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USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER / PAPERS :
USGS Professional Paper 802-A : 1973 : Principles and measuring techniques of turbulence characteristics in open-channel flows. By R. S. McQuivey (Turbulence in water.) 82p., 32 figures, 1 table. (Cover may be detached from one staple.) $1
USGS Professional Paper 802-B : 1973 : Summary of turbulence data from rivers, conveyance channels, and laboratory flumes. By R. S. McQuivey. (Turbulence in water.) 66p., 40 figures, 12 tables. $1
USGS Professional Paper 804 : 1973 : Erosional and depositional aspects of Hurricane Camille in Virginia, 1969. Author: Williams. 80p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 806 : 1975 : Geology of the Chewelah-Loon Lake area, Stevens and Spokane counties, Washington. By Fred K. Miller and Lorin D. Clark. With a section on Potassium-Argon ages of the Plutonic rocks by Joan C. Engels. 74p., 2 plates in pocket, 24 figures, 4 tables. (Good, barely rumpled) $10
USGS Professional Paper 807 : 1973 : Geochemical anomalies of a claypit area, Callaway County, Missouri, and related metabolic imbalance in beef cattle. Author: Ebens. 24p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 809-A : 1973 : Recognition of natural brine by electrical soundings near the Salt Fork of the Brazos River, Kent and Stonewall Counties, Texas. Author: Zohdy Origin and management of salt springs and seeps in the upper Brazos River basin, Texas. 14p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 809-B : 1973 : Location and characteristics of the interface between brine and fresh water from geophysical logs of boreholes in the upper Brazos River Basin, Texas. Author: Keys Origin and management of salt springs and seeps in the upper Brazos River basin, Texas. 23p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 810 : 1974 : Geophysical surveys of Liberia with tectonic and geologic interpretations. Author: Behrendt. 1974. 33p. 6 plates in pocket. (Back cover has slight extra wear.) $2
USGS Professional Paper 813-B : 1975 : Summary appraisals of the Nations ground-water resources; upper Mississippi region. Author: Bloyd. 22p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 813-C : 1974 : Summary appraisals of the Nations ground-water resources; upper Colorado region. Author: Price. 40p. 2 plates in pocket. $2
USGS Professional Paper 813-D : 1975 : Summary appraisals of the Nations ground-water resources; Rio Grande region. By S. W. West and W. L. Broadhurst. 39p., 21 figures, 2 tables. A discussion of ground-water alternatives in water resource planning. $1
USGS Professional Paper 813-F : 1976 : Summary appraisals of the Nations ground-water resources; Texas-Gulf region. Author: Baker. 29p. 3 plates in pocket. $2
USGS Professional Paper 813-G : 1976 : Summary appraisals of the Nation’s ground-water resources – Great Basin Region. By Thomas E. Eakin, Don Price, and J. R. Harrill. A regional appraisal and discussion of planning the future ground-water development in a region characterized by a semiarid climate and closed-basin drainage. 37p., 1 plate in pocket, 8 figures, 8 tables. $2
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USGS Professional Paper 813-H : 1976 : Summary appraisals of the Nations ground-water resources; Arkansas-White-Red region. By M. S. Bedinger and R. T. Sniegocki. 31p., 21 figures, 5 tables. Ground-water development and management opportunities in the region. $1
USGS Professional Paper 813-J : 1978 : Summary appraisals of the Nations ground-water resources; Great Lakes region. Author: Weist. 30p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 813-K : 1978 : Summary appraisals of the Nations ground-water resources; Souris-Red-Rainy region. Author: Reeder. 25p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 813-L : 1978 : Summary appraisals of the Nations ground-water resources; Tennessee region. Author: Zurawski. 35p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 813-N : 1979 : Summary appraisals of the Nations ground-water resources; Lower Mississippi region. Author: Terry. 41p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 813-O : 1979 : Summary appraisals of the Nations ground-water resources; South Atlantic Gulf region. Author: Cederstrom. 35p. $12
USGS Professional Paper 813-Q : 1978 : Summary appraisals of the Nations ground-water resources; Missouri Basin region. By O. James Taylor. Appraisal of ground-water resources in a vast region, with suggestions for improved management of ground water by planned depletion, storage, salvage, and reuse of available supplies. 41p., 3 plates in pocket, 12 figs., 8 tables. (bumped corner) $1
USGS Professional Paper 813-S : 1979 : Summary appraisals of the Nations ground-water resources; Pacific Northwest region. Author: Foxworthy. 39p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 813-T : 1982 : Summary appraisals of the Nations ground-water resources; New England region. Author: Sinnott. 23p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 813-U : 1980 : Summary appraisals of the Nations ground-water resources; Caribbean region. Author: Gomez-Gomez. 32p. 2 plates in pocket. $2
USGS Professional Paper 814 : 1973 : Distribution of selected elements in surficial marine sediments of the northern Gulf of Mexico continental shelf and slope. Author: Holmes. 7p. 4 plates in separate pocket. (Cover has extra wear and fading.) $2
USGS Professional Paper 815 : 1974 : Engineering geologic, geophysical, hydrologic and rock-mechanics investigations of the Straight Creek tunnel site and pilot bore, Colorado. Includes General geology, Engineering geology, Geophysical investigations, Hydrologic investigations, Engineering operations, Construction practices, Rock-mechanics investigations, Statistical analysis of rock loads, Summary, comparison of predictions and findings. 134p., 4 plates in pocket, 84 figures, 31 tables. $5
