valdez Arm and Columbia Bay, Alaska, during the summer of 1976
Austin Post
1977, Open-File Report 77-235
Progress report on uranium investigations in the Zane Hills area, west-central Alaska
Thomas P. Miller, Raymond L. Elliott
1977, Open-File Report 77-428
The Zane Hills pluton underlies a mountainous area of about 460 km2 in west-central Alaska and is locally enriched in uranium and thorium (Miller and Ferrians, 1968; Miller, 1970; Staatz and Miller, 1976). While over 90 percent of the pluton consists of granodiorite with average contents of uranium and thorium,...
Preliminary foraminiferal biostratigraphy and correlation of selected stratigraphic sections and wells in the Gulf of Alaska Tertiary province
Weldon W. Rau, George Plafker, Gary R. Winkler
1977, Open-File Report 77-747
As part of ongoing research by the U.S. Geological Survey on the geology and resource potential of the Gulf of Alaska Tertiary Province, a vast amount of data has been accumulated over the past 25 years on the lithology and paleontology of bedded rocks in the province. This report brings...
Seismic reflection records showing stable and unstable slopes near the shelf break, western Gulf of Alaska
Monty A. Hampton, Arnold H. Bouma
1977, Open-File Report 77-702
An oilspill risk analysis for the western Gulf of Alaska (Kodiak Island) Outer Continental Shelf lease area
James Richard Slack, Richard Allmon Smith, Timothy Wyant
1977, Open-File Report 77-212
An oilspill risk analysis was conducted to determine relative environmental hazards of developing oil in different regions of the Western Gulf of Alaska Outer Continental Shelf lease area. The study analyzed probability of spill occurrence, likely path of pollutants from spills, and locations in space and time of recreational and...
Reconnaissance engineering geology of the Metlakatla area, Annette Island, Alaska, with emphasis on evaluation of earthquakes and other geologic hazards
Lynn A. Yehle
1977, Open-File Report 77-272
A program to study the engineering geology of most larger Alaska coastal communities and to evaluate their earthquake and other geologic hazards was started following the 1964 Alaska earthquake; this report about the Metlakatla area, Annette Island, is a product of that program. Field-study methods were of a reconnaissance nature,...
Map and table describing known metalliferous and selected nonmetalliferous mineral deposits in central Alaska
G. Donald Eberlein, R. M. Chapman, H.L. Foster, J. S. Gassaway
1977, Open-File Report 77-168-D
No abstract available....
Surface sedimentary units of the Gulf of Alaska continental shelf: Montague Island to Yakutat Bay
Bruce F. Molnia
1977, Open-File Report 77-30
Four major sedimentary units occur on the sea floor of the continental shelf in the northern Gulf of Alaska. These units, defined on the basis of seismic and sedimentologic data, are: (1) Holocene sediments, (2) Holocene mind moraines, C3) Quaternary glacial marine sediments, and (4) Tertiary and Pleistocene lithified deposits. A...
Known mineral deposits of the Brooks Range, Alaska
Donald G. Grybeck
1977, Open-File Report 77-166-C
No abstract available....
Aeromagnetic interpretation map of Seward Peninsula, Alaska
John W. Cady
1977, Open-File Report 77-796-G