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Geology Of The West-Central Part Of The Malad Range, Idaho, Phillip H. Wach

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The west-central part of the Malad Range is located in south-eastern Idaho. This area was the site of thick marine deposition in the early Paleozoic period. In the Tertiary and Quaternary periods continental deposition occurred, covering the Paleozoic rocks. Quartzite and shale units of the Brigham Quartzite are found near the base of the Cambrian section. Carbonate with shale interbeds is found in the middle and late Cambrian units. Limestone and silty limestone are found in the early and middle Ordovician time overlain by the middle Ordovician Swan Peak Quartzite. The Laketown Dolomite includes units of late Ordovician and Silurian …

Centennial Guidebook To The Geology Of Southeastern Nebraska, R. R. Burchett, E. C. Reed

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

The Technique Of Lineaments And Linears Analysis And Its Application In The Minerogenic Province Of Southeast Missouri, Hassan A. Etr

Doctoral Dissertations

"Current terminology in the field of lineaments and linears (lineations) analysis was reviewed and quantitative definitions of the common terms offered. A general classification of lineations is herein proposed. Characteristics of drainage and airphoto lineations were reviewed and the procedure used in their analysis discussed.

An area about 1880 square miles was analyzed for lineations based on drainage networks and the resulting patterns showed preferred orientation. These drainage lineations were later compared with the airphoto lineations of the same area and a limited degree of similarity was observed.

The airphoto lineations of an area approximately 7000 sq. mi. covering the …

A Stratigraphic And Sedimentologic Analysis Of The Tongue River And Sentinel Butte Formations (Paleocene), Western North Dakota, Chester F. Royse Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

The Tongue River-Sentirel Butte contact has been regarded by many workers as a vague color boundary of minor extent within a relatively homogeneous sequence of Paleocene strata. Consequently, the Sentinel Butte has come to be regarded as a subordinate unit of the ”Tongue River Formation. As defined in report, the contact is a distinctive horizon between two discrete lithogenetic units. It characterized by three criteria: a horizon (HT Butte bad) &t the top of the Tongue River sequence; a. basal sandy unit in the Sentinel Butte sequence, and a marked change in color between buff yellow Tongue River sediments below …

Surficial Geology Of The Las Vegas Quadrangle, Nevada, Charles Edgar Price Jr

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The Las Vegas 15-minute quadrangle, located in the south part of the state of Nevada, includes about 240 square miles in and around the city of Las Vegas; it is in the basin and range province. The quadrangle includes a broad valley floor that was once a lake bottom, a bordering area of badlands and rolling hills developed in Tertiary and Quaternary deposits, an outer marginal area of alluvial fans, and the surrounding mountains.

The mountains constitute about three per cent of the total land surface and are composed of rock ranging in are from Precambrian to Tertiary. The remainder …

The Stratigraphy Of The Sperati Point Quadrangle, Mckenzie County, North Dakota, Michael B. Clark

Theses and Dissertations

The Sperati Point Quadrangle is in McKenzie County, northwestern North Dakota, about 30 miles south-southwest of Watford City, North Dakota. The quadrangle is bounded by Ts. 146-148 N., Rs. 100- 101 W., and encompasses an area of about: 54 square miles. The topography consists of weakly dissected upland plains and, adjacent to the Little Missouri River and tributaries, well dissected, well drained, badland areas characterized by extensive slumping. About 570 feet of the Sentinel Butte Member of the Tongue River Formation of Paleocene age is exposed in the quadrangle. The lower 200 to 250 feet is dominantly grayish, fine to …

Some Geological And Magnetic Characteristics Of Buried And Resurrected Precambrian Hills Of Southeastern Missouri, James Edward Palmer

Doctoral Dissertations

"PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF INVESTIGATION The major purpose of this investigation was to determine by a comprehensive study various geological and magnetic characteristics of buried and resurrected Precambrian hills of the Central Ozarks. A second important objective was the determination of characteristics which might aid in the location of buried Precambrian hills. A final objective was the testing of the magnetic surface integration method for identification and determination of depth of buried Precambrian hills.

