Geological Survey investigations in the U12b.01 tunnel, Nevada Test Site
William H. Diment, V.R. Wilmarth, F. A. McKeown, D.D. Dickey, T. Botinelly, E. N. Hinrichs, C. H. Roach, F. M. Byers, G. A. Izett, G. R. Johnson
1959, Trace Elements Memorandum 998
The U12b.01 tunnel is part of the U12b (Rainier) tunnel system driven northwestward from the east slope of Rainier Mesa (figs. 1 and 2). Geologic and geophysical studies in this tunnel were conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey on behalf of the Albuquerque Operations Office of the Atomic Energy Commission....
The Geology of the Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-Lead District
Allen V. Heyl Jr., Allen F. Agnew, Erwin J. Lyons, Charles H. Behre Jr., Arthur E. Flint
1959, Professional Paper 309
The upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district includes the southwest part of Wisconsin, the northwest corner of Illinois, and a narrow fringe of Iowa extending from Bellevue to McGregor, just west of the Mississippi River. The total area of the district is 4,000 square miles. The entire district is drained by...
Geologic map of the Curlew quadrangle, Ferry County, Washington
James Alfred Calkins, R. L. Parker, Alan Eastman Disbrow
1959, Open-File Report 59-15
No abstract available....
Preliminary geologic and structure map of the east-central part of the Cascade Springs quadrangle, Fall River County, South Dakota
Edwin V. Post, Donald W. Lane
1959, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 210
No abstract available....
Paleozoic and mesozoic fossils in a thick stratigraphic section in the eastern Sierra Nevada, California
N.K. Huber
1959, GSA Bulletin (70) 141-146
A thick section of metamorphosed Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks is exposed in two roof pend- ants, one each in the Mount Morrison and Devils Postpile quadrangles in the eastern Sierra Nevada near Mammoth Lakes, Cali- fornia (Fig. 1). In the course of geologic mapping in these quadrangles by the U....
Role of fluid pressure in mechanics of overthrust faulting: II. Overthrust belt in geosynclinal area of western Wyoming in light of fluid-pressure hypothesis
William W. Rubey, M. King Hubbert
1959, GSA Bulletin (70) 167-206
Pressures of interstitial fluids significantly greater than the normal hydrostatic pressure are known in many parts of the world. Many occurrences are in thick sections of relatively young sediments; some are in areas that have been intensely deformed. Abnormal fluid pressures in the Gulf Coast region are associated with thick...
The Elk Ridge-White Canyon channel system, San Juan County, Utah: Its effect on uranium distribution
H.S. Johnson Jr., William Thordarson
1959, Economic Geology (54) 119-129
Reconnaissance in the White Canyon district, San Juan County, Utah, indicates that rocks of the Shinarump member of the Chinle formation of Triassic age were deposited in that district in two different channel systems; sediments deposited in channels of one system were derived from a source to the east and...
Turtleback faults of Death Valley, California: A reinterpretation
Harald Drewes
1959, GSA Bulletin (70) 1497-1508
Turtlebacks are smooth, curved surfaces, which form north-northwestward-plunging elongate domes on the east side of Death Valley. These surfaces are roughly parallel to bedding or foliation of anticlines in Precambrian schist, gneiss, and marble. Late Cenozoic fan and playa deposits are faulted over these surfaces along the turtleback faults. Previously...
History of Imuruk Lake, Seward Peninsula, Alaska
David M. Hopkins
1959, GSA Bulletin (70) 1033-1046
A study of Imuruk Lake, a large, shallow lake in north-central Seward Peninsula, Alaska, illuminates the climatic history of northwestern Alaska and the tectonic history of central Seward Peninsula during Pleistocene and Recent time. Special interest attaches to the older lake sediments, because they contain evidence concerning the climate, fauna, and...
Eighth progress report on the cooperative investigation of springs and streamflow in the Tecolote Tunnel area of Santa Barbara County, California
William C. Peterson
1959, Open-File Report 59-134
This report is the eighth in a continuing series of progress reports giving the results of discharge measurements made at selected springs and streams in the Tecolote Tunnel area of the Santa Ynez Mountains. The measurement program was begun on its present scale in the latter part of 1948 by...
The reclamation of Indian and Abrams creeks in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Robert E. Lennon, Phillip S. Parker
1959, Special Scientific Report - Fisheries 306
A complete program of stream reclamation was developed and applied on Indian and Abrams creeks in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A salt-resistivity technique was used to estimate the dilution and velocity of a toxicant in running water. Streamside toxicity trials on resident fishes established minimal, effective concentrations of the...
