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Formulas and Tables to Facilitate the Construction and Use of Maps
A report about a spheroid which represents the true size and shape of the earth, and it is the one to which nearly all geodetic work in the United States in now referred.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Woodward, Robert Simpson
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fossil Wood and Lignite of the Potomac Formation
A report about flood theories, fossil wood, ignite of the potomac formation.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Knowlton, Frank Hall
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Geology of Nantucket
Letter of transmittal: I have the honor to transmit herewith a report on the geology of the island of Nantucket. This report embodies a portion of the work which I have done in connection with the general study of the Atlantic coast line. Although part of a much more extended inquiry, it seems well to publish the results contained in this memoir in advance of my general report for the reason that the region constitutes a distinctly bounded field and also because the problems considered in this report have an important bearing on work which is in the bands of other divisions of the Survey.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Latitudes and Longitudes of Certain Points in Missouri, Kansas, and New Mexico
A report about the latitudes and longitudes which were determined by the telegraphic method with respect to the observatory of Washington University.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Woodward, Robert Simpson
System:
The UNT Digital Library
On Invertebrate Fossils from the Pacific Coast
A report about fossils from the Chico-Téjon series of California. These fossils constitute additions to the already known molluscan fauna of an important series of rich strata.
Date:
1889
Creator:
White, Charles A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
On the Thermo-Electric Measurement of High Temperatures
From preface: The present publication is the first contribution to a research on the physical constants of rocks; the experiments of which are to follow a general plan devised by Mr. Clarence King, former Director of the U. S. Geological Survey.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Barus, Carl
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Report of Work Done in the Division of Chemistry and Physics
A report about mica which occurs in overlapping, crystalline plates, at Stony Point.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Powell, J. W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Subaërial Decay of Rocks and Origin of the Red Color of Certain Formations
A report that focuses on the widespread decay of the surface rocks throughout the Appalachian region. It also focuses on the iron-stained sands which result from subaërial decay of crystalline rocks that agree in many ways with iron-stained sands forming certain geologic formations.
Date:
1889
Creator:
Russell, Israel Cook
System:
The UNT Digital Library