Aeromagnetic survey, eastern part of Bettles Quadrangle, northeast Alaska
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1973, Open-File Report 73-305
Bottom features and processes related to drifting ice on the Arctic shelf, Alaska
Erk Reimnitz, Peter W. Barnes, Tau Rho Alpha
1973, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 532
Early investigations of artic shelf regions led to the hypothesis that certain micro-relief forms are related to the action of grounded ice (for example, Rex, 1955). Since the introduction of side-scan sonar as a tool for ocean-floor surveys, a number of workers have described the occurrence of linear bottom features...
Preliminary bedrock geologic map of the Nabesna quadrangle, Alaska
D.H. Richter
1973, Open-File Report 73-232
No abstract available....
USGS Alaskan gravity data maps of Medfra and McGrath quadrangles
D.F. Barnes
1973, Open-File Report 73-16
The McHugh Complex of South-Central Alaska
Sandra H. B. Clark
1973, Bulletin 1372-D
Aeromagnetic survey, Melozitna A-1 Quadrangle, Northeast Alaska
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1973, Open-File Report 73-307
Preliminary geologic map of a prospective transportation route from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Canadian border, Part IV, Arctic and Table Mtn. quadrangles
Warren Yeend, W. P. Brosge
1973, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 522
No abstract available....
Bedrock geologic map of Bettles and southern part of Wiseman quadrangles, Alaska
W.W. Patton, T. P. Miller
1973, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 492
No abstract available....
Concealed structures in Arctic Alaska identified on ERTS-1 imagery
William A. Fischer, Ernest H. Lathram
1973, Oil & Gas Journal (71) 97-102
No abstract available....
Radiometric ages of Kodiak Seamount and Giacomini Guyot, Gulf of Alaska: Implications for Circum-Pacific tectonics
D. L. Turner, R. B. Forbes, Charles W. Naeser
1973, Science (182) 579-581
Kodiak Seamount and Giacomini Guyot have been dated at 22.6 ± 1.1 and 19.9 ± 1.0 [2σ (standard deviation)] × 106 years, respectively. Concordant whole-rock and plagioclase potassium-argon dates and fission-track apatite ages demonstrate that significant quantities of excess radiogenic 40Ar are not present in the dated samples. These...
Radioelement distribution in the basement complex of the Yukon-Tanana upland, Eielson deep test hole, Alaska
C. M. Bunker, C. A. Bush, R. B. Forbes
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 659-663
Uranium, thorium, and potassium contents were determined in 94 samples of drill cuttings from a 9,774-foot-deep exploratory hole drilled entirely in crystalline schists of the basement complex of the Yukon-Tanana Upland. The data indicate two distinctively different rock types and reflect differences in the calcite content of the rock. Zones of anomalously high concentrations of...
Alaska-Aleutian range batholith: Geochronology, chemistry, and relation to circum-Pacific plutonism
Bruce L. Reed, Marvin A. Lanphere
1973, GSA Bulletin (84) 2583-2610
Potassium-argon mineral ages and reconnaissance mapping of approximately 65,000 sq km in south-central Alaska indicate that the Mesozoic and Cenozoic plutonic rocks in the region were emplaced during three discrete intrusive epochs. Most of the plutonic rocks are part of the Alaska-Aleutian Range batholith; the remainder appear as outcrops in...
Use of machine-processable field notes in a wilderness mapping project (Granite Fiords area), southeastern Alaska
Henry C. Berg, James G. Smith
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 579-585
For reconnaissance geologic mapping and mineral resource evaluation of the Granite Fiords wilderness study area, we developed and used a system of machine-processable field notes. Preprinted field forms standardize notes and serve as checklists that insure collection of all available data. The use of this system cut in half the time required to record data...
Soda Creek springs - metamorphic waters in the eastern Alaska Range
D.H. Richter, D.E. Donaldson, R.A. Lamarre
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 523-528
The Soda Creek springs are a group of small, cold mineral springs on the southern flank of the eastern Alaska Range. The spring waters contain anomalous concentrations of carbon dioxide, sodium, chlorine, sulfate, boron, and ammonia and are actively precipitating deposits of calcite and aragonite. Sparingly present in these deposits are mixed-layer illite-montmorillonite clays and...
