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Assessing Metallic Resources in Alaska 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...
Authors
Donald A. Singer, A. Thomas Ovenshine

Evidence for tectonic movement of the Las Positas Fault, Alameda County, California Evidence for tectonic movement of the Las Positas Fault, Alameda County, California

On October 29, 1979, a new exposure of the Las Positas fault zone near Livermore, California, was created by excavation of a creek bank along Arroyo Seco. The face of the bank was cleaned by geologists of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (Livermore, California) to obtain a better and more complete view of the fault. The excavation was undertaken by Lawrence Livermore Laboratory as part of a...
Authors
Darrell G. Herd, Earl E. Brabb

Base and precious metal occurrences along the San Andreas Fault, Point Delgada, California Base and precious metal occurrences along the San Andreas Fault, Point Delgada, California

Previously unrecognized veins containing lead, zinc, and copper sulfide minerals at Point Delgada, Calif., are associated with late Mesozoic(?) and Tertiary volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Franciscan assemblage. Sulfide minerals include pyrite, sphalerite, galena, and minor chalcopyrite, and galena-rich samples contain substantial amounts of silver. These minerals occur in a quartz...
Authors
Robert J. McLaughlin, D. H. Sorg, H.N. Ohlin, Chris Heropoulos

Apollo over the Moon: A view from orbit Apollo over the Moon: A view from orbit

No abstract available.
Authors
Harold Masursky, G. W. Colton, Farouk El-Baz, Frederick J. Doyle, Richard E. Eggleton, Maurice J. Grolier, James W. Head, Carroll Ann Hodges, Keith A. Howard, Leon J. Kosofsky, Baerbel K. Lucchitta, Michael C. McEwen, Henry J. Moore, Gerald G. Schaber, David H. Scott, Laurence A. Soderblom, Mareta West, D.E. Wilhems
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