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The San Juan Canyon, southeastern Utah: A geographic and hydrographic reconnaissance

This report, which describes the San Juan Canyon, San Juan River and the tributary streams and the geography and to some extent the geology of the region, presents information obtained by me during the descent of the river with the Trimble party in 1921. The exploration of the canyon, which was financed jointly by the United States Geological Survey and the Southern California Edison Co., had as i
Authors
Hugh D. Miser
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Water Resources Mission Area, Utah Water Science Center

Two new species of cisco from the Great Lakes

Abstract has not been submitted
Authors
Walter N. Koelz
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary formations of the western part of the San Juan Basin Colorado and New Mexico. Flora of the Animas formation

No abstract available.
Authors
John B. Reeside, F. H. Knowlton

Water powers of the Great Salt Lake basin

The Great Salt Lake basin comprises that part of the Great Basin that drains into Great Salt Lake, Utah. It is about 27,000 square miles in area and includes the northern part of Utah, a small part of eastern Nevada, the southeast corner of Idaho, and the southwest corner of Wyoming.The eastern part of the area consists of mountainous highlands; the western part chiefly of low-lying plains. The lo
Authors
Ralf Rumel Woolley, Nathan Clifford Grover, Nathan C. Grover, W. T. Lee
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Water Resources Mission Area, Utah Water Science Center

A biological survey of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska

No abstract available.
Authors
Edward A. Preble, Waldo Lee McAtee

A geologic reconnaissance in the Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas near the Rio Grande. New species of mollusca from the Eocene deposits of southwestern Texas

No abstract available.
Authors
A. C. Trownbridge, Julia Gardner

A method of measuring and plotting the shapes of pebbles

No abstract available.
Authors
C.K. Wentworth

A section of the Paleozoic formations of the Grand Canyon at the Bass trail

The thick series of horizontal strata of Paleozoic age which makes the greater part of the wall of the Grand Canyon is probably broadly familiar to more people than the strata exposed in any other area in the western United States. Each detail of form or color in the wall is so definitely associated with a bed or set of beds in the series that these strata are the very elements of the canyon lands
Authors
L. F. Noble

A study of the scales of whitefishes of known ages

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

Additions to the flora of the Wilcox group

A rather full account of the extensive flora contained in the lower Eocene strata of the Mississippi embayment which are referred to the Wilcox group was published in 1916. At that time it was not possible to obtain sections of the numerous specimens of petrified wood that had been collected from these beds. These woods have since been sectioned and studied, and it seems eminently desirable to pl
Authors
Edward Wilber Berry

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

Boundaries between countries are established by treaties made by the sovereign powers concerned.A boundary between two States of the United States may be changed by agreement of the State legislatures, but this agreement must be approved by Congress. The United States Congress can not change a State boundary without the consent of the State, nor can two States by mutual agreement change their comm
Authors
Edward M. Douglas

Carlyle-Centralia folio, Illinois

No abstract available.
Authors
Eugene Wesley Shaw