Map showing landslides and areas of potential landsliding in the Salina quadrangle, Utah
Paul L. Williams
1972, IMAP 591-L
The term “landslide” is broadly defined as any “downward and outward movement of slope-forming materials composed of natural rock, soils, artificial fills, or combinations of these materials. The moving mass may proceed by any one of three principal types of movement: falling, sliding, or flossing, or by their combinations” (Varnes,...
Generalized subsurface geology of the water-bearing deposits, northern San Joaquin Valley, California
W. R. Hotchkiss
1972, Open-File Report 73-119
The study area includes about 5,000 square miles of the northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, a broad structural trough drained by the San Joaquin River. Fresh ground water is mostly in unconsolidated deposits derived from the Coast Ranges on the west and the Sierra Nevada on the east.....
Reconnaissance bedrock geologic map of the Chugach Mountains near Anchorage, Alaska
Sandra H. B. Clark
1972, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 350
The area between Knik and Turnagain Arms east of Anchorage is underlain mostly by rocks that are part of an extensive arcuate belt of thick Mesozoic marine deposits that extend through the Chugach-Kenai-Kodiak Mountains. The two main units in this belt are the Jurassic (?) and Cretaceous Valdez (?) Group...
Complete Bouguer gravity map of eastern Puerto Rico and principal facts for gravity stations
Andrew Griscom
1972, Open-File Report 72-146
No abstract available....
The Shawangunk Formation (Upper Ordovician(?) to Middle Silurian) in eastern Pennsylvania
Jack Burton Epstein, Anita G. Epstein
1972, Professional Paper 744
The Shawangunk Formation of Early and Middle Silurian age, and possibly Late Ordovician age, in eastern Pennsylvania and northwestern New Jersey forms a thick clastic wedge of sediments derived from sourcelands to the southeast uplifted during the Taconic orogeny. The formation is divided into four newly denned members, from bottom...
Estimated use of water in the United States in 1970
Charles Richard Murray, E. Bodette Reeves
1972, Circular 676
Estimates of water use in the United States in 1970 indicate that an average of about 370 bgd (billion gallons per day)about 1,800 gallons per capita per day--was withdrawn for the four principal off-channel uses which are (1) public-supply (for domestic, commercial, and industrial uses), (2) rural (domestic and livestock),...
Geology and Mineral Resources of the Northern Part of the North Cascades National Park, Washington
Mortimer Hay Staatz, Rowland W. Tabor, Paul L. Weis, Jacques F. Robertson, Ronald M. Van Noy, Eldon C. Pattee
1972, Bulletin 1359
The northern part of the North Cascades National Park in northern Washington is north of the Skagit River between Mount Shuksan on the West and Ross Lake on the east. The area occupies approximately 500 square miles of steep mountains and thickly forested valleys centered on the precipitous Picket Range. Old...
Interim results of geological investigations in the vicinity of the Ergani-Maden massive copper deposits near Maden, Elazig, Turkey
A.E. Weisseborn, Omer Oner, Metin Sengun
1972, Open-File Report 72-446
As a result of geologic studies and geochemical reconnaissance by Griffitts, Albers, and brier in 1969 in the Ergani-Maden district of eastern Turkey, seven areas were recommended for more detailed investigation. Two of these, here termed Areas 1 and 2, were mapped geologically and sampled geochemically in June and July...
Petrographic and chemical reconnaissance study of some granitic and gneissic rocks near the San Andreas fault from Bodega Head to Cajon Pass, California
Donald C. Ross
1972, Professional Paper 698
This petrographic and chemical study is based on reconnaissance sampling of granitic and related gneissic rock in the California Coast and Transverse Ranges. In the Coast Ranges, granitic rocks are restricted to an elongate belt, the Salinian block, between the San Andreas and Sur-Nacimiento fault zones. These rocks have a...
Structure contour map of the Avella and part of the Steubenville East quadrangles, Washington County, Pennsylvania
Stanley P. Schweinfurth
1972, Open-File Report 72-341
No abstract available. ...
Reconnaissance geologic map of the west half of the Solomon quadrangle, Alaska
C.L. Sainsbury, Travis Hudson, Rodney Ewing, William R. Marsh
1972, Open-File Report 72-324
The Solomon quadrangle adjoins the Bering Sea east of Nome, Alaska. It has a common west border with the Nome quadrangle (Sainsbury and others, 1972b) and a common north border with the Bendeleben 1:250,000- scale quadrangle.Part of the area was mapped by Smith (1910), who discussed the rocks in some...
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...
