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Chou, I-M, Seal, RR, and Hemingway, BS, 1998,

Humidity buffers and their application to studies of dehydration reactions of sulfate salts at 0.1 MPa [abs.]: AGU Transactions, v 79, p S364.

Chou, I.M., Seal, R.R.,II, and Hemingway, B.S., 1998,

Relative humidity-temperature relations of dehydration reactions for hydrated salts: a new experimental approach [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, no. 7, p. A-129.

 

 

Chou, I.M., Seal, R.R.,II, and Hemingway, B.S., 1999,

Determination of melanterite-rozenite and chalcanthite-bonatite equilibria at 0.1 MPa by using the humidity buffer technique: Goldschmidt Conference, Boston, Aug. 22-27, 1999.

 

du Bray, E.A., 1995,

Preliminary Compilation of Descriptive Geoenvironmental Mineral Deposit Models: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 95-831. (PDF)

Flohr, M.J.K., 1997,

X-ray powder diffraction: U.S. Geological Survey Information Handout.

 

Flohr, M.J.K., and Hammarstrom, J.M., 1997,

Formation of gossan and oxidation of sulfide ores as analogs of oxidation of tailings piles [abs.]: in, Wanty, R.B., Marsh, S.P., and Gough, L.P., eds., 4th International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry Proceedings: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report OF97-496, p. 24

 

Hammarstrom, J.M., Jackson, J.C., Barden, R., and Seal, R.R., 1999,

Characterization of Mine Waste at the Abandoned Elizabeth Copper Mine, Vermont [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs (NE), v. 31, p. A-20.

 

Hammarstrom, Jane M., Meier, Allen L. and Seal, Robert R., II, 1999

Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Ochres Associated with Acid Mine Drainage at Abandoned Massive Sulfide Mines: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 31, no. 7, p. A-224.

 

Krishnaswamy, R., and Seal, R.R., II, 1998,

Ecological and carbon isotope data for acidophilic algae from abandoned mine sites in Vermont and Virginia [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, p. A129.

Schultz, A.P., Southworth, C.S., Chirico, P.G., Seal, R.R., II, Langdon, K.R., and Fontanez, W., 1999,

New geologic maps of Great Smoky Mountains National Park [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs (SE), v. 31.

 

Schultz, A.P., and Seal, R.R., II, 1997,

Geology and geologic history of Great Smoky Mountains National Park: a simple guide for the interpretive program: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 97-510, 5 p.

 

Seal, R.R., II, 1999,

Environmental Processes that Affect Mineral Deposits in the Eastern United States, USGS Information Handout.

 

Seal, R.R., II, Foley, N.K., Haffner, D.P., and Meier, A., 1998,

Environmental geochemistry of surface and ground waters around the Bald Mountain massive sulfide deposit, northern Maine: natural backgrounds from a mineralized, but unmined area [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 30, p. A128.

 

Seal, R.R., II, Haffner, D.P., Meier, A.L., Krishnaswamy, R., and Hammarstrom, J.M., 1999,

Geochemistry of acid mine drainage from the abandoned Elizabeth copper mine, South Strafford, Vermont [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs (NE), v. 31, p. A-66.

 

Seal, R.R., II, Haffner, D.P., and Meier, A.L., 1998,

Environmental characteristics of the abandoned Greenwood mine area, Prince William Forest Park, Virginia: Implications for mercury geochemistry: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 98-326, 19 p.

 

Seal, R.R., II, Haffner, D.P., and Meier, A.L., 1998,

Geochemical data including mercury speciation for surface waters at the abandoned Greenwood mine area, Prince William Forest Park, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 98-756, 14 p.

 

Seal, R.R., II, Haffner, D.P., and Meier, A.L., 1999,

Methylmercury in surface waters around an abandoned gold prospect in the Virginia gold-pyrite belt, northern Virginia [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs (SE), v. 31.

 

Seal, R.R., II, Haffner, D.P., and Meier, A.L., and Pollio, C.A., 1999,

Ground- and Surface- Water Geochemical Insights into the Behavior of Limestone Amendment at the Reclaimed Cabin Branch Pyrite Mine, Prince William Forest Park, Virginia [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, p. A-333

Seal, R.R., II, Hammarstrom, J.M., Meier, A.L., and Flohr, M.J.K., 1997,

Controls on geochemical signatures of mine drainage from volcanic- and sediment-hosted massive sulfide deposits in the eastern United States [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 29, p. A386.

 

Seal, R.R., II, Hammarstrom, J.M., Southworth, C.S., Meier, A.L., Haffner, D.P., Schultz, A.P., Plumlee, G.S., Flohr, M.J.K., Jackson, J.C., Smith, S.M., and Hageman, P.L. , 1998,

Preliminary report on water quality associated with the abandoned Fontana and Hazel Creek mines, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-476, 50 p.

 

Seal, R.R., II, Hammarstrom, J.M., Southworth, C.S., Schultz, A.P., and Meier, A.L., 1997,

Geochemistry of acidic drainage in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Implications for the Southern Appalachians [abs]: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Southern Appalachians Man and The Biosphere Conference, p. 55

 

Seal, R.R., II, Krishnaswamy, R., Flohr, M.J.K., Hammarstrom, J. M., and Robbins, E.I., 1996,

Preliminary stable isotope data for acidic drainage from abandoned pyrite mines in the Virginia Piedmont [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.28, no. 7, p. 465.

 

Seal, R.R., II, Schultz, A.P., Haffner, D.P., and Meier, A.L., 1999,

Water Quality and Inorganic Chemistry of Icewater Spring and Mount Le Conte Spring, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-375, 9 p.

 

Seal, R.R., II, and Wandless, G.A., 1997,

Stable isotope characteristics of waters draining massive sulfide deposits in the eastern United States, in Wanty, R.B., Marsh, S.P., and Gough, L.P. (eds.), 4th International Symposium on Environmental Geochemistry, Vail, CO: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-0496, p. 82.