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Full-Text Articles in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Quaternary Rhyolite From The Mineral Mountains, Utah, U.S.A., S. H. Evans, Jr., W. P. Nash, University Of Utah, Department Of Geology And Geophysics
Quaternary Rhyolite From The Mineral Mountains, Utah, U.S.A., S. H. Evans, Jr., W. P. Nash, University Of Utah, Department Of Geology And Geophysics
All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)
A suite of silicic volcanic rocks is associated with the Roosevelt Hot Springs geothermal area in southwestern Utah. The volcanic sequence includes Tertiary rhyolite 8 m.y. old and obsidian, ash and rhyolite of Quaternary age. The Quaternary lavas are characterized by high silica content (76.5% SiO2) and total alkalies in excess of 9 percent. Obsidians commonly contain greater amounts of flourine than water. Two older flows (0.8 m.y.) can be distinguished from younger dome and pyroclastic material (approximately 0.5 m.y.) by subtle differences in their chemistry. The mineralogy of the rhyolites consists of alkali feldspar, plagioclase, and small amounts of …
The Geology Of Southwestern Fidalgo Island, Daryl Gusey
The Geology Of Southwestern Fidalgo Island, Daryl Gusey
WWU Graduate School Collection
Detailed geologic mapping of rocks in the upper stratigraphic levels of the Fidalgo ophiolite Indicates that keratophyres and spilites are interbedded with tuffaceous sediments, sedimentary breccias, and graywacke. Sedimentary breccias containing plutonlc rock fragments as well as volcanic rock fragments are common. The graywackes were derived from a volcanic source area. Radiolaria In the tuffaceous sediments indicate a depositional age of Lower Kimmeridgian to Upper Valanginian.
Compared to the stratigraphy and petrology of other ophiolites and present-day tectonic environments, the Fidalgo Complex most closely resembles that of ancient and modern island-arc sequences.
Nebraska Mineral Operations Review, 1977, Raymond R. Burchett, Duane A. Eversoll
Nebraska Mineral Operations Review, 1977, Raymond R. Burchett, Duane A. Eversoll
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
Water Resources Of Seward County, Nebraska, C. F. Keech
Water Resources Of Seward County, Nebraska, C. F. Keech
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
Tertiary Stratigraphy Of The Niobrara River Valley, Marsland Quadrangle, Western Nebraska, Conservation And Survey Division
Tertiary Stratigraphy Of The Niobrara River Valley, Marsland Quadrangle, Western Nebraska, Conservation And Survey Division
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
Regional Tectonics And Seismicity Of Eastern Nebraska, Annual Report June 1, 1978- May 30, 1979, R. R. Burchett
Regional Tectonics And Seismicity Of Eastern Nebraska, Annual Report June 1, 1978- May 30, 1979, R. R. Burchett
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
Nebraska Groundwater Level (Decline & Rise) And Location Of Registered Wells, 1978
Nebraska Groundwater Level (Decline & Rise) And Location Of Registered Wells, 1978
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1977, Michael J. Ellis, Darryll T. Pederson
Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1977, Michael J. Ellis, Darryll T. Pederson
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
Structure Of The Tarkio Limestone Along The Humboldt Fault Zone In Southeast Nebraska, R. R. Burchett, J. L. Arrigo
Structure Of The Tarkio Limestone Along The Humboldt Fault Zone In Southeast Nebraska, R. R. Burchett, J. L. Arrigo
Conservation and Survey Division
No abstract provided.
Clay Mineralogy And Origin Of The Huntingdon Fire Clays On Canadian Sumas Mountain, South British Columbia, Duane G. Horton
Clay Mineralogy And Origin Of The Huntingdon Fire Clays On Canadian Sumas Mountain, South British Columbia, Duane G. Horton
WWU Graduate School Collection
Three fire clay seams occur near the base of the Eocene Huntingdon formation at Canadian Sumas Mountain, southwest British Columbia. The three seams are separated from each other and overlain by coal partings.
The fire clays consist predominately of b-axis disordered kaolinite with minor amounts of quartz, detrital coal and x-ray amorphous iron oxides. They contain scant amounts of anatase, siderite, illite, and expandable clays. Expandable clays are concentrated in the fine clay fractions and illite is concentrated in the coarse clay fractions.
