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The Wasatch Plateau coal field, Utah

The Wasatch Plateau, the northeasternmost of the great group of high plateaus in central and southern Utah, is underlain by a succession of Cretaceous rocks that, contain valuable coal beds, and the eastern part of the plateau, in which the coal is accessible, is generally known as the Wasatch Plateau coal field. This field and its continuation east of Price River the Book Cliffs coal field contai
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Edmund M. Spieker

Water-power resources of the McKenzie River and its tributaries, Oregon

No abstract available.
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Benjamin E. Jones, Harold T. Stearns

Coal as a recorder of incipient rock metamorphism

No abstract available.
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Marius Robinson Campbell

Coal as a recorder of incipient rock metamorphismy

If the evidence presented in the body of this paper is accepted, there seems to be no question that eight stages in the metamorph-ism of coal can be recognized and explained by the processes that have been active in the earth coincident with the development of plant life on the land; and that at least six of these stages have left few if any marks on the composition or physical appearance of the s
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M. R. Campbell

Shorter contributions to general geology, 1929

Thin beds that consist almost wholly of euhedral analcite crystals occur at five or more horizons in the upper half of the Green River formation of Utah and Colorado, a series of Eocene lake beds that contain large deposits of oil shale. Most of these beds contain also minute crystals of apophyllite. The analcite crystals in some beds are cemented only by chalcedony, but in other beds that have le
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Borate minerals from the Kramer district, Mohave Desert, California

No abstract available.
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W. T. Schaller

Boundaries, areas, geographic centers, and altitudes of the United States and the several states, with a brief record of important changes in their territory and government

No abstract available.
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Edward M. Douglas

Chemical activation of quartz surfaces

No abstract available.
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P. G. Nutting

Contact metamorphism of the rocks in the Pend Oreille district, northern Idaho

No abstract available.
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J.L. Gillson

Contributions to economic geology (short papers and preliminary reports), 1929 : Part I. - Metals and nonmetals except fuels

No abstract available.
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Gerald Francis Loughlin, George Rogers Mansfield, E. F. Burchard

Contributions to economic geology (short papers and preliminary reports), 1929, Part I, Metals and nonmetals except fuels. The New World or Cooke City mining district, Park County, Montana

No abstract available.
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T. S. Lovering

Contributions to economic geology (short papers and preliminary reports), 1929, Part I, Metals and nonmetals except fuels. The Rawlins, Shirley, and Seminoe iron-ore deposits, Carbon County, Wyoming

No abstract available.
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T. S. Lovering