Record sections for two seismic refraction profiles in the Gabilan and Diablo ranges, California
David H. Warren
1978, Open-File Report 78-340
In June 1967 the U.S. Geological Survey conducted a seismic-refraction survey consisting of two profiles parallel to the San Andreas fault; one in the Gabilan Range and one in the Diablo Range in central California. Each profile was about 200 km long and had five shot points distributed along it...
Preliminary engineering geologic maps of the proposed natural gas pipeline route in the Tanana River valley, Alaska
L. David Carter, John P. Galloway
1978, Open-File Report 78-794
Preliminary bedrock geologic map of the Marlborough quadrangle, Middlesex and Worcester Counties, Massachusetts
J. Christopher Hepburn, Richard G. DiNitto
1978, Open-File Report 78-222
No abstract available....
A study of fault plane mechanisms preceding the Thanksgiving Day, 1974 earthquake at Hollister, California
David H. Warren
1978, Open-File Report 78-255
Fault plane solutions were obtained for 80 microearthquakes in a 900 square km area centered on the Busch fault during a one year period preceding the Thanksgiving Day, 1974 Hollister earthquake. Strike slip motion occurred in 65 of the quakes, mainly at active spots on the Sargent, Castro, Busch, and...
Principal facts for detailed gravity profiles near Albuquerque, New Mexico
Lindrith Cordell
1978, Open-File Report 78-818
Preliminary reconnaissance bedrock geologic map of the Shrewsbury quadrangle, Worcester County, Massachusetts
J. Christopher Hepburn
1978, Open-File Report 78-951
No abstract available....
Preliminary reconnaissance geologic map of the Glendale Quadrangle, Oregon
Norman J. Page, M. G. Johnson, Barry Moring, W.N. Blair, Floyd Gray, J.K. Cannon
1978, Open-File Report 78-518
Mallets Creek Marsh, Lake Champlain: A plant-nutrient study
John T. Turk
1978, Open-File Report 78-462
Nitrogen and phosphorus dissolved in the interstitial water of Mallets Creek Marsh sediments supply about 42 percent of the nitrogen and about 9 percent of the phosphorus used by rooted macrophytes within the marsh. These percentages may become larger during middle and late summer, when water inflow to the marsh...
Oblique map of Willapa Bay, Washington
Tau Rho Alpha
1978, Open-File Report 78-1015
Four maps showing lithologic distributions of selected parts of the Jurassic San Rafael Group and related units, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico
James C. Wright
1978, Open-File Report 78-572
No abstract available....
Preliminary reconnaissance geologic maps of the Garnet Range, western Montana
C. A. Wallace, M. R. Klepper, A. B. French
1978, Open-File Report 78-418
Ore controls at the Mahd adh Dhahab gold mine, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ronald G. Worl
1978, Open-File Report 78-778
Mahd adh Dhahab is the largest of numerous ancient gold mines scattered through the Precambrian shield of Saudi Arabia and the only one with recent production. Free gold and silver, tellurides, pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite are in and associated with quartz veins and quartz veinlet stockworks. Country rocks consist...
Asbestos occurrences in serpentinites of the Hamdah area, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Lawrence Frederick Rooney, Ziad H. Al-Koulak
1978, Open-File Report 79-360
A cluster of serpentinite bodies centered at 19°00'N. and 43°45'E., near the village of Hamdah, contain many occurrences of the fibrous asbestos minerals chrysotile and anthophyllite. In the south-central part of the area, near the ancient Hajr gold mine (18°54'45"N. and 43°40'30"E.), the fiber is of fair quality and grade...
Disseminated tin occurrence near Coal Creek, Talkeetna Mountains D-6 quadrangle, Alaska
Bruce L. Reed
1978, Open-File Report 78-77
No abstract available....
