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Petroleum Geology of the Northern Part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Northeastern Alaska

Description: The following publication presents the results of a multifaceted study of the geology of the coastal plain and adjacent areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) of northeastern Alaska and estimates of its yet to be discovered oil and gas resources. This report provides technical geologic and assessment details not found in the congressional report on the ANWR 1002 area (Clough and others, 1987).
Date: 1987
Creator: Bird, Kenneth J. & Magoon, Leslie B.
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Mineral Resources of the Mount Grafton Wilderness Study Area, Lincoln and White Pine Counties, Nevada

Description: From abstract: The Mount Grafton Wilderness Study Area (NV- 040-169) is in a remote area of the Schell Creek Range, Nevada. In 1984 and 1985 the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Mines evaluated the identified mineral resources and mineral resource potential of approximately 30,115 acres of the study area at the request of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The study area contains identified low-grade resources of zinc and tungsten. The study area has a low potential for oil and ga… more
Date: 1987
Creator: Van Loenen, Richard E.; Blank, H. Richard, Jr.; Barton, Harlan N. & Chatman, Mark L.
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Mineral Resources of the Mormon Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Lincoln County, Nevada

Description: From introduction: This report presents an evaluation of the mineral endowment (identified resources (known) and mineral resource potential (undiscovered)) of the study area and is the product of several separate studies by the USBM and the USGS.
Date: 1988
Creator: Shawe, Daniel R.; Blank, H. Richard, Jr.; Wernicke, Brian P.; Axen, Gary J.; Barton, Harlan N.; Day, Gordon W. et al.
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Mineral Resources of the Clover Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Lincoln County, Nevada

Description: From abstract: At the request of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, approximately 84,165 acres of the Clover Mountains Wilderness Study Area (NV-050-139) was evaluated for mineral resources (known) and mineral resource potential (undiscovered). In this report, the area studied is referred to as "the wilderness study area" or simply "the study area;" any reference to the Clover Mountains Wilderness Study Area refers only to that part of the wilderness study area for which a mineral survey was r… more
Date: 1988
Creator: Moring, Barry; Blank, H. Richard, Jr.; Hoffman, James D. & McHugh, Edward L.
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Mineral Resources of the Fish Springs Range Wilderness Study Area, Juab County, Utah

Description: Abstract: The Fish Springs Range Wilderness Study Area (UT-050-127) includes most of the Fish Springs Range and is located north of the House Range, about 50 miles northwest of the city of Delta, Utah. A mineral resource study of the 33,840-acre area was completed in 1987 by the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Bureau of Mines. The northwestern and southeastern parts of the wilderness study area contain inferred subeconomic resources of high-purity quartzite. No metallic mineral resources were i… more
Date: 1989
Creator: Lindsey, David A.; Zimbelman, David R.; Campbell, David L.; Bisdorf, Robert J.; Duval, Joseph S.; Cook, Kenneth L. et al.
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Mineral Resources of the Indian Creek, Bridger Jack Mesa, and Butler Wash Wilderness Study Areas, San Juan County, Utah

Description: From abstract: The Indian Creek (UT-060-164), Bridger Jack Mesa (UT-060-167), and Butler Wash (UT-060-169) Wilderness Study Areas are located in San Juan County, southeastern Utah. Inferred subeconomic resources of sandstone and sand and gravel exist within all three wilderness study areas, but because of their abundance throughout the region, their distance from current markets, and their lack of unique properties, these materials have no current likelihood for development.
Date: 1989
Creator: Patterson, Charles G.; Toth, Margo I. & Case, James E.
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Mineral Resources of the Behind the Rocks Wilderness Study Area, Grand and San Juan Counties, Utah

Description: Abstract: The Behind the Rocks Wilderness Study Area (UT-060-140A) consists of 12,635 acres in Grand and San Juan Counties, Utah. The study area has inferred subeconomic resources of potash and halite in the subsurface, and sandstone on the surface. The study area has high potential for undiscovered resources of oil and gas, low potential for undiscovered uranium, copper, vanadium, gold, silver, other metals, and geothermal energy, and unknown potential for the rare-earth mineral, braitschite. … more
Date: 1988
Creator: Patterson, Charles G.; Toth, Margo I. & Case, James E.
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Geologic History and Hydrocarbon Potential of Late Cretaceous-Age, Low-Permeability Reservoirs, Piceance Basin, Western Colorado

Description: From abstract: The Piceance basin of western Colorado contains large reserves of natural gas in low-permeability reservoirs of the Late Cretaceous-age Mesaverde Formation or Mesaverde Group. The gas accumulation can be divided into three general zones: a zone of surface-water invasion that extends inward a few miles from present outcrops, a gas-and-waterbearing zone that extends 10-20 miles inward from the water-bearing zone, and a central, predominantly gasbearing zone.
Date: 1989
Creator: Johnson, Ronald Carl
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Depositional Controls on the Late Campanian Sego Sandstone and Implications for Associated Coal-Forming Environments in the Uinta and Piceance Basins

