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First records of the smelt, Osmerus mordax, in Lake Erie

Abstract has not been submitted
Authors
John Van Oosten
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

Flood in La Canada Valley, California, January 1, 1934

No abstract available.
Authors
H.C. Troxell, John Q. Peterson
By
Water Resources Mission Area, California Water Science Center

Flood on Republican and Kansas Rivers, May and June 1935

No abstract available.
Authors
Robert Follansbee, J.B. Spiegel
By
Kansas Water Science Center

Fossil flora of the Wedington sandstone member of the Fayetteville shale

No abstract available.
Authors
David White

Fossil plants from the Stanley shale and Jackfork sandstone in southeastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas

No abstract available.
Authors
David White

Furunculosis in wild trout

Furunculosis, or as it has been more appropiately termed, "fish septicemia," is a disease primarily affecting salmon and trout. It is caused by the invasion and growth of Bacterium salmonicida Emmerich and Weibel, a Gram negative, non-spore forming, diplobacterium belonging to the family Bacteriaceae Cohn. After gaining entrance to the host, presumably by way of the digestive tract, the organism i
Authors
F. F. Fish
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Western Fisheries Research Center

Geologic factors in the interpretation of fluorspar reserves in the Illinois-Kentucky field

No abstract available.
Authors
Louis W. Currier

Geology and fuel resources of the southern part of the Oklahoma coal field. Part 1, The McAlester district, Pittsburg, Atoka, and Latimer Counties

No abstract available.
Authors
T. A. Hendricks

Geology and fuel resources of the southern part of the Oklahoma coal field. Part 2, The Lehigh district, Coal, Atoka, and Pittsburg Counties

No abstract available.
Authors
M. M. Knechtel

Geology and ground-water resources of Duval County, Texas

Duval County is situated in southern Texas, 100 to 150 miles south of San Antonio and about midway between Corpus Christi, on the Gulf of Mexico, and Laredo, on the Rio Grande. The county lies on the Coastal Plain, which for the most part is low and relatively featureless. Between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande in this part of Texas the plain is interrupted by an erosion remnant, the Reynosa
Authors
Albert Nelson Sayre
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Water Resources Mission Area, Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center

Geology and ground-water resources of Ogden Valley, Utah

Ogden Valley is a fault trough bounded on both the east and west by faults that dip toward the middle of the valley. This fault trough contains unconsolidated deposits of clay, sand, and gravel, whose thickness is more than 600 feet. These materials are stream and lake deposits and in places are well sorted and stratified. The lake sediments were laid down in a small lake that occupied Ogden Valle
Authors
R.M. Leggette, G.H. Taylor
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Water Resources Mission Area, Utah Water Science Center

Geology and ground-water resources of Webb County, Texas

Webb County is in southwestern Texas and is a part of the Winter Garden district. The purpose of the investigation here recorded was to determine the source, quantity, and quality of the ground water used for irrigation and other purposes in the area.
Authors
John T. Lonsdale, James R. Day
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Water Resources Mission Area, Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center