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The discharge of Yukon River at Eagle, Alaska

No abstract available.
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E.A. Porter, R. W. Davenport

The Ellamar district, Alaska

No abstract available.
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Stephen Reid Capps, Bertrand Leroy Johnson

The fauna of the Batesville sandstone of northern Arkansas

The beds in northern Arkansas that lie between the Boone limestone (commonly regarded as representing the Burlington and Keokuk epochs) and the Pennsylvanian have been divided into several formations, named, in ascending order, Moorefield shale, Batesville sandstone, Fayetteville shale, and Pitkin limestone. These formations presumably are equivalent to those that hold a corresponding position in
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George H. Girty

The fractional precipitation of some ore-forming compounds at moderate temperatures

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Roger Clark Wells

The history of a portion of Yampa River, Colorado, and its possible bearing on that of Green River

Few regions offer more interesting geologic problems relating to drainage than the Uinta Mountains, in Utah and Colorado, and the ar3a immediately east of them. In fact, the writer's attention was primarily attracted to this field by the diversity of opinion regarding the antecedent origin of Green River. Although the present paper deals mainly with that portion of Yampa River east of Juniper Moun
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E. T. Hancock

The inorganic constituents of echinoderms

In a recent paper on the composition of crinoid skeletons we showed that crinoids contain large quantities of magnesia, and that its proportion varies with the temperature of the water in which the creatures live. This result was so novel and surprising that it seemed desirable to examine other echinoderms and to ascertain whether they showed the same characteristics and regularity. A number of se
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F. W. Clarke, W. C. Wheeler

The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States

No abstract available.
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William Bullock Clark, Mayville William Twitchell

The Montana Group of northwestern Montana

No abstract available.
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Eugene Stebinger

The phosphate deposits of Florida

No abstract available.
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George Charlton Matson

The Pleistocene of Indiana and Michigan and the history of the Great Lakes

This monograph describes the glacial features and the great glacial lakes of a district in Indiana and Michigan lying between the areas covered by Monographs XXXVIII, and XLI. The glacial features are treated mainly by Mr. Leverett, and the glacial lakes and their moraines by Mr. Taylor. The pre-Wisconsin glacial and interglacial formations are given attention, but the principal subject of discuss
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Frank Leverett, Frank Bursley Taylor
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Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Midwest Water Science Center

The stratigraphy of the Montana group, with special reference to the position and age of the Judith River Formation in north-central Montana

No abstract available.
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C. F. Bowen

The water resources of Butte, Montana

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O. E. Meinzer