The lowermost fire clay seam contains better ordered kaolinite and fewer non-kaolinitic minerals than do the overlying …
Paleomagnetism And Tectonic Significance Of The Goble Volcanics Of Southern Washington, Cynthia D. Burr
Paleomagnetism And Tectonic Significance Of The Goble Volcanics Of Southern Washington, Cynthia D. Burr
WWU Graduate School Collection
The upper Eocene to lower Oligocene Goble Volcanic series of southwest Washington is a thick sequence of areal to submarine basaltic to andesitic flows, pyroclastics, and minor sediments. Major element geochemical analyses suggest that these rocks may represent early magmatism of the Cascade arc. Paleomagnetic results from 37 sites indicate that the direction of remanent magnetization in the Goble Volcanics has a declination of 18.5°, an inclination of 57.5°, and a circle of 95% confidence (∝ 95)of 4.33°. The expected upper Eocene direction in the sampling area is D = 353.5°; Ī = 61.5°. Thus the Goble Volcanics block …
The Origin Of Serpentinites Associated With The Shuksan Metamorphic Suite Near Gee Point, Washington, Daniel L. Wilson
The Origin Of Serpentinites Associated With The Shuksan Metamorphic Suite Near Gee Point, Washington, Daniel L. Wilson
WWU Graduate School Collection
Metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the Shuksan Metamorphic Suite near Gee Point have been contact metamorphosed by high-temperature emplacement of ultramafic rock. This intrusion occurred at great depth (>25 km) and caused contact temperatures of about 500°C, resulting in epidote-amphibolite facies metamorphism. Minerals of the contact metamorphism are overprinted by mineral assemblages of the regional Shuksan blueschist facies metamorphism. The K/Ar age of the epidote-amphibolites is Jurassic (145-160 m.y.), and thus the age of Shuksan metamorphism is probably younger than Middle Jurassic.
Ultramafic rocks found near Gee Point have been metamorphosed to serpentinites during Shuksan metamorphism and should be …
Stratigraphy And Chronology Of Raised Marine Terraces, Bay View Ridge, Skagit County, Washington, Robert T. Siegfried
Stratigraphy And Chronology Of Raised Marine Terraces, Bay View Ridge, Skagit County, Washington, Robert T. Siegfried
WWU Graduate School Collection
The evidence presented suggests that terraces and related features found on Bay View Ridge, Skagit County, Washington are raised marine in origin, and formed 13,000 - 11,000 years before present during the Everson Interstade of the Fraser Glaciation. Methods of investigation included topographic profiling, geologic mapping of surface deposits, identifying primary sedimentary structures, grain-size distribution analyses, identifying textural surface features on quartz grains utilizing the Scanning Electron Microscope and radiocarbon age dating.
Little or no measurable differential vertical tectonic and/or glacio-isostatic relative movement has occurred at Bay View Ridge since the Everson Interstade. Volcanic ash found in two peat bogs …
Coal Petrology Of The Tulameen Coalfield, South Central British Columbia, V. Eileen Williams
Coal Petrology Of The Tulameen Coalfield, South Central British Columbia, V. Eileen Williams
WWU Graduate School Collection
The Tulameen Coalfield lies in a small, southeast plunging syncline in the Intermontane Belt of the Canadian Cordillera in south central British Columbia. The coal is interbedded with fluvial and lacustrine sediments of the Eocene Allenby Formation of the Princeton Group. The abundance of tephra and bentonite indicates volcanic activity was contemporaneous with coal and sediment deposition.
