Dictionary of Alaska Place Names (open access)

Dictionary of Alaska Place Names

Introduction: This work is an alphabetical list of the geographic names that are now applied and have been applied to to places and features of the Alaska Landscape.
Date: 1967
Creator: Orth, Donald J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geologic Reconnaissance Along the Alaska Highway, Delta River to Tok Junction, Alaska (open access)

Geologic Reconnaissance Along the Alaska Highway, Delta River to Tok Junction, Alaska

The following report studies results from the bedrock and surficial geologic reconnaissance of the middle section of the Tanana lowland and adjacent parts of the Alaska Range and the Yukon-Tanana upland.
Date: 1965
Creator: Holmes, G. William
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tin-Lode Investigations, Potato Mountain Area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska; With Section on Petrography (open access)

Tin-Lode Investigations, Potato Mountain Area, Seward Peninsula, Alaska; With Section on Petrography

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines on investigations of tin-lode deposits in the Seward Peninsula. The properties of the deposits sampled are presented. This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.
Date: 1965
Creator: Mulligan, John J. & Gnagy, Walter L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Sumdum Copper-Zinc Prospect, Southeastern Alaska (open access)

Geology of the Sumdum Copper-Zinc Prospect, Southeastern Alaska

From abstract: The Sumdum copper-zinc prospect is in an alpine region on the mainland of southeastern Alaska, about 50 miles southeast of Juneau and about 25 miles west of the Canadian boundary. The ore-bearing outcrops at the prospect were discovered by the Alaska Helicopter Syndicate during the summer of 1958. The prospect is within a few thousand feet of the western margin of the . Coast Range batholith in regionally metamorphosed rocks that locally -have -been contact: metamorphosed. Most of the known ore deposits are -in the intermediate unit of three metamorphic-rock units that were mapped.
Date: 1964
Creator: MacKevett, E. M., Jr. & Blake, M. Clark, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stream Catalog of Southeastern Alaska, Regulatory District Nos. 3 and 4 (open access)

Stream Catalog of Southeastern Alaska, Regulatory District Nos. 3 and 4

From introduction: The pink salmon of Southeastern Alaska are an important fishery resource that appear in more than 1,100 known spawning streams. Information on each stream is presented by a stream description and, when available, a map and escapement record.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Orrell, Russell F.; Rosier, Carl & Simpson, Lyle R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stream Catalog of Southeastern Alaska Regulatory District No. 2 (open access)

Stream Catalog of Southeastern Alaska Regulatory District No. 2

From introduction: As a handbook of salmon streams, this catalog is expected to serve as an aid to conservation agencies as well as others who have an interest in the valuable salmon resources of Southeastern Alaska.
Date: April 1963
Creator: Orrell, Russell F. & Klinkhart, Edward G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Freshwater Bay Area, Chichagof Island, Alaska (open access)

Geology of the Freshwater Bay Area, Chichagof Island, Alaska

From abstract: The Freshwater Bay area comprises about 140 square miles in the northeastern part of Chichagof Island, southeastern Alaska. A sequence of Paleozoic rocks more than 24,000 feet thick is divided into 5 formations, 4 of which are named for the first time.
Date: 1963
Creator: Loney, Robert Ahlberg; Condon, William H. & Dutro, J. Thomas, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the North Bradfield River Iron Prospect, Southeastern Alaska (open access)

Geology of the North Bradfield River Iron Prospect, Southeastern Alaska

From abstract: The North Bradfield River iron prospect is in southeastern Alaska in rugged terrain about 8 miles southwest of the Canadian boundary and about 15 miles northeast of the head of Bradfield Canal. The prospect includes several magnetite-rich ore bodies of pyrometasomatic origin that are localized in skarn. The skarn forms a small part of a northwestward-trending roof pendant that is enclosed in the composite Coast Range batholith. The dominant rocks of the roof pendant are gneiss, granulite, schist, and marble. The ore, which consists almost entirely of magnetite, contains subordinate amounts of hematite, hydrous iron sesquioxides, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, and malachite. The ore bodies are crudely stratiform and apparently discontinuous. The largest ore body exposed is traceable for about 350 feet along its strike and averages about 25 feet in thickness. An accurate appraisal of the economic potential of the prospect was precluded by poor outcrops, local snow cover, and inadequate subsurface data.
Date: 1963
Creator: MacKevett, E. M., Jr. & Blake, M. Clark, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bituminous Coal Deposits of the Matanuska Coalfield, Alaska: Central and Western Parts, Wishbone District (open access)

Bituminous Coal Deposits of the Matanuska Coalfield, Alaska: Central and Western Parts, Wishbone District

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines discussing bituminous coal production of the Matanuska coalfield in Alaska. A history of the coalfield is presented, as well as drilling methods and data. This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.
Date: 1962
Creator: Warfield, Robert S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mercury Occurrences in Alaska (open access)

Mercury Occurrences in Alaska

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing mercury deposits and the potential for a mercury mining industry in Alaska. History, geology, occurrences, methods, costs, and uses of mercury is presented. This report includes maps, tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1962
Creator: Malone, Kevin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance Studies of Alaskan Beach Sands, Eastern Gulf of Alaska (open access)