USGS Professional Paper 817 : 1973 : Summary petroleum and selected mineral statistics for 120 countries, including offshore areas. Author: Albers. 1973. 149p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 820 : 1973 : United States Mineral Resources. Edited by Donald A. Brobst and Walden P. Pratt. This is a MASSIVE hardbound book, 722p. Consists of separate chapters for each mineral, including (among many others) : Asbestos, Cadmium, Coal, Diatomite, Gem stones, Gold, Mercury, Mica, Uranium, Thorium, Oil and gas, Peat, platinum, Tellurium, and more. $10
USGS Professional Paper 828 : 1974 : Fuller’s earth and other industrial mineral resources of the Meigs-Attapulgus-Quincy district, Georgia and Florida. By Sam H. Patterson. A summary of the general and economic geology of the major fuller’s earth-producing district in the United States. 45p., 2 plates in pocket, 11 figures, 5 tables. $2
USGS Professional Paper 831-A : 1974 : History of geologic investigations, engineering design, and construction methods of the Harold D. Roberts Tunnel, Colorado. By Ernest E. Wahlstrom. (Engineering geology of the Harold D. Roberts tunnel, Colorado). 13p., 5 plates in pocket, 6 figures. A historical review of the planning, geologic investigations, engineering design, and construction procedures for a 23.3 mile water tunnel that passes under the Continental Divide in the Front Range of Colorado. (slight wear) $2
USGS Professional Paper 831-B : 1974 : General geology of the Harold D. Roberts Tunnel, Colorado. By Charles S. Robinson, Lawrence A. Warner, and Ernest E. Wahlstrom. . (Engineering geology of the Harold D. Roberts tunnel, Colorado). 48p., 1 plate in pocket, 18 figures, 12 tables. A review of the geologically complex area of the Front Range transected by the Roberts tunnel. $1
USGS Professional Paper 831-C : 1981 : Geology of the western part of the Harold D. Roberts tunnel, Colorado (stations 0+00 to 690+00). By Ernest e. Wahlstrom, Charles S. Robinson, and V. Quentin Hornback. (Engineering geology of the Harold D. Roberts tunnel, Colorado). 58p., 11 plates in pocket, 46 figures, 5 tables. Text and plates are in a hardshell binder. A description of the geology of and engineering practices used in the western part of the tunnel. $8
USGS Professional Paper 831-D : 1981 : Geology of the Eastern part of the Harold D. Roberts tunnel, Colorado (Stations 690+00 to 1238+58). By Lawrence A. Warner and Charles S. Robinson. (Engineering geology of the Harold D. Roberts tunnel, Colorado). 31p., 5 plates in pocket, 14 figures, 5 tables. A description of the geology of and engineering practices used in driving the eastern part of the tunnel through a sequence of almost entirely Precambrian rocks. (lower edge may be lightly bumped) $5
USGS Professional Paper 831-E : 1981 : Summary of the engineering geology of the Harold D. Roberts tunnel, Colorado. By Ernest E. Wahlstrom. (Engineering geology of the Harold D. Roberts tunnel, Colorado). 15p., 2 plates in pocket, 6 figures, 6 tables. A critical review and analysis of the application of geology during planning and cnstruction of a major water tunnel in the Rocky Mountain west. $1
USGS Professional Paper 833 : 1974 : Computer model for determining bank storage at Hungry Horse Reservoir, northwestern Montana.. By T. H. Thompson. 16p., 7 figures, 4 tables. $1
USGS Professional Paper 837 : 1974 : The logic of geological maps, with reference to their interpretation and use for engineering purposes. By David J. Varnes. A discussion of the definition and classification of map units, with emphasis on the problems presented by maps intended for use in civil engineering. 48p., 3 color plates in pocket, 35 figs., 2 tables. (may have slight wear) $1
USGS Professional Paper 840 : 1976 : Descriptions and analyses of eight new USGS rock standards.. compiled and edited by F. J. Flanagan. 28 papers present analytical data on new and previously described whole-rock standards. 192p. $4
USGS Professional Paper 850 : 1973 : Geological Survey research 1973. A summary of recent significant scientific and economic results accompanied by a list of geologic and hydrologic investigations in progress and a report on the status of topographic mapping. 366p., 10 figures. $5
USGS Professional Paper 851 : 1975 : Soil slips, debris flows, and rainstorms in the Santa Monica Mountains and vicinity, southern California. By Russell H. Campbell. 51p., 36 figures, 1 table. Southern California residents have suffered death, injury, and property damage from debris flows generated by soil slips that occur during heavy rains; the process is a recurring major natural geomorphic agent in the region. Defenses and warning are possible but require special engineering and procedures. (includes errata sheet) $1
USGS Professional Paper 852 : 1975 : Evolution of the Platoro Caldera complex and related volcanic rocks, southeastern San Juan Mountains, Colorado. By Peter W. Lipman. 128p., 67 figures, 12 tables. A study of relations between ash-flow eruptions, lava-flow activity, and caldera structure at a mineralized volcanic center. SCARCE. (Fair, a nice reading copy. Last half is rippled, nothing is stuck). $20
USGS Professional Paper 855 : 1975 : Geology of the Sage and Kemmerer 15-minute quadrangles, Lincoln county, Wyoming. By William W. Rubey, Steven S. Oriel, and Joshua I. Tracey, Jr. Geologic map and structure sections depict the geometry of part of the western Wyoming thrust belt where overlapped by mainly Tertiary strata of northern Fossil basin. 18p., frontispiece, 2 plates in pocket, 2 figures, 1 table. $10
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USGS Professional Paper 857 : 1975 : Diagenesis and stratigraphy of the Lisburne Group limestones of the Sadlerochit Mountains and adjacent areas, northeastern Alaska. Author: Wood 1975. 71p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 858 : 1976 : Late Paleozoic foraminifera from southern Chile. Author: Douglass. 1976. 85p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 859 : 1976 : Reconnaissance geology of the submerged and emerged Coastal Plain province, Cape Lookout area, North Carolina. Author: Mixon. 45p. 2 plates in pocket. $1
USGS Professional Paper 860 : 1975 : Geochemical and geologic relations of gold and other elements at the Gold Acres open pit mine, Lander county, Nevada. by Chester T. Wrucke and Theodore J. Armbrustmacher. 27p., plate in pocket, 12 figures, 4 tables.
