Ground water in Tooele Valley, Tooele County, Utah
H. E. Thomas
1946, Technical Publication 4
Tooele Valley is a typical basin of the Basin and Range Province located about 30 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. It is roughly 15 miles long and 10 miles wide and has a population of about 7,000. Bordered on the west by the Stansbury Range, on the east by...
General statement on the Cedar Creek slide, Montrose, Colorado
Helen D. Varnes
1946, Open-File Report 46-29
The Cedar Creek slide is located about ten miles east of Montrose in southwestern Colorado, along the Denver Rio Grande and Western Railroad. It occupies an area about 1,000 feet square and has a maximum height above the railroad grade of more than 300 feet. The slide occurred on the...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1944, Part II, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1946, Water Supply Paper 1002
Geology and ground-water resources of Cedar City and Parowan Valleys, Iron County, Utah
H. E. Thomas, G.H. Taylor
1946, Water Supply Paper 993
Cedar City Valley and Parowan Valley are situated in the eastern part of Iron County, in southwestern Utah. Both valleys are traversed by United States Highway 91, which skirts the west base of the High Plateaus of Utah. The sparse population of the valleys is chiefly dependent upon agricultural products...
Appalachian drainage and the highland border sediments of the Newark series
C.W. Carlston
1946, Geological Society of America Bulletin (57) 997-1032
The highland border fanglomerates of the Newark basin in New York, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania show no extraordinary correlation with present drainage either in distribution or lithologic character and degree of rounding of their gravels. The writer found no evidence of deposition of any of the fanglomerates by major...
Preliminary report on the stratigraphy and structure of the Kurupa, Colville, and Oolamnagavik Rivers, Alaska
Robert M. Chapman, R. F. Thurrell Jr.
1946, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 1
U. S. Geological Survey Party No. 4 covered the area between 68° 30' and 69° 08' N. latitude and between 154° and 155°20' W. longitude during the period May 18 to September 2. Traverses were confined mainly to the valleys of the Kurupa, Colville, and Oolamnagavik Rivers inasmuch as very...
Artificial recharge of productive ground-water aquifers in New Jersey
H.C. Barksdale, G.D. DeBuchananne
1946, Economic Geology (41) 726-737
Artificial recharge by water spreading is practiced in several places in New Jersey. Rates of recharge ranging from 3,000 to 125,000 gallons per acre per day have been measured at the Perth Amboy Water Works, where artificial recharge of the Old Bridge sand, of upper Cretaceous age, has been practiced...
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...
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
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....
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...
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....
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...
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...
Maps and sections of the Berea sandstone in eastern Michigan
G. V. Cohee, L.B. Underwood
1944, Oil and Gas Investigation Map 17
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...
