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Geologic Map Of The Steamboat Mountain And Bible Spring Quadrangles, Western Iron County, Utah, Myron G. Best, Robert L. Davis, U.S. Geological Survey

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Geology mapped in 1980 with the assistance of Lehi F. Hintze and students in the Brigham Young University summer geology field course. This report includes geological maps along with a detailed key.

Geologic Map Of The Beaver 15 Minute Quadrangle, Beaver County, Utah, United States Geological Survey

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This is a geologic map of the Beaver 15 minute quadrangle, Beaver County, Utah, and accompanying descriptions and correlations.

A Thermochemical Study Of The Ore Deposits Of The Milliken Mine, New Lead Belt, Missouri, Douglas L. Rickman

Doctoral Dissertations

"The ore body at the Milliken mine is a typical Mississippi Valleytype ore deposit. Mineralization is in a dolostone and structures are subtle, but very important ore controls. The major mineralogy is simple, predominately galena, luminescent hydrothermal dolomite, sphalerite and chalcopyrite. Twenty-three additional minerals have been identified in the ores, including barite and Pb-aragonite, bot h of which have not previously been recognized in the district.

Paragenetically, the ores are very complex, with four major, distinct periods of mineralization plus numerous periods of dissolution. The paragenesis provides evidence for the dynamic, evolving nature of the ore system. Galena textures, euhedral …

Off-Road Vehicular Destabilization Of Hillslopes: The Major Contributing Factor To Destructive Debris Flows In Ogden, Utah, 1979, John K. Nakata

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A severe rain storm on August 11 and 18, 1979, caused major flood damage in urban areas of east Ogden, Utah. At least 3.85 cm of rain fell in a 7 hour-period. The severity of damage was dramatically increased by water diverted from the Brigham-Ogden Canal, when it was clogged by a debris flow in the vicinity or Third, Taylor, and Polk Streets (Fig. 1). The purpose or this investigation is to ascertain the sequence of events that followed the storm, and to quantify the processes insofar as possible. An inspection of the area on September 21-25, 1979 , and …

Field-Trip Guide To The Quaternary Stratigraphy And Faulting In The Area North Of The Mouth Of Big Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States Geological Survey

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This field-trip guide describes the Quaternary stratigraphy and faulting in a small area (about 1 km2 ) undergoing intensive gravel-mining operations north of the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon, about 15 km south of Salt Lake City. The area lies in the Sugar House and very northern part of the Draper, Utah, 7 1/2 min. quadrangles.

Altered Volcanic Ash Partings In The C Coal Bed, Ferron Sandstone Member Of The Mancos Shale, Emery County, Utah, United States Geological Survey

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When volcanic ash falls onto the surface of a peat-forming swamp and is then covered by peat, it forms a horlzontal parting that can be recognized in the subsequent coal bed. As a consequence of the acid leaching environment in the swamp, the original glassy component and some of the less resistant pyrogenic minerals in the ash alter to clay minerals, usually kaolinite.

Hydrology Of The Ferron Sandstone Aquifer And Effects Of Proposed Surface-Coal Mining In Castle Valley, Utah, Gregory C. Lines, Daniel J. Morrissey, Thomas A. Ryer, Richard H. Fuller, U.S. Geological Survey

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Coal in the Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale of Cretaceous age has traditionally been mined by underground techniques in the Emery Coal Field in the southern end of Castle Valley in east-central Utah. However, approximately 99 million tons are recoverable by surface mining. Ground water in the Ferron is the sole source of supply for the town of Emery, but the aquifer is essentially untapped outside the Emery area. The Ferron Sandstone Member crops out along the eastern edge of Castle Valley and generally dips 2" to 10" to the northwest beneath the surface. Sandstones in the Ferron …

Mineral Resources Of The Escalante Canyon Instant Study Area, Garfield County, Utah, Gordon W. Weir, Michael E. Lane, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Bureau Of Mines

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During 1979 and 1980 the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Mines conducted field investigations to evaluate the mineral resources potential of the Escalante Canyon Instant Study Area, Garfield County, Utah. Field studies included geological mapping and reconnaissance (Weir and Beard, 1981), geochemical sampling, and a survey of known mines, prospects, and mineralized areas (Lane, 1981).

