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Contributions to economic geology (short papers and preliminary reports), 1929, Part II, Mineral fuels. The Kevin-Sunburst oil field and other possibilities of oil and gas in the Sweetgrass arch, Montana

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A. J. Collier

Contributions to economic geology (short papers and preliminary reports), 1929: Part II. - Mineral fuels

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Hugh D. Miser

Contributions to economic geology, 1929: Part I. Metals and nonmetals except fuels. Tertiary volcanic tuffs and sandstones used as building stones in the upper Salmon River Valley, Idaho

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C.D. Behre

Contributions to economic geology, 1929: Part II. Mineral fuels. Geology and oil resources along the southern border of San Joaquin Valley, California

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H. W. Hoots

Contributions to the hydrology of the United States, 1929

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Nathan C. Grover

Early Pleistocene glaciation in Idaho

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C. P. Ross

Fifty-first annual report of the Director of the Geological Survey

The appropriations made directly for the work of the Geological Survey for the fiscal year 1930 included 13 items, amounting to $2,182,671. In addition $150,000 was appropriated for printing and binding for the Geological Survey, and an allotment of $12,960 for miscellaneous supplies was made from appropriations for the Interior Department. A detailed statement of the amounts appropriated and expe
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George Otis Smith

Geologic history of the Yosemite Valley

The problem of the origin of the Yosemite Valley inherently demands a solution in quantitative terms. Its essence is, To what extent is the valley a product of glacial action, to what extent a product of stream erosion? The principal result of the investigations upon which this report is based is the determination within narrow limits of the preglacial depth of the Yosemite Valley and of other fac
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Francois E. Matthes

Geology and coal resources of the Meeker quadrangle, Moffat and Rio Blanco counties, Colorado

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E. T. Hancock, J. B. Eby

Geology and mineral resources of northwestern Alaska

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Philip Sidney Smith, John Beaver Mertie

Geology and ore deposits of the Wood river region, Idaho, with a description of the Minnie Moore and near-by mines

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Joseph Bertram Umpleby, Lewis Gardner Westgate, Clyde Polhemus Ross, D. F. Hewett

Geology and water resources of the Kau district, Hawaii (including parts of Kilauea and Mauna Loa Volcanoes)

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Harold T. Stearns, W. O. Clark, Oscar Edwards Meinzer