Description: From abstract: This report concerns a comparison of detailed measured sections and geophysical well-log profiles through the Sego allows subsurface identification of both depositional cycles and lateral facies changes.
Date: 1989
Creator: Franczyk, Karen J.
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Mineral Resources of the Sand Dunes Wilderness Study Area, Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Description: From summary: In this report the area studied is referred to as the "wilderness study area" or the "study area". Investigations of mineral occurrences in and near the wilderness study area during 1984 and 1985 indicated high mineral resource potential for undiscovered deposits of coal, moderate potential of oil shale and natural gas, low potential for oil, and identified resources of claystone, shale, and sand.
Date: 1987
Creator: Merewether, E. A.; Kulik, D. M. & Ryan, George S.
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Mineral Resources of the Honeycomb Buttes Wilderness Study Area, Fremont and Sweetwater Counties, Wyoming

Description: From summary: This report includes field investigations to evaluate the mineral resource potential of the Honeycomb Buttes were conducted during the summer of 1984. Geologic mapping, geochemical sampling, geophysical surveys, stratigraphic and sedimentological studies, and surveys of prospects delineated areas of very low grade placer gold deposits in terrace gravels and low and moderate resource potential for additional similar undiscovered placer gold deposits, low and moderate resource poten… more
Date: 1987
Creator: Patterson, Charles G.; Kulik, D. M.; Loen, Jeffrey S.; Koesterer, M. E. & Scott, David C.
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Mineral Resources of the Ferris Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Carbon County, Wyoming

Description: From abstract: During the present study, all working were examined and representative rock and mineral samples from them were analyzed. Reconnaissance geochemical sampling of rocks, minerals, and stream sediments was conducted for the entire area.
Date: 1988
Creator: Reynolds, Mitchell W. & Neubert, John T.
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Mineral Resources of the Sweetwater Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Fremont County, Wyoming

Description: From abstract: This report includes field investigations to evaluate the mineral resource potential of the Sweetwater Canyon Wilderness Study Area that were conducted during the summer of 1986.
Date: 1988
Creator: Day, Warren C.; Hill, Randall H.; Kulik, Dolores M.; Scott, David C. & Hausel, W. Dan
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Petrography, Mineralogy, and Reservoir Characteristics of the Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde Group in the East-Central Piceance Basin, Colorado

Description: From abstract: Three closely spaced wells drilled through the Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde Group and were extensively cored and logged in order to identify the factors controlling the occurrence and distribution of gas in low-permeability rocks and to improve recovery technology.
Date: 1989
Creator: Pitman, Janet K.; Pollastro, Richard M. & Spencer, Charles Winthrop
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mineral Resources of the Medicine Lodge, Alkali Creek, and Trapper Creek Wilderness Study Areas, Big Horn County, Wyoming

Description: From introduction: This report presents an evaluation of the mineral endowment (identified resources and mineral resource potential) of the study area and is the product of several separate studies by the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Identified resources are classified according to a modification of the system described by McKelvey (1972) and the USBM and USGS (1980), which is shown in the Appendix. Identified resources are studied by the USBM. Mineral reso… more
Date: 1989
Creator: Hosterman, John W.; Hill, Randall H.; Kulik, Dolores M. & Gese, Diann D.
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Mineral Resources of the Bobcat Draw Badlands Wilderness Study Area, Big Horn and Washakie Counties, Wyoming

Description: Abstract: The Bobcat Draw (WY-010-126) Wilderness Study Area includes about 17,150 acres and is located about 45 mi (miles) by road west of Worland in the Bighorn basin. The arid landscape comprises treeless uplands drained by intermittent streams. No identified resources are in the Bobcat Draw Wilderness Study Area. Most of the area is currently under lease for oil and gas. The study area has a high potential for resources of oil and gas and a high potential for subeconomic resources of deeply… more
Date: 1989
Creator: Gibbons, Anthony B.; Carlson, Robert R.; Kulik, Dolores M. & Lundby, William
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[Evolution of Sedimentary Basins--Uinta and Piceance Basins: Chapters H and I]

Description: From abstract: Analysis of vitrinite reflectance profiles and surfaces of equal vitrinite reflectance in the southeastern part of the Piceance basin, northwestern Colorado, indicates that burial histories for the Divide Creek anticline and the Grand Hogback are different from those for adjacent synclines. These two positive structures probably reached their present-day thermal maturity before late Eocene folding and before the end of the Laramide orogeny. In contrast, adjacent synclines did not… more
Date: 1989
Creator: Nuccio, Vito F.; Johnson, Ronald Carl & Johnson, Samuel Y.
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[Evolution of Sedimentary Basins--Uinta and Piceance Basins: Chapters J and K]

Description: From abstract: This is a report on reconnaissance geologic mapping and isotopic dating of tuff beds in the Uinta Basin of Utah that show that Lake Uinta probably persisted into late Eocene time in the area east of Duchesne and Strawberry Reservoir.
Date: 1989
Creator: Bryant, Bruce; Naeser, Charles W.; Marvin, Richard F. & Mehnert, H. H.
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Mineral Resources of the Fort Piute Wilderness Study Area, San Bernardino County, California

Description: From abstract: The Fort Piute Wilderness Study Area (CDCA-267) is in northeastern San Bernardino County, California, near the boundary between California and Nevada. Mineral surveys were requested for 31,371 acres of the Fort Piute Wilderness Study Area. In this report the area studied is referred to as "the study area". Examination of mines and prospects in the area was accomplished by the U.S. Bureau of Mines in 1981 and 1982. Field investigations of the area were carried out by the U.S. Geol… more
Date: 1987
Creator: Nielson, Jane E.; Frisken, James G.; Jachens, Robert C. & McDonnell, John R., Jr.
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