Map showing turbidity patterns from Landsat imagery on the Texas inner continental shelf
G. L. Shideler
1979, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 1099
Discrimination of alteration in the Crooks Gap, Wyoming, uranium district using laboratory and Landsat spectral reflectance data
Timothy E. Townsend
1979, Open-File Report 79-765
The Crooks Gap area is a major uranium producing district in south-central Wyoming. Uranium occurs there as roll-type deposits in Tertiary sandstones. Alteration of the host sandstones related to the formation of the uranium deposits, is marked at the surface by a pronounced red coloration, which has long been used...
A study of global sand seas
Edwin D. McKee, editor(s)
1979, Professional Paper 1052
The birth of the idea that led to this publication on "Global Sand Seas" dates back to the late 1920's. At that time I was engaged in a study of the Coconino Sandstone of Arizona's Grand Canyon. Considerable controversy existed then as to whether this sandstone was a subaqueous deposit or...
Stereocombination of Landsat and aeromagnetic data, Claunch, New Mexico
Alden P. Colvocoresses
1979, Open-File Report 79-1527
Landsat feature data of the Gallup-Grants uranium district, New Mexico
R. S. Zech, Daniel H. Knepper
1979, Open-File Report 79-1507
Introduction to monitoring dynamic environmental phenomena of the world using satellite data collection systems, 1978
William Douglas Carter, Richard W. Paulson
1979, Circular 803
The rapid development of satellite technology, especially in the area of radio transmission and imaging systems, makes it possible to monitor dynamic surface phenomena of the Earth in considerable detail. The monitoring systems that have been developed are compatible with standard monitoring systems such as snow, stream, and rain gages;...
Integrated terrain mapping with digital Landsat images in Queensland, Australia
Charles Joseph Robinove
1979, Professional Paper 1102
Mapping with Landsat images usually is done by selecting single types of features, such as soils, vegetation, or rocks, and creating visually interpreted or digitally classified maps of each feature. Individual maps can then be overlaid on or combined with other maps to characterize the terrain. Integrated terrain mapping combines...
Enhancement of Landsat images for lineament analysis in the area of the Salina Basin, New York and Pennsylvania
M. Dennis Krohn
1979, Open-File Report 79-533
Digital image processing of Landsat images of New York and Pennsylvania was undertaken to provide optimum images for lineament analysis in the area of the Salina Basin. Preliminary examination of Landsat images from photographic prints indicated sufficient differences between the spectral bands of the Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) to warrant...
Upper Cretaceous tectonic activity on lineaments in western South Dakota
George W. Shurr
1979, Open-File Report 79-1374
Lineaments mapped on satellite images in western South Dakota define a geometry of basement blocks, and paleotectonic activity on these lineament-bound blocks is recorded in sedimentary rocks. Mapping on seven Landsat images in an area of about 100,000 km2 reveals that lineaments are best developed along azimuths of N. 60°...
Evaluation of a color-coded Landsat 5/6 ratio image for mapping lithologic differences in western South Dakota
Gary L. Raines, R.F. Bretz, George W. Shurr
1979, Open-File Report 79-596
From analysis of a color-coded Landsat 5/6 ratio, image, a map of the vegetation density distribution has been produced by Raines of 25,000 sq km of western South Dakota. This 5/6 ratio image is produced digitally calculating the ratios of the bands 5 and 6 of the Landsat data and...
Georgia from space; an explanation of the NASA Landsat 1 satellite image color mosaic of the State of Georgia
Sam M. Pickering, Michael W. Higgins
1979, Circular 787
Linear feature data derived from Landsat images of southeastern Missouri
Daniel H. Knepper
1979, Open-File Report 79-992
Evaluation of Landsat multispectral scanner images for mapping altered rocks in the East Tintic Mountains, Utah
Lawrence C. Rowan, Michael J. Abrams
1979, Open-File Report 78-736
The East Tintic Mountains, Utah consist of folded and faulted Paleozoic sedimentary rocks, which are partly covered by Tertiary volcanic rocks. Clastic rocks dominate the lower one-third of the Paleozoic section, whereas carbonate rocks with subordinate amounts of shale and elastic rocks predominate in the remainder. Some of the rocks,...
Landsat image map of the Jabal al Hasir quadrangle, sheet 19F, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey, Saudi Arabia. Deputy Ministry for Mineral Resources
1979, Open-File Report 80-1308
Interagency Map (IR) SA-270...