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VG - $2
Good (cover lightly soiled, bumped corner) - $1
USGS Professional Paper 863 : 1976 : Smaller foraminifera from deep wells on Puerto Rico and St Croix. Author: Todd. 1976. 56p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 865 : 1975 : Normapolles pollen from the Mississippi embayment. By Robert H. Tschudy. Taxonomy and stratigraphic ranges of Normapolles genera and species found in Mississippi embayment rocks. 41p., plus 20 plates on unnumbered pages, 44 figures. $2
USGS Professional Paper 866 : 1974 : Tectonic features of the Precambrian Belt Basin and their influence on post-Belt structures. By Jack E. Harrison, Allan B. Griggs, and John D. Wells. 15p., 4 figures. $7
USGS Professional Paper 867-B : 1976 : Stratigraphy of post-Paleozoic rocks and summary of resources in the Carlin-Pinon range area, Nevada. by J. Fred Smith, Jr. and Keith B. Ketner, with a section on Aeromagnetic survey by Don R. Mabey. Geology of the Carlin-Pinon range area, Nevada. A study of a thick sequence of Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Eocene through Pliocene Tertiary nonmarine sedimentary rocks and volcanic and intrusive rocks. 48p. 1 plate in pocket. (Fair : mostly very good, but covers and edge of page block soiled) $5
USGS Professional Paper 867-C : 1977 : Tectonic events since early Paleozoic in the Carlin-Pinon Range area, Nevada. By J. Fred Smith, Jr., and Keith B. Ketner. (Geology of the Carlin-Pinon range area, Nevada.) Of seven recognized deformational episodes, the earliest occurred in Late Devonian to Early Mississippian time and a principal orogenic event occurred in Mesozoic time. 18p., 3 figures, 1 table. $1
USGS Professional Paper 868 : 1975 : Post-paleocene tertiary rocks and quaternary volcanic ash of the Wet Mountain Valley, Colorado. By Glenn R. Scott and Richard B. Taylor. A stratigraphic and structural study of the sedimentary and volcanic rocks along a graben in south-central Colorado. 15p., 1 plate in pocket, 1 figure, 1 table. Howard, Cotopaxi, Hillside, Silver Cliff, Westcliffe, Gardner, Farisita. $1
USGS Professional Paper 872 : 1976 : Geology of the Golden quadrangle, Colorado. By Richard Van Horn. Geology of part of the Denver urban area, Colorado, with emphasis on deposits of Pleistocene age and their economic potential, engineering characteristics, and environmental implications. 116p., double page frontispiece, 1 plate in pocket, 53 figures, 14 tables (1 in pocket), 17 measured sections.
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Fair (Generally Good, but cover nearly loose and partly torn along hinge. Small tape repair on front cover) $28
USGS Professional Paper 875 : 1975 : Deformations associated with relaxation of residual stresses in a sample of Barre Granite from Vermont. Author: Nichols. 32p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 876 : 1975 : Cauldron subsidence of Oligocene age at Mount Lewis, northern Shoshone Range, Nevada. Author: Wrucke. 20p. (bent corner) $1
USGS Professional Paper 877 : 1975 : The Black Hills – Rapid City flood of June 9-10, 1972: a description of the storm and flood. By Francis K. Schwarz, Lawrence A. Hughes, E. Marshall Hansen, M. S. Petersen and Donovan B. Kelly. 47p., 29 figures, 7 tables. (edge were slightly rippled) $1
USGS Professional Paper 878 : 1975 : Evaluation of ground-water degradation resulting from waste disposal to alluvium near Barstow, California. Author: Hughes. 33p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 879 : 1976 : Silurian-Devonian pelecypods and Paleozoic stratigraphy of subsurface rocks in Florida and Georgia and related Silurian pelecypods from Bolivia and Turkey by John Pojeta, Jr., Jiri Kriz, and Jean Berdan. General geologic setting of the Florida and Georgia subsurface Paleozoic; systematics and the biostratigraphic, paleoecologic, and paleobiogeographic significance of the pelecypods. 32p. plus 5 plates. $2
USGS Professional Paper 881 : 1976 : Geologic evaluation of waste-storage potential in selected segments of the Mesozoic aquifer system below the zone of fresh water, Atlantic Coastal Plain,. Author: Brown North Carolina through New Jersey. 47p. 10 large plates in pocket. (Faint stain on front of cardboard holder.) $7
USGS Professional Paper 885 : 1974 : Summary of 1972 oil and gas statistics for onshore and offshore areas of 151 countries. By Sherwood E. Frezon. Data on offshore and onshore production, reserves, resources, exploration activity, and imports and exports of oil and natural gas for 1972. 163p., 3 tables. $2
USGS Professional Paper 889 : 1975 : Precambrian and lower Ordovician rocks in East-central Idaho. Chapters A and B. Precambrian Y sedimentary rocks in east-central Idaho by Edward T. Ruppel. AND Precambrian Z and Lower Ordovician rocks in East-Central Idaho by Edward T. Ruppel, Reuben James Ross, Jr. and David Schleicher. 34p., 4 figures, 3 tables. $1
USGS Professional Paper 890 : 1975 : The August and October 1968 east rift eruptions of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii. Author: Jackson. 33p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 891 : 1976 : The February 1969 east rift eruption of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii. Author: Swanson. 30p. 1 large plate in pocket. (Spine a little rough.) $1
USGS Professional Paper 899 : 1976 : The karst landforms of Puerto Rico. Author: Watson H. Monroe. A discussion of a solution landscape formed in a tropical climate of moderately high rainfall. 69p., 50 figures in text, 1 table, 1 large plate in pocket – a map showing outcrops of limestone, karst landforms and caves. (Good, bumped corners) $25
USGS Professional Paper 901 : 1974 : Explanatory text to accompany the geologic map of the United States. By Philip B. King and Helen M. Beikman. NOTE – this is not the map, just a text to go with the map. 40p., 16 figures, 1 table. $5
USGS Professional Paper 902 : 1976 : Precambrian geology of the United States; an explanatory text to accompany the geologic map of the United States. By Philip B. King. NOTE – this is not the map, just a text to go with the map. 85p., 30 figures, 6 tables. $5
USGS Professional Paper 903 : 1976 : The Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks; a discussion to accompany the geologic map of the United States. By Philip B. King and Helen M. Beikman. NOTE – this is not the map, just a text to go with the map. 76p., 19 figures. $2
