Lead and zinc deposits of the Beetown area, Wisconsin
Allen Van Heyl Jr., Erwin J. Lyons, John J. Theiler
1950, Open-File Report 50-39
The Beetown area, in Grant County, Wisconsin, in the Northwestern part of the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district, lies in the western part of T. 4 N., R. 4 W., and the eastern part of T. 4 N., R. 5 W. The village of Beetown is at about its center.Recent...
Geology and paleontology of the Santa Maria district, California
W. P. Woodring, M. N. Bramlette
1950, Professional Paper 222
Stratigraphy, paleontology, and geologic history.-A basement' consisting of igneous rocks of the Jurassic(?) Franciscan formation and sediments of the Upper Jurassic Knoxville formation, and formations of Tertiary and Quaternary age are exposed in the Santa Maria district. The outcrop section, exclusive of the Franciscan, has a maximum thickness of about...
Second progress report on the cooperative investigation of springs and stream flow in the Tecolote Tunnel area of Santa Barbara County, California
Harold C. Troxell, C.E. Burgess
1950, Open-File Report 50-101
This report represents the second of a series of progress reports giving the results of discharge measurements made at more than 100 locations in the Santa Ynez Mountains from the Refugio Canyon on the west to the San Marcos Pass and Painted Cave area on the east. The flow in...
Raccoons of North and Middle America
Edward A. Goldman, Hartley H.T. Jackson
1950, North American Fauna 60
The raccoons, genus Procyon, colloquially known as “coons,” belong to the carnivorous family Procyonidae, which also includes the American genera Nasua, Nasuella, Bassaricyon, and Potos, and the Old World genera Ailurus and Ailuropoda of the subfamily Ailurinae. The members of the Procyon lotor group (subgenus Procyon), with a transcontinental range from...
Coal resources of the United States, A progress report, November 1, 1950
Paul Averitt, Louise R. Berryhill
1950, Circular 94
Interest in the quantity and quality of the coal reserves of the United States has increased greatly since the end of World War II, principally because of the growing realization that the ultimate reserves of petroleum and natural gas, although largely undefined, still. have finite limits. With the greatly increased...
Reconnaissance for trace elements in North Dakota and eastern Montana. Part 1. Geology and radioactivity. Part 2. Reserves and summary
Donald G. Wyant, Ernest P. Beroni
1950, Trace Elements Investigations 61
A reconnaissance for sources of radioactive material in North Dakota and eastern Montana was made in 1948. This reconnaissance was followed by a more detailed survey of parts of Golden Valley and Slope counties, southwestern North Dakota, in June 1949. The radioactivity of representative sections of all formations known to be...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1947, Part II, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1950, Water Supply Paper 1082
Geology of the eastern part of the Piceance Creek basin, Rio Blanco and Garfield Counties, Colorado
D.C. Duncan, Carl Belser
1950, Oil and Gas Investigation Map 119
No abstract available....
Gypsiferous deposits on Sheep Mountain, Alaska
Richard A. Eckhart
1950, Open-File Report 51-62
Gypsiferous deposits occur on the south side of Sheep fountain, 112 miles northeast of Anchorage via the Glenn Highway. Sheep Mountain is a high east trending, ridge, approximately 10 miles long and 3 miles wide. It is bordered on the west by Caribou Creek and on the east by Tahneta...
Preliminary report on selected sections of Lisburne Limestone, Brooks Range, Alaska
William P. Brosge, Hillard N. Reiser
1950, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 31
Location: - This report describes sections of the Lisburne limestone studied in the foothills and northern mountains of the Brooks Range, Alaska. The area covered extends along the front of the range from Sagavanirktok Lake (68°28' N. - 149°25' W.) west to the head of the Kukpowruk River (68°25' N....
Preliminary report on the stratigraphy and structure of the upper Siksikpuk - Nanushuk Rivers area
A. Samuel Keller
1950, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 30
Structural and stratigraphic studies of the rocks in the Siksikpuk and Nanushuk Rivers area were conducted by Navy Oil Unit party No. 2 during the summer field season of 1950. The field party consisted of six men: two geologists; two field assistants; a cook; and a weasel mechanic. Three weasels...
Preliminary report on the stratigraphy and structure of the upper Utukok and Kokolik Rivers area
Marvin D. Mangus
1950, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 29
U. S. Geological Survey Navy Oil Unit Party I examined the surface geology of the area of the upper Utukok River and east fork of the Kokolik River from June 28 to September 3, 1950. The party consisted of six men: E. G. Sable and M. D. Mangus, geologists; C....
Stratigraphy and structure of the Aupuk anticline
G. Donald Eberlein, Robert M. Chapman, Charles D. Reynolds
1950, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 38
In addition to conducting an examination of the surface geology in the Southern Foothills province between the Killik River and east fork of the Etivluk River, Navy Oil Unit Party No. 5 was requested to map the Aupuk anticline during the 1950 field season, for the purpose of evaluating the...
