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A lower Lance florule from Harding County, South Dakota

No abstract available.
Authors
E. W. Berry

A microprojection machine designed for the study of fish scales

Abstract has not been submitted
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John Van Oosten, Hilary J. Deason, Frank W. Jobes
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

Artesian water in Somervell County, Texas

Somervell County is part of the Grand Prairie region of north-central Texas. An excellent supply of artesian water is available from the Trinity reservoir at no great depth. The first flowing well in Somervell County was drilled in 1880, and the first flowing well in Glen Rose, the county seat, was drilled in 1881. Since 1880 more than 500 wells have been constructed, probably more than half of th
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Albert George Fiedler
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Water Resources Mission Area, Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center

Beach placers of the Oregon coast

No abstract available.
Authors
J. T. Pardee

Bibliography of North American geology, 1931 and 1932

No abstract available.
Authors
John M. Nickles

Causes of variation in the growth rates of fishes

Abstract has not been submitted
Authors
Ralph Hile
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

Core drilling for coal in the Moose Creek area, Alaska

No abstract available.
Authors
Gerald Ashley Waring

Determination of the common and rare alkalies in mineral analysis

Methods are described which afford a determination of each member of the alkali group and are successful in dealing with the quantities of the rare alkalies found in rocks and minerals. The procedures are relatively rapid and based chiefly on the use of chloroplatinic acid, absolute alcohol and ether, and ammonium sulfate. The percentages of all the alkalies found in a number of minerals are given
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R. C. Wells, R. E. Stevens

Fifty-fifth annual report of the Director of the Geological Survey

From the point of view of the geologists of this continent, the important event of the year was the meeting in Washington, in July, of the sixteenth session of the International Geological Congress.  The only other session held in the United States was the fifth, in 1891.
Authors
Walter Curran Mendenhall

Geology and ore deposits of the Breckenridge mining district, Colorado

No abstract available.
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T. S. Lovering

Geology and ore deposits of the Casto quadrangle, Idaho

The study of the Casto quadrangle was undertaken as the first item in a project to obtain more thorough knowledge of the general geology of southcentral Idaho on which to base study of the ore deposits of t he region. The quadrangle conta ins fragmentary exposures of Algonkian and Paleozoic sedimentary rocks, extensive deposits of old volcanic strata, presumably Permian, not heretofore recognized
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Clyde P. Ross

Geology and ore deposits of the Elk City, Orogrande, Buffalo Hump, and Tenmile Districts, Idaho County, Idaho

This report presents the preliminary results of the authors' field work in 1931 and 1932 in the drainage basin of the South Fork of Clearwater River and just south of the divide between that stream and Salmon River.
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P. J. Shenon, J. C. Reed