Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey

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Page i - ... of the United States Geological Survey consist of (1) Annual Reports, (2) Monographs, (3) Professional Papers, (4) Bulletins, (5) Mineral Resources, (6) Water-Supply and Irrigation Papers, (7) Topographic Atlas of United States — folios and separate sheets thereof, (8) Geologic Atlas of the United States — folios thereof.
Page iv - Rocks, by Whitman Cross, with, a Geological Sketch of Buffalo Peaks, Colorado, by SF Emmons. 1883.
Page iv - The Gabbros and Associated Hornblende Rocks occurring in the Neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, by George Huntington Williams.
Page v - SERIES E, CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS. B 9. Report of work done in the Washington laboratory during the fiscal year 1883-84, by FW Clarke and TM Chatard.
Page iv - Price 10 cents. 78. A Report of Work done in the Division of Chemistry and Physics, mainly during the Fiscal Tear 1889-'90. FW Clarke, Chief Chemist. 1891. 8°.
Page iv - Price 20 cents. 66. On a Group of Volcanic Rocks from the Tewan Mountains, New Mexico, and on the occurrence of Primary Quartz in certain Basalts, by Joseph Paxson Iddings.
Page vi - PP 28. The superior analyses of igneous rocks from Roth's Tabellen, 1869 to 1884, arranged according to the quantitative system of classification, by HS Washington.
Page iv - Bullfrog, and other mining districts In southern Nevada, by FL Ransome; with notes on the Manhattan district, by GH Garrey and WH Emmons.
Page 61 - In a later statement55 the same author observes that the fact of prime significance geologically seems to be that, by a process of simple chemical exchange, the metal may be removed from solution and fixed in the solid state, and thus concentrated by contact with even the most stable of the silicates. The bases most commonly replacing the metals in these processes are potassium, sodium, magnesium, and calcium.
Page i - Systematic geology and paleontology; D, Petrography and mineralogy; E, Chemistry and physics; F, Geography; G, Miscellaneous; H, Forestry; I, Irrigation; J, Water storage; K, Pumping water; L, Quality of water; M, General hydrographic investigations...

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