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January 1, 1973

Geological literature on the San Joaquin Valley of California Geological literature on the San Joaquin Valley of California

The following list of references includes most of the geological literature on the San Joaquin Valley and vicinity in central California (see figure 1) published prior to January 1, 1973. The San Joaquin Valley comprises all or parts of 11 counties -- Alameda, Calaveras, Contra Costa, Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tulare (figure 2). As a matter of...

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J.C. Maher, W.M. Trollman, J.M. Denman

Mineral Resources Program

January 1, 1973

Cretaceous mafic conglomerate near Gualala offset 350 miles by San Andreas fault from oceanic crustal source near Eagle Rest Peak, California Cretaceous mafic conglomerate near Gualala offset 350 miles by San Andreas fault from oceanic crustal source near Eagle Rest Peak, California

Upper Cretaceous mafic conglomerate and quartz-plagioclase arkose that crop out on the southwest side of the San Andreas fault near Gualala, Calif., may have been eroded from a gabbroic terrane that now lies about 350 miles to the southeast, on the opposite side of the San Andreas fault. The plagioclase arkose near Gualala contains little or no K-feldspar, and the conglomerate is...

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Donald C. Ross, Carl M. Wentworth, Edwin D. McKee

Geology, 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

January 1, 1973

Tertiary plate tectonics and high-pressure metamorphism in New Caledonia Tertiary plate tectonics and high-pressure metamorphism in New Caledonia

The sialic basement of New Caledonia is a Permian-Jurassic greywacke sequence which was folded and metamorphosed to prehnite-pumpellyite or low-grade greenschist facies by the Late Jurassic. Succeeding Cretaceous-Eocene sediments unconformably overlie this basement and extend outwards onto oceanic crust. Tertiary tectonism occurred in three distinct phases.1. During the Late Eocene a...

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R.N. Brothers, M.C. Blake

January 1, 1973

Geological Survey research 1973 Geological Survey research 1973

No abstract available.

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Water Resources Division U.S. Geological Survey

January 1, 1973

Preliminary report on the geology and field petrology at the Apollo 17 landing site Preliminary report on the geology and field petrology at the Apollo 17 landing site

No abstract available.

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Water Resources Division U.S. Geological Survey

Geology, Energy, and Minerals Mission Area, Natural Hazards Mission Area, Energy Resources Program, Mineral Resources Program, National Laboratories Program, Science and Decisions Center, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, Astrogeology Science Center

January 1, 1973

Preliminary geologic analysis of the Apollo 17 site Preliminary geologic analysis of the Apollo 17 site

No abstract available.

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Water Resources Division U.S. Geological Survey

December 31, 1972

Geology of Hadley Rille Geology of Hadley Rille

No abstract available.

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Keith A. Howard, J. W. Head, G.A. Swann

December 31, 1972

Geologic setting of the Apollo 15 samples Geologic setting of the Apollo 15 samples

The samples and photographs returned from the Apollo 15 site show that Hadley Delta is largely underlain by breccias whose clasts are mainly fragments of coarse-grained feldspathic rocks and nonmare-type basalt. Conspicuous sets of lineaments, visible in surface and orbital photographs of Mount Hadley and Hadley Delta, may represent systematic layering or fracture sets. The mare surface...

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G.A. Swann, N. G. Bailey, R. M. Batson, V. L. Freeman, M. H. Hait, H. E. Holt, K.B. Larson, V. S. Reed, G. G. Schaber, R. L. Sutton, E.W. Wolfe, Keith A. Howard, H. G. Wilshire, J.W. Head, J.B. Irwin, D.R. Scott, W.R. Muehlberger, L. T. Silver, J. J. Rennilson

December 31, 1972

Structure of Sierra Madera, Texas, as a guide to central peaks of lunar craters Structure of Sierra Madera, Texas, as a guide to central peaks of lunar craters

Like hundreds of other lunar craters of probable impact origin, Copernicus contains central peaks presumed to expose rocks uplifted from beneath the crater floor. A possible analog of these peaks on Earth is the central uplift of the Sierra Madera cryptoexplosion structure, a probable impact scar (astrobleme) in stratified Permian and Cretaceous rocks of west Texas. The most conspicuous...

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Keith A. Howard, Terry W. Offield, H. G. Wilshire

December 31, 1972

Paleomagnetic correlations and Potassium-Argon dating of Middle Tertiary ash-flow sheets in the eastern Great Basin, Nevada and Utah Paleomagnetic correlations and Potassium-Argon dating of Middle Tertiary ash-flow sheets in the eastern Great Basin, Nevada and Utah

Directions of natural remanent magnetization are used to identify and correlate individual cooling units in the middle Tertiary ash-flow province in central and eastern Nevada and western Utah. Potassium-argon dating indicates that the minimum time between eruptions of individual but genetically related ash-flow cooling units is on the order of 0.8 m.y. As this interval is long in...

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C. S. Grommé, E.H. McKee, M. Clark Blake

July 1, 1972

Paleomagnetism and potassium-argon ages of the Sonoma Volcanics, California Paleomagnetism and potassium-argon ages of the Sonoma Volcanics, California

Paleomagnetic data and potassium-argon ages indicate that the Sonoma Volcanics was erupted during the Pliocene Gilbert reversed and Gauss normal polarity epochs. The Gilbert reversed epoch is represented in the Howell Mountains east of Napa and east of St. Helena, in the mountains immediately east of the Valley of the Moon, and on the hill just north of Santa Rosa. The Gauss normal epoch...

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Edward A. Mankinen

January 1, 1972

Mercury distribution in ancient and modern sediment of northeastern Bering Sea Mercury distribution in ancient and modern sediment of northeastern Bering Sea

A reconnaissance of surface and subsurface sediments to a maximum depth of 244 feet below the sea floor shows that natural mercury anomalies from 0.2 to 1.3 ppm have been present in northeastern Bering Sea since early Pliocene. The anomalies and mean values are highest in modern beach (maximum 1.3 and mean 0.22 ppm Hg) and nearshore subsurface gravels (maximum 0.6 and mean .06 ppm Hg)...

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C. Hans Nelson, D.E. Pierce, Kam Leong, F.F. Wang

Mineral Resources Program