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Cranberry folio, North Carolina-Tennessee

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Arthur Keith

Descriptive geology of Nevada south of the fortieth parallel and adjacent portions of California

No abstract available.
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Josiah Edward Spurr

Drainage modifications in southeastern Ohio and adjacent parts of West Virginia and Kentucky

The field work upon which this paper is based was carried on intermittently for several years. During the season of 1899 the work in Washington County, Ohio, was conducted under the direction of the Ohio State Academy of Science, the expenses being covered by a grant from the Emerson McMillin special research fund. The field work of the season of 1900 was done under the direction of Dr. T. C. Cham
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W. G. Tight

Elkland-Tioga folio, Pennsylvania

No abstract available.
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Myron L. Fuller, William C. Alden

Ellensburg folio, Washington

No abstract available.
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George Otis Smith

Forest conditions in the Cascade Range Forest Reserve, Oregon

No abstract available.
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H.D. Langille, F. G. Plummer, Arthur Dodwell, T. F. Rixon, J. B. Leiberg

Gaines folio, Pennsylvania-New York

No abstract available.
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Myron L. Fuller, William C. Alden

Geographic tables and formulas

No abstract available.
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Samuel Stinson Gannett

Geology of the Globe copper district, Arizona

The investigation of the Globe district was begun early in the summer of 1901, a month being devoted to preliminary reconnaissances and areal mapping of the geology. Work was subsequently resumed in October of the same year, with the efficient assistance of Dr. John D. lrving, and continued to the 1st of February, 1902. Much time was necessarily consumed in studying and mapping the intricately fau
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Frederick Leslie Ransome

Hartville folio, Wyoming

The Geological Survey is making a geologic map of the United States, which necessitates the preparation of a topographic bas map.  The two are being issue together in the form of an atlas, the parts of which are called folios.  Each folio consists of a topographic base map and geologic maps of a small area of country, together with explanatory and descriptive texts.
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William Sidney Tangier Smith

Instructions relating to the work of the United States Geological Survey to take effect May 1, 1903

On March 3, 1900, a series of instructions relating to the work of the topographic branch of the Geological Survey was approved and published in pamphlet form.  The extensive use of this publication by those engaged in topographic work and others exhausted the first edition and seemed to justify its enlargement so that it would cover the field and office work of the Survey generally.  The instruct
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Irrigation in India

No abstract available.
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Herbert M. Wilson