Although coal occurs on both sides of the basin, its economic importance is currently restricted to a 15-21 meter thick coal seam on the southwestern limb of the syncline. The coal is predominantly vitrain and clarain composed of greater than 90 percent vitrinite. …
Shoreline Processes And Sediment Responses Related To The Origin Of Beach Cusps On Whidbey And Fidalgo Islands, Washington, John V. Spasari
Shoreline Processes And Sediment Responses Related To The Origin Of Beach Cusps On Whidbey And Fidalgo Islands, Washington, John V. Spasari
WWU Graduate School Collection
Beach cusps are rhythmically spaced, crescentic beach features which consist of cusp shaped seaward pointing depositional ridges or mounds, often referred to as horns, separated by concave seaward troughs or bays. They have longshore spacings that vary from a few centimeters up to 25 meters. The purpose of the project was to conduct a field investigation of the shoreline processes and sediment responses associated with beach cusp formation on Whidbey and Fidalgo Islands, Washington. Despite the many theories published in the literature for the origin of beach cusps, many of which are contradictory, there were only two theories proposed that …
The Paleontology And Biostratigraphy Of The Lower Ordovician Gasconade Formation Of Missouri, Bruce L. Stinchcomb
The Paleontology And Biostratigraphy Of The Lower Ordovician Gasconade Formation Of Missouri, Bruce L. Stinchcomb
Doctoral Dissertations
"The biostratigraphy, paleoecology and paleontology of the Lower Ordovician Gasconade Formation in Missouri is reinvestigated in an attempt to solve problems that have arisen since the classic earlier studies by Ulrich, Bridge and others. Twelve faunal zones are established, many based on primitive mollusks which dominate the formation. The oldest of these, in the Van Buren Member, is the Hypseloaonus Zone. This is followed by a zone characterized by the primitive cephalopod Dakeoaeras then a zone dominated by the gastropod Sinuopea. These zones are succeeded by the Euomphalopsis, Matthevia and Ozarkina Zones which lie stratigraphically below the Cryptozoon Zone, …
Sedimentology Of The Hannibal Formation In Northeastern Missouri And Western Illinois, Michael Harry Deming
Sedimentology Of The Hannibal Formation In Northeastern Missouri And Western Illinois, Michael Harry Deming
Masters Theses
"The Hannibal Formation (Kinderhookian) occurring in northeastern Missouri and western Illinois is a fine-grained, terrigenous, sedimentary unit which can be divided into an upper and a lower portion, based on lithology. The upper portion consists of alternating coarse and argillaceous, fine siltstone units, while the lower portion consists of a silty mudstone with an occasional thin siltstone unit. At the extreme western margin of the formation, near where the Hannibal almost pinches out, the formation consists entirely of a silty claystone. Extending southward along the study area, the coarse siltstone units of the upper Hannibal become thinner, and eventually pinch …
Landsat Image Analysis Of Linears And Lineaments In The Tri-State District, Missouri-Oklahoma-Kansas, Solomon Hartley Toweh
Landsat Image Analysis Of Linears And Lineaments In The Tri-State District, Missouri-Oklahoma-Kansas, Solomon Hartley Toweh
Masters Theses
"Lineations within the Tri-State mining district are classified as megalineaments, lineaments and linears, based on length. One megalineament, 120 lineaments and 205 linears are identified on the LANDSAT imagery. In order of importance a dominant northeast set, northwest set, north-south set and east-west set are recognized. These range from 0.8 miles (1.3 km) to 68 miles (109.4 km) in length.
Major lineation trends spatially relate with trends of mined areas In the Picher field both northeast and northwest lineations generally parallel mined areas. In the Galena field ore and lineations trend northeast while in the Joplin and Duenweg-Webb City-Oronogo field …
Stratigraphy Of The Lower Tertiary And Upper Cretaceous (?) Continental Strata In The Canyon Range, Juab County, Utah, James M. Stolle
Stratigraphy Of The Lower Tertiary And Upper Cretaceous (?) Continental Strata In The Canyon Range, Juab County, Utah, James M. Stolle
Theses and Dissertations
The Canyon Range Formation (informal new name), formerly mapped as the Indianola Group within the Canyon Range, is divisible into two distinct, mappable units, A and B. Unit A is nearly all conglomerate strata, and conglomerate texture and sedimentary structures suggest an alluvial fan depositional environment. Precambrian and basal Cambrian quartzite clasts represent the erosional debris from the allochthonous Canyon Range thrust. Unit B is composed of interbedded fluvial sandstone and conglomerates with lacustrine limestones, commonly micritic and/or oncolitic. Conglomerate clasts indicate a Paleozoic carbonate provenance. Unit A, previously mapped as the Indianola, underlies Unit B and correlates with the …
Ua66/8/3 Annual Report, Wku Geography & Geology
Ua66/8/3 Annual Report, Wku Geography & Geology
WKU Administration Documents
No abstract provided.
