Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Publications

Browse more than 160,000 publications authored by our scientists over the past 100+ year history of the USGS.  Publications available are: USGS-authored journal articles, series reports, book chapters, other government publications, and more.

Pubs Warehouse

Science Quality and Integrity

Collage of scientists doing work in field with example budget tables and charts over as graphic elements.

The USGS provides unbiased, objective, and impartial scientific information upon which our audiences, including resource managers, planners, and other entities, rely.

Fundamental Science Practices

Mission Area Publications

We are focused on some of the most significant issues society faces, and our science is making a substantial contribution to the well-being of the Nation and the world. Learn more about the major topics our research covers and the programs focused on those topics.

Explore Mission Areas
Filter Total Items: 171126

The relation of the streams in the neighborhood of Philadelphia to the Bryn Mawr gravel

No abstract available.
Authors
Florence Bascom

A reconnaissance in southeastern Washington

No abstract available.
Authors
Israel Cook Russell
By
Washington Water Science Center

A synopsis of American fossil Brachiopoda, including bibliography and synonymy

No abstract available.
Authors
Charles Schuchert

Analyses of rocks, with a chapter on analytical methods, laboratory of the United States Geological survey 1880 to 1896

No abstract available.
Authors
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke, W. F. Hillebrand

Bibliography and index of North American geology, paleontology, petrology, and mineralogy, for the year 1896

No abstract available.
Authors
Fred Boughton Weeks

Butte special folio, Montana

No abstract available.
Authors
Walter Harvey Weed, Samuel Franklin Emmons, George Warren Tower

Chemistry in the United States

No abstract available.
Authors
F. W. Clarke

Downieville folio, California

No abstract available.
Authors
Henry Ward Turner

Eighteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1896-1897: Part I - Director's report, including triangulation and spirit leveling

During the fiscal year 1896-97 the organization of the Geological Survey as set forth in the Director's last report was continued without material change, and the field work of 1896 was largely a continuatoin of the previous season. The most important change in the field work was rendered necessary by the legislation providing for the establishment of levels and permanent monuments and bench marks
Authors
Charles D. Walcott

Eighteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1896-1897: Part II - Papers chiefly of a theoretical nature

No abstract available
Authors
M.W. Davis, R. T. Hill, T.W. Vaughan, W.H. Dall, I.C. Russell, G. O. Smith, J.E. Wolff, A. H. Brooks, W.S.T. Smith, N.S. Shaler, G. K. Gilbert

Eighteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1896-1897: Part III - Economic geology

No abstract available.
Authors
G. F. Becker, J. E. Spurr, H. B. Goodrich, Bailey Willis, W. H. Weed, Louis Valentine Pirsson, Waldemar Lindgren, F. H. Knowlton, Chester Wells Purington

Eighteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1896-1897: Part IV - Hydrography

The completion of this volume marks the revival of extended systematic investigation of the hydrography of the United State. This book is, in effect, the ninth annual report of what has been known as the Irrigation Survey. Its preparation and publication has been made possible by the act of June 11, 1896 (Stat. L., vol. 29, p. 436), which enlarged the scope of the work and authorized the preparati
Authors
Arthur Powell Davis, Frank Leverett, N. H. Darton, J.D. Schuyler
By
Kansas Water Science Center