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The geology and ore deposits of Ely, Nevada

No abstract available.
Authors
A.C. Spencer

The Helderberg limestone of central Pennsylvania

This paper presents the results of a study made during 1913, 1914, and 1915, while the writer was a student at Johns Hopkins University. The formations discussed have been studies in Maryland, New Jersey, and New York, and described with more or less detail, but concerning their occurrence in the intervening area in Pennsylvania little exact information has been available. The conflict in opinion
Authors
John B. Reeside

The inorganic constituents of marine invertebrates

No abstract available.
Authors
F. W. Clarke, W. C. Wheeler

The people's interest in water-power resources

No abstract available.
Authors
George Otis Smith

The physical conditions and age indicated by the flora of the Alum Bluff formation

The present paper has for its purpose the description of a small flora collected from the Alum Bluff formation, representing a horizon hitherto unrepresented paleobotanically in southeastern North America, and the discussion of the bearing of this flora on the physical conditions of deposition and the probable age of the deposits.
Authors
Edward Wilber Berry

The physical conditions indicated by the flora of the Calvert formation

The object of the present paper is to give a summary of the small flora preserved in the Miocene diatomaceous beds of the Calvert formation in the District of Columbia and Virginia, and more especially to discuss its bearing on the physical conditions of the Calvert epoch. Subsequent to the middle Eocene the next abundant marine fauna preserved along the middle Atlantic coast is that of the Calver
Authors
Edward Wilber Berry

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