Conodont Biostratigraphy And Thermal Color Alteration Indices Of The Upper St. Charles And Lower Garden City Formations, Bear River Range, Northern Utah And Southeastern Idaho, United States Geological Survey

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The contact between the St. Charles and Garden City Formatlons in the Bear River Range, Bannock thrust sheet in northern Utah and southeastern Idaho, is a diachronous dlsconformity within the Lower Ordovician, Middle or, possibly, upper Cordylodus proavus Zone (Clavohamulus elongatus to, possibly, C. hintzel Subzones) conodonts indicate that lowermost Canadian Series (Lower Ordovician in North American usage) strata equivalent to the Missisquoia Zone and, possibly, lower Symphysurina Zone (trilobites) are present in the upper part of the St . Charles Formation.

Application Of Mineral-Solution Equilibria To The Search For Sanstone-Type Uranium Deposits In The Beaver Basin, Utah, W. R. Miller, J. B. Mchugh, U.S. Geological Survey

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An improved computer modeling program was used to calculate the saturation indexes of 50 waters from the Beaver basin in west-central Utah with respect to uraninite and coffinite. The mineral-solution study showed that the chemical environment of parts of the Beaver basin is favorable for the occurrence of sandstone-type uranium deposits. The ground waters from several areas are supersaturated with respect to uraninite and coffinite. Two areas, in particular, an area west of the town of Beaver and an area near the settlement of Manderfield, have been identified as most favorable for exploration. The methods described in this study can …

Geophysical Measurements In The Beaver Basin, West-Central Utah; Part 1--Slingram, Magnetic, And Self-Potential Profiles, Vincent J. Flanigan, David L. Campbell, U.S. Geological Survey

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This report consists of figures showing profile locations (fig. 1, table 1) in the Beaver Basin, west-central Utah, and ground geophysical data collected in September 1980 along these traverses (figs. 2-11). These data consist of slingram electromagnetic (real and imaginary components at 222, 444, 888, 1777, and 3555 Hz), ground magnetic and self-potential measurements collected at 200-foot (61-m) intervals along about 8.8 miles (14.2 km) of survey line. Table 2 lists equipment used. The report contains data only, and no interpretations of the data are included.

Radar Observations Of Ash Eruptions, D. M. Harris, William I. Rose, R. Roe, M. R. Thompson

Michigan Tech Publications

Radar systems located at Portland, Oreg., Seattle, Wash., and near Spokane, Wash., have been used extensively for observations of ash clouds from explosive volcanic eruptions at Mount St. Helens during 1980. Eruption clouds are composed of silicate particles and are therefore detectable by radar. Radar observations can be made at night and in overcast weather when conventional observations of eruptions are difficult.-from Authors

Dunes And Vegetation: Natural Recovery On A Damaged Barrier Island, C. John Burk, H. Allen Curran, Teresa M. Czerniak

Geosciences: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Geology And Environment Of Deposition Of The Kinneman Creek Interval, Sentinel Butte Formation (Paleocene), North Dakota, Katherine J. Logan

Theses and Dissertations

To date, most environmental reconstructions of lignite bearing formations in western North Dakota have been done on a formational scale. The objective of this study was to investigate one of the non-lignite intervals, the Kinneman Creek Interval, directly above the strati graphically lowest lignite in the Paleocene Sentinel Butte Formation. The Kinneman Creek Interval has been recognized in the Sentinel Butte Formation throughout most of western North Dakota.

The field area is located in west-central North Dakota in Mercer, Oliver, and McLean Counties and is bi sected by the Missouri River. Excellent exposures are provided in the highwalls of Baukol-Noonan, …

Geomorphology And Dynamics Of A Sand Wave In Lower Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Gerardo Miguel Eduardo Perillo

OES Theses and Dissertations

A single, more or less isolated, sand wave in a sand wave field recently discovered in the lower Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, was studied intensively for morphology, sedimentology and in terms of dynamic processes. The morphologic investigation consisted of bathymetric surveys of the sand wave field and the specific sand wave. Twenty-five grab samples and four box cores were obtained from different segments of the feature studied. Textural parameters of the samples were determined, and a multivariate technique was utilized to identify subenvironments on the feature. The box cores provided information on the internal structure of the sand wave.

