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An Autunite Deposit in the Rosamond Hills, Kern County, California

Description: From introduction: An autunite deposit in the SW 1/4 sec. 25, T. 10 N., R. 13 W. San Bernardino meridian, was visited by F. M. Chace on May 6 and 15, 1950. The deposit is about 100 yards west of a north-south country road and is at an altitude of approximately 2,775 feet. The autunite-bearing tuffaceous sandstone strikes N. 35-40 W. and dips 20 -25 SW. It has been traced about 40 feet along the strike at the base of the outcrop and for about 20 feet up the dip. Insufficient work was done to giv… more
Date: August 1940
Creator: Chace, F. M.
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Geology of Area Between Green and Colorado Rivers, Grand and San Juan Counties, Utah

Description: From Abstract: "The area described in this report comprises about 900 square miles of arid land lying between the Green and Colorado Rivers south of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad and southwest of the Salt Valley anticline. The rocks that crop out or that have been encountered in wells drilled in the are all sedimentary and range in age from Pennsylvania ti Upper Cretaceous. Mesizoic strata are especially well represented."
Date: 1940
Creator: McKnight, Edwin Thor
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Geology of the Kettleman Hills Oil Field, California: Stratigraphy, Paleontology, and Structure

Description: From Introduction: The field work that furnished the basis for this report was begun in 1930 and was continued at intervals until 1934. The anticlinal character of the Kettleman Hills is apparent to even the casual observer, but the many structural complications due to an intricate network of minor faults, at least in North Dome and Middle Dome, are much less obvious. Though it is improbable that these faults have any relation to the occurrence of oil, an attempt was made to map them, not only … more
Date: 1940
Creator: Woodring, W. P.; Stewart, Ralph & Richards, R. W.
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Spirit Leveling in South Carolina: Part 2. Southern South Carolina, 1896-1938

Description: From introduction: This bulletin, which is published in two parts, contains the complete results of all spirit leveling done in South Carolina by the Geological Survey of the United States Department of the Interior, including those heretofore published.' The 34th parallel of latitude, passing through Columbia, serves to divide the State into two sections, each of which is represented by one of the parts of the bulletin. Part 1 deals with the section lying north of the 34th parallel, designated… more
Date: 1940
Creator: Staack, J. G.
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Subsurface Geology and Oil and Gas Resources of Osage County, Oklahoma: Part 5. Townships 26 and 27 North Ranges 10 and 11 East

Description: This report is part of a series describing the structural features, the character of the oil- and gas-producing beds, and the localities where additional oil and gas may be found in parts of Osage County, Oklahoma. This part discusses the geology and resources in the northeastern part of the county.
Date: 1940
Creator: Kennedy, L. E.; Shamblin, W. E.; Leatherock, Otto & Bass, N. Wood
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Subsurface Geology and Oil and Gas Resources of Osage County, Oklahoma: Part 6. Township 28 North, Ranges 10 and 11 East and Township 29 North, Ranges 9 to 11 East

Description: This report is part of a series describing the structural features, the character of the oil- and gas-producing beds, and the localities where additional oil and gas may be found in parts of Osage County, Oklahoma. This part discusses the geology and resources in the northeastern part of the county, along the Oklahoma-Kansas boundary.
Date: 1940
Creator: Goodrich, Harold Beach; Kennedy, L. E. & Leatherock, Otto
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