USGS Professional Paper 904 : 1978 : The Cenozoic rocks; a discussion to accompany the geologic map of the United States. By Philip B. King and Helen M. Beikman. NOTE – this is not the map, just a text to go with the map. 82p., 16 figures. $1
USGS Professional Paper 907-C : 1976 : Copper deposits in sedimentary and volcanogenic rocks by Elizabeth Tourtelot and James Vine. (Geology and resources of copper deposits.) A. geologic appraisal of low-temperature copper deposits formed by syngenetic, diagenetic, and epigenetic processes. 34p., 20 figures. $1
USGS Professional Paper 907-F : 1981 : Nature and use of copper reserve and resource data by Dennis Cox, Nancy Wright, and George Coakley. (Geology and resources of copper deposits.) A discussion of the use and limitations of copper resource data for production estimates, trends, and forecasts. 20p., 8 figures, 5 tables. $1
USGS Professional Paper 908 : 1974 : Simulated effects of oil-shale development on the hydrology of Piceance Basin, Colorado. Author: Weeks. 84p. 1 color plate in pocket. (Corner bumped.) $2
USGS Professional Paper 909 : 1976 : Boundaries of the United States and the several states. By Franklin K. Van Zandt. 191p., 54 figures, 10 tables, frontispiece. Some nice color photos. $7
USGS Professional Paper 913 : 1976 : A stochastic model for predicting the probability distribution of the dissolved-oxygen deficit in streams.. Author: Esen. 50p. $1
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USGS Professional Paper 917 : 1975 : A numerical model of material transport in salt-wedge estuaries. Author: Fischer and Stoner. 36p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 921 : 1974 : Earth science in the public service. This is 16 different papers bound together. 73p. (Back cover lightly soiled, corners bumped.) $1
USGS Professional Paper 924 : 1975 : Hurricane Agnes rainfall and floods, June-July 1972. Author: Bailey. 1975. 403p. 1 large plate in pocket. $6
USGS Professional Paper 927 : 1976 : Effect of irrigation pumping on desert pupfish habitats in Ash Meadows, Nye County, Nevada. Author: Dudley. 52p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 929 : 1976 : ERTS-1, a new window on our planet. Editors Richard S. Williams, Jr., and William D. Carter. Color illustrations. 361p., 256 figures. Earth Resources Technology Satellite. (cover rubbed, may have a signature beginning to loosen.) $6
Selected content of USGS Professional Paper 929, titles abbreviated :
Antarctic cartography.
Geologic analysis of the Santa Lucia Range, California.
Jordan Rift Valley.
Geological structure in the western Brooks Range area, Alaska.
Sand seas of the world.
Saindak area, Western Pakistan.
Active faults in the Los Angeles – Ventura area of southern California.
Debris avalanches at Mount Baker Volcano, Washington.
Monitoring the motion of surging glaciers in the Mount McKinley massif, Alaska.
Vatnajokull icecap, Iceland.
Glaciology in Antarctica.
Land use in Northeast Colorado.
Short-term changes in vegetation of southern Arizona.
Road alinement through the Great Kavir in Iran.
Tornado tracks.
MUCH MORE, neat book!
USGS Professional Paper 932-B : 1978 : Eocene rocks, fossils, and geologic history, Teton range, Northwestern Wyoming. By J. D. Love, Estella B. Leopold, and D. W. Love. (Geology of the Teton – Jackson Hole Region, Northwestern Wyoming) 48p., 5 plates (1 in pocket), 21 figures, 1 table. Remnants of Eocene rocks along the modern Teton Range date the final uplift and subsidence of the ancestral Teton – Targhee arch, and determine direction of Eocene drainage. $1
USGS Professional Paper 937 : 1975 : The 1973 Mississippi River basin flood; compilation and analyses of meteorologic, streamflow, and sediment data. Author: Chin. 1975. 137p. 9 plates in pocket. (Back cover has wear.) $6
USGS Professional Paper 938 : 1976 : Platinum deposits of the Goodnews Bay district, Alaska. By John B. Mertie, Jr. Mining history and general and economic geology of placer deposits of the district. 42p., 14 figures, 27 tables. $15
USGS Professional Paper 939 : 1977 : Artificial recharge to a freshwater-sensitive brackish-water sand aquifer, Norfolk, Virginia. Author: Brown. 53p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 940 : 1975 : Mineral resource perspectives 1975. Author: USGS. 24p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 954-D : 1976 : Geochemical survey of Missouri: Elemental composition of corn grains, soybean seeds, pasture grasses, and associated soils from selected areas in Missouri. Author: Erdman. 23p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 955 : 1976 : Mineralogy and geology of the wagnerite occurrence on Santa Fe Mountain, Front Range, Colorado. By Douglas M. Sheridan, Sherman P. Marsh, Mary E. Mrose, and Richard B. Taylor. 23p., 17 figures, 8 tables. $1
USGS Professional Paper 957 : 1976 : Lead in the environment. Edited by T. G. Lovering. 90p., 11 figures, 37 tables. A compilation of papers on the abundance and distribution of lead in rocks, soils plants, and the atmosphere, and on methods of analysis for lead used by the U.S. Geological Survey. $2
USGS Professional Paper 959-AF : 1976 : Geology and resources of titanium. Author: Force. Several papers combined. (Geology and resources of Titanium in the United States) 60p. $11
USGS Professional Paper 959-G : 1976 : Rutile in Precambrian sillimanite-quartz gneiss and related rocks, East-central Front Range, Colorado. By Sherman P. Marsh and Douglas M. Sheridan. (Geology and resources of Titanium in the United States) 17p., 8 figures, 4 tables. Geologic and geochemical study of rutil-bearing rocks in Colorado and a description of their occurrence elsewhere. $1
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USGS Professional Paper 959-H : 1976 : Alluvial ilmenite placer deposits, central Virginia. Author: Minard. Roseland Anorthosite. 15p. 1 plate in pocket. $1
USGS Professional Paper 960 : 1976 : Statistical studies of selected trace elements with reference to geology and genesis of the Carlin gold deposit, Nevada. Author: Harris. 21p. $5
USGS Professional Paper 965 : 1976 : The relation of geology to stress changes caused by underground excavation in crystalline rocks at Idaho Springs, Colorado. By Fitzhugh T. Lee, John F. Abel Jr., and Thomas C. Nichols, Jr. A study to understand the effects of geology and rock stresses on mining in complexly deformed anisotropic metasedimentary rocks using theoretical, laboratory, and field investigations. 47p. 1 plate in pocket, 44 figures, 13 tables. $1
