Preliminary reports on the Carbon Creek anticline and on the upper Meade River, Alaska
Charles L. Whittington, Samuel A. Keller
1949, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 23
No abstract available....
Preliminary report on the stratigraphy and structure of the Titaluk anticline in the vicinity of Maybe Creek, Alaska
W. P. Brosge, A. N. Kover
1949, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 22
No abstract available....
Volcanic activity on Umnak and Great Sitkin Islands, 1946–1948
F.M. Byers Jr., W. W. Brannock
1949, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (30) 719-734
As part of the United States Geological Survey's volcano program in the Aleutian volcanic arc during 1946–1948, the volcanoes and thermal areas on Umnak and Great Sitkin Islands were studied. In addition to observation of the volcanoes, temperatures of fumaroles were measured and some products of the volcanic activity were...
Summary of microfossil investigations, April 1948 to April 1949 with special reference to the south Barrow and Simpson areas
Helen N. Loeblich
1949, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 26
This report summarizes the results of microfossil investigations for he past year. It includes the microfossil data from the two South Barrow Test Wells and studies of samples from outcrop material an from seismograph shot holes. In addition, new information bearing on the special study of microfossils from the Cape...
Heavy mineral zonation of Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks of the central area of northern Alaska
Ernest H. Lathram
1949, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 29
This report presents the general conclusions pertaining to the correlation of Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks in test wells and outcrops in the central area of northern Alaska (fig. 1) by means of heavy minerals. Approximately 1.000 drill and outcrop samples have been studied. In order to relate the materiel here...
Calculated gravity anomaly produced by possible fault under line 27-48
Stephen W. Dana
1949, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 4
The seismograph data from Line 27-48 of Party 47 indicates the possibility of a high angle fault win a displacement of roughly 1,000 feet under South Barrow Test Well No. 2. This fault vas discussed in E. Wiancko's report for United Geophysical Company entitled "Report of Reflection Seismograph Survey in...
The Carbon Creek and Awuna anticlines
William A. Fischer
1949, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 10
At the interim meting of the Technical Committee in Fairbanks, Alaska, in September 1949, the Navy Oil Unit was requested to make photo-geologic analysis of the Driftwood, Awuna, and Carbon Creek anticlines before the November meeting. A report on the photogeology of the Driftwood anticline, based on available air photos,...
Literature on the natural history of the Arctic region, with special reference to Alaska and Canada
Hartley H.T. Jackson
1949, Wildlife Leaflet 317
No abstract available....
Preliminary geologic report of Sadlerochit River area, 1948
Charles L. Whittington, Edward G. Sable
1948, Open-File Report 54-333
"The Sadlerochit River area" is the name that has been applied for purposes of convenience to that portion of the eastern part of the northern Alaska shown in Figure 1. The map covers an area of about 1400 square miles. The center of this map is a point approximately 55...
Report on Iniskin Peninsula, Alaska
L.B. Kellum, Helmuth Wedow Jr., C.E. Kirschner, D.L. Winard
1948, Open-File Report 48-19
Preliminary report on a lead-zinc occurrence at Berg Basin, Wrangell district, southeastern Alaska
R.G. Ray
1948, Open-File Report 48-27
A brief examinatin of lead-zinc occurrence at Berg Basin, Wrangell district, southeastern Alaska, was undertaken in 1947 as part of the U.S. Geological Survey's program of minerals investigations in Alaska. No lead-zinc ore body has yet been proved at Berg Basin, but because of recent interest in that area this...
Geological results of test pit operations at Cape Simpson, Alaska
W. W. Patton Jr.
1948, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 22
No abstract available....
Stratigraphy and structure of the area of the Utukok River with notes on the Corwin-Cape Beaufort region, Alaska
W. L. Barksdale, R. M. Thompson
1948, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 18
No abstract available....
Stratigraphy and structure of the area of the Titaluk River and upper part of Ikpikpuk River, Alaska
1948, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 16
No abstract available....
Preliminary report on the stratigraphy and structure of the area of the Ipnavik River, Alaska
Karl Stefansson
1948, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 16
Geological Survey Party 1 returned to Umiat from Wolf Creek on August 5. Plans for the field season of 1947 called for geologic reconnaissance along part of the Ipnavik River and along the Colville River between the Ipnavik and Kurupa Rivers, to be completed before the end of the season....
Areal evaluation of petroleum possibilities of major stratigraphic units in northern Alaska
T. G. Payne
1948, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 24
No abstract available....
Notes on the Archaeology of the Utukok River, Northwestern Alaska
Raymond M. Thompson
1948, American Antiquity (14) 62-65
Early in May 1947, a United States Geological Survey field party of five was flown by ski plane to the headwaters of the Utukok River in northwestern Alaska, about 200 miles southwest of Barrow. Three 18–foot canvas boats of a special folding design were taken in along with enough equipment...
Preliminary report on the geology along the route of a proposed tunnel to develop hydroelectric power from Eklutna Lake, Alaska
F.F. Barnes
1948, Open-File Report 48-11
A preliminary investigation of the geology of the ridge north- west of the lower end of Eklutna Lake was made in the period June 11-18, 1947, by the writer, assisted by L. A. Hale. The purpose of this study was to obtain geological information bearing on the feasibility of constructing a tunnel through this...
Correlation of geophysical and geological data from Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4
S. W. Dana
1948, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 23
No abstract available....
Preliminary report on the gypsum deposits near Iyoukeen Cove, Chicagof Island, southeastern Alaska
George W. Flint Jr., Edward Huntington Cobb
1947, Open-File Report 47-20
The only known gypsum deposits in Alaska are on northeastern Chichagof Island, southeastern Alaska, at Iyoukeen Cove (fig. 1). The area first developed and for a time worked by the Pacific Coast Gypsum Co. is approximately 1 mile upstream from the mouth of Gypsum Creek at an elevation of about...
Preliminary report on water power resources of Eklutna Creek, Alaska
Arthur Johnson
1947, Open-File Report 48-12
Nonmetalliferous deposits in the Alaska Railroad belt
Gerald Ashley Waring
1947, Circular 18
Trace elements investigations in placer mining areas near Teller, Alaska
Max Gregg White
1947, Trace Elements Investigations 40
Trace elements reconnaissance along highways in the Tanana and upper Copper River valleys, Alaska
Helmuth Wedow Jr., John J. Matzko
1947, Trace Elements Investigations 38
Preliminary report on stratigraphy and structure of the Wolf Creek anticline, Alaska
Karl Stefansson, R. F. Thurrell Jr., J. H. Zumberge
1947, Geological Investigations, Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4, Alaska 14
In 1946 U. S. Geological Survey Party 2 was assigned the task of carrying out detailed structural and stratigraphic investigations in the area of Maybe Creek*. Field studies indicated the presence of a large anticlinal structure whose axis lies just south of Wolf Creek. Later structural data compiled from aerial...
