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Editor US Geological Survey Circular THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY IN ALASKA: ACCOMPLISHMENTS DURING 1984 Susan BartschmWinkler, Editor U.S. Geological Survey Circular 967 SHORT PAPERS DESCRIBING RESULTS OF RECENT GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL HODEL, Secretary U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Dallas L. Peck, Director Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 76-608093 Free on application to Distribution Branch, Text Products Section, U.S. Geological Survey, 604 South Pickett Street, Alexandria, VA 22304 CONTENTS Page ITxalmNALASKA Gravity lms may indicate Pleistocene deposits beneath Glacial Lake Noatak, by Dsvid F. Barnes. ....................................1 Use of stream-sediment insoluble residues in geo- chmical exploration for carbonate-hosted mineral deposits in the Baird Mountains, by Peter I?. Folger, Richard J. Goldfarb, Elizabeth A. Eailey, Richard M. OILeary, and Stephen J. Sutley ..................................5 Selected anamlous rock and sediment sanples frm central and northwestern Baird Mountains quadrangle, by Susan M. Kar 1, Jeanine M. Schmidt, and Peter F. Folger ........................................8 mhiolitic ultramefic rocks of the Jade Mountains- Cosmos Hills area, southwestern Brooks Range, by Robert A. Loney and Glen R. Himnelberg .............13 Sedimentology of meandering-stream cycles, upper part of the Ear Peak Marber of the Kanayut Conglanerate, central Brooks Range, by Thamas E. Moore and Tor H. Ni lsen.. ............... .15 WESTCEemAL ALASKA Greenschist-facies metmrphic rocks of the north- central Iditarod quadrangle, by Linda M. Angeloni and Marti L. Miller ............. .19 Early Cretaceous evolution of the northeastern Yukon-Koyukuk Basin, -st-central Alaska, by Stephen E. Box, William W. Patton, Jr., and Qlristine Carlson .................................21 Preliminary results of Pb-isotope analyses of deposits from the Seward Peninsula, by Stanley E. Church, Joseph A. Briskey, Maryse H. Delevaux, and Anne P. LeHuray ...............24 Preliminary study of lode gold deposits, Seward Peninsula, by BruceM. Gamble, Roger P. Ashley, and William J. Pickthorn...... ............................27 EAST-CEMRALALASKA Preliminary study of shear sense in myloni tes, eastern Ray Mountains, Tanana quadrangle, by Ronny T. Miyaoka and Jams H. Dover. ...............29 iii - -- .- - Page SaYIHWIBm ALASKA Terrane analysis, northern Bristol Bay region, southwestern Alaska, by Stephen E. Box. ....................................32 Geologic setting of high-pressure metamorphic rocks, Cape Newenhm area, southwestern Alaska, by Stephen E. Box... ..................................37 Late Quaternary glaciation of the Pavlof Bay and Port Wller areas, Alaska Peninsula, by Florence R. Weber... ...............................42 smALASKA Age of Devonian igneous-arc terranes in the northern Mount Hayes quadrangle, eastern Alaska Range by John N. Aleinikoff and Warren J. Nokleberg .........44 Reconnaissance hydrology and suspended sediment analysis, Turnagain Arm estuary, Upper Cook Inlet, by Susan Bar tsch-Winkler , Richard P. huel, and Gary R. Winkler... ................................ 49 Gravity and magnetic model of part of the 1984 TACT line, Chugach Mountains and southern Copper River basin, by Ikvid L. Ck@ell and David F. Barnes.. ............52 Bedrock mapping of remote areas using medial moraine debris fran active glaciers, Mount byes and Healy quadrangles, by Edward B. Evenson, George C. Stephens, and David E. Detra.... ....................................55 Preliminary results of TACT 1984 seismic-refraction survey of southern Alaska, by Gary S. Fuis, Elizabeth L. MOS,Walter D. Mooney, Robert A. Page, and David L. -bell .........56 Palemagnetism of sedimentary rocks in the Prince Willism and Yakutat terranes, by John W. Billhouse and C. Shem Grd........... .60 New evidence for activity of the Talkeetna segment of the Castle MountainCaribou fault system-- The 1984 Sutton earthquake, by John C. Lahr , Robert A. Page, Kent A. Foglemn, and Christopher D. Stephens ...........................62 Preliminary interpretation of factor analysis of geochemical data fran the Healy quadrangle, by Thomas D. Light .....................................64 Sumnary of stratigraphy, structure, and metamorphism of Devonian igneous-arc terranes, northeastern Mount Hayes quadrangle, eastern Alaska Range, by Warren J. Nokleberg and John N. Aleinikoff..... ....66 Early Pennsylvanian conodonts fran the Strelna Formation, aitina Valley area, by George Plafker, Anita G. Harris,and Katherine M. Reed .....................................71 SWnEBl ALASKA (continued) Page Smryof data on the age of the Orca Group, by George Plafker, Gerta Keller, Steven W. Nelson, Julie A. Dumulin, and