Pumice deposits in the Alaska Peninsula-Cook Inlet region
R.M. Moxham
1952, Open-File Report 52-103
Three principal areas of pumice deposition have been found in the Alaska Peninsula-Cook Inlet region: Katmai National Monument, Augustine Island, and the Veniaminof-Aniakchak area. Vast quantities of pumice were deposited in Katmai National Monument resulting from the eruption of Mt. Katmai and related volcanic action in 1912. The principal deposits in...
Progress report on photogeologic studies in the Chandler River area
W. P. Brosge, Hillard N. Reiser
1952, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 32
No abstract available....
Magmatic differentiation in tertiary and quaternary volcanic rocks from Adak and Kanaga Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Robert R. Coats
1952, Geological Society of America Bulletin (63) 485-514
Samples of 17 volcanic rocks of Tertiary and Quaternary age from Adak and Kanaga islands have been chemically analyzed and studied microscopically. Spectrograms have been made of 10 of them. The rocks from Adak represent one center of possibly older Tertiary age and two centers of younger Tertiary or Quaternary age. The rocks from Kanaga Island represent both a shield volcano of possibly Tertiary age, partly destroyed by the formation of a caldera, and a young cone of Quaternary age that...
Late quaternary geology and frost phenomena along Alaska Highway, Northern British Columbia and Southeastern Yukon
Charles Storrow Denny
1952, Geological Society of America Bulletin (63) 883-922
Reconnaissance field work along the Alaska Highway in northern British Columbia and southeastern Yukon furnishes preliminary data on the later Quaternary history of the region, and on the processes and results of intensive frost action. Extensive erosion surfaces were developed prior to glaciation, such as the Alberta Plateau of northeastern British Columbia and the Yukon Plateau in southern Yukon. In the region from Dawson Creek to Fort Nelson, British Columbia, the drift is dominantly...
Stratigraphy and structure of some selected localities in the eastern Brooks Range, Alaska
William P. Brosge, J. Thomas Dutro Jr., Marvin D. Mangus, Hillard N. Reiser
1952, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 42
No abstract available....
Stratigraphy and structure of the Grandstand and Hawk anticlines and vicinity, Alaska
Robert L. Detterman, Robert Samuel Bickel
1952, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 41
No abstract available....
Stratigraphy and structure of the Shaviovik and Canning Rivers area, Alaska
A. Samuel Keller, Robert H. Morris
1952, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 40
No abstract available....
Pimpled plains of Eastern Oklahoma
M. M. Knechtel
1952, Geological Society of America Bulletin (63) 689-700
Patterns formed by the networks of furrows separating the natural mounds of pimpled plains in eastern Oklahoma are regarded as attributable to shrinkage-polygon systems of coarse texture comparable to those occurring (1) in mound-studded parts of the northwestern United States that are underlain by vertically jointed basalt, (2) in tracts of Alaskan tundra that are occupied...
Reconnaissance for a uranothorianite-bearing lode in the vicinity of the headwaters of the Peace River, Candle Quadrangle, Seward Peninsula, Alaska
Walter Scott West
1952, Trace Elements Memorandum 355
No abstract available....
Effect of wind-generated waves on migration of the Yukon River in the Yukon Flats, Alaska
John R. Williams
1952, Science (115) 519-520
No abstract available....
Heavy mineral studies of northern Alaska
Robert H. Morris
1952, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 31
No abstract available....
Preliminary summary review of thorium-bearing mineral occurrences in Alaska
Robert G. Bates, Helmuth Wedow Jr.
1952, Trace Elements Memorandum 339
Thorium-bearing minerals are known at 47 localities in Alaska. At these localities the thorium occurs as a major constituent or in minor amounts as an impurity in one or more of the following 12 minerals: allanite, columbite, ellsworthite, eschynite, gummite, monazite, orangite, parisite, thorianite, thorite, xenotime, and zircon....
A new interpretation of the Driftwood anticline
Edward G. Sable
1952, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 36
No abstract available....
Radioactive minerals in the Yakataga beach placers, southern Alaska
Robert M. Moxham
1952, Trace Elements Memorandum 326
Radioactivity of nine samples of beach placer deposits in the Yakataga area, southern Alaska, was studied in 1948. The samples were given to the Geological Survey by prospectors operating in the area operating in the area. The heavy-mineral fractions from the concentrates average 0.044 percent equivalent uranium....
Radioactivity at the Copper Creek copper lode prospect, Eagle district, east-central Alaska
Helmuth Wedow, Gene Edward Tolbert
1952, Trace Elements Investigations 195
Investigation of radioactivity anomalies at the Copper Creek copper lode prospect, Eagle district, east-central Alaska, during 1949 disclosed that the radioactivity is associated with copper mineralization in highly metamorphosed sedimentary rocks. These rocks are a roof pendant in the Mesozoic "Charley River" batholith. The radioactivity is probably all due to...
Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Noatak and associated formations, Brooks Range, Alaska
J. Thomas Dutro Jr.
1952, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 33
A think complex sequence of olastic rocks, formerly named the Noatak formation, underlies the Lisburns formation (Mississippian) in the Brooks Range, northern Alaska. Five formations have been recognized as a result of of recent investigations by the author and other geologists of the Navy Oil Unit, U.S. Geological Survey. In...
Adaptation of portable survey meters for airborne reconnaissance with light planes in Alaska
Helmuth Wedow Jr.
1951, Trace Elements Memorandum 323
No abstract available....
Preliminary summary of reconnaissance for uranium in southeastern Alaska during 1951
Joseph Rollins Houston
1951, Trace Elements Memorandum 321
No abstract available....
Preliminary summary of reconnaissance for uranium in the Alaska railroad-Iliamna region during 1951
Gene Edward Tolbert, Arthur Edward Nelson
1951, Trace Elements Memorandum 319
No abstract available....
Coal investigations in south-central Alaska, 1944-46
Farrell F. Barnes
1951, Bulletin 963-E
No abstract available....
Geology at the site of a proposed dam and reservoir on Power Creek near Cordova, Alaska
Don John Miller
1951, Circular 136
No abstract available....
Stratigraphy and structure of the Southern Foothills section between the Etivluk and Kiligwa Rivers, Alaska, 1951
Irvin L. Tailleur, Bion H. Kent
1951, Open-File Report 54-306
The part of the Southern Foothills section, Arctic foothills province, that lies between the Etivluk and Kiligwa Rivers was investigated by Navy Oil Unit party 6 during the 1950 field season. A belt about 16 miles wide and 60 miles long (approximately 800 square miles) was mapped in considerable detail...
Preliminary report on the stratigraphy and structure of the Kiligwa River area, Alaska, 1951
Irvin L. Tailleur, B.H. Kent, H.N. Resier
1951, Open-File Report 54-307
The 1951 field program for Navy Oil Unit party 3 was undertaken with a twofold purpose: (1) to investigate the apparent anticlinorium in the Torok formation (Lower Cretaceous) where exposed along the lower reaches of the Ipnavik, Kiligwa, and Nuna Rivers; and (2) to extend the mapping of the west-central...
Water utilization Ship Creek near Anchorage, Alaska
Jesse L. Colbert
1951, Open-File Report 51-40
Ship Creek drains an area in the Chugach Mountains, flows westward through Anchorage, and empties into Knik Arm. It emerges from the mountains 10 miles east of Anchorage and above that point has a drainage area of 90 square miles. Stream flow records for the 4 year period, 1947 through...
Preliminary Report On The Geology And Oil Possibilities Of The Yakataga District, Alaska
Don J. Miller
1951, Open-File Report 51-39
