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Annual Report of the Silt Load of Texas Streams 1951-1952 and A Summary of Silt Studies Made in Texas (open access)

Annual Report of the Silt Load of Texas Streams 1951-1952 and A Summary of Silt Studies Made in Texas

Progress report documenting data collection related to the amount of silt carried by Texas streams and potential effects on water management infrastructure, with an explanation of methods, data broken down by various criteria, and analysis.
Date: August 1953
Creator: Bloodgood, Dean W. & Mortensen, James E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Annual Report of the Silt Load of Texas Streams for Water Year, 1952-1953 (open access)

Annual Report of the Silt Load of Texas Streams for Water Year, 1952-1953

Progress report documenting data collection related to the amount of silt carried by Texas streams and potential effects on water management infrastructure, with an explanation of methods, data broken down by various criteria, and analysis.
Date: October 1954
Creator: Bloodgood, Dean W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Biennial Report of the Texas Library and Historical Commission State Library: 1948-1950 (open access)

Biennial Report of the Texas Library and Historical Commission State Library: 1948-1950

Biennial report of the Texas Library and Historical Commission for the years 1948-1950, including the budget and summaries of the library's activities.
Date: 1950
Creator: Texas Library and Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
Biennial Report of the Texas Library and Historical Commission State Library: 1950-1952 (open access)

Biennial Report of the Texas Library and Historical Commission State Library: 1950-1952

Biennial report of the Texas Library and Historical Commission for the years 1950-1952, including the budget and summaries of the library's activities.
Date: 1952~
Creator: Texas State Library
System: The Portal to Texas History
Biennial Report of the Texas Library and Historical Commission State Library: 1952-1954 (open access)

Biennial Report of the Texas Library and Historical Commission State Library: 1952-1954

Biennial report of the Texas Library and Historical Commission for the years 1952-1954, including the budget, an overview of the duties of different departments, and summaries of the library's activities.
Date: Autumn 1956
Creator: Texas Library and Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
Biennial Report of the Texas Library and Historical Commission State Library: 1956-1958 (open access)

Biennial Report of the Texas Library and Historical Commission State Library: 1956-1958

Biennial report of the Texas Library and Historical Commission for the years 1956-1958, including the budget and summaries of the library's activities.
Date: 1959
Creator: Texas Library and Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boundary of Pennsylvanian and Permian (?) in the Subsurface Scurry Reef, Scurry County, Texas (open access)

Boundary of Pennsylvanian and Permian (?) in the Subsurface Scurry Reef, Scurry County, Texas

Report is based on a geological survey regarding scurry reef and black shales
Date: December 1952
Creator: Heck, W. A.; Yenne, K. A. & Henbest, Lloyd G. (Lloyd George), 1900-1987
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buried Hill at Wilcox-Carrizo Contact in East Texas (open access)

Buried Hill at Wilcox-Carrizo Contact in East Texas

This report is about a buried hill discovered in East Texas composed of strata from the Wilcox group geological formation and filled/covered with sand pockets.
Date: October 1951
Creator: Stenzel, H. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Correlation Between Surface and Subsurface Sections of the Ellenburger Group of Texas (open access)

Correlation Between Surface and Subsurface Sections of the Ellenburger Group of Texas

Report on the 'Ellenburger' geological group in Texas, with maps, residue evaluations, mineral examinations, an index, and more.
Date: July 1952
Creator: Hendricks, Leo
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Faunas of the Riley Formation in Central Texas (open access)

The Faunas of the Riley Formation in Central Texas

Report on the faunas of the Riley formation, including fossil findings, species, fossil dating, and zone boundaries.
Date: November 1954
Creator: Palmer, Allison R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fire Ants, Heptachlor, and Fish Kill (open access)

Fire Ants, Heptachlor, and Fish Kill

Report on the plan to kill fire ants in Texas using a specific poison and that poison's effect on fish in the area.
Date: 1958
Creator: Boudreaux, Jack; Strawn, Kirk & Callas, Gerald
System: The Portal to Texas History
Geology of Agua Fria Quandrangle, Brewster County, Texas (open access)

