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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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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

II.-The Jordan-Arabah Depression and the Dead Sea

The occurrence of numerous terraces on the mountain slopes over-looking the Dead Sea has been reported by several observers, but no accurate measurements of their elevations or definite correlation of the terraces on the opposite slopes of the depression, seem to have been attempted. In the central part of the Wady Arabah on the west flank of the promontory known as Samrat el Fedan, a terrace, or
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Israel C. Russell

VII.—On Hindeastraea, a New Generic Form of Cretaceous Astraeidae

The little Coral here described was discovered in Kaufman County, Texas, in strata of the Kipley Group, by Dr. R. H. Loughridge, and presented by him to me, together with a few characteristic molluscan species of that group which he found associated with it. The Ripley Group is the uppermost division of the Cretaceous series in the States which border upon the Gulf of Mexico; and probably represen
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Charles A. White

I.-The Jordan-Arabah Depression and the Dead Sea

The following account of the geology of the Dead Sea basin A. has been compiled from the observations of others, and I am especially indebted in this connection to H. J. Johnson, Geologist of the United States Expedition to the Dead Sea, to Professor Louis Lartet, Geologist of the Due de Luynes' Expedition to the same region, and to Prof. Edward Hull, F.R.S., Director of the Geological Survey of I
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Israel C. Russell

The pronunciation of ‘Arkansas’

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R. T. Hill

Analyses of waters of the Yellowstone National Park, with an account of the methods of analysis employed

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Frank Austin Gooch, James Edward Whitfield