Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Reports
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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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At the request of the U.S. Forest Service to Red Rock Jeep Tours of Sedona a geologic report on the condition of the Devils Kitchen sinkhole was required for the safe continuation of Jeep visits to...
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The Geothermal Resource Evaluation Program of the Eastern San Francisco
Volcanic Field, Arizona, has been a fifteen-month study collecting and evaluating geological
and geophysical data to assess...
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Seven sinkholes surround the city of Sedona in Coconino and Yavapai Counties,
Arizona. They occur in surface bedrock of Permian age Esplanade Sandstone, Hermit
formation, and Schnebly Hill...
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Formerly known as the Martinez Ranch area (e.g., see Davis, 1975; Davis and others, 2004), the Salcito Ranch area is located at the southeastern-most corner of the Rincon Mountains (Figure 1) and...
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The 2010 Schultz Fire burned 6,091 hectares (15,051 acres) of Ponderosa
Pine and mixed conifer forest, four kilometers (two and a half miles) north of
Flagstaff, Arizona between June 20 and 30,...
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