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July and August in review

No abstract available.
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C.S. Robbins
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Late Mesozoic and early Cenozoic history of central Utah

No abstract available.
Authors
E. M. Spieker

Lower Middle Ordovician stratigraphy of the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia

In classifying the lower Middle Ordovician of the Shenandoah Valley, the formation names Stones River, Mosheim, Lenoir, Holston, Whitesburg, and Athens have been used without adequate evidence. Detailed study shows that the so-called Athens and Whitesburg, as developed near Harrisonburg, are laterally continuous with the greater part of the Chambersburg limestone, which is supposed to be younger t
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B.N. Cooper, G.A. Cooper
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Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center

Map Showing Construction Materials and Nonmetallic-Mineral Resources of Wyoming

No abstract available.
Authors
Stephen E. Clabaugh, E.C. Fischer, E.L. Fox, W. R. Griffitts, David M. Larrabee

Map Showing Metallic Mineral Deposits of Colorado 1946

No abstract available.
Authors
Richard P. Fischer, Wilbur Burbank, Hallen Cannon

Maximum size and age of whitefish

Abstract has not been submitted
Authors
John Van Oosten
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

May in review

No abstract available.
Authors
C.S. Robbins
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Mica deposits of the Petaca district, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

Wartime increases in demand for mica of strategic quality, beryllium, tantalum, columbium, tin, lithium, and uranium have focused attention on pegmatite deposits more sharply during recent years than ever before. Not only have numerous technical developments of the past few decades involved new uses for these commodities, but during the recent period of emergency these and other uses were greatly
Authors
R. H. Jahns

Milk by-products in the diet of bobwhite quail chicks

No abstract available.
Authors
R. B. Nestler, L. M. Llewellyn
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Mineral deposits at Orange Hill, Alaska

No abstract available.
Authors
Ralph Erskine Van Alstine, Robert F. Black

Mineral investigations of the Geological Survey in Alaska in 1943 and 1944

No abstract available.
Authors
John C. Reed

Mineral resources of the Trinity River tributary area in Texas and Oklahoma

No abstract available.