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....
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...
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...
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 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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Floods of July 19-20, 1977 in the Johnstown area, western Pennsylvania
Stan A. Brua
1978, Open-File Report 78-963
Intense rainfall on the evening of July 19 and early morning hours of July 20, 1977, resulted in moderate to record flooding throughout much of an eight-county area of southwest Pennsylvania. In a 400-square-mile area directly north and east of Johnstown, rainfall totals of 6 to 12 inches were measured...
Preliminary stratigraphic cross section showing radioactive zones in the Devonian dark shales in the eastern part of the Appalachian Basin
Mareta N. West
1978, Oil and Gas Investigation Chart 86
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is participating in the Eastern Gas Shales Project. The purpose of the DOE project is to increase the production of natural gas from eastern United States shales in petroliferous basins through improved exploration and extraction...
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...
Water resources data for Washington, water year 1977, Vol. 2 - Eastern Washington
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1978, Water Data Report WA-77-2
Water resources data for the 1977 water year for Washington consist of records of stage, discharge, and water quality of streams; stage, contents, and water quality of lakes and reservoirs; and water levels and water-quality of ground water. This report, in two volumes, contains discharge records for 258 gaging stations;...
Description of wells at Beale Air Force Base and vicinity, California
Gerald L. Rockwell
1978, Open-File Report 78-10
The study area occupies approximately 168 square miles of the Sacramento Valley. The study area boundary is the Yuba River in the north, the Feather River in the west, the Bear River in the south, and the Sierra Nevada foothills in the east. Between December 1976 and March 1977, 640 wells...
Floodflow characteristics of the Arkansas River at East Belt Freeway, in Pulaski County, Arkansas
James Lee Patterson
1978, Open-File Report 78-225
No abstract available. ...
Potential hazards from future eruptions in the vicinity of Mount Shasta Volcano, northern California
C. Dan Miller
1978, Open-File Report 78-827
Mount Shasta has erupted, on the average, at least once per 800 years during the last 10,000 years, and about once per 600 years during the last 4,500 years. The last known eruption occurred about 200 radiocarbon years ago. Eruptions during the last 10,000 years produced lava flows and domes...
Pennsylvanian (Upper Carboniferous) system of Wyoming
Edwin K. Maughan
1978, Open-File Report 78-377
Pennsylvanian rocks in Wyoming comprise two stratigraphic sequences bounded by regional unconformities. Red mudstone and limestone characterize the strata in the lower sequence, and sandstone and dolomite characterize the strata in the upper sequence. Initial deposits of the lower sequence are-red mudstone probably of no older age than about middle...
Geology of the Arco-Big Southern Butte area, eastern Snake River Plain, and potential volcanic hazards to the radioactive waste management complex, and other waste storage and reactor facilities at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho
Mel A. Kuntz, John O. Kork
1978, Open-File Report 78-691
The Arco-Big Southern Butte area of the eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho, includes a volcanic rift zone and more than 70 Holocene and late Quaternary basalt volcanoes. The Arco volcanic rift zone extends southeast for 50 km from Arco to about 10 km southeast of Big Southern Butte. The rift...
