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....
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...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1956, Part II-B, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins, Ogeechee River to Pearl River
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1958, Water Supply Paper 1434
Surface waters of the United States 1956, Part II-A, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins, James River to Savannah River
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1958, Water Supply Paper 1433
Metamorphosed middle Paleozoic fossils from Central Massachusetts, eastern Vermont, and western New Hampshire
A. J. Boucot, G.J.F. Macdonald, C. Milton, James B. Thompson Jr.
1958, Geological Society of America Bulletin (69) 855-870
Study of thin and polished sections and spectrographic analyses indicate that the brachiopod most recently used to date the Bernardston Formation in Massachusetts probably came from Lower Devonian beds (chlorite zone) in Nova Scotia, and not from Bernardston, Massachusetts. Restudy of the faunule from the calcareous quartzite (garnet zone) of...
Stratigraphy of ocoee series, Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee and North Carolina
P.B. King, J. B. Hadley, R. B. Neuman, W. Hamilton
1958, Geological Society of America Bulletin (69) 947-966
Much of the Great Smoky Mountains, which span the boundary between Tennessee and North Carolina, is formed of the Ocoee series, of later Precambrian age. This is a body of terrigenous clastic sedimentary rocks, which has minor intercalations of limestone and dolomite but no volcanic components or known fossils. The...
Photogeologic map of the east half of Cahone Quadrangle, Montezuma and Dolores counties, Colorado
R.J. Hackman
1958, Trace Elements Memorandum 1071
No abstract available...
Geology of Kapingamarangi Atoll, Caroline Islands
Edwin D. McKee
1958, GSA Bulletin (69) 241-278
Kapingamarangi Atoll of the Caroline Islands consists of a peripheral reef, 1000-4000 feet across, surrounding a nearly circular lagoon which is 5 by 6 nautical miles in area and about 240 feet at maximum depth. Thirty-three islands, most of which are less than half a mile in length, are scattered...
Uranium deposits under conglomeratic sandstone of the Morrison Formation, Colorado and Utah
D. A. Phoenix
1958, GSA Bulletin (69) 403-418
In southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah, strata of conglomeratic sandstone are localized at the base of the Brushy Basin Member of the Morrison Formation of Jurassic age. These discrete lithologic units contain sedimentary structures oriented in a prevailing easterly direction. They are believed to cover about one-third of the underlying...
Eastern glossy ibis nesting in southeastern Maryland
R. E. Stewart
1957, The Auk (74) 509-509
On June 25, 1956, Don P. Fankhauser and I investigated a large heron colony of mixed species, on Mills Island in Chincoteague Bay, Worcester County, Maryland. Large numbers of American Egrets (Casmerodius albus), Snowy Egrets (Leucophoyx thula), Louisiana Herons (Hydranassa tricolor), Little Blue Herons (Florida caerulea), and Black-crowned Night Herons...
Preliminary geologic map of the Pumpkin Buttes area, Campbell and Johnson Counties, Wyoming, showing location of uranium occurrences
W. N. Sharp, A. M. White
1957, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 98
The Pumpkin Buttes area comprises about 450 square miles in Campbell and Johnson Counties that includes several prominent buttes known as Pumpkin Buttes. The area is near the center of the Powder River Basin, a large physiographic unit of prairie and sculptured terrain that occupies approximately 12, 000 square miles...
Surface water supply of eastern and central North Carolina
Edward B. Rice
1957, Open-File Report 57-96
None of the many factors that influence the economic growth of eastern and central North Carolina plays a more important role than water. Adequate water supply for municipal, rural domestic, industrial, and agricultural uses, is a basic need of any region....
Memorandum on availability of ground water for irrigation in certain areas of eastern Arkansas
P.E. Dennis, and others
1957, Open-File Report 57-38
This memorandum was prepared in response to a request from the Soil Conservation Service, Little Rock, Ark., for information on the future prospects of irrigation of rice with water from wells in certain areas in the basins of the Bache, St. Francis, and L'Anguille Rivers, Big and Dials Creeks, and...
