PUBLICATIONS OF UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



[Bulletin No. 255.] 



The serial publioations of the United States Geological Survey consist of (1) Annual 

 Reports, (2) Monographs, (3) Professional Papers, (4) Bulletins, (5) Mineral Re- 

 sources, (6) Water-Supply and Irrigation Papers, (7) Topographic Atlas of United 

 States— folios and separate sheets thereof, (8) Geologic Atlas of the United States- 

 folios thereof. The classes numbered 2, 7, and 8 are sold at cost of publication; the 

 others are distributed free. A circular giving complete lists may l)e had on appli- 

 cation. 



The Professional Papers, Bulletins, and Water-Supply Papers treat of a variety of 

 subjects, and the total number issued is large. They have therefore been classified 

 into the following series: A, Economic geology; B, Descriptive geology; C, Systematic 

 geology and paleontology; D, Petrography and mineralogy; E, Chemistry and phys- 

 ics; F, Geography; G, Miscellaneous; H, Forestry; I, Irrigation; J, Water storage; 

 K, Pumping water; L, Quality of water; M, General hydrographic investigations; 

 N, Water power; 0, Underground waters; P, Hydrographic progress reports. This 

 bulletin is the fiftieth in Series A and the sixty-second in Series B, the complete 

 lists of which follow. (PP=Professional Paper; B=Bulletin; WS=Water-Supply 

 Paper. ) 



SERIES A, ECOXOMIC GEOLOGY. 



IJ •-'!. Lignites of Great Sioux Reservation: Report on region between Grand and Morean rivers, 



Dakota, by Bailey Willis. 1885. 16 pp., 5 pis. (Out of stock.) 

 B -Itj. Nature and origin of deposits of phosphate of lime, by R. A. F. Penrose, jr., with introduction 



by N. S. Shaler. 1888. 143 pp. (Out of stock. ) 

 B 65. Stratigraphy of the bituminous coal field of Pennsylvania. Ohio, and West Virginia, by I. C. 



White. 1891. 212 pp., 11 pis. (Out of stock.) 

 B 111. Geology of Big Stone Gap coal field of Virginia and Kentucky, by M. R. Campbell. 189:3. 106 



pp., 6 pis. 

 B 132. The disseminated lead ores of southeastern Missouri, by Arthur Winslow. 1896. 31 pp. 

 B 1:38. Artesian-well prospects in Atlantic Coastal Plain region, by N. H. Darton. 1896. 228 pp., 19 



pis. (Out of stock.) 

 B 139. Geology of Castle Mountain mining district, Montana, by W. H. W'eed and L. V. Pirsson. 1896. 



164 pp., 17 pis. 

 B 143. Bibliography of clays and the ceramic arts, by .T. C. Branner. 1896. 114 pp. 

 B 164. Reconnais.sance on the Rio Grande coal fields of Texas, by T. W. Vaughan, including i report 



on igneous rocks from the San Carlos coal field, by E. C. E. Lord. 1900. 100 pp., 11 pis. 

 B 178. El Paso tin deposits, by W. H. Weed. 1901. 15 pp., 1 pi. 



B 180. Occurrence and distribution of corundum in United States, by J. H. Pratt. 1901. 98 pp., 14 pis. 

 B 182. A report on the economic geology of the Silverton quadrangle, Colorado, by F. L. Ransome. 



1901. 266 pp., 16 pis. 



B 184. Oil and gas fields of the western Interior and northern Texas Coal Measures and of the Upper 

 Cretaceous and Tertiary of the western Gulf coast, by G. I. Adams. 1901. 64 pp., 10 pis. 

 (Out of stock.) 



B 193. The geological relations and distribution of platinum and associated metals, by J. F. Kemp. 



1902. 95 pp., 6 pis. (Out of stock.) 



B 198. The Berea grit oil sand in the Cadiz quadrangle, Ohio, by W. T. Griswold. 1902. 43 pp., 1 pi. 

 PP 1. Preliminary report on the Ketchikan mining district, Alaska, with an introductory sketch of 



the geology of southeastern Alaska, by Alfred Hulse Brooks. 1902. 120 pp., 2 pis. 

 B 200. Reconnaissance of the borax deposits of Death Valley and Mohave Desert, by M. R. Campbell. 



1902. 23 pp., 1 pi. 

 B 202. Tests for gold and silver in shales from western Kansas, by Waldemar Lindgren. 1902. 21 pp. 

 PP 2. Reconnaissance of the northwestern portion of Seward Peninsula, Alaska, by A. J. Collier. 



1902. 70 pp., 11 pis. 



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