The subsurface stratigraphy and structure of the Simpson area
Thomas G. Roberts, Florence Robinson
1950, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 25
During the summer of 1949, 12 core tests were drilled in the vicinity of Simpson Seep No. 2 on the east side of the Simpson peninsula. These tests were drilled in an attempt to determine the origin of the Simpson oil seeps and to evaluate the petroleum possibilities of the...
Review of the stratigraphy and structure of the Gubik anticline
William A. Fischer, Allan N. Kover
1950, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 37
At the direction of Ralph L. Miller, a special study was made of part of the Gubik anticline east of the Colville River. The purpose of this study was two fold; first, the examine the field evidence bearing on east plunge, second, to attempt to establish the continuity of the...
Stratigraphy and structure of the area of the upper Meade River, Alaska
Charles L. Whittington, Samuel A. Keller
1950, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 36
The stratigraphic evidence in the upper Meade River area includes zones B to D of the Nanushuk group (Cretaceous). Zones B and C are not differentiated in mapping and description. South of the Meade River 2,100 feet of zones B-C and 1,500 feet of zone D are exposed. North of...
Stratigraphy and structure of the Okpikruak and Kiruktagiak Rivers area, Alaska
William W. Patton Jr., Irvin L. Tailleur
1950, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 34
Navy Oil Unit Party 4, during the summer field season of 1949, examined the surface geology of the area of the Okpikruak and Kiruktagiak Rivers. The party consisted of six men: two geologists, two field assistants, a weasel mechanic, and a cook. Three weasels were used for transportation in the...
Geologic interpretations of seismic data relocation Routes 15 and 20 in Sturbridge, Mass.
James E. May, Daniel Linehan
1950, Open-File Report 50-43-D
The proposed improvements at the junction of Routes 15 and 20, Sturbridge, Massachusetts, requires a cut of considerable magnitude for the relocation of east-bound Route 20 between stations 158 and 167. Geologic and seismic studies were made of the site for the purpose of determining the position of the bedrock...
Geologic interpretation of seismic data relocation Route 1, stations 150-155 in Danvers, Mass.
James E. May, Daniel Linehan
1950, Open-File Report 50-42-B
At this site the reconstruction of Route 1 requires a deep excavation through a high, east-west elongated hill. In order to obtain subsurface information that would be of aid in selecting the most suitable location for this deep cut through the hill, geologic and seismic studies were made in October...
Preliminary examination of uranium deposits near Marysvale, Piute County, Utah
Harry C. Granger, Herman L. Bauer
1950, Trace Elements Memorandum 33
Autunite and other uranium minerals were discovered in 1948 by Pratt Seegmiller about 3 1/4 miles north of Marysvale, Piute County, Utah. Mining operations were begun in the summer of 1949 by the Vanadium Corporation of America on the Prospector and the Freedom claims, and by the Bullion Monarch Mining...
The Papsy's Hope autunite prospect, Marysvale District, Piute County, Utah
Edward P. Kaiser
1950, Trace Elements Memorandum 145
The Papsy's Hope autunite prospect is in the eastern part of the Marysvale district, Piute County, Utah, about 1 1/2 miles northeast of the mines now operating. It is developed by two shallow cuts and a short incline shaft. One cut exposes a zone of fractures, sparse quartz veins,...
Geology of the Roswell artesian basin, New Mexico, and its relation to the Hondo Reservoir and Effect on artesian aquifer storage of flood water in Hondo Reservoir
Robert T. Bean, Charles V. Theis
1949, Technical Report 9
In the Roswell Basin in southeastern New Mexico artesian water is produced from cavernous zones in the carbonate rocks of the San Andres formation and the lower part of the Chalk Bluff formation, both of Permian age. The Hondo Reservoir, 9 miles west-southwest of Roswell, was completed by the U....
Chromite deposits near Seiad and McGuffy Creeks, Siskiyou County, California
Francis Gerritt Wells, Clay Taylor Smith, Garn A. Rynearson, John S. Livermore
1949, Bulletin 948-B
The chromite deposits described in this report are in northcentral Siskiyou County, Calif. They are in two long tabular masses of peridotite which lie end to end and trend northnorthwest across the valley of the Klamath River. The Seiad Creek-Red Butte mass extends 10 miles north of the river and...
Coal investigations on the southern margin of the Homer district, Kenai coal field, Alaska, in 1947-48
F.F. Barnes
1949, Open-File Report 49-20
The presence of coal in the Tertiary Kenai formation of western Kenai Peninsula has been known since 1880, chiefly as exposed along the north shore of Kachemak Bay and the adjoining east shore of Cook Inlet (fig. 1). Several early attempts were made to develop a commercial mine in this...
Progress report on the geology and ground-water hydrology of the lower Platte River Valley, Nebraska, with a section on the chemical quality of the ground water
Herbert A. Waite, Herbert A. Swenson
1949, Circular 20
The occurrence of abundant ground-water supplies in the lower Platte River Valley has made possible the present agricultural and industrial economy of the area. Likewise, the future development of the area is dependent on the wise use of this important resource. The current investigation, on which this report is based,...
