Geological Reports

Over the life of this blog, we hope to attempt to compile links to various geological reports, research and historical analysis.  Here are a few beginning links.

Here is a pretty good USGS analysis of the various fault systems in the Mackay vicinity:

https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1222/chapters/Ch9.pdf

This is a 1907 32-page report on the White Knob Copper Deposits.

https://play.google.com/books/reader?printsec=frontcover&output=reader&id=-GFIAAAAYAAJ

If the above link won't work, ttry this one.

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=-GFIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA22

Here is an awesome 1917 report on the minerals of the Mackay region.  It is 154 pages!

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=THXnAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PP1

Here's the 1969 "Geology of the Mackay 30 minute quadrangel."

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1970/0242/report.pdf

Much the Mackay vicinity is limestone and that limestone is Mississippian in age.  Here's a great link to bone up on your basic Mississippian realities:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/carboniferous/carboniferous.php

Jasperoids:

http://geology.isu.edu/Digital_Geology_Idaho/papers/B-27ch03-1.pdf