Strain accumulation rates in the western United States between 1970 and 1978
W.H. Prescott, James C. Savage, W. T. Kinoshita
1979, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (84) 5423-5435
The rate of dilatation and the rate and direction of shear have been determined from trilateration data for 23 Geodolite networks in the western United States. Sixteen nets are located along the San Andreas fault system between Point Reyes, California, and the United States‐Mexico border. Other locations are across the...
Nature of firm expectations in petroleum exploration
Emil D. Attanasi
1979, Land Economics (55) 299-312
Recent interest in the state of the United States domestic petroleum industry has resulted in an increased concern regarding the ability of current large- scale econometric models to provide useful predictions about supply price sensitivity and about the effects of differing policy options on future supply. The petroleum industry's exploration...
Frontier Formation and equivalent rocks in eastern Wyoming
E. Allen Merewether, W. A. Cobban, E.T. Cavanaugh
1979, Mountain Geologist (16) 67-95
No abstract available....
Late Jurassic Independence dike swarm in eastern California
J.-H. Chen, James G. Moore
1979, Geology (7) 129-133
The Independence dike swarm in eastern California, more than 250 km long, extends from the eastern Sierra Nevada and Inyo Mountains through the Argus Range, Alabama Hills, and Spangler Hills to the Garlock fault, where it is offset 64 km before continuing into the Mojave Desert. The dike swarm includes...
Regional deformation of the Sierra Nevada, California, on conjugate microfault sets
J. P. Lockwood, James G. Moore
1979, Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth (84) 6041-6049
Strike slip microfaults are pervasive throughout the granitic rocks of the eastern Sierra Nevada. Offsets typically range from less than a millimeter to several tens of centimeters but exceed 100 m in some places. The spacing between microfaults varies from a few tens of centimeters to a few tens of...
Hydrologic and geologic data from the Upper East Coast Planning Area, southeast Florida
Wesley L. Miller
1979, Open-File Report 79-1543
The Upper East Coast Planning Area, one of five designated planning areas in the South Florida Water Management District, consists of St. Lucie, Martin, and eastern Okeechobee Counties. Existing hydrologic and geologic data have been compiled as a base for additional investigations to determine the water-bearing characteristics of the shallow...
Environmental pollutants and eggshell thickness: Anhingas and wading birds in the eastern United States
Harry M. Ohlendorf, Erwin E. Klaas, T. Earl Kaiser
1979, Special Scientific Report - Wildlife 216
No abstract available....
Upper Paleozoic carbonate bank in east-central Idaho: Snaky Canyon, Bluebird Mountain, and Arco Hills Formations, and their paleotectonic significance
Betty Skipp, R. D. Hoggan, D. L. Schleicher, R. C. Douglass
1979, Bulletin 1486
No abstract available....
The Survey’s first venture into seismology
M. C. Rabbitt
1979, Earthquake Information Bulletin (USGS) (11) 50-52
The occurrence of two small but widely felt earthquakes in the Eastern United States in 1884 led an editor of the research journal Science to suggest, in the October 3 issue of the magazine, that an "earthquake club" be formed. Its purpose was so that observers and students of "this branch...
The Yellow Dog peridotite and a possible buried igneous complex of lower Keweenawan age in the northern peninsula of Michigan
John S. Klasner, David W. Snider, W.F. Cannon, John F. Slack
1979, Michigan Geological Survey Report of Investigation 24
Partly serpentinized peridotite of early Keweenawan age crops out in two places along a 20-kilometer-long zone of positive aeromagnetic anomalies in northern Marquette County, Michigan. Most of the area is mantled by Pleistocene drift with few bedrock exposures.Petrographic and electron microprobe studies show that the peridotite was originally a plagioclase...
Measured sections of Ordovician strata in east-central Kentucky
W. L. Peterson, W. C. Swadley
G. W. Weir, editor(s)
1979, Open-File Report 79-1664
No abstract available....
Petrology, composition, and age of intrusive rocks associated with the Quartz Hill molybdenite deposit, southeastern Alaska
T. Hudson, James G. Smith, Raymond L. Elliott
1979, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (16) 1805-1822
A large porphyry molybdenum deposit (Quartz Hill deposit) was recently discovered in the heart of the Coast Range batholithic complex about 70 km east of Ketchikan, southeastern Alaska. Intrusive rocks associated with the mineral deposit form two composite epizonal to hypabyssal stocks and many dikes in country rocks. The stocks are...
Age of the last major scabland flood of the Columbia Plateau in eastern Washington
D. R. Mullineaux, R.E. Wilcox, W.F. Ebaugh, R. Fryxell, M. Rubin
1978, Quaternary Research (10) 171-180
Pumice layers of set S from Mount St. Helens can be correlated with certain ash beds associated with young flood deposits of the channeled scabland. The correlation points to an age of about 13,000 14C yr B.P. for the last major flood to have crossed the scabland. Until recently, the...
