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...
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...
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)....
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...
The Poor Man iron deposit, Kasaan Peninsula, Prince of Wales Island, southeastern Alaska
L.A. Warner, M. S. Walton Jr.
1944, Open-File Report 44-34
The copper-bearing magnetite deposit, known as the Poor Nan prospect, which is on the Iron King No. 3 claim of James Coleman, is 2 miles northwest of the village of Kasaan (see fig. 1) and 35 miles northwest of Ketchikan, the nearest port. The deposit is within 2,000 feet 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.,...
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
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...
248 mine, Terlingua quicksilver district, Brewster County, Texas
Robert G. Yates, George A. Thompson
1944, Open-File Report 44-75
The 248 quicksilver mine is in Section 248, Block G-4, 2 miles east of Terlingua and 86 miles by dirt road from Alpine, Tex., the nearest railway shipping point (see accompanying maps). Cinnabar, the quicksilver mineral, was discovered before 1902. By 1934 there were only about 700 feet of subsurface...
Differences in basin‐characteristics as reflected by precipitation‐runoff relations in San Bernardino and Eastern San Gabriel Mountain drainages
H.M. Stafford, H.C. Troxell
1944, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (25) 21-35
In interpretation and use of basic hydrological data as basis for planning any public works for conservation or control of water, there is great need for a careful and thorough analysis of the precipitation‐runoff relations. Moreover, when such relations may have been worked out for one particular basin, experience has...
Occurrence of manganese in eastern Aroostook County, Maine
Walter S. White
1943, Bulletin 940-E
Manganiferous rocks are found in two areas in eastern Aroostook County, Maine, one west and northwest of Presque Isle and the other south of Houlton. The manganiferous deposits are sedimentary lenses, up to 150 feet thick and half a mile long, in middle Silurian argilllte. The rocks of both areas...
Caamano Point antimony deposit, Cleveland Peninsula, southeastern Alaska
G. D. Robinson
1943, Open-File Report 43-100
The Caamano Paint antimony deposit was examined during the period August 16 to September 10, 1942 by G. D. Robinson of the Geological Survey, U. S. Department of the Interior. The workings were mapped on a scale of 1 inch to 10 feet, and contoured on an interval of 10...
Copper Ridge zinc district, eastern Tennessee
John Rodgers, D. F. Kent, R.M. Hutchinson
1943, Open-File Report 43-42
Geology of the Cimarron Range, New Mexico
J.F. Smith Jr. , L.L. Ray
1943, Geological Society of America Bulletin (54) 891-924
In north-central New Mexico the rugged Cimarron Range marks the eastern margin of the Southern Rocky Mountains, abruptly rising more than 5000 feet above the adjacent Great Plains. Structurally the range is a northward-plunging anticline with a core of pre-Cambrian crystalline rocks. Faulting along the eastern and western margins of...
The nickel deposits of Yakobi Island, southeastern Alaska
George C. Kennedy
1943, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (24) 257-257
Some of the large, low‐grade nickel‐copper deposits of Bohemia Basin, Yakobi Island, south‐eastern Alaska, which previously had been mapped and studied by the United States Geological Survey, were explored during parts of 1941 and 1942 by the United States Bureau of Mines. The Gealogical Survey interpreted the geologic features of...
Notes on the early history of water-well drilling in the United States
C.W. Carlston
1943, Economic Geology (38) 119-136
The standard cable-tool drilling rig was invented and developed in drilling salt wells in the West Virginia-Ohio-Pennsylvania region during the twenty years following the successful completion of the first drilled well in 1808 by the Ruffnet brothers at the Great Buffalo Lick near Charleston, West Virginia. Some time previous to...
Eastern Siberia terrain intelligence
U.S. Geological Survey Military Geology Branch
1942, Report
The following folio of terrain intelligence maps, charts and explanatory tables represent an attempt to bring together available data on natural physical conditions such as will affect military operations in Eastern Siberia. The area covered is the easternmost section of the U.S.S.R.; that is the area east of the Yenisei...
Subsurface geology and oil and gas resources of Osage County, Oklahoma. Part 10, Burbank and South Burbank oil fields, townships 26 and 27 north, range 5 east, and townships 25 to 27 north, range 6 east
N. W. Bass, H. B. Goodrich, W. R. Dillard
1942, Bulletin 900-J
No abstract available....
Surface water supply of the United States, 1940, Part II, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1942, Water Supply Paper 892
Water supply of the Dakota sandstone in the Ellendale-Jamestown area, North Dakota, with reference to changes between 1923 and 1938
Leland Keith Wenzel, H. H. Sand
1942, Water Supply Paper 889-A
The Dakota sandstone underlies most of North Dakota and South Dakota and considerable parts of nearby States. In most of the area that it occupies it is covered with thick deposits of younger formations, chiefly shale, that confine the water in the sandstone under considerable pressure. Where the topography is...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1941, Part II, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1942, Water Supply Paper 922
Reconnaissance survey of the Roberts Mountains, Nevada
C.W. Merriam, C.A. Anderson
1942, Geological Society of America Bulletin (53) 1675-1727
The Roberts Mountains region, central Nevada, provides an excellent section of Paleozoic rocks ranging from Upper Cambrian to Permian. Major low-angle thrusting is indicated by deformed Ordovician strata resting on Paleozoics of varying age. Overlying a thick breccia zone, the upper thrust plate consists of sandstones, andesitic flows and tuffs,...
Solution‐phenomena in the Pecos basin in New Mexico
Arthur M. Morgan
1942, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (23) 27-25
The drainage‐basin of the Pecos River in New Mexico is a broad asymmetric trough extending from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains southward into Texas (see Fig. 1). It is bounded on the east by the westward facing escarpment of the High Plains and on the west by the crests of...
Deep‐seated solution in the Meade basin and vicinity, Kansas and Oklahoma
K.C. Frye, S.L. Schoff
1942, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (23) 35-39
During the closing years of the 19th century, Haworth [see 1 and 2 of “References” at end of paper] and Johnson [3] noted the abundant depressions resembling sink‐holes in the Southern High Plains, especially in Meade and Clark counties, Kansas, and Beaver County, Oklahoma. Johnson was of the opinion that...
Blackbirds and grain crops in the eastern United States
E.R. Kalmbach
1942, Wildlife Leaflet 220
No abstract available....
