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The Geology and Ore Deposits

of the

Bisbee Quadrangle, Arizona

by

Frederick Leslie Ransome

235 Pages

USGS Professional Paper 21

1904

• Introduction
• • Geography
  • Field work and acknowledgments
  • Literature
  • History of mining development
  • Production
  • Climate and vegetation
• General geology
• • Topography
  • • Topographic names
    • General configuration of the Mule Mountains
    • Relief and drainage of the Bisbee quadrangle
  • Preliminary outline of the geology
  • Pre-Cambrian metamorphic rocks
  • • Pinal schist
    • • Name
      • Distribution and general structure
      • Lithology
      • Origin
      • Age and correlation
  • Paleozoic sediments
  • • General statement
    • Cambrian
    • • Bolsa quartzite
      • • Name
        • Distribution, thickness, and general stratigraphy
        • Lithology
        • Conditions of deposition
        • • Age and correlation
      • Abrigo limestone
      • • Name
        • Distribution, thickness, and general stratigraphy
        • Lithology
        • Conditions of deposition
        • Age and correlation
    • Paleozoic sediments
    • Devonian
    • • Martin limestone
      • • Name
        • Distribution, thickness, and general stratigraphy
        • Lithology
        • Conditions of deposition
        • Age and correlation
    • Carboniferous
    • • Escabrosa limestone
      • • Name
        • Distribution, thickness, and general stratigraphy
        • Lithology
        • Conditions of deposition
        • Age and correlation
      • Naco limestone
      • • Name
        • Distribution, thickness, and general stratigraphy
        • Lithology
        • Conditions of deposition
        • Age and correlation
    • Résumé of the Paleozoic section
  • Mesozoic sediments
  • • General statement
    • Bisbee group
    • • Nomenclature and subdivisions
      • General distribution
      • Glance conglomerate
      • • Distribution, thickness, and general stratigraphy
        • Lithology
        • Conditions of deposition
      • Morita formation
      • • Distribution, thickness, and general stratigraphy
        • Lithology
        • Conditions of deposition
      • Mural limestone
      • • Distribution, thickness, and general stratigraphy
        • Lithology
        • Conditions of deposition
      • Cintura formation
      • • Distribution, thickness, and general stratigraphy
        • Lithology
        • Conditions of deposition
      • Age of Bisbee group
  • Cenozoic rocks
  • • Quaternary deposits
    • • Distribution .
      • Lithology
      • Origin
  • Igneous rocks
  • • General statement
    • Granite
    • • Definition
      • Occurrence and distribution
      • Petrography
    • Granite-porphyry
    • • Definition
      • Occurrence and distribution
      • Petrography
    • Contact metamorphism
    • Age of the granitic intrusions
    • Other intrusive rocks
  • Geological structure
  • • Introductory statement
    • Faults
    • • Distribution
      • Expression in the topography
      • Trends and dips
      • Character of dislocation
      • Age
    • General structural analysis
    • • Divisions of the quadrangle based upon structure
      • Bisbee block
      • Escabrosa block
      • Naco block
      • Copper Queen block
      • Gold Hill block
      • Glance block
      • Cretaceous tract
  • Geological history
• Ore deposits
• • General character of mineralization
  • Distribution of ores
  • "Underground development
  • • Preliminary statement
    • Copper Queen mine
    • Calumet and Arizona mine
    • Lowell mine
    • Copper King mine
    • Calumet and Pittsburg mine
    • Lake Superior and Pittsburg mine
• Underground development
• • Whitetail mine
  • Uncle Sam mine
  • Bisbee West mine
  • Easter Sunday mine
  • Glance mine
  • Modern mine
• Mineralogy of the ores
• • Ore minerals
  • • Native metals
    • • Copper
      • Gold
    • Sulphides
    • • Pyrite
      • Chalcopyrite
      • Sphalerite
      • Chalcocite
    • Carbonates, silicates, sulphates, and oxides
    • • Malachite
      • Azurite
      • Cerussite
      • Chrysocolla
      • Melanochalcite
      • Aurichalcite
      • Brochantite
      • Cuprite
      • Tenorite
      • Footeite
  • Gangue minerals
• Paragenesis of the ore and gangue minerals
• Form and geological environment of the ore bodies
• General shape and dimensions
• • Relation of the ore bodies to the bedding of the limestone
  • Relation of the principal ore bodies to the Escabrosa limestone
  • Relation of the ore bodies to structures other than bedding
• Ground water and depth of oxidation
• Genesis of the ores
• • General processes involved
  • Primary metasomatic alteration and mineralization
  • Oxidation and secondary concentration
• Age of the ores
• Value of the ores
• Future of the district
• Index

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