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Latitudes and longitudes of certain points in Missouri, Kansas, and New Mexico

No abstract available.
Authors
Robert Simpson Woodward

Ninth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1887-1888

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J. W. Powell

On invertebrate fossils from the Pacific coast

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Authors
Charles A. White

On the thermoelectric measurement of high temperatures

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Authors
Carl Barus

Report of work done in the division of chemistry and physics, mainly during the fiscal year 1886-87

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Frank Wigglesworth Clarke

Report upon United States geological surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, Volume I: Geographical report

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George Montague Wheeler

Revision of the North American pocket mice

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Clinton Hart Merriam

Subaerial decay of rocks and origin of the red color of certain formations

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Israel C. Russell

The geology of Nantucket

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Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

The Paleozoic fishes of North America

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J.S. Newberry

The Potomac or younger Mesozoic flora

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Authors
William Morris Fontaine

IV.-Some Definitions in Dynamical Geology

In view of the active discussion of the problems of earth-movement and mountain-growth now current, certain fundamental definitions, growing out of the discrimination of processes commonly confounded but really distinct, seem to be timely.The various processes with which the geologist has to deal fall naturally into two principal and antagonistic categories and five subordinate and supplemental ca
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W.J. McGee
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