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David A Lindsey

David Lindsey is a Scientist Emeritus with the Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center who assists USGS project staff by gathering field data, writing and reviewing maps and scientific reports.

Professional Experience

  • Scientist Emeritus, 1998-present

  • Research geologist, USGS, 1967-1998

  • Graduated from Nehawka High School

Education and Certifications

  • Johns Hopkins University (PhD in geology)

  • University of Nebraska (BS in geology)

Abstracts and Presentations

  • Lindsey, D. A., 2001, Beryllium deposits at Spor Mountain, Utah, in: Bon, R. L., et al., eds., Proceedings of the 35th Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals—the Intermountain West Forum 1999: Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 01-2, p. 73-78.

  • Lindsey, D. A., and Langer, W. H., 1998, Defining models and measuring aggregate quality for gravel deposits of the Front Range Urban Corridor, Colorado, in: Johnson, K. S., ed., Proceedings, 34th Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals, 2-6 May 1998, Norman, Okla.: Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular 102, p. 125-137.

  • Lindsey, D.A., Johnson, B.J., and Andriessen, P.A.M., 1983,  Laramide and Neogene structure of the northern Sangre de Cristo Range, south-central Colorado, in Lowell, J.D., ed., Rocky Mountain Foreland Basins and Uplifts: Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Symposium, p. 219-228.

  • Lindsey, David A., 1982, Volcanism and uranium mineralization at Spor Mountain, Utah, in Goodell, Philip, ed., Symposium on Uranium in Volcanic and Volcaniclastic Rocks: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Studies in Geology, no. 13, p. 89-98.

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Measured sections and discussion of the main turbidite member, Middle Pennsylvanian Minturn Formation, northern Sangre de Cristo Range, Custer and Saguache counties, Colorado

Turbidites are sediments deposited by turbid density currents. The turbidites described here are interpreted as prodelta deposits that formed in front of fan deltas and alluvial fans during the uplift of the ancestral Rocky Mountains in Pennsylvanian time. Laterally extensive, lenticular sand bodies deposited by turbidity flows crop out in the Middle Pennsylvanian Minturn Formation in the northern

Mineral resource potential map of the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness study area, south-central Colorado

No abstract available.

Principal reference section for the Sangre De Cristo Formation (Pennsylvanian and Permian), northern Sangre De Cristo Range, Saguache County, Colorado

No abstract available.

Geologic map and discussion of selected mineral resources of the North and South Moccasin Mountains, Fergus County, Montana

No abstract available.

Map showing mineral resource potential of the Big Snowies Wilderness and contiguous further planning areas (RARE II), Fergus and Golden Valley counties, Montana

No abstract available.

Reconnaissance geologic map of the Big Snowies Wilderness and contiguous RARE II Study Areas, Fergus, Golden Valley, and Wheatland counties, Montana

No abstract available.

Reconnaissance geochemical map of the Big Snowies Wilderness and contiguous RARE II study areas, Fergus, Golden Valley, and Wheatland Counties, Montana

No abstract availabe. 

Geologic map and cross sections of Tertiary rocks in the Thomas Range and northern Drum Mountains, Juab County, Utah

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Log for Joint SEPM-Colorado Scientific Society field trip, September 20-21, 1986: Late Paleozoic sedimentation and Laramide tectonics of the Sangre de Cristo Range, from Westcliffe to Crestone, Colorado

This trip will cross the northern Sangre de Cristo Range, from Westcliffe to Crestone, Colorado, by way of the Hermit Pass Road and the Rito Alto pack trail (Fig. 1 below; road and trail shown on Fig. 2). The traverse is designed to give the geologist a sample of the structure and stratigraphy of this part of the range. Emphasis will be on the relationship between the horst of the Sangre de Cristo
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David A. Lindsey
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Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center

Petrology of arkosic sandstones, Pennsylvanian Minturn Formation and Pennsylvanian and Permian Sangre de Cristo Formation, Sangre de Cristo Range, Colorado - data and preliminary interpretations

This report describes the mineral and chemical composition of immature, arkosic sandstones of the Pennsylvanian Minturn and Pennsylvanian and Permian Sangre de Cristo Formations, which were derived from the Ancestral Rocky Mountains. Located in the Sangre de Cristo Range of southern Colorado, the Minturn and Sangre de Cristo Formations contain some of the most immature, sodic arkoses shed from the
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D. A. Lindsey

Slides of the fluorspar, beryllium, and uranium deposits at Spor Mountain, Utah

No abstract available.
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David A. Lindsey

Gravel deposits of the South Platte River valley north of Denver, Colorado

No abstract available.
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David A. Lindsey, William H. Langer, Linda Scott Cummings, John F. Shary, Joseph E. Taggart, Gregory P. Meeker
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Mineral Resources Program, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver Microbeam Laboratory

Slide show on gravel deposit models and measuring aggregate quality, Front Range urban corridor, Colorado

No abstract available.
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David A. Lindsey, William H. Langer

Laramide structure of the central Sangre de Cristo Mountains and adjacent Raton Basin, southern Colorado

Laramide structure of the central Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Culebra Range) is interpreted as a system of west-dipping, basement-involved thrusts and reverse faults. The Culebra thrust is the dominant structure in the central part of the range; it dips 30 -55?? west and brings Precambrian metamorphic base-ment rocks over unmetamorphosed Paleozoic rocks. East of the Culebra thrust, thrusts and rev
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D. A. Lindsey

Distribution and quality of potential sources of aggregate infrastructure resources project area, Colorado-Wyoming

No abstract available.
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William H. Langer, Gregory N. Green, Daniel H. Knepper, David A. Lindsey, David W. Moore, L. David Nealey, John C. Reed

An introduction to sand and gravel deposit models, Front Range urban corridor

No abstract available.
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David A. Lindsey

Field measures of gravel quality in the South Platte River north of Denver, Colorado: A pilot study

No abstract available.
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David A. Lindsey, John F. Shary

Data Base for a National Mineral-Resource Assessment of Undiscovered Deposits of Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, and Zinc in the Conterminous United States

For this assessment, the conterminous United States was divided into 12 regions Adirondack Mountains, Central and Southern Rocky Mountains, Colorado Plateau, East Central, Great Basin, Great Plains, Lake Superior, Northern Appalachians, Northern Rocky Mountains, Pacific Coast, Southern Appalachians, and Southern Basin and Range. The assessment, which was conducted by regional assessment teams of s
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S.D. Ludington, D. P. Cox, R.B. McCammon

Recommendations for assessments of undiscovered mineral resources

No abstract available. 
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Paul B. Barton, D. A. Brew, S.D. Ludington, D. A. Lindsey, R. A. Ayuso, E. R. Force, B. M. Gamble, R. J. Goldfarb, D. A. John, K. M. Johnson

Copper and uranium in Pennsylvanian and Permian sedimentary rocks, northern Sangre de Cristo Range, Colorado

No abstract available.
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David A. Lindsey, Reino F. Clark

Non-USGS Publications**

Lindsey, David A., 1965, Studies of a Nebraskan(?) till: The Compass, v. 42, no. 2, p. 79-87.

**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.

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