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Terrain intelligence Chita Oblast (U.S.S.R.)

The following folio of maps and explanatory tables outlines the principal terrain features of the Chita Oblast.  Each map and table is devoted to a specialized set of problems; together they cover such subjects as terrain appreciations, rivers, surface-water and ground-water supplies, construction materials, fuels, suitability for temporary roads and airfields, mineral resources, and geology.  The
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The action of some aqueous solutions on clays of the montmorillonite group

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P. G. Nutting

The age, growth, and bathymetric distribution of Reighard's chub, Leucichthys reighardi koelz, in Lake Michigan

Reighard's chub has come to be one of the most important species of the group since the serious decline in abundance of the larger representatives of the genus Leucichthys in Lake Michigan. An understanding of the biology of as many species of chubs as possible is essential if further depletion and the collapse of the fishery are to be prevented. The age and growth of 331 individuals taken in 1932
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

The Arlington copper mine: North Arlington, New Jersey

The Arlington copper mine is located in North Arlington, Bergen Co., N. J. The ore deposit occurs in a 10- to 30-foot thick arkosic sandstone layer, interbedded in red shale. Copper mineralization is associated with thin diabase sills and dikes. It would probably not be feasible to develop the underground workings since they are overlain by the residential section of North Arlington. One area, con
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Henry Rowland Cornwall

The Basin and Range Province in Utah, Nevada, and California

In this report an attempt has been made to summarize and in places to interpret the published information that was available through 1938 on the geology of those parts of Nevada, California, and Utah that are included in the geologic province known as the Basin and Range province. This region includes most of the Great Basin, from which no water flows to the sea, as well as part of the drainage ba
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Thomas B. Nolan

The common pine snake in West Virginia

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L. M. Llewellyn
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

The Coso quicksilver district, Inyo County, California

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C. P. Ross, R. G. Yates

The Judge Ferguson mica mine, Jackson County, North Carolina

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J. C. Olson

The Mexican snakes of the genera Sonora and Chionactis with notes on the status of other Colubrid genera

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W. H. Stickel
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

The Rose Creek tungsten mine, Pershing County, Nevada

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Ralph Jackson Roberts

Tin-bearing deposits of Coosa County, Alabama

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W.C. Stoll

Tolley Bent mica mine, Yancey County, North Carolina

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J.J. Page, J.J. Norton, V.C. Fryklund