Movement of spilled oil as predicted by estuarine nontidal drift
T. J. Conomos
1975, Limnology and Oceanography (20) 159-173
Information on water movement obtained from bimonthly releases of surface and seabed drifters in the San Francisco Bay and adjacent Pacific Ocean is used to understand major processes controlling dispersal of oil after a spill of 3,200 m3 of Bunker C in the bay in January 1971. River-induced nontidal estuarine...
Paleotectonic investigations of the Pennsylvanian System in the United States, Part I: Introduction and regional analyses of the Pennsylvanian System
Edwin D. McKee, Eleanor J. Crosby, George O. Bachman, Kenneth G. Bell, George H. Dixon, Sherwood E. Frezon, Ernest E. Glick, William P. Irwin, William W. Mallory, William J. Mapel, Edwin K. Maughan, George E. Prichard, Gerald L. Shideler, Gary F. Stewart, Harold R. Wanless, Richard F. Wilson
1975, Professional Paper 853-1
The Pennsylvanian is the fourth geologic system to be analyzed and synthesized by geologists of the U.S. Geological Survey in the form of a paleotectonic study covering the conterminous United States. Earlier investigations were of the Jurassic, Triassic, and Permian Systems. Results were published as Miscellaneous Geologic Investigation Maps I-175,...
Water and the South Florida environment
Howard Klein, J.T. Armbruster, B. F. McPherson, H.J. Freiberger
1975, Water-Resources Investigations Report 75-24
Ecological problems are a major concern to Florida as well as to the Nation. National attention was focused on these problems in September 1968, when the Port Authority of Dade County began to con-struct a jetport for supersonic aircraft on a 39-square-mile tract 6 miles north of Everglades National Park...
Middle tertiary volcanic field in the southern Rocky Mountains
T. A. Steven
1975, Memoir of the Geological Society of America (144) 75-94
A widespread volcanic field covered most of the Southern Rocky Mountains in middle Tertiary time, 40 to 25 m.y. ago (approximately Oligocene time). This field covered an erosion surface that beveled structures formed during the Laramide orogeny in Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary time. The source vents from which the...
Radiometric dates from Alaska: A 1975 compilation
D. L. Turner, Donald Grybeck, Frederic H. Wilson
1975, Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Special Report DGGS SR 10
The following table of radiometric dates from Alaska includes published material through 1972 as well as some selected later data. The table includes 726 mineral and whole-rock dates determined by the K-Ar, Rb-Sr, fission-track U-Pb, and Pb-alpha techniques.The data are organized in alphabetical order of the 1:250,000 scale quadrangles in...
Chemical compositions of Kilauea east-rift lava, 1968–1971
Thomas L. Wright, Don Swanson, Wendell A. Duffield
1975, Journal of Petrology (16) 110-133
The major element chemical compositions of lava from four eruptions on the east rift zone of Kilauea between August 1968 and October 1971 reflect three petrologic processes:Production of chemically distinct batches of magma in the mantle.Separation of olivine, augite, and plagioclase from liquid during flow in the rift-zone conduits.Mixing...
Chino Valley formation (Cambrian?) in northwestern Arizona
Richard Hereford
1975, GSA Bulletin (86) 677-682
A thin persistent unit (maximum thickness 13 m) of probable Cambrian age in the Chino Valley region of northwestern Arizona consists of three laterally equivalent, mutually exclusive lithofacies. These are, from west to east, lithic sandstone, pebble to boulder conglomerate, and dolomite. The unit, named the Chino Valley Formation, is...
Stratigraphy, conodont dating, and paleotectonic interpretation of the type Milligen Formation (Devonian), Wood River area, Idaho
Charles Sandberg, Wayne E. Hall, John N. Batchelder, Claus Axelsen
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 707-720
The Milligen Formation at and near its type locality in the Wood River area is considerably older than and unrelated to rocks of Early Mississippian age called Milligen Formation in the Lost River Range and other ranges of east-central Idaho. Conodont faunas were found in limestones of a thin upper...
