Mineral Deposits of Central America (open access)

Mineral Deposits of Central America

From introduction: This report is based on investigations carried on by the Geological Survey (U. S. Department of the Interior) under the auspices of the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation (U. S. Department of State) and the Foreign Economic Administration. The function of the last two agencies is presently carried on by the International Cooperation Administration. Roberts is responsible for the text of this report and for the compilation of the geologic map. He was in Central America from January to April 1942 under a program of scientific and technical cooperation with the American Republics sponsored by the Department of State, and mapped manganese deposits in Costa Rica and manganese and antimony deposits in Honduras.
Date: 1957
Creator: Roberts, Ralph Jackson & Irving, Earl M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revision of the Pocket Mice of the Genus Perognathus (open access)

Revision of the Pocket Mice of the Genus Perognathus

Revision of earlier report in this series detailing changes in classification resulting from study of up to 3,000 specimens.
Date: September 20, 1900
Creator: Osgood, Wilfred H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revision of the Skunks of the Genus Spilogale (open access)

Revision of the Skunks of the Genus Spilogale

From introduction: "Revision of skunk genus Spilogale based upon a study of about 380 skins with skulls and 75 additional skulls from the collection of the Biological Survey."
Date: November 24, 1906
Creator: Howell, Arthur H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revision of the American Harvest Mice: (Genus Reithrodontomys) (open access)

Revision of the American Harvest Mice: (Genus Reithrodontomys)

Discusses history, specimens, habits, economic status, food, and pelages of American harvest mice. Lists locations and provides a key to species and subspecies, and provides species descriptions.
Date: June 5, 1914
Creator: Howell, Arthur H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revision of the Mice of the American Genus Peromyscus (open access)

Revision of the Mice of the American Genus Peromyscus

From letter of transmittal: "The work consists of a systematic study of all the members of the genus, and includes keys for the identification of the various forms, together with the necessary illustrations, and maps showing the geographic distribution of the species."
Date: April 17, 1909
Creator: Osgood, Wilfred H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revision of the Pocket Gophers of the Genus Thomomys (open access)

Revision of the Pocket Gophers of the Genus Thomomys

Describes habits, predators, morphology, sexual variation, pelages, and distribution of pocket gophers. Describes genera and group relations. Describes, lists locations and distribution, and provides a key for species and subspecies.
Date: November 15, 1915
Creator: Bailey, Vernon
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Rabbits of North America (open access)

The Rabbits of North America

From introduction: "Revision to include all known hares and rabbits of North America from Isthmus of Panama to north Greenland."
Date: August 31, 1909
Creator: Nelson, E. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lead: A Materials Survey (open access)

Lead: A Materials Survey

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing a materials survey conducted on lead. Physicality, history, geology, uses, and locations of lead is presented. This report includes maps, tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1962
Creator: Callaway, H. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Whidbey Island Intertidal and Shallow Subtidal Benthos (open access)

Whidbey Island Intertidal and Shallow Subtidal Benthos

The following report discusses results from two years of sampling the flora and fauna in three habitats on the west coast of Whidbey Island. Included is an analysis of species richness, diversity, community structure, seasonal changes and dominant forms.
Date: November 1980
Creator: Webber, Herbert H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coastal Cliff Sediments, San Diego Region, Dana Point to the Mexican Border (1887 to 1947) (open access)

Coastal Cliff Sediments, San Diego Region, Dana Point to the Mexican Border (1887 to 1947)

From Summary: These studies document the temporally episodic and areally site-specific character of subaerial erosion, which is shown to be directly related to prevailing meteorologic conditions.
Date: December 1988
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Appraisal of Minerals Availability for 34 Commodities (open access)

An Appraisal of Minerals Availability for 34 Commodities

From Program Overview: "This bulletin summarizes and updates availability information published in individual mineral commodity appraisals since 1979. it also marks achievement, after 15-yr systems and data development history, of a major Bureau goal to build computer-based systems and the necessary staff infrastructure to perform timely, commodity-wide assessments with comparable cost frameworks."
Date: 1987
Creator: United States. Bureau of Mines.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coastal Cliff Sediments, San Diego Region, Dana Point to the Mexican Border (open access)

