Trace elements investigations in the Sweepstakes Creek area, Koyuk district, Seward Peninsula, Alaska
H. Richard Gault, Robert F. Black, John B. Lyons
1946, Trace Elements Investigations 25
A significant content of radioactive material was recognized in a few placer concentrates from Sweepstakes and Rube Creeks in the Koyuk district of eastern Seward Peninsula, Alaska, when old collections were scanned for radioactivity in the spring of 1945. Subsequent field investigations with a Geiger-Mueller counter were made of the...
Geology and ground-water resources of the island of Hawaii
Harold T. Stearns, Gordon A. Macdonald
1946, Bulletin 9
Hawaii, the largest island in the Hawaiian group, is 93 miles long, 76 miles wide, and covers 4,030 square miles. Mauna Loa Volcano is 13,680 feet high and Mauna Kea is 13,784 feet high. Plate 1 shows the geology, wells, springs, and water-development tunnels. Plate 2 is a map and...
Industrial limestones and dolomites in Virginia: northern and central parts of the Shenandoah Valley
R.S. Edmundson
1945, Book, Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Bulletin
The area described in this report includes the northern and central parts of Shenandoah Valley in Virginia extending from the West Virginia line southwestward to the vicinity of Greenville, Augusta County. It contains extensive deposits of high-calcium limestone averaging more than 97 per cent calcium carbonate. The Mosheim limestone, composed...
Geology and coal resources of the western part of the lower Matanuska Valley coal field, Alaska
Thomas G. Payne, David M. Hopkins
1945, Open-File Report 45-100
The lower Matanuska Valley coal field is in southern Alaska 45 miles northeast of the city of Anchorage (fig. 1). The field is in an area bounded on the south by the Matanuska River, on the north by the foothills of the Talkeetna Mountains, and includes on the east and...
Geology and coal resources of the eastern part of the lower Matanuska Valley coal field, Alaska
F.F. Barnes, F.M. Byers Jr.
1945, Open-File Report 45-102
The lower Matanuska Valley coal field is in south-central Alaska near the head of Cook Inlet, about 60 miles by railroad northeast of Anchorage (fig. 1). It occupies an area roughly 7 miles long and 1 1/2 miles wide that trends northeastward parallel to the front of the Talkeetna Mountains...
A study of secondary recovery possibilities of the Hogshooter field, Washington County, Oklahoma
I. William Fox, Claude H. Thigpen, Roy L. Ginter, George P. Alden
1945, Open-File Report 45-37
The Hogshooter field, located in east central Washington County, Oklahoma, was first developed during the period 1906 to 1913. The field was extended later during the period 1918 to 1922. The principal producing horizon is the Bartlesville sand, found at an average depth of 1,150 feet. To January 1, 1944,...
Flood of July 5, 1939 in eastern Kentucky
Floyd F. Schrader
1945, Water Supply Paper 967-B
No abstract available....
The Arcadia zinc area, Scott County, Virginia
Irvine Gladstone, Vincent E. Nelson, Deane F. Kent
1945, Open-File Report 45-55
The Arcadia zinc area in the southeastern part of Scott County, Va., about 1 1/2 mile north of the village of Arcadia, Tenn., and in the eastern part of the Indian Springs topographic map area. According to Secrist prospects were opened in 1906 by Mr. Frank Bowman and were worked...
Geology of Santa Rosa Hills, eastern Purisima Hills district, Santa Barbara County, California
W. P. Woodring, John S. Loofbourow, M. N. Bramlette
1945, Oil and Gas Investigation Map 26
No abstract available....
Surface water supply of the United States, 1943, Part II, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1945, Water Supply Paper 972
Stratigraphy and structure of west-central Vermont
Wallace M. Cady
1945, GSA Bulletin (56) 515-588
The lithologic units recognizable in the fossiliferous succession along southern Lake Champlain are structurally continuous with and traceable eastward into the “marble belt” of west-central Vermont immediately west of the Green Mountain Front. They are also traceable northward through west-central Vermont into a succession in northwestern Vermont bounded on the...
Petrography, structures, and petrofabrics of the Pinckneyville quartz diorite, Alabama
H.R. Gault
1945, GSA Bulletin (56) 181-246
The Pinckneyville quartz diorite complex underlies an area in eastern Alabama extending from the Coosa River in northwest Elmore County northeast through Coosa and Tallapoosa counties into Clay County.Dark-gray, coarse-grained quartz diorite gneiss constitutes the major part of the complex, but there are smaller amounts of granodiorite and granite gneiss....