Stratigraphy And Petrography Of The Selah Member Of The Ellensburg Formation In South-Central Washington And North-Central Oregon, Mavis Hensley Kent
Stratigraphy And Petrography Of The Selah Member Of The Ellensburg Formation In South-Central Washington And North-Central Oregon, Mavis Hensley Kent
Dissertations and Theses
The Ellensburg Formation of south-central Washington and north-central Oregon has been described by many workers from the time of the original description by Russell (1893) to recent work by Schmincke (1964). However, detailed information concerning the stratigraphy and petrography of the Ellensburg Formation in south-central Washington and north-central Oregon is not available. This study is among the first detailed studies made for a member of the Ellensburg Formation; it provides a specific comparison with the type Ellensburg of central Washington.
Petrology Of The Bull-Of-The-Woods Intrusive Complex, James Streshley Jackson
Petrology Of The Bull-Of-The-Woods Intrusive Complex, James Streshley Jackson
Dissertations and Theses
An area of unmapped intrusions lies within the Bull-of-the-Woods Roadless Area of Mount Hood National Forest. A variety of andesites, dacites,and diorites intruding units of tuff and andesite lava flows crop out over.an area of 52 sq km. These intrusions do not appear on the Geologic Map of Oregon West of the 121st Meridian (Hells and Peck, 1961). The purpose of this investigation is to map and describe these intrusions, with attention to the following questions:
What is the petrographic and geochemical nature of these intrusions?
What is the order of emplacement of these intrusions?
What is the probable mechanism …
A Geomagnetic Survey Of Pembina, Grand Forks, And Eastern Walsh Counties, North Dakota, Howard E. Okland
A Geomagnetic Survey Of Pembina, Grand Forks, And Eastern Walsh Counties, North Dakota, Howard E. Okland
Theses and Dissertations
From August, 1977, to March, 1978, total field geomagnetic readings were taken at 948 sites in the following counties in North Dakota: Pembina County, Grand Forks County, and Walsh County east of 98°W. longitude. The field data was contoured by computer using the SYMAP commercial computer program. Nine major and several minor magnetic anomalies were discovered. Trends present on the aeromagnetic map of Minnesota continue westward into North Dakota. Limited bore hole data and the geomagnetic map suggest that the study area is underlain by Precatnbrian rocks of the Superior geologic province. The northernmost trend may indicate a western extension …
Heat Flow And Heat Production Studies In North Dakota, Richard Scattoline
Heat Flow And Heat Production Studies In North Dakota, Richard Scattoline
Theses and Dissertations
Thirty-one new heat flow determinations in North Dakota range from 0.6 to 1.9 HFU. The majority of heat flow measurements were completed for southwestern North Dakota.
Heat flow measurements were made in both oil and water wells. Heat production data from basement rocks when used in conjunction with nearby heat flow values indicate that only two of six sites may be considered to be similar to Basin and Range type of heat flow. One site occurs in southwestern North Dakota in a region west of 103° W where no heat flow value is less than 1.5 HFU. The other site …
Paleoecology Of A Late Quaternary Biota At The Mcclusky Canal Site, Central North Dakota, Linda E. Okland
Paleoecology Of A Late Quaternary Biota At The Mcclusky Canal Site, Central North Dakota, Linda E. Okland
Theses and Dissertations
Abundant and well-preserved Late Quaternary fossils were exposed at the McClusky Canal Site in the Missouri Coteau district of central North Dakota during the late summer and fall of 1976. Strati graphic units, in ascending order, are: (l) pebbly, clayey sand; (2) unlaminated, organic claystone; (3) laminated, organic claystone; (4) pebbly, sandy claystone; (5) laminated, organic claystone; (6) gypsiferous claystone; and (7) silty claystone. Units 1 and 4 are inter preted to be till, and the remainder are lacustrine sediments. Total thickness of the section is 6.0 m.
