The oil fields of Allen County, Kentucky, with notes on the oil geology of adjoining counties
Eugene Wesley Shaw, Kirtley F. Mather
1919, Bulletin 688
This report is based on a reconnaissance investigation of the oil field of Allen County, Ky., which was part of a broader study of the oil and gas fields of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama, on which a general report is planned. Most of the field work was done by Mr....
The Helderberg limestone of central Pennsylvania
John B. Reeside Jr.
1917, Professional Paper 108-K
This paper presents the results of a study made during 1913, 1914, and 1915, while the writer was a student at Johns Hopkins University. The formations discussed have been studies in Maryland, New Jersey, and New York, and described with more or less detail, but concerning their occurrence in the...
The data of geochemistry (third edition)
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
1916, Bulletin 616
Contributions to the geology and paleontology of San Juan County, New Mexico: 1. Stratigraphy of a part of the Chaco River valley
Clyde Max Bauer
1916, Professional Paper 98-P
This preliminary paper is an attempt to set forth the principal features of the stratigraphy in a part of the San Juan Basin-to describe the succession of strata irrespective of possible correlations and thereby to establish a type section for the formations exposed and to bring out their relations to...
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...
Accuracy of stream-flow data
Nathan Clifford Grover, John Clayton Hoyt
1916, Water Supply Paper 400-D
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...
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 composition of muds from Columbus Marsh, Nevada
W.B. Hicks
1915, Professional Paper 95-A
The investigation of the dry lake of Columbus Marsh, in Nevada, which had for its economic motive the discovery of potash, was continued by the United States Geological Survey during the summer of 1913 under the supervision of Hoyt S. Gale. The work done included the drilling of a shallow...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ground water in Boxelder and Tooele Counties, Utah
Everett Carpenter
1913, Water Supply Paper 333
The area covered by this report includes Boxelder County, Utah, the eastern part of Tooele County, Utah, and some small tracts in southern Idaho. It comprises about 9,500 square miles, or more than the combined area of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It lies between 40° and 42° north latitude and...
Water resources of the Penobscot River basin, Maine
Harold Kilbrith Barrows, Cyrus Cates Babb
1912, Water Supply Paper 279
This report on the Penobscot River drainage system, the largest and one of the most important in Maine, has been compiled chiefly from the records, reports, and maps of the United States Geological Survey and from the results of surveys made in cooperation with the Maine State Survey Commission. The...
Some stream waters of the Western United States, with chapters on sediment carried by the Rio Grande and the industrial application of water analyses
Herman Stabler
1911, Water Supply Paper 274
A systematic study of the waters likely to be utilized on the Reclamation Service projects was made in order to determine the influence of the salinity of the waters on the growth of vegetation and the effect of suspended matter in silting canals and reservoirs. The work was begun early...
The data of geochemistry (second edition)
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
1911, Bulletin 491
The data of geochemistry
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
1908, Bulletin 330
Water resources of Beaver Valley, Utah
Willis Thomas Lee
1908, Water Supply Paper 217
Location and extent of area examined. Beaver Valley is located in Beaver County, in southwestern Utah, about 175 miles south of Salt Lake. It lies between the Tushar Mountains on the east and the Beaver Mountains on the west. The principal town of the valley is Beaver, which is most...
Underground water in Sanpete and central Sevier valleys, Utah
George Burr Richardson
1907, Water Supply Paper 199
Sanpete and central Sevier valleys are situated at the border of the Basin Range and Plateau provinces in south-central Utah. They are bounded on the east by the Wasatch and Sevier plateaus and on the west by the Gunnison Plateau and the Valley and Pavant ranges, and are drained by...
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...
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...
Geology and underground waters of the Arkansas Valley in eastern Colorado
N. H. Darton
1906, Professional Paper 52
In the valley of Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado there is an area of considerable extent in which artesian flows are available. During the last ten years numerous wells have been sunk to develop this important resource and, in most cases in the lower lands, abundant water supplies have been...
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...
Geology and mineral resources of part of the Cumberland Gap coal field, Kentucky
G. H. Ashley, L. C. Glenn
1906, Professional Paper 49
The Cumberland Gap coal field lies in Bell and Harlan counties, in the southeast corner of Kentucky and in Claiborne and Campbell counties, Tenn., and extends in a general northeast-southwest direction between Pine and Cumberland mountains from Fork Mountain on the southwest to the heads of Poor and Clover forks...
