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<br />"Geology of the Ord Mine, Mazatzal. Mountains quicksilver
<br />district, Arizona", by J, N, Faick, Bulletin 1042~R. This
<br />mine has yielded about 2,100 flasks of quicksilver from
<br />cinnabar, which is disseminated in bleached and altered
<br />phyllite or occurs in narrow discontinuous quartz-siderite
<br />veins in rocks of Precambrian age,
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<br />"Geologic reconnaissance of San Clemente Island, California" ,
<br />by F, H, Olmsted, Bulletinl07l-B, This report describes
<br />the geologic phases of a study of San Clemente Island, made
<br />for the U. S. Navy to determine water-supply possibilities.
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<br />"Reeonnaissance for radioactivity in the metal-mining
<br />districts of the.San Juan Mountains, Colorado", by
<br />C. T, Pierson, W, F,Weeks, and F. J, Kleinhampl,
<br />Bulletin 1046-0. Locations given of anomalous radio-
<br />activity in 15 districts,. One commercial uranium
<br />deposit is known in the San Juan Mountains and other
<br />places are listed where there seems a good possibility
<br />of finding additional deposits.
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<br />"Core logs from Bristol, Cadiz, and Danby Dry Lakes,
<br />San Bernardino County, California", by A. M, Bassett,
<br />D, H, Kupfer, and F. C. Barstow, Bulletin 1045-D.
<br />Detailed logs and brief lithologic summaries are given
<br />of four cores from the sQutheastern Mojave Desert,
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<br />"Uranium deposits in the Dripping Spring quartzite,
<br />Gila County, Arizona", by H, C, Granger and R. p, Raup,
<br />Bulletin 1046-P. Uraninite aOO secondary uranium.
<br />minerals occur in veinlike deposits in feldspar-rich
<br />siltstone locally recrystallized to hornfels adjacent
<br />to discordant diabase bOdies.
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<br />"Geology of the San Francisco North quadrangle, Calif-
<br />ornia", by J, SCholocker, M. G, Bonilla, and D. H.
<br />Radbruch, Miscellaneous Investigations 272, ~ geologic
<br />map with a summary of the engineering properties of the
<br />map units.
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<br />"Geologic map of the eastern Puente Hills, Los ~ngeles
<br />Basin, California", by D, L. Durham and R, F. Yerkes,
<br />Oil and Gas Investigations 195, An area of about 130
<br />square miles including all or parts of six oil producing
<br />areas. Surface structural features are shown, wildcat
<br />wells are listed, and a brief text discusses revised
<br />stratigraphic names,
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<br />"Preliminary map of landslides in the Pacific Palisades
<br />area, city of Los Angeles, California", by J, T. McGill,
<br />Miscellaneous Investigations 2$4, Active landslides
<br />(movement since 1951),historic, and prehistoric land-
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