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Technologic gaps in exploration and exploitation of sub-sea mineral resources

Progress in marine hard mineral exploration and exploitation has been severely restricted by technologic gaps and the lack of discovery of deposits that can be exploited at a competitive price in the world markets. Immediate needs include improved techniques of placer drilling to permit more reliable evaluation of in situ deposits and improved systems of dredging and processing in greater depths o
Authors
Frank F. Wang, Michael J. Cruickshank

Comparison of thermal data from airborne and vessel surveys of Lake Erie

A study of the applications of airborne infrared equipment for detecting water masses and currents of the Great Lakes is described. Infrared scanners were used to make thermal strip maps and an infrared radiometer was used to obtain surface temperatures of the western end of Lake Erie and the lower Detroit River. Simultaneously, surface water temperatures were taken and water samples were collecte
Authors
Alfred M. Beeton, James W. Moffett, Dana C. Parker

Infrared sensing of active geologic processes

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Authors
J. D. Friedman, R. S. Williams

Hydrocarbons and other organic fractions in recent tidal-flat and estuarine sediments, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico

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Authors
V.E. Swanson, J. G. Palacas, A.H. Love, T.G. Ging, P.M. Gerrild

Runoff from an asphalt-treated watershed at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico

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Authors
W. C. Ballance, J.A. Basler, J.E. McCall

Devonian rocks of the Yukon-Porcupine Rivers area and their tectonic relation to other Devonian sequences in Alaska

Devonian rocks along the Yukon River near the Alaska-Yukon boundary comprise 250 feet of limestone and shale and 800 feet of chert and siliceous shale, all referred to the McCann Hill Chert of Early to Late Devonian age; about 3,000 feet of non-marine chert-pebble conglomerate, graywacke, and shale of the Nation River Formation (Late Devonian); and about 3,000 feet of an unnamed chert and siliceou
Authors
Michael Churkin, Earl E. Brabb

Standards for water quality

The quality which is necessary depends on the use to which the water will be put. Because uses vary, so also must quality standards. Maintaining any level of quality presents a problem of cost and depends on variations in natural water characteristics, in time and space, and variations in volume and types of wastes. For quality standards appropriate to a given water body, hydrologic network data c
Authors
Luna B. Leopold

Devonian of the Northern Rocky Mountains and plains

The Devonian System, represented predominantly by shallow-water marine carbonate, is widespread in Montana, Wyoming, eastern Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, and northwestern Nebraska. It comprises cratonic rocks in the east and miogeosynclinal rocks in the west. The cratonic rocks thicken generally northward from their southern limit in Wyoming across a broad shelf that occupies most of Wyoming
Authors
Charles A. Sandberg, William J. Mapel

Devonian of the Southwestern United States

The structural framework that controlled Devonian deposition consisted of, from west to east: (1) a eugeosynclinal area in northern California and western Nevada; (2) a miogeosynclinal area in southeastern California, eastern Nevada, and western Utah; and (3) a cratonic area in Arizona, eastern Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and western Texas, east of a northeast-trending hinge line (Wasatch line). T
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F. G. Poole, D.L. Baars, H. Drewes, P. T. Hayes, K. B. Ketner, E. D. McKee, C. Teichert, J. S. Williams