The Alaska earthquake, March 27, 1964: Lessons and conclusions
Edwin B. Eckel
1970, Professional Paper 546
One of the greatest earthquakes of all time struck south-central Alaska on March 27, 1964. Strong motion lasted longer than for most recorded earthquakes, and more land surface was dislocated, vertically and horizontally, than by any known previous temblor. Never before were so many effects on earth processes and on...
Preliminary interpretation of geophysical data from the lower Noatak River basin, Alaska
David F. Barnes, Irvin L. Tailleur
1970, Open-File Report 70-18
Analyses of rock and stream-sediment samples from the Sumdum B-5 quadrangle, Alaska
Allen L. Clark, D. A. Brew, D. A. Grybeck, Ramond Wehr
1970, Open-File Report 70-75
A portable refraction seismograph survey of gold placer areas near Nome, Alaska
H. Gary Greene
1970, Bulletin 1312-B
Analyses of rock and stream-sediment samples from the Sumdum B-3 quadrangle, Alaska
Allen L. Clark, D. A. Brew, D. A. Grybeck, Raymond Wehr
1970, Open-File Report 70-73
Geology, mineral deposits, and geochemical and radiometric anomalies, Serpentine Hot Springs area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska
C.L. Sainsbury, Travis Hudson, Reuben Kachadoorian, Thomas Richards
1970, Bulletin 1312-H
Preliminary geologic map of the Black River quadrangle, east-central Alaska
E. E. Brabb (compiler)
1970, IMAP 601
Analyses of rock and stream-sediment samples from the Sumdum A-4 quadrangle, Alaska
Allen L. Clark, D. A. Brew, D. A. Grybeck, Raymond Wehr
1970, Open-File Report 70-72
Progress map, geology of the Sadlerochit and Shublik Mountains, Mt. Michelson C-1, C-2, C-3, and C-4 quadrangles, Alaska
H. N. Reiser, J.T. Dutro Jr., W. P. Brosge, A. K. Armstrong, R.L. Detterman
1970, Open-File Report 70-273
Cassiterite as an exsolution product in magnetite, Lost River tin mine, Alaska
George A. Desborough, C.L. Sainsbury
1970, Economic Geology (65) 1004-1006
No abstract available....
Eocene age of the Adak ‘Paleozoic (?)’ rocks, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
David W. Scholl, H. Gary Greene, Michael S. Marlow
1970, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America (81) 3583-3591
In 1948, several specimens identified as the plant genus Annularia, a primitive horsetail of Pennsylvanian or Permian age, were found in tuffaceous sandstone exposed near the northern end of Adak Island, Alaska. These beds form the basal part of the Andrew Lake Formation, a newly named sequence of marine sedimentary...
Graptolite succession across the Ordovician–Silurian boundary in south-eastern Alaska
Michael Churkin Jr., Claire Carter, George Donald Eberlein
1970, Journal of the Geological Society (126) 319-330
The first discovery in North America of a succession of graptolite faunas across the Ordovician–Silurian boundary has been made on Esquibel Island, in south-eastern Alaska, where five graptolite zones are represented in an 18 m interval of shale in the Descon Formation. Despite the thinness of...
The Uralides and the motion of the Russian and Siberian Platforms
Warren B. Hamilton
1970, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America (81) 2553-2576
The Uralides—the late Precambrian and Paleozoic orogenic terrane between the Russian and Siberian Platforms—in part are exposed in the Ural Mountains, in the central Soviet Arctic, along the west edge of the Siberian Platform, and in southern Siberia and Kazakhstan, and in part are buried beneath the fill of the...
Aspects of oil and gas operations on federal and Indian lands of interest to engineers
Charles J. Curtis
1970, Conference Paper, SPE Rocky Mountain regional meeting
It is always enjoyable to attend any meeting of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. I am happy to have this opportunity to speak to you because I believe that petroleum engineers can benefit from a better understanding of the Mineral Leasing Act and the regulations that implement the act insofar...
Silver depletion indicated by microanalysis of gold from placer occurrences, western United States
George A. Desborough
1970, Economic Geology (65) 304-311
No abstract available....
