Magnetite deposits near Klukwan and Haines, southeastern Alaska
Eugene C. Robertson
1956, Open-File Report 56-101
Low-grade iron ore is found in magnetite-bearing pyroxenite bodies near Klukwan and Haines in Southeastern Alaska. An alluvial fan at Haines also contains magnetite-bearing rock of possible economic significance. The Haines-Klukwan area is underlain by rocks of Mesozoic Including epidote diorite, quartz diorite, and alaskite of the Coast Range batholith,...
Geologic investigations of proposed Sheep Creek, Carlson Creek, and Turner Lake power sites, Alaska
George Plafker
1956, Open-File Report 56-95
Geologic conditions at Sheep Creek, Carlson Creek, and Turner Lake are discussed in relation to possible plans for hydroeletric power development. The proposed sites are on the rugged mainland of Southeastern Alaska along Gastineau Channel and Taku Inlet near Juneau. Bedrock in the area consists of a coastal strip of...
Uranium-bearing coal in the central part of the Great Divide Basin, Sweetwater County, Wyoming
G. N. Pipiringos
1956, Open-File Report 56-94
Engineering geology of the Nenana-Rex area, Alaska
Reuben Kachadoorian
1956, Open-File Report 56-67
A geological examination of the Nenana-Rex area, Alaska, was made during August, 1954 by a Geological Survey party consisting of Reuben Kachadoorian, geologist, and Lloyd Plafker, field assistant. The area examined lies in parts of the Fairbanks A-4, A-5, B-4, B-5, C-4 and C-5 quadrangles (fig. 1). A preliminary highway...
Zinc and copper mineralization of the Vazante area, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Samuel L. Moore
1956, Open-File Report 56-82
A large body of zinc and copper mineralization is exposed in a line of low hills about 5 kilometers east of the small village of Vazante in the northwestern part of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The Vazante area can be reached by roads leading north from the State...
Seven maps of the Bully Hill mine, Shasta County, California
J. F. Robertson
1956, Open-File Report 56-102
Geology of waterpower sites on Crater Lake, Long Lake, and Speel River near Juneau, Alaska
John Charles Miller
1956, Open-File Report 56-78
Preliminary report on titanium-bearing sandstone in the San Juan Basin and adjacent areas in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico
John Francis Murphy
1956, Open-File Report 56-86
The multi-slope model: A constructed stereoscopic model showing angles of slope from 2 to 90 degrees at different locations and sloping in different directions in the model
Robert J. Hackman
1956, Open-File Report 56-48
No abstract available....
Geology and ore deposits of the Whitepine area, Tomichi mining district, Gunnison County, Colorado
Charles Sherwood Robinson
1956, Open-File Report 56-103
The Tomichi mining district is on the western slope of the Continental Divide near the southern end of the Sawatch Range in southeastern Gunnison County, Colorado. The most productive part of the Tomichi district was the Whitepine area. It is estimated that since the discovery of ore in 1879 the...
Johnny Gulch talc deposit, Madison County, Montana
Harold Lloyd James
1956, Open-File Report 56-59
Geology of southeastern Ventura Basin, Los Angeles County, California
Edward L. Winterer
1956, Open-File Report 56-134
The Ventura Basin (see index map, fig. 1) has long been one of the important oil-producing districts of California. The eastern part of the Basin includes some of the oldest oil fields in the state and also several of those most recently discovered. Since 1937 several new fields have been...
Annotated list of plants of Arctic Slope of Alaska
Lloyd Anthony Spetzman
1956, Open-File Report 56-110
The accompanying 5-page list of 439 higher plants was compiled as part of a manuscript to be included in a series of professional papers on Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 and adjoining areas.This check list describing the distribution, abundance, flowering period, plant growth on various rook types, and other habitat...
Geology and ore deposits of the Monument Valley area, Apache and Navajo Counties, Arizona
Irving Jerome Witkind
1956, Open-File Report 57-124
In 1951 the U.S. Geological Survey undertook a program of uranium investigations in Apache and Navajo Counties, northeastern Arizona. The work had three major objectives. The first was to accumulate data basic to an understanding of the regional geology. The second was to appraise the Triassic strata as host rocks...
Geology and ground-water resources of the Putah and Suisun-Fairfield areas, Solano County, California, with special references to the usable ground-water storage capacity
H.G. Thomasson Jr., F. H. Olmsted, E. F. LeRoux
1956, Open-File Report 56-137
Gravity survey of Ogden Valley, Weber County, Utah
Samuel Woods Stewart
1956, Open-File Report 56-112
Ogden Valley is a northwest trending valley within the Wasatch Mountains of north-central Utah. On the basis of geological evidence Ogden Valley is believed to be structurally controlled by normal faults along both the east and west margins. Gravity measurements in the valley definitely indicate a fault with at least...
A magnetic survey of the southern part of Georgia
Joel Howard Swartz, G.R. MacCarthy, R.M. Shuler
1956, Open-File Report 56-113
Origin and occurrence of uranium in northern Michigan
Rollin C. Vickers
1956, Open-File Report 56-127
Spectrographic analyses of laterite soil from the Mayaguez area, Puerto Rico
Watson Hiner Monroe
1956, Open-File Report 56-80
No abstract available....
Records of drill holes from drilling in Dubuque County, Iowa, by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1955
C. Ervin Brown, Jesse W. Whitlow
1956, Open-File Report 56-15
Geology and petrology of the Lava Mountains, San Bernardino County, California
George I. Smith
1956, Open-File Report 56-109
The Lava Mountains are a range of low mountains along the northern edge of the Mojave Desert, California. The pre-Tertiary rocks consist of a few swell pendants of metamorphic rocks in Atolia quartz monzonite. Overlying these are small patches of volcanic and sedimentary rocks, probably Tertiary, which project into the...
Geologic map of the Leadpoint quadrangle, Washington
Robert Giertz Yates, J. F. Robertson
1956, Open-File Report 56-136
No abstract available....
Accuracy of ore-reserve estimates for uranium-vanadium deposits on the Colorado Plateau
Alfred Lerner Bush, Harold K. Stager
1956, Bulletin 1030-D
Magnetite deposits at Tuxedni Bay, Alaska
Arthur Grantz
1956, Bulletin 1024-D
Geology of the Kiernan quadrangle, Iron County, Michigan
Jacob Eugene Gair, K. L. Wier
1956, Bulletin 1044