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Subsidence of fine solid particles in liquids

No abstract available.
Authors
Carl Barus

Systematic review of our present knowledge of fossil insects, including myriapods and arachnids

No abstract available.
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Samuel Hubbard Scudder

The gabbros and associated hornblende rocks occurring in the neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland

Considerable attention has been devoted during late years to the metamorphism of igneous rocks, and it can now be regarded as placed beyond reasonable doubt that such rocks may be changed to more or less schistose masses, which often closely resemble crystallized sediments. This possibility has heretofore been largely ignored, owing doubtless to the extensive obliteration of those characteristics
Authors
George Huntington Williams

Boundaries of the United States and of the several States and Territories, with a historical sketch of the territorial changes

No abstract available.
Authors
Henry Gannett

Brachiopoda and Lamellibranchiata of the Raritan clays and greensand marls of New Jersey

No abstract available.
Authors
Robert Parr Whitfield

Contributions to the mineralogy of the Rocky Mountains

No abstract available.
Authors
Whitman Cross, W. F. Hillebrand

Copper smelting

No abstract available.
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Henry Marion Howe

Fifth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1883-1884

No abstract available. 
Authors
J. W. Powell

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
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