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Westall mica mine, Yancey County, North Carolina

No abstract available.
Authors
J.J. Page, J.J. Norton, V.C. Fryklund

White Spar mica mine, Custer County, South Dakota

No abstract available.
Authors
L. R. Page, J.J. Norton

Dolomite pseudomorphs after crystals of aragonite [Wyoming]

The flat hexagonal crystals from the Big Horn Basin, Wyoming, Iocally called "Indian Pennies," are shown to consist of dolomite pseudomorphous after crystals of aragonite.
Authors
D. A. Andrews, W. T. Schaller

Correlation of the outcropping cretaceous formations of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain and trans-Pecos Texas

This is Number 9 of a series of correlation charts prepared by the Committee on Stratigraphy of the National Research Council, which will cover the post-Proterozoic sedimentary formations of North America. For general information about the project the reader is referred to the general introduction preceding this paper. The senior author, Lloyd W. Stephenson, is responsible for that part of the cha
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L. W. Stephenson, P.B. King, W. H. Monroe, R. W. Imlay

Research notes on botulism in western marsh areas with recommendations for control

No abstract available.
Authors
E. R. Quortrup, R. L. Sudheimer

Reconnaissance survey of the Roberts Mountains, Nevada

The Roberts Mountains region, central Nevada, provides an excellent section of Paleozoic rocks ranging from Upper Cambrian to Permian. Major low-angle thrusting is indicated by deformed Ordovician strata resting on Paleozoics of varying age. Overlying a thick breccia zone, the upper thrust plate consists of sandstones, andesitic flows and tuffs, black shales, and bedded cherts (Vinini formation).
Authors
C. W. Merriam, C.A. Anderson

Some ecological relations of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to Clostridium botulinum type C

No abstract available.
Authors
E. R. Quortrup, R. L. Sudheimer

Wildlife contributions to the Nation's war program

No abstract available.
Authors
Edna N. Sater

Intrusive rocks in the Blue Ridge plateau, Virginia

An injection complex of early pre‐Cambrian age is exposed in the Elk Creek anticline in Grayson County, Virginia. There, sedimentary rocks and diorite have been intruded by the Striped Rock and the Carsonville granites. The granites have metamorphosed, injected, reacted with, and replaced the older rocks to form many mixed types. This injection complex is part of a large area of similar rocks that
Authors
Anna Stose

Monthly evapo‐transpiration losses from natural drainage‐basin

With limited restrictions the hydrologic cycle in a given area may be expressed essentially as follows: P = (R + E + ΔFm) in which P represents the precipitation during a given period, R that portion which has reached or will reach the stream‐channel either through surface or subsurface paths, E that part which is evaporated from land and water surfaces and transpired by vegetation during the same
Authors
Walter B. Langbein

Recharge to ground‐water from floods in a typical desert wash, Pinal County, Arizona

Queen Creek, considered in this paper, is a typical large desert wash. It rises in the Pinal Mountains near the mining town of Superior and enters the outwash‐plain at Black Point about three miles north of Florence Junction (see Fig. 1). Thence it passes over the desert in a southwesterly direction toward Chandler, spreads over the lowlands, and disappears. The flow of the stream consists almost
Authors
H. M. Babcock, E. M. Cushing

Recharge and discharge of the ground‐water reservoirs on the High Plains in Texas

The High Plains in Texas occupy an area of about 35,000 square miles extending from the northern boundary of the Panhandle southward about 300 miles, and from the New Mexico line eastward an average distance of about 120 miles to a boundary which in most places is sharply defined by a bold escarpment several hundred feet in height.The region is noted for its abundant supply of ground‐water, most o
Authors
W. L. Broadhurst