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Edgemont folio, South Dakota-Nebraska Edgemont folio, South Dakota-Nebraska

No abstract available.
Authors
Nelson Darton, William Smith

Experiments on schistosity and slaty cleavage Experiments on schistosity and slaty cleavage

Schistosity as a structure is important, and it is a part of the business of geologists to explain its origin. Slaty cleavage has further and greater importance as a possible tectonic feature. Scarcely a great mountain range exists, or has existed, along the course of which belts of slaty rock are not found, the dip of the cleavage usually approaching verticality. Are these slate belts...
Authors
George Becker

Forest conditions in the Absaroka division of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Montana and the Livingston and Big Timber quadrangles Forest conditions in the Absaroka division of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, Montana and the Livingston and Big Timber quadrangles

The tract of land here designated the Absaroka division of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve was originally the Absaroka Forest Reserve. By proclamation of January 29, 1903, this reserve was merged with the Teton and the Yellowstone forest reserves, the whole taking the name of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve. The western, northern, and eastern boundaries, as then established and as...
Authors
J. Leiberg

Forest conditions in the Black Mesa Forest Reserve, Arizona Forest conditions in the Black Mesa Forest Reserve, Arizona

The Black Mesa Forest Reserve, in Arizona, was created by proclamation of President McKinley dated August 17, 1898. The following are its boundaries; "Beginning at a point on the boundary line between Arizona and New Mexico where it is intersected by the north line of township seven (7) north, range thirty-one (31) east, Gila and Salt River meridian, Arizona; thence westerly along the...
Authors
F. Plummer, T. Rixon, Arthur Dodwell

Forest conditions in the San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve, Arizona Forest conditions in the San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve, Arizona

On April 12, 1902, President Roosevelt issued a proclamation "for the purpose of consolidating into one reserve the lands heretofore embraced in the San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserves and of including therein the other adjacent lands within Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve, and is described by metes and bound as follows: ''Beginning at the northwest corner of township twenty-two...
Authors
J. Leiberg, T. Rixon, Arthur Dodwell, F. Plummer

Globe folio, Arizona Globe folio, Arizona

No abstract available.
Authors
F. Ransome

Gypsum deposits in the United States Gypsum deposits in the United States

No abstract available.
Authors
George Adams
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