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Geological history of Lake Lahontan, a Quaternary lake of northwestern Nevada

Abstract in beginning of Monograph
Authors
Israel C. Russell

List of marine Mollusca comprising the Quaternary fossils and recent forms from American localities between cape Hatteras and cape Roque, including the Bermudas

No abstract available.
Authors
William Healey Dall

Mineral resources of the United States, 1883 and 1884

No abstract available.
Authors
Albert Williams

Notes on the stratigraphy of California

 A complete examination of the Coast Ranges of California can hardly be undertaken by the Geological Survey for some years to come, consistently with the plans at present formed. The detailed study of certain small areas in these ranges, however, raised a number of questions as to the age and stratigraphical relations of the various series of beds, which it seemed necessary to answer as well as ci
Authors
George Ferdinand Becker

Observations on the junction between the Eastern sandstone and the Keweenaw series on Keweenaw Point, Lake Superior

Although the copper-bearing rocks of Lake Superior and the adjoining formations have attracted the attention of geologists for fifty years past, there are yet remaining unsolved very many problems with regard to them. We have ourselves, indeed, written at some length with regard to these rocks, and one of us has even attempted a general account of the series as a whole. In the course of our invest
Authors
Roland Duer Irving, Thomas C. Chamberlin

On Marine Eocene, fresh-water Miocene, and other fossil Mollusca of western North America

No abstract available.
Authors
Charles A. White

On new Cretaceous fossils from California

No abstract available.
Authors
Charles A. White

On the development of crystallization in the igneous rocks of Washoe, Nevada, with notes on the Geology of the district

No abstract available.
Authors
Arnold Hague, Joseph Paxton Iddings

On the higher Devonian faunas of Ontario county, New York

The materials and the conclusions presented in this paper are the partial results of studies of the Devonian of Western New York, which have been of several years duration. Since the summer of 1877 much attention has been given to the finer subdivision of the Devonian on strictly paleontological evidence, the rich development of Devonian faunas within Ontario County, and in its vicinity, having af
Authors
John Mason Clarke

On the Mesozoic and Cenozoic paleontology of California

No abstract available.
Authors
Charles A. White

Sixth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1884-1885

No abstract available.
Authors
J. W. Powell

Sketch of paleobotany

To understand the true force of the facts of paleobotany as arguments for geology it is essential that their full biologic significance be grasped. It has therefore been deemed proper, in this introduction to the several tabular and systematic statements which will make up the bulk of the volume and bear chiefly upon the geological aspect of the subject, to consider certain of the more important b
Authors
Lester Frank Ward