Monazite in Atlantic shore-line features
Lincoln Dryden, Glen A. Miller
1954, Trace Elements Investigations 407
This report is a survey of present and potential production of monazite from part of the Maryland-Florida section of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. The part of the Coastal Plain covered here is the outer (shore-ward) half. In this area, all the large heavy-mineral placers so far discovered occur in sand bodies...
Reconnaissance for uranium-bearing lignite in the Ekalaka Lignite Field, Carter County, Montana
James R. Gill
1954, Trace Elements Investigations 452
Uranium-bearing lignite beds 1.5 to 8 feet thick occur in the Fort Union formation of the southern part of the Ekalaka Hills, Carter County, Mont. Data from surface outcrops indicate that an area of about 1,400 acres is underlain by 16,500,000 tons of uranium-bearing lignite containing 700 tons of uranium....
Reconnaissance for radioactive deposits in eastern Alaska, 1952
Arthur Edward Nelson, Walter S. West, John J. Matzko
1954, Trace Elements Investigations 292
Reconnaissance for radioactive deposits was conducted in selected areas of eastern Alaska during 1952. Examination of copper, silver, and molybdenum occurrences and of a reported nickel prospect in the Slana-Nabesna and Chisana districts in the eastern Alaska Range revealed a maximum radioactivity of about 0.003 percent equivalent uranium. No appreciable...
Airborne radioactivity survey of parts of Sand Creek SW and Sand Creek SE quadrangles, Sweetwater county, Wyoming
J. R. Henderson
1954, Trace Elements Memorandum 744
The accompanying map shows the results of an airborne radioactivity survey in 125 square miles of Sand Creek SW and Sand Creek SE quadrangles, Wyoming. This area is part of a larger survey made in southern Carbon and Sweetwater counties by the U.S. Geological Survey, November 9-24, 1953. The work...
Airborne radioactivity survey of parts of Baggs SW and Baggs SE quadrangles, Carbon and Sweetwater counties, Wyoming
J. R. Henderson
1954, Trace Elements Memorandum 743
The accompanying map shows the results of an airborne radioactivity survey in 151 square miles of Baggs SW and Baggs SE quadrangles, Wyoming. This area is part of a larger survey made in southern Carbon and Sweetwater counties by the U.S. Geological Survey, November 9-24, 1953. The work was undertaken...
Results of core drilling for uranium-bearing carbonaceous shale and lignite in the Goose Creek district, Cassia County, Idaho
William J. Mapel, William J. Hail Jr.
1954, Trace Elements Investigations 438
Thirteen core holes, totaling 2,023 feet, were drilled during the fall of 1953 to explore the grade and extent of uranium-bearing beds of carbonaceous shale and lignite in the east-central part of the Goose Creek district, Cassia County, Idaho. The beds tested are interbedded with volcanic ash, bentonite, greenish-gray shale,...
Uranium in the Mayoworth area, Johnson County, Wyoming - a preliminary report
J. D. Love
1954, Trace Elements Investigations 436
The uranium mineral, metatyuyamunite, occurs in the basal limestone of the Sundance formation of late Jurassic age along the east flank of the Bighorn Mountains, about 2 miles southwest of the abandoned Mayoworth post office. This occurrence is of particular interest because it is the first uranium mineralization reported from...
Progress report on the Happy Jack mine, Which Canyon area, San Juan county, Utah
Albert F. Trites Jr., Randall T. Chew III
1954, Trace Elements Memorandum 645
The Happy Jack mine is in the White Canyon area, San Juan county, Utah. Production is from high-grade uranium deposits in the Shinarump conglomerate of the Triassic age. In this area the Shinarump beds range from about 16 to 40 feet in thickness and the lower part of...
Geology of carnotite-bearing sandstone in the Uravan and Gateway districts, Montrose and Mesa counties, Colorado, and Grand County, Utah
E. J. McKay
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 283
Most of the caraotite deposits in the Uravan and Gateway mining districts ate in the persistent upper sandstone stratum of the Salt Wash sandstone member of the Morrison formation, Areas In which this stratum is predominantly lenticular have been delimited from areas in which this stratum is predominantly nonlenticularar. Ground...
Uranium-bearing carbonaceous shale and lignite in the Goose Creek district, Cassia County, Idaho, Boxelder County, Utah and Elko County, Nevada
William Jameson Mapel, William James Hail
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 339
The Goose Creek district includes about 260 miles in southern Cassia County, Idaho, and adjacent parts of Boxelder County, Utah, and Elko County Nev. The-area comprises the northern and central parts of an intermontane basin drained by northward-flowing Goose Creek and its tributaries. An essentially conformable sequence of fluviatile, lacustrine, and...
Montroseite, a new vanadium oxide from the Colorado plateaus
Alice D. Weeks, Evelyn A. Cisney, Alexander M. Sherwood
1953, Trace Elements Investigations 335
Montroseite, a new vanadium mineral named from Montrose County, Colorado, has been found in four mines in western Colorado and in two mines in eastern Utah. It is black, opaque, submetallic, and occurs in microscopic bladed crystals of the orthorhombic dipyramidal class. The axial ratio is a:b:c = 0.509:1:0.310, the...
