Quicksilver deposits of the Pilot Mountains, Mineral County, Nevada
William F. Foshag
1927, Bulletin 795-E
In the course of general geologic mapping of the Hawthorne quadrangle, in western Nevada, the writer undertook a short study of the quicksilver deposits of the Pilot Mountains. The work was. done under the supervision of Henry G. Ferguson, in charge of the field work in the Hawthorne quadrangle, and...
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...
The Gilbert district, Nevada
Henry Gardiner Ferguson
1927, Bulletin 795-F
The eastern part of the Monte Cristo Range, in Esmeralda County, Nev., has been prospected for many years, and one mine, the Carrie, was developed as early as 1890. The discovery of high-grade ore by the Gilbert brothers on the Last Hope claim in 1924 led to a boom during...
Large springs in the United States
Oscar Edward Meinzer
1927, Water Supply Paper 557
What are the largest springs in the United States, how much water do they discharge, and what geologic conditions produce them are questions of much popular interest and considerable scientific and economic importance. Yet the information in regard to large springs has been so widely scattered and so difficult to...
Geology and ore deposits of the Leadville mining district, Colorado
S. F. Emmons, J.D. Irving, G. F. Loughlin
1927, Professional Paper 148
Adequate treatment of so large and so extensively developed a district as that of Leadville necessitates a voluminous report, in which the practical questions of prime interest to the commercial world can not be systematically answered until the data on which they depend are discussed. Many readers will no doubt...
Notes on the geology of Green River Valley between Green River, Wyoming, and Green River, Utah
J.B. Reeside Jr.
1925, Professional Paper 132-C
During July, August, and part of September, 1922, I had the privilege of accompanying a party sent out jointly by the Utah Power & Light Co. and the United States Geological Survey to gather such data as were still needed to complete a study of the power resources of Green...
Temperature of water available for industrial use in the United States: Chapter F in Contributions to the hydrology of the United States, 1923-1924
W. D. Collins
1925, Water Supply Paper 520-F
The importance of water supply as a limiting factor in industrial development is becoming more evident each year. The limitation in a particular instance may be the quantity of water available, the quality determined by the mineral matter in solution or in suspension or by organic pollution, or the temperature...
The artesian water supply of the Dakota sandstone in North Dakota, with special reference to the Edgeley quadrangle
Oscar E. Meinzer, Herbert A. Hard
1925, Water Supply Paper 520-E
The Dakota sandstone and the overlying dense plastic shales form the most remarkable artesian basin in the United States with respect to its great extent, the long distances through which its water has percolated from the outcrops of the sandstone in the western mountains to the areas of artesian flow,...
Variation in annual run-off in the Rocky Mountain region: Chapter A in Contributions to the hydrology of the United States, 1923-1924
Robert Follansbee
1925, Water Supply Paper 520-A
Records of run-off in the Rocky Mountain States since the nineties and for a few stations since the eighties afford a means of studying the variation in the annual run-off in this region. The data presented in this report show that the variation in annual run-off differs in different areas...
The composition of the river and lake waters of the United States
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
1924, Professional Paper 135
In the summer of 1903 the late Richard B. Dole, chemist of the water-resources branch of the United States Geological Survey, began a systematic investigation of the composition of the river and lake waters of the United States. His plan, which developed gradually, was to have analyses made of the...
The data of geochemistry
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
1924, Bulletin 770
Upon the subject of geochemistry a vast literature exists, but it is widely scattered and portions of it are difficult of access. The general treatises, like the classical works of Bischof and of Koth, are not recent, and great masses of modern data are as yet uncorrelated. The American material...
Peneplains of the Front Range and Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Willis T. Lee
1923, Bulletin 730-A
The purpose of this paper is to call attention to some of the major surface features in the Rocky Mountain National Park and to point out their probable correlation with similar features in neighboring regions. The observations on which the paper is based were made in the summer of 1916,...
The occurrence of ground water in the United States, with a discussion of principles
Oscar Edward Meinzer
1923, Water Supply Paper 489
The writer has planned and partly prepared a series of six papers on ground water in the United States. These papers are to deal with (1) occurrence, (2) origin, discharge, and quantity, (3) movement and head, (4) quality, (5) recovery and use, and (6) ground-water provinces. The present paper is...
Summary of hydrometric data in Washington, 1878-1919
Glenn Lane Parker, Lasley Lee
1923, Water Supply Paper 492
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...
Surface waters of Kansas, 1895-1919
R.C. Rice
1921, Report
Kansas is preeminently an agricultural state. According to the United States census of 1910, the area in farms was 43,384,799 acres, or 67,789 square miles, 83 per cent of the total area of the state —82,158 square miles. The products of these farms rank high in value among those of farms...
The data of geochemistry (fourth edition)
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
1920, Bulletin 695
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...
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...
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...
Accuracy of stream-flow data
Nathan Clifford Grover, John Clayton Hoyt
1916, Water Supply Paper 400-D
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...
The data of geochemistry (third edition)
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
1916, Bulletin 616
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...
