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Fossil fishes and fossil plants of the Triassic rocks of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley

No abstract available.
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J.S. Newberry

Geology of the quicksilver deposits of the Pacific slope, with an atlas

The field work of the investigations recorded in this volume occupied nearly the whole of three seasons, beginning in 1883. All the mines might have been examined and the maps colored in a much shorter time, but it was found soon after the examinations were begun that they could not be completed satisfactorily without also solving some important general problems affecting the whole region, and muc
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George Ferdinand Becker

Mineral resources of the United States, 1887

No abstract available.
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David T. Day

Nature and origin of deposits of phosphate of lime

No abstract available.
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Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

On the form and position of the sea level with special references to its dependence on superficial masses symmetrically disposed about a normal to the earth's surface

No abstract available.
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Robert Simpson Woodward

Rules for the preparation of manuscript and illustrations designed for publication by the United States Geological Survey

In the annual report of the Director of the U. S. Geological Survey for 1885-'86, pages 40 and 41, you set forth the functions of the chief of the editorial division as follows: "To secure clear and accurate statement in the material sent to press, careful proof-reading, and uniformity in the details of book-making, as well as to assist the Director in exercising a general supervision over the pub
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Thomas Hampson

Seventh Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1885-1886

No abstract available.
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J. W. Powell

Bibliography of North American geology for 1886

No abstract available.
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Nelson Horatio Darton

Changes in river courses in Washington Territory due to glaciation

No abstract available.
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Bailey Willis

Mineral resources of the United States, 1886

No abstract available.
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David T. Day

On the fossil faunas of the Upper Devonian: The Genesee section, New York

I have the honor to transmit herewith for publication as a bulletin a second contribution to the study of Devonian paleontology, Bulletin No. 3, "On the Fossil Faunas of the Upper Devonian," having been designed as the first of a series of papers on the comparative paleontology of the Devonian and Carboniferous.In that paper I gave the results of a study of the section along the meridian of Ithaca
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Henry Shaler Williams

Peridotite of Elliott County, Kentucky

No abstract available.
Authors
Joseph Silas Diller