This investigation is limited to buried and resurrected Precambrian hills of the Central Ozarks. It is concerned primarily with the structure and stratigraphy of sediments adjacent …

Surficial Geology Of Northern Griggs County, North Dakota, Laverne C. Rude

Theses and Dissertations

Griggs County, situated in the Western Lake section of the Central Lowland province, covers an area of 720 square miles in east-central North Dakota. The surface of the county is mantled with three, or possibly four Pleistocene drift sheets, separated by outwash deposits. These drift sheets lie unconformably on the Cretaceous Pierre Shale which is exposed in the Sheyenne River valley and the Binford Hills. Because the drift sheets have similar lithologic and physical characteristics, and are all late Wisconsin in age, they fulfill the requirements for a lithostratigraphic unit and are being considered for designation as part of the …

Jurassic Stratigraphy Of The Southern Two-Thirds Of North Dakota, Richard A. Salisbury

Theses and Dissertations

Jurassic rocks in the southern two-thirds of North Dakota consist mainly of limestone, shale, anhydrite, and salt of the Piper Formation; shaly limestone, calcareous and non-calcareous shales of the Rierden Formation; shale and sandstone of the Swift Formation; and, at the top, non-marine shale and local sandstones of the Morrison Formation.

The units generally are conformable in the deep part of the Williston Basin, and are unconformable near the edge of the basin in eastern North Dakota. The Poe Member of the Piper Formation, however, unconformably overlies the Spearfish Formation in the western part of North Dakota where Dunham salt …

Stratigraphy, Sedimentation And Structure Of The Upper Cherokee And Lower Marmaton (Pennsylvanian) Rocks Of Bates County, And Portions Of Henry And Vernon Counties, Missouri, Richard J. Gentile

Doctoral Dissertations

"The major purpose of this dissertation is to describe in detail the stratigraphy of the upper Cherokee and lower Marmaton groups of the Middle Pennsylvanian, Desmoinesian Series in a portion of western Missouri. The stratigraphy of the upper Cherokee and lower Marmaton groups in areas of Kansas west of the project area has been studied by several workers. The most recent contributions have been by Jewett in 1941 and 1945, and by Howe in 1956. Detailed geological mapping also has been completed under the direction of the Missouri Geological Survey in areas to the east of the project area. Most …

Study Of The Ste. Genevieve Formation At Selected Localities In Southern Illinois And Western Kentucky, Mahlon Jack Apgar Reinhard

Masters Theses

"The carbonate rocks of the Mississippian Ste. Genevieve Formation were studied megascopically in four quarries--Cave in Rock, Franklin, Three Rivers, and Fredonia Valley--within a small area of the Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district and in a drill-core from the Cave in Rock Quarry. The rocks were studied microscopically in seventy-four thin sections prepared from samples from the quarries and the drill-core. The Ste. Genevieve Formation is typically an extremely oolitic, fragmentally fossiliferous limestone which is very light gray to white. The megascopic descriptions of the quarry exposures are presented as measured sections and columnar sections. A detailed log of the drill-core is …

Stratigraphy Sedimentation And Petroleum Possibilities Of The Middle Ordovician (Kimmswick-Galena) Rocks Of Missouri, Illinois And Iowa, Krishna Kant Misra

Doctoral Dissertations

"Detailed surface and subsurface studies of the Kimmswick Limestone and the Galena Formation of Middle Ordovician age in eastern Missouri, western Illinois, and southeastern Iowa were conducted in order to examine their stratigraphic relations, geological history, environment of deposition, and petroleum possibilities.

The main objective of this study was to seek a stratigraphic subdivision of the Kimmswick Limestone in Missouri, based on its gross lithology and thin section study, and its correlation with the Galena Formation in Illinois and Iowa. As a result of this study, based on the examination of twelve surface sections and 92 thin sections a three-fold …

Oil And Gas Geology Of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, William D. Rose

Bulletin--KGS

This report presents an overall study of the geologic occurrence of oil and gas in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Includes a systematic description of all oil and gas pools within the County, structure and stratigraphy diagrams, and maps.

K₂O/Na₂O Content As A Possible Index To The Chronological Sequence Of Some Precambrian Igneous Rocks Of Missouri, Erwin Joseph Mantei

Masters Theses

"Flame photometric analyses for K₂O and Na₂O were run on 31 samples of the Precambrian igneous rocks of Missouri. Samples were collected from the field, physically prepared and dissolved by a standard method and a modified standard method of rapid silicate analyses. The K₂O, Na₂O values obtained are averages between two methods of analyses. The modified method reduces by 80% the time required to chemically digest a rock sample. The results for both methods are not significantly different. Curtin and Company Advanced Flame Photometer was used.

