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Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island

In preparing the present treatise and the accompanying geologic map of Massachusetts and Rhode Island (PI. X, in pocket) I have endeavored to use all the material available. The matter has been greatly condensed, for the detailed geology of a considerable part of the area will be described in a number of forthcoming folios of the Geologic Atlas of the United States. The Holyoke folio, published in
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Benjamin Kendall Emerson

Geology of the Navajo country: A reconnaissance of parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah

No abstract available.
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H. E. Gregory

Ground water for irrigation in the Morgan Hill area, California

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William O. Clark
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Water Resources Mission Area, California Water Science Center

Gypsum in the southern part of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming

No abstract available.
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C. T. Lupton, D. D. Condit

Hydraulic-mining debris in the Sierra Nevada

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G. K. Gilbert
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Water Resources Mission Area, California Water Science Center

Lake Clark-Central Kuskokwim region, Alaska

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Philip Sidney Smith

Leavenworth-Smithville folio, Missouri-Kansas

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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
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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
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George F. Becker

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

No abstract available.
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Hiram Dryer McCaskey

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

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