Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Reports
The Sunnyside mine was developed on one of the initial discoveries of uranium-vanadium minerals in the
Carrizo Mountains of northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. The host rock for the...
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Beginning in the mid-1860s the southwestern US experienced a mining boom,
and a large number of mines were developed. They went through alternating phases
of economic upswing and decline, but by...
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The Martin mine was developed on one of the initial discoveries of uranium-vanadium minerals
in the Carrizo Mountains of northwestern Arizona and northeastern New Mexico. The host rock for
these...
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The exposures of the uranium-vanadium minerals on the rim of North Star Mesa were some of the first
to be discovered in the Carrizo Mountains of northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. The...
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Previous workers have established the general petrological character of the McCoy
Mountains Formation and equivalent Jurassic-Cretaceous units in southwestern Arizona
and southeastern California by...
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Less than five miles southwest of the Ray open pit lies a geologic wonderland
centered on the copper prospect at Copper Butte. Not only are the Tertiary stratigraphic
and structural relationships...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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,...
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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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