Ground-water resources of the Parowan-Cedar City drainage basin, Iron County, Utah
L.J. Bjorklund, C.T. Sunsion, G. W. Sandberg
1978, Technical Publication 60
The Parowan-Cedar City drainage basin, Iron County, Utah, includes about 1,100 mi2 (square miles)(2,800 km2 [square kilometers])--520 mi2 (1,300 km2) in the Parowan basin and 580 mi2 (1,500 km2) in the Cedar City basin. Parowan and Cedar City Valleys are structural depressions formed by northeast-trending faults. Parowan Valley is essentially...
Hydrology of the Beaver Valley area, Beaver County, Utah, with emphasis on ground water
R. W. Mower
1978, Technical Publication 63
Beaver Valley includes 534 square miles in southwestern Utah, in the Basin and Range physiographic province. The project area consists of a valley plain underlain by unconsolidated to partly consolidated material. The valley plain is bounded by mountains that are composed of partly consolidated to consolidated rocks of Pennsylvanian through...
Water resources inventory of Connecticut Part 8: Quinnipiac River basin
David L. Mazzaferro, Elinor H. Handman, Mendall P. Thomas
1978, Connecticut Water Resources Bulletin 27
The Quinnipiac River basin area in southcentral Connecticut covers 363 square miles, and includes all drainage basins that enter Long Island Sound from the Branford to the Wepawaug Rivers. Its population in 1970 was estimated at 535,000. Precipitation averages 47 inches per year and provides an abundant supply of water....
Nomenclature of the black-bellied whistling-duck
Richard C. Banks
1978, The Auk (95) 348-352
There are two distinguishable subspecies of the Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, one in South America to eastern Panama and one from western Panama through Central America to the southernmost United States. The type locality of the species is the West Indies, but there is little evidence that birds from that area are...
Organochlorine residues and eggshell thinning in anhingas and waders
Harry M. Ohlendorf, Erwin E. Klaas, T. Earl Kaiser
1978, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 1977 conference of the colonial waterbird group
Residues of organochlorine compounds occur commonly in environmental samples and have been associated with adverse effects in numerous avian species (Cooke 1973; L. F. Stickel 1973; W. H. Stickel 1975; Ohlendorf et al. 1977; H. M. Ohlendorf, R. W. Risebrough, and K. Vermeer, unpublished manuscript). The affected species are...
A reexamination of the Pennsylvanian trace fossil Olivellites
Ellis L. Yochelson, David E. Schindel
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 789-796
The original interpretation of Olivellites plummeri Fenton and Fenton as the trace of an infaunal gastropod, is reconsidered and rejected. The original slab bearing several examples of O. plummeri has been reexamined and reillustrated. The slab came from the type-locality of O. plummeri in Eastland County, Tex., and is a shallow...
lowaphyllum (rugose coral) from the Upper Devonian of Arizona
William Albert Oliver Jr.
1978, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (6) 797-805
The rugose coral genus lowaphyllum is uncommon but widely distributed in rocks of Devonian age. It is here reported for the first time from western North America (Late Devonian). lowaphyllum is also known from the late Middle and Late Devonian of Eastern North America, but the lack of Early and...
Tectonics of the North American Cordillera near the Fortieth Parallel
Philip B. King
1978, Tectonophysics (47) 275-294
The North American Cordillera near the Fortieth Parallel consists of the following tectonic units: 1. (A) To the east is a reactivated cratonic area, in the Southern Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau, in which the supracrustal rocks (Cambrian to Cretaceous) were broadly deformed during the late Cretaceous-Paleocene Laramide orogeny, and...
Effects of No. 2 fuel oil on common eider eggs
P.H. Albers, Robert C. Szaro
1978, Marine Pollution Bulletin (9) 138-139
An oil spill near a breeding colony could result in the transfer of oil from the plumage and feet of incubating birds to their eggs. Microlitre amounts of No. 2 fuel oil were applied externally to common eider eggs in an island breeding colony in Maine. Clutches of eggs treated...
Geochemical maps showing the distribution and abundance of gold in stream sediments and of gold and silver in heavy-mineral concentrates in the Seward and Blying Sound quadrangles, Alaska
R. B. Tripp, W.D. Crim, R. M. O’Leary
1978, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 880-F
Reconnaissance geochemical and mineralogical sampling was done in the Seward and Blying Sound quadrangles during 1975 and 1976 as part of the Alaska Mineral Resources Assessment Program (AMRAP). These maps show the distribution and abundance of gold and silver in heavy-mineral concentrates. Stream-sediment and heavy-mineral concentrate samples were collected from active...
Antelope Valley - East Kern Water Agency area, California, showing ground-water subunits and areas, location of wells, and lines of equal depth to water for spring 1978
G. G. Blankenbaker
1978, Open-File Report 78-937
The U.S. Geological Survey has released to the open file a map showing ground-water subunits and areas, and depth to water for spring 1978, in the Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency area, California....
Channel migration of the White River in the eastern Uinta Basin, Utah and Colorado
Antonio Jurado, Fred K. Fields
1978, IMAP 1087
The White River is the largest stream in the southeastern part of the Uinta Basin in Utah and Colorado. This map shows the changes that have occurred in the location of the main channel of the river from 1936 to 1974. The map indicated that certain reaches of the river...
