Arizona Geological Survey Open File Reports
The Grand Canyon region contains over 1300 known or suspected breccia pipes, which are vertical, pipe-shaped bodies of highly fractured rock that collapsed into voids created by dissolution of...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-11-04
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Nearly pure quartz sands have become increasingly important for oil and gas production. Although used for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) since at least the 1950s, the advent of directional...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-15-04
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Extreme Late Oligocene to middle Miocene tectonic extension in central western Arizona was associated with exhumation of deep crustal rocks to form metamorphic core complexes, felsic to mafic...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-15-05 V 1.0
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Milky quartz veins are visible throughout all parts of Scottsdale's McDowell Sonoran Preserve (the Preserve) (see locator map below) and at many scales. Prospectors searching for heavy metal and...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-15-03
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This open-file report describes the carbon-sequestration potential at the site of the 1 Alpine-Federal geothermal test drill hole, which is located south of Springerville in central eastern Arizona...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-09-02
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The Yuma basin is located in the southwestern Basin and Range Province of Arizona adjacent to the San Andreas Transform boundary and the Gulf of California. The Colorado River marks the western...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-13-04
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The area described in this study includes the central Gila Bend mountains, Maricopa county, Arizona.
The study area encompasses the southern one-half of the Cortez Peak Quadrangle (1:24,000) and the...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-93-05
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The area described in this study includes the western Gila Bend and the southern Eagletail mountains,
Maricopa and La paz counties, Arizona. The study area encompasses all of the Columbus Peak...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-92-05
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The Oracle 7.5' Quadrangle is located approximately 40 km north-northeast of downtown Tucson, and is on
the northwest flank of Santa Catalina Mountains (Figure 1). The quadrangle encompasses...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-00-05
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The area rnapped lies north and west of Ray and comprises an
area of about 14 by 5 miles. Mapping scale is 1 inch = 12,000 feet and the base is
enlarged USGS topographic maps. The 74 page...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-83-14
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Director Lee Allison's Report ~
In Fiscal Year 2014, the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) maintained
its core functions in addressing natural hazards and natural resources
in Arizona, and...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-14-07
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The forms in this open-file report may be reproduced for filing with the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management and the County Recorders offices. While these are not officially designated forms, they
meet...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-14-05
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In this, our 125th anniversary year, we are
celebrating the efforts of hundreds of geologists
and geoscientists to understand Arizona’s
remarkable geology and apply that knowledge
to making our...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-14-01
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Under the Department of Energy (DOE) National Geothermal Data System (NGDS) (Contract DE-EE0002850) Supplemental Data project to discover new geothermal data, the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS)...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-14-06
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Hyper-V is a virtualization solution from Microsoft designed to create and operate virtual machines. Hyper-V replication is a feature of Hyper-V that provides the ability to make a copy of a virtual...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-14-04
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The Theodore Roosevelt Dam area is located approximately 90 km east of Phoenix on the southwest
flank of Tonto Basin (Figure 1). The map area encompasses the southeastern end of the Mazatzal...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-99-06
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Northeastern Arizona encompasses the southwestern
part of the Colorado Plateau, an area of gently dipping
to slightly tilted Paleozoic and Mesozoic strata that
include porous and permeable...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-14-03
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This report documents the design framework and purpose of a set of tools developed by the Arizona
Geological Survey (AZGS) for use in geologic map production using the NCGMP09 database schema and...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-13-13
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For the third year in a row, the project received “good” or “outstanding” review comments during the
annual sponsor peer review (scores for all elements were between 7 and 10 with the majority of...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-14-02
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The San Pedro River in southeast Arizona is by no means a major watercourse in
the Southwest, but yet it is probably one of the most-studied rivers in the region. In
particular, the upper San Pedro...
Resource Identifiers: OFR-96-15
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