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The Origin Of Fine Scale Acoustic Stratigraphy In Deep-Sea Carbonates, Larry A. Mayer

Affiliate Scholarship

In this paper we investigate the origin and geologic significance of the closely spaced high-frequency subbottom acoustic reflectors characteristic of pelagic carbonates. A detailed survey was conducted of a small area in the equatorial Pacific with the Marine Physical Laboratory's Deep-Tow instrument package, providing high-resolution 4-kHz profiles and precise positioning of core samples. The cores were sampled at closely spaced intervals for sound velocity and saturated bulk density. Acoustic impedances were calculated, and a reflection coefficient log determined for the upper 10 m of the sediment column. The reflection coefficient log revealed no interfaces with large reflection coefficients that correlated …

Broadwater Ne Quadrangle, Morrill County, Nebraska, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

7.5' topgraphic quadrangle showing exposures of bedrock formations and other geologic information.

41° 37'30" — 41° 45'

102° 45' — 102° 52'30"

Scale 1:24,000

Completed June 6, 1979

High resolution .tif file attached below as supplemental file

Interpretive Study And Numerical Model Of The Hydrogeology Upper Big Blue Natural Resources District., Ralph E. Cady, Marilyn H. Ginsberg

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Tree Root Systems In Eastern Nebraska, John A. Sprackling, Ralph A. Read

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Geologic History Of Scotts Bluff National Monument, Roger K. Pabian, James B. Swinehart Iii

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Broadwater Nw Quadrangle, Morrill County, Nebraska, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

7.5' topgraphic quadrangle showing exposures of bedrock formations and other geologic information.

41° 37'30" — 41° 45'

102° 52'30" — 103° 00'

Scale 1:24,000

Completed June 25, 1979

High resolution .tif file attached below as supplemental file

Stratigraphy And Sedimentary Petrology Of The Northwest Quarter Of The Dutchman Butte Quadrangle, Southwest Oregon, Thomas Edward Koler

Dissertations and Theses

The study area lies in southwest Douglas County 5 kilometers south from Camas Valley and is accessible by state highway 42. The purpose of the study was to map the geology at a 1:31,250 scale, determine the stratigraphy, study the petrology of the formations, and determine the provenance within a tectonic setting.

The Structure And Stratigraphy Of The Columbia River Basalt In The Hood River Valley, Oregon, Susan Timm

Dissertations and Theses

The Hood River Valley, located 100 kilometers east of Portland, Oregon, is in the transition zone between two geologic provinces--the High Cascades and the Columbia Plateau. The entire valley is probably underlain by Columbia River Basalt, but it crops out only on steep hillsides and in stream valleys. The base of the basalt is not exposed in the thesis area. The basalt is overlain by Pliocene and Quaternary basalt and andesite, volcanic sediments and glacial debris.

The stratigraphy of the Columbia River Basalt is useful in determining the path of the basalt flows into western Oregon, in mapping the structure …

Structural Geology Of The Southeast Quarter Of The Dutchman Butte Quadrangle, Oregon, Gerald Lee Black

Dissertations and Theses

Field work in the southeast quarter of the Dutchman ·Butte Quadrangle, which lies within the Klamath Mountains geomorphic province of southwestern Oregon, was completed during the summers of 1973 and 1974. The objectives of the study were fourfold: (1) to produce a geologic map of the southeast quarter of the Dutchman Butte Quadrangle, (2) to determine the nature of the contact between the Dothan and Rogue formations, (3) to construct a stratigraphic column of the Dothan Formation in the area, and (4) to attempt to determine the nature of the deformation occurring in the area.

Inferred Areal Extent Of The Oligocene (White River Group) Chadron Basal Sand, Conservation And Survey Division, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

Inferred Areal Extent of the Oligocene (White River Group) Chadron Basal Sand. Map. No Scale. Nebraska High Plains-Ogallala Aquifer Study Area series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska. Print. (date unknown, 1979?)

