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A Summary of the Geology of Sedimentary Basins of the United States, with Reference to the Disposal of Radioactive Wastes
From introduction: This report summarizes the location, gross geologic features, and natural resources of the major sedimentary basins in the United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii.
Date:
May 1960
Creator:
Love, J. D. & Hoover, Linn
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Geologic Summary of the Central Valley of California with Reference to the Disposal of Radioactive Waste
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.
Date:
June 1960
Creator:
Repenning, Charles Albert
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Michigan Basin with Reference to Subsurface Disposal of Radioactive Wastes
From introduction: The purpose of this report is to describe the geology of the rocks in the different sedimentary basins in relation to problems of disposal of liquid radioactive wastes in the ground.
Date:
July 1960
Creator:
de Witt, Wallace, Jr.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interim Report on Geologic Investigations of the U12e Tunnel System, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada
From introduction: The maps and tables comprising this report are being transmitted at this time to provide interested users with a summary of the geology of the Ul2e tunnel system. The system was constructed to provide access to underground test sites. This report contains part of the geologic information obtained from investigations conducted by the U. S. Geological Survey to determine the geologic environment of the underground test sites. Results of geophysical and radiometric surveys, and physical properties are being studied. This work was done on behalf of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Date:
September 1960
Creator:
McKeown, F. A. & Dickey, D. D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interim Geological Investigations in the U12e.06 Tunnel, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada
From introduction: This report details Vela Uniform program survey that determined the pre-explosion chemical and physical properties of the tuffs exposed in the tunnel for comparison with similar post-shot geologic data and evaluated these data in terms of predicting the geologic effects of the planned explosion.
Date:
January 1962
Creator:
Emerick, W. L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interim Geological Investigations in the U12e.04 Tunnel, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada
From introduction: The geologic studies in the U12e.04 tunnel within the Nevada Test Site were conducted for the purpose of determining the structure and chemical and physical properties of the tuffs exposed in the tunnel.
Date:
July 1962
Creator:
Emerick, W. L.; Dickey, D. D. & McKeown, F. A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Geologic Investigations in Support of Project Chariot, Phase 3, in the Vicinity of Cape Thompson, Northwestern Alaska: Preliminary Report
From introduction: This report details the results of geologic investigations in support of Project Chariot.
Date:
January 1961
Creator:
Kachadoorian, Reuben; Campbell, Russell H.; Moore, George W.; Scholl, David W.; Lachenbruch, Arthur H.; Greene, Gordon W. et al.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Results of a Survey for Thick High-Calcium Limestone Deposits in the United States
From introduction: This report contains the results of a preliminary study of limestone deposits in the United States and Alaska for the purpose of selecting those deposits of sufficient size, relief, and purity in which to conduct an underground nuclear test.
Date:
January 1961
Creator:
Davis, Robert E.; Williams, W. P.; Johnson, Robert Britten & Emerick, W. L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Trace Elements Reconnaissance on the South Fork of Quartz Creek, Northeastern Seward Peninsula, Alaska
Abstract: Two uranium-bearing minerals, uranothorianite and thorite (?), were found in the stream gravels of the main branch of the South Fork of Quartz Creek, a tributary of the Kiwalik River. Although the bedrock source of the minerals was not located, the radioactive material was traced in slope wash well above the stream gravel. A detailed investigation of the area with more sensitive counters might reveal the source of the minerals and localities where the minerals are sufficiently concentrated to be minable.
Date:
May 1950
Creator:
Killeen, P. L. & White, Max Gregg
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Radiometric Examination of Rock Specimens from Mount McKinley, Alaska
Abstract: A suite of 50 rock specimens, collected by the 1947 Washburn Mount McKinley Expedition, was scanned radiometrically. The maximum radioactivity observed in any one of the specimens was about twice background. Radiometric analyses of the most radioactive samples show that a sample of vein quartz coated with manganese oxide contains 0.009 percent equivalent uranium and that the maximum equivalent uranium content of granitic rock types is .004 percent. The radioactivity of the manganese-stained quartz is probably due to traces of uranium in the manganese mineral, whereas that of the granitic rocks is due to radioactive accessory minerals.