Permian paleogeography of the Arctic
J. Thomas Dutro Jr., R. Birute Saldukas
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 501-507
Three large land areas were dominant in the Arctic during the Permian: Fennoscandia, central and southern Siberia (Angara), and Canada. Smaller landmasses were in China, the Seward-Chukotskiy region, northern and eastern Siberia, and near Alaska. Coal deposits and strata bearing land plants covered a large area in central Siberia; saline basins containing red beds formed...
Antarctic icebergs as a fresh water resource
W.F. Weeks, W. J. Campbell
1973, Polar Record (16) 661-665
In a recent study (Weeks and Campbell, in press), we made a rather complete examination of the idea that icebergs could advantageously be used as a source of fresh water. The origin of the general idea of transporting icebergs is obscure; it may date from the 1850's when ice was...
Tectonic history of the central Aleutian arc
Michael S. Marlow, David W. Scholl, E. C. Buffington, Tau Rho Alpha
1973, Geological Society of America Bulletin (84) 1555-1574
No abstract available....
Evidence for Quaternary movement on the McKinley strand of the Denali fault in the Delta River area, Alaska
J. H. Stout, J.B. Brady, F. Weber, R.A. Page
1973, Geological Society of America Bulletin (84) 939-948
Offset Holocene alluvial fans and drainages along the McKinley strand of the Denali fault near the Delta River in the east-central Alaska Range indicate as much as 50 to 60 m of right-lateral displacement during the last 10,000 yrs. Vertical movement of 6 to 10 m during the same time...
Two diamictons in a landslide scarp on Admiralty Island, Alaska, and the tectonic insignificance of an intervening peat bed
Robert D. Miller
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 309-314
Two till-like diamictons, 700 feet above present sea level on Admiralty Island, Alaska, are separated by peat near the top of a landslide scarp. The lower diamicton is glaciomarine; the upper diamicton is probably a mudflow. The lower diamicton contains the foraminifer Elphidium clavatum Cushman, a species typical of fiords. Similar diamicton crops out along...
A spectrochemical method for determining the composition of native gold
A.L. Sutton, R.G. Havens, C.L. Sainsbury
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 301-307
The spectrochemical method described herein for determining trace, minor, and major element distribution in native gold is applicable over a wide range of particle sizes and over a very large concentration range. The matrices of samples and standards are very closely matched. The method was tested on 100 nuggets from a gold sample collected in...
Late Quaternary sedimentation in the active eastern Aleutian Trench
David J. W. Piper, Roland von Huene, John R. Duncan
1973, Geology (1) 19-22
Sediments originally deposited on the Alaskan Abyssal Plain have been depressed to form the eastern Aleutian Trench. Simultaneously, a wedge of horizontally bedded sediments, about 1 km thick at its axis, has been deposited in the trench. The time-transgressive facies change between this wedge of sediment and the abyssal-plain sediment...
Field water-quality information along the proposed trans-Alaska pipeline corridor, September 1970 through September 1972
Jon W. Nauman, Donald R. Kernodle
1973, Report
Flood survey at proposed TAPS crossing of Yukon River near Stevens Village, Alaska
Joseph M. Childers, Robert D. Lamke
1973, Report
No abstract available....
Timing of mesozoic and cenozoic plutonic events in circum-Pacific North America
Marvin A. Lanphere, Bruce L. Reed
1973, GSA Bulletin (84) 3773-3782
Evaluation of isotopic ages of granitic intrusive rocks of large batholiths in circum-Pacific North America indicates that Mesozoic and Cenozoic plutonism was episodic but not periodic. Three intrusive epochs have been defined in the Alaska-Aleutian Range batholith of Alaska on the basis of...
Lithostrotion reiseri n. sp., a cerioid colonial coral from Meramec-age beds, Lisburne Group, arctic Alaska
Augustus K. Armstrong
1973, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (1) 137-145
Lithostrotion reiseri n. sp. is a cerioid, colonial coral, index fossil for microfossil zones 12-13 (Meramec) in the Lisburne Group in the central and eastern Brooks Range, arctic Alaska....