hrti L. Miller ........74 Smryof the 1984 'JACT geologic studies in the northern Chugach Mountains and southern Copper River basin, by George Plafker, Warren J. Nokleberg, and John S. Lull. .........................................76 Seismicity in southern Alaska, October 1983- Septder 1984, by Christopher D. Stephens, Kent A. Foglm, John C. Lahr, and Robert A. Page ......................79 s-m ALASKll Southeastern Alaska coincident zone, by hvid A. Brew and Arthur B. Ford ...................82 Fossi liferous Middle and(or1 Upper Triassic rocks within the Coast plutonic-metamorphic cg-rplex southeast of Skagway, by hvid A. Brew, Arthur B. Ford, and Steven L. Garwin ..................................86 Polyrnetamorphism in the eastern Petersburg quadrangle, by Susan L. Ihuglass and mvid A. Brew.. ........,.... .89 Ultrmfic bodies in the Coast plutonicmetamorphic complex near Skagway, by Glen R. Hirnnelberg, avid A. Brew, and Arthur B. Ford. .......................................92 LISTING OF REFERENCB BY SUBJECTMATIER... ......................93 ILLUSTRATIONS Page Figure 1. Map showing regions of Alaska used in this circular ........2 2. Map showing areas in northern Alaska discussed in this circular ................................................. 3 3. Relation between Bouguer gravity data contours, the major present river drainage system, the Pleistocene (Itkillik glaciation) extent of Lake Noatak, former lake outlet channels, and the rmjor Itkillik valley glaciers .................................................4 4. Schematic index mo showing approximate locat ions of the three drainage areas within the Baird Mountains quadrangle ............................................... 6 5. Schematic diagram of drainages and sarrple sites for the three study areas shown in figure 4. .................6 Page Figure 6. Canparison of results of analyses on very fine sand samples that have been leached ( insoluble residue samples--solid line) with sanples that have been left untreated (dashed line) from the krdrainage.. ....7 Ccmparison of results of analyses on very fine sand samples that have been leached (solid line) with un- treated samples (dashed line) frcm the Frost drainage.. .7 Area of ananalous samples in the central and north- western portions of the Baird Nbuntains quadrangle, and locations of figures 9 and 10 ........................ 8 Location of anamlous rock and stream sediment samples in the central Baird Mountains quadrangle ...............11 hcation of ananalous rock and stream sediment sam- ples in the northwestern Baird Muntains quadrangle .....11 Generalized geology of the Jade MDuntainsCosmos Hills area, mdified from Patton and others (19681.. ... .14 Measured sections in the upper part of the Ear Peak merof the Kanayut Conglanerate and index map (inset), west of the Itki llik River, Chandler Lake A-1 quadrangle .....................................17 Aerial photograph looking *st of measured sections A, B, C, D, and Ewest of the Itkillik River. Abbre- viations: Dkep, Ear Peak kkmber, Kanayut Conglcmerate; Dksl, Shainin Lake hmber, Kanayut Conglanerate .........18 Map showing areas in west-central Alaska discussed in this circular...... .................................. 19 Schematic geologic map of the central whir and Iditarod quadrangles .................................... 20 Generalized map of Laver and middle Cretaceous rocks of the Yukon-Koyukuk basin (with locat ions of two stratigraphic sections shown in fig. 17) ; concurrent uplift of the schistose Brookian orogenic belt is sug- gested by predaninance of Early Cretaceous K-Ar cool- ing ages frommetmrphic rocks... ......................21 Generalized stratigraphic sections from northeastern Yukon-Koyukuk basin; correlation between sections is based on abrupt upward disappearance of distinctive potassiun feldspar-rich tuff beds in each section... ....22 *ace elemnt data fran Neoccmian basalts (Si%= 53%; CaOWgO = 11-20%) fran Hughes Creek area, plotted on three discriminant diagram of Pearce and Cann (1973). .................................................23 Localities of samples discussed in this study: R, Red mg; D, Drenchwater Creek; H, Hannun Creek; L, Last River Mine; W, Wheeler; I, Independence Mine; P, Pargon; and I?, Foster. ..................................25 Pb isotope diagram showing the relationship of var- ious deposits. The SEDnr growth curve, derived from the deposits of the Selwyn Basin (Godwin and Sinclair, 19821, the growth curve of Stacey and Krers (1975), and the mid-ocean ridge line (W) are shown for reference. 'Ihe range of Pb-isotopic data frcm SEDm-type deposits fran the Selwyn Basin (Godwin and Sinclair, 1982) is shown by the stip- pled pattern ............................................25 Page Figure 21. Distribution of lode gold occurrences (circles), pla-
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