Reconnaissance Studies of Alaskan Beach Sands, Eastern Gulf of Alaska

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over studies of East Alaska beach sands to determine if there was any valuable mineral content. The results of these studies are presented. This report includes tables, and maps.
Date: 1962
Creator: Thomas, Bruce I. & Berryhill, Robert V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Radiation Damage on SM-1, SM-1A and PM-2A Reactor Vessels (open access)

Effect of Radiation Damage on SM-1, SM-1A and PM-2A Reactor Vessels

Report describing the status of the SM-1, SM-1A, and PM-2A reactors, specifically regarding the effects "of irradiation on nil-ductility transition temperature and the associated problem of brittle fracture." (p. iii)
Date: October 14, 1961
Creator: McLaughlin, D. W.; Rowekamp, B. J.; Chittum, R. A.; Coombe, J. R.; Kelleman, R. W.; Bobe, P. E. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geologic Aspects of the November 1960 High-Explosive Test at the Project Chariot Site, Northwestern Alaska (open access)

Geologic Aspects of the November 1960 High-Explosive Test at the Project Chariot Site, Northwestern Alaska

From introduction: This report details the results of a 256-pound high explosive cratering experiment at the Chariot test site 110 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
Date: May 1961
Creator: Kachadoorian, Reuben
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geologic Investigations in Support of Project Chariot, Phase 3, in the Vicinity of Cape Thompson, Northwestern Alaska: Preliminary Report (open access)

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
Geology of Part of the Craig C-2 Quadrangle and Adjoining Areas, Prince of Wales Island, Southeastern Alaska (open access)

Geology of Part of the Craig C-2 Quadrangle and Adjoining Areas, Prince of Wales Island, Southeastern Alaska

From abstract: The area mapped is on the east coast of Prince of Wales Island, southeastern Alaska, about 35 miles northwest of the town of Ketchikan. Deposits of magnetite and copper in the mapped area and on Kasaan Peninsula, which adjoins it on the southeast, have been mined for copper and have produced more than 600,000 tons of ore valued at more than $6 million.
Date: 1961
Creator: Sainsbury, C. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Craig Quadrangle, Alaska (open access)

Geology of the Craig Quadrangle, Alaska

From abstract: The Craig quadrangle, in southeastern Alaska, lies entirely within the Tongass National Forest and includes a large part of Prince of Wales Island, the largest island of the Alexander Archipelago. Sedimentary, volcanic, and metamorphic rocks of Paleozoic and Mesozoic age are exposed as complexly folded and faulted sequences. Paleozoic rocks occupy a broad geanticlinal area comprising Prince of Wales Island and the islands to the west. Metamorphosed Mesozoic rocks form a geosynclinal area along and east of Clarence Strait. Granitic and dioritic stocks and masses, mainly of Mesozoic age, intrude the Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks. Remnants of volcanic rocks of Tertiary age exist on Suemez Island, and scattered areas of Tertiary clastic rocks and volcanic rocks are exposed near Clarence Strait. Deposits of Quaternary age are mainly thin glacial deposits and narrow bands of stream alluvium.
Date: 1961
Creator: Condon, W. H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Mount McKinley Quadrangle, Alaska (open access)

Geology of the Mount McKinley Quadrangle, Alaska

From abstract: The Mount McKinley quadrangle, in south-central Alaska, includes parts of the Alaska Range, the Tanana and Kuskokwim lowlands, and the Kuskokwim Mountains. Schists of Precambrian age crop out in the northern foothills of the Alaska Range. Sedimentary and volcanic rocks of Paleozoic and Mesozoic age are exposed in the Kuskokwim Mountains, where little is known of their distribution and character, and in the Alaska Range, where they occupy the axial part and northern limb of a great synclinorium. Granitic batholiths, largely of Mesozoic age, intrude the Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks in the Alaska Range.
Date: 1961
Creator: Reed, John Calvin, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Results of a Survey for Thick High-Calcium Limestone Deposits in the United States (open access)

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
Tofty Tin belt, Manley Hot Springs District, Alaska (open access)

Tofty Tin belt, Manley Hot Springs District, Alaska

From abstract: Buried placer deposits in a belt about 8 miles long by 1 mile wide at Tofty, near Manley Hot Springs, Alaska, have yielded a few hundred tons of cassiterite as a byproduct to the recovery of several million dollars in placer gold.
Date: 1961
Creator: Wayland, Russell Gibson
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geologic Investigations in Support of Project Chariot in the Vicinity of Cape Thompson, Northwestern Alaska: Preliminary Report (open access)

Geologic Investigations in Support of Project Chariot in the Vicinity of Cape Thompson, Northwestern Alaska: Preliminary Report

From abstract: This report describes the Chariot test at Ogotoruk Creek that is topographically and geologically well-situated for the construction of an experimental deep-water excavation as proposed by the AEC.
Date: January 1960
Creator: Kachadoorian, Reuben; Campbell, Russell H.; Moore, G. W.; Cole, J. Y.; Lachenbruch, Arthur H.; Greene, Gordon W. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library