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The Middle Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America

No abstract available.
Authors
J.P. Smith

The mud lumps at the mouths of the Mississippi

No abstract available.
Authors
E.W. Shaw

The ore deposits of Kirwin, Wyoming

No abstract available.
Authors
Donnel Foster Hewett

The ore deposits of northeastern Washington, including a section on the Republic mining district

No abstract available.
Authors
Howland Bancroft, Waldemar Lindgren

The origin of colemanite deposits

No abstract available.
Authors
H. S. Gale

The Shinumo quadrangle, Grand Canyon district, Arizona

No abstract available.
Authors
Levi Fatzinger Noble

The Transportation of Debris by Running Water

Scope.-The finer debris transported by a stream is borne in suspension. The coarser is swept along the channel bed. The suspended load is readily sampled and estimated, and much is known as to its quantity. The bed load is inaccessible and we are without definite information as to its amount. The primary purpose of the investigation was to learn the laws which control the movement of bed load, and
Authors
Grove Karl Gilbert, Edward Charles Murphy
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Water Resources Mission Area, California Water Science Center

The Upper Cretaceous and Eocene floras of South Carolina and Georgia

No abstract available.
Authors
E. W. Berry

The Yellow Pine mining district, Clark County, Nevada

No abstract available.
Authors
James Madison Hill

Thirty-fifth 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 1913-14 comprised items amounting to $1,517,920. The plan of operations was approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and a detailed statement of the work of the several branches and divisions of the Survey is presented on later pages of this report.
Authors
George Otis Smith

Useful minerals of the United States

No abstract available.
Authors
Samuel Sanford, Ralph Walter Stone

Van Horn folio, Texas

The Van Horn quadrangle is situated in EL Paso and Culberson counties, Tex., about 100 miles southeast of El Paso.  It is bounded by parallels 31° and 31° 30' and meridians 104° 30' and 105° and incluedes 1019 square miles.  This area lies within the Cordilleran region, about midway between Peco River and teh Rio Grande, and forms a part of what is known as trans-Pecos Texas.  
Authors
G. B. Richardson