Surveying the earth's resources from space
William T. Pecora
1969, TRW Space Log (9) 2-15
During the past 4 years, scientists of the Geological Survey, in cooperation with NASA, have been investigating the feasibility and practicality of using remote-sensor data collected during conventional aircraft flights. This work is aimed at developing techniques for gathering facts about the earth's natural resources from satellites carrying sophisticated remote-sensing...
Satellite imagery of the earth
P.M. Merifield, J. Cronin, L.L. Foshee, S.J. Gawarecki, J.T. Neal, R. E. Stevenson, R.O. Stone, R.S. Williams Jr.
1969, Photogrammetric Engineering (35) 654-668
Photography of the Earth from spacecraft has application to both atmospheric and Earth sciences. Gemini and Apollo photographs have furnished information on sea surface roughness, areas of potential upwelling and oceanic current systems. Regional geologic structures and geomorphologic features are also recorded in orbital photographs. Infrared satellite imagery provides meteorological...
The geographic applications program of the U. S. Geological Survey
Arch C. Gerlach
1969, Photogrammetric Engineering (35) 58-60
The fundamental objective of modern Geography is to improve man's level of living through a better understanding of man-environment inter actions. Related goals of the USGS program for applications of remote sensor data to Geographical research are: (1) the analysis and improvement of land use, with special emphasis on urban...
Remote sensing devices useful
A.B. Campbell
1969, Western Mining News (2) 1-1
No abstract available....
Finney County Basic Data
W.R. Meyer, E. D. Gutentag, D.H. Lobmeyer
1969, Report
This open-file report contains basic data on measurements and chemical analyses of ground water, logs of test holes, and summary information on selected logs for Finney County, Kans....
Ground-water data as of 1967, Central Coastal Subregion, California
J. S. Bader
1969, Report
Most usable ground water in the predominantly mountainous Central Coastal Subregion occurs in alluvium-filled valleys and coastal plains and in deeper aquifers of Quaternary and Tertiary age. The intervening mountainous areas are underlain by consolidated sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks, mainly of Mesozoic age. These older rocks contain only small...
A study of deep aquifers underlying coastal Orange County, California
Joe A. Moreland, John A. Singer
1969, Report
Deep untapped aquifers of late Pliocene age, which contain water having 1,000 to 2,000 milligrams per liter of dissolved solids, underlie most of the coastal part of Orange County. Inland from the Newport-Inglewood structural zone, the depth to the base of aquifers containing fresh water ranges from 1,000 to 2,500 feet...
Data for springs in the Colorado Desert area of California
Charles Floyd Berkstresser
1969, Report
Willamette River at Lambert Bend, Oregon, bridge-site report
D.D. Harris
1969, Report
The proposed crossing of the Willamette River at Lambert Bend involves a 2.3-mile-wide flood plain. Two of the three principal tangents of the crossing will include bridges that will span the main channel and an overflow channel of the river, as shown in figure 1, page 3. The Oregon State...
Distribution of oxygen and carbon isotopes in fossils of late cretaceous age, western interior region of North America
H. A. Tourtelot, R.O. Rye
1969, Geological Society of America Bulletin (80) 1903-1922
The oxygen isotope composition of both calcite and aragonite of the pelecypod Inoceramus is lighter than the composition of the aragonite of associated baculites and other cephalopods from the western interior region, the Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains, parts of Canada, and West Greenland. This difference cannot be explained by...
Interstitial water studies on small core samples, Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 1
Frank T. Manheim, F.L. Sayles
1969, Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (1) 403-410
The most dramatic variations in pore water composition occurred in Holes 2 and 3 in the Gulf of Mexico. Both holes showed a strong increase in salinity with depth, evidently owing to diffusion from underlying salt bodies. However, on Challenger Knoll (Hole 2) a sharp drop in salinity was observed...
Glacial sedimentology of the Precambrian Gowganda Formation, Ontario, Canada
David A. Lindsey
1969, GSA Bulletin (80) 1685-1702
The Gowganda Formation is part of the thick Huronián sequence of Precambrian sedimentary rocks that crop out in central Ontario from Lake Superior to Quebec. Although it has long been considered to be glacial, recent work on submarine slump and turbidite deposits has reopened the question of its origin. This...
The relationship between fluids in some fresh alpine-type ultramafics and possible modern serpentinization, western United States
I. Barnes, J. R. O’Neil
1969, Geological Society of America Bulletin (80) 1947-1960
Calcium hydroxide waters issue from four partly serpentinized Alpine-type ultramafic bodies in the western United States. The occurrence of calcium-hydroxide-type water is restricted to fresh Alpine-type ultramafic rocks. The calcium hydroxide waters are unsaturated with Mg end-member olivine and pyroxene but supersaturated with Mg end-member brucite and serpentine and thus...