Date:
February 1951
Creator:
Matzko, John J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Uranium-Bearing Sandstone in the White River Badlands, Pennington County, South Dakota
From abstract: The uranium mineral uranocircite, a barium uranyl phosphate, occurs in a sandstone channel in the Chadron formation of Oligocene age in the White River Badlands, Pennington County, S. Dak. A vertical section of the basal 1-foot of the channel contains 0. 25 percent uranium. There are also small amounts of metatyuyamunite (?) in the upper part of a freshwater lime stone bed in the Chadron formation and carnotite in chalcedony veins in the overlying Brule formation, also of Oligocene age.
Date:
April 1954
Creator:
Moore, George W. & Levish, Murray
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Uranium Deposits in the Dripping Spring Quartzite, Gila County, Arizona
From abstract: This paper is primarily a progress report on studies designed to accumulate geologic data that will aid in our understanding of the localization and the genesis of uranium deposits in the Dripping Springs quartzite.
Date:
May 1956
Creator:
Granger, Harry C. & Raup, Robert B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Report on the Rimini Area, Jefferson City Quadrangle, Jefferson County and Lewis and Clark County, Montana
Abstract: A number of radioactivity anomalies and secondary uranium minerals have been found in the Rimini area near the northwestern margin of the Boulder batholith. Most of the anomalies are associated with chalcedonic vein zones that consist of one or more veins of cryptocrystalline and fine-grained quartz in silicified quartz monzonite and alaskite. Seventeen of the anomalies were found along veins that contain base and precious metals; nine were along veins in the vicinity of the village of Rimini from which there has been production of lead, silver, zinc, and gold.
Date:
August 1954
Creator:
Becraft, George E.; Pinckney, Darrell M. & Rosenblum, Samuel
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Uranium-Bearing Coal in the Central Part of the Great Divide Basin, Sweetwater County, Wyoming
From abstract: Field work leading to this report was done by the U. S. Geological Survey for the Division of Raw Materials of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Nearly 24 townships were mapped in the central part of the Great Divide Basin, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, Fourteen of these townships contain outcrops of uranium-bearing coal. Thirty coal beds were mapped, but only seven of them have uranium-bearing coal reserves as defined in this report.
Date:
March 1956
Creator:
Pipiringos, George N.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Progress Report on the Geology and Uranium Deposits of the Gas Hills Area, Fremont and Natrona Counties, Wyoming
From introduction: This report concerns the investigation of uranium deposits in the Gas Hills area in July 1954.
Date:
September 1955
Creator:
Zeller, H. D.; Soister, Paul E. & Hyden, Harold Julius
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Uranium-Bearing Minerals in Placer Deposits of the Red River Valley, Elk City District, Idaho County, Idaho
From introduction: This report details the study to determine whether it might be worthwhile to attempt to recover uranium-bearing minerals that were previously dredged in a gold exploration in 1951 and discarded.
Date:
August 1955
Creator:
Armstrong, Frank C. & Weis, Paul L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Radioactivity and Uranium Content of the Sharon Springs Member of the Pierre Shale and Associated Rocks in Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado
From introduction: The primary objective of these studies is to determine the content and distribution of uranium areally and stratigraphically in the Sharon Springs member of the Pierre shale of Late Cretaceous age.
Date:
December 1955
Creator:
Landis, Edwin R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Selected Papers on Uranium Deposits in the United States
From foreword: The six papers included in this report were prepared in an attempt to summarize briefly, and make available to the public, part of the information concerning uranium deposits that is in unpublished reports of work done by the U. S. Geological Survey under the auspices of the Manhattan Engineer District, and later, the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Date:
May 1952
Creator:
Kaiser, E. P.; King, Robert U.; Wilmarth, V. R.; Stugard, Frederick, Jr.; Wyant, Donald G.; Gott, Garland B. et al.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Uranium, Tin, and Copper Deposits at Majuba Hill, Pershing County, Nevada
From abstract: Uranium is associated with copper and tin ores in the Majuba Hill area, Antelope mining district, in the central part of the Antelope Range, Pershing County, Nev. About 23, 000 tons of copper and 200 tons of tin ore, a small quantity of lead-silver ore, and some arsenic-silver ore have been produced from the Majuba Hill mine, the Last Chance mine, and a mine in sec. 34, T. 33 N., R. 31 E.
