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Geology and oil prospects of Waltham, Priest, Bitterwater, and Peachtree Valleys, California

No abstract available.
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R. W. Pack, W. A. English

Geology and oil resources of the west border of the San Joaquin Valley north of Coalinga, California

No abstract available.
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Robert van Vleck Anderson, Robert Wallace Pack

Geology and ore deposits of Copper Mountain and Kasaan Peninsula, Alaska

No abstract available.
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C. W. Wright

Geology and water resources of Tularosa basin, New Mexico

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Oscar Edward Meinzer, Raleigh Frederick Hare

Geology of the pitchblende ores of Colorado

The large amount of public interest that has recently been manifested in radium because of the apparent cures of cancer effected by certain of its emanations makes it desirable to place before the public as promptly as possible all available information in regard to the occurrence of the minerals from which radium may be derived. The following account of the mode of occurrence of pitchblende at Qu
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Edson S. Bastin

Gold placers on Wind and Bighorn Rivers, Wyoming

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F. C. Schrader

Ground water for irrigation in the valley of North Fork of Canadian River near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

No abstract available.
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A.T. Schwennesen

Ground water for irrigation in the vicinity of Enid, Oklahoma, with a note on ground water for irrigation on the Great Plains

No abstract available.
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A.T. Schwennesen, O. E. Meinzer

Ground water in southeastern Nevada

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Everett Carpenter

Ground-water resources of the Niles cone and adjacent areas, California

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W. O. Clark

Guidebook of the western United States: Part A - The northern Pacific route, with a side trip to Yellowstone Park

The United States of America comprise an area so vast in extent and so diverse in natural features as well as in characters due to human agency that the American citizen who knows thoroughly his own country must have traveled widely and observed wisely. To 'know America first' is a patriotic obligation, but to meet this obligation the railroad traveler needs to have his eyes directed toward the mo
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Marius R. Campbell

Guidebook of the western United States: Part B - The overland route, with a side trip to Yellowstone Park

The United States of America comprise an area so vast in extent and so diverse in natural features as well as in characters due to human agency that the American citizen who knows thoroughly his own country must have traveled widely and observed wisely. To 'know America first' is a patriotic obligation, but to meet this obligation the railroad traveler needs to have his eyes directed toward the mo
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Willis Thomas Lee, Ralph Walter Stone, Hoyt Stoddard Gale