Longitudinal slope characteristics of rivers of the midcontinent and the Atlantic east gulf slopes
C.W. Carlston
1969, International Association of Scientific Hydrology - Bulletin (14) 21-31
This study of longitudinal stream profiles of rivers of the Midcontinent (rivers tributary to the Mississippi) and Atlantic and East Gulf Slopes has revealed five types of longitudinal profiles: (1) Overall concave-upward profiles with or without long constant slope segments; (2) convex upward, for example, the Missouri River has a...
Kilauea Volcano: The 1967-68 summit eruption
Willie Tomoni Kinoshita, R. Y. Koyanagi, Thomas L. Wright, Richard S. Fiske
1969, Science (166) 459-468
On 5 November 1967 Kilauea volcano began erupting lava from vents on the floor of its summit pit crater. Halemaumau, 170 meters deep. This eruption ended nearly 2 years of the quiescence that followed a short lived eruption on the east rift zone of Kilauea in December 1965 (1). The...
Experimental studies of pegmatite genesis: I. A model for the derivation and crystallization of granitic pegmatites
R. H. Jahns, C.W. Burnham
1969, Economic Geology (64) 843-864
The genesis of granitic igneous pegmatites is here considered in terms of a model conceived from results of field and laboratory studies and subsequently tested by means of experimental investigations. This model emphasizes the roles of water (and/or other relatively volatile substances), both as a dissolved constituent in granitic magmas...
Mesozoic California and the underflow of Pacific mantle
Warren Hamilton
1969, Geological Society of America Bulletin (80) 2409-2429
The Mesozoic evolution of California is interpreted as dominated by the underflow of oceanic mantle beneath the continental margin. Underflow during part of Late Cretaceous time of more than 2000 km of the eastern Pacific plate seems required by the marine magnetic data. Correspondingly, varied oceanic environments—abyssal hill, island arc,...
U-Th-Pb chronology of zircons from the St. Kevin Granite, northern Sawatch Range, Colorado
Bruce R. Doe, Robert C. Pearson
1969, Geological Society of America Bulletin (80) 2495-2502
Three samples of zircon from the St. Kevin Granite, northern Sawatch Range, Colorado, were analyzed for uranium, thorium, and lead content and for lead isotopic composition; the concentrated HNO3 leaches of the zircons were similarly analyzed. The concordia age on the zircons was interpreted to be 1420 ± 40 m.y., an...
The A. J. Collier Thrust Belt of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska
C.L. Sainsbury
1969, Geological Society of America Bulletin (80) 2595-2596
No abstract available....
Lake eutrophication— A natural process
Phillip E. Greeson
1969, Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) (5) 16-30
Lake eutrophication is an economic, recreational, and aesthetic problem that affects every lake of the world. Eutrophication is the natural process of lake aging, and progresses irrespective of man's activities. Pollution, however, can hasten the natural rate of aging and shorten the life expectancy of a body of water. The...
Relation of sea water to fresh water in carbonate rocks in coastal areas, with special reference to Florida, U.S.A., and Cephalonia (Kephallinia), Greece
V. T. Stringfield, H. E. LeGrand
1969, Journal of Hydrology (9) 387-404
The principles controlling the equilibrium between the denser salty water and the lighter fresh water in coastal aquifers apply to carbonate as well as sand systems. However, under certain equilibrium conditions of fresh and salt water in parts of some carbonate aquifers unusual hydrologic phenomena result. Hydrologic conditions at Tarpon...
Potassium-argon ages on lavas of Kohala Volcano, Hawaii
Ian McDougall
1969, Geological Society of America Bulletin (80) 2597-6000
Kohala Mountain is regarded as the oldest volcano on the island of Hawaii. Potassium-argon ages on three lavas of the Hawi Volcanic Series, the youngest sequence of lavas on Kohala, range from 0.14 to 0.20m.y. and indicate that volcanism ceased in the very late Pleistocene....
Mean streamflow from discharge measurements
H. C. Riggs
1969, International Association of Scientific Hydrology - Bulletin (14) 95-110
Mean flow of a stream is usually computed from a continuous record of flow ai a gaging station. A less costly method consists of (1) estimating 12 individual monthly flows from one discharge measurement per month and a concurrent gaging station record on a nearby stream, using a...
Merumite occurrence in Guyana
C. Milton, S Narain
1969, Economic Geology (64) 910-914
Merumite was discovered with associated diamonds and gold in 1937 in gravels of the Merume River in Guyana. It was described as essentially a hydrous chromium oxide that contains more than 80 percent Cr2Oa. Milton and Chao in 1958 found it to be a complex aggregate, mainly eskolaite (Cr2Oa) with...
Yersinia philomiragia sp. n., a new member of the Pasteurella group of bacteria, naturally pathogenic for the muskrat (Ondatra zibethica)
W. I. Jensen, C.R. Owen, W.L. Jellison
1969, Journal of Bacteriology (100) 1237-1241
A bacterium experimentally pathogenic for muskrats (Ondatra zibethica), white mice, mountain voles (Microtus montanus), and deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) was isolated from the tissues of a sick muskrat captured on the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge (Brigham City, Utah) and from four surface water samples collected within 15 miles of...
