Mineral resources of the United States, 1887
David T. Day
1888, Report
No abstract available....
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
No abstract available....
The upper beaches and deltas of the glacial lake Agassiz
Warren Upham
1887, Bulletin 39
Tertiary and Cretaceous strata of the Tuscaloosa, Tombigbee, and Alabama Rivers
Eugene Allen Smith, Lawrence C. Johnson
1887, Bulletin 43
The present condition of knowledge of the geology of Texas
Robert Thomas Hill
1887, Bulletin 45
On the fossil faunas of the Upper Devonian: The Genesee section, New York
Henry Shaler Williams
1887, Bulletin 41
I have the honor to transmit herewith for publication as a bulletin a second contribution to the study of Devonian paleontology, Bulletin No. 3, "On the Fossil Faunas of the Upper Devonian," having been designed as the first of a series of papers on the comparative paleontology of the Devonian...
Bibliography of North American geology for 1886
Nelson Horatio Darton
1887, Bulletin 44
Peridotite of Elliott County, Kentucky
Joseph Silas Diller
1887, Bulletin 38
Types of the Laramie flora
Lester Frank Ward
1887, Bulletin 37
I have in preparation a work on the flora of the Laramie group, in which will be described and figured a very large number of fossil plants, most of which were collected by myself in the seasons of 1881 and 1883 and the elaboration of which has occupied most of...
Changes in river courses in Washington Territory due to glaciation
Bailey Willis
1887, Bulletin 40
No abstract available....
Report of work done in the division of chemistry and physics, mainly during the fiscal year 1885-1886
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
1887, Bulletin 42
Mineral resources of the United States, 1886
David T. Day
1887, Report
No abstract available....
On the organization of scientific work of the general government
John Wesley Powell
1886, Report
Extracts from the testimony taken by the Joint commission of the Senate and House of representatives to "consider the present organizations of the Signal service, Geological survey, Coast and geodetic survey, and the Hydrographic office of the Navy department, with the view to secure greater efficiency and economy of administration."...
Dinocerata: a monograph of an extinct order of gigantic mammals
Othiel Charles Marsh
1886, Monograph 10
Subsidence of fine solid particles in liquids
Carl Barus
1886, Bulletin 36
Systematic review of our present knowledge of fossil insects, including myriapods and arachnids
Samuel Hubbard Scudder
1886, Bulletin 31
On the relation of the Laramie molluscan fauna to that of the succeeding fresh-water Eocene, and other groups
Charles A. White
1886, Bulletin 34
Geology and mining industry of Leadville, Colorado, with atlas
Samuel Franklin Emmons
1886, Monograph 12
The present work was undertaken at the instance of the Ron. Clarence King, first Director of the United States Geological Survey, in 1879. Itwas his intention that it should form part of a series of monographs which would in time include all the important mining districts of the country, and thus furnish...
Report of work done in the division of chemistry and physics mainly during the fiscal year 1884-85
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
1886, Bulletin 27
The present bulletin contains some of the more important results obtained in the chemical laboratory of the United States Geological Survey during the fiscal year 1884—'85. It also contains two physical papers representing work which was mainly done during previous fiscal years, but completed during the one for which this...
Notes on the geology of northern California
J.S. Diller
1886, Bulletin 33