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Observations on the ground waters of Rio Grande Valley

No abstract available.
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Charles Sumner Slichter

Paleontology of the Malone Jurassic formation of Texas

No abstract available.
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Francis Whittemore Cragin, T. W. Stanton

Petrography and geology of the igneous rocks of the Highwood mountains, Montana

No abstract available.
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Louis Valentine Pirsson

Preliminary announcement concerning a new mercury mineral from Terlingua, Texas

No abstract available.
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W. F. Hillebrand

Preliminary list of deep borings in the United States

The first preliminary list of deep borings in the United States was issued as Water-Supply Papers Nos. 57 and 61. The present publication includes all of the wells listed in these two papers, together with many additional borings, mostly of recent date. Messrs. M. L. Fuller and A. C. Veatch, of the eastern section of hydrology, and other geologists of the Survey have contributed many new data. Des
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Nelson Horatio Darton
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Water Resources Mission Area, Utah Water Science Center, Kansas Water Science Center

Preliminary report on the geology and underground water resources of the central Great Plains

The area to which this report relates is shown in Pl. II.  It comprises the greater portions of South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, and the eastern portions of Colorado and of Wyoming, an area of about one-half million square miles. It is the result of my investigations during the past eight years, but includes also all available data from many sources. I have been aided by various field assistant
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N. H. Darton
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Kansas Water Science Center

Preliminary report on the geology and water resources of central Oregon

No abstract available.
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Israel C. Russell

Preliminary report on the operations of the coal-testing plant of the United States Geological Survey at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904

No abstract available.
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Edward Wheeler Parker, Joseph A. Holmes, Marius R. Campbell

Preliminary report on the pollution of Lake Champlain

No abstract available.
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Marshall O. Leighton

Preliminary report on the underground waters of Washington

No abstract available.
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Henry Landes
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Washington Water Science Center

Proceedings of second conference of engineers of the Reclamation Service, with accompanying papers

No abstract available.
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Frederick Haynes Newell

Proposed international phonetic conference to adopt a universal alphabet

No abstract available.
Authors
R. Stein