USGS Professional Paper 966 : 1975 : The geologic retrieval and synopsis program (GRASP). Author: Bowen. 87p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 967 : 1976 : Trioctahedral smectite in the Green Formation, Duchesne County, Utah. Author: Dyni. X-ray diffraction of clay. 14p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 969 : 1976 : Some engineering geologic factors controlling coal mine subsidence in Utah and Colorado. By C. Richard Dunrud. 39p., 22 figures, 1 table, frontispiece. A discussion of the processes of subsidence and their effects on mine safety, coal resource management, and the environment in two geologic settings. $1
USGS Professional Paper 971 : 1977 : Structural geology of the Confusion range, West-central Utah. By Richard K. Hose. 9p., 1 plate in pocket, 3 figures. $1
USGS Professional Paper 973 : 1976 : Roberts Mountains formation, a regional stratigraphic study with emphasis on rugose coral distribution by Charles W. Merriam and Edwin H. McKee, with a section on conodonts by John Huddle. A study of stratigraphy, facies, and coral distribution in the middle Paleozoic (Silurian and Devonian) limestone belt of the central and SW Great Basin). 51p., 12 plates, 3 figures, 2 tables. Good : (cover faintly soiled, has several underlined sentences) $1
USGS Professional Paper 974 : 1976 : Type sections and stratigraphy of the members of the Blackleaf and Marias River formations (Cretaceous) of the Sweetgrass arch, Montana. Authors : Cobban, William Aubrey; Erdmann, C. E.; Lemke, R. W.; Maughan, E. K. 66p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 978 : 1976 : PACER; data entry, retrieval, and update for the National Coal Resources Data System (Phase I). Author: Cargill. 107p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 983 : 1976 : The structure of a turbulent flow in a channel of complex shape. By H. J. Tracy. 24p., 20 illustrations. $1
USGS Professional Paper 985 : 1976 : Biostratigraphy and regional relations of the Mississippian Leadville limestone in the San Juan mountains, Southwestern Colorado. By Augustus K. Armstron and Bernard L. Mamet. 29p., 3 plates (1 in pocket), 15 figures. $1
USGS Professional Paper 987 : 1976 : Physical, chemical, and biological aspects of subsurface organic waste injection near Wilmington, North Carolina. Author: Leenheer. 51p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 989 : 1977 : Plutonism and orogeny in north-central Washington; timing and regional context. By Kenneth F. Fox, Jr., C. Dean Rinehart, and Joan C. Engels. 27p., 8 figures, 2 tables. $1
USGS Professional Paper 990 : 1976 : Numerical model of the salt-wedge reach of the Duwamish River estuary, King County, Washington. Author: Prych. 34p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 993 : 1978 : Historic Ground failures in Northern California triggered by Earthquakes. By T. L. Youd and S. N. Hoose. 177p., 5 plates in pocket, 67 figures, 9 tables. $26
USGS Professional Paper 998 : 1976 : Floods of March-April 1973 in southeastern United States. Author: Edelen. 1976. 283p. $4
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USGS Professional Paper 1001 :
1976 : Numerical simulation analysis of the interaction of lakes
and ground water.. By Thomas C. Winter. 45p., 28 figures, 4 tables.
$1 
USGS Professional Paper 1004 : 1977 : Cooling and crystallization of tholeiitic basalt, 1965 Makaopuhi lava lake, Hawaii. Author: Wright. 78p. $3
USGS Professional Paper 1006-AB : 1976 : (1006-A) Demand for nonfuel minerals and materials by the United States energy industry, 1975-90. By John P. Albers, Walter J. Bawiec, and Lawrence F. Rooney. AND (1006-B) Supply of Nonfuel minerals and maerials for the United States Energy Industry, 1975-90 by Gus H. Goudarzi, Lawrence F. Rooney, and Glenn L. Shaffer. 60p. 36 tables, 5 figures. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1009 : 1977 : Characteristic marine Molluscan fossils from the Dakota sandstone and intertongued Mancos shale, West-central New Mexico. By William A. Cobban. Brief descriptions, illustrations, and stratigraphic sequence of the more common fossils at the base of the Cretaceous system. 30p., plus 21 plates on unnumbered pages, 7 figures, 4 tables. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1011 : 1976 : The environment of South Florida, a summary report. Author: McPherson A description of the south Florida ecosystem and changes resulting from man's activities. In color . 81p. $2
USGS Professional Paper 1012 : 1978 : Hydrogeology of the karst of Puerto Rico. Author: Giusti. 1978. 68p. 2 plates in pocket. $5
USGS Professional Paper 1015 : 1977 : Proceedings of the First annual William T Pecora memorial symposium, October 1975, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Author: Woll. 370p. (Good : Paper over spine has small tears – doesn’t affect binding, ink spot on a couple page margins at back, lightly bumped corners) $3
USGS Professional Paper 1016 : 1978 : Petrology, structure, and genesis of the asbestos-bearing ultramafic rocks of the Belvidere Mountain area in Vermont. Authors : A. H. Chidester, A. L. Albee, and W. M. Cady. A study of the origins of some ultramafic igneous rocks, of the alteration products – serpentinite, chrysotile asbestos, steatite, talc-carbonate rock and carbonate-quartz rock – and of the contact rock associations. 95p., 4 plates in pocket, 8 figures, 11 tables (1 table is in pocket). (cover edges bumped) $3
USGS Professional Paper 1017 : 1978 : Ore deposits of the Gilman district, Eagle county, Colorado by Thomas S. Lovering, Ogden Tweto, and T.G. Lovering. Description of the ore deposits and geologic setting of a mining district that is the leading source of zinc in Colorado and an important source of silver, copper, lead, and gold. 90p., 2 plates in pocket (incl. mine map), 50 figures, 12 tables. VG. $42
USGS Professional Paper 1018 : 1977 : Characteristics of thin-skinned style of deformation in the Southern Appalachians, and potential hydrocarbon traps. Author: Harris Thin-skinned tectonics. 40p. 8 plates in pocket. $2
USGS Professional Paper 1020 : 1977 : Ordovician and Silurian graptolite succession in the Trail Creek area, central Idaho; a graptolite zone reference section. Author: Carter. 45p. $2
