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Geology of the Big Snowy Mountains, Montana

Description: From introduction: The main purpose of the field investigations on which this paper is based was to determine the structure of the mountains. The geologic formations were therefore studied, and sufficient data were obtained to construct a combined areal and structural map.
Date: 1931
Creator: Reeves, Frank
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Glaciation in Alaska

Description: From introduction: The history of glaciation in Alaska offers a fascinating field for study. Because of the remarkable development and easy accessibility of valley and piedmont glaciers in the coastal mountains, Alaska has long been popularly conceived as a land of ice and snow, a concept that is only slowly being corrected. To the student of glaciation, however, Alaska affords a unique opportunity to observe the formation, movement, and dissipation of the many living glaciers, to examine the r… more
Date: 1931
Creator: Capps, Stephen R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Jackson Gas Field, Hinds and Rankin Counties, Mississippi

Description: From abstract: The Jackson gas field, in Hinds and Rankin Counties, Miss., is in the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain, about 160 miles north of New Orleans and 40 miles, east of the Mississippi River at Vicksburg. The gas is produced from a Cretaceous chalk from 2,088 to 2,236 feet below sea level. Overlying the chalk is the regular sequence of Tertiary rocks found in Mississippi. On the crest of the anticline in the city of Jackson the Cockfield formation of the Claiborne group is exposed, surrounde… more
Date: 1931
Creator: Monroe, Watson Hiner
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Jigging, Classification, Tabling, and Flotation Tests of Coals Presenting Difficult Washing Problems, with Particular Reference to Coals from Pierce County, Washington

Description: From Content and Arrangement of Report: "For the convenience of the reader the bulletin has been divided into two parts. Part I describes the investigation and summarizes the most important results. Part II gives the detailed data of the best of the washing tests by each process."
Date: 1931
Creator: Bird, B. M. & Marshall, S. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Lift and drag characteristics of a cabin monoplane determined in flight

Description: From Summary: "The results of flight tests conducted by the NACA to determine the lift and drag characteristics of a full-scale airplane are given herein. A Fairchild FC-2W2 cabin monoplane having a Gottingen 387 wing section was used for the tests. The maximum lift coefficient for the airplane is compared with that obtained for the Gottingen 387 airfoil in recent tests in the Variable Density Tunnel. The maximum lift coefficient for the airplane was found to be 1.50 and that for the airfoil 1.… more
Date: January 1931
Creator: Thompson, F. L. & Keister, P. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Limits of Inflammability of Gases and Vapors

Description: From Definitions: "It is the object of this paper to present the results of a critical review of all figures published on the limits of inflammability of combustible gases and vapors when in admixture with air, oxygen, or other "atmosphere." Suspended dusts and liquid mists are not considered."
Date: 1931
Creator: Coward, H. F. & Jones, G. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1929

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: 1931
Creator: Adams, William W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Method and Cost of Dredging Sand and Gravel by the Ohio River Sand Co., Louisville, Kentucky

Description: Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing dredging methods of used by the Ohio River Sand Company. The different methods and costs used to recover gravel and sand are described. This report includes tables and illustrations.
Date: January 1931
Creator: Duffy, J. Hamilton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Methods and Apparatus Used in Determining the Gas, Coke, and By-Product Making Properties of American Coals: with Results on a Taggart-Bed Coal from Roda, Wise County, Virginia

Description: From Introduction: "The results of this preliminary investigation, which were reported to the association at the 1928 convention, indicated, first, that fundamental information on the mechanism of carbonization throughout the entire range from low to high temperature coking is desired and, second, that a uniform basis upon which to compare the carbonizing properties of different coals should be developed."
Date: 1931
Creator: Fieldner, A. C.; Davis, J. D.; Thiessen, R.; Kester, E. B. & Selvig, W. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Miocene Flora From Grand Coulee, Washington