Silurian and Devonian miogeosynclinal and transitional rocks of the Fish Creek Reservoir window, central Idaho
Betty A. Skipp, Charles Sandberg
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 691-706
Documentation of Devonian continental-shelf shallow-water carbonate rocks in the core of the Fish Creek Reservoir window shifts the known westernmost limit of the Devonian miogeosyncline 50 km (30 mi) southwest across the structural grain from the well-known miogeosynclinal sequence in the Lost River Range. The miogeosynclinal carbonate sequence in the...
Structure and Paleozoic stratigraphy of a complex of thrust plates in the Fish Creek Reservoir area, south-central Idaho
Betty A. Skipp, Wayne E. Hall
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 671-689
Permian, Pennsylvanian, Mississippian, Devonian, and Silurian marine rocks of diverse facies are brought together in a complex of six thrust sheets in the Fish Creek Reservoir area on the north edge of the Snake River Plain, Idaho. The lowest structural element, the parautochthon, is made of more than 450 m...
Quaternary faults at San Diego Bay, California
George W. Moore, Michael P. Kennedy
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 589-595
Acoustic-reflection profiles of subbottom strata reveal numerous faults that cut Quaternary deposits within and directly outside of San Diego Bay. These faults, together with previously mapped onshore faults, constitute the Rose Canyon fault zone that forms the local west boundary of the Santa Ana tectonic block, which is bounded on...
Tectonic setting of the Tertiary volcanic rocks of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Wallace M. Cady
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 573-582
Lower and middle Eocene abyssal and Hawaiian type tholeiitic basalts form two accumulations that apparently were once far out on the east flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, within the Juan de Fuca plate. One of these (more than 15 km thick) is near the eastern and southeastern periphery...
A typical cross section based on magnetic data of lower and middle Keweenawan volcanic rocks, Ironwood area, Michigan
Elizabeth R. King
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 543-546
A north-trending aeromagnetic profile of a sequence of east-striking Keweenawan volcanic rocks near Ironwood, Mich., can be matched to a calculated profile over a model consisting of a series of dipping layers. (The dips were those measured by H. A. Hubbard along the north-trending valley of the Black River.) Remanent...
New tritium data on movement of groundwater in western Fresno County, California
Joseph Fairfield Poland, Gordon L. Stewart
1975, Water Resources Research (11) 716-724
Well waters along two traverse lines were sampled in 1963 and tested for tritium concentration. Haskell et al. [1966] estimated from the apparent thermonuclear tritium concentrations that groundwater had moved westward in the lower water‐bearing zone at a maximum velocity of 14–16.5 mi (23–27 km) in 9 yr. The maximum velocities...
Palynological evidence for late Cretaceous, Paleocene, and early and middle Eocene ages for strata in the kaolin belt, central Georgia
Robert H. Tschudy, Sam H. Patterson
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 437-445
Falynomorphs of Late Cretaceous (Maestrichtian), Paleocene, Paleocene or early Eocene (Wilcox), and middle Eocene (Claiborne) ages have been found in lignitic and carbonaceous clays and silts in the Tuscaloosa Formation, as used in central and east-central Georgia. The occurrence of palynomorphs of Maestrichtian (Navarro) age above thick kaolin deposits at...
Ordovician and middle Silurian rocks of the Wildhorse window, northeastern Pioneer Mountains, central Idaho
James H. Dover, Reuben James Ross Jr.
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 431-436
Along Wildhorse Creek in the northeastern Pioneer Mountains, autochthonous Ordovician and Silurian rocks of an eastern carbonate assemblage are exposed in a structural window through allochthonous flysch deposits of the Mississippian Copper Basin Group. Graptolite-bearing Middle and Upper Ordovician dolomite and cherty dolomite 210 ft (64 m) thick are lithologically...
