29 Matching Results

Search Results

Results: 1 - 24 next
open access

Disposal of Oil-Field Brines in the Arkansas River Drainage Area in Western Kansas

Description: Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the disposal methods of oil-field brine. The study focuses on the Arkansas River area of western Kansas. This report includes tables, graphs, illustrations, and maps.
Date: October 1936
Creator: Wilhelm, C. J.; Thorne, H. M. & Pryor, M. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Progress Reports - Metallurgical Division: 13. Electrometallurgical Investigations

Description: Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the progress made on projects in the Metallurgical Division. Descriptions of progress in the different projects and operations conducted are listed. This report includes tables, graphs, and illustrations.
Date: October 1936
Creator: Koster, J.; Shelton, S. M. & Knickerbocker, R. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

United States Earthquakes, 1936

Description: Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1936. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1936
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Report of the Twenty-Fifth National Conference on Weights and Measures, 1935

Description: Report of the annual conference on weights and measures, hosted by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington D.C. It includes conference proceedings, a list of attendees, information about committees and officers, and other reports or commentaries discussed at the meetings.
Date: June 1936
Creator: United States. Bureau of Standards.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Geology and Mineral Resources of the Butler and Zelienople Quadrangles, Pennsylvania

Description: From abstract: This report is one of a series of publications on the geology and mineral resources of the Appalachian Plateaus. The areas described are the Butler and Zelienople quadrangles, which together include about 450 square miles in Butler, Beaver, and Lawrence Counties, western Pennsylvania.
Date: 1936
Creator: Richardson, G. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

The Rosebud Coal Field, Rosebud and Custer Counties, Montana

Description: From abstract: The Rosebud coal field, named from Rosebud Creek and the village of Rosebud, includes an area of about 1,050 square miles and forms a very small part of the subbituminous and lignite coal fields of eastern Montana and Wyoming and the western part of the Dakotas. It is an irregularly bounded tract lying south of the Yellowstone River in eastern Rosebud County and western Custer County and measures 50 miles from east to west and 28 miles from north to south. It adjoins the Forsyth … more
Date: 1936
Creator: Pierce, William Gamewell
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

The Richey-Lambert Coal Field, Richland and Dawson Counties, Montana

Description: From abstract: The Richey-Lambert coal field is an area of about 900 square miles in Richland and Dawson Counties, eastern Montana, along the divide between the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. In this region only flat-lying continental rocks occur near the surface. About 300 feet of the Lebo shale member and about 930 feet of the coal-bearing Tongue River member of the Fort Union formation, of Eocene age, are exposed in the area. Deposits of terrace gravel at two levels in the field are tentat… more
Date: 1936
Creator: Parker, Frank S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Phosphate Rock Near Maxville, Philipsburg, and Avon, Montana

Description: From abstract: This paper gives the results of a resurvey of certain areas in Montana to which renewed interest has been directed by the development recently of a market for crude phosphate rock in British Columbia, nearby.
Date: 1936
Creator: Pardee, J. T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Mineral industry of Alaska in 1934

Description: From Introduction: "The value of its mineral resources has long been recognized as a matter of concern in the welfare of every nation, and all wise governments almost from time immemorial have taken steps to find out about, utilize, and safeguard such of these natural resources as lie within their own boundaries or to acquire rights in those they need that lie outside those boundaries. Obviously one of these lines concerns itself with the record of present performance-how much of the different … more
Date: 1936
Creator: Smith, Philip S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Geology of the Monument Valley-Navajo Mountain Region, San Juan County, Utah

Description: From abstract: The Monument Valley-Navajo Mountain region is part of the Colorado Plateau and includes about 1,100 square miles in San Juan County, southeastern Utah, lying between the San Juan and Colorado Rivers on the north and the Utah-Arizona State line on the south. Included in the region are Navajo Mountain, the Rainbow Natural Bridge, and a part of the picturesque Monument Valley.
Date: 1936
Creator: Baker, Arthur A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Mineral Deposits of the Ruby-Kuskokwim Region Alaska

Description: From Abstract: "The following report is essentially a description of the mineral deposits that have been found in this region and of the status of mining in 1933."
Date: 1936
Creator: Mertie, John Beaver, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina

Description: From abstract: The Coastal Plain of South Carolina extends from the Atlantic Ocean inland a distance ranging from 120 to 150 miles to the Fall Line, where it adjoins the Piedmont province. It includes an area of more than 20,000 square miles, or nearly two-thirds of the State, whose total area is 30,981 square miles, of which 494 square miles is water. The geographic divisions of the Coastal Plain are the marine coastal terraces, or "low country", which stand less than 270 feet above sea level,… more
Date: 1936
Creator: Cooke, C. Wythe
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

The Flora of the New Albany Shale: Part 1. Diichnia Kentuckiensis, a New Representative of the Calamopityeae

Description: Abstract: A new genus of the Cycadofilicales, Diichnia, is described from the New Albany shale, of late Devonian age, in central Kentucky. The one known species, which is based on stem material showing internal structure, belongs in the family Calamopityeae. Foundation for the generic segregation is seen in the double leaf truce of the genotype, D. kentuckiensis, in contrast with the originally single trace in other known representatives of the family.
Date: 1936
Creator: Read, Charles B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Geomorphology of the North Flank of the Uinta Mountains

Description: From introduction: The geologic record of the Tertiary period in the Green River Basin of southwestern Wyoming consists, in a broad way, of two quite different parts. The history of the first part, lasting through the Eocene epoch and perhaps on into the early Oligocene, was recorded in a thick series of sedimentary rocks of fluviatile and lacustrine origin. The history of the second part was recorded chiefly by successive stages of stream planation and stream trenching, but also in part by flu… more
Date: 1936
Creator: Bradley, Wilmot H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Microscopic Structure and Concentratability of the Important Iron Ores of the United States

Description: Outline of Problem: "This paper covers a survey of 19 ores collected from seven of the more important iron-ore districts of the United States and is a contribution by the ore-dressing section of the United States Bureau of Mines to general research program on iron and steel being conducted by the Bureau."
Date: 1936
Creator: Cooke, S. R. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Coal-Mine Accidents in the United States, 1934

Description: Report compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Mines including statistics on fatal and non-fatal accidents in coal mines located in the United States as well as data regarding the various operations (e.g., number of miners employed and average production). The information is organized into tables for comparison and the text draws some overall conclusions in the summary.
Date: 1936
Creator: Adams, W. W.; Geyer, L. E. & Parry, M. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Years: 1933-34

Description: Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines covering accidents that happened in metal mines located in the United States including statistics for injuries, fatalities, kinds and causes of accidents, and operational data, such as number of mine workers and shifts worked.
Date: 1936
Creator: Adams, William W. & Kolhos, M. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Quarry Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1934

Description: Report published by the U.S. Bureau of Mines which is a compilation of accidents in quarries located in the United States with data regarding the number and kinds of accidents as well as information about the mining operations (e.g., number of men employed, kinds of quarries, amount of work performed, etc.).
Date: 1936
Creator: Adams, William W. & Wrenn, Virginia E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Sampling and Examination of Mine Gases and Natural Gas: A Revision of Bulletin 42

Description: Revision of a report by the U.S. Bureau of Mines which described experiments performed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to study mine gases. According to the foreword: "Much of the material is reprinted on the following pages in its original form, and changes have been made only where manifestly necessary. Laboratory methods have been brought up to date. Some types of apparatus described in Bulletin 42 have now become obsolete and newer designs are described instead" (p. 1).
Date: 1936
Creator: Burrell, George A. & Seibert, Frank M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Back to Top of Screen