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Forty-ninth annual report of the Director of the Geological Survey

The appropriations made directly for the work of the Geological Survey for the fiscal year 1928 included 10 items, amounting to $1,807,880. In addition $109,000 was appropriated for printing the reports of the Geological Survey, and $11,000 for miscellaneous printing and binding, and an allotment of $15,763.95 for miscellaneous supplies was made from appropriations for the Interior Department. A d
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George Otis Smith

Geology and coal resources of the Salina Canyon district, Sevier County, Utah

No abstract available.
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E. M. Spieker, A. A. Baker

Geology and lignite resources of the Marmarth field, southwestern North Dakota

No abstract available.
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Charles Joseph Hares

Geology of the Muddy Mountains, Nevada, with a section through the Virgin Range to the Grand Wash Cliffs, Arizona

No abstract available.
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Chester R. Longwell

Ground water in the New Haven area, Connecticut

No abstract available.
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John Stafford Brown

Ground water in the Ordovician rocks near Woodstock, Virginia

No abstract available.
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George M. Hall

Laboratory tests on physical properties of water-bearing materials

No abstract available.
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N.D. Stearns

Life histories of the Coregoninae

No abstract available.
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John Van Oosten
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

Life history of the lake herring (Leucichthys artedi Le Sueur) of Lake Huron as revealed by its scales, with a critique of the scale method

This study shows that the structural characters of the scales of the coregonid fishes of Lake Huron are so clearly recognizable as to permit their use by the scale method. It shows, further, that the fundamental assumptions underlying the scale method are warranted in so far as they apply to the lake herring (Leucichthys artedi Le Sueur). The scale method is therefore valid when applied in a stu
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John Van Oosten
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

Methods of exploring and repairing leaky artesian wells

No abstract available.
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John McCombs, Albert George Fiedler, O. E. preface by Meinzer

Notes on Pleistocene faunas from Maryland and Virginia and Pliocene and Pleistocene faunas from North Carolina

No abstract available.
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W. C. Mansfield

Notes on practical water analysis

No abstract available.
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W. D. Collins