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Tertiary history of the Grand Canon District, with atlas

This work is chiefly devoted to a description of the methods and results of EROSION upon a grand scale. Since erosion depends for its efficiency principally upon the progressive elevation of a region, and upon its climatal conditions, these collateral subjects are also discussed in their relations to the principal theme. And in general such an erosion influences and is in turn influenced by the wh
Authors
Clarence E. Dutton

Volume VI: Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 1882

No abstract available.
Authors
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden

Annual report upon the geographical and topographical surveys of the territory of the United States west of the 100th meridian, in the States and Territories of California, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, New Me

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Authors
George Montague Wheeler, Montgomery Meigs Macomb

Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume IV: Houses and house life of the American aborigines

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Authors
Lewis H. Morgan, John Wesley Powell

Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume V, Part I: Observations on cup-shaped and other lapidarian sculptures in the Old World and in America

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Authors
Charles Rau, John Wesley Powell

Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume V, Part II: On prehistoric trephining and cranial amulets

No abstract available.
Authors
Robert Fletcher, John Wesley Powell

Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume V, Part III: A study of the manuscript Troano

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Authors
Cyrus Thomas, D. G. Introduction by Brinton, John Wesley Powell

Geological and Geographical Atlas of Colorado and portions of adjacent territory

Sheets I-IV are triangulations, drainage, land classification, and geologic maps of Colorado west of longitude 102°, on the scale of 12 miles to the inch. Sheets V-XVI are topographic (contour) and geologic maps of Colorado and adjacent States, between meridians 104° 30' and 109° 30' and parallels 36° 45' and 40° 30', on the scale of 4 miles to the inch. Sheets XVII and XVIII contain three geologi
Authors
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Julius Bien

Report upon United States geological surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, Volume III: Supplement -- geology

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 southern termination, and takes in the eastern plains to west longitude 104° 7' 30". But of this region a strip betw
Authors
George Montague Wheeler, John J. Stevenson

Annual Report upon the geographical and topographical surveys of the territory of the United States west of the 100th meridian, in the States and Territories of California, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, New Me

No abstract available.
Authors
George Montague Wheeler

First annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior

No abstract available.
Authors
Clarence King

History of North American pinnipeds: A monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears, and seals of North America

No abstract available.
Authors
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Joel Asaph Allen