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Assessment of the mineral resources for the Adel 1 degree by 2 degrees quadrangle, Oregon

No abstract available.
Authors
Walter J. Bawiec, Gerda A. Abrams, Carol A. Finn, James A. Pitkin, Jean L. Ryder, Steven M. Smith, Paul K. Theobald, Dean B. Vander Meulen, George W. Walker

Mineral resources of the Gibraltar Mountain and Planet Peak Wilderness Study Areas, La Paz County, Arizona

No abstract available.
Authors
Robert G. Eppinger, Jocelyn A. Peterson, H. Richard Blank, K. Eric Livo, Daniel H. Knepper, James A. Pitkin, Jon E. Spencer, Stephen J. Reynolds, Michael J. Grubensky, Terry J. Kreidler, David C. Scott

Mineral Resources of the Mount Nutt Wilderness Study Area, Mohave County, Arizona

The Mount Nutt Wilderness Study Area (AZ-020-024) is located in the Black Mountains about 15 mi west of Kingman, Arizona. At the request of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, approximately 27,210 acres of the wilderness study area was evaluated for mineral resources (known) and mineral resource potential (undiscovered). In this report, the area studied is referred to as the 'wilderness study area
Authors
Floyd Gray, Robert C. Jachens, Robert J. Miller, Robert L. Turner, Eric K. Livo, Daniel H. Knepper, John Mariano, Carl L. Almquist

Isotopic geochemistry of a mid-Proterozoic evaporite basin: Balmat, New York

No abstract available.
Authors
Joseph F. Whelan, Robert O. Rye, W. De Lorraine, Hiroshi Ohmoto

Sedimentology and petroleum occurrence, Schoolhouse Member, Maroon Formation (Lower Permian), northwestern Colorado

The Lower Permian Schoolhouse Member of the Maroon Formation forms a partly exhumed petroleum reservoir in the Eagle basin of northwestern Colorado. The Schoolhouse consists mainly of yellowish gray to gray, low-angle to parallel bedded, very fine to fine-grained sandstone of eolian sand-sheet origin; interbedded fluvial deposits are present in most sections. Geological and geochemical data sugges
Authors
Samuel Y. Johnson, Christopher J. Schenk, D. L. Anders, Michele L. Tuttle

Epithermal gold-siver deposits in the western United States: time-space products of evolving plutonic, volcanic and tectonic environments

The western United States has been the locus of considerable subaerial volcanic and plutonic igneous activity since the mid-Mesozoic. After the destruction of the Jurassic-Cretaceous magmatic arc-trench system, subduction was re-established in the Late Mesozoic with low-angle underthrusting of the oceanic plate beneath western North America. This resulted in crustal shortening during the Late Cret
Authors
Byron R. Berger, Harold F. Bonham

High spectral resolution reflectance spectroscopy of minerals

The reflectance spectra of minerals are studied as a function of spectral resolution in the range from 0.2 to 3.0 μm. Selected absorption bands were studied at resolving powers (λ/Δλ) as high as 2240. At resolving powers of approximately 1000, many OH‐bearing minerals show diagnostic sharp absorptions at the resolution limit. At low resolution, some minerals may not be distinguishable, but as the
Authors
R. N. Clark, T. V. V. King, M. Klejwa, Gregg A. Swayze, N. Vergo

Infrared spectra and crystal chemistry of scapolites: implications for Martian mineralogy

Near‐infrared and midinfrared spectra of a wide range of scapolite compositions were studied to determine the cause of the 2.36‐μm features that have been correlated with similar features in the near‐IR spectrum of Mars. We attribute the 2.36−μm features to vibrations caused by HCO3− and HSO4− in the anion sites of scapolite. The 2.36‐μm absorption complex consists of four overlapping bands with t
Authors
Gregg A. Swayze, Roger N. Clark