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Geological Survey research 1980

A summary of recent significant scientific and economic results accompanied by a list of geologic, hydrologic, and cartographic investigations in progress.
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Uranium, thorium, and mercury distribution through the evolution of the McDermitt caldera complex

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J. J. Rytuba, R.K. Glanzman, W.K. Conrad

Relation of mercury, uranium, and lithium deposits to the McDermitt caldera complex, Nevada-Oregon

The McDermitt caldera complex, located along the Nevada-Oregon border, is a Miocene collapse structure 45 km in diameter. Large-volume rhyolitic and peralkaline ash-flow tufts were erupted from 17.9-15.8 m.y. ago, leading to the formation of overlapping and nested calderas. Emplacement of rhyolitic ring domes, located primarily along the western margin of the calderas, represents the last phase of
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James J. Rytuba, Richard K. Glanzman

Assessing Metallic Resources in Alaska

In the last two decades federal and state governments have become in creasingly preoccupied with classi fying public lands according to the uses that may be made of them. One outcome of the classifying can be a change in the land's legal status from one in which any use is tolerated to one in which only selected activities are allowed. Since such a change af fects the economic and recreational op
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Donald A. Singer, A. Thomas Ovenshine