Geological and Geophysical Survey of Fluorspar Areas in Hardin County, Illinois (open access)

Geological and Geophysical Survey of Fluorspar Areas in Hardin County, Illinois

From abstract: Pt 1. The present work seems to confirm the genetic theory previously published, namely that [Illinois Cave in Rock] deposits were formed by ascending solutions. These solutions probably followed minor fissures that connected below with larger fissures, which in turn probably connected with a major fault zone. It is believed that where such minor fissures extended upward only to the shale or other impervious cap rock, or were greatly reduced in size where they penetrated such beds, the solutions spread laterally along the contact and along the limestone beds beneath it and replaced the limestone. Pt 2. This report is a presentation of the results of an electrical-resistivity survey conducted in the fluorspar-bearing areas of Hardin County, Ill., principally during the field seasons of 1934 and 1935.
Date: 1944
Creator: Currier, Louis W.; Wagner, Oscar Emil, Jr. & Hubbert, M. King
System: The UNT Digital Library
Manganese Deposits in the Artillery Mountains Region, Mohave County, Arizona (open access)

Manganese Deposits in the Artillery Mountains Region, Mohave County, Arizona

From abstract: The manganese deposits of the Artillery Mountains region lie within an area of about 25 square miles between the Artillery and Rawhide Mountains, on the west side of the Bill Williams River in west-central Arizona. The richest croppings are on the northeast side of this area, among the foothills of the Artillery Mountains. They are 6 to 10 miles from Alamo. The nearest shipping points are Congress, about 50 miles to the east, and Aguila, about 50 miles to the southeast. The principal manganese deposits are part of a sequence of alluvial fan and playa material, probably of early Pliocene age, which were laid down in a fault basin. They are overlain by later Pliocene (?) basalt flows and sediments and by Quaternary basalt and alluvium. The Pliocene (?) rocks are folded into a shallow composite syncline that occupies the valley between the Artillery and Rawhide Mountains, and the folded rocks along either side of the valley, together with the overlying Quaternary basalt, are broken by faults that have produced a group of horsts, grabens, and step-fault blocks.
Date: 1944
Creator: Lasky, Samuel G. & Webber, N. B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eastern Black Shale Reconnaissance Preliminary Report (open access)

Eastern Black Shale Reconnaissance Preliminary Report

The following report is the result of a reconnaissance of the black shales of the Eastern United States in the summer of 1944. The purpose of this reconnaissance was to determine the radioactivity of the shales, specifically for uranium and thorium.
Date: August 25, 1944
Creator: Slaughter, A. L. & Clabaugh, S. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Report on Radioactivity of Some North Carolina Pegmatites (open access)

Preliminary Report on Radioactivity of Some North Carolina Pegmatites

The following report is based on the findings of a Geological Survey party who spent one week during July 1944 in western North Carolina testing some of the Pegmatites and one Kyanite mine of that region for radioactive minerals.
Date: August 1944
Creator: Slaughter, A. L. & Clabaugh, S. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library