Results have been plotted on graphs and a chronological sequence for the named Precambrian …

Geology Of The Sharp Mountain Area, Southern Part Of The Bear River Range, Utah, Preston L. Hafen

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The Sharp Mountain area is situated in the southern part of the Bear River Range in Utah. The geology of the Bear River Range to the north of this area, in Utah and Idaho, has been mapped; however, prior to this study little was known about the Sharp Mountain area. The purpose of this investigation are as follows: (1) to map and describe the geology of the area, and (2) to relate the stratigraphic and structural features of the Sharp Mountain area to those of the surrounding region.

Geology Of The Weston Canyon Area, Bannock Range, Idaho, Clair N. Murdock

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The Weston Canyon area comprises the southern part of the Bannock Range and northwestern part of the Malad Range in southern Idaho. Geologic investigations of adjacent areas date from 1871. These investigations have led to detailed geologic reports that cover much of the Wasatch Range, Bear River Range, Malad Range, Portneuf Range, and Cache Valley. The geology of the southern part of the Bannock Range, however, has not been studied in detail, and it is the purpose of this investigation to map and describe the geology of the Weston Canyon area and to correlate it with previously described geology of …

Pleistocene Geology Of Northern Kidder County, North Dakota, James Chmelik

Theses and Dissertations

The topography of northern Kidder County is due almost entirely to glacial deposition. This are is covered with glacial drift up to a thickness of at least 269 feet which was deposited during Wisconsin ice advances. Seventy-five percent of the area has stagnation moraine which typically exhibits knob-and-kettle topography, has high local relief with no linear trends, and which was deposited after the ice became stagnant. Many kames and eskers were formed contemporaneously with stagnation moraine. The names, Lake Williams and Woodhouse Lake loops, and proposed for and moraines deposited by Cary and Mankato ice advances, respectively. The Lake Williams …

The Geological Section Of Nebraska, E. C. Reed

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Geology Of The Southern Part Of Wellsville Mountain, Wasatch Range, Utah, Ronald H. Gelnett

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Wellsville Mountain is 10 miles west of Logan, Utah, at the northern extremity of the Wasatch Range. Paleozoic rocks form a northeast-dipping homocline bounded in part by northwest-trending high-angle faults and cut by a series of northeast-trending high-angle faults. A major transverse fault, with a stratigraphic displacement of 4,500 feet, divides the mountain into two distinct blocks.

The rock units of the area are comparable to those of the Logan quadrangle immediately to the east. Pre-Cambrian rocks crop out in Box Elder Canyon, just east of Brigham City, and are overlain by at least 20,000 feet of northeast-dipping Paleozoic rocks …

Geology Of The Northern Part Of Wellsville Mountain, Northern Wasatch Range, Utah, Stanley S. Beus

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Wellsville Mountain forms the extreme northern end of the Wasatch Range in northern Utah. It lies at the western margin of the Middle Rocky Mountain province and is bordered by valleys of the Basin and Range province. Many geologic investigations have been made in this region. Much of the Wasatch Range has been studied and mapped as well as parts of the Bear River Range, east of Cache Valley, and the Malad Range which extends north from Wellsville Mountain; however, the geology of Wellsville Mountain has not been studied or mapped in detail. Some reconnaissance mapping has been done and …

The Stratigraphy And Geologic History Of The Cannonball Formation (Paleocene), Gary O. Hall

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this report is to describe the stratigraphy of the Cannonball formation in southwestern North Dakota, and to present a new geologic map of the formation in Oliver, McLean, Burleigh, and Emmons Counties, North Dakota.

Detection Of Buried Basement Highs By Airphoto Drainage Pattern Analysis, Reynolds And Wayne Counties, Missouri, Papken Aram Zarzavatjian

Masters Theses

"Purpose and Scope: The purpose of this study is to determine if it is possible to detect buried Precambrian igneous hills in Wayne County and the larger part of Reynolds County in southeast Missouri by the use of aerial photo drainage pattern analysis.

