Geology and water resources of the Patrick and Goshen Hole quadrangles in eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska
George Irving Adams
1902, Water Supply Paper 70
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The Geology and Petrography of Crater Lake National Park
Joseph Silas Diller, Horace Bushnell Patton
1902, Professional Paper 3
Twenty years ago Crater Lake was unknown to the general public, but since then a knowledge of its remarkable features has been spread abroad through the press, and Congress recognized its worth as an educational feature and made it a national park by the act approved May 22, 1902. As defined...
Charleston folio, West Virginia
Marius R. Campbell
1901, Folios of the Geologic Atlas 72
The Charleston quadrangle embraces an area of 938 square miles, extending from latitude 38° on the south to 38°30' to the north, and from longitude 81° 30' on the east to 82° on the west. The quadrangle is located in the State of West Virginia, including parts of the counties of Kanawha,...
A gazetteer of Utah
Henry Gannett
1900, Bulletin 166
The Territory of Utah was organized September 9, 1850, its area being a part of that acquired from Mexico by the United States in 1848. As originally organized it extended from the summit of the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado westward to the east boundary of California, including all the...
Pocahontas folio, Virginia-West Virginia
Marius Robinson Campbell
1896, Folios of the Geologic Atlas 26
The territory represented by the Pocahontas atlas sheet is one-quater of a square degree of the earth's surface, extending from latitude 37° on the south to 37° 30' on the north, and from longitude 81° on the east to 81° 30' on the west. Its average width is 27.5 miles,...
The longtailed shrews of the eastern United States
Gerrit S. Miller Jr.
1895, North American Fauna 10-B
Insect fauna of the Rhode Island coal field
Samuel Hubbard Scudder
1893, Bulletin 101
Some years ago Rev. Edgar F. Clark, then of Providence, Rhode Island, discovered in the Coal-measures of the neighborhood of that city the wing of a cockroach. This stimulated further search by others as well as himself, with the result of finding a fair number and variety of insect types,...
On the higher Devonian faunas of Ontario county, New York
John Mason Clarke
1885, Bulletin 16
The materials and the conclusions presented in this paper are the partial results of studies of the Devonian of Western New York, which have been of several years duration. Since the summer of 1877 much attention has been given to the finer subdivision of the Devonian on strictly paleontological evidence,...
Observations on the junction between the Eastern sandstone and the Keweenaw series on Keweenaw Point, Lake Superior
Roland Duer Irving, Thomas C. Chamberlin
1885, Bulletin 23
Although the copper-bearing rocks of Lake Superior and the adjoining formations have attracted the attention of geologists for fifty years past, there are yet remaining unsolved very many problems with regard to them. We have ourselves, indeed, written at some length with regard to these rocks, and one of us...
Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories Volume III: The vertebrata of the tertiary formations of the West Book I
F. V. Hayden
1884, Report
I send herewith a report on the Tertiary Faunae of the United States as represented by collections made in various Territories and States west of the Mississippi River, embraced within the boundaries of your survey. The explorations from which the collections have been derived cover portions of the States and...
Report upon United States geological surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, Volume III: Supplement -- geology
George Montague Wheeler, John J. Stevenson
1881, Report, Report upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian
The region examined during the seasons of 1878 and 1879 extends north to north latitude 37° 20, and embraces parts of North Central New Mexico, and South Central Colorado. It lies wholly east from the canon of the Rio Grande, includes the mountain area of the Spanish ranges to their...
Report on the geology of the eastern portion of the Uinta Mountains and a region of country adjacent thereto
John Wesley Powell
1876, Report
Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories: No. 6, second series
Elliott Coues, F.B. Meek, Samuel H. Scudder, Robert Ridgway
1876, Report
Table of Contents I.----An account of the various publications relating to the travels of Lewis and Clarke, with a commentary on the zoological results of their expedition. By Dr. Elliott Coues, U.S.A. II.---Notice of a very large Goniatite from eastern Kansas. By F.B. Meek III.--Fossil orthoptera from the Rocky Mountajn tertiaries. By Samuel...
Notes on the geology of northeastern New Mexico
O. St. John
1876, Report, Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories
In the region of the headwaters of the Canadian is embraced a territory which, for the completeness of its geological record and the interest of its concomitant topographical and scenic features, is not excelled perhaps by a similar extent of country in the West. It is bounded on the west...
Annual report upon the geological exploration of the fortieth parallel from the Sierra Nevada to the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains: Being Appendix KK of the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for 1875
Clarence King
1875, Report
I have the honor herewith to present a brief annual report of the operations of the geological exploration of the fortieth parallel, under my charge, for the year ending June 30, 1875, and to state in explanation of its delay that, since the date when it should properly have been...
Preliminary report upon a reconnaissance through southern and southeastern Nevada, made in 1869
George Montague Wheeler, D.W. Lockwood
1875, Report
By authority from headquarters Military Division of the Pacific, Lieut. George M. Wheeler, United States Engineers, will proceed with his civil assistants and three enlisted men to either Camps Halleck or Ruby, Nevada, and having been joined by Lieut. D.W. Lockwood, United States Engineers, now en route via Fort Churchill,...
[Seventh] Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, embracing Colorado: being a report of progress of the exploration for the year 1873
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
1874, Report
In accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, an appropriation of $75,000 was made for the systematic survey of Colorado, and, at as early a date as the season would permit, the party reached Denver. This place formed our starting point for the various portions of the...
Early Paleozoic composite melange terrane, central Appalachian Piedmont, Virginia and Maryland; Its origin and tectonic history
Louis Pavlides
None, Book chapter
Two distinct types of mélange deposits, distinguished by their matrix, occur within a collage of thrust slices in the Piedmont of the central Appalachians. They crop out in a northeast-trending belt that extends...
Silurian-Devonian age and tectonic setting of the Connecticut Valley-Gaspé trough of Vermont using U-Pb SHRIMP analyses of detrital zircons
C. K. McWilliams, Gregory J. Walsh, Robert P. Wintsch
None, American Journal of Science (310) 325-363
U-Pb SHRIMP ages of detrital zircons from metasedimentary rocks of the Connecticut Valley-Gaspe' trough in Vermont corroborate a Silurian-Devonian age of deposition for these strata and constrain their provenances. Ages of randomly selected detrital zircons obtained from quartzites within the Waits River and Gile Mountain Formations range from Archean to...