Observations of …

Fluid Inclusion Evidence For Ore-Forming Solutions: Phoenixville, Audubon And New Galena Mine Districts, Pa, Jeanne Passante Lawler

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

The Audubon, Phoenixville and New Galena Pb-Zn-Cu vein deposits of southeastern Pennsylvania have been investigated by microthermometric analysis of fluid inclusions in sphelerite, dolomite and quartz. The results obtained from primary and pseudosecondary inclusions in spherelite indicate that the ore was deposited by a sodium rich brine of moderate salinity (11-14 equivalent wt. % NaCl) at temperatures probably near 200 degrees C. The Na-rich character of the fluid suggests that dissolved constituents in the fluids were derived from Na-rich sedimentary rocks of the Newark basin. Local fluid-wallrock interaction may have produced slightly higher salinity fluids (15-16 equivalent Wt. % NaCl) …

Geotechnical Properties And Slope Stability Analysis Of Surficial Sediments On The Baltimore Canyon Continental Slope: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-733, J. S. Booth, R. A. Farrow, Thomas L. Rice

Science and Mathematics Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Geology And Structure Of The Western And Southern Margins Of Twin Sisters Mountain, North Cascades, Washington, Frederic I. Frasse

WWU Graduate School Collection

Detailed mapping of the Goat Mountain dunite and the western and southern margins of the Twin Sisters dunite indicates that the structural setting of these bodies is dominated by high-angle northwest-trending fault zones. The Goat Mountain dunite overlies rocks of the Chilliwack Group and Yellow Aster Complex as a lowangle, west-dipping slab approximately 2500 feet thick. Cretaceous phyllite west of Goat Mountain overlies Chilliwack Group rocks along a similar low-angle west-dipping fault contact. These structures are both truncated by high-angle fault zones.

The timing of faulting is poorly constrained. High-angle faulting is at least post-Eocene through Holocene (?), and may …

Nebraska Mineral Operations Review, 1980, Raymonds R. Burchett, Duane A. Eversoll

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.

Geology And Groundwater Supplies Of Southern Dawes And Northern Sheridan Counties, Nebraska, Vernon L. Souders

Conservation and Survey Division

The upland plain in southern Dawes and northern Sheridan counties of northwest Nebraska is underlain by rocks of Tertiary age. These rocks overlie those of Cretaceous and Jurassic ages in this region of about 2250 square miles . Strata of Tertiary age are a source of groundwater for most of the irrigation, municipal, stock, and rural-domestic needs of the area.

Nine stratigraphic units of Tertiary.age were defined by examination of test hole samples and logs and by examining electric logs of oil and gas tests, driller's logs of irrigation wells, and outcrops. Stratigraphic correlations are difficult in the area because …

Nebraska Groundwater Level (Decline & Rise) And Location Of Registered Wells, 1981

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.

Groundwater Reservoir Management Policy Issue Study: A Contract Report For The State Water Planning And Review Process-Nebraska Natural Resources Commission

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.

Development Of Irrigation Well Drilling In Nebraska, Vance Anderson

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.

Annual Outflow Of Water From Nebraska, 1950-1980, Conservation Survey Division

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.

The Geology And Mineralogy Of Bentonites And Associated Rocks Of The Chuckanut Formation, Mt. Higgins Area, North Cascades, Washington, Susan Kinder Cruver

WWU Graduate School Collection

In the Mt. Higgins area, the Chuckanut Formation is in probable fault contact with pre-Tertiary metamorphlc rocks. The Chuckanut is over- lain by Oso volcanics (zircon fission track age of 43.2 ± 1.9 MY). A diorite body (k/At date = 53 ± 8 MY) crops out in the Granite Lake area and is thought to be intrusive into the Chuckanut. Sedimentary rocks of much of the study area are dominantly thick- bedded arkoses that are generally cross-bedded, and resemble the Chuckanut type section. Sediments cropping out along and near Deer Creek are different; black, bituminous shale is the dominant rock …

