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Preliminary report on the North Atlantic deep‐sea cores taken by the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution

A series, of 11 cores from the North Atlantic sea‐bottom between the Newfoundland Banks and the banks off the Irish Coast have been studied by a group of geologists of the United States Geological Survey. These cores were taken by Dr. C. S. Piggot of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory from the cable ship Lord Kelvin with the explosive type of sounding‐apparatus, which he designed (C
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W.H. Bradley, M. N. Bramlette, J.A. Cushman, L.G. Henbest, K.E. Lahman, P.D. Trask

The problem of the Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Granite

The Chelmsford granite is quarried in and around Oak Hill, about six miles west of Lowell, Massachusetts. The granite‐area is about eight miles long and one to three miles wide, and its longer dimension has a northeast bearing which is parallel with the regional axis of foliation in the country rock. The writer favors a hypothesis that much of the granite represents granitization of biotite schist
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L.W. Currier

The analysis of pollucite

No abstract available.
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R. C. Wells, R. E. Stevens

Origin of the bedding replacement deposits of fluorspar in the Illinois field

The banded fluorspar deposits of the Cave In Rock district are attributed to replacement of limestone and the preservation of bedding and cross-bedding of the rock. The solutions contained hydrofluoric acid which reacted with CaCO 3 . The replacement was stoichiometrical, with consequent reduction of volume, but continued deposition of calcium fluoride, brought in from other points, partly or comp
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L.W. Currier

Geologic map of Texas

No abstract available.
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N. H. Darton, L. W. Stephenson, Julia Gardner

Geology and fuel resources of the southern part of the Oklahoma coal field

No abstract available.
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Thomas A. Hendricks

The American chameleon and its care

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Research studies in the control of destructive mammals

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Francis Earl Garlough

Mineral resources of Alaska: report on progress of investigations in 1934

No abstract available.
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Philip S. Smith

Available publications of the Bureau of Biological Survey

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Some accomplishments of the cooperative research units: a summary to January 31, 1937

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Hartley Harrad Thompson Jackson

Sanitation in domestic rabbitries

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Frank D. McKenney