The glacial history of Columbia River in the Big Bend country
C. E. Meinzer
1918, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences (8) 411-412
No abstract available....
The divining rod: A history of water witching, with a bibliography
Arthur Jackson Ellis
1917, Water Supply Paper 416
The use of a forked twig, or so-called divining rod, in locating minerals, finding hidden treasure, or detecting criminals is a curious superstition that has been a subject of discussion since the middle of the sixteenth century and still has a strong hold on the popular mind, even in this...
Geology of the Hound Creek district of the Great Falls coal field, Cascade County, Montana
V. H. Barnett
1917, Bulletin 641-H
No abstract available....
Spirit leveling in Nevada, 1897 to 1916, inclusive
Robert Bradford Marshall
1917, Bulletin 654
Anticlines in central Wyoming
C.J. Hares
1917, Bulletin 641-I
No abstract available....
The coal fields of Ohio, with a computation of the original coal content of the fields
J. A. Bownocker, F. R. Clark
1917, Professional Paper 100-B
No abstract available....
Chemical analyses of igneous rocks published from 1884 to 1913, inclusive, with a critical discussion of the character and use of analyses
H.S. Washington
1917, Professional Paper 99
Surface water supply of the United States, 1916, Part IV, St. Lawrence River basin
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1917, Water Supply Paper 434
Chemical relations of the oil-field waters in San Joaquin Valley, California (preliminary report)
Gaillard Sherburne Rogers
1917, Bulletin 653
Tin ore in northern Lander County, Nevada
Adolph Knopf
1917, Bulletin 640-G
No abstract available....
Lode mining in the Quartzburg and Grimes Pass porphyry belt, Boise Basin, Idaho
E. L. Jones Jr.
1917, Bulletin 640-E
No abstract available....
Oil shale in northwestern Colorado and adjacent areas
D. E. Winchester
1917, Bulletin 641-F
No abstract available....
Geology of the Upper Stillwater Basin, Stillwater and Carbon counties, Montana, with special reference to coal and oil
W. R. Calvert
1917, Bulletin 641-G
No abstract available....
An anticlinal fold near Billings, Noble County, Oklahoma
A.E. Fath
1917, Bulletin 641-E
No abstract available....
Structure of the Vicksburg-Jackson area, Mississippi, with special reference to oil and gas
O. B. Hopkins
1917, Bulletin 641-D
No abstract available....
The Garrison and Philipsburg phosphate fields, Montana
J. T. Pardee
1917, Bulletin 640-K
No abstract available....
Geology and paleontology of the Raton Mesa and other regions in Colorado and New Mexico
W. T. Lee, F. H. Knowlton
1917, Professional Paper 101
No abstract available....
Brachyceratops, a ceratopsian dinosaur from the Two Medicine formation of Montana, with notes on associated fossil reptiles
Charles W. Gilmore
1917, Professional Paper 103
The fossils on which this paper is based were collected by me and my assistant, Mr. J. F. Strayrer, during the summer of 1913, while working under the auspices of the United States Geological Survey on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in northwestern Montana. The specimens were obtained from exposures of...
Wasatch fossils in so-called Fort Union beds of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, and their bearing on the stratigraphy of the region
Carroll H. Wegemann
1917, Professional Paper 108-D
Northeastern Wyoming is occupied by a broad structural basin opening to the north and bounded on the east, south, and west by three mountain uplifts - the Black Hills, the Laramie Mountains, and the Big Horn Mountains. (See fig. 16.) Throughout much of this basin the surface rocks are of...
Geologic history indicated by the fossiliferous deposits of the Wilcox group (Eocene) at Meridian, Mississippi
Edward Wilber Berry
1917, Professional Paper 108-E
The presence of erosion intervals at several horizons in the Eocene of the Gulf States has been pointed out in a recent paper, and the evidence of an erosion interval between the period of deposition of the sediments of the Wilcox group (lower Eocene) and that of the Claiborne group...
Revision of the Beckwith and Bear River formations of southeastern Idaho
G. R. Mansfield, P. V. Roundy
1917, Professional Paper 98-G
In the detailed geologic mapping of the Wayan and Montpelier quadrangles, in south-eastern Idaho and adjacent territory, it has been found necessary to apply new names to strata hitherto referred to the Beckwith and Bear River formations or to portions of the Laramie as mapped by the Hayden Survey. The...
A reconnaissance of the Archean complex of the Granite Gorge, Grand Canyon, Arizona
L. F. Noble, J. Fred Hunter
1917, Professional Paper 98-I
The field work upon which this article is based was done in March and April, 1914. From Garnet Canyon, near the west end of the Granite Gorge, the route followed the Tonto trail along the so-called lower plateau, or Tonto platform, to Red Canyon, at the east end of the...
The coal fields of the United States
M. R. Campbell
1917, Professional Paper 100-A
No abstract available....
Retreat of Barry Glacier, Port Wells, Prince William Sound, Alaska, between 1910 and 1914
Bertrand L. Johnson
1917, Professional Paper 98-C
The Barry Glacier, in the northwest corner of Prince William Sound (fig. 6), was first described by Glenn, Castner, and Mendenhall. It was more extensively studied by the Harriman Alaska expedition in 1899; by Grant in 1905; by Grant and Higgens in 1908 and 1909; and by Martin in 1910....
Evaporation of brine from Searles Lake, California
W.B. Hicks
1917, Professional Paper 98-A
The bed of crystalline salts known as Searles Lake, in southeastern California, contains the most valuable potash-bearing brine known in the United States. This salt body has an exposed surface area estimated at 11 or 12 square miles and an average depth of about 70 feet. For the most part...