The Rocks Of Bulson Creek: Eocene-Oligocene Sedimentation And Tectonics In The Lake Mcmurray Area, Washington, Kim Lance Marcus

WWU Graduate School Collection

Upper Eocene to lower Oligocene sedimentary rocks in the Lake McMurray area of Skagit County, Washington, consist of approximately 1500 m of conglomerate, sandstone, shale, and siltstone which were deposited in fluvial and marine environments along the continental margin. These rocks are known as the rocks of Bulson Creek.

Two main lithofacies can be recognized within the sequence: the lowest is nonmarine and consists of poorly sorted, thick, and structureless conglomerate with interbedded sandstone, siltstone, shale, and minor coal lenses; the upper lithofacies grades from a transitional nonmarine facies to a shallow water marine facies that consists of well sorted, …

The Paleomagnetism Of A Thick Middle Tertiary Volcanic Sequence In Northern California, Douglas Edward Craig

WWU Graduate School Collection

The mean direction of remanent magnetism for 44 sampling sites from Oligo-Miocene lava flows in northern California points about 12° east of the expected Oligo-Miocene geomagnetic field direction for the area. Our paleomagnetic data and other data indicate that the Cascade Range has rotated clockwise since the middle Tertiary. Similar, but larger, clockwise rotations have been documented in previous studies throughout the Coast Ranges. Two mechanisms are suggested to account for the differential rotation that has occurred within the Coast and Cascade Ranges. First, the Coast Ranges are rotated and then accreted to a curved continental margin during the Eocene, …

The Mineralogy, Petrology And Geochemistry Of The Uranium-Bearing Vein Deposits Near Boulder, Montana, And Their Relationship To Faulting And Hot Spring Activity, Stanton Parker Dodd

WWU Graduate School Collection

Three "siliceous reef" uraniferous vein deposits of the Boulder batholith were studied. Two of these, the Free Enterprise and the W. Wilson, occur within hydrothermally altered Late Cretaceous Butte Quartz Monzonite and related rocks. Both deposits contain fine-grained iron and base-metal sulfides and uraninite in a matrix of microcrystalline quartz and chalcedony. The deposition of uraninite in these veins was contemporaneous with the majority of the sulfide minerals. The third deposit studied, the uraniferous Red Rock Mine, is similar in many respects to the other two occurrences, yet occurs within altered Late Cretaceous Elkhorn Mountains Volcanics.

All three occurrences formed …

The Chemical Composition Of The Shuksan Metamorphic Suite In The Gee Point - Finney Creek Area, North Cascades, Washington, Leah V. Street-Martin

WWU Graduate School Collection

Samples from the Shuksan Metamorphic Suite in the Gee Point-Finney Creek area were analyzed for twelve major elements and for the trace elements Y, Sr, Rb, Sc, Ni, Cr, Cu, Zr and Ba. The chemical compositions suggest that the protolith for the blueschist and greenschist was tholeiitic basalt, that the protolith for the iron-rich metasediment was a hydrothermally-formed sea floor precipitate on an active oceanic ridge and that the pelitic schists were once deep sea pelagic sediments. This assemblage probably formed along an oceanic spreading ridge.

An Investigation Of The Nickel-Cobalt Occurrence In The Southeast Missouri Mining District, David Ray Jessey

Doctoral Dissertations

"A study of the occurrence of nickel and cobalt in the Southeast Missouri Mining District has revealed several significant geochemical trends and mineralogical relationships. Regional geochemical studies indicate that the greatest concentration of nickel and cobalt occurs in the Fredericktown area. Mines in the Viburnum Trend also have significant concentrations of these metals. Studies of the Viburnum Trend have established that both nickel and cobalt decrease in concentration southward from the Magmont mine to the Brushy Creek mine, increase at the Fletcher mine, and decrease again at the Sweetwater mine.

A detailed geochemical study of the Buick mine has shown …