Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Reports
The banded crystalline rocks of Sabino Canyon are a strong aesthetic component of the
canyon's dramatic views. Certainly these rocks have attracted much attention from geologists.
Until...
Resource Identifiers: CR-01-A
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The study area, which Feth and Hem (1963) refer to as the
Payson Basin, has been the focus of attention for both the
United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the State of
Arizona, Bureau of...
Resource Identifiers: CR-02-B
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Water is the lifeblood of the Southwest, and much of the region’s water resources occur in
the large sedimentary basins that underlie the modern valleys of the Basin and Range Province.
One such...
Resource Identifiers: CR-02-A
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During the mid-1950s exploration drilling located several large uranium ore bodies in buried channels,
in the Oljeto syncline area of the Monument Valley, Navajo County, Arizona. The channels occupy...
Resource Identifiers: CR-03-E
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The mineralized outcrops that would be developed into the Rattlesnake No. I uranium-vanadium mine
were some of the earliest to be found on the north side of the Carrizo Mountains, Apache County,...
Resource Identifiers: CR-03-D
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The Lower Verde River Valley is a discrete groundwater basin separated from the
Phoenix basin by the McDowell Mountains and bounded on all sides by bedrock, (see
figure 1). The basin formed during...
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The exposures of the uranium-vanadium minerals on the rim of Eurida Mesa were some of the first to be
discovered in the Carrizo Mountains of northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. The...
Resource Identifiers: CR-03-C
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In southeastern Arizona, many mountain ranges south of 1-10 harbor variably modified
Jurassic and Laramide calderas. A dozen major calderas have been identified (see below
after Lipman and Sawyer,...
Resource Identifiers: CR-03-A
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San Bernardino Valley, Arizona became an area of geothermal interest
because of recent volcanic activity ca~ 3 m .y. old), young fault scarps, high
geothermometers to 229 degrees C), and a...
Resource Identifiers: CR-05-A
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Data collected for this study include ground water chemical
analysis, drillers" logs of water wells, geohydrologic and
geologic information. Published chemical analysis were compiled
from...
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K-Ar data files from the Laboratory of lsotope Geochemistry at the Department of
Geosciences, University of Arizona, were transferred to the Arizona Geological Survey in about
2003. This report,...
Resource Identifiers: CR-06-A
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Since no other record of dinosaur activity has been detected in the Recreation Red Beds, the footprint has been assigned the name of Herrerasauripus ratkevichi, meaning 'Herrerasaurus footprint...
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Land subsidence and earth fissures have been part of the landscape of southern and south
central Arizona for at least the past seventy years. With urban growth now expanding into
former...
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This report details geothermal resource exploration done for Arizona Public Service and
the U.S. Department of Energy. Arizona Public Services (APS) of Phoenix, Arizona,
retained David Brown &...
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To provide insight into provenance relations for multiple mid-Oligocene to mid-Miocene subbasins (typically half-grabens) dissected by erosion in uplands lying north of the Catalina core complex and...
Resource Identifiers: CR-08-C
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Rain and snow contain dissolved oxygen because of equilibration with atmospheric
oxygen. In contrast, groundwater deep in the Earth, especially at depths of hundreds to
thousands of meters,...
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In flowing from its origins in the mountains of west-central New Mexico down to the
broad sedimentary basins of central Arizona's Salt River Valley, the Gila River and its
enclosing fluvial...
Resource Identifiers: CR-08-A
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Our interdisciplinary team of a geologist and volunteers, working with the City of Scottsdale and the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy (MSC), has confirmed that an unusual rock outcropping in the...
Resource Identifiers: CR-09-B
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This report is the result of an investigation of petrified wood on the U.S. Army Yuma
Proving Ground and includes studies of the stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleobotany of terrace
gravels with...
Resource Identifiers: CR-09-A
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In 1991, with the encouragement of the U.S. Forest Service, I
and a number of members of Escabrosa Grotto (a chapter of the
National Speleological Society) began mapping a large cave, Cave Of The...
Resource Identifiers: CR-10-A
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