Observations of iceberg rafting in Glacier Bay, Alaska, and the identification of ancient ice-rafted deposits
A. Thomas Ovenshine
1970, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America (81) 891-894
Observations of icebergs in a modern glacial marine environment indicate that ancient rocks that received iceberg-rafted material should contain: (1) local concentrations of stones that originated when icebergs overturned, and (2) small pellets of till that were originally sediment filling the spaces between clear ice crystals.The till pellets are especially...
Pedro, Livengood, and Tanana: A study of place-names near Fairbanks, Alaska
Paul J. Sorvo
1970, Names (18) 185-190
In the early hours of March 30, 1867, Secretary of State William H. Seward completed the purchase of the remote and unexplored land known as Russian America, or Alaska. Discovered in 1741 by Vitus Bering, Alaska progressed from a Czarist colony to a territory of the United States, and finally,...
Aquilapollenites (Rouse) Funkhouser — Selected Rocky Mountain taxa and their stratigraphic ranges
Bernadine D. Tschudy, Estella B. Leopold
Robert M. Kosanke, Aureal T. Cross, editor(s)
1970, Book chapter, Symposium on palynology of the late Cretaceous and early Tertiary
The genus Aquilapollenites and its type species, A. quadrilobus, are redescribed, and the latter is illustrated. This report summarizes our present information on stratigraphic ranges of selected Rocky Mountain species and varieties of Aquilapollenites. Of the 17 taxa...
Palynology of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the northern Rocky Mountain and Mississippi Embayment regions
Robert H. Tschudy
Robert M. Kosanke, Aureal T. Cross, editor(s)
1970, Book chapter, Symposium on Palynology of the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary
In both the Rocky Mountain and the Mississippi Embayment regions it is often difficult to distinguish Upper Cretaceous from lower Tertiary rocks on the basis of physical characteristics; the transition can be recognized with relative ease, however, on the basis of abrupt qualitative changes in plant microfossils. Many Cretaceous species...
Effects of oil development in Arctic America
J. C. Reed
1970, Biological Conservation (2) 273-277
Large and important discoveries of petroleum were made in northern Alaska in 1968. The reserves were estimated then to be perhaps as much as ten thousand million barrels. Subsequent exploration has shown the resources to be much greater than was estimated earlier. Many...
Chukchi Sea seismic reflection and magnetic profiles 1969, between northern Alaska and international date line
Arthur Grantz, William F. Hanna, Stephen C. Wolf
1970, Open-File Report 70-139
No abstract available....
Foraminiferal zonation and carbonate facies of Carboniferous (Mississippian and Pennsylvanian) Lisburne group, central and eastern Brooks range, Arctic Alaska
Augustus K. Armstrong, Bernard L. Mamet, J. Thomas Dutro
1970, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (54) 687-698
The Lisburne Group carbonate rocks of the central and eastern Brooks Range contain foraminiferal assemblages assigned to zones of late Tournaisian (Osage) to early Moscovian (Atoka) age. Representatives of both Eurasiatic and American cratonic microfaunas permit correlation with the original Carboniferous type sections in western Europe as well as with...
A possible bedrock source for obsidian found in archeological sites in northwestern Alaska
W. W. Patton Jr., T. P. Miller
1970, Science (169) 760-761
Recently discovered deposits of obsidian in the Koyukuk valley may be the long-sought-for source of obsidian found in archeological sites in northwestern Alaska. Obsidian from these deposits compares favorably in physical characteristics and sodium-manganese ratio with the archeological obsidian, and there is evidence that the deposits have been "mined" in...
Petroleum potential of the Kandik basin, east-central Alaska
Michael Churkin, Earl E. Brabb
1969, Open-File Report 1305 MP
No abstract available....
The Alaska earthquake, March 27, 1964: Effects on communities
Wallace R. Hansen, Reuben Kachadoorian, Henry W. Coulter, Ralph R. Migliaccio, Roger M. Waller, Kirk W. Stanley, Richard W. Lemke, George Plafker, Edwin B. Eckel, Lawrence R. Mayo
1969, Professional Paper 542
This is the second in a series of six reports that the U.S. Geological Survey published on the results of a comprehensive geologic study that began, as a reconnaissance survey, within 24 hours after the March 27, 1964, Magnitude 9.2 Great Alaska Earthquake and extended, as detailed investigations, through several...