Geology Of The Mafic/Ultramafic Transition, Table Mountain, Western Newfoundland, Suzanne O'Connell

Geology Theses and Dissertations

A thin (<200 m.) mafic suite and well developed mafic/ultramafic transition zone are exposed above a flat lying peridotite contact on northwestern Table Mountain. The igneous layering and sedimentary features indicate mineral deposition under conditions which promoted adcumulate growth, were capable of minor transport, and were subjected to at least minor tectonic activity during consolidation. Feldspathic,. mafic, and ultramafic dikes and veins cross-cut the layering. Microscopic futures indicate deformation at elevated temperature and/or low strain rates. Deformation is best developed within the transition zone, but cataclastic zones are most common in the hornblende gabbros. Orientations of layering, foliation, and lineation indicate a variable mafic/ultramafic transition and macroscopic folding. Geometric analysis indicates three distinct fold axis orientations: an east-west horizontal fold axis, a northeast trending modestly plunging axis, and a vertical though poorly defined axis. Such features demonstrate that an apparently simple contact relationship may be extremely complex. This has important implications for ocean floor accretion. The relatively simple ocean floor seismic stratigraphy masks very complex petrological and structural processes. Such processes may involve deposition in an actively convecting magma chamber with a differentially subsiding wedge (Dewey and Kidd, 1977), in which folding occurs in response to the steepening angle between the cumulate banding and the base of the magma chamber. The instability is enhanced by the different accumulation rates and densities of the minerals involved. The lineation may originally be a sedimentary feature indicative of transport direction from the convection cell, and perpendicular to the compressive stress which produced. the folding. The different orientations of lineations and fold axes could be produced by rotation of the ocean crustal blocks during lateral transport along the ocean floor and/or obduction. Further detailed study of ophiolite complexes will continue to shed light upon the nature and development of oceanic crust.

Paleoclimatic Implications Of Oxygen Isotope And Sedimentological Study Of Late Miocene And Early Pliocene Sediments From The South Atlantic, Western Indian Ocean, And The Gulf Of Aden, Kathryn M. Scanlon

Geology Theses and Dissertations

Previous work by many authors has implied that the Antarctic ice sheet underwent a major expansion in the latest Miocene. It was intended in the present study to use the oxygen isotope event, which could be expected to accompany this glacial expansion, as a stratigraphic marker to aid in the correlation of several DSDP Sites. Samples were taken at approximately 100,000 year intervals throughout the latest Miocene and early Pliocene sections at Sites 237 and 249 in the western Indian Ocean, Site 360 in the South Atlantic and Site 231 in the Gulf of Aden. Oxygen isotope analyses were done …

Geology Of The Badger Bay-Seal Bay Area, North-Central Newfoundland, K. Douglas Nelson

Geology Theses and Dissertations

Coastline in the Badger Bay-Seal Bay area of north-central Newfoundland exposes the thickest and least disrupted section of Ordovician rocks in Newfoundland's Central Volcanic Belt. The following conformable stratigraphic sequence is observed: 1) >5 km. of variegated mafic and silicic submarine volcanics and volcaniclastics of lower Ordovician age; 2) a thin (<.5 km.) sequence consisting of thin bedded red and green argillites, manganiferous cherts, bioturbated cherts and black sulferous graptolite-bearing argillites of Caradocian age; 3) >1.2 km. of quartz-rich sandstones of upper Ordovician age. Correlative sequences occur to the east in the Fortune Harbour Peninsula area and on New World Island. Together they record Early Ordovician island arc volcanism, Medial Ordovician cessation of volcanism and subsidence, and Medial through Late Ordovician uplift and …

The Development Of Foliations In Low, Medium And High Grade Metamorphic Tectonites, William J. Gregg

Geology Theses and Dissertations

Studies of foliation and associated microstructures are presented from a variety of rock types and localities in the metamorphic terrains of the northeastern United States.
At Islesboro, Maine cleavage is well developed in lower greenschist grade siltstones and interbedded pelites of lower Paleozoic age. Cleavage in the siltstone units consists of two types of discrete mica films: short film segments and lengthened mica film. Thick secondary mica-rich layers are also exhibited in some siltstones. The short film segments appear to be basic elements through which cleavage development progresses by a linkage process that is poorly understood. The linkage of these …

Availability And Use Of Water In Nebraska, 1975, R. Bentall, F. B. Shaffer

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Lithostratigraphy Of The Cane Hill Member Of The Hale Formation (Type Morrowan), Northwest Arkansas, Robert T. Liner

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

The Hale Formation (lower Morrowan Series) is a sequence of sandstones and shales divided into the Cane Hill(lower) and Prairie Grove Members. In Washington County, Arkansas, the type Cane Hill consists predominantly of interbedded fine-grained, noncalcareous sandstones and silty shales often with a pebble conglomerate at its base. The member rests unconformably on Chesterian Strata of either the Pitkin Formation or underlying Fayetteville Formation, and it is unconformably overlain by the Prairie Grove Member. In Washington County, the Cane Hill exhibits a slight thickening trend to the south and east. Interpretation of sedimentary structures indicates that the Cane Hill was …

Pre-Tertiary Subcrop Rocks In The Nebraska Panhandle, Conservation And Survey Division, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

Pre-Tertiary Subcrop Rocks in the Nebraska Panhandle. Map. No Scale. Nebraska High Plains-Ogallala Aquifer Study Area series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska. Print. (date unknown, 1979?)