The Alaskan Mineral Resource Assessment Program: Guide to information contained in the folio of geologic and mineral resource maps of the Chandalar quadrangle, Alaska
H. N. Reiser, W. P. Brosge, J. H. DeYoung, S.P. Marsh, T. D. Hamilton, J. W. Cady, N. R. D. Albert
1979, Circular 758
The Chandalar quadrangle in east-central Alaska was investigated by a multidisciplinary research group to assess the mineral resource potential of the quadrangle. This circular serves as a guide to and integrates with a folio of 10 miscellaneous field study (MF) maps and 2 open-file (OF) reports (table 1) concerned with...
The Alaskan Mineral Resource Assessment Program: Background information to accompany folio of geologic and mineral resource maps of the Big Delta quadrangle, Alaska
Helen Laura Foster, N. R. D. Albert, Andrew Griscom, T. D. Hessin, W. D. Menzie, D. L. Turner, Frederic H. Wilson
1979, Circular 783
The geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and Landsat imagery of the Big Delta quadrangle, 16,335 km 2 in the Yukon-Tanana Upland of east-central Alaska, were investigated, and maps and reports were prepared by an interdisciplinary research team for the purpose of assessing the mineral potential. The quadrangle is dominantly a complex terrane...
Hydrologic reconnaissance of western Arctic Alaska, 1976 and 1977
Joseph M. Childers, Donald R. Kernodle, Robert M. Loeffler
1979, Open-File Report 79-699
A reconnaissance of the water resources of the western Arctic was conducted during April 1976 and August 1977. Data were collected at 9 springs, 9 lakes and 22 stream sites.Using slope-conveyance methods based on field evidence, estimates of bankfull and maximum evident flood-peak discharges were made for 20 selected streams....
Geologic evaluation of major Landsat lineaments in Nevada and their relationship to ore districts
Lawrence C. Rowan, Pamela Heald Wetlaufer
1979, Open-File Report 79-544
Analysis of diverse geologic, geophysical, and geochemical data shows that eight major lineament systems delineated in Landsat images of Nevada are morphological and tonal expressions of substantially broader structural zones. Southern Nevada is dominated by the 175 km-wide northwest-trending Walker Lane, a 150 km-wide zone of east-trending lineament systems consisting...
Landsat lineaments in parts of West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and Virginia
George Willis Colton
1979, Open-File Report 79-368
No abstract available....
Depth determination of Colvocoresses Reef, Indian Ocean (EC-68-Landsat)
Alden P. Colvocoresses
1979, Open-File Report 79-726
Preliminary maps of photolineaments along parts of the western Sierra Nevada foothills and eastern Coast Range foothills, California, based on Landsat images and U-2 aircraft photographs
Carroll Ann Hodges
1979, Open-File Report 79-1470
The Alaskan Mineral Resource Assessment Program: Background information to accompany folio of geologic and mineral resource maps of the Talkeetna quadrangle, Alaska
Bruce L. Reed, G. C. Curtin, Andrew Griscom, S.W. Nelson, D.A. Singer, W. C. Steele
1979, Circular 775
The Talkeetna 1° by 3° quadrangle, which consists of about 17,155 km2 in south-central Alaska, was investigated by integrated field and laboratory studies in the disciplines of geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and Landsat data interpretation for the purpose of assessing its mineral resource potential. Past mineral production has been limited to...
Detection and mapping of hydrothermally altered rocks in the vicinity of the Comstock Lode, Virginia Range, Nevada, using enhanced Landsat images
Roger P. Ashley, A. F. H. Goetz, L. C. Rowan, M. J. Abrams
1979, Open-File Report 79-960
The Virginia Range, immediately southeast of Reno, Nev., consists mainly of flows, breccias, and turfs of Miocene age. Most of these volcanic rocks are of intermediate composition; rhyodacite is the most common rock type. Basalt, rhyolite and rhyolite tuff, and tuffaceous sedimentary rocks of Miocene and Pliocene age also cover...
Map showing interpretation of Landsat imagery of the Big Delta quadrangle, Alaska
Nairn R.D. Albert, William Clinton Steele
1979, Open-File Report 78-529-C
Late diagenetic indicators of buried oil and gas: II, Direct detection experiment at Cement and Garza oil fields, Oklahoma and Texas, using enhanced LANDSAT I and II images
Terrence J. Donovan, Patricia A. Termain, Mitchell E. Henry
1979, Open-File Report 79-243
The Cement oil field, Oklahoma, was a test site for an experiment designed to evaluate LANDSAT's capability to detect an alteration zone in surface rocks caused by hydrocarbon microseepage. Loss of iron and impregnation of sandstone by carbonate cements and replacement of gypsum by calcite are the major alteration phenomena...