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The analysis of silicate and carbonate rocks a revision of Bulletin 305

No abstract available.
Authors
W. F. Hillebrand

The explosibility of coal dust

No abstract available.
Authors
George Samuel Rice, Joseph Christie Whitney Frazer, Axel Larsen, Frank Haas, Carl Scholz

The fauna of the phosphate beds of the Park City formation in Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah

No abstract available.
Authors
George Herbert Girty

The fire tax and waste of structural materials in the United States

No abstract available.
Authors
Herbert M. Wilson, John L. Cochrane

The Innoko gold-placer district, Alaska, with accounts of the central Kuskokwim Valley and the Ruby Creek and Gold Hill placers

No abstract available.
Authors
Alfred Geddes Maddren

The ore deposits of New Mexico

No abstract available.
Authors
Waldemar Lindgren, L. C. Graton, C.H. Gordon

The public utility of water powers and their governmental regulation

No abstract available.
Authors
Rene Tavernier, Marshall O. Leighton

The purchase of coal by the Government under specifications, with analyses of coal delivered for the fiscal year 1908-9

No abstract available.
Authors
George S. Pope

The quality of the surface waters of California

No abstract available.
Authors
Walton Van Winkle, Frederick M. Eaton
By
Water Resources Mission Area, California Water Science Center

The quality of the surface waters of Illinois

No abstract available.
Authors
W. D. Collins

The underground waters of north-central Indiana, with a chapter on the chemical character of the waters

No abstract available.
Authors
Stephen Reid Capps, Richard B. Dole
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Water Resources Mission Area, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center

The valuation of public coal lands: The value of coal land; Depth and minimum thickness of beds as limiting factors in valuation

No abstract available.
Authors
George H. Ashley, Cassius Asa Fisher