Geology of Agua Fria Quandrangle, Brewster County, Texas

Report on the geological aspects of the Agua Fria Quadrangle in Brewster County, Texas.
Date: February 1953
Creator: Moon, C. Gardley (Charles Gardley), 1917-
System: The Portal to Texas History
Geology of Blacklands Experimental Watershed, Near Waco,Texas (open access)

Geology of Blacklands Experimental Watershed, Near Waco,Texas

Report on the geological aspects of the Blacklands Experimental Watershed near Waco, Texas.
Date: March 1952
Creator: Blank, H. Richard (Horace Richard), 1929-; Stoltenberg Norval L. & Emmerich, Harry H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Hazel Copper-Silver Mine, Culberson County, Texas (open access)

The Hazel Copper-Silver Mine, Culberson County, Texas

Report concerning the availability of ore reserves in the Culberson County, Texas. Report offers an overview of the history, production, extraction and recommendation for ore mining. Index starts after page 21.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Flawn, Peter T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
High Purity Marble Falls Limestone, Burnet County, Texas (open access)

High Purity Marble Falls Limestone, Burnet County, Texas

"The primary purpose of this paper is to report the presence and distribution of a high purity limestone in the Marble Falls limestone in the vicinity of Marble Falls" (p. 5).
Date: September 1952
Creator: Barnes, Virgil E. (Virgil Everett), 1903-1998
System: The Portal to Texas History
Late Quaternary Geology of Sabine Lake and Vicinity, Texas and Louisiana (open access)

Late Quaternary Geology of Sabine Lake and Vicinity, Texas and Louisiana

Report on fossil and geological findings in the Sabine Lake and vicinity, including surface geology maps, substrata maps, a geologic history of the area, analyses of the environments and sediments, and more.
Date: 1959
Creator: Kane, Henry E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Life History of the Pigmy Seahorse, Hippocampus aosterae Jordan and Gilbert, at Cedar Key, Florida (open access)

Life History of the Pigmy Seahorse, Hippocampus aosterae Jordan and Gilbert, at Cedar Key, Florida

Report detailing the history and biological aspects of the pygmy seahorse, including its sex ratio, breeding season, growth patterns, and more.
Date: February 1, 1958
Creator: Strawn, Kirk
System: The Portal to Texas History
Marine Ecology as an Aid in Teaching Invertebrate Paleontology (open access)

Marine Ecology as an Aid in Teaching Invertebrate Paleontology

Report detailing the potential of marine ecology as a teaching aid, including suggestions for class trips, habitat studies, and more.
Date: 1958~
Creator: Matthews, William H., III
System: The Portal to Texas History
The National Oil Industry of Mexico: 1938-55 (open access)

The National Oil Industry of Mexico: 1938-55

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Date: June 1957
Creator: Rippy, Merrill
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paleontology of the Rustler Formation Culberson County, Texas (open access)

Paleontology of the Rustler Formation Culberson County, Texas

Report detailing the results of a study examining fossils found in the Rustler formation to substantiate the "Permian age of the Rustler formation." An errata sheet at the end includes corrections.
Date: September 1953
Creator: Walter, J. C., Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Paleotology and Paleoecology of the Biostrome Fauna of the Edwards Formation of Texas (open access)

The Paleotology and Paleoecology of the Biostrome Fauna of the Edwards Formation of Texas

The objective of the report is to review the general geology of the Edwards and to further evaluate certain ecologic and Paleontologic data accumulated during the earlier study.
Date: 1957
Creator: Mathews, William H., III
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pegmatites of the Van Horn Mountain, Texas (open access)

Pegmatites of the Van Horn Mountain, Texas

Report on pegmatites of the Van Horn Mountains and discussing the economic possibilities of mining in the area.
Date: April 1951
Creator: Flawn, Peter T., 1926-2017
System: The Portal to Texas History
Perforated-plate Performance (open access)

Perforated-plate Performance

Scientific report on the performance of perforated-plates.
Date: 1959~
Creator: McAllister, R. A.; McGinnis, P. H., Jr. & Plank, C. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Predicting V-L Equilibrium Data... (open access)

Predicting V-L Equilibrium Data...

Report about a new hypothesis permitting the graphical determination of vapor-liquid equilibrium under isothermal conditions.
Date: 1957
Creator: Yang, H. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History