Gravity survey in southern Cascade Range, California
Thomas R. LaFehr
1965, Open-File Report 65-92
A regional gravity survey in the southern Cascade Range and environs was made during the summers of 1962 and 1963. Twelve hundred gravity stations were established within the area enclosed by lat 41°00'N, lat 42°301N, long 120°00'W, and long 124°00'W. Most of the stations are concentrated in an area overlapping...
Geology of the Coeur d'Alene district, Shoshone County, Idaho
S. Warren Hobbs, Allan B. Griggs, Robert E. Wallace, Arthur B. Campbell
1965, Professional Paper 478
The Coeur d'Alene district, near the base of the northern panhandle of Idaho, is one of the world's larger lead- zinc and silver-producing areas. The greater part of the dis~rict i~ included within five map areas, from east to west the Pottsville, Mullan, Wallace, Kellogg, and Smelterville, which were geologically...
East Cortez coal area, Montezuma County, Colorado
Henry L. Cullins, William E. Bowers
1965, Open-File Report 65-37
No abstract available....
Plant microfossils of the Hazard No. 7 coal, Perry County, Kentucky
Robert M. Kosanke
1965, Open-File Report 65-89
The cooperative mapping program between the Kentucky Geological Survey and the U. S. Geological Survey has yielded a number of interesting and valuable by-products. As a part of the stratigraphic studies involving Carboniferous coal fields, R. M. Kosanke has been involved in a detailed analysis of spore floras from various...
Preliminary geologic map of the Eagle D-1 quadrangle, east central Alaska
Earl E. Brabb, Michael Churkin
1965, Open-File Report 65-20
No abstract available....
Summary of floods in the United States during 1961
J.O. Rostvedt
1965, Water Supply Paper 1810
This report describes the most outstanding floods in the United States during 1961. The most damaging floods during the year were those caused by snowmelt in March and April in the upper Mississippi River basin and those accompanying Hurricane Carla in September.Hurricane Carla traveled northward along the east edge of...
Geology of the Romanzof Mountains, Brooks Range, northeastern Alaska
Edward G. Sable
1965, Open-File Report 65-141
This remote 700 square mile area in the Brooks Range is topographically rugged and geologically diverse; it contains a granitic pluton, low-grade metamorphic rocks, sedimentary rocks, and mafic igneous rocks, as well as glacial features.Rocks of sedimentary origin include from oldest to youngest:1.Neruokpuk Formation Middle and Upper Devonian(?), more than...
Ground-water resources of Pavant Valley, Utah
R. W. Mower
1965, Water Supply Paper 1794
Pavant Valley, in eastern Millard County in west-central Utah, is in the Great Basin section of the Basin and Range province. The area of investigation is 34 miles long from north to south and 9 miles wide from east to west and comprises about 300 square miles. Agriculture, tourist trade,...
Geology and hydrology of the Claiborne Group in western Tennessee
Gerald K. Moore
1965, Water Supply Paper 1809-F
The area of western Tennessee underlain by the Claiborne Group is about 7,200 square miles and lies on the east flank of the syncline that forms the Mississippi embayment. It includes the Mississippi Alluvial Plain and part of a dissected upland plateau. The Claiborne Group dips to the northwest at...
Floods of March-April 1960 in Eastern Nebraska and adjacent states
H.D. Brice, R.E. West
1965, Water Supply Paper 1790-A
Snowmelt floods, record breaking on many streams and outstanding in terms of total area affected and runoff volumes generated, occurred in late March and early April 1960 on Missouri River tributaries in adjacent parts of six states. In order of area affected, the States are Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas,...
Carbonate rocks of Cambrian and Ordovician age, Northampton and Bucks Counties, eastern Pennsylvania, and Warren and Hunterdon Counties, western New Jersey
Avery Drake Jr.
1965, Bulletin 1194-L
No abstract available....
Water resources in the vicinity of municipalities on the eastern Mesabi Iron Range and the Vermilion Iron Range, northeastern Minnesota
R. D. Cotter, H. L. Young, L. R. Petri, C. H. Prior
1965, Water Supply Paper 1759-F
Additional supplies of water are available near the municipalities on the eastern Mesabi Iron Range and the Vermilion Iron Range. On the eastern Mesabi Range the potential for additional development of both ground-water and surface-water supplies are good, and on the Vermilion Range the best potential for development is from...
Water resources in the vicinity of municipalities on the central Mesabi Iron Range, northeastern Minnesota
R. D. Cotter, H. L. Young, L. R. Petri, C. H. Prior
1965, Water Supply Paper 1759-D
Additional supplies of water are available near the municipalities on the central Mesabi Iron Range. Ground water presents the greatest potential yield, and most of the productive aquifers are in the Biwabik Iron-Formation and the stratified glacial drift. /k single body of ice-contact stratified drift underlies parts of all but...
Water resources in the vicinity of municipalities on the east-central Mesabi Iron Range, northeastern Minnesota
R. D. Cotter, H. L. Young, L. R. Petri, C. H. Prior
1965, Water Supply Paper 1759-E
Additional supplies of water are available near the municipalities on the east-central Mesabi Iron Range. Both ground water and surface water offer good potential supplies. For the ground-water supplies, the most productive aquifers are the Biwabik Iron Formation and the stratified glacial drift. Surface-water supplies are variable. Streams in the...
Geology of the Cedar Mesa-Boundary Butte area, San Juan County, Utah
Robert B. O’Sullivan
1965, Bulletin 1186
The Cedar Mesa-Boundary Butte area lies within the Colorado Plateau and includes about 650 square miles in southern San Juan County, Utah. Altitudes ranges from 3,890 feet on the westward-flowing San Juan River, the major and only perennial stream, to more than 6,400 feet on Cedar Mesa in the northwest....
Geology and water resources of Portage County, Wisconsin
Charles Lee Roy Holt
1965, Water Supply Paper 1796
Portage County has abundant resources of generally good quality water and, although water problems exist locally, depletion or general scarcity of water is not likely in the foreseeable future. The county receives annually about 31 inches of precipitation, of which about 21 inches is lost as evaportranspiration. The average annual water...
Preliminary report on investigation of salt springs and seeps in a portion of the Permian Basin in Texas
P. R. Stevens, W. F. Hardt
1965, Open-File Report 65-153
The Permian Basin (fig. 1) comprises a large area in the southern midcontinent region and includes major portions of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Within this basin brine springs and seeps discharge more than 20,000 tons per day of sodium chloride (common table salt). This brine contaminates many streams...
Records of wells and test holes, materials tests, and chemical analyses of water in the Assabet River basin, Massachusetts
Samuel J. Pollock, William B. Fleck
1965, Open-File Report 65-125
The Assabet River, located in Worcester and Middlesex Counties in eastern Massachusetts, drains an area of approximately 177 square miles. The area includes all or a portion of the following towns: Acton, Boxborough, Carlisle, Concord, Hudson, Littleton, Marlborough, Maynard, Stow, Sudbury, and Westford in Middlesex County; Berlin, Bolton, Boylston, Clinton,...
Extent and frequency of floods in the vicinity of Easton, Pennsylvania-Phillipsburg, New Jersey
G.M. Farlekas
1965, Open-File Report 65-57
No abstract available. ...
Aeromagnetic map of parts of Marquette, Dickinson, Baraga, Alger, and Schoolcraft Counties, Michigan, and its geologic interpretation
J. E. Case, J. E. Gair
1965, Geophysical Investigations Map 467
The U. S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Geological Survey Division of the Michigan Department of Conservation, is conducting a comprehensive restudy of the iron-bearing districts of Michigan. The use of aeromagnetic data is one of the fastest and most reliable methods for outlining the areal distribution of magnetic...
Water resources appraisal of the Anchorage area, Alaska
David A. Sommers, Melvin V. Marcher
1965, Open-File Report 65-151
At the present, water use in the Anchorage area amounts to about 21 mgd (million gallons per day); of this amount ground water accounts for about 10 mgd. By 1980, 60 mgd may be required to meet the demand.The greatest potential problem is overpumping the ground-water reservoir resulting in excessive...
The 1965 Mississippi River flood in Iowa
Harlan H. Schwob, Richard E. Myers
1965, Open-File Report 65-145
The great flood of 1965 on the Mississippi River, along the eastern border if the State, exceeded any flood known in 139 years. It cause damages probably in excess of ten millions of dollars in the State of Iowa. Studied now in progress will more thoroughly cover this and other...
A progress report and proposed test-well drilling program for the water-resources investigation of the Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency area, California
J. E. Weir Jr., J. R. Crippen, L.C. Dutcher
1965, Open-File Report 65-172
No abstract available....
Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian biostratigraphy of east-central Alaska
Michael Churkin Jr., Earl E. Brabb
1965, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (49) 172-185
A predominantly shale and chert sequence has been mapped from the Canadian border at Latitude 65°00′ N. to the Nation River about 25 miles northwest. It has Ordovician and Silurian graptolites in the lower half, and Middle Devonian corals and Upper Devonian spores in the upper half.The lower half of...
Structure, metamorphism, and plutonism in the south-central Klamath Mountains, California
Gregory A. Davis, M. J. Holdaway, Peter W. Lipman, W. D. Romey
1965, Geological Society of America Bulletin (76) 933-966
In the south-central Klamath Mountains 50 miles of the the north-trending central metamorphic belt and adjacent parts of the eastern Paleozoic and western Paleozoic and Triassic belts have been mapped and studied in detail. Within the central metamorphic belt a sequence of three lithologically distinctive metamorphic units has been recognized...
