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Publications from the staff of the Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center
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Research in the Geysers-Clear Lake geothermal area, Northern California
The Geysers-Clear Lake area is one of two places in the world where major vapor-dominated hydrothermal reservoirs are commercially exploited for electric power production. Because energy can be extracted more efficiently from steam than from hot water, vapor-dominated systems are preferable for electric power generation, although most geothermal electric power facilities tap water-dominated system
Geologic mapping of Kentucky: A history and evaluation of the Kentucky Geological Survey--U.S. Geological Survey Mapping Program, 1960-1978
In 1960, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Kentucky Geological Survey began a program to map the State geologically at a scale of 1:24,000 and to publish the maps as 707 U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Maps. Fieldwork was completed by the spring of 1977, and all maps were published by December 1978.
Geologic mapping of the State was proposed by the Kentucky Society of Professional
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Earle Rupert Cressman, Martin C. Noger
Goals, strategies, priorities, and tasks of a national landslide hazard-reduction program
No abstract available.
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Drake Peak — A structurally complex rhyolite center in southeastern Oregon
The Drake Peak volcanic center of middle Miocene age, located about 25 km northeast of Lakeview, Oreg., is a structurally complex eruptive center that resulted from several episodes of intrusion and extrusion of rhyolite. Two thousand meters of andesite and basalt flows, lahars, and volcaniclastic rocks of late Eocene age, and of basaltic andesite, tuff, and flood basalts of Eocene to middle Mioce
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Ray Wells
Tectonic relations of carbon dioxide discharges and earthquakes
CO2‐rich springs occur worldwide along major zones of seismicity. They are mostly in young orogenic belts, but some are in areas of rifting continental platforms. Analyses of 13C content indicate that much of the CO2 is derived from the mantle and that other important sources are the metamorphism of marine carbonate‐bearing sedimentary rocks and the degradation of organic material. The presence of
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W. P. Irwin, Ivan Barnes
Comments and replies on ‘Collision-deformed Paleozoic continental margin, western Brooks Range, Alaska’: Reply
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Michael Churkin, Warren J. Nokleberg
Allochthonous Jurassic ophiolite in northwest Washington
Fragments of Jurassic ophiolite having U-Pb zircon ages narrowly grouped at 160 to 170 m.y. are widespread over parts of northwest Washington. The Haystack thrust fault is inferred to mark the base of the ophiolite in the San Juan Islands and adjacent Cascade foothills; other bodies of mafic and ultramafic rock in the western Cascades may be klippen of the Haystack thrust plate. The Haystack thrus
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John T. Whetten, R. E. Zartman, Richard J. Blakely, David L. Jones
Preliminary geologic map of the Loma-Prieta Quadrangle, Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties, California
No abstract available.
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T.W. Dibblee, Earl E. Brabb
Preliminary geologic map of the La Honda and San Gregorio quadrangles, San Mateo County, California
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Earl E. Brabb
Metamorphic infrastructure in the northern Ruby Mountains, Nevada
The metamorphic complex of the northern Ruby Mountains in northeastern Nevada exposes Paleozoic strata that are metamorphosed to sillimanite grade, migmatized, and recumbently folded. Nappes are variously overturned to the east, north, south, and west. The deeper part of this metamorphic infrastructure is a migmatitic zone pervaded by pegmatitic two-mica granite. A structurally higher transition z
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Keith A. Howard