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Geomorphic nomenclature

No abstract available.
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Florence Bascom

The Valles Mountain Volcanic Center of New Mexico

The Valles Mountain region lies in northern New Mexico about 30 miles west of Santa Fe, 50 miles north of Albuquerque, and just west of the Rio Grande. The elevation varies from 6,500 feet at the Rio Grande to 1,200 feet on the higher peaks. ©1931. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.
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C. S. Ross

Investigations relating to the absorption of precipitation and its penetration to the zone of saturation

This paper deals briefly with the methods and results from three separate investigations that are in progress as to the quantity of rain‐water that percolates downward to the water‐table in the localities where it falls.1. Workers in the Department of Agriculture, under the direction of W. W. McLaughlin and in cooperation with the California State Department of Public Works, have used several rela
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G.H. Taylor

Some problems of the Rocky Mountain phosphate field

No abstract available.
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George R. Mansfield

Glacier‐measurements in the United States

It is doubtless known to many members of the Section of Hydrology that prior to the World War there existed an International Glacier Commission (la Commission Internationale des Glaciers) whose self‐appointed task it was to gather and publish the results of all available measurements showing the annual variations in length—advance or recession—of glaciers in different parts of the world. On this C
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F. E. Matthes

Glacier‐measurements in the United States

It is doubtless known to many members of the Section of Hydrology that prior to the World War there existed an International Glacier Commission (la Commission Internationale des Glaciers) whose self‐appointed task it was to gather and publish the results of all available measurements showing the annual variations in length—advance or recession—of glaciers in different parts of the world. On this C
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Francois E. Matthes

Some recent studies in evaporation

During the past few years several important contributions to the study of evaporation from open water‐surfaces have been made. Each has applications to which it is peculiarly adapted, and each has its limitations. 
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C.V. Theis

A classification of the lode deposits of south-central Idaho

No abstract available. 
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C. P. Ross

A flora of Green River age in the Wind River basin of Wyoming

No abstract available.
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E. W. Berry

A geologic reconnaissance of the Dennison Fork district, Alaska

No abstract available.
Authors
John Beaver Mertie

Bibliography of North American geology, 1919-1928

No abstract available.
Authors
John M. Nickles

Bibliography of North American geology, 1929 and 1930

No abstract available.
Authors
John M. Nickles