Glacial features and surficial deposits of the Malaspina district, Alaska
George Plafker, Don John Miller
1957, Open-File Report 57-91
The Malaspina district extends about 50 miles along the north shore of the Gulf of Alaska from Icy Bay and the Guyot Glacier on the west to Yakutat Bay and Disenchantment Bay on the east (see index map). The district includes a coastal lowland flanked on the north by a...
Geology of the Basin Quadrangle, Montana
Edward Thompson Ruppel
1957, Open-File Report 58-87
The Basin quadrangle, in the northern part of the Boulder Mountains between Butte and Helena, Montana, is underlain principally by igneous rocks that include Late Cretaceous quartz latitic and andesitic Elkhorn Mountains volcanics, quartz monzonite and related rocks of the Boulder batholith, Oligocene(?) quartz latitic volcanic rocks, and late Miocene(?)-early...
Bedrock geology at the south-central part of the North Range, Cuyuna district, Minnesota
R. G. Schmidt, C. E. Dutton
1957, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 99
The Cuyuna iron-ore district is in central Minnesota in Morrison, Crow Wing, and Aitkin Counties. The length of the district is about 68 miles, extending from near Randall in Morrison County ot a point 11 miles east of the community of Hassmann in Aitkin County, and the maximum know width...
Preliminary geologic map of the east-central part of the Minnekahta quadrangle, Fall River County, South Dakota
V.R. Wilmarth, R.D. Smith
1957, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 68
No abstract available....
Surface water supply of the United States, 1955, Part II-B, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins, Ogeechee River to Pearl River
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1957, Water Supply Paper 1384
Surface water supply of the United States, 1955, Part II-A, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins, James River to Savannah River
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1957, Water Supply Paper 1383
Geology of the southern Elkhorn Mountains, Jefferson and Broadwater Counties, Montana
M. R. Klepper, R. A. Weeks, E. T. Ruppel
1957, Professional Paper 292
The geology of an area of about 270 square miles in the southern Elkhorn Mountains, west of Townsend in west-central Montana, is described. The mountains in the southern part of the area comprise northward-trending alternating ridges and valleys underlain principally by folded sedimentary rocks. They merge northward into the higher...
Records available to September 30, 1956, on use of water in the Delaware Basin Project area
John C. Kammerer
1957, Open-File Report 57-60
The purpose of this report is to summarize data on the use of water in the Delaware Basin Project area (fig. 2) and to list the principal data sources that are available in published form. The tables and bibliography will assist Geological Survey personnel assigned to the Delaware Basin...
Preliminary geologic map of the east central part of the Flint Hill quadrangle, Fall River County, South Dakota
Henry Bell, E.V. Post
1957, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 63
No abstract available....
Aeromagnetic map of part of the Newton East quadrangle, Sussex County, New Jersey
John R. Henderson Jr., Natalie S. Tyson
1957, Geophysical Investigations Map 161
No abstract available....
Water resources of the Yadkin-Pee Dee River basin, North Carolina
Robert Eugene Fish, H. E. LeGrand, G. A. Billingsley
1957, Water Supply Paper 1415
Sufficient water is available in the basin of the Yadkin and Pee Dee Rivers to meet present requirements and those for many years to come if water use increases at about the present rate. Data presented in this report show that the average annual streamflow from approximately 82 percent of...
Ground-water possibilities south of the Snake River between Twin Falls and Pocatello, Idaho
E. G. Crosthwaite
1957, Water Supply Paper 1460-C
The Snake River Plain and tributary valleys south of the Snake River between Twin Falls and Pocatello, Idaho (here called the South Side area), contain about 180,000 acres of irrigated land, of which 145,000 acres is irrigated with surface water and 35,000 is irrigated wholly or partly with ground water. The area also contains...