The industrial utility of public water supplies in the East North-Central States, 1952
E. W. Lohr, P.N. Brown, W.L. Lamar
1953, Circular 253
Coal resources of Indiana
Frank Darwyn Spencer
1953, Circular 266
The Indiana coal field forms the eastern edge of the eastern interior coal basin, which is near some of the most densely populated and highly productive manufacturing areas of the United States. (See fig. 1. ) For this reason Indiana coal reserves are an important State and National asset. In...
Principal coal beds in the Buckhorn quadrangle, Breathitt, Leslie, and Perry Counties, Kentucky
Philip T. Stafford, Kenneth J. Englund
1953, Coal Map 15
This report on coal in the Buckhorn quadrangle, Kentucky, is the second of a series of preliminary reports published by the U.S. Geological Survey as part of a program of investigation of the geology and coal resources of eastern Kentucky. The first report, Coal Investigations Map C5 (Johnston and Heck,...
A preliminary report of geochemical investigations in the Blackbird District
F. C. Canney, H. E. Hawkes, G.M. Richmond, J. S. Vhay
1953, Open-File Report 53-31
This paper reviews an experimental geochemical prospecting survey in the Blackbird cobalt-copper mining district. The district is in east-central Idaho, about 20 miles west-southwest of Salmon. The area is one of deeply weathered nearly flat-topped upland surfaces cut by steep-walled valleys which are tributary to the canyon of Panther Creek....
Geology of the Knife River area, North Dakota
William Edward Benson
1953, Open-File Report 53-21
The Knife River area, consisting of six 15-minute quadrangles, includes the lower half of the Knife River valley in west-central North Dakota. The area, in the center of the Williston Basin, is underlain by the Tongue River member of the Fort Union formation (Paleocene) and the Golden Valley formation (Eocene)....
Coal beds of the Troublesome quadrangle, Breathitt, Knott, and Perry Counties, Kentucky
Allen D. Williamson, W.L. Adkison
1953, Coal Map 18
The coal beds of the Troublesome quadrangle, Kentucky, have been studied as part of a general investigation of the coal resources of eastern Kentucky by the U.S. Geological Survey. The area covered by two maps already published is shown on the index map (fig. 7)....
Seismic cross sections across the Spokane River valley and the Hillyard Trough, Idaho and Washington
R. C. Newcomb, and others
1953, Open-File Report 53-199
Two seismic cross sections were run with a refraction seismograph near Spokane, Wash., in Hay and June 1951. One section trended north-south across the Spokane River valley plain Just east of the Idaho-Washington boundary; the other trended east-west across the strath just north of the Hillyard section of Spokane. Each section...
Changes in chemical quality of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma and Arkansas (1946-52)
T.B. Dover, J.W. Geurin
1953, Open-File Report 53-289
Systematic chemical quality-of-water investigations have been carried on in both Oklahoma and Arkansas by the Geological Survey in cooperation with State and Federal agencies during the past several years. Results of the Survey's quality-of-water investigations are usually published in the annual Water-Supply Papers. However, as the Geological Survey has made...
Total intensity aeromagnetic and geologic map of east-central Itasca County, Minnesota
J. L. Meuschke, John R. Henderson Jr.
1953, Geophysical Investigations Map 98
No abstract available....
Geology of anthracite in the western part of the Ashland quadrangle, Pennsylvania
Boyd R. Haley, Harold H. Arndt, Howard E. Rothrock, Holly C. Wagner
1953, Coal Map 13
The Western Middle anthracite field is one of four structural basins containing anthracite in eastern Pennsylvania. This report describes the geology of the part of the Western Middle field that lies in the western half of the Ashland quadrangle. (See index map, sheet 2.) The mapped area covers about 19...
Ground-water conditions in the Milwaukee-Waukesha area, Wisconsin
Frank Clingan Foley, W.C. Walton, W.J. Drescher
1953, Water Supply Paper 1229
Three major aquifers underlie the Milwaukee-Waukesha area: sandstones of Cambrian and Ordovician age, Niagara dolomite of Silurian age, and sand and gravel deposits of Pleistocene age. The Maquoketa shale of Ordovician age acts as a more or less effective seal between the Pleistocene deposits and Niagara dolomite above and the...
The "Clinton" sands in Canton, Dover, Massillon, and Navarre quadrangles, Ohio
James Franklin Pepper, Wallace De Witt Jr., Gail M. Everhart
1953, Bulletin 1003-A
The Canton, Dover, Massillon, and Navarre quadrangles cover about 880 square miles in eastern Ohio. Canton is the largest city in the mapped area. In these four quadrangles, the well drillers generally recognize three "Clinton" sands - in descending order, the "stray Clinton", the "red Clinton", and the "white Clinton"....
Preliminary report on the Little Susitna district, Matanuska coal field, Alaska
Farrell F. Barnes
1953, Open-File Report 53-10
The Little Susitna district, as defined in this report, occupies an area roughly 25 miles long and 3 miles wide on the north side of the lower (western) extremity of the Matanuska Valley in south-central Alaska (fig. 1). The district is bounded on the north by the Talkeetna Mountains, on...
Measurement of earth pressures by means of the flat jack test
P. Habib, R. Marchand, Severine Britt (translator)
1953, Open-File Report 54-31
This study deals with the principle and application of a method of measuring the stresses around a rock gallery. The measuring principle consists of cutting a drain in a gallery wall, observing the corresponding stress lessening, then restoring the initial state of stress by means of a Freyssinet flat jack. The...
