Bulletin, Issues 286-291U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 - Geology |
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abutment Admiralty Island Alaska albite aluminum tablet stamped amount band basin Beaver bed rock Berners Bay black slates brick bronze tablet stamped Bull calcite Chickaloon clay coal Coast Range coping stone copper bolt deposits dikes diorite district Douglas Island elevation feet feldspar Freeport front of station Gastineau Channel GEOLOGICAL SURVEY geology Glacier Gold Creek gravel greenstone Gulch HARRISBURG Hundred-foot inches intrusive Juneau belt Kittanning limestone Lower Kittanning Lynn Canal masses Matanuska mill mineral mountain northeast occur Ohio outcrops Pennsylvania Railroad Pennsylvania Railroad bench PITTS PITTSBURG PITTSBURG 1899 placer prospecting pyrite pyrrhotite quadrangle quartz quartz veins Railroad bench mark railroad bridge reconnaissance region reported Rept River sandstone schist seam shale Sheep Creek showing side southeast corner southeastern Alaska southwest stream sulphides thickness top of rail top of west Treadwell tunnel U. S. Geol valley veinlets vicinity west rail width wing wall
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Page vi - Reconnaissances in the Cape Nome and Norton Bay regions, Alaska, in 1900,
Page iii - SCHRADER, FC, and SPENCER, AC The geology and mineral resources of a portion of the Copper River district, Alaska.
Page 128 - The serial publications 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 United States — folios thereof.
Page 32 - Bulletins, and Water-Supply Papers treat of a variety of subjects, and the total number issued is large. They have therefore been classified into the following series: A, Economic geology; B, Descriptive geology: C, 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; N, Water power; O, Underground waters:...
Page 44 - Quadrangles. The elevations in the following list are based upon an aluminum tablet at the southeast corner of the Jefferson County Court House at Steubenville, Ohio, marked "716 STEUBENVILLE. ' ' The elevation of this is accepted as 714.729 feet above mean sea level and was determined from the Army Engineers bench mark "67 A...
Page 199 - Water evaporated from and at 212° F.: Per pound of coal as fired (pounds...
Page vi - A reconnaissance in the Sushitna basin and adjacent territory, Alaska, in 1898." Twentieth Ann. Rept., pt. 7, 1900, pp. 1-29. Robert Muldrow. Tanana and White rivers, portions of; scale, 1:625000. Contained in "A reconnaissance in the Tanana and White River basins, Alaska, in 1898.
Page 28 - Map of Alaska, showing know'n gold-bearing rocks, with descriptive text containing sketches of the geography, geology, and gold deposits and routes to the gold fields.
Page 34 - ... parts of the oven, as nearly as possible from the same location for each test, as follows: 2 feet from the oven door; 2 feet from each side, on a line drawn from the center of the oven; at the center; and 2 feet from the back wall, on a line with the point of selection of the pieces taken from the door and the center. The separate pieces of coke extended the whole height of the charge and were as nearly uniform in size as possible.