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Preliminary structure contour map of the Cut Bank-West Kevin-Border districts, Glacier, Toole, and Pondera Counties, Montana

No abstract available.
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C. E. Erdmann, N.A. Davis

Preliminary structure contour map of the Dunkirk-Chester region, Toole and Liberty Counties, Montana

No abstract available.
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Charles Edgar Erdmann

Preliminary structure contour map of the Shoshone anticline and the adjoining region near Cody, Park County, Wyoming

No abstract available.
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W. G. Pierce, W.C. Warren, R.P. Bryson

Reconnaissance map of the Dewey Area, Weston and Niobrara counties, Wyoming, and Custer and Fall River counties, South Dakota

No abstract available.
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J.D. Northrop

Reconnaissance map of the Willishaw Flats anticlinal nose, Toole County, Montana

No abstract available.
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C. E. Erdmann

Report on resistivity measurements with estimates of depth to bedrock at certain dam sites on the Little Colorado River tributaries, 1939

No abstract available.
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H. Cecil Spicer

Report to the Michigan State Senate on the fisheries of Potagannissing Bay, Michigan

No abstract available.
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Fred A. Westerman, John Van Oosten
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

Ridge-making thin sandstone in Frederick County, Virginia: Chapter C

It is generally recognized that massive thick-bedded sandstones and relatively weak shales and soluble limestones form characteristic surface features. The uncommon effect of a thin argillaceous sandstone in producing ridges in an area in northern Virginia, in which the writer has recently done detailed field work, is briefly described in this paper. This bed, with an average thickness of 2 feet,
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R.S. Edmundson
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Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center

Save the Great Lakes fisheries!

During the winters of 1939-40 and 1940-41, two experiments involving 456 bobwhite quail, were conducted at the Patuxent Research Refuge, Bowie, Maryland, to determine the palatability and comparative feeding value of 20 common wild quail-foods when offered as a part of a maintenance diet....2. Mortality was low on all diets, the highest occurring on that containing a mixture of bayberry and wax my
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John Van Oosten
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

Simplified methods for the prolonged treatment of fish diseases

The prevention or control of epidemics of fish diseases by applying a disinfecting solution in a uniform concentration directly to the water supply of a fish pond or trough for a definite period of time has been exceedingly slow in development. In so far as can be determined, the original idea should be credited to. Marsh and Robinson (1910). In their work on the control of algae in fish ponds by
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F. F. Fish
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Western Fisheries Research Center

Some linguloid shells from the late Devonian and early Carboniferous rocks of Pennsylvania and Ohio

No abstract available.
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G. H. Girty

Spirit leveling in Missouri, 1896-1938. Part 5, Southwestern Missouri, 1896-1937

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