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The reef-coral fauna of Carrizo Creek, Imperial County, California, and its significance

No abstract available.
Authors
T.W. Vaughan
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Water Resources Mission Area, California Water Science Center

The stratigraphic position and faunal associates of the Orbitoid Foraminifera of the genus Orthophragmina from Georgia and Florida; and Orbitoid foraminifera of the genus orthophragmia from Georgia and Florida

No abstract available.
Authors
Charles Wythe Cooke, Joseph Augustine Cushman

The use of the panoramic camera in topographic surveying with notes on the application of photogrammetry to aerial surveys

No abstract available.
Authors
James Warren Bagley

Thirty-eighth annual report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey

The appropriations for the work of the United States Geological Survey for the fiscal year 1916-17 comprised items amounting to $1,605,520. The plan of operations as approved by the Secretary of the Interior included geologic surveys in the United States and Alaska, reconnaissance and detailed, of 40,937 square miles, topographic surveys of 32,245 square miles, stream gaging at 1,197 stations, the
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George Otis Smith

Tolchester folio, Maryland

No abstract available.
Authors
Benjamin LeRoy Miller

Tungsten minerals and deposits

No abstract available.
Authors
Frank Lee Hess

Useful minerals of the United States

No abstract available.
Authors
Frank Charles Schrader, Ralph Walter Stone, Samuel Sanford

Wasatch fossils in so-called Fort Union beds of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, and their bearing on the stratigraphy of the region

Northeastern Wyoming is occupied by a broad structural basin opening to the north and bounded on the east, south, and west by three mountain uplifts - the Black Hills, the Laramie Mountains, and the Big Horn Mountains. (See fig. 16.) Throughout much of this basin the surface rocks are of Tertiary age. They contain the principal coal beds of the region and have been classified in all the most recen
Authors
Carroll H. Wegemann

Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan counties

No abstract available.
Authors
George P. Grimsley, I.C. White
By
Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center

Suggestions to authors of papers submitted for publication by the United States Geological Survey with directions to typewriter operators

No abstract available.
Authors
George McLane Wood

A gold-platinum-palladium lode in southern Nevada

No abstract available.
Authors
Adolph Knopf

A method of correcting river discharge for a changing stage

No abstract available.
Authors
Benjamin E. Jones