Geology of the De Queen and Caddo Gap quadrangles, Arkansas
Hugh D. Miser, Albert Homer Purdue
1929, Bulletin 808
The field study of the geology of the De Queen and Caddo Gap quadrangles extended over a period of many years, and although the scientific and economic results from the study are here set forth fully for the first time in a single report, a number of publications have been...
Geology and ground-water resources of North Dakota, with a discussion of the chemical character of the water
Howard E. Simpson, Harry Buchholz Riffenburg
1929, Water Supply Paper 598
Water is the most valuable of the mineral resources. The study of ground waters is therefore clearly within the field of economic geology and constitutes an important part of the work of the geological surveys, both State and national, as defined by law. In the spring of 1911 the investigation...
The brown iron ores of west-middle Tennessee
E. F. Burchard
1927, Bulletin 795-D
A study of the brown iron ore deposits of west-middle Tennessee has been carried on recently under a cooperative agreement between the Tennessee State Geological Survey and the United States Geological Survey. A detailed report on the subject was submitted in the spring of 1925 to the State Survey for...
Contributions to economic geology, 1925: Part II, Mineral fuels. Notes on Paleozoic rocks encountered in a well near Florence, Alabama
Hugh Dinsmore Miser
1926, Bulletin 781-A
Power resources of Snake River between Huntington, Oregon and Lewiston, Idaho: Chapter C in Contributions to the hydrology of the United States, 1923-1924
William Glenn Hoyt
1925, Water Supply Paper 520-C
Thousands of people are familiar with that part of Snake River where it flows for more than 300 miles in a general westward course across the plains of southern Idaho, but few have traversed the river where it flows northward and for 200 miles forms the boundary between Idaho and...
Guidebook of the western United States: Part E - The Denver & Rio Grande Western route
Marius R. Campbell
1922, Bulletin 707
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...
Geothermal data of the United States, including many original determinations of underground temperature
Nelson Horatio Darton
1920, Bulletin 701
The purpose of this report is to present all available published data bearing on the rate of increase of underground temperature with increasing depth in the United States, together with several hundred original observations by myself and my associates. A canvass of the governmental, State, and serial publications has yielded...
Brannerite, a new uranium mineral
F. L. Hess, R. C. Wells
1920, Journal of the Franklin Institute (189) 225-237
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...
Guidebook of the western United States: Part C - The Santa Fe route, with a side trip to Grand Canyon of the Colorado
Nelson Horatio Darton
1916, Bulletin 613
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...
Analyses of rocks and minerals from the laboratory of the United States Geological Survey, 1880 to 1914
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
1915, Bulletin 591
The present Geological Survey of the United States was organized in 1879. In 1880, in connection with the Colorado work, a chemical laboratory was established at Denver in charge of W. F. Hillebrand, with whom were associated Antony Guyard and, later, L. G. Eakins. In 1882 W. H. Melville was...
Springs of California
Gerald Ashley Waring
1915, Water Supply Paper 338
In 1903 the United States Geological Survey began an investigation of the underground water of California, generally with financial cooperation on the part of the State. Since that year ten papers on the underground water of the State have been issued by the Survey, each representing an investigation that has...
Guidebook of the western United States: Part B - The overland route, with a side trip to Yellowstone Park
Willis Thomas Lee, Ralph Walter Stone, Hoyt Stoddard Gale
1915, Bulletin 612
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...
Oil and gas in the western part of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington
Charles T. Lupton
1915, Bulletin 581-B
High-grade paraffin oil is reported to have been discovered in the western part of the Olympic Peninsula, Wash., as early as 1881. Since then attempts to obtain oil or gas in commercial quantities by drilling have been made from time to time in different localities in this region, but without...
Guidebook of the western United States: Part D - The Shasta Route and Coast Line
Joseph Silas Diller
1915, Bulletin 614
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...
A deep well at Charleston, South Carolina; with a report on the mineralogy of the water
L. W. Stephenson, Chase Palmer
1915, Professional Paper 90-H
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...
The Port Wells gold-lode district. Mining on Prince William Sound
Barry L. Johnson
1914, Bulletin 592-G
No abstract available....
Flowing wells and municipal water supplies in the middle and northern portions of the southern peninsula of Michigan
Frank Leverett
1907, Water Supply Paper 183
A large amount of data on water supplies was collected by the writer in the course of glacial investigations made under the direction of Prof. T. C. Chamberlin in the last five years in the Southern Peninsula of Michigan. These investigations resulted in a partial acquaintance with conditions in about...
Twenty-eighth annual report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey
George Otis Smith
1907, Annual Report 28
The plan of operations for the last fiscal year, including an itemized statement of the appropriations, amounting to $1,758,720, with the allotments thereof, was approved by the Secretary of the Interior on July 10, 1906. The work of the various branches and divisions conformed to this plan, and a detailed...
The geography and geology of Alaska; a summary of existing knowledge, with a section on climate, and a topographic map and description thereof
A. H. Brooks, Cleveland Abbe Jr., R.U. Goode
1906, Professional Paper 45
Alaska, the largest outlying possession of the United States, is that great land mass forming the northwestern extremity of the North American continent, whose western point is within 60 miles of the Asiatic coast (PI. II). About one-quarter of this area lies within the Arctic Circle, and from the standpoint...
Flowing wells and municipal water supplies in the southern portion of the southern peninsula of Michigan
Frank Leverett
1906, Water Supply Paper 182
A large amount of data on water supplies was collected by the writer in the course of glacial investigations made under the direction of Prof. T. C. Chamberlin in the last five years in the Southern Peninsula of Michigan. These investigations resulted in a partial acquaintance with conditions in about...
Methods and Costs of Gravel and Placer Mining in Alaska
Chester Wells Purington
1905, Bulletin 263
Economic geology of the Bingham mining district, Utah
J. M. Boutwell, Arthur Keith, S. F. Emmons
1905, Professional Paper 38
The field work of which this report represents the final results was first undertaken in the summer of the year 1900. This district had long been selected by the writer as worthy of special economic investigation, as well on account of the importance of its products as because of its...
Record of deep-well drilling for 1904
Myron Leslie Fuller, E. F. Lines, A. C. Veatch
1905, Bulletin 264
In this report, which is the first of a proposed series of annual publications, are presented the results of the first six months' work by the United States Geological Survey in the systematic collection of well records and samples. Much time having been occupied in organization and preliminary correspondence, the...