The St. Francis Mountains are located in southeast Missouri. They form a part of the Precambrian basement complex, and have been exposed at the surface by the erosion of the lower Paleozoic sediments which covered them. Some of the hills which make up the St. Francis Mountains are exposed to a great degree, while others still have …

The Basement Of North Dakota, Spurgeon C. Crosby Ii.

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this report is to study the basement rocks of North Dakota. The basement rocks of North Dakota may be divided into two categories. The eastern division comprises deeply weathered material and extends from the Red River westward for approximately thirty miles. The western division essentially comprising adamellite (more than 1/3 but less than 2/3 alkali feldspar and more than 10 percent quartz), extends from a north-south line thirty miles west of the Red River to the Montana border.

A Geological Study Of The Irvine Ranch Area, Johnson And Campbell Counties, Wyoming, Gale E. Butterfield

Masters Theses

"The discovery of uranium in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, by the U. S. Geological Survey in 1952 has lead to an extensive exploration program throughout the region by both private and governmental agencies. This report is a geological study of an area in the southwestern part of the basin.

Geological and radiometric mapping carried out as a part of this report indicated several areas of uranium occurrence. Some of these occurrences warrant tests by drilling.

Mineralogical and petrographic study has shown the principal uranium minerals to be carnotite and metatyuyamunite. The mineralization occurs in arkosic sandstones. Assays of the …

Geothermometry At The Balmat No. 2 Mine, New York By The Fes-Zns System, Bruce R. Doe

Masters Theses

"Definition Of The Study. The study consists of an investigation of the variation in the temperature of formation of sphalerite on the 500 and 1500 ft levels of the Balmat zinc deposit at Balmat, New York. A subsidiary investigation was performed on the use of x-ray fluorescence as a means of chemical quantitative analysis. Twelve samples of sphalerite from the 500 ft level and 13 samples from the 1500 ft level were analyzed for atomic percent iron content by measuring Zn/Fe x-ray fluorescent ratios. The x-ray fluorescent ratios were standardized by ''wet" quantitative analysis. The results of the analyses are …

The Late Tertiary History Of The Upper Little Missouri River, North Dakota, Charles K. Petter Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Geology Of The Grassy Butte Area, Mckenzie County, North Dakota, Elmer G. Meldahl

Theses and Dissertations

The Grassy Butte area lies in southern McKenzie County, just southwest of the deepest part of the Williston Basin, and is bordered on the north by the North Unit of the Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park.

the purpose of this investigation was: (1) to prepare a geological map of the area; (2) to map the geologic structure of the area; (3) to measure and describe detailed stratigraphic sections which would aid in correlating rock units in this area with previously described rock units in adjacent areas; (4) to indicate lignite beds of possible economic value.

The western three-fifths of the …

Report Of The State Geologist 1953-1954, Maine Geological Survey

Maine Collection

Report of the State Geologist 1953-1954.

Maine Geological Survey - Maine Development Commission, Augusta, Maine - July 1955.

Contents: Joseph M. Trefethen -- Review of Maine Mineral Outlook / Henry W. Allen -- Limestone Investigations, 1953-54 / Wm.T. Forsyth -- Airbourne Magnetometer Survey in Eastern Maine / Gary M. Boone -- Petrology of the Farmington, Maine Area / Joseph M. Trefethen, Henry Allen, and Wm. T. Forsyth -- Scheelite Occurrences in Maine / Wm.T. Forsyth -- Beneficiation Tests on the Warren Sillimanite Gneiss / Wm. T. Forsyth -- Pyrrhotite Mineralization at Iron Hill, Gardiner, Maine / Joseph M. Trefethen -- …

Geology At The Secondary School Level, William C. Scott

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Report Of The State Geologist 1951-1952, Maine Geological Survey

Maine Collection

Report of the State Geologist 1951-1952.

Maine Geological Survey - Maine Development Commission, Augusta, Maine - December, 1953.

Contents: Joseph M. Trefethen -- New England Mineral Resources / Henry Allen -- Progress Report of Limestone Survey, Knox County / Wm. Forsyth -- Mineralogical Variations of the Ellsworth Schist in Blue Hill, Maine / Lawrence A. Wing -- Preliminary Report on Eastern Maine Granites / Kern Jackson -- A Preliminary Report on the Geology of a Portion of the Rumford Quadrangle, Maine / Robert M. Zink -- Certain Aspects of the Ecology of Venus and Mya at Bunganuc and at Morgan …