Uranium and thorium in granitic rocks of northeastern Washington and northern Idaho, with comments on uranium resource potential
J. Thomas Nash
1979, Open-File Report 79-233
Northeastern Washington and northern Idaho is a uranium province in which many Cretaceous and Tertiary granitic plutons contain abnormal amounts of uranium. Mean uranium content of 108 samples of granitic rock is 8.8 parts per million (ppm), more than twice normal for rocks of this composition. The mean thorium content,...
Hydrologic data for urban studies in the Fort Worth, Texas, metropolitan area, 1977
R.M. Slade Jr., J.M. Taylor, D.L. Haynes
1979, Open-File Report 79-216
Hydrologic investigations of urban areas in Texas were begun by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1954. These investigations are now in progress in several major metropolitan areas including Austin, Dallas, Dallas County, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio.In October 1968, the Geological Survey, in cooperation with the city of Fort...
Water-resources investigations in Kansas; fiscal year 1978
Harold E. McGovern, L. J. Combs
1979, Open-File Report 79-561
Hydrologic investigations in Kansas during fiscal year 1978 consisted of collecting and analyzing data to assess the State 's water resources, describe the framework of hydrologic systems , and provide quantity and quality of water data for optimum development and management. Surface-water studies were made to analyze long-term records of...
Monitoring crustal strain, Cerro Prieto geothermal field, Baja California, Mexico
Ben Elder Lofgren, Bruce L. Massey
1979, Open-File Report 79-204
Significant ground deformation may be occurring in the Cerro Prieto geothermal area, Mexicali Valley, Mexico, as a direct result of extensive withdrawals of geothermal fluid and of continuing tectonism. In order to measure the magnitude and rate of this deformation, three networks of precise geodetic control were established in 1977-78,...
Preliminary catalog of earthquakes in northern Imperial Valley, California, July 1978 - September 1978
V. Lamanuzzi, C.E. Johnson
1979, Open-File Report 79-931
The northern section of the Imperial Valley region in southern California is an area of known geothermal resources and high seismicity. To investigate the relationship between geothermal areas and earthquakes in the Imperial Valley, a 16-station seismic network was established in early 1973 by the U. S. Geological Survey. Six...
Preliminary catalog of earthquakes in northern Imperial Valley, California, October 1978-December 1978
V. Lamanuzzi, C.E. Johnson, P.T. German
1979, Open-File Report 79-930
The northern section of the Imperial Valley region in southern California is an area of known geothermal resources and high seismicity. To investigate the relationship between geothermal areas and earthquakes in the Imperial Valley, a 16-station seismic network was established in early 1973 by the U. S. Geological Survey. Six...
Chemical analysis of 617 coal samples from the Eastern United States
Peter Zubovic, Charles L. Oman, S.L. Coleman, Linda Bragg, P.T. Kerr, K.M. Kozey, F.O. Simon, J.J. Rowe, J.H. Medlin, F.E. Walker
1979, Open-File Report 79-665
This report includes all the analytical data on 617 coal samples from 8 states east of the Mississippi River. The samples from each state are, Pennsylvania 71, Ohio 40, West Virginia 252, Virginia 72, Kentucky 27, Tennessee 27, Alabama 20, and Indiana 108.The U.S. Geological Survey has quantitatively determined the...
Major oxide, trace element, and glass chemistry of Columbia River basalt samples collected between 1971 and 1977
Thomas L. Wright, Donald A. Swanson, Rosalind Tuthill Helz, G. R. Byerly
1979, Open-File Report 79-711
In this report we are making available all chemical analyses of whole rocks and selected glasses for samples of Columbia River Basalt that we collected between 1971 and 1977 during reconnaissance geologic mapping of the Columbia Plateau....
Resource report for proposed OCS lease sale 57: Norton Basin, Alaska
Michael A. Fisher, W.W. Patton, D.R. Thor, M.L. Holmes, E. W. Scott, C.H. Nelson, C.L. Wilson
1979, Open-File Report 79-720
This report is a summary of information about an area of the northern Bering Sea continental shelf that is bounded by the Seward Peninsula on the north, by the line of the United States-Russia Convention of 1867 on the west, and by St. Lawrence Island and the coastline that rims...
Telluric profile and location map for the Broadwater Hot Springs area, Montana
Karen R. Christopherson, R. Michael Senterfit, Vernon Lewis, Moutaz Dalati
1979, Open-File Report 79-1670
A telluric profile (E-field ratio telluric method) was made in the vicinity of the Broadwater Hot Springs, Montana to help assess the geothermal potential of the area. The method and equipment used is similar to that described by Beyer (1977). For this survey the recording bandwidth was 0.025 Hz centered...
Reconnaissance engineering geology of the Yakutat area, Alaska, with emphasis on evaluation of earthquake and other geologic hazards
Lynn A. Yehle
1979, Professional Paper 1074
No abstract available....
Seismic refraction profile, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: field operations, instrumentation, and initial results
H. Richard Blank, J. H. Healy, John Roller, Ralph Lamson, Fred Fisher, Robert McClearn, Steve Allen
1979, Open-File Report 79-1568
In February 1978 a seismic deep-refraction profile was recorded by the USGS along a 1000-km line across the Arabian Shield in western Saudi Arabia. The line begins in Paleozoic and Mesozoic cover rocks near Riyadh on the Arabian Platform, leads southwesterly across three major Precambrian tectonic provinces, traverses Cenozoic rocks...