Description: From introduction: The fossil plants described in the present report were collected at the north end of Grand Coulee during the summer of 1927 by Messrs. T. A. Bonser, F. A. Roberts, and Walter Bruce, of Spokane, and F. W. McCann, of Coulee City. The locality is in the big bend of the Columbia River near the northern boundary of Grant County, Wash., about 85 miles west of the plant-bearing Latah sediments around Spokane. The outcrop in Grand Coulee is about the same distance east of the crest o… more
Date: 1931
Creator: Berry, Edward Wilber
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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On the Theory of Wing Sections With Particular Reference to the Lift Distribution

Description: This report gives a simple and exact method of calculating the lift distribution on thin wing sections. The most essential feature of the new theory is the introduction of an "ideal angle of attack," this angle being defined as that at which the flow enters the leading edge smoothly or, more precisely, as the angle of attack at which the lift at the leading edge equals zero. The lift distribution at this particular angle is shown to be a characteristic property of the section and has been terme… more
Date: 1931
Creator: Theodorsen, Theodore
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Permissible Coal-Handling Equipment: Approved from January, 1926, to December, 1930, Inclusive

Description: From Description of Permissible Loaders and Conveyors: "The following descriptions of permissible loading machines and conveyors now included in the bureau's list of approved equipment are given to indicate to mine operators not only the types available but also show to some extent the special features employed in designing machines that minimize the hazard of gas and dust ignitions. Furthermore, the authors hope that the descriptions will have some value to manufactures who may contemplate ent… more
Date: 1931
Creator: Ilsley, L. C.; Gleim, E. J. & Brunot, H. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Physical Testing of Explosives at the Bureau of Mines Explosives Experiment Station, Bruceton, Pennsylvania

Description: From Introduction: "The methods of making the physical tests of explosives recorded here are based upon the results of more than 20 years of experience of the staff of the explosives division of the Bureau of Mines at the Pittsburgh testing station and at its successor, the Explosives Experiment Station, Bruceton, Pa. The methods are described in unusual detail to permit repetition that will duplicate, as nearly as possible, the precise manner in which they have been performed in the past and t… more
Date: 1931
Creator: Munroe, Charles E. & Tiffany, J. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Physical Testing of Explosives at the Bureau of Mines Explosives Experiment Station, Brueceton, Pa.

Description: Report discussing methods of making physical tests of explosives. The methods are described in unusual detail to permit repetition that will duplicate as nearly as possible the precise manner in which they have been performed in the past and to reduce differences in technique to a minimum.
Date: 1931
Creator: Munroe, Charles E. & Tiffany, J. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pliocene Fossils From Limestone in Southern Florida

Description: Abstract: This paper describes the mollusks and echinoids found in limestone dredged from ditches along the Tamiami Trail in southern Florida, in the area mapped as "Lostmans River limestone (Quaternary)" by Sanford but included in the Pliocene Caloosahatchee formation by Cooke and Mossom on the evidence of these fossils as identified by Mansfield. The matrix of the fossils is unlike the typical Caloosahatchee formation, which is sandy, but the fauna is closely related to that of the upper part… more
Date: 1931
Creator: Mansfield, Wendell C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The pressure distribution over a square wing tip on a biplane in flight

Description: This note presents the results obtained in pressure distribution tests on the right upper panel of a Douglas M-3 airplane in flight. These tests are a part of an extensive investigation on the effect of changes in tip shape on the load distribution.
Date: January 1931
Creator: Rhode, Richard V. & Lundquist, Eugene E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A proof of the theorem regarding the distribution of lift over the span for minimum induced drag

Description: The proof of the theorem that the elliptical distribution of lift over the span is that which will give rise to the minimum induced drag has been given in a variety of ways, generally speaking too difficult to be readily followed by the graduate of the average good technical school of the present day. In the form of proof this report makes an effort to bring the matter more readily within the grasp of this class of readers.
Date: 1931
Creator: Durand, W. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Quarry Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1929

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: 1931
Creator: Adams, William W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Quicksilver

Description: From Introduction: "Material for this report was gathered during the last quarter of 1928 and the first quarter of 1929, when the author visited the quick-silver-producing districts of California, Nevada, Texas, Oregon, Washington and Arizona to view the progress made in recent years and gather material for a comprehensive study of the present-day quicksilver industry of the United States."
Date: 1931
Creator: Schuette, C. N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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