Catalogue and Index of the Publications of the United States Geological Survey 1901 to 1903U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 - 234 Seiten |
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14 miles Back azimuth Beallsville BELMONT COUNTY bronze triangulation tablet cemented a bronze cemented in solid center of top CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY cleared hill Coast and Geodetic corner secs Creek cut marble post distance east and west Forks of road Geodetic Survey Geographic positions GUERNSEY COUNTY HARRISON COUNTY HOCKING COUNTY inches set 36 land lapilli Latitude 39 Latitude 40 lava Longitude 81 marble post 48 Meters miles east miles north miles northeast miles south miles west MONROE COUNTY mountain NOBLE COUNTY north and south northwest occupied Ohio one-half mile PISCATAQUIS COUNTY post-office primary traverse Reference mark ridge River Road crossing east Road crossing north road east road north Road right sandstone post 36 set 36 inches signal tree Situated solid rock south 37 southeast southwest Station mark stone post 40 summit timbered tion tablet Township triangulation station triangulation tablet cemented true azimuth United States Coast village west 32 Wintersville YAVAPAI COUNTY
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Seite 179 - Observations on the flow of rivers in the vicinity of New York City, by H. A.
Seite 63 - A marble post 36 by 6 by 6 inches, set 32 inches in the ground, in the center of top of which is countersunk and cemented a bronze triangulation tablet. Reference mark: The lone locust signal tree 4 feet north of station mark. (Latitude, 40° 17
Seite 13 - The origin of certain place names in the United States, by Henry Gannett.
Seite 63 - The pictures whieh geology holds up to our view of North America during the tertiary ages are in all respects, but one, more attractive and interesting than could be drawn from its present aspects. Then a warm and genial climate prevailed from the Gulf to the Arctic Sea ; the Canadian highlands were higher, but the Rocky Mountains lower and less broad. Most of the continent exhibited an undulating surface, rounded hills and broad valleys covered with forests grander than any of the present day, or...
Seite 30 - Reconnaissances in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay Regions, Alaska, in 1900.
Seite 56 - A sandstone post 30 by 12 by 12 inches, set 28 inches in the ground, in the center of top of which is cemented a bronze tablet marked "US Geological Survey — Pennsylvania . ' ' [Latitude 40° 20
Seite 64 - ... fauna retains but a few dwarfed representatives. Noble rivers flowed through plains and valleys, and sea-like lakes broader and more numerous than those the continent now bears diversified the scenery. Through unnumbered ages the seasons ran their ceaseless course, the sun rose and set, moons waxed and waned over this fair land, but no human eye was there to mark its beauty or human intellect to control and use its exuberant fertility.