| Abstract: | In 1957, five test holes were drilled near Kramer, California, in
=he western Mojave Desert. The drill sites are in topographic basins
where gravimetric and geologic surveys indicated the presence, beneath
alluvium, of a thick section of Quaternary and Tertiary sedimentary and
volcanic rocks.
Two holes which were deeper tests at sites drilled in 1954 cored only silts, sands and gravels: Four Corners test hole No. 1 was drilled in sec. 20, T. I0 N., R. 6 W., to a depth of 3,500 feet. Four Corners No. 2, in sec. 5, T. I0 N., R. 8 W., was drilled to 2,328 feet. Three holes which were drilled at new sites north of the intersection of U. S. Highways 395 and 466, locally known as Four Corners, encountered colemanite-bearing sediments. The locations and total depths of these holes are as follows: Four Corners No. 3, sec. T. 11 N., R. 6 W., depth 2,568 feet; Four Corners No. 4, near northern edge of sec. 30, T. ll N., R. 6 W., depth 3,500 feet; Four Corners No. 5, near southern edge of sec. 30, depth 1,604 feet. The sections of rocks encountered in these three holes are similar. In each, the colemanite is in fine-grained sediments that lie below sands and gravels, which are about 600 to 800 feet thick, and are underlain by sandstones and conglomerates. Colemanite is most abundant in the cores from Four Corners to hole No. 5, particularly in the 76 feet of core recovered between depths of 1,051 and 1,131 feet. Chemical analysis shows that in this section of core the average content of B203 is above 14 percent. In addition to colemanite, the cores contain sulfides of arsenic, an unusual iron sulfide, and zeolites. This mineralogy of the colemanite-bearing sediments north of Four Corners, together with the general lake bed lithology and the occurrence as a tilted section of beds below sands and gravels, supports correlation with the upper or marginal parts of the borate-bearin8 sediments at the Kramer borate mining district, which have similar features. There is, however, no evidence that any beds are exactly equivalent in age. |
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| Citation Author: | Benda, William K.; Erd, R. C.; Smith, Ward C. |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | 173 p. ill., 2 folded maps ;28 cm. |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, |
| Citation Series: | Open-File Report |
| Citation Series Code: | OFR |
| Citation Series Number: | 58-12 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Core logs from five holes near Kramer, in the Mojave Desert, California; 1958; OFR; 58-12; Benda, William K.; Erd, R. C.; Smith, Ward C. |
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| Citation Year: | 1958 |
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| Text: | Core logs from five holes near Kramer, in the Mojave Desert, California; 1958; OFR; 58-12; Benda, William K.; Erd, R. C.; Smith, Ward C. |
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| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, |
