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Report of status of Reactor Hazards Research Program: fiscal years 1976-1977

The Reactor Hazards Research Program is a Geological Survey program directed at expediting the safe siting and design of power reactors in the United States through topical and regional work on major geological hazards, particularly faulting, earthquake shaking, volcanism, and gross failure of foundation materials (table 1). It is complimentary to the more directed research sponsored by the Nuclea
Authors
Carl M. Wentworth
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

Measured sections of Paleogene rocks from the California coast ranges

No abstract available.
Authors
Earl E. Brabb, Joseph C. Clark, Constance K. Throckmorton
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

Implications of a magnetic model of the Long Valley caldera, California

A quantitative magnetic model of Long Valley, California, shows that the magnetic field above this caldera is dominated by intracaldera Bishop tuff, part of the ash flow tuff whose eruption precipitated the caldera collapse. We propose that about half of the 350 km3 of intracaldera Bishop tuff, or that part beneath the resurgent dome, has been subjected to extensive hydrothermal alteration. The he
Authors
D.L. Williams, F. Berkman, Edward A. Mankinen
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

Preliminary report on the 17th cruise of the Dimitri Mendeleev

No abstract available.
Authors
E. H. Brown, R. G. Coleman, L.M. Echiverria, R.L. Fisher, W. P. Irwin
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

In Iran: Ophiolites viewed

No abstract available.
Authors
W. P. Irwin
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

The four Jurassic belts of northern California and their significance to the geology of the southern California borderland

No abstract available.
Authors
D. L. Jones, M. Clark Blake, C. Rangin
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

Recent and ancient sedimentary environments in Alaska

No abstract available.
Authors
T. H. Nilsen, E. E. Brabb, T.R. Simoni
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

Report on Mediterranean Neogene Congress in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

No abstract available.
Authors
E. E. Brabb
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center

A portable helium sniffer

A portable helium sniffer has been developed for field use. The instrument is mounted in a four-wheel-drive pickup truck and can detect 50 parts per billion of helium in soil gas. The usefulness of helium sniffing in soil is being investigated as a prospecting tool in gas, oil, uranium, and geothermal prospecting as well as in earthquake prediction.
Authors
Irving Friedman, E.H. Denton
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Mineral Resources Program

Regional geologic framework off northeastern United States

Six multichannel seismic-reflection profiles taken across the Atlantic continental margin off the northeastern United States show an excess of 14 km of presumed Mesozoic and younger sedimentary rocks in the Baltimore Canyon trough and 8 km in the Georges Bank basin.Beneath the continental rise, the sedimentary prism thickness exceeds 7 km south of New Jersey and Maryland, and it is 4.5 km thick so
Authors
John Schlee, John C. Behrendt, John A. Grow, James M. Robb, Robert E. Mattick, P. T. Taylor, B. J. Lawson
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Mineral Resources Program

Exploration for porphyry copper deposits in Pakistan using digital processing of Landsat-1 data

Rock-type classification by digital-computer processing of Landsat-1 (formerly ERTS-1) multispectral scanner data has been used to select 23 prospecting targets in the Chagai District, Pakistan, 5 of which have proved to be large areas of hydrothermally altered porphyry containing pyrite. The known porphyry copper deposit at Saindak was used as a control area. Empirical maximum and minimum apparen
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Robert G. Schmidt
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Mineral Resources Program

Recent landslides in Alameda County, California (1940-71): An estimate of economic losses and correlations with slope, rainfall, and ancient landslide deposits

No abstract available.
Authors
Tor Helge Nilsen, Fred A. Taylor, Earl E. Brabb
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Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Natural Hazards Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Landslide Hazards Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center