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The flora of the Ripley formation

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E. W. Berry

The geologic time classification of the United States Geological Survey compared with other classifications, accompanied by the original definitions of era, period and epoch terms

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Mary Grace Wilmarth

The Papago country, Arizona: A geographic, geologic, and hydrologic reconnaissance, with a guide to desert watering places

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Kirk Bryan

The physical features of central Massachusetts

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William C. Alden

The resuscitation of the term Bryn Mawr gravel

In the course of geologic and physiographic work in eastern Pennsylvania, it has seemed to the writer that the time was ripe for the restriction of the term Brandywine formation, now including presumably both Pliocene and Pleistocene gravels, and the reinstatement of the old term Bryn Mawr gravel for a portion of the divided Brandywine. A brief history of the nomenclature and usage involved will s
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Florence Bascom

Variation in annual run-off in the Rocky Mountain region: Chapter A in Contributions to the hydrology of the United States, 1923-1924

Records of run-off in the Rocky Mountain States since the nineties and for a few stations since the eighties afford a means of studying the variation in the annual run-off in this region. The data presented in this report show that the variation in annual run-off differs in different areas in the Rocky Mountain region, owing to the differences in the sources of the precipitation in these areas. Ex
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Robert Follansbee

Water power and flood control of Colorado River below Green River, Utah

The purpose of this report is to present the facts regarding available water supply and all known dam sites on Colorado River between Cataract Canyon, Utah, and Parker, Ariz., and to show the relative value of these dam sites. To determine the relative value of the dam sites, a comprehensive plan of development for Colorado River below the mouth of Green River is presented that will provide for th
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Eugene Clyde La Rue, Hubert Work, Nathan C. Grover
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Water Resources Mission Area, Utah Water Science Center, California Water Science Center

Water power and irrigation in the Madison River basin, Montana

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J.F. Deeds, W. N. White

A New Myxosporidian Parasite, the Cause of "Wormy" Halibut

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H.S. Davis

Atomic numbers versus atomic weights

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F. W. Clarke

Bibliography of North American geology for 1921-22

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John M. Nickles

Coal resources of the Raton coal field, Colfax County, New Mexico

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Willis Thomas Lee