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Contributions to the hydrology of the United States, 1917

No abstract available.
Authors
Nathan C. Grover

Deposits of Claiborne and Jackson age in Georgia

In 1911 the Geological Survey of Georgia published as Bulletin 26 a "Preliminary report on the geology of the Coastal Plain of Georgia," by Otto Veatch and Lloyd William Stephenson, prepared in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey under the supervision of T. Wayland Vaughan, a geologist in charge of Coastal Plain investigations, who contributed the determinations of the invertebrat
Authors
Charles Wythe Cooke, Harold Kurtz Shearer

Fortieth annual report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey

The fortieth annual report of the United States Geological Survey is an appropriate place in which to compare the present scope of the work with that of the work done during the first year of this organization. The growth of the Survey is suggested by a comparison of the appropriations for 1918-19, which comprise items amounting to $1,437,745, with the total appropriation of $106,000 for the first
Authors
George Otis Smith

Gazetteer of streams of Texas

No abstract available.
Authors
Glenn Arthur Gray
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Water Resources Mission Area, Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center

Geology and ground waters of the western part of San Diego County, California

No abstract available.
Authors
Arthur Jackson Ellis, C.H. Lee
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Water Resources Mission Area, California Water Science Center

Geology and ore deposits of the Tintic mining district, Utah

Tintic, Park City, and Bingham have always been the three great silver-lead producing districts of Utah. Of late years Bingham has also become one of the most prominent copper districts of the world, and Tintic has likewise entered the ranks of the great copper camps.
Authors
Waldemar Lindgren, G. F. Loughlin, V. C. Heikes

Geology of northeastern Montana

A large region in northeastern Montana has never been thoroughly explored by geologists, owing to the fact that it is a part of the Great Plains and the belief that it is too monotonous and uninteresting to tempt anyone to turn aside from the pronounced geologic features a little farther west, for which Montana is noted. This region includes parts of Sheridan, Valley, Phillips, and Blaine countie
Authors
Arthur J. Collier

Gravel deposits of the Caddo Gap and De Queen quadrangles, Arkansas

Several thick deposits of gravel are widely distributed along the north edge of the Gulf Coastal Plain, of which a narrow belt is embraced in the southern parts of the Caddo Gap and De Queen quadrangles, Ark. This belt is shown on Plate I, and its location is shown on figure 5, a key map of this region. It comprises parts of Pike, Howard, and Sevier counties and a narrow strip of Hemp- stead Count
Authors
Hugh D. Miser, Albert Homer Purdue

Ground water for irrigation in Lodgepole Valley, Wyoming and Nebraska

No abstract available.
Authors
O. E. Meinzer

Ground water in Quincy Valley, Washington

No abstract available.
Authors
A.T. Schwennesen, O. E. Meinzer

Ground water in Reese River basin and adjacent parts of Humboldt River basin, Nevada

No abstract available.
Authors
Gerald A. Waring

Ground water in San Simon Valley, Arizona and New Mexico, with a section on agriculture

No abstract available.
Authors
A.T. Schwennesen, R.H. Forbes