Geology of the pitchblende ores of Colorado
Edson S. Bastin
1915, Professional Paper 90-A
The large amount of public interest that has recently been manifested in radium because of the apparent cures of cancer effected by certain of its emanations makes it desirable to place before the public as promptly as possible all available information in regard to the occurrence of the minerals from...
Erosion and sedimentation in Chesapeake Bay around the mouth of Choptank River
J. Fred Hunter
1915, Professional Paper 90-B
With the unfolding of geologic knowledge during the last century the processes of denudation, transportation of sediments, and sedimentation have become better understood, and to some extent their relative effects in bringing about the present configuration of the earth's surface have been determined. The nature of these processes has been...
Dike rocks of the Apishapa quadrangle, Colorado
Whitman Cross
1915, Professional Paper 90-C
The Apishapa quadrangle, the geographic relations of which are shown by Plate IV, is situated on the plains south of Arkansas River, in Colorado, about 24 miles east of the mountain front. The geology of the Pueblo, Walsenburg, Spanish Peaks, and Elmoro quadrangles, adjoining it on the northwest, west, southwest,...
Contributions to the stratigraphy of southwestern Colorado
Whitman Cross, E. S. Larsen Jr.
1915, Professional Paper 90-E
In the course of field work of the United States Geological Survey in the San Juan region of Colorado observations have been made in the last three seasons that considerably extend our knowledge of the great stratigraphic break below the La Plata sandstone, which is currently assumed to be of...
The history of a portion of Yampa River, Colorado, and its possible bearing on that of Green River
E.T. Hancock
1915, Professional Paper 90-K
Few regions offer more interesting geologic problems relating to drainage than the Uinta Mountains, in Utah and Colorado, and the ar3a immediately east of them. In fact, the writer's attention was primarily attracted to this field by the diversity of opinion regarding the antecedent origin of Green River. Although the...
The inorganic constituents of echinoderms
F. W. Clarke, W. C. Wheeler
1915, Professional Paper 90-L
In a recent paper on the composition of crinoid skeletons we showed that crinoids contain large quantities of magnesia, and that its proportion varies with the temperature of the water in which the creatures live. This result was so novel and surprising that it seemed desirable to examine other echinoderms...
Notes on the Unaweep copper district, Colorado
B. S. Butler
1915, Bulletin 580-B
No abstract available....
Thirty-sixth annual report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey
George Otis Smith
1915, Annual Report 36
The appropriations for the work of the United States Geological Survey for the fiscal year 1914-15 comprised items amounting to $1,620,520. The plan of operations was approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and a detailed statement of the work of the several branches and divisions of the Survey is...
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory record book 1915
1915, Report
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) record books are annual journals in which field observations of eruptive activity at Kīlauea and Mauna Loa volcanoes, on the Island of Hawaiʻi, were compiled by HVO staff for most years from 1912 through early 1966. In addition to descriptive observations, the record books also...
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory seisometric bulletins - 1915
1915, Report
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) Bulletin series was an informal publication issued between the years 1913 to 1929. Individual issues contain information on volcanic and earthquake activity, volcano research, and volcano monitoring in Hawaii, and issues often included photographs, sketches, and data plots. Information on volcanic activity at other locations...
New York City and vicinity
U.S. Geological Survey
1915, Report, U.S. Geological Survey topographic atlas sheets
No abstract available....
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory bulletins - 1915
1915, Report
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) Bulletin series was an informal publication issued between the years 1913 to 1929. Individual issues contain information on volcanic and earthquake activity, volcano research, and volcano monitoring in Hawaii, and issues often included photographs, sketches, and data plots. Information on volcanic activity at other locations...
Ground water for irrigation in the vicinity of Enid, Oklahoma, with a note on ground water for irrigation on the Great Plains
A.T. Schwennesen, O. E. Meinzer
1915, Water Supply Paper 345-B
No abstract available....
Guidebook of the western United States: Part A - The northern Pacific route, with a side trip to Yellowstone Park
Marius R. Campbell
1915, Bulletin 611
The United States of America comprise an area so vast in extent and so diverse in natural features as well as in characters due to human agency that the American citizen who knows thoroughly his own country must have traveled widely and observed wisely. To 'know America first' is a...
Progress report on stream measurement work carried on in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey: Section in Ninth biennial report of the State Engineer to the governor of Utah: 1913-1914
E.A. Porter
1914, Utah State Engineer Biennial Report 9
Utah, like other states in the arid region of the United States, points with just pride to her present and future agricultural developments. She proudly boasts, and no doubt justly too, that her fields of green vegetation are inexhaustible and always expanding, and with due vigilance and care on the...
Profile surveys in Bear River basin, Idaho
Robert Bradford Marshall
1914, Water Supply Paper 350
Bear River rises on the northern slope of the Uinta Mountains, in the northeastern part of Utah, and after a circuitous course in which it leaves Utah and enters Wyoming, Utah, and Wyoming in turn and makes a long detour in Idaho it returns to Utah and finally discharges its waters into Great Salt...
Profile surveys in Snake River basin, Idaho
Robert Bradford Marshall
1914, Water Supply Paper 347
Snake River, the largest tributary of the Columbia, rises among the high peaks of the Rocky Mountains in Yellowstone National Park, heading in the divide from which streams flow northward and eastward into the Missouri, southward to the Colorado and the lakes of the Great Basin, and westward to the Columbia. From the headwater region,...
Profile surveys in the basin of Clark Fork of Columbia River, Montana-Idaho-Washington
R.B. Marshall
1914, Water Supply Paper 346
Surface water supply of the United States, 1912, Part V, Hudson Bay and upper Mississippi River basin
Albert Howard Horton
1914, Water Supply Paper 325
Surface water supply of the United States, 1911, Part VI, Missouri River basin
William Alfred Lamb, W.B. Freeman, Raymond Richards
1914, Water Supply Paper 306
Quality of the surface waters of Washington
Walton Van Winkle
1914, Water Supply Paper 339
Quality of the surface waters of Oregon
Walton Van Winkle
1914, Water Supply Paper 363
Water resources of Hawaii, 1912
C.H. Pierce, G.K. Larrison
1914, Water Supply Paper 336
Surface water supply of the United States, 1912, Part I, North Atlantic slope basins
Cyrus Cates Babb, Clermont Calvert Covert, J.G. Mathers
1914, Water Supply Paper 321
Deschutes River, Oregon and its utilization
Fred Forbes Henshaw, J. H. Lewis, Elmer James McCaustland
1914, Water Supply Paper 344
No abstract available....
