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The coordination of mosquito control with wildlife conservation

No abstract available.
Authors
Clarence Cottam

Volcanic activity at Magnet Cove, Arkansas

The igneous rocks and the minerals of Magnet Cove, Arkansas, have long interested geologists and mineralogists, but in much of the area rock‐exposures are so sparse that many of the geologic, relations have remained obscure. However, recent prospecting and the mining of titanium ores have uncovered rocks that throw new light on the geology of the region. The regional rocks of the area are sandston
Authors
C. S. Ross

Igneous activity in the Comstock District, Nevada

The oldest igneous rocks in the Comstock District are amphibolites probably derived from basalts and of Triassic age. These are intruded by pre‐Tertiary quartz monzonlte and by granodiorite of Sierran facies, the latter not being exposed on the surface but found on mine‐dumps. Igneous activity recorded mainly in volcanic rocks was almost continuous throughout the Tertiary. Its products, in order o
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F. C. Calkins

Diabase dikes of the Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, quadrangle

Two of the numerous small dikes mapped on the areal geology sheet of the Franklin Furnace Folio (U.S. Geological Survey 161) as “Mostly basic, including nepheline tinguaite, leucite tinguaite, and camptonite” of post‐Ordovician age, have been found to be quite distinct from these alkalic rocks, and the two dikes in question are indistinguishable from the Triassic diabase found elsewhere in New Jer
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C. Milton

Role of physical chemistry in stratigraphic problems

Stratigraphy is concerned mainly with the genesis and interpretation of stratified rocks, which include some of wide extent and of great scientific as well as economic interest that are largely of chemical rather than of detrital origin. Chemical agencies have been recognized to some extent in genetic studies of these rocks, but little work has been done approaching in maturity the type of study n
Authors
George R. Mansfield

Precipitation and vegetation

As time marches on, historians are usually quite faithful in recording the activities of man, and it will usually be found that Mother Nature is even more meticulous in reflecting and preserving her experiences, more especially with regard to climate and vegetation. Just how much the activities of man have done to modify the natural conditions of a virgin country may in some respects always remain
Authors
Ralf R. Woolley, J.C. Alter

A recording evaporimeter

The instrument herein described was originally designed and built to record the evaporation‐loss from a standard Weather Bureau pan for use in a study of the variation of flow in Santa Ana River. Valuable suggestions were made by various members of the Water Resources Branch of the Geological Survey in Southern California, and financial assistance for construction was given by F. C. Ebert and H. C
Authors
J. Oliver, N.W. Cummings

Ground‐water for air‐conditioning on Long Island, New York

During the last five years ground‐water has been more and more extensively used for air‐conditioning on Long Island, New York. The wide‐spread occurrence of highly permeable water‐bearing material and the relatively small cost of installation and operation of a ground‐water, air‐conditioning system has resulted in many such installations by theaters, restaurants, stores, and other establishments.
Authors
R.M. Leggette, M.L. Brashears

Some mineral deposits of Glacier Bay and vicinity, Alaska

Prospecting in the Glacier Bay National Monument has been confined so far to granitic rocks near contacts with Paleozoic sediments, which they intrude.Near Reid Glacier thin veins, a few of which are traceable for about 300 feet both horizontaliy and vertically, trend northerly and carry sphalerite, galena, and pyrite. Gold was panned from some of the better looking material.Near Sandy Cove, 30 mi
Authors
John Calvin Reed

Block diagrams

No abstract available.
Authors
W. D. Johnston, B. Thomas Nolan

Effect of a sea-level canal on the ground-water level of Florida

No abstract available.
Authors
David Grosh Thompson, Oscar Edward Meinzer, V. T. Stringfield

Evaporation and runoff from snow in the Alpine Zone of our western mountains

In this informal paper the processes of snow‐wastage at high altitudes were discussed and a number of slides illustrating suncups and sunpits in different stages of development were shown. It was stressed that these features are peculiar to the region above the timber‐line, which biologists term the Alpine, or Arctic‐Alpine, Zone. That regions is, as a matter of fact, primarily and fundamentally a
Authors
Francois E. Matthes