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Leavenworth-Smithville folio, Missouri-Kansas

No abstract available.
Authors
Henry Hinds, Frank Cook Greene
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Kansas Water Science Center

Life zone investigations in Wyoming

Wyoming is among the foremost of our States in its wealth of natural scenery, culminating in the grandeur of Yellowstone National Park, one of the wonders of the world. In addition to this distinction it posseses vast open plains and lofty mountains whence flow the headwaters of mighty river systems emptying far away to the west into the Pacific Ocean, to the southeast into the Gulf of Mexico, and
Authors
Merritt Cary

Mechanics of the Panama Canal slides

Dr. Becker visited the Canal Zone in 1913 as a geologist of the United States Geological Survey and since that time has given the problem the benefit of his study. His appointment as a member of the committee of the National Academy of Sciences has made it appropriate for his conclusions, based upon his personal observations and already reported in part to the Canal Commission, to be stated for th
Authors
George F. Becker

Mineral resources of the United States, 1915: Part I - Metals

No abstract available.
Authors
Hiram Dryer McCaskey

Mineral resources of the United States, 1915: Part II - Nonmetals

No abstract available.
Authors
Hiram Dryer McCaskey, Ernest Francis Burchard

Mineral springs of Alaska, with a chapter on the chemical character of some surface waters of Alaska

No abstract available.
Authors
Gerald Ashley Waring, R.B. Dole, Alfred A. Chambers

North American Upper Cretaceous corals of the genus Micrabacia

No abstract available.
Authors
L. W. Stephenson

Profile surveys in the Colorado River basin in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico

In connection with studies of the utilization of rivers the United States Geological Survey has from time to time made surveys and profiles of some of the more important streams of the country and published the results in its series of water-supply papers. In some parts of the country these surveys were made chiefly to determine the location of power sites on streams adapted to the development of
Authors
William Harrison Herron
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Utah Water Science Center

Profile surveys of rivers in Wisconsin

No abstract available.
Authors
William Harrison Herron

Relation of the Wissahickon mica gneiss to the Shenandoah limestone and Octoraro schist of the Doe Run and Avondale region, Chester County, Pennsylvania

The region discussed in this paper lies in Chester County, Pa., and is included in the eastern half of the Coatesville quadrangle. (See fig. 3.) It is within the belt of crystal-line schists and gneisses of the Piedmont Plateau. The northern half of the area, which will be called the Doe Run region, from the village of that name (see Fig. 4, p. 15), has been surveyed by Eleanora F. Bliss in connec
Authors
Eleanora F. Bliss, Anna I. Jonas

Relations of the Embar and Chugwater formations in central Wyoming

The information set forth in this chapter was obtained in field work during the seasons of 1913 and 1915. During 1913 the writer was engaged in the detailed mapping of the phosphate beds of the Ember formation on the northeast slope of the Wind River Mountains and in the Owl Creek Mountains as far east as Bighorn River canyon. In 1915 the mapping was continued eastward as far as Holt, from which a
Authors
D. Dale Condit

Retreat of Barry Glacier, Port Wells, Prince William Sound, Alaska, between 1910 and 1914

The Barry Glacier, in the northwest corner of Prince William Sound (fig. 6), was first described by Glenn, Castner, and Mendenhall. It was more extensively studied by the Harriman Alaska expedition in 1899; by Grant in 1905; by Grant and Higgens in 1908 and 1909; and by Martin in 1910. In 1899 Gannett made the first map which accurately delineated the front of the Barry Glacier. The front was rema
Authors
Bertrand L. Johnson