Coastal Cliff Sediments, San Diego Region, Dana Point to the Mexican Border

From Summary: This study documents the temporally episodic cliff and bluff erosion occurs; namely, at San Onofre State Park, Camp Joseph Pendleton Marine Reservation, and Torrey Pines City and State Parks.
Date: June 1987
Creator: Inman, D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Power and Water Desalting Plants for Southwest United States and Northwest Mexico: A Preliminary Assessment (open access)

Nuclear Power and Water Desalting Plants for Southwest United States and Northwest Mexico: A Preliminary Assessment

From introduction: Preliminary assessment between the United States, Mexico, and the IAEA on the technical and economic practicability of a dual-purpose nuclear power plant designed to produce fresh water and electricity for the southern border portion of the Colorado River.
Date: September 1968
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Raccoons of North and Middle America (open access)

Raccoons of North and Middle America

Summary of the raccoons of North and middle America, including history, habits, economic status, pelage and molt, measurements, and subgenera.
Date: 1950
Creator: Goldman, Edward A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Boundaries, Areas, Geographic Centers and Altitudes of the United States and the Several States, with a Brief Record of Important Changes in Their Territory (open access)

Boundaries, Areas, Geographic Centers and Altitudes of the United States and the Several States, with a Brief Record of Important Changes in Their Territory

From Forward: "The first edition of the record setting forth the history of the boundaries of the United States and the several States and Territories was prepared by Henry Gannett, assisted by Franklin G. Butterfield, and was published as Bulletin 13 of the United States Geological Survey in 1885. The present bulletin is a revision and enlargement of Bulletin 226 and includes additional matter incidentally connected with boundaries."
Date: 1923
Creator: Douglas, Edward M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dictionary of Alaska Place Names (open access)

Dictionary of Alaska Place Names

Introduction: This work is an alphabetical list of the geographic names that are now applied and have been applied to to places and features of the Alaska Landscape.
Date: 1967
Creator: Orth, Donald J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Taxonomic Review of American Long-tailed Shrews (Genera Sorex and Microsorex) (open access)

Taxonomic Review of American Long-tailed Shrews (Genera Sorex and Microsorex)

Brief summary of the habitat, habits, food and economic status, measurements, subfamilies, and subgenera of genera Sorex and Microsorex.
Date: July 1928
Creator: Jackson, Hartley H. T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revision of the North American Ground Squirrels: With a Classification of the North American Sciuridæ (open access)

Revision of the North American Ground Squirrels: With a Classification of the North American Sciuridæ

Summary of the geographic distribution, habits and economic relations, and descriptions of the subspecies of the North American Sciuridæ.
Date: April 1938
Creator: Howell, Arthur H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The State of Deep Coral Ecosystems of The United States: 2007 (open access)

The State of Deep Coral Ecosystems of The United States: 2007

Report presenting "the first effort by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in partnership with other federal, academic and non-governmental partners, to bring together available information on the abundance and distribution of structure-forming corals that occur in U.S. waters at depths greater than 50 m. It consists of an introduction, National Overview and seven regional chapters describing deep coral communities in U.S. waters off Alaska, the U.S. West Coast, Hawai'i and the U.S. Insular Pacific, the Northeastern U.S., Southeastern U.S., Gulf of Mexico, and U.S. Caribbean." (from Preface)
Date: October 2007
Creator: Lumsden, S. Elizabeth; Hourigan, Thomas F.; Bruckner, Andrew W. & Dorr, Gabrielle
System: The UNT Digital Library
Catalogue and Index of Contributions to North American Geology 1732-1891 (open access)

Catalogue and Index of Contributions to North American Geology 1732-1891

A bibliography of geologic literature published in North America, and such literature on North America wherever published. It contains publications from 1732 to those received prior to the close of 1891.
Date: 1896
Creator: Darton, Nelson Horatio
System: The UNT Digital Library
Index Generum Mammalium: a List of the Genera and Families of Mammals (open access)

Index Generum Mammalium: a List of the Genera and Families of Mammals

This report consists of three parts: (1) An annotated list of the generic names of mammals; (2) an alphabetical list of the families of mammals, and (3) a classified list of the generic names, arranged by orders and families.
Date: January 23, 1904
Creator: Palmer, T. S.
System: The UNT Digital Library