Eighth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1886-1887: Part 1
J. W. Powell
1889, Annual Report 8
The Geological Survey was organized, with Mr. Clarence King as Director, in March, 1879. In March, 1881, Mr. King resigned and the present Director was appointed. From its organization to the present time the Survey has steadily grown as Congress has enlarged its functions and increased its appropriations. During this...
Subaerial decay of rocks and origin of the red color of certain formations
Israel C. Russell
1889, Bulletin 52
Descriptions of fourteen new species and one new genus of North American mammals
Clinton Hart Merriam
1889, North American Fauna 2
The geology of Nantucket
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
1889, Bulletin 53
The Potomac or younger Mesozoic flora
William Morris Fontaine
1889, Monograph 15
The Paleozoic fishes of North America
J.S. Newberry
1889, Monograph 16
Ninth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1887-1888
J. W. Powell
1889, Annual Report 9
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On the thermoelectric measurement of high temperatures
Carl Barus
1889, Bulletin 54
Eighth Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1886-1887: Part 2
J. W. Powell
1889, Annual Report 8
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III.-The Work of Prof. Henry Carvill Lewis in Glacial Geology
Warren Upham
1889, Geological Magazine (6) 155-160
The recent notice of the life and work of Prof. Henry Carvill Lewis, whose lamented death occurred in Manchester, July 21st, 1888, in his thirty-fifth year, well indicates the wide range of his scientific labours. He published valuable results of investigations in astronomy, mineralogy and petrology, and especially in glacial...
II.-Subaerial Deposits of the Arid Region of North America
Israel C. Russell
1889, Geological Magazine (6) 342-350
A Comparison of adobe with the loess of China forms the concluding part of this paper; but as no analyses of the Chinese deposit are known to me, a few analyses of the loess of the Mississippi Valley are inserted, not with the assumption, however, that the deposits bearing the...
Instructions to rain-fall observers of U.S. Geological Survey
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1889, Division of Hydrography Circular 1
In the prosecution of the general "survey of the arid lands for purposes of irrigation," authorized by Congress to be undertaken by the U. S. Geological Survey, a determination of the amount of water supplied by the natural rain and snow fall in different localities is of fundamental importance. To...
Fossil fishes and fossil plants of the Triassic rocks of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley
J.S. Newberry
1888, Monograph 14
Geology of the quicksilver deposits of the Pacific slope, with an atlas
George Ferdinand Becker
1888, Monograph 13
The field work of the investigations recorded in this volume occupied nearly the whole of three seasons, beginning in 1883. All the mines might have been examined and the maps colored in a much shorter time, but it was found soon after the examinations were begun that they could not...
Seventh Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1885-1886
J. W. Powell
1888, Annual Report 7
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Analyses of waters of the Yellowstone National Park, with an account of the methods of analysis employed
Frank Austin Gooch, James Edward Whitfield
1888, Bulletin 47
Nature and origin of deposits of phosphate of lime
Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose Jr., Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
1888, Bulletin 46
On the form and position of the sea level with special references to its dependence on superficial masses symmetrically disposed about a normal to the earth's surface
Robert Simpson Woodward
1888, Bulletin 48
Mineral resources of the United States, 1887
David T. Day
1888, Report
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Rules for the preparation of manuscript and illustrations designed for publication by the United States Geological Survey
Thomas Hampson
1888, Report
In the annual report of the Director of the U. S. Geological Survey for 1885-'86, pages 40 and 41, you set forth the functions of the chief of the editorial division as follows: "To secure clear and accurate statement in the material sent to press, careful proof-reading, and uniformity in...
IV.-Some Definitions in Dynamical Geology
W.J. McGee
1888, Geological Magazine (5) 489-495
In view of the active discussion of the problems of earth-movement and mountain-growth now current, certain fundamental definitions, growing out of the discrimination of processes commonly confounded but really distinct, seem to be timely.The various processes with which the geologist has to deal fall naturally into two principal and antagonistic...
II.-The Jordan-Arabah Depression and the Dead Sea
Israel C. Russell
1888, Geological Magazine (5) 387-395
The occurrence of numerous terraces on the mountain slopes over-looking the Dead Sea has been reported by several observers, but no accurate measurements of their elevations or definite correlation of the terraces on the opposite slopes of the depression, seem to have been attempted. In the central part of the...
VII.—On Hindeastraea, a New Generic Form of Cretaceous Astraeidae
Charles A. White
1888, Geological Magazine (5) 362-364
The little Coral here described was discovered in Kaufman County, Texas, in strata of the Kipley Group, by Dr. R. H. Loughridge, and presented by him to me, together with a few characteristic molluscan species of that group which he found associated with it. The Ripley Group is the uppermost...
I.-The Jordan-Arabah Depression and the Dead Sea
Israel C. Russell
1888, Geological Magazine (5) 337-344
The following account of the geology of the Dead Sea basin A. has been compiled from the observations of others, and I am especially indebted in this connection to H. J. Johnson, Geologist of the United States Expedition to the Dead Sea, to Professor Louis Lartet, Geologist of the Due...
The pronunciation of ‘Arkansas’
R. T. Hill
1888, Science (11) 48-48
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