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Muscovite in the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina

Description: From Abstract: "This report describes the occurrence of the mica and its physical properties among which is an unusually wide range of colors. A table is presented showing the results of power-factor measurements made by the National Bureau of Standards on 196 samples of sheet mica from 109 mica mines and 15 feldspar mines.It is concluded that more systematic planning of mica mining, for the district as a whole. would result in an average yearly production of at least 90,000 pounds of relativel… more
Date: 1942
Creator: Kesler, Thomas L. (Thomas Lingle), 1908-1997 & Olson, J. C. (Jerry Chipman), 1917-2013
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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature 1994

Description: A report about nomenclature related to planets in the solar system. It contains detailed information about all names of topographic and albedo features on planets and satellites.
Date: 1995
Creator: Batson, Raymond M. & Russell, Joel F.
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Problems with Applying Topographically Driven Flow to Genesis of the Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-Lead District and to Fluid Flow in the Illinois Basin

Description: A report about how topographically driven ground-water flow and other processes that involve dewatering of basins fail to account for the temperatures indicated by fluid inclusion and sulfur isotope studies in the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district on the northern edge of the Illinois Basin.
Date: 1995
Creator: Spirakis, Charles S.
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Comparison of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Impact Events and the 0.77-Ma Australasian Tektite Event: Relevance to Mass Extinction

Description: A report that discusses the interpretation of impact shock evidence found in the K-T boundary sections and discusses the constraints imposed by the Australasian tektites and microtektites on the role of the 180-km Chicxulub crater in mass extinction.
Date: 1993
Creator: Chao, E. C. T.
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Paleomagnetic and 40Ar/39Ar Results from the Grant Intrusive Breccia and Comparison to the Permian Downeys Bluff Sill—Evidence for Permian Igneous Activity at Hicks Dome, Southern Illinois Basin

Description: A report about applying 40Ar/39Ar dating methods, along with other rock techniques, to determine the age of emplacement and the cooling history of the Grant intrusive breccia at Hicks dome in Illinois.
Date: 1997
Creator: Reynolds, Richard L.; Goldhaber, Martin B. & Snee, Lawrence W.
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Chronology of Late Cretaceous Igneous and Hydrothermal Events at the Golden Sunlight Gold-Silver Breccia Pipe, Southwestern Montana

Description: A report about gold mineralization at the Golden Sunlight breccia pipe, southwestern Montana, is related to emplacement of Late Cretaceous alkali-calcic rhyolite and subsequent collapse of the Belt Supergroup wallrock and rhyolite in the pipe.
Date: 1996
Creator: DeWitt, Ed; Foord, Eugene E.; Zartman, Robert E.; Pearson, Robert C. & Foster, Fess
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Hydrothermal Alteration in the Mount Hood Area, Oregon

Description: A report which describes the hydrothermal alteration of numerous outcrop samples collected in the vicinity of Mount Hood, as well as drill cuttings from 13 of the geothermal drill holes for which we were able to obtain sample splits.
Date: 1993
Creator: Bargar, Keith E.; Keith, Terry E. C. & Beeson, Melvin H.
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Coastal Sedimentation Along a Segment of the Interior Seaway of North America, Upper Cretaceous Baxter Shale, and Blair and Rock Springs Formations, Rock Springs Uplift, Southwest Wyoming

Description: A report which examines the sedimentary rocks deposited along a segment of the west coast of the interior seaway of North America in southwest Wyoming during the late Santonian and early Campanian subages of the Late Cretaceous Epoch.
Date: 1993
Creator: Roehler, Henry W.
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Paleocene Vertebrates from Jabal Umm Himar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Description: A report about fossils in Saudi Arabia. The report discusses locality, higher taxon, and specimens within the taxon from a given locality.
Date: 1995
Creator: Whitmore, Frank C., Jr.; Madden, Cary T.; Schmidt, Dwight L. & Naqvi, Ibne Mohammed
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Geologic Controls of Deep Natural Gas Resources in the United States

Description: A report about the natural gas drilling frontier in deep sedimentary basins. Papers presented here are intended to introduce the petroleum community to a set of geologic tools that may be used to predict deep undiscovered natural gas accumulations.
Date: 1997
Creator: Dyman, T. S.; Rice, D. D. & Westcott, P. A.
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