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Preliminary isostatic gravity map of the Grouse Creek and east part of the Jackpot 30 by 60 quadrangles, Box Elder County, Utah, and Cassia County, Idaho
A new isostatic residual gravity map of the northwest corner of Utah is based on compilation of preexisting data and new data collected by the Utah and United States Geological Surveys. Pronounced gravity lows occur over Junction, Grouse Creek, and upper Raft River Valleys, indicating significant thickness of low-density Tertiary sedimentary rocks and deposits. Gravity highs coincide with exposure
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Victoria E. Langenheim, H. Willis, N. D. Athens, Bruce A. Chuchel, J. Roza, H.I. Hiscock, C.L. Hardwick, S.M. Kraushaar, N.E. Knepprath, Jose J. Rosario
ULFEM time series analysis package
This manual describes how to use the Ultra-Low-Frequency ElectroMagnetic (ULFEM) software package. Casual users can read the quick-start guide and will probably not need any more information than this. For users who may wish to modify the code, we provide further description of the routines.
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Susan M. Karl, Darcy McPhee, Jonathan M. G. Glen, Simon L. Klemperer
Stratigraphy and paleogeographic significance of the Pennsylvanian-Permian Bird Spring Formation in the Ship Mountains, southeastern California
A thick sequence of limestone, dolomite, and minor sandstone assigned to the Pennsylvanian and lower Permian Bird Spring Formation is exposed in the Ship Mountains about 85 kilometers (km) southwest of Needles, California, in the eastern Mojave Desert. These strata provide a valuable reference section of the Bird Spring Formation in a region where rocks of this age are not extensively exposed. Thi
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Paul Stone, Calvin H. Stevens, Keith A. Howard, Thomas D. Hoisch
A deposit model for magmatic iron-titanium-oxide deposits related to Proterozoic massif anorthosite plutonic suite
This descriptive model for magmatic iron-titanium-oxide (Fe-Ti-oxide) deposits hosted by Proterozoic age massif-type anorthosite and related rock types presents their geological, mineralogical, geochemical, and geoenvironmental attributes. Although these Proterozoic rocks are found worldwide, the majority of known deposits are found within exposed rocks of the Grenville Province, stretching from s
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Laurel G. Woodruff, Suzanne W. Nicholson, David L. Fey
Hysteresis of unsaturated hydromechanical properties of a silty soil
Laboratory tests to examine hysteresis in the hydrologic and mechanical properties of partially saturated soils were conducted on six intact specimens collected from a landslide-prone area of Alameda County, California. The results reveal that the pore-size distribution parameter remains statistically unchanged between the wetting and drying paths; however, the wetting or drying state has a pronou
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Ning Lu, Murat Kaya, Brian D. Collins, Jonathan W. Godt
Paleogeographic insights based on new U-Pb dates for altered tuffs in the Miocene Barstow Formation, California
The type section of the Barstow Formation in the Mud Hills, north of Barstow, is a reference section for early to middle Miocene paleontology, magnetostratigraphy, and dated volcanic episodes. Thanks to this robust chronologic framework, much of the interpretation of the paleogeography of the region from about 18 Ma to 13 Ma is based on study of the rocks in the Mud Hills. Eastward from the type s
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David M. Miller, Jose E. Rosario, Shannon R. Leslie, Jorge A. Vazquez
The Idaho cobalt belt
The Idaho cobalt belt (ICB) is a northwest-trending belt of cobalt (Co) +/- copper (Cu)-bearing deposits and prospects in the Salmon River Mountains of east-central Idaho, U.S.A. The ICB is about 55 km long and 10 km long in its central part, which contains multiple strata-bound ore zones in the Blackbird mine area. The Black Pine and Iron Creek Co-Cu prospects are southeast of Blackbird, and the
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Arthur A. Bookstrom
Field guide to selected sites along the Idaho Cobalt Belt (ICB) and to the Beartrack Gold Deposit, in the eastern Salmon River Mountains
This field guide provides a road log to and geologic descriptions of selected sites in the Idaho cobalt belt, and at the Beartrack gold mine, in the eastern Salmon River Mountains.
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Arthur A. Bookstrom, George King, Robert A. Perry, John Childs
Unique challenges facing Southwestern tribes: Chapter 17
Executive Summary
When considering climate change, risks to Native American lands, people, and cultures are noteworthy. Impacts on Native lands and communities are anticipated to be both early and severe due to their location in marginal environments. Because Native American societies are socially, culturally, and politically unique, conventional climate change adaptation planning and related poli
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Margaret Hiza, Karletta Chief, Kirk Bemis, Mahesh Gautam, Beth Rose Middleton, Rebecca Tsosie
Monte Carlo simulations of product distributions and contained metal estimates
Estimation of product distributions of two factors was simulated by conventional Monte Carlo techniques using factor distributions that were independent (uncorrelated). Several simulations using uniform distributions of factors show that the product distribution has a central peak approximately centered at the product of the medians of the factor distributions. Factor distributions that are peaked
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Mark E. Gettings
Overcoming the momentum of anachronism: American geologic mapping in a twenty-first-century world
The practice of geologic mapping is undergoing conceptual and methodological transformation. Profound changes in digital technology in the past 10 yr have potential to impact all aspects of geologic mapping. The future of geologic mapping as a relevant scientific enterprise depends on widespread adoption of new technology and ideas about the collection, meaning, and utility of geologic map data. I
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Kyle House, Ryan Clark, Joe Kopera
Basin thickness variations at the Junction of the Eastern California Shear Zone and the San Bernardino Mountains, California: How thick could the Pliocene sections be?
We estimate the thickness of Neogene basin fill along the junction of the Eastern
California Shear Zone and the North Frontal thrust system of the San Bernardino Mountains
using gravity data with geologic and well log constraints. The geometry of the basin fill is of
interest for groundwater assessment and location of potential faults, as well as providing an upper
bound on the thickness of any po
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Victoria E. Langenheim, Tammy L. Surko, Phillip A. Armstrong, Jonathan C. Matti