Ore deposits on northwestern Chichagof Island, Alaska
Darwin L. Rossman
1955, Open-File Report 55-154
The area mapped includes most of northwestern Chichagof Island. The work, started in 1946, is a continuation of the geologic mapping done in the adjoining Chichagof mining district by Reed and Coats. The gold-bearing zone recognized by these writers continues through the area mapped by the writer to the northern...
The central Kuskokwim region, Alaska
W. M. Cady, R. E. Wallace, J. M. Hoare, Edward J. Webber
1955, Professional Paper 268
Geologic investigations of proposed power sites at Cooper, Grant, Ptarmigan and Crescent Lakes, Alaska
George Plafker
1955, Bulletin 1031-A
No abstract available....
Notes on a coal deposit on the Beluga River, Alaska
Farrell F. Barnes
1955, Open-File Report 55-5
This report is based on a brief examination of a locality on the Beluga River, about 50 miles west of Anchorage, Alaska (fig. 1), that had been reported to contain a coal bed of exceptional thickness and quality, possibly suitable for large-scale strip mining. I visited the locality on August...
Ground-water reconnaissance in five Eskimo villages in the lower Kuskokwim-Yukon River area, Alaska
Roger Milton Waller
1955, Open-File Report 55-186
In response to a request from the Sanitation and Engineering Section of the Alaska Department of Health, a reconnaissance of the possibility of obtaining ground-water supplies for the five villages in the lower Kuskokwim-Yukon River area was made by the Geological Survey early in June 1955. The five Eskimo villages--Kwethluk,...
Geology and coal deposits, Jarvis Creek coal field, Alaska
Clyde Wahrhaftig, C.A. Hickox
1955, Bulletin 989-G
Photogeologic map of the lower Koyukuk Cretaceous basin, west-central Alaska
John T. Cass
1955, Open-File Report 55-26
The effect of volcanic ash from Mt. Spurr on the chemical character of surface waters near Anchorage, Alaska
G.W. Whetstone
1955, Open-File Report 55-193
Preliminary report on the potential waterpower of Grant, Ptarmigan, Cooper and Crescent lakes on the Kenai Peninsula, near Seward, Alaska
Arthur Johnson
1955, Open-File Report 55-74
Grant, Ptarmigan, Cooper, and Crescent Lakes, located in the Kenai Mountains in the upper portion of the Kenai River Basin, approximately 25 miles to the north of Seward, present favorable opportunities for the development of waterpower. Grant and Ptarmigan Lakes can be made readily accessible by roads from the Seward-Anchorage...
Geology of the southeastern part of the Robinson Mountains, Yakataga district, Alaska
Don John Miller
1955, Open-File Report 55-114
This report gives the results of geologic investigations in the Yakataga district on the south coast of Alaska, including detailed geologic mapping in the southeastern part of the Robinson Mountains, and reconnaissance study of the stratigraphy and structure of adjoining areas. The geologic map that accompanies this report covers an...
Reconnaissance of ground-water possibilities in the Juneau area, Alaska
Roger Milton Waller
1955, Open-File Report 55-187
A brief reconnaissance of the Juneau area, Alaska, was made to investigate the ground-water conditions. Particular reference was made to the availability of small water supplies to meet the standards of the Alaska Department of Health....
Geology of waterpower sites on Scenery Creek, Cascade Creek, and Delta Creek near Petersburg, Alaska
John Charles Miller
1955, Open-File Report 55-115
Dam sites were examined at the outlets of Scenery Lake, Swan Lake, and Ruth Lake which are located on Scenery Creek, Cascade Creek, and Delta Creek, respectively. The Scenery Lake dam site is partly in quartz diorite and partly in hornblende plagioclase gneiss. The Swan Lake and Ruth Lake dam...
Selected annotated bibliography and index map of thorium and rare-earth deposits in the United States and Alaska
Katharine L. Buck
1955, Trace Elements Investigations 531
Occurrence of diatomaceous earth near Kenai, Alaska
George Plafker
1955, Open-File Report 55-139
Diatomaceous earth occurs in post-glacial lake deposits exposed along the shore of Cook Inlet north of the village of Kenai, Alaska. Diatomaceous earth is an unconsolidated earthy deposit formed by accumulation of the minute siliceous tests (skeletons) of diatoms, a type of algae. Diatomaceous earth is sometimes referred to...
Geology of two areas of pegmatite deposits in southeastern Alaska
C.L. Sainsbury
1955, Open-File Report 55-159
A pegmatite deposit about 600 feet in diameter crops on a high bluff less than one-half mile east of a small unnamed cove between Redfish and Byron Bays, on the west coast of Baranof Island, southeastern Alaska.The deposit which comprises several pegmatite bodies consists of quartz, albite-oligoclase, microcline and mica,...
Radioactivity investigations at Ear Mountain, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 1945
Paul Lewis Killeen, R.J. Ordway
1955, Bulletin 1024-C
Origin of the upland silt near Fairbanks, Alaska
T. L. Pewe
1955, GSA Bulletin (66) 699-724
Silt mantles the upland slopes and ridge tops throughout the unglaciated interior of Alaska, reaching maximum thickness along the north side of the Tanana River Valley. The silt is probably loess deposited during glacial advances by south winds blowing from the glaciated Alaska Range across outwash plains in the Tanana...
Mineral resources of Alaska, 1951-53
Robert R. Coats
1955, Bulletin 989
No abstract available....
Reconnaissance for radioactive deposits in Alaska, 1953
John J. Matzko, Robert G. Bates
1955, Trace Elements Investigations 442
During the summer of 1953 the areas investigated for radioactive deposits in Alaska were on Nikolai Creek near Tyonek and on Likes Creek near Seward in south-central Alaska where carnotite-type minerals had been reported; in the headwaters of the Peace River in the eastern part of the Seward Peninsula and...
Iliamna Volcano and its basement
Werner Juhle
1955, Open-File Report 55-77
No abstract available....
Correlation of the cretaceous formations of Greenland and Alaska
Ralph W. Imlay, John B. Reeside
1954, Geological Society of America Bulletin (65) 223-246
Subsurface structure, Umiat Test Wells
Alaskan Geology Branch
1954, Open-File Report 54-10
Index of publications on Alaskan geology
Alaskan Geology Branch
1954, Open-File Report 54-6
Graphic and written logs, Umiat Test Well No. 11
Alaskan Geology Branch
1954, Open-File Report 54-5
Graphic and written logs, Umiat Test Well No. 8
Alaskan Geology Branch
1954, Open-File Report 54-4
