Geologic map of the Paiute Ridge Quadrangle, Nye and Lincoln Counties, Nevada.

Abstract: A large amount of water leaks through the floor of Lake McMillan to underground solution channels or openings in the gypsiferous Seven Rivers Formation.

A geologic map of the Topopah Spring northwest quadrangle, Nye County, Nevada

This is a geological map of the Frenchman Flat quadrangle of Nye County, Lincoln, and Clark Counties, Nevada.

This is a geological map of the Dead Horse Flat quadrangle in Nye County, Nevada.

From introduction: This report evaluates four possible types of subsurface reservoirs for radioactive wastes in the Williston basin.

Introduction: The objective of the study was to estimate the worldwide distribution of a few broad categories of naturally occurring materials found on the land surface of the earth.

Abstract: Zeunerite occurs near the surface of a granite stock on the southwest flank of Brooks Mountain, Alaska. The largest deposit is at the Foggy Day prospect where zeunerite is disseminated in hematite which partially or totally fills openings and vugs in a highly oxidized lensshaped body of pegmatitic granite and to a minor extent in openings and cracks in the weathered granite enclosing the lens. Although a few specimens from the pegmatitic lens contain as high as 2.1 percent equivalent uranium, the overall average content of the lens rock is between 0.1 and 0.2 percent equivalent uranium and about 0.07 percent equivalent uranium for both the lens material and the surrounding zeunerite-bearing granite.

From introduction: Approximately fifty radioactive deposits and nearly fifty properties not abnormally radioactive were examined during a geologic reconnaissance for radioactive minerals in Idaho, Washington, and western Montana during the period July 1952 -- June 1955. The most important uranium deposits are in or near granitic to quartz monzonitic intrusions of probable Cretaceous age in central and northern Idaho, westernmost Montana, and northeastern Washington. The purpose of these reports is to describe the geology of the areas so that the possibilities for the disposal of high-level radioactive fluid waste in deep wells can be ascertained.

From summary: This report details the survey conducted to discover uranium in sandstone-type deposits in southwestern Colorado and the Carrizo Mountains.

From introduction: This summary report of the geology of the Appalachian basin was prepared as part of the Radioactive Disposal Program being conducted by the USGS on behalf of the Division of Reactor Development of the AEC.

From foreword: This report details geologic investigations of radioactive deposits in the United States.

From introduction: This report details the results of instrument recordings of a nuclear explosion where ground zero was near the top of Rainier Mesa.

From introduction: This report describes the geology of the area only to the extent necessary for preliminary evaluation of the possibilities for the disposal of liquid radioactive waste by injection through deep wells. Their value will increase with development of extensive commercial production of atomic power and attendant creation of radioactive waste from the processing of spent fuel elements. The disposal of liquid waste in deep reservoirs is only one of several possibilities that must be considered.

From abstract: The land-pebble phosphate district of Florida is a part of the Gulf Coastal Plain. The geologic formations cropping out in the district are the Miocene Hawthorn, Pliocene Bone Valley, and Pleistocene terrace sands. The Bone Valley formation consists of a lower strongly phosphatic unit and an upper less phosphatic unit. This paper is concerned principally with the lower unit, which contains the bulk of the minable phosphate deposits of the district.

Abstract: Reconnaissance for uranium in the Lost River area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, during the 1951 field season revealed the presence of minor amounts of radioactive material in mineralized portions of rhyolitic dikes and in a small iron-enriched zone in limestone. The dikes contain as much as 0.01 percent equivalent uranium locally and average 00005 percent equivalent uranium. The radioactive material occurs as a secondary hematitic coating of the dike rock. The iron-enriched zone has an average content of about 0.06 percent equivalent uranium with the radioactive material occuring in limonite, hematite, goethite, and mimetite. The radioactivity of these minerals is due to the presence of uranium as an impurity. No uranium deposits of economic importance were found.

From introduction: This report is a statement of progress during a six-month period and gives the principal unclassified information developed in that period for radioactive deposits in the United States.

From introduction: This report summarizes the results of the USGS exploration in the Yellow Cat and Squaw Park areas, and contains a brief description of the geology and ore deposits

From abstract: Uranium deposits and radioactivity anomalies have been found in the eastern half of the area underlain by the Browns Park formation in northwestern Colorado, south-central Wyoming, and northeastern Utah. The deposits are in eolian, lacustrine, and fluvial sandstones, tuffaceous sandstones, and limestones all of which were deposited on two converging pediments during Miocene time. At least one eastern and one western facies of lacustrine and fluvial sedimentary rocks are separated by a belt of eolian sandstones. The faces may be distinguished in the field and by petrographic and heavy-mineral studies in the laboratory.

A report about selenium which can be determined in pyrite, chalcocite, and marcasite by a spectrochemical method that is simple and rapid, and that requires no complicated arrangement of spectrographic equipment, or chemical pretreatment of samples.

Report discussing the U.S. Geological Survey's reconnaissance for uraniferous carbonaceous materials in three areas of southern Utah: Kaiparowits Plateau, Henry Mountains, and Kolob Terrace.

From abstract: "This paper describes a quantitative fluorimetric method for the determination of small amounts of uranium..., useful for field and laboratory."

A report about eleven occurrences of uraniferous argillite in the Lockatong lithofacies and five occurrences of uraniferous sandstone in the stockton lithofacies which are both of triassic age.

A report about how the synthesis of natural vanadates shows that most of them are stable in an acid environment.