USGS Professional Paper 1021 : 1977 : Movement of moisture in the unsaturated zone in a loess-mantled area, southwestern Kansas. Author: Prill. 21p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1023 : 1978 : The Lyon Station-Paulins Kill nappe - the frontal structure of the Musconetcong Nappe system in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Author: Avery Ala Drake, Jr. A study of a complex nappe system in te complicated polydeformed terrane of the central Appalachians. 20p., 11 figures, 1 table, 3 color geologic maps in pocket. (bumped corner) $1
USGS Professional Paper 1025 : 1977 : Stratigraphy and microfaunas of the Oquirrh Group in the southern East Tintic Mountains, Utah. By H. T. Morris, R. C. Duglass, and R. W. Kopf. 1977. 25p., 4 plates (1 in pocket), 4 figures. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1029 : 1978 : Hydraulic geometry of river cross sections – theory of minimum variance. By Garnett P. Williams. 47p., 13 figures, 11 tables. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1032-A : 1978 : Physical stratigraphy of the Genesee formation (Devonian) in Western and Central New York. Authors ; Wallace deWitt, Jr. and G. W. Colton. Stratigraphy and conodonts of the Genesee formation (Devonian). – West of Cayuga Lake, the Genesee formation thins by transgression on the Algonquin arch, as is shown by stratigraphic sections and conodont biostratigraphy. 23p., 6 large plates in pocket, 1 large table in pocket, 9 figures in text. All in cardboard binder. (G/VG, but binder rough at spine ends - an easy tape repair) $4
USGS Professional Paper 1037 : 1978 : Transport and dispersion of fluorescent tracer particles for the dune-bend condition, feeder canal near Bernalillo, New Mexico. Author: Rathbun. 95p. 1 plates in separate pocket. $2
USGS Professional Paper 1041 : 1978 : Intrusive rocks northeast of Steamboat Springs, Park Range, Colorado. By George L. Snyder. With a section on geochemistry by Carl E. Hedge. Delineation of intrusive rock types in a previously unstudied area of Colorado and comparison with related rocks elsewhere in Colorado and Wyoming. 42p., 20 figures, 7 tables (1 in pocket). (May have bumped corner) $1
USGS Professional Paper 1043 : 1979 : Subsurface stratigraphy and geochemistry of Late Quaternary Evaporites, Searles Lake, California. Author : George I. Smith. With a section on radiocarbon ages of stratigraphic units by Minze Stuiver and George I. Smith. Description of the stratigraphic succession of muds and salts deposited by closed-basin lakes that occupied Searles Valley during late Quaternary time. 130p., 7 figures, 2 plates in pocket. (bumped corner) $4
USGS Professional Paper 1044-B : 1977 : Use of temperature surveys at a depth of 1 meter in geothermal exploration in Nevada. Author: Olmsted Geohydrology of geothermal systems. 25p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1044-F : 1980 : Chemical studies of selected trace elements in hot-spring drainages of Yellowstone National Park. Author: Stauffer Geohydrology of geothermal systems. 20p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1044-G : 1980 : Hydrogeologic appraisal of the Klamath Falls geothermal area, Oregon. Author: Sammel Geohydrology of geothermal systems. 45p. 4 plates in pocket. $3
USGS Professional Paper 1044-H : 1983 : Reconnaissance of the hydrothermal resources of Utah. By F. Eugene Rush. (Geohydrology of geothermal systems). A brief description of the hydrothermal resources of Utah. 49p., 28 figures, 18 tables. $1
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USGS Professional Paper 1044-J : 1982 : Hydrology and geochemistry of thermal ground water in SW Idaho and north central Nevada by H.W. Young and R.E. Lewis. Geohydrology of geothermal systems. 20p., 2 plates in pocket. (cover lightly soiled) $2
USGS Professional Paper 1044-K : 1988 : Evaluation of a hydrothermal anomaly near Ennis, Montana. Author: Leonard Geohydrology of geothermal systems. 53p. (Back cover has crease.) $2
USGS Professional Paper 1045 : 1978 : Computer-aided estimates of concentrating-grade iron resources in the Negaunee Iron-Formation, Marquette District, Michigan.. Author: Cannon. 21p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1047 : 1979 : Physical stratigraphy and Trilobite biostratigraphy of the Carrara Formation (Lower and Middle Cambrian) in the southern Great Basin. By Allison R. Palmer and Robert B. Halley. Nine members are described; a model for Grand Cycle sedimentation is proposed; nine trilobite zonules are defined; and 95 species representing 38 genera are described. 131p., plus 18 plates on unnumbered pages, 36 figures, 1 table. $56
USGS Professional Paper 1059 : 1977 : GIRAS : A geographic information retrieval and analysis system for handling land use and land cover data. By William B. Mitchell, Stephen C. Guptill, K. Eric Anderson, Robin G. Fegeas, and Cheryl A. Hallam. 16p., 10 figs., 4 tables. (bumped corner) $1
USGS Professional Paper 1060 : 1978 : Deformation of the Roberts Mountains allochthon in North Central Nevada by James Evans and Ted Theodore. 18p., 2 plates in pocket. Very good (bumped corner) $1
USGS Professional Paper 1064-A : 1978 : Mixed layer clay in the Pierre Shale and equivalent rocks, northern Great Plains region. By Leonard G. Schultz. (Geochemistry of the Pierre Shale and equivalent rocks of Late Cretaceous age). X-ray diffraction techniques for interpretation of mixed-layer illite-smectite clay, chemical composition of the clay, and developmental history of the clay. 28p., 16 figures, 8 tables. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1066-A-G : 1979 : Contributions to the Ordovician Paleontology of Kentucky and Nearby States, edited by John Pojeta, Jr. Includes Brachiopods, Trilobites, Echinodermata, and Conodonts. Paged in sections, about 200p, nice plates. (cover has underlined sentence) $32
USGS Professional Paper 1084 : 1980 : Sporomorphs from the Jackson Group (upper Eocene) and adjacent strata of Mississippi and western Alabama. Author: Frederiksen 16 plates in text. 1980. 75p. plates in pocket. $2
USGS Professional Paper 1085 : 1980 : Leachate plumes in ground water from Babylon and Islip landfills, Long Island, New York. Author: Kimmel. 38p. 3 plates in pocket. $3
USGS Professional Paper 1086 : 1979 : Regional metamorphism in the Condrey Mountain quadrangle, North-central Klamath Mountains, California. Author : Preston E. Hotz. 25p., 8 figures, 10 tables. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1088 : 1979 : Evaluation of the geologic and hydrologic factors related to the waste-storage potential of Mesozoic aquifers in the southern part of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Author: Brown South Carolina and Georgia. 37p. 11 plates in pocket. (Hardcover binder.) (binder intact and nice, but has rough section at bottom of one hinge) $7