Date:
December 1952
Creator:
Thurston, Ralph H. & Trites, Albert F., Jr.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Progress Report on Geologic Studies in the Capitol Reef Area, Wayne County, Utah
From abstract: During 1951 about 60 square miles of the Capitol Reef area, Wayne County, Utah, the northern end of the Waterpocket Fold, was mapped by plane-table methods on a scale of 1:62, 500. Formations, with an approximate aggregate thickness of 3, 200 feet, range from the Coconino sandstone of Permian age to the Navajo sandstone of Jurassic (?) age. About 35 linear miles of Shinarump conglomerate of Triassic age was examined in detail. Cliffs 900 to 1, 000 feet high form the west face of Capitol Reef, which is on the east and northeast flanks of a structural and topographic dome, The uranium deposits are in the basal part of the Shinarump conglomerate. Zippeite and metatorbernite are the uranium minerals found, and are associated with copper minerals, carbonaceous matter, clay beds, a thick bleached zone at the top of the Moenkopi formation, and channels or scours in the top of the Moenkopi. The highest radioactivity is in a clay bed at the base of the Shinarump conglomerate, and was detected at 7 localities between Grand Wash and Capitol Gorge, at the Birch Spring prospect in Moonie Draw, and at the Oyler mine in Grand Wash.
Date:
August 1952
Creator:
Smith, J. Fred, Jr.; Hinrichs, E. Neal & Luedke, Robert G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Geological Survey's Work on the Geology of Uranium and Thorium Deposits
From abstract: The Geological Survey has been studying the geology of uranium and thorium continuously since 1939, when it began a comprehensive investigation of the vanadium-uranium deposits of the Colorado Plateau. Greatly increased demand for uranium arising from the advent of controlled fission in 1942 resulted in widening of the study in 1944 to include other possible sources and in further expansion on behalf of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission since 1947. The wide variety of materials investigated in this study are embraced by five somewhat arbitrary groups of related types of deposits as follows: (1) Igneous rocks, pegmatites, veins, and related deposits; (2) Deposits in sandstone of carnotite, copper-uranium, and other minerals; (3) Other consolidated sedimentary rocks; (4) Placers; and (5) Natural fluids.
Date:
1952
Creator:
Butler, Arthur P., Jr.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Distribution and Origin of Phosphate in the Land-Pebble Phosphate District of Florida
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.
Date:
June 1952
Creator:
Cathcart, James B. & Davidson, David F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Semiquantitative Spectrographic Method for the Analysis of Minerals, Rocks, and Ores ([Part] 2)
Abstract: The scope of the semiquantitative spectrographic method for the analysis of minerals, rocks, and ores previously described as determining 55 elements, has now been increased to 68 elements which can be estimated in one exposure of a l0-mg sample. Fluorine, the 69th element, requires a separate exposure for some materials. The method has been used to complete about 185,000 determinations in the past two years. Listed in this report are 336 chemical check analyses that indicate approximately 8 percent disagreements in the magnitude of one 10 percent bracket. No chemical and spectrographic results differ by a factor of more than 10.
Date:
February 1952
Creator:
Waring, C. L. & Annell, C. A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Wagon-Drill Sampling by U.S. Geological Survey
Abstract: For a number of years the Geological Survey has employed core drilling as a means of obtaining samples of underground formations for use in exploring and evaluating mineral deposits. During 1951, however, experiment with less expensive methods showed that, for analytical purposes, wagon-drill cuttings could be used as effectively as cores, provided a practical method were devised for recovering them in suitable form. The recent development of such a method has made it possible, in places where the depth of drilling does not exceed 125 feet, to supplant thousands of feet of core drilling by wagon drilling which is much faster and which can be done at approximately one-third the cost of the former method. This report describes the sampler and discusses performance, maintenance, and operating costs.
Date:
February 1952
Creator:
Huleatt, William P.
System:
The UNT Digital Library