Surficial geology and geomorphology of Potter County, Pennsylvania
C. S. Denny
1956, Professional Paper 288
Potter County is located in the Appalachian Plateaus of north-central Pennsylvania and contains the headwaters of the Genesee River, the Allegheny River, and the Susquehanna River. Drift of Wisconsin age covers the northeastern part of the county. This study includes a detailed survev of the surficial deposits of the Genesee...
Geology and mineral resources of the Ivanpah quadrangle, California and Nevada
D. F. Hewett
1956, Professional Paper 275
The Ivanpah quadrangle covers about 3,900 square miles in the northeastern part of the Mojave Desert of southeastern California and southern Nevada. It includes many mountain ranges 6,000 to 7,000 feet in altitude, and a single peak, Potosi Mountain, attains 8,504 feet. The ranges are separated by broad alluvial filled...
Geology of Saipan, Mariana Islands; Part 1, General geology
Preston E. Cloud Jr., Robert George Schmidt, Harold W. Burke
1956, Professional Paper 280-A
Saipan, situated about 15° N. and 146° E., is one of the larger and more southerly of the Mariana Islands. The 15 small islands of this chain are strung along an eastwardly convex ridge for more than 400 miles north to south, midway between Honshu and New Guinea and about...
Ephemeral streams - Hydraulic factors and their relation to the drainage net
Luna Bergere Leopold, John P. Miller
1956, Professional Paper 282-A
The hydraulic factors of width, depth, velocity, and suspended sediment load of ephemeral streams near Santa Fe, N. Mex., were measured during flood flow. Later, channel slope was measured. These flood-flow data, in conjunction with an analysis of drainage-basin configuration by the methods proposed by Horton, are used to determine...
Fossils from the Eutaw formation, Chattahoochee River region, Alabama-Georgia
Lloyd William Stephenson
1956, Professional Paper 274-J
Geology of the Sheldon-Little Dome area, Fremont County, Wyoming
John F. Murphy, N.C. Privarasky, G.A. Moerlein
1956, Oil and Gas Investigation Map 181
No abstract available....
Thick sequences of silicate and carbonate rocks of sedimentary origin in North America an interim report
John David Love
1956, Trace Elements Memorandum 1088
Thick sequences of silicate and carbonate rocks of sedimentary origin have been investigated in 64 areas in North America. The areas containing the thickest and most homogeneous stratigraphic sections more than 1,000 feet thick, buried at depths greater than 10,000 feet are: 1. Uinta Basin, Utah, where the Mancos shale...
Preliminary geologic map of the west central part of the Edgemont NE quadrangle, Fall River County, South Dakota
G. B. Gott, R. W. Schnabel
1956, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 58
No abstract available....
Photogeologic map of the Jacob Lake NE quadrangle, Coconino County, Arizona
C. H. Marshall
1956, Trace Elements Memorandum 959
Comparison of the pebbles of the Shinarump and Moss Back members of the Chinle formation
Howard Franklin Albee
1956, Trace Elements Memorandum 832
Lithology, color, size, sphericity, and roundness of pebbles from the Shinarurnp and Moss Back members of the Chinle formation were analyzed and compared. The difference in the quartz:quartzite:chert ratios of the pebbles, the presence of limestone and siltstone pebbles, and to a lesser degree,the difference in color of pebbles serve...
Preliminary geologic map of the northeast part of the Edgemont NE quadrangle, Custer and Fall River Counties, South Dakota
G. B. Gott, R. W. Schnabel
1956, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 56
No abstract available....
Preliminary report on the geology of San Nicolas Island, California
J. G. Vedder, J.E. Schoelhamer, M.C. Israelsky
1956, Open-File Report 56-126
The U. S. Geological Survey, at the request of the Director of Naval Petroleum Reserves, undertook a geologic investigation of San Nicolas Island, Ventura County California, in the spring of 1955. This preliminary report summarizes present knowledge concerning the general stratigraphy and structure of the island. Additional surface and underwater...
Oxidation potential and state of some vanadium ores and the relation of woody material to their deposition
Alfred Michael Pommer
1956, Open-File Report 56-98
Diatremes and craters attributed to natural explosions
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
1956, Trace Elements Memorandum 1090
Diatremes - volcanic pipes attributed to explosion - and craters have been studied to infer the ultimate causes and physical conditions attending natural explosive processes. Initial piercement of diatremes on the Navajo reservation, Arizona was probably along a fracture propagated by a high-pressure aqueous fluid. Gas rising at high velocity along...
Temple Mountain member, a new member of the Chinle formation in the San Rafael Swell, Utah
Raymond C. Robeck
1956, Trace Elements Memorandum 800
A lithologic unit, referred to as mottled purple and white, or the 'pinto bed,' in the San Rafael Swell has E?nough thickness and continuity to be formally named the Temple Mountain member of the Chinle formationo The member is characterized by the presence of: the interfingering of siltstone, mudstone, and...
Geology of the Johnson Creek quadrangle, Caribou County, Idaho
Robert A. Gulbrandsen, K.P. McLaughlin, F.S. Honkala, S.E. Clabaugh
1956, Bulletin 1042-A
Report on the properties of the Amergosa Molybdenum and Copper Corporation, Pima County, Arizona
Charles A. Anderson, D.H. Kupfer
1956, Open-File Report 45-50
Preliminary geologic map of the east-central part of the Edgemont NE quadrangle, Fall River County, South Dakota
G. B. Gott, R. W. Schnabel
1956, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 57
No abstract available....
Preliminary geologic map of the southwest part of the Edgemont NE quadrangle, Fall River County, South Dakota
G. B. Gott, R. W. Schnabel
1956, Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 59
No abstract available....
Ordovician and Silurian coral faunas of western United States
Helen Duncan
1956, Bulletin 1021-F
Geology of the Kiernan quadrangle, Iron County, Michigan
Jacob Eugene Gair, K. L. Wier
1956, Bulletin 1044
The Wishbone Hill district, Matanuska coal field, Alaska
Farrell F. Barnes, Thomas G. Payne
1956, Bulletin 1016
Stratigraphy of parts of De Soto and Hardee Counties, Florida
M.H. Bergendahl
1956, Bulletin 1030-B
Colorimetric determinations of traces of bismuth in rocks
Frederick Norville Ward, Harry E. Crowe
1956, Bulletin 1036-I
Geology of the Virginia City quadrangle, Nevada
George Albert Thompson
1956, Bulletin 1042-C