USGS Professional Paper 1089 : 1980 : Preliminary correlation of post-Erie interstadial events (16,000-10,000 radiocarbon years before present). Author: Fullerton Central and eastern Great Lakes region, and Hudson, Champlain, and St Lawrence Lowlands, United States and Canada. 52p. 1 plate in pocket. ( Cover partially detached (from one of two staples).) $2
USGS Professional Paper 1090 : 1980 : Ordovician and Silurian Phi Kappa and Trail Creek formations, Pioneer Mtns, central Idaho; stratigraphic & structural revisions, and new data on graptolite faunas. Author: Dover. 60p. 1 plate in pocket. $2
USGS Professional Paper 1093 : 1979 : Reconnaissance study of Upper Cretaceous to Miocene stratigraphic units and sedimentary facies, Kodiak and adjacent islands, Alaska. Author: Nilsen With a section on sedimentary petrography. 1979. 34p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1097 : 1981 : Chemical composition of sedimentary rocks in California and Hawaii. Author: Hill. 145p. $4
USGS Professional Paper 1099-B : 1978 : Land use and land cover information and air-quality planning. Author: Reed The influence of land use and land cover in climate analysis. 43p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1099-C : 1980 : Relationships between aerodynamic roughness and land use and land cover in Baltimore, Maryland. Author: Nicholas The influence of land use and land cover in climate analysis. 36p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1099-E : 1980 : Testing an urban climate simulator. Author: Greene The influence of land use and land cover in climate analysis. 1980. 17p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1101 : 1980 : The Boulder Creek batholith, Front Range, Colorado. By Dolores J. Gable. A study of differentiation, assimilation, and origin of a granodiorite batholith showing interrelated differences in Chemistry and mineralogy in the batholith and cogenetic rock types. 88p., 2 plates in pocket, 37 figures, 26 tables. $5
USGS Professional Paper 1106 : 1979 : Temperature parameters of humid to mesic forests of eastern Asia and relation to forests of other regions of the Northern Hemisphere and Australasia. Author: Wolfe. 37p. 3 color plates in pocket.(Back cover lightly soiled.) $2
USGS Professional Paper 1107 : 1980 : Erosion, sediment discharge, and channel morphology in the upper Chattahoochee River basin, Georgia. Author: Faye With a discussion of the contribution of suspended sediment to stream quality. 85p. $2
USGS Professional Paper 1110-A-L : 1979 : Mississippian and Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) systems in the United States (includes Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois). Paged in sections, about 500p. SCARCE. VG. $78
USGS Professional Paper 1110-M-DD : 1979 : Mississippian and Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) systems in the United States (includes Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Montana, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Alaska.) Paged in sections, about 600p.) SCARCE. (Poor. Water marked, which mostly shows as rippling and slightly splayed pages. Nothing stuck. A good reading copy of this rarely found paper). $18
USGS Professional Paper 1114 : 1980 : Procedures for estimating earthquake ground motions. By Walter W. Hays. 77p., 67 figures, 23 tables, frontispiece. $2
USGS Professional Paper 1115 : 1979 : Storm and flood of July 31 – August 1, 1976, in the Big Thompson River and Cache la Poudre River basins, Larimer and Weld counties, Colorado. Part A : Meteorology and Hydrology in Big Thompson River and Cache la Poudre River basins. Part B : Geologic and geomorphic effects in the Big Thompson Canyon area, Larimer county. With a section on Damage caused by geologic processes during flood producing storms. 152p., 3 plates in pocket (1 plate is on 2 sheets, so there are a total of 4 items in pocket), 109 figures, 9 tables. (back cover a bit rough) $5
USGS Professional Paper 1118 : 1980 : On modeling magnetic fields on a sphere with dipoles and quadrupoles.. Author: Knapp Global geomagnetic field. 37p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1119-AB : 1980 : Tectonic studies in the Brazilian Shield. Author: Drake. 30p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1121-A : 1980 : Age and structural significance of ophiolite and adjoining rocks in the upper Chulitna District, South-central Alaska. Author: Jones Geologic framework of the upper chulitna district, Alaska. 1980. 24p. 1 color plates in pocket. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1122 : 1980 : Thermal modeling of flow in the San Diego Aqueduct, California, and its relation to evaporation. Author: Jobson. 24p. $1
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USGS Professional Paper 1131 : 1980 : Rubidium-strontium geochronology and plate-tectonic evolution of the southern part of the Arabian Shield. Author: Fleck Southwestern Saudi Arabia. 1980. 38p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1134-C : 1981 : Geochemical variability of natural soils and reclaimed mine-spoil soils in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. By R. C. Severson and L. P. Gough. (Geochemical survey of the western energy regions). A study providing background information for total and extractable element composition of soils in areas likely to be affected by energy-related development. 39p., 7 figures, 9 tables. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1134-E : 1986 : Geochemical variability of soils and biogeochemical variability of plants in the Piceance Basin, Colorado. By M. L. Tuttle, R. C. Severson, W. E. Dean, and R. W. Klusman. (Geochemical survey of the western energy regions.) A study providing background information for total and extractable element compositions of soils, mineralogy of soils, and element compositions of plants from native and altered sites in areas likely to be affected by oil-shale development. 46p., 8 figures, 12 tables. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1135 : 1980 : Equivalent uranium and selected minor elements in magnetic concentrates from the Candle Quadrangle, Solomon Quadrangle, and elsewhere in Alaska. Author: Pan. 1980. 115p. 1 plate in pocket. $4
USGS Professional Paper 1138-AC : 1980 : Petroleum-resource appraisal and discovery rate forecasting in partially explored regions. Author: Drew, Root and Attanasi. 43p.
