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Forty-eighth annual report of the Director of the Geological Survey
George Otis Smith
1927, Annual Report 48
The appropriations made directly for the work of the Geological Survey for the fiscal year 1927 included 10 items, amounting to $1,819,440. In addition $81,000 was appropriated for printing the reports of the Geological Survey, and $11,000 for miscellaneous printing and binding, and an allotment of $13,707 for miscellaneous supplies...
A comparison of the genera Metaplacenticeras Spath and Placenticeras Meek
John B. Reeside Jr.
1927, Professional Paper 147-A
In a recent examination of a considerable suite of specimens from the Western Interior of the United States belonging to the Cretaceous ammonite genus Placenticeras Meek the writer made comparisons of the species from the Interior with those from the Cretaceous of the Pacific coast ordinarily designated Placenticeras pacificum J....
Organic precipitation of metallic copper
T. S. Lovering
1927, Bulletin 795-C
Spongy masses of native copper, found in a bog near Cooke, Mont., are believed to have been precipitated by organic matter. Their occurrence and field relations are such as sharply limit speculations concerning their origin....
Plants as indicators of ground water
Oscar Edward Meinzer
1927, Water Supply Paper 577
Perhaps the most outstanding feature of the flora of the desert is its relation or lack of relation to the water table. On the one hand are the plants which are adapted to extreme economy of water, which depend on the rains that occur at long intervals for their scanty...
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...
Contributions to economic geology (short papers and preliminary reports), 1927: Part I - Metals and nonmetals except fuels
Gerald Francis Loughlin, George Rogers Mansfield
1927, Bulletin 795
The Geological Survey's "Contributions to economic geology" are published in two parts, one including papers on metals and nonmetals except fuels and the other including papers on mineral fuels. As the subtitle indicates, most of the papers in these volumes are of three classes (1) short papers describing as thoroughly...
American Tertiary mollusks of the genus Clementia
W. P. Woodring
1927, Professional Paper 147-C
Aside from its value as an aid in determining the age of Tertiary beds, the chief interest of the genus Clementia lies in the anomalous features of its present and former distribution. An attempt is made in this paper to trace its geologic history, to point out its paleobiologic significance,...
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...
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...