A lithologic map of the New England states and eastern New York
E-an Zen
1972, Open-File Report 72-458
Analyses of stream-sediment and rock samples from parts of the Eagle quadrangle, east-central Alaska
Helen Laura Foster, M. E. Yount
1972, Open-File Report 72-122
No abstract available....
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...
Availability of ground water for irrigation from glacial outwash in the Perham area, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
Harold O. Reeder
1972, Water Supply Paper 2003
The Perham study area includes about 350 square miles of surficial deposits of glacial outwash in the central part of Otter Tail County in west-central Minnesota. The aquifer characteristics have a wide range, as follows: Transmissivity values range from nearly 0 along the perimeter of the area to more than...
Geology and water resources of the Bitterroot Valley, southwestern Montana, with a section on chemical quality of water
R. G. McMurtrey, Richard L. Konizeski, M. V. Johnson, John H. Bartells, H. A. Swenson
1972, Water Supply Paper 1889
The Bitterroot Valley is a Late Cretaceous structural basin that was partly filled at its deepest point by more than 1,640 feet of Tertiary sediments. These sediments grade valleyward from coarse colluvial deposits along the edges of the valley to fine-grained deposits and then to coarse channel deposits of the...
Preliminary geologic map of the eastern Solomon and southeastern Bendeleben quadrangles, eastern Seward Peninsula, Alaska
Thomas P. Miller, Donald Grybeck, Raymond L. Elliott, Travis Hudson
1972, Open-File Report 72-256
No abstract available....
A geochemical study of the Rio Pantanos area, Department of Antioquia, Colombia preliminary report
Henry V. Alminas, Elwin L. Mosier
1972, Open-File Report 72-4
Geochemical sampling in the Western Cordillera has delineated an 18 km 2 area anomalous in copper, molybdenum, and silver. Highly anomalous metal contents are found in stream sediment, soil, and outcrop samples collected within this area. The area is underlain by intrusive granodiorite to quartz diorite that has porphyritic and...
Regional and other general factors bearing on evaluation of earthquake and other geologic hazards to coastal communities of southeastern Alaska
Richard Walter Lemke, Lynn A. Yehle
1972, Open-File Report 72-230
The great Alaska earthquake of March 27, 1964, brought into sharp focus the need for engineering geologic studies in seismically active regions. As a result, nine communities in southeastern Alaska were selected for reconnaissance investigations as an integral part of an overall program to evaluate earthquake and other geologic hazards...
Mineral deposits of the northwestern Hijaz quadrangle, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Robert Francis Johnson, Virgil A. Trent
1972, Open-File Report 72-195
A reconnaissance of portions of the Northwestern Hijaz quadrangle in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was made during 1964 and 1965 as part of a mineral survey of the Precambrian crystalline rocks of the country. The survey is being made under the terms of an agreement between the Saudi Arabia...
Hydrologic investigations of prairie potholes in North Dakota, 1959-68
W. S. Eisenlohr Jr., editor(s)
1972, Professional Paper 585-A
A prairie pothole is a depression in the prau1e, capable of storing water, that is the result of glacial processes. Years ago, there were many hundreds of thousands of prairie potholes in the North-Central United States, but large numbers of them have been drained for agricultural use. This report is...
Water for cranberry culture in the Cranmoor area of central Wisconsin
Louis J. Hamilton
1972, Water Supply Paper 1999-I
The Cranmoor area of central Wisconsin is the principal cranberry producing area of the State. Cranberries are grown in only about 2.5 square miles of an 80-square-mile marsh and swamp in the Cranberry Creek basin. Cranberry growers have built reservoirs and ditches throughout 25 square miles of marsh for better...
Hawaiian-emperor chain and its relation to cenozoic circumpacific tectonics
E.D. Jackson, E. A. Silver, G. B. Dalrymple
1972, Geological Society of America Bulletin (83) 601-618
The Hawaiian Ridge and Emperor Seamounts appear to form a single chain of tholeiitic shield volcanoes that erupted sequentially on the sea floor of the central Pacific Ocean during Tertiary and Quaternary time. The chain cuts obliquely across the older Cretaceous structural patterns of that sea floor. While the pattern...
Paleomagnetic correlations and Potassium-Argon dating of Middle Tertiary ash-flow sheets in the eastern Great Basin, Nevada and Utah
C. S. Grommé, E.H. McKee, M. Clark Blake Jr.
1972, GSA Bulletin (83) 1619-1638
Directions of natural remanent magnetization are used to identify and correlate individual cooling units in the middle Tertiary ash-flow province in central and eastern Nevada and western Utah. Potassium-argon dating indicates that the minimum time between eruptions of individual but genetically related ash-flow cooling units is on the order of...