Geology and quicksilver deposits of the Terlingua district, Texas
Robert G. Yates, George A. Thompson
1959, Professional Paper 312
The Terlingua quicksilver district, which has produced more than 150,000 flasks of quicksilver, is in the southern part of the Big Bend region of southwestern Texas. It is a narrow, eastwest area about 20 miles long and lies mainly in southwestern Brewster County. The district is connected by graded road...
Ground-water resources of Riverton irrigation project area, Wyoming, with a section on chemical quality of ground water
Donald Arthur Morris, O. M. Hackett, K.E. Vanlier, E. A. Moulder, W. H. Durum
1959, Water Supply Paper 1375
The Riverton irrigation project area is in the northwestern part of the Wind River basin in west-central Wyoming. Because the annual precipitation is only about 9 inches, agriculture, which is the principal occupation in the area, is dependent upon irrigation. Irrigation by surface-water diversion was begum is 1906; water is...
Distribution and migration of races of the mourning dove
J.W. Aldrich, A.J. Duvall
1958, Condor (60) 108-128
The Mourning Dove is a widespread species breeding in the non-boreal regions of North and Middle America and from the West Indies south to Panama. It is hunted extensively in many sections of the United States and in some sections of Canada, the West Indies, and Mexico....The trends in geographic...
Records of springs in the Snake River valley, Jerome and Gooding Counties, Idaho, 1899-1947
Raymond L. Nace, Arthur Van’t Hul, I.S. McQueen
1958, Water Supply Paper 1463
Many springs and seeps discharge water from the north wall of the valley of the Snake River between Milner and Bliss, Idaho. These are fed by a large ground-water body lying east and north of the river, beneath the Snake River Plain. Much ground water is pumped on the plain, many irrigation wells...
Preliminary geologic map of the east central part of the Burdock quadrangle, Fall River County, South Dakota
R. W. Schnabel
1958, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 74
No abstract available....
Geology and ore deposits of the east Shasta copper-zinc district, Shasta County, California
John Patrick Albers
1958, Open-File Report 58-1
No abstract available....
Aeromagnetic map of eastern Roseau County, Minnesota
Kenneth G. Books, G. M. Schwartz, J. L. Meuschke, W.J. Dempsey
1958, Geophysical Investigations Map 140
No abstract available....
Aeromagnetic map of eastern Marshall and northwestern Beltrami Counties, Minnesota
Kenneth G. Books, G. M. Schwartz, J. L. Meuschke, W.J. Dempsey
1958, Geophysical Investigations Map 143
No abstract available....
Zirconium and hafnium in the southeastern Atlantic States
J.B. Mertie Jr.
1958, Bulletin 1082-A
The principal source of zirconium and hafnium is zircon, though a minor source is baddeleyite, mined only in Brazil. Zircon is an accessory mineral in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks, but rarely occurs in hardrock in minable quantities. The principal sources of zircon are therefore alluvial deposits, which are mined...
Bedrock geology of the southwestern part of the North Range, Cuyuna district, Minnesota
R. G. Schmidt
1958, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 181
The Cuyuna manganiferous iron-ore district is in central Minnesota in Morrison, Crow Wing, and Aitkin Counties. The length of the district is about 68 miles, extending northeastward from a point near Randall, in Morrison County, to a point 11 miles east of the community of Hassmann in Aitkin County; the...
Preliminary geologic map of the east central part of the Dewey quadrangle, Custer County, South Dakota
D.A. Brobst
1958, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 78
No abstract available....
Ground water in the alluvial deposits of the Washita River and its tributaries in Oklahoma
A.R. Leonard, L.V. Davis, B.L. Stacy
1958, Open-File Report 58-63
Physical features.--The Washita River heads in the Texas Panhandle, in Hemphill, Roberts, and Wheeler Counties. It flows generally east-southeastward through southwestern and south-central Oklahoma to its confluence with the Red River above Denison, Texas, at a point about 4 miles northwest of Cartwright, Oklahoma. That point of confluence is now...
History of natural flows--Kansas River
Elwood R. Leeson
1958, Open-File Report 58-62
Through its Water Resources Division, the United States Geological Survey has become the major water-resources historian for the nation. The Geological Survey's collection of streamflow records in Kansas began on a very small scale in 1895 in response to some early irrigation interest, Since that time the program has grown,...
Areal geology of the Little Cone quadrangle, Colorado
Alfred Lerner Bush, O.T. Marsh, Richard Bartlett Taylor
1958, Trace Elements Investigations 602
The Little Cone quadrangle includes an area of about 59 square miles in eastern San Miguel County in southwestern Colorado. It lies within and adjacent to the northeastern boundary of the Colorado Plateau physiographic province. The precipitous front of the San Juan Mountains lies a few miles to the east...