The Mississippian And Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) Systems In The United States-Nebraska, R. R. Burchett

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

Nebraska is underlain by rocks of Mississippian and (or) Pennsylvanian age in all but the extreme northeastern part of the State. Only some of the Upper Pennsylvanian strata are exposed; outcrops of these rocks are limited to southeaster Nebraska. This work is published as Conservation and Survey Division GSI-5 and as U.S. Geological Survey PP-1110-P.

Nebraska Mineral Operations Review, 1978, Raymond R. Burchett, Duane A. Eversoll

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

During 1978, there were active in Nebraska 33 limestone quarries; 593 sand, gravel and silt or siltstone pits; 7 clay or shale pits; 21 sandstone pits; and 1 peat pit. These 655 mining operations disturbed 892 acres and restored 363 acres during the year. Available as PDF.

Nebraska Groundwater Level (Decline & Rise) And Location Of Registered Wells, 1979

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1978, Darryll T. Pederson, Martin S. Johnson

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1977, Michael J. Ellis, Darryll T. Pederson

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Glinn Ranch Quadrangle, Keith County, Nebraska, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

7.5' topgraphic quadrangle showing exposures of bedrock formations and other geologic information.

41° 15' — 41° 22'30"

101° 30' — 101° 37'30"

Scale 1:24,000

Completed September 20, 1978

High resolution .tif file attached below as supplemental file

Martin Quadrangle, Nebraska—Keith County, 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic), Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

Martin Quadrangle, Nebraska—Keith County

7.5 minute series (topographic), scale 1:24,000

101°37'30" to 101°45'

41°15' to 41°22'30"

Ogallala Group

Completed September 20, 1978

Ogallala Sw Quadrangle, Nebraska—Keith And Perkins Counties, 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic), Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

Ogallala SW Quadrangle, Nebraska—Keith and Perkins Counties

7.5 minute series (topographic), scale 1:24,000

101°37'30" to 101°45'

41°00' to 41°07'30"

Post-Ogallala sand and gravel

September 20, 1978

Brule Se Quadrangle, Keith And Perkins Counties, Nebraska, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

7.5' topgraphic quadrangle showing exposures of bedrock formations and other geologic information.

41° 00' — 41° 07'30"

101° 45' — 101° 52'30"

Scale 1:24,000

High resolution .tif file attached below as supplemental file

Brule (Sw) Quadrangle, Keith And Perkins Counties, Nebraska, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

7.5' topgraphic quadrangle showing exposures of bedrock formations and other geologic information.

41° 00' — 41° 07'30"

101° 52'30" — 102° 00'

Scale 1:24,000

High resolution .tif file attached below as supplemental file

Green Ranch Quadrangle, Lincoln County, Nebraska, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

7.5' topgraphic quadrangle showing exposures of bedrock formations and other geologic information.

41° 15' — 41° 22'30"

101° 00' — 101° 07'30"

Scale 1:24,000

Completed July 11, 1978

High resolution .tif file attached below as supplemental file

Sutherland Reservoir Nw Quadrangle, Nebraska—Lincoln County, 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic), Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

Sutherland Reservoir NW Quadrangle, Nebraska—Lincoln Co.

7.5 minute series (topographic), scale 1:24000

101°07'30" to 101°15'

41°07'30" to 41°15'

Ql = Loess, Post-Ogallala Sand and Gravel, Ogallala Outcrop

July 11, 1978

Nevens Quadrangle, Nebraska—Keith County, 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic), Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

Nevens Quadrangle, Nebraska—Keith County

7.5 minute series (topographic), scale 1:24,000

101°22'30" to 101°30'

41°07'30" to 41°15'

Ql = Loess

Post-Ogallala sand and gravels

Ogallala Outcrop

Volcanic ash

July 11, 1978