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...
Oil resources of black shales of the eastern United States
G. H. Ashley
1917, Bulletin 641-L
No abstract available....
Relation of the Wissahickon mica gneiss to the Shenandoah limestone and Octoraro schist of the Doe Run and Avondale region, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Eleanora F. Bliss, Anna I. Jonas
1917, Professional Paper 98-B
The region discussed in this paper lies in Chester County, Pa., and is included in the eastern half of the Coatesville quadrangle. (See fig. 3.) It is within the belt of crystal-line schists and gneisses of the Piedmont Plateau. The northern half of the area, which will be called 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...
Relations of the Embar and Chugwater formations in central Wyoming
D. Dale Condit
1917, Professional Paper 98-O
The information set forth in this chapter was obtained in field work during the seasons of 1913 and 1915. During 1913 the writer was engaged in the detailed mapping of the phosphate beds of the Ember formation on the northeast slope of the Wind River Mountains and in the Owl...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1915, Part II, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins
Nathan Clifford Grover, Guy Clarke Stevens, Warren Esterly Hall
1917, Water Supply Paper 402
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...
Colorado River and its utilization
Eugene Clyde La Rue, Nathan C. Grover
1916, Water Supply Paper 395
The region traversed by the Colorado and its tributaries is for many reasons of intense interest to the people of the United States. Here was the home of that forgotten people of which there is almost no record except the hieroglyphics on the rocks, the ruins of their irrigation systems,...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1914, Part II, South Atlantic and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1916, Water Supply Paper 382
Notes on some mining districts in eastern Nevada
James M. Hill
1916, Bulletin 648
No abstract available....
Nitrate deposits in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon
G. R. Mansfield
1916, Bulletin 620-B
No abstract available....
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...
The rutile deposits of the eastern United States
T.L. Watson
1915, Bulletin 580-O
No abstract available....
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...
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,...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1913, Part II, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1915, Water Supply Paper 352
The calcite marble and dolomite of eastern Vermont
T. Nelson Dale
1915, Bulletin 589
No abstract available....
Belleville-Breese folio, Illinois
Johan August Udden, Eugene Wesley Shaw
1915, Folios of the Geologic Atlas 195
The Belleville and Breese quadrangles are bounded by meridians 89° 30' and 90° and parallels 38° 30' and 38° 45' and thus include one-eight of a square degree of the earth's surface, an area, in that latitude, of 466.56 square miles. They lie in southwestern Illinois (see fig. 1), 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 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,...
San Francisco folio, California, Tamalpais, San Francisco, Concord, San Mateo, and Haywards quadrangles
Andrew Cowper Lawson
1914, Folios of the Geologic Atlas 193
The five sheets of the San Francisco folio the Tamalpais, Ban Francisco, Concord, Ban Mateo, and Haywards sheets map a territory lying between latitude 37° 30' and 38° and longitude 122° and 122° 45'. Large parts of four of these sheets cover the waters of the Bay of San Francisco...
Surface water supply of the United States, 1912, Part II, South Atlantic slope and eastern Gulf of Mexico basins
W. E. Hall, C.H. Pierce
1914, Water Supply Paper 322
The Glacier National Park: A popular guide to its geology and scenery
Marius R. Campbell
1914, Bulletin 600
The Glacier National Park includes that part of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains lying just south of the Canadian line, in Teton and Flathead counties, Mont. It is bounded on the west by Flathead River (locally called North Fork), on the south by the Middle Fork of Flathead...
Cretaceous deposits of the eastern Gulf region and species of Exogyra from the eastern Gulf region and the Carolinas
L. W. Stephenson
1914, Professional Paper 81
No abstract available....
