Geology of the southern part of the Turtle Lake quadrangle, northeastern Washington
George Earle Becraft
1959, Open-File Report 59-5
The Turle Lake quadrangle is in northeastern Washington about twenty-five miles west of Spokane. The present study includes slightly more than the southern half of the quadrangle. This study is the first detailed study of the rocks in this vicinity; earlier work in the area consists of reconnaissance mapping north...
Summary of test-drilling results in Last Chance Basin, Juneau, Alaska
Roger Milton Waller
1959, Open-File Report 59-125
Waterpower resources in Nehalem River basin, Oregon, with geology of dam and reservoir sites
Loyd L. Young, J. L. Colbert, A. M. Piper, D. L. Gaskill
1959, Open-File Report 59-131
Impact mechanics at Meteor Crater, Arizona
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
1959, Open-File Report 59-108
Meteor Crator is a bowl-shaped depression encompassed by a rim composed chiefly of debris stacked in layers of different composition. Original bedrock stratigraphy is preserved, inverted, in the debris. The debris rests on older disturbed strata, which are turned up at moderate to steep angles in the wall of the...
List of basement wells in California and Nevada
Merritt Burdette Smith
1959, Open-File Report 60-127
No abstract available....
Measured sections of the Morrison and adjacent formations
Lawrence C. Craig
1959, Open-File Report 59-24
Surficial deposits, geomorphology, and Cenozoic history of the Eureka quadrangle, Utah
H.D. Goode
1959, Open-File Report 59-43
No abstract available....
Progress report on the investigations of bauxite deposits in the eastern part of Kauai, Hawaii
Sam H. Patterson
1959, Open-File Report 60-109
Investigations of bauxite deposits on Kauai by the U. S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the State of Hawaii were begun July 1, 1959. The investigations, as planned, are to consist of two phases, each of two years duration. The geological investigations of the bauxite and associated rocks in the...
Bloating clay deposits in southern Maryland
Maxwell McMichael Knechtel, Howard P. Hamlin, John W. Hosterman
1959, Open-File Report 59-73
Geology of the upper Killik-Itkillik region, Alaska
William Wallace Patton Jr.
1959, Open-File Report 59-92
The upper Killik-Itkillik map area is a 2,500 square mile segment of foothills along the north front of the Brooks Range on the Arctic Slope of Alaska. The rocks exposed in this area include eleven formations of sedimentary rocks, three types of surficial deposits, and one igneous rock unit. The...
Principal facts for a gravity survey made in northeastern Oklahoma and southeastern Kansas during 1948
Kenneth L. Cook, Albert J. Hoskinson, George R. Shelton
1959, Open-File Report 63-18
No abstract available....
Potassium-argon project report for the year 1958-1959
Henry Faul, E. Jager, R.H. Robinson, H.H. Thomas
1959, Open-File Report 59-39
No abstract available. ...
Moqui SW quadrangle, Montezuma County, Colorado
F. N. Houser, E. B. Ekren
1959, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 216
Geology of the State of Morelos and contiguous areas in south-central Mexico
Carl F. Fries
1959, Open-File Report 59-41
The area described lies in south-central Mexico and embraces all but the southeastern corner and easternmost border of the State of Moreles, the second smallest State in the Mexican Republic. It includes small contiguous parts of the State of Mexico, in the northeastern corner, and of the State of Guerrero...
Frost heaving of piles with examples from Fairbanks, Alaska
Troy Lewis Pewe, R.A. Paige
1959, Open-File Report 60-111
Seasonal freezing of the ground is common throughout most of the world's land surface. As the ground freezes the surface of the ground may rise--this rising is termed frost heaving. Upward displacement of the ground upon freezing is not due alone to the freezing of water originally contained in the...
Geology of the Rifle Gap coal district, Garfield County, Colorado
George Henry Horn, W.C. Gere
1959, Open-File Report 59-63
Geology of the northern half of the Rattlesnake quadrangle, Bearpaw Mountains, Montana
B. C. Hearn Jr.
1959, Open-File Report 59-51
No abstract available....
Geology of the southern part of the Menominee district, Michigan and Wisconsin
William C. Prinz
1959, Open-File Report 59-99
No abstract available....
Occurrences of alunite, pyrophyllite, and clays in the Cerro La Tiza area, Puerto Rico
Fred Adelbert Hildebrand, Raymond J. Smith
1959, Open-File Report 59-54
A deposit of hydrothermally altered rocks in the Cerro La Tiza area located between the towns of Comerio and Aguas Buenas, approximately 25 kilometers southwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico, was mapped and studied to determine the principal minerals, their extent distribution and origin, and the possibility of their economic...
The classification and character of the Belt series in northwestern Montana
Clyde Polhemus Ross
1959, Open-File Report 59-103
A field method of spectrographic analysis for use in geochemical exploration work
Uteana Oda, A.T. Myers, E.F. Cooley
1959, Open-File Report 59-91
The method to be described is a modification of an earlier method of semiquantitative procedure. Through its use 34 elements can be determined simultaneously in one sample, which may be a rock, soil, mineral, or an ore. For many of these elements concentration ranges from one to ten thousand parts...
Preliminary report on the geologic effects of Logan underground test, U12e.02 tunnel, Rainier Mesa, Nye County, Nevada
F. A. McKeown, F. N. Houser, D.D. Dickey, F. G. Poole, S.W. Stewart, A. Clebsch Jr.
1959, Open-File Report 59-81
A summary of the geologic history of Libya
Gus H. Goudarzi
1959, Open-File Report 59-44
No abstract available....
Preliminary report on sedimentary and metamorphic rocks in part of the Romanzof Mountains, Brooks Range, northeastern Alaska
Edward G. Sable
1959, Open-File Report 59-106
Quality of surface waters of the United States, 1955. Parts 1-4, North Atlantic slope basins to St. Lawrence River basin
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1959, Water Supply Paper 1400