Monitoring water-quality during pilot-dredging operations in the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, Oregon
Joseph F. Rinella, Stuart W. McKenzie
1978, Open-File Report 78-554
Water quality was monitored in the Willamette and Columbia Rivers during a pilot dredging operation on December 16, 1977. Monitoring included in-situ measurements of pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen, and conductivity in the Willamette and Columbia Rivers; analyses of dissolved ammonia, dissolved manganese, suspended-sediment concentration and particle size, loss on ignition,...
Drilling during 1978 in the Danforth Hills coal field, Easton Gulch, Devils Hole Gulch, Axial, and Ninemile Gap quadrangles, Moffat and Rio Blanco Counties, Colorado
Marith J. Reheis
1978, Open-File Report 78-1031
Hydrologic monitoring of waste-injection wells near Pensacola, Florida, March 1970 - December 1977
Charles A. Pascale, J.B. Martin
1978, Open-File Report 78-355
This report presents hydraulic and chemical data collected from March 1970 to December 1977 at a deep-well waste-injection system at the Monsanto Company's plant near Pensacola, Florida. The injection system presently consists of Injection Well A, Injection Well B, and two deep monitor wells all completed open hole in the...
Management of flood-plain vegetation, 1967 to 1972, San Carlos Indian Reservation, Arizona
D.M. Park, R. C. Culler, R. M. Turner
1978, Open-File Report 78-412
During 1967-71, 15,800 acres of flood-plain vegetation were cleared from a 26-mile reach of the Gila River valley and a 9-mile reach of the San Carlos River valley. Both areas are on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona. The area cleared in the Gila River valley included the Gila...
Preliminary geomagnetic data, College Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska: November 1978
J.B. Townshend, J.E. Papp, S.P. Tilton
1978, Open-File Report 78-300-K
The preliminary geomagnetic data included here is made available to scientific personnel and organizations, as part of a cooperative effort and on a data exchange basis because of the early need by some users. To avoid delay, all of the data is copied from original forms processed at the observatory;...
Scatter diagrams and correlations of uranium in surface water versus discharge, conductivity, and pH at various locations throughout the United States
Jennie L. Ridgley, Karen J. Wenrich-Verbeek
1978, Open-File Report 78-581
A study of the relationship of stream discharge, conductivity, and pH with uranium concentration in surface waters has been made for various locations in the United States utilizing data collected, for the most part, by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The results of the study are portrayed by the scatter...
A prototype design for microprocessor based digital telemetry transmitter for low frequency data
J. Roger, R. Cutler, M. Varon
1978, Open-File Report 78-674
A prototype microprocessor based digital transmitter with low power requirements has been designed and built for use in dial-up telemetry applications. The processor used is the 8 bit RCA COSMAC. Input data is an analog signal in the range of -5 volts to +5 volts which is digitized to 12-bit...
A preliminary report on the geology of the Dennison-Bunn uranium claim, Sandoval County, New Mexico
Jennie L. Ridgley
1978, Open-File Report 79-1510
Uranium at the Dennison-Bunn claim, south of Cuba, N. Mex., along the east margin of the San Juan Basin, occurs in unoxidized gray, fluvial channel sandstone of the Westwater Canyon Member of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. The uranium-bearing sandstone is bounded on the north and south by a variable...
Neogene stratigraphy and paleontology of southern Almeria Province, Spain; an overview
Warren O. Addicott, P. D. Snavely Jr., David Bukry, R.Z. Poore
1978, Bulletin 1454
Bibliography of the PVTXE properties of the binary system H2O-NaCl
Robert W. Potter
1978, Open-File Report 78-549
The following bibliography on the PVTXE (pressure, volume, temperature, composition and energy) properties of the binary system H20-NaCl was compiled to ascertain the status of the available literature data....
Marine geotechnical data for North Pacific sediments
Adrian F. Richards
1978, Open-File Report 78-231
Geotechnical data from the published and unpublished literature are compiled in SI units and tabulated in a standardized format. Eight data sets are presented from a geographic area approximately bounded by 5° and 32° north latitude and 120° and 170° west longitude. The data exist in machine-readable form in the...