Radiocarbon dates of 12,595 ± 375 radiocarbon years B.P. (from the boundary …
Petrology Of Sandstones From The Bullion Creek And Sentinel Butte Formations (Paleocene), Little Missouri Badlands, North Dakota, Mark A. Steiner
Petrology Of Sandstones From The Bullion Creek And Sentinel Butte Formations (Paleocene), Little Missouri Badlands, North Dakota, Mark A. Steiner
Theses and Dissertations
The mineralogy and petrology of sandstones of the Paleocene Bullion Creek and Sentinel Butte Formations were studied from exposures in the Little Missouri River Badlands in Billings, Golden Valley, and McKenzie Counties, North Dakota. Field work was conducted in the summer of 1977. Stratigraphic sections were measured and described from eight localities. Sandstones were sampled at 47 levels, and three samples were collected from each level. Fifty-one samples were collected from the Bullion Creek Formation and 90 from the Sentinel Butte Formation.
Thin-sections were prepared from plastic grain-mount blocks containing disaggregated sand grains, and 200 points per thin-section were counted, …
The Rhame Bed (Slope Formation, Paleocene), A Silcrete And Deep Weathering Profile, In Southwestern North Dakota, Barbara D. Wehrfritz
The Rhame Bed (Slope Formation, Paleocene), A Silcrete And Deep Weathering Profile, In Southwestern North Dakota, Barbara D. Wehrfritz
Theses and Dissertations
The Rhame Bed is a unit at the top of the Slope Formation (for merly part of the "Ludlow Formation") in the Fort Union Group deposited during Paleocene time.
The Rhame Bed was mapped in western Slope County and north central Bowman County. The bed outcrops on the tops of buttes, at the present groJnd surface in large level areas, or in steep slopes. Although the bed is laterally discontinuous, it is a clearly mappable unit.
The Rhame Bed typically consists of two dominant lithologies: siliceous rock and white sediment. The siliceous rock is hard, gray, and made of silt-sized …
Stratigraphy And Depositional Setting Of The Carrington Shale Facies (Mississippian) Of The Williston Basin, Peter F. Bjorlie
Stratigraphy And Depositional Setting Of The Carrington Shale Facies (Mississippian) Of The Williston Basin, Peter F. Bjorlie
Theses and Dissertations
The Carrington shale facies is a radioactive illitic lagoonal shale, apparently deposited behind lime mudstone banks (Waulsortian bioherms), along the eastern margin of the Williston basin during Early Mississippian time.
The Scallion subinterval, which is the basal subunit of the Bottineau interval of the Madison Formation in North Dakota, is divisible into six lithologic facies, one of which is the Carrington shale facies. West of the shale facies, on the basin-shelf hinge line, is the lime mudstone facies. Basinward of this facies is the interbedded shale-limestone facies. Stratigraphically above the latter two facies is the sand-silt-shale facies. Overlying a portion …
Geology Of The Flathead Formation (Middle Cambrian) On The Perimeter Of The Bighorn Basin, Beartooth Mountains, And Little Belt Mountains In Wyoming And Montana, Joel A. Degenstein
Geology Of The Flathead Formation (Middle Cambrian) On The Perimeter Of The Bighorn Basin, Beartooth Mountains, And Little Belt Mountains In Wyoming And Montana, Joel A. Degenstein
Theses and Dissertations
The Flathead Formation, which is 4 to 60 metres thick in the middle and northern Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Montana, contains cross-bedded and parallel-bedded, quartz sandstone. The formation contains marginal-marine and shallow-marine sediment that was deposited unconformably on Precambrian crystalline and sedimentary rock by an eastward-transgressing sea during middle Cambrian time.
This field study of the Flathead Formation on the perimeter of the Bighorn Basin, Beartooth Mountains, and Little Belt Mountains reveals that the formation consists of three intervals. The lower interval contains medium to very coarse, pebbly, cross-bedded sandstone and conglomerate. The middle interval contains medium to coarse, …
Beach Erosion And Accretion At Virginia Beach, Victor Goldsmith, Susan C. Strum, George R. Thomas, Coastal Engineering Research Center (U. S. )
Beach Erosion And Accretion At Virginia Beach, Victor Goldsmith, Susan C. Strum, George R. Thomas, Coastal Engineering Research Center (U. S. )
Reports
This report is published to provide coastal engineers with a description of beach erosion and accretion at Virginia Beach, Virginia, including the effect of continuing beach replenishment, and the apparent unimportance of land use in determining erosion. This report also provides bench-mark data on coastal processes at the shore north of the CERC Field Research Facility at Duck, North Carolina. The work was carried out under the beach evaluation program of the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC).