Reef Creek Detachment Fault, Northwestern Wyoming
William G. Pierce
1963, GSA Bulletin (74) 1225-1236
he Reef Creek fault is in northwestern Wyoming, a few miles east of the northeast border of Yellowstone National Park. It lies within the area covered by the more extensive Heart Mountain fault. Like that fault, it is a décollement or detachment fault in which strata became detached along a basal shearing...
Saline ground water — A little used and unmapped resource
J. L. Poole
1963, Groundwater (1) 18-20
Vast quantities of saline ground water await new commercial uses and economical demineralization processes for recognition as a valuable resource. Saline ground water is more widely distributed than any other natural resource, occurring throughout the United States and in geologic formations ranging from the oldest to the youngest. The Coastal Plain has the...
Composite dike of andesite and rhyolite at Klondyke, Arizona
Frank S. Simons
1963, Geological Society of America Bulletin (74) 1049-1056
A composite dike of probable Tertiary age intrudes Precambrian granodiorite 6 miles north of Klondyke, Arizona. The dike is exposed discontinuously for about 1500 feet along the strike and has a core of porphyritic rhyolite 15-20 feet thick flanked by coarsely porphyritic andesite 1-2 feet thick. Field evidence indicates that the rhyolite is later than...
Overlapping of late mesozoic orogens in western Idaho
Warren Hamilton
1963, Geological Society of America Bulletin (74) 779-787
Early formed rocks of the border zone of the Idaho batholith are thrust westward over the low-grade metavolcanic rocks of the Seven Devils Mountains. Late intrusions of the border zone cut out upper plate rocks and contact-metamorphose lower plate rocks. Granitic intrusions in the Seven Devils complex are metamorphosed near the border zone...
Applications of geohydrologic concepts in geology
G. B. Maxey, J. E. Hackett
1963, Journal of Hydrology (1) 35-45
Subsurface water, an active agent in many geologic proceses, must be considered in interpreting geologic phenomena. Principles of the occurrence, distribution, and movement of subsurface waters are well established and readily applicable. In many interpretations in geologic literature, geohydrologic principles have been employed realistically, but in many others these principles...
Hydrology of upper Black Earth Creek basin, Wisconsin, with a section on surface water
Denzel R. Cline, Mark W. Busby
1963, Water Supply Paper 1669-C
The upper Black Earth Creek drainage basin has an area of 46 square miles and is in Dane County in south-central Wisconsin. The oldest rock exposed in the valley walls is the sandstone of Late Cambrian age. Dolomite of the Prairie du Chien Group of Ordovician age overlies the sandstone...
Floods in Wyoming, magnitude and frequency
J. R. Carter, A. Rice Green
1963, Circular 478
This report contains the results of four separate flood-frequency analyses designated A, B, C, and D. Analysis A is for the portion of Wyoming east of the Continental Divide. Analysis B applies to the portion of Wyoming in Part 9, as designated in streamflow reports entitled "Surface Water Supply of...
Late Pleistocene glacial drainage in the Devils Lake Region, North Dakota
Saul Aronow
1963, GSA Bulletin (74) 859-874
The Devils Lake region of northeastern North Dakota is covered with glacial drift deposited by the Leeds lobe of the Mankato Substage of the Wisconsin Stage of the Pleistocene and is underlain by Pierre Shale of Cretaceous age. Associated with the Sheyenne River, which flows through the southern part of...
Population analyses, variation and behavior of Anguispira alternata alternata
Charles L. Douglas
1963, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science (66) 186-194
Anguispira alternata alternata is one of the more common terrestrial snails in the United States. Gregarious by nature, these snails can be collected in large numbers from wooded flood-plains and moist upland wooded areas. "The range is eastern Canada and the United States, from Nova Scotia to Lake of...
Occurrence of eastern encephalitis virus in house sparrows
L. N. Locke, J. E. Scanlon, R. J. Byrne, J. O. Knisley Jr.
1962, The Wilson Bulletin (74) 263-266
No abstract available....
Red iron-ore beds of Silurian age in northeastern Alabama, northwestern Georgia, and eastern Tennessee
Jesse W. Whitlow
1962, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 175
Mining and smelting of iron ore in Alabama, northwestern Georgia, and eastern Tennessee date almost to Revolutionary War days, bus substantial production in the Southeast was not attained until after 1850. Numerous furnaces were erected int the region, especially in and near Birmingham, Ala., which is still the principal iron...
Geology of the Albany West quadrangle, Georgia
Robert L. Wait
1962, IMAP 348
The Albany West Quadrangle is near the east edge of the Dougherty Plain of southwestern Georgia, an area of karst topography. The Ocala limestone (uppoer Eocene) underlies the quadrangle and crops out along the Flint River and its tributaries and sinkholes. Sinkholes of two ages are developed in the limestone....
Geology and refractory clay deposits of the Haldeman and Wrigley quadrangles, Kentucky, with a section on coal resources
Sam H. Patterson, John W. Hosterman, John Warfield Huddle
1962, Bulletin 1122-F
The Haldeman and Wrigley 7th-minute quadrangles are near the western edge of the eastern Kentucky coal field and cover an area of approximately 117 square miles in parts of Carter, Rowan, Elliott, and Morgan Counties, Ky. The rocks exposed in the two quadrangles are of Early and Late Mississippian and...
Geographic map of the eastern Rub Al Khali quadrangle, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
E.L. Elberg, Ruel D. Gierhart, Leon F. Ramirez
1962, IMAP 215-B
Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Arabian American Oil Company under the joint sponsorship of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the U.S. Department of State....
Floods of December 1961 in Mississippi and adjoining states
James D. Shell
1962, Circular 465
Widespread floods occurred over parts of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama after heavy rains during December 18, 1961. A series of low-pressure systems produced as much as 19 inches of rainfall in some areas. Heavy rainfall, 7 to 11 inches, on December 10 resulted in outstanding floods on small streams in...
Geology and ground-water resources of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
Thomas G. Newport
1962, Water Supply Paper 1604
The principal water-bearing rocks underlying Fond du Lac County, Wis., are sandstones of Cambrian and Ordovician age and dolomite of Silurian age. Other aquifers include dolomite of Ordovician age and sand. and gravel of Quaternary age. Crystalline rocks of Precambrian age, which underlie all the water-bearing formations, form a practically...
Aeromagnetic map of Georgetown and vicinity, east central Texas
Gordon E. Andreasen, Frank Petrafeso
1962, Open-File Report 62-3
No abstract available. ...
Preliminary geologic map of part of the Charley River quadrangle, east central Alaska
Earl E. Brabb
1962, Open-File Report 62-9
No abstract available....
Water resources of the Utica-Rome area, New York
Henry N. Halberg, O. P. Hunt, F. H. Pauszek
1962, Water Supply Paper 1499-C
The Utica-Rome area is along the Mohawk River and New York State Erie (Barge) Canal about midway between Lake Ontario and Albany. It encompasses about 390 square miles centered around the industrial cities of Utica and Rome. The Mohawk River, its tributary West Canada Creek, and a system of reservoirs...
Ground-water reconnaissance of the Sailor Creek area, Owyhee, Elmore, and Twin Falls Counties, Idaho
E. G. Crosthwaite
1962, Open-File Report 62-34
This reports evaluates the ground-water resources of about 1,000 square miles in the semiarid uplands south of the Snake River between Bruneau River and Salmon Falls Creek. The outcropping rocks are the Idavada Volcanics of Pliocene age, and the Idaho Group of Pliocene and Plieistocene age, consisting of the Banbury...
Records and logs of selected wells and test holes, chemical analyses of water, and water levels in observation wells in southeastern New Hampshire
Edward Bradley, R.G. Petersen
1962, Open-File Report 61-23
The area covered by this report (fig. 1) includes about 390 square miles of southeastern New Hampshire adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean. It lies between Massachusetts on the south and Maine on the north and east, and it is bounded on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and on the...
The Precambrian geology and talc deposits of the Balmat-Edwards district, northwest Adirondack Mountains, New York
A.E.J. Engel
1962, Open-File Report 62-43
The Balmat-Edwards, or Gouverneur, mining district is in the Grenville Lowlands of the northwest Adirondacks, St. Lawrence County, New York. In the district, important deposits of talc and zinc and minor deposits of lead are mined from a northeast trending belt of marble. Deposits of pyrite that were prospected and...
Ground water in the Wupatki and Sunset Crater National Monuments, Coconino County, Arizona
Oliver J. Cosner
1962, Water Supply Paper 1475-J
The Wupatki and Sunset Crater National Monuments are 15 and 30 miles, respectively, northeast of Flagstaff on the San Francisco Plateau. They are in the eastern part of the San Francisco volcanic field and on the southwest flank of the Black Mesa basin. The Supai formation, Coconino sandstone, Kaibab limestone,...
Ground-water provinces of Brazil
Robert Schneider
1962, Water Supply Paper 1663-A
As part of a study of the status of investigations and development of ground water in Brazil, made under the auspices of the United States International Cooperation Administration and with the cooperation of the Government of Brazil, the country was divided into seven ground-water provinces. The identification and delineation of...
Ground-water investigations of the Project Gnome area, Eddy and Lea Counties, New Mexico
J.B. Cooper
1962, Open-File Report 62-29
The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, through the Office of Test Operations, Albuquerque Operations Office, plans to detonate a nuclear device in a massive salt bed 1,200 feet beneath the land surface. The project, known as Project Gnome, is an element of the Plowshare program--a study of peacetime applications of nuclear...