An empirical note on firm performance in government contract markets
Emil D. Attanasi, S. R. Johnson
1975, The Journal of Industrial Economics (23) 313-320
Public construction and, in particular, highway construction account for a large proportion of the non-defense expenditures by the government. Con- tracts for highway construction are let almost exclusively through a sealed tender process. Competitive bidding is used to encourage price competition. There is, however, a problem in insuring that the...
Magma beneath Yellowstone National Park
G. P. Eaton, R.L. Christiansen, H. M. Iyer, A.D. Pitt, D. R. Mabey, H. R. Blank Jr., I. Zietz, M. E. Gettings
1975, Science (188) 787-796
The Yellowstone plateau volcanic field is less than 2 million years old, lies in a region of intense tectonic and hydrothermal activity, and probably has the potential for further volcanic activity. The youngest of three volcanic cycles in the field climaxed 600,000 years ago with a voluminous ashflow eruption and...
Rockfall seismicity correlation with field observations, Makaopuhi Crater, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Robert I. Tilling, Robert Y. Koyanagi, Robin T. Holcomb
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 345-361
During August 7-13, 1972, intense and sustained rockfall activity occurred in Makaopuhi Crater on the east-rift zone of Kilauea Volcano. In a 4-day period (August 7-10), approximately 270,000 m3 of rockfall debris accumulated in Makaopuhi's west pit, representing a total kinetic energy release of about 101B ergs. Because the rockfalls...
The influence of late Cenozoic stratigraphy on distribution of impoundment-related seismicity at Lake Mead, Nevada-Arizona
R. Ernest Anderson, R. L. Laney
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 337-343
At Lake Mead, contrasts in permeability of upper Cenozoic sediments show a better correlation with irregularly distributed impoundment-related seismicity than do contrasts in structure. An evaluation of structures developed during the late Cenozoic fails to explain the erratic distribution of seismicity. An evaluation of the late Cenozoic stratigraphy, however, shows...
Widespread late glacial and postglacial tephra deposits from Mount St. Helens Volcano, Washington
Donal R. Mullineaux, Jack H. Hyde, Meyer Rubin
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 329-335
Pumice layers composing four different groups of tephra beds (termed "sets"), whose stratigraphy, age, and trend away from Mount St. Helens are fairly well known, are potentially valuable stratigraphic markers in the northwestern United States and adjacent parts of Canada. All four tephra sets are less than about 18,000 yr...
A reconnaissance of hydrogeologic conditions in Lehigh Acres and adjacent areas of Lee County, Florida
Durward Hoye Boggess, T.M. Missimer
1975, Open-File Report 75-55
Lehigh Acres, a residential community with a population of about 13,500 and comprising an area of about 94 square miles (243 square kilometres) in the eastern part of Lee County, has been under development since 1954. Prior to development the area was poorly drained. By 1974, more than 150 miles...
Effects of lowering interior canal stages on salt-water intrusion into the shallow aquifer in southeast Palm Beach County, Florida
Larry F. Land
1975, Open-File Report 75-74
Land in southeast Palm Beach County is undergoing a large-scale change in use, from agricultural to residential. To accommodate residential use, a proposal has been made by developers to the Board of the Lake Worth Drainage District to lower the canal stages in the interior part of the area undergoing...
Recurrent geothermally induced debris avalanches on Boulder Glacier, Mount Baker, Washington
David Frank, Austin Post, Jules D. Friedman
1975, Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey (3) 77-87
Avalanches of snow, firn and hydrothermally altered rock and mud have been released six times since 1958 from Sherman Peak, part of the crater rim south of the main summit of Mount Baker, Wash. The avalanches traveled nearly identical paths 2.0-2.6 km down Boulder Glacier on the east slope of...
Basic ground-water data for the Moscow Basin, Idaho
Emerson Gerald Crosthwaite
1975, Report
The Moscow basin encompasses an area of 65 square miles (170 square kilometres) in Latah County and borders the Idaho Washington State line (fig. 1). The basin is along the eastern edge of the "Palouse Country" where the rolling Palouse hills merge with the low mountains of northern Idaho. It...
