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The Conterminous United States Mineral-Resource Assessment SURVEY CIRCULAR 1140 The Conterminous United States Mineral-Resource Assessment Program Background Information to Accompany Folios of Geologic and Mineral-Resource Maps of the Harrison 1°x2° Quadrangle, Missouri and Arkansas, anc thejoplin 1°x2° Quadrangle, Kansas and /V issouri Prepared in cooperation vith the Missouri Division of Geo ogy and Land Survey, the Kansas Geological Surve ', and the Arkansas Geological Con mission AVAILABILITY OF BOOKS AND M^PS OF THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Instructions on ordering publications of the U.S. Geological Survey, along with prices of the last offerings, are given in the current-year issues of the monthly catalog "New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey." Prices of available U.S. Geological Survey publications re­ leased prior to the current year are listed in the most recent annual "Price and Availability List." 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Geological Survey, Map Distribution Maps may be purchased over the counter at the following Box 25286, Bldg. 810, Federal Center U.S. Geological Survey offices: Denver, CO 80225 Residents of Alaska may order maps from FAIRBANKS, Alaska-New Federal Bldg, 101 Twelfth Ave. U.S. Geological Survey, Earth Science Information Center ROLL A, Missouri-1400 Independence Rd. 101 Twelfth Ave., Box 12 Fairbanks, AK 99701 STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Mississippi-Bldg. 3101 The Conterminous United States Mineral-Resource Assessment Program Background Information to Accompany Folios of Geologic and Mineral-Resource Maps of the Harrison I°x2° Quadrangle, Missouri and Arkansas, and the Joplin I°x2° Quadrangle, Kansas and Missouri Edited by Walden P. Pratt U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 1140 Prepared in cooperation with the Missouri Division of Geology and Land Survey, the Kansas Geological Survey, and the Arkansas Geological Commission UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1997 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BRUCE BABBITT, Secretary U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Gordon P. Eaton, Director For sale by U.S. Geological Survey, Information Services Box 25286, Federal Center Denver, CO 80225 Any use of trade, product, or firm names in this publication is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Conterminous United States Mineral-Resource Assessment Program : background information to accompany folios of geologic mineral-resource maps of the Harrison 1 °x2° quadrangle, Missouri and Arkansas, and the Joplin 1 °x2° quadrangle, Kansas and Missouri / edited by Walden P. Pratt ; prepared in cooperation with the Missouri Division of Geology and Land Survey, the Kansas Geological Survey, and the Arkansas Geological Commission. p. cm. (U.S. Geological Survey circular ; 1140) Includes bibliographical references. 1. Mines and mineral resources Missouri Joplin Region. 2. Mines and mineral resources Missouri Harrison County Region. 3. Mines and mineral resources Kansas. 4. Mines and mineral resources Arkansas. 5. Geology Ozark Mountains. I. Pratt, Walden P. II. Conterminous United States Mineral-Resource Assessment Program. III. Missouri. Division of Geology and Land Survey. IV. Kansas Geological Survey. V. Arkansas Geological Commission. VI. Series. TN24.M8C66 1997 553'.09778 dc21 97-25651 CIP CONTENTS Introduction ................................................................................................................... 1 Harrison I°x2° quadrangle, Missouri And Arkansas..................................................... 1 Summary geochemical maps of the Harrison I°x2° quadrangle............................ 2 Geophysical maps and interpretation of basement terrane in the HarrisonI°x2° quadrangle.................................................................................. 2 Cross sections of Lower Ordovician carbonate depositional lithofacies and Mississippi Valley-type zinc- and iron-sulfide mineralization in the Caulfield district, east-central part of the Harrison I°x2° quadrangle.............. 3 Mineral-resource assessment maps of the Harrison I°x2° quadrangle ................ 3 Mississippi Valley-type deposits in Cambrian rocks .................................... 3 Other metallic mineral deposits in the Phanerozoic rocks ............................ 4 Metallic mineral deposits in the Precambrian basement ............................... 4 Industrial minerals ......................................................................................... 4 Cross sections showing stratigraphic and depositional lithofacies of Upper Cambrian rocks and the relation of lithofacies to potential for Mississippi Valley-type mineralization in the Harrison I°x2° quadrangle ...... 4 Maps showing locations of known Mississippi Valley-type deposits and occurrences of the Ozark Mountains region relative to Late Cambrian shaly lithofacies and other shales ..................................................................... 5 Bedrock geologic map of the Harrison I°x2° quadrangle ..................................... 6 Spectrographic analytical data................................................................................ 7 Joplin I°x2° quadrangle, Kansas and Missouri ............................................................. 7 Summary geochemical maps of the Joplin I°x2° quadrangle ............................... 8 Industrial minerals of the Joplin I°x2° quadrangle ............................................... 8 Subsurface structural contour maps on top of the Mississippian carbonates and the Cambrian-Ordovician Arbuckle Group in the Joplin I°x2° quadrangle ... 8 Geophysically inferred structural and lithologic map of the Precambrian basement in the Joplin 1 °x2°quadrangle .......................................................... 9 Assessment of the Joplin I°x2° quadrangle for Mississippi Valley-type deposits and other minerals ............................................................................................. 9 Coal resources of the Joplin I°x2° quadrangle ..................................................... 10 Bedrock geologic map of the Joplin I°x2° quadrangle.......................................... 10 Spectrographic analytical data ............................................................................... 11 Abstracts pertaining to the Harrison and Joplin I°x2° quadrangles (excluding topics discussed in the preceding summaries) reprinted from Pratt and Goldhaber, 1990, listed alphabetically by first author ........................................................................... 12 Tectonic and stratigraphic control of subsurface geochemical patterns in the Ozark region ............................................................................................ 12 Influence of Precambrian topography on long-term solution letdown of overlying carbonate sequences in the Harrison I°x2° quadrangle .................... 12 Late Mississippian high-angle reverse faulting in the southwestern Harrison I°x2° quadrangle implications for underground gas storage.......... 13 Correlation of hydrothermal dolomite generations across the Mississippi Valley-type mineralizing system of the Ozark region ..................................... 13 Metallic mines and prospects of the Harrison and Joplin I°x2° quadrangles ....... 14 Heavy-oil resource potential of the Joplin I°x2° quadrangles ............................. 14 Ore distribution in the Missouri and Kansas portions of the Tri-State district of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma ....................................................................
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