Publications
Products (journal articles, reports, fact sheets) authored by current and past scientists are listed below. Please check the USGS Pubs Warehouse for other USGS publications.
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Potential-Field Geophysical Software for the PC
The computer programs of the Potential-Field Software Package run under the DOS operating system on IBM-compatible personal computers. They are used for the processing, display, and interpretation of potential-field geophysical data (gravity- and magnetic-field measurements) and other data sets that can be represented as grids or profiles. These programs have been developed on a variety of compute
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Aeromagnetic investigations of hazardous waste sites
Aeromagnetic survey data collected by helicopter over hazardous waste sites can be used to map the distribution of buried metallic (ferrous) objects at these sites, including drums and scrap metal. Thorough knowledge of the locations and nature of hazardous waste containers and contaminated objects is needed prior to the start of remediation efforts. Non-invasive geophysical techniques such as the
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USGS reference materials
Every year in the United States, millions
of measurements are made on the chemical
composition of items that affect us on a
daily basis. Determining the accuracy of
these measurements is based on the analysis
of appropriate reference materials whose
composition was previously determined
through rigorous testing. Today, reference
materials help us evaluate the composition
of the food we ea
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Magnetic surveys for locating abandoned wells
Abandoned and unrecorded wells may act as conduits for the contamination of groundwater supplies by oil field brines and other pollutants. The casings of abandoned wells eventually develop leaks, which, if not properly plugged, can allow pollutants to reach freshwater aquifers that supply drinking water. Sources of pollutants include brine ponds, landfill sites, agricultural activities, industrial
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U-Pb ages of metarhyolites of the Catoctin and Mount Rogers formations, central and southern Appalachians: Evidence for two pulses of Iapetan rifting
No abstract available.
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John N. Aleinikoff, Robert E. Zartman, Marianne Walter, Douglas W. Rankin, Peter T. Lyttle, William C. Burton
Link between ridge subduction and gold mineralization in southern Alaska
40Ar/39Ar geochronology reveals that turbidite-hosted gold deposits in the southern Alaska accretionary prism are the same age as nearby near-trench plutons. These early Tertiary plutons and gold lodes formed above a slab window during subduction of an oceanic spreading center. Ridge subduction is a previously unrecognized tectonic process for the generation of lode gold.
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Peter J. Haeussler, Dwight Bradley, Richard Goldfarb, Lawrence W. Snee, Cliff D. Taylor
A special issue on volcanic centers as targets for mineral exploration; preface
NEPTUNE or Pluto? Since the days of Hutton and Werner, every generation of economic geologists has addressed this question in a new light. Most papers in this special issue deal with the thin and leaky roof of Pluto's underworld. It allows hot emanations from Hades to leak out, only to be quenched and diluted by waters percolating down from Neptune's realm.
Magnetization and geochemistry of greigite-bearing Cretaceous strata, North Slope basin, Alaska
No abstract available.
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Richard L. Reynolds, Michele L. Tuttle, Cynthia A. Rice, Neil S. Fishman, John A. Karachewski, David M. Sherman
Environmental geology of the Summitville mine, Colorado
Although altered and mineralized rocks at Summitville mine in Colorado contain minimal amount of sulfide minerals, acid mine problems existed primarily because of the pervasive alteration of the surrounding rocks, through hydrothermal process, to highly siliceous and argillized rocks that are incapable of buffering acidic waters during weathering. The problems are compounded by the continued expos
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John E. Gray, Mark F. Coolbaugh, Geoffrey S. Plumlee, William W. Atkinson
Hydrous carbonates on Mars?: Evidence from Mariner 6/7 infrared spectrometer and ground‐based telescopic spectra
Absorption features at 2.28 and 5.4 μm identified in Mariner 6/7 infrared spectrometer and terrestrial telescopic spectra are consistent with the spectra of hydrous magnesium carbonates such as hydromagnesite and artinite. Spectral characteristics of these hydrous carbonates are different from those of the anhydrous carbonates, as the former do not have the strong spectral features typically assoc
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W. M. Calvin, T. V. V. King, Roger N. Clark