Bulletin of the United States Geological SurveyThe Survey., 1909 - Geology |
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Air-dried sample anticline base bed in sec beds of coal bench Bighorn Basin bituminous bony Bridger British thermal units brown Bull Mountain Butte Calories carbonaceous Clay coal beds coal field coal group coal-bearing rocks Colorado contains County Creek Cretaceous Dakota Dietz district Divide Basin drab east escarpment exposed exposure fault feet thick Fixed carbon folio following section Geologic Atlas U. S. gray inches thick Laramie formation lignite Limestone locality located lower Mancos Mesa Mesaverde formation Miles City mines Montana northeast outcrop places prospect Prox Railroad Red Lodge region Rept ridges Rock Springs sandstone sandy Section of coal Sentinel Butte side slope strata stratigraphic subbituminous Sulphur surface Survey Tertiary thin beds Tongue River Total coal U. S. Geol unconformity Union Pacific Railroad upper Utah valley vicinity Volatile matter Wasatch workable coal workable thickness Wyoming Yampa
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Page 420 - Experimental work conducted in the chemical laboratory of the United States fuel-testing plant at St. Louis, Mo., January 1, 1905, to July 31, 1906, by NW Lord.
Page 432 - Report of work done in the division of chemistry and physics mainly during the fiscal year 1886-87, by FW Clarke. Bull. No. 55, 1889, p.
Page 298 - Most of the territory north of the base line has been either recently resurveyed by the General Land Office, or the contracts have been let and it is expected that the work will be completed in the near future. On the other hand, in the territory south of the base line and west of the twelfth auxiliary guide meridian, the old land surveys are believed to be in large part practically without value, and very few corners were discovered in the present investigation.
Page 421 - Stratigraphy of the bituminous coal field in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, by IC White. Bull. No. 65, 1891, pp. 212.
Page 429 - Ann. Rept., pt. 3, 1899, pp. 370-376. Discusses the origin of the pitch coal. Coos Bay folio, Oregon; description, by JS Diller. Geologic Atlas US, folio 73, 1901, pp. 4-5. The coal fields of the Pacific coast, by GO Smith. Twenty-second Ann.
Page 435 - Paper 25, 1904, pp. 16-17. Gives brief description of coal beds and a coal analysis. Coal of the Bighorn basin, in northwest Wyoming, by CA Fisher. Bull. No. 225. 1904, pp. 345-362. Newcastle folio, Wyoming-South Dakota, description, by NH Darton. Geologic Atlas US. folio 107. 1904. pp. 8-9. The coal of the Black Hills, Wyoming, by NH Darton. Bull.
Page 315 - ... of the General Land Office; and, third, of determining the thickness of the coal beds, the character and quality of the coal, its accessibility with reference to topography and its location with reference to lines of transportation. The economic results of the investigation are summarized in this paper. Details and the results of scientific importance will be found in a more comprehensive paper to be published later as a separate bulletin. METHODS OF WORK. The Grand Mesa field is comparatively...
Page 428 - Twenty-second Ann. Rept., pt. 3, 1902, pp. 25-53. NORTH DAKOTA. The Rocky Mountain coal fields, by LS Storrs. Twenty-second Ann. Rept., pt. 3, 1902, pp. 415-471. Lignites of the middle and upper Missouri Valley, by EF Burchard. Bull. No. 225, 1904, pp. 276-288. Describes the occurrence and character of the lignite deposits in Dakota County, Nebraska, and in North Dakota.
Page 427 - ... Livingston folio, Montana, description, by JP Iddings and WH Weed. Geologic Atlas US, folio 1, 1894. Three Forks folio, Montana, description, by AC Peale. Geologic Atlas US, folio 24, 1896. Geology and mineral resources of the Judith Mountains of Montana, by WH Weed and LV Pirsson. Eighteenth Ann.
Page 420 - Report on the operations of the coal-testing plant of the United States Geological Survey at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo., 1904. E. W. Parker, JA Holmes, MR Campbell, committee in charge. Prof. Paper No. 48, 1906. (In three parts.) 1,492 pp.