Spectrographic and chemical analyses of geochemical samples collected during 1978 from the Lake Clark Quadrangle, Alaska
W.D. Crim, E.F. Cooley, J.O. Hampton, S.K. McDanal, R. M. O’Leary
1979, Open-File Report 79-871
Conservation of marine birds of northern North America: Papers from the international symposium held at the Seattle Hyatt House, Seattle, Washington, 13-15 May 1975
James C. Bartonek, David N. Nettleship, editor(s)
1979, Wildlife Research Report 11
The international symposium "Conservation of Marine Birds of Northern North America" was convened because of a growing awareness that not all was well with our marine birds. The symposium provided a forum for scientists, governmental administrators, conservationists, and laypeople to discuss the diverse topics and issues that we must all...
Results of the chemical monitoring of the in-situ leaching of a South Texas uranium orebody
Robert W. Potter, M.A. Clynne, J. M. Thompson, V.L. Thurmond, Richard C. Erd, N.L. Nehring, Karen A. Smith, D.R. Tweeton, G.R. Anderson, W.H. Engelmann, P. J. Lamothe, J. L. Seeley
1979, Open-File Report 79-1144
Fish remains from core 8, Clear Lake, Lake County, California
Richard W. Casteel, J.H. Williams, C.K. Throckmorton, J.D. Sims, D.P. Adam
1979, Open-File Report 79-1148
A 21.2-m-long core taken in the northwest part of the Upper Arm or main body of Clear Lake, California, has yielded a continuous record of fish life in this part of the lake during approximately the last 24,500 years. This record provides data concerning faunal changes in the Upper Arm,...
Spatial variation in total element concentration in soil within the Northern Great Plains coal region and Regional soil chemistry in Bighorn and Wind River basins, Wyoming and Montana
R. C. Severson, R.R. Tidball
1979, Professional Paper 1134-A,B
PART A: To objectively determine the changes in chemical character of an area subjected to mining and reclamation, prior information is needed. This study represents a broadscale inventory of total chemical composition of the surficial materials of the Northern Great Plains coal region (western North and South Dakota, eastern Montana,...
Core descriptions and preliminary observations of vibracores from the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Shelf
Peter W. Barnes, Erk Reimnitz, L.J. Toimil, D. K. Maurer, David McDowell
1979, Open-File Report 79-351
Mineral resources of the Charles M. Russell Wildlife Refuge, Fergus, Garfield, McCone, Petroleum, Phillips, and Valley counties, Montana
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Bureau of Mines
1979, Open-File Report 79-1204
Evaluation of the geologic and hydrologic factors related to the waste-storage potential of Mesozoic aquifers in the southern part of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, South Carolina and Georgia
Philip M. Brown, D.L. Brown, M.S. Reid, O. B. Lloyd Jr.
1979, Professional Paper 1088
The report describes the subsurface distribution of rocks of Cretaceous to Late Jurassic( ) age in the Atlantic Coastal Plain , South Carolina, and Georgia, and examines their potential for deep-well waste storage into th part of the regional sediment mass which lies below the deepest zones containing usable ground...
Clastic dikes of Heart Mountain fault breccia, northwestern Wyoming, and their significance
W. G. Pierce
1979, Professional Paper 1133
Structural features in northwestern Wyoming indicate that the Heart Mountain fault movement was an extremely rapid, cataclysmic event that created a large volume of carbonate fault breccia derived entirely from the lower part of the upper plate. After fault movement had ceased, much of the carbonate fault breccia, here called...
Techniques for estimating magnitude and frequency of floods on rural unregulated streams in New York State excluding Long Island
Thomas J. Zembrzuski Jr., Bernard Dunn
1979, Water-Resources Investigations Report 79-83
Techniques are presented for estimating the magnitude and frequency of floods at ungaged sites on unregulated rural streams in New York, excluding Long Island. The discharge-frequency data and basin characteristics of 220 stream-gaging stations in New York and adjacent States were used in developing multiple linear regression equations for floods...
Geology and mineral resources of the Lemhi Pass thorium district, Idaho and Montana, with a section on description of selected thorium veins
M.H. Staatz, B. J. Sharp, D. L. Hetland
1979, Professional Paper 1049-A
No abstract available....
Geochemical analyses of rocks and stream sediments of the Rawah Wilderness and nearby wilderness study areas, Jackson, and Larimer Counties, Colorado
J. M. Motooka, C. A. Curtis, C. M. McDougal, R. C. Pearson, M. E. McCallum
1979, Open-File Report 79-1502
No abstract available....
In situ determination of heat flow in unconsolidated sediments
J.H. Sass, J.P. Kennelly, W.E. Wendt, T.H. Moses, J.P. Ziagos
1979, Open-File Report 79-593
Subsurface thermal measurements are the most effective, least ambiguous tools for identifying and delineating possible geothernml resources. Measurements of thermal gradient in the upper few tens of meters generally are sufficient to outline the major anomalies, but it is always desirable to combine these gradients with reliable estimates of thermal...
