Reconnaissance engineering geology of the Skagway area, Alaska, with emphasis on evaluation of earthquake and other geologic hazards
Lynn A. Yehle, Richard Walter Lemke
1972, Open-File Report 72-454
A program to study the engineering geology of most of the larger Alaska coastal communities and to evaluate their earthquake and other geologic hazards was started promptly after the 1964 Alaska earthquake; this report is a product of that program. Field-study methods were largely reconnaissance, and thus the interpretations in...
Chemical composition of sedimentary rocks in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington
Thelma P. Hill (compiler), Marian A. Werner
1972, Professional Paper 771
Jurassic ammonites from southern Alaska
Ralph W. Imlay
1972, Professional Paper 418
Water resources of the Kenai-Soldotna area, Alaska
G. S. Anderson, S. H. Jones
1972, Open-File Report 72-7
No abstract available....
Geochemical reconnaissance in the Wiseman and Chandalar districts and adjacent region, southern Brooks Range, Alaska
William Peters Brosge, H. N. Reiser
1972, Professional Paper 709
No abstract available....
Interpretation of an aeromagnetic survey of the Amchitka Island area, Alaska
G. D. Bath, W. J. Carr, L.M. Gard Jr., W. D. Quinlivan
1972, Professional Paper 707
Biostratigraphy of Mississippian lithostrotionoid corals, Lisburne Group, arctic Alaska
Augustus K. Armstrong
1972, Professional Paper 743-A
Pennsylvanian carbonates, paleoecology, and rugose colonial corals, north flank, eastern Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska
Augustus K. Armstrong
1972, Professional Paper 747
The hydraulic geometry of some Alaskan streams south of the Yukon River
William W. Emmett
1972, Open-File Report 72-108
Channel geometry surveys were conducted to determine bankfull stage, discharge, and other hydraulic parameters at 22 locations along the proposed route of the trans-Alaska pipeline corridor south of the Yukon River. Combined with the records from gaging stations located at some of the sites, the data are sufficient to describe...
Floods in the summer of 1971 in south-central Alaska
Robert D. Lamke
1972, Open-File Report 72-215
Floods and high water occurred throughout the summer of 1971 in south-central Alaska. Snow cover, 150 percent of average, in the mountains on May 1 caused local snowmelt floods from mid-May to mid-July. The peak discharge of 265,000 cfs (cubic feet per second) on July 15 at Copper River near...
Ground motion values for use in the seismic design of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline system
Robert A. Page, D.M. Boore, W. B. Joyner, H.W. Coulter
1972, Circular 672
The proposed trans-Alaska oil pipeline, which would traverse the state north to south from Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic coast to Valdez on Prince William Sound, will be subject to serious earthquake hazards over much of its length. To be acceptable from an environmental standpoint, the pipeline system is to...
Energy resources of the United States
P. K. Theobald, Stanley P. Schweinfurth, Donald Cave Duncan
1972, Circular 650
Estimates are made of United States resources of coal, petroleum liquids, natural gas, uranium, geothermal energy, and oil from oil shale. The estimates, compiled by specialists of the U.S. Geological Survey, are generally made on geologic projections of favorable rocks and on anticipated frequency of the energy resource in the...
Quality of surface waters of the United States, 1967, Parts 12-16, North Pacific slope basins, Alaska, and Hawaii and other Pacific areas
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1972, Water Supply Paper 2016
Summary of floods in the United States during 1967
J.O. Rostvedt
1972, Water Supply Paper 1880-C
This report describes the most outstanding floods in the United States during 1967. The two most destructive floods occurred in August in east-central Alaska and in September and October in southern Texas. In east-central Alaska, heavy rain on August 8-17 produced record-breaking floods near Fairbanks. Peak discharges on some streams...
Aerial surveys of waterfowl production in North America, 1955-71
Charles J. Henny, David R. Anderson, Richard S. Pospahala
1972, Special Scientific Report - Wildlife 160
No abstract available....
Ground-water levels in the United States, 1966-70, northwestern states
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1972, Water Supply Paper 1980
No abstract available....
Floods of August 1967 in east-central Alaska
Joseph M. Childers, James P. Meckel, Gary S. Anderson
1972, Water Supply Paper 1880-A
East-central Alaska had record floods near Fairbanks following extensive rains of August 8-20, 1967. Precipitation during this period totaled as much as 10 inches, which is close to the average annual precipitation for this area. The most extensive flooding occurred in the White Mountains northeast of Fairbanks and along the...
Nimbus IV view of the major structural features of Alaska
E. H. Lathram
1972, Science (175) 1423-1427
Notwithstanding the relatively low degree of ground resolution, many of the major structural features of Alaska can be identified on the Nimbus IV IDCS image, exposed at an altitude of 600 nautical miles (1100 km). In addition, linears of regional extent that may be structurally controlled can be seen, many...
Summer distribution of pelagic birds in Bristol Bay Alaska
James C. Bartonek, D.D. Gibson
1972, Condor (74) 416-422
No abstract available....
Limnology and fish ecology of sockeye salmon nursery lakes of the world
Wilbur L. Hartman, R.L. Burgner
1972, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (29) 699-715
Many important, recently glaciated oligotrophic lakes that lie in coastal regions around the northern rim of the Pacific Ocean produce anadromous populations of sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka. This paper describes the limnology and fish ecology of two such lakes in British Columbia, five in Alaska, and one in Kamchatka. Then...
Reconnaissance geologic map of the Solomon D-6 quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska
C.L. Sainsbury, Travis Hudson, Rodney Ewing, Thomas Richards
1972, Open-File Report 72-325
The Solomon D-6 15- by 30-minute quadrangle lies 20 miles northeast of Nome, Alaska, and adjoins on the east the Nome D-l quadrangle mapped by Hummel (1962b) and on the west the Solomon D-5 quadrangle mapped by Smith (1910).Placer gold has been produced from Iron Creek and many of its...
Location and description of spiral-shaped microorganisms in the normal rat cecum
Charles P. Davis, D. Mulcahy, A. Takeuchi, D.C. Savage
1972, Infection and Immunity (6) 184-192
Some indigenous microorganisms have been shown to localize in certain anatomical sites of the digestive tract of mammals. We studied the ceca of normal adult rats by light and electron microscopy to determine whether any specific bacterial population localizes in this area. All rats studied showed...
Oil development and conservation in Arctic America
J. C. Reed
1972, Biological Conservation (4) 369-371
As in his earlier article to which reference is made, the author stresses the need for more background information and a much greater research effort before problems of environmental protection from oil developments in northern Alaska can be effectively tackled. Meanwhile, there...
Water inflow into hole UA-1, Amchitka Island, Alaska
Wilbur C. Ballance, W.A. Beetem
1972, Report
Chemical composition of water samples, temperature of inflow water, and theoretical calculations were compared to evaluate the water-contributing intervals to the zone to be mined--1,782.8 to 1,798.6 meters (5,849 to 5,901 feet)--in hole UA-1, Amchitka Island, Alaska. Chemical composition and temperature of inflow water indicated the contributing zones to have...
Hydraulic tests in hole UAe-6h, Amchitka Island, Alaska
Wilbur C. Ballance
1972, Report
Inflatable straddle packers were used to isolate and test 14 intervals ranging from 39 to 258 meters (127 to 846 feet) each in hole UAe-6h. Packer seats were poor in part of the hole because of unstable wall conditions. Thus, some zones had to be tested several times. The static...