Explosion‐breccia in the Wrangell district, southeastern Alaska
H.R. Gault
1945, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (26) 389-390
Unusual breccias were noted at several places in the vicinity of Groundhog and Glacier Basins, about 13 miles east of Wrangell on the mainland of southeastern Alaska, in 1942 and 1943. They are similar in some respects to the clastic dikes in Colorado described by Burbank [see 1 of “References”...
Ground-water conditions in the vicinity of Carlsbad, New Mexico
William E. Hale
1945, Open-File Report 45-106
The area included in this investigation lies in Eddy County, New Mexico, largely between the foothills of the Guadalupe Mountains on the west and the Pecos River on the east, and extends from Carlsbad southward to Black River. The Pecos River drains the entire area, and in the growing season...
Food habits of the raccoon in eastern Texas
R.H. Baker, C.C. Newman, F. Wilke
1945, Journal of Wildlife Management (9) 45-48
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The floods of May 1943 in Illinois
1945, Report
In May 1943, Illinois was subjected to a series of flood that reached major intensities in the central part of the state but decreased to minor intensity--less than the maximum for the year--in the northwestern and extreme southern part. All records were broken on lower Illinois River and on its triibutaries entering from...
Zinc-copper deposits near Moth Bay, Revillagigedo Island, southeastern Alaska
G. D. Robinson
1944, Open-File Report 44-88
Moth Bay is a narrow inlet on the north side of the entrance to Thorne Arm, a large bay near the southern end of Revillagigedo Island, southeastern Alaska (see insert, fig. 1). It is about 16 miles by water southeasterly from Ketchikan, the nearest port. Moth Bay is locally known...
Occurrences of scheelite in the Solomon district, Seward Peninsula, Alaska
Robert R. Coats
1944, Open-File Report 44-28
The scheelite occurrences here reported are on the Solomon River, about 35 miles by road east of Nome, the principal town on the Seward Peninsula, and on and near Big Hurrah Creek, about 5 miles northward by road (see fig. 1)....
Maps and sections of the Berea sandstone in eastern Michigan
G. V. Cohee, L.B. Underwood
1944, Oil and Gas Investigation Map 17
Geology and mineral deposits of Glacier Basin and vicinity, Wrangell district, southeastern Alaska
H.R. Gault, Darwin L. Rossman, George W. Flint Jr.
1944, Open-File Report 44-87
Glacier Basin is on the mainland of southeastern Alaska about 13 miles east of Wrangell (see fig. 1) and is about 10 miles by trail and by boat across Lake Virginia from tidewater (see fig. 2). A Forest Service trail starts from Eastern Passage a few hundred feet north of...
Geology and ground-water resources of the Big Spring area, Texas
Penn Poore Livingston, Robert R. Bennett
1944, Water Supply Paper 913
This report gives the principal results of an investigation of ground water in the Big Spring area, Texas. Big Spring, the county seat of Howard County, has an estimated population of about 16,000. It is situated on the Texas & Pacific Ry. and United States Highway No. 80 in western...
Graphite deposits on the north side of the Kigluaik Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska
Robert R. Coats
1944, Open-File Report 44-25
The graphite deposits on the north side of the Kigluaik Mountains have been known for many years, and have yielded a small quantity of flake graphite, but they have been only slightly developed. The author spent 4 days of June 1943 in company with Mr. H. E. Heide, mining engineer...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1942, Part II, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1944, Water Supply Paper 952
Manganese Deposits in the Artillery Mountains Region, Mohave County, Arizona
S.G. Lasky, B.N. Webber
1944, Bulletin 936-R
The manganese deposits of the Artillery Mountains region lie within an area of about 25 square miles between the Artillery and Rawhide Mountains, on the west side of the Bill Williams River in west-central Arizona. The richest croppings are on the northeast side of this area, among the foothills of...
The Mariposa mine, Terlingua quicksilver district, Brewster County, Texas
Robert G. Yates, George A. Thompson
1944, Open-File Report 44-75
The Mariposa mine in Brewster County, Tex., ranks second in all-time production of quicksilver in the Terlingua mining district. It is in Section 59, Block G-12, and is about 7 miles by road west of the Terlingua Post Office (see accompanying maps). The nearest railroad shipping point is Alpine, Tex.,...
