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Element concentrations in soils and other surficial materials of Alaska
Mean concentrations of 35 elements, ash yields, and pH have been estimated for samples of sils and other unconsolidated surficial materials from 266 collection locations throughout Alaska. These background values can be applied to studies of environmental geochemistry and health, wildlife management, and soil-forming processes in cold climates and to computation of element abundances on a regional
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L. P. Gough, R. C. Severson, H.T. Shacklette
Mineral resources of the Riordans Well Wilderness Study Area, Nye County, Nevada
No abstract available.
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Karen Lund, L. S. Beard, H. R. Blank, A. H. Hofstra, M. M. Hamilton
Search for volatiles on icy satellites: I. Europa
New reflectance spectra have been obtained for both the leading and trailing sides of Europa, using the Cooled Grating Array Spectrometer (CGAS) of the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF). The spectra are of higher precision than any yet obtained. Spectra of Europa's trailing side (central meridian longitude ≈300°) obtained in 1985 show two weak absorptions near 2.2 and 2.3 μm. Both of these f
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R. H. Brown, D. P. Cruikshank, A. T. Tokunaga, R. G. Smith, Roger N. Clark
Lead isotopic fingerprinting of tectono-stratigraphic terranes, east-central Alaska
Common lead isotopic compositions have been determined on feldspars from meta-igneous rocks from nine tectono-stratigraphic terranes or subterranes in east-central Alaska. Most of the terranes have distinct and well-defined signatures in terms of isotopic composition; thus, most can be distinguished on conventional lead isotopic diagrams. Lead isotopic ratios provide evidence for (1) possible sour
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John N. Aleinikoff, Cynthia Dusel-Bacon, Helen Laura Foster, Warren J. Nokleberg
Inhibition of aqueous copper and lead adsorption onto goethite by dissolved carbonate species
No abstract available.
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Kathleen S. Smith, D. Langmuir
The solubilities of some major and minor element minerals in ground waters associated with a sandstone-hosted uranium deposit
Ground-water samples from 41 wells penetrating basal Oakville sandstone (Miocene) in S Texas were chemically analysed to identify chemical changes related to nearby U orebodies. The coverage included a 240 km2 area which contains several fault-related U deposits. Factors affecting the hydrochemistry include: 1) relatively high permeabilities of buried fluvial-channel sediments; 2) upwards leakage
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Richard B. Wanty, J. R. Chatcham, D. Langmuir
Effect of transmitter turn-off time on transient soundings
A general procedure for computing the effect of non-zero turn-off time on the transient electromagnetic response is presented which can be applied to forward and inverse calculation methods for any transmitter-receiver configuration. We consider in detail the case of a large transmitter loop which has a receiver coil located at the center of the loop (central induction or in-loop array). For a lin
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David V. Fitterman, Walter L. Anderson
Origin of coffinite in sedimentary rocks by a sequential adsorption-reduction mechanism.
Coffinite is the dominant ore mineral in the V-U ores of the Tony-M mine in the Henry Mts mineral belt of the Colorado Plateau. This orebody was formed at a density-stratified solution interface between uranyl-ion-bearing meteoric water and a saline fluid which was locally reducing. The localization of U at this solution interface occurred by adsorption onto the surfaces of detrital minerals, this
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Martin B. Goldhaber, B. S. Hemingway, A. Mohagheghi, R. L. Reynolds, H. R. Northrop
Geochronology of augen gneiss and related rocks, Yukon-Tanana terrane, east-central Alaska
Using several isotopic techniques, we have determined the ages of selected metamorphic rocks in the Yukon-Tanana terrane (YTT) of east-central Alaska. U-Pb zircon data from an augen gneiss body in the Big Delta quadrangle indicate that the granitoid protolith of the gneiss was intruded 341 ± 3 m.y. ago (lower intercept age). An upper intercept age of 2,136 ± 31 m.y. indicates an inherited early Pr
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John N. Aleinikoff, Cynthia Dusel-Bacon, Helen L. Foster
Minturn and Sangre de Cristo formations of Southern Colorado: A prograding fan delta and alluvial fan sequence shed from the ancestral Rocky Mountains
The Middle Pennsylvania!) Minturn Formation and the Pennsylvanian-Permian Sangre de Cristo Formation of the northern Sangre de Cristo Range form a thick progradational sequence of coarse clastic sediments. These sediments were deposited along the western margin of the central Colorado trough during uplift of the late Paleozoic Uncompahgre highland, a major structural and topographic feature of the
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D. A. Lindsay, R. F. Clark, S. J. Soulliere
Europa: Characterization and interpretation of global spectral surface units
The Voyager global multispectral mosaic of the Galilean satellite Europa (T. V. Johnson, L. A. Soderblom, J. A. Mosher, G. E. Danielson, A. F. Cook, and P. Kupferman, 1983, J. Geophys. Res. 88, 5789–5805) was analyzed to map surface units with similar optical properties (T. B. McCord, M. L. Nelson, R. N. Clark, A. Meloy, W. Harrison, T. V. Johnson, D. L. Matson, J. A. Mosher, and L. Soderblom, 198
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M. L. Nelson, T. B. McCord, Roger N. Clark, T. V. Johnson, D. L. Matson, J. A. Mosher, Laurence A. Soderblom
Middle Devonian to Late Mississippian event stratigraphy of Overthrust belt region, western United States
Twenty eustatic and epeirogenic events mainly dated by conodonts are distinguished between the Middle Devonian and the lower Upper Mississippian in Great Basin, in Rocky Mountains and in the Overthrust belt regions.
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Charles Sandberg, R.C. Gutschick, J.G. Johnson, F. G. Poole, W.J. Sando