For Sale : Michigan State Geological and Natural History Survey publications for sale : bulletins, quadrangle reports, Misc. series.

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Michigan Geological Survey : Report of Investigations (RI) 11x8.5", Illustrated.

MI RI 2 : 1967 : Michigan's Silurian Oil and Gas Pools. by Garland D. Ells. Reprinted in 1978. 49p. $9

Michigan Geological Societies : Various Publications Illustrated. about 11x8.5"

Annual Field Excursion 1969 : Studies of the Precambrian of the Michigan Basin by Harold Stonehouse. Michigan Basin Geological Society. 92p., some fold-outs. (some pencil marks, cover lightly soiled) $16

Annual Field Excursion 1972 : Niagaran stratigraphy - Hamilton, Ontario. Michigan Basin Geological Society. 89p., multiple fold-outs. $21

Annual Geological Excursion 1952 : Stratigraphy and structure of the Devonian rocks in Southeastern Michigan and Northwestern Ohio. Michigan Geological Society. 40p., nice plates. (spot on spine) $14

Field Conference 1974 : Silurian Reef - Evaporite relationships. Michigan Basin Geological Society. 120p. (two parts). Field trip stops described, plus related papers.. Examines the Niagara - Salina rocks from subsurface cores, which represent pinnacle reefs, carbonate bank, and inter-reef environments, and compares the characteristics of these rocks with those of the carbonate bank environments in Ohio and Indiana. Very good (slightly darkened cover, minor pencil marks), - $19

Reprint from 1971 Guidebook. Silurian and Middle Devonian stratigraphy of the Michigan Basin : a view from the southwest flank by Robert Shaver and others. Michigan Basin Geological Society. 22p. (Good : some pencil marks, bent edge) $3

Special Paper 3 : 1978 : Geology of the Manitoulin area including the Road Log to the Michigan Basin Geological Society field trip, Sept. 1978. Michigan Basin Geological Society. 111p., very nice plates. (cover slightly darkened) $18

University of Michigan : Museum of Paleontology Illustrated.
Contributions are 9x6", Papers are 10x7".

MI Paleo Contributions Volume 3 : 1932. This is the entire volume of Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, edited by Eugene S. McCartney, HARDBACK, dark green cloth, 275 text pages plus a large number of unpaged Plates pages. High quality plates, most photographic. First Edition. Excellent condition $78

Contents of Contributions Volume 3 :
Indications of a Cotylosaur and of a new form of fish from the Triassic beds of Texas, with remarks on the Shinarump conglomerate.
Fossil fishes from the Triassic of Texas.
Contributions to the geology of Foxe Land, Baffin Island.
Cystoids from the Trenton rocks of Michigan.
Description of a nearly complete skeleton of Ostodolepis brevispinatus Williston.
The color patterns of fossil cephalopods and Brachiopods, with notes on gasteroppods and pelecypods.
Additional notes on Nephriticerina.
On the lower jaw of Brackysuchus megalodon.
Arthrodiran remains from the Devonian of Michigan.
Life models of the heads of two types of Phytosaurs.
Description of a new species of Buettneria, with a discussion of the brain case.
On Callixylon newberryi (Dawson) Elkins et Wieland.
A description and stratigraphic correlation of the Fenestellidae from the Devonian of Michigan.

MI Paleo Contribution Vol. 5(9) : 1937 : Cryptostomatous bryozoa from the middle Devonian traverse group of Michigan by Andrew McNair. 67p., plus 14 excellent plates. (small spot on edge of page block). $14

MI Paleo Contribution Vol. 21(7) : 1967 : Check list of fossil invertebrates described from the middle Devonian silica formation of Northwestern Ohio and southeastern Michigan by Erwin Stumm and Ruth Chilman. 15p. (minor pencil marks, one corner tip folded) $3

MI Paleo Paper 20 : 1979 : Maple Block Knoll Reef in the Bush Bay Dolostone (Silurian, Engadine group), Northern Peninsula of Michigan by Allan Johnson and others. 33p., exc. illustrations. $6

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Michigan Geology Publications : Misc. ~9x6" unless otherwise noted, some are offprints.

1986 GLIMPCE Seismic reflection survey stacked data. By Agena, Lee, Hutchinson, Behrendt, Cannon, and Green. 1988 USGS Open File Report 88-386. This is in the usual photocopied format for these unpublished open file reports, with original large folded plates. 11x8.5”, 5p., plus 8 large folded plates of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, and Lake Huron. $32

Grunerite rocks of the Lake Superior region and their origin by Stephen Richarz. 1927 Journal of Geology vol. 35(8). 18p. $4

Michigan's oil and gas fields, 1963. Annual Statistical Summary, Michigan Geological Survey. 57p.11x8.5" (minor pencil notes) $6

Mississippian Marshall formation of Michigan. by V. Brown Monnett. 1948, Extracted from Bulletin AAPG, vol. 32(4), pages 629-688, illus. $12

Notes on the Devonian - Silurian in the subsurface of southwest Michigan by Garland Ells. 1958 Michigan Geological Survey Progress Report #18. 55p., fold-outs. 11x8.5" (some pencil marks, upper spine end rough) $9

Preliminary interpretation of the High-resolution seismic stratigraphy beneath Lake Michigan. By David S. foster and Steven M. Colman. 1991 USGS Open File Report 91-21. This is in the usual photocopied format for these unpublished reports, with original large folded plates. 11x8.5”, 42p., plus 2 large folded plates. Loose leaf. $12

Report on the Geology of Tuscola county, Michigan by Charles Davis. 1909. Excerpt from 1908 Annual report of the Michigan Geological Survey. 9x6", 225p., 3 folded maps in pocket (1 full color, 2 with color). Inside very good. (cover darkened, esp. one corner of front, spine tape color spotty, corners barely bumped, map pocket has torn edges). $36

Subsurface pressure report on the Northern Michigan reef development. 1981 Michigan Geological Survey. 11x8.5" About 300p. Tables, no illus. Very detailed information by the oil well : field performance in terms of barrels oil production per pound of pressure drop AND bottom-hole pressure test results for reported wells. This is a massive book! (spine sunned, tear at hinge for 3") $22

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