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Subaërial Decay of Rocks and Origin of the Red Color of Certain Formations

Description: 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
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Revision of the North American Pocket Mice

Description: From introductory remarks: "Classification study of the North American pocket mouse based on about 170 specimens. Results of study increased recognized species to 18 and subspecies to 3 as well as shifting several well known names to other forms."
Date: October 25, 1889
Creator: Merriam, C. Hart
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Relations of the Traps of the Newark System in the New Jersey Region

Description: From introduction: This contribution is a summary of the more complete results of a systematic study of the relations of the traps of the Newark system in New Jersey and New York
Date: 1890
Creator: Darton, Nelson Horatio
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Descriptions of Twenty-six New Species of North American Mammals

Description: Brief description of new species of ground squirrels, Evotomys, Marten, Molossus, prairie dog, kangaroo rats, pocket gopher, and Hesperomys.
Date: October 8, 1890
Creator: Merriam, C. Hart
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Correlation Papers: Cambrian

Description: From outline: This work is a review, by one who is working in the Cambrian field, of the work of his predecessors, and of the results they and he have thus far obtained as he interprets them. It thus becomes historical and descriptive, and is a general statement of the principles upon which the correlations have been made in establishing the group.
Date: 1891
Creator: Walcott, Charles Doolittle
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Correlation Papers: Cretaceous

Description: From outline: The primary object of this bulletin is the presentation of a summary of our present knowledge of the North American Cretaceons and a discussion of the system as it is developed on this continent, discussion of or direct reference to the details of the system as it is developed in other parts of the world being omitted.
Date: 1891
Creator: White, Charles A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Correlation Papers: Eocene

Description: From outline: This essay comprises, first, a general discussion of the limitations of the term Eocene as employed in American geology. The two-fold character of the Tertiary (1. Eocene, 2. Neocene) in America is insisted on. After a somewhat extended review of the literature, in which the various opinions upon disputed points are especially considered, a general study of the stratigraphical, paleontological, and topographical characteristics of the Eocene in the various portions of the country … more
Date: 1891
Creator: Clark, William Bullock
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Late Volcanic Eruption in Northern California and its Peculiar Lava

Description: Synopsis: The Lassen Peak, Volcanic Ridge, which connects the northern end of the Sierra Nevada in California with the Coast Range and separates the upper portion of the Sacramento Valley from the great interior basin, is composed chiefly of lavas from many volcanic reuptions.
Date: 1891
Creator: Diller, J. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Record of North American Geology for 1890

Description: A bibliography which includes geologic publications printed in North America and geologic publications about North America for the year 1890.
Date: 1891
Creator: Darton, Nelson Horatio
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Viscosity of Solids

Description: Preface: This bulletin is a second contribution to the general investigation of the physical contents of rocks, the experiments concerning which follow a general plan devised by Mr. Clarence King.
Date: 1891
Creator: Barus, Carl
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey No. 90

Description: Report describing work done in the division of chemistry and physics during the fiscal year of 1891. It includes summaries with findings for much of the research.
Date: 1892
Creator: Powell, J. W.; Clarke, F. W. & Schneider, E. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Compressibility of Liquids

Description: A report about certain researches on the thermodynamics of liquids in progress at the laboratory.
Date: 1892
Creator: Barus, Carl
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Correlation Papers: Archean and Algonkian

Description: From outline: This hook is a review of the present state of knowledge of the general structure of the pre-Cambrian rocks of the United States and Canada. The material contained in the historical chapters is of two kinds: Summaries of all articles pertaining to the subject considered, and summaries of the conclusions which appear to be established. The first represents the substance of the literature; the second brings together the important ascertained structural facts, and often times becomes … more
Date: 1892
Creator: Van Hise, Charles Richard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Correlation Papers: Neocene

Description: From outline: This paper, after discussing general principles connected with the study and description of the Tertiary or Cenozoic rocks and fossils contained in them, takes up the Neocene deposits of the United States in particular. A chapter is devoted to a summary of what is known in regard to the Neocene of the eastern coast of the United States, each State in geographical order being separately considered, beginning at the north.
Date: 1892
Creator: Dall, William Healey & Harris, Gilbert Dennison
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Correlation Papers: the Newark System

Description: From outline: The aim of this paper is to review the progress of our knowledge concerning a well defined system of rocks on'the Atlantic border, named the Newark system; to summarize the present state of information concerning it, and to discuss the bearing that its study has on principles of correlation.
Date: 1892
Creator: Russell, Israel Cook
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Earthquakes in California in 1890 and 1891

Description: A paper which records all of the shocks observed or felt on Mount Hamilton, and all of those reported to the Lick Observatory by letter; as well as newspaper reports of such earthquakes as occurred in the state during that year.
Date: 1892
Creator: Holden, Edward Singleton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Mechanism of Solid Viscosity

Description: A report about about the viscosity of solids which have an immediate bearing on the molecular mechanism by which viscous motion in solids is promoted.
Date: 1892
Creator: Barus, Carl
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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