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Mineral resources of the United States, 1914: Part II - Nonmetals

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Hiram Dryer McCaskey, Ernest Francis Burchard

Mineralogic notes, series 3

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Waldemar Theodore Schaller

Minneapolis-St. Paul folio, Minnesota

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Frederick William Sardeson

Natural gas resources of parts of north Texas: Gas in the area north and west of Fort Worth; Gas prospects south and southeast of Dallas; with Notes on the gas fields of central and southern Oklahoma

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Eugene Wesley Shaw, George Charlton Matson, Carroll H. Wegemann

Notes on some mining districts in eastern Nevada

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James M. Hill

Notes on the geology of Gravina Island, Alaska

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P. S. Smith

Petroleum withdrawals and restorations affecting the public domain

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Max Waite Ball, Lucetta W. Stockbridge

Preliminary report on the diffusion of solids

Although 19 years has elapsed since Roberts-Austen published his classical paper on the diffusion of solid metals, no attempt seems to have been made to verify his important results and conclusions or to extend the investigations to minerals and to the great number of solids in which diffusion may be expected to occur. Progress has been made by means of chemical and electrical methods in the detec
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C. E. Van Orstrand, F.P. Dewey

Profile surveys along Henrys Fork, Idaho, and Logan River and Blacksmith Fork, Utah

In order to determine the location of undeveloped water powers the United States Geological Survey has from time to time, alone and in cooperation with State organizations, made surveys and profiles of some of the rivers of the United States that are adapted to the development of power by low or medium heads of 20 to 100 feet.The surveys are made by means of plane table and stadia. Elevations are
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William Harrison Herron
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Water Resources Mission Area, Utah Water Science Center

Profile surveys in 1915 along the Rio Grande, Pecos River, and Mora River, New Mexico

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Authors
William Harrison Herron

Profile surveys in 1915 in Skagit River basin, Washington

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William Harrison Herron

Relation of the Cretaceous formations to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and New Mexico

Some time ago, while working on a problem that involved the question of the presence or absence of islands near the close of the Cretaceous period in the region now occupied by the southern part of the Rocky Mountains, I was forced to the conclusion that no land masses or islands of any considerable size persisted there throughout the Cretaceous period, for I found no sedimentary rocks that were c
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Willis T. Lee