Choose your copy of USGS PP 1138-AC :
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Good (spine three hole punched) - $1
USGS Professional Paper 1140 : 1980 : An economic analysis of selected strategies for dissolved-oxygen management; Chattahoochee River, Georgia. Author: Schefter. 26p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1143 : 1981 : The sorting and deposition of allochthonous plant material in the modern environment at Silwood Lake, Silwood Park, Berkshire, England. Author: Spicer A study of how a potential plant-fossil deposit was formed in a fluviolacustrine environment. 77p. $2
USGS Professional Paper 1153 : 1982 : Geological mapping by use of computer-enhanced imagery in western Saudi Arabia. Author: Blodget Land surface reflectance as shown on satellite imagery. 10p. 2 plates in pocket. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1160 : 1980 : The distributions and relationships of grade and tonnage among some nickel deposits. Author: Foose. 14p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1161-A-BB : 1981 : Genesis of uranium- and gold-bearing Precambrian Quartz-Pebble conglomerates : proceedings of a workshop, October 13-15, 1975, held in Golden, Colorado. Edited by Frank Armstrong. Paged in sections – about 700p. (cover a bit faded, otherwise VG). $8
USGS Professional Paper 1162-B : 1980 : Makah Formation; a deep-marginal-basin sequence of late Eocene and Oligocene age in the northwestern Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Author: Snavely Shorter contributions to stratigraphy. 28p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1163-AD : 1979 : Studies of the Permian Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, Great Basin-Rocky Mountain region. Edited by Bruce R. Wardlaw. 22p. $1
Contents of USGS PP 1163 A-D :
USGS PP 1163-A : Transgression of the Retort Phosphatic Shale member of the Phosphoria Formation (Permian) in Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming.
USGS PP 1163-B : The Murdock Mountain Formation : a new unit of the Permian Park City group.
USGS PP 1163-C : Stratigraphy of Park city Group equivalents in southern Idaho, northeastern Nevada, and northwestern Utah.
USGS PP 1163-D : Biostratigraphic zonation of the Park City Group.
USGS Professional Paper 1164 : 1980 : Effects of coal mine subsidence in the Sheridan, Wyoming, area. By C. Richard Dunrud and Frank W. Osterwald. A summary of geology, subsidence, and other effects of past and present mining as related to the environment, coal resource management, and land use. Supplemental information is included from Beulah, North Dakota; Decker, Montana; Somerset, Colorado; and Raton, New Mexico. 49p., 25 figures, frontispiece. $2
USGS Professional Paper 1165 : 1981 : Differentiation of a gabbro sill in the Oregon Coast Range by crystallization-zone settling. Author: MacLeod. 22p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1166 : 1981 : Bedrock, surficial, and economic geology of the Sunnyside coal-mining district, Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah. By Frank W. Osterwald, John O. Maberry, and C. Richard Dunrud. With a section on Early man in the Sunnyside area, by James O. Duguid, Jr. 68p., 2 color plates in pocket, 61 figures, 3 tables. $2
USGS Professional Paper 1167 : 1980 : A comparison of two Atlantic-type continental margins. Author: Schlee. 21p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1169 : 1981 : Floods in Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas, September 12-13, 1977. Author: Hauth. 1981. 47p. $2
USGS Professional Paper 1170-C : 1980 : Seismic properties investigation of the Springer Ranch landslide, Powder River basin, Wyoming. Author: Miller Shorter contributions to general geology. 7p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1170-D : 1983 : Merced Peak Quadrangle, Central Sierra Nevada, Califorania – Analytic data by Dallas Peck and Gerald Van Kooten. Chemical, semiquantitative spectrographic, and modal analyses and potassium-argon, uranium-lead, and rubidium-strontium age determinations on plutonic, metavolcanic, and volcanic rocks supplement USGS Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1531. 29p. (Good : cover rubbed with light soil) jb, $1
USGS Professional Paper 1170-F : 1987 : Implications of deformation along the east flank of the Charleston-Nebo thrust plate, central Utah. Author: Witkind Shorter contributions to general geology. 29p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1172 : 1982 : Geoindex. Author: Fulton Data base and database management system for the index to geologic maps. 298p. $7
USGS Professional Paper 1175 : 1980 : Geological Survey research 1980 : A summary of recent significant scientific and economic results accompanied by a list of geologic, hydrologic, and cartographic investigations in progress. 459p., 2 figures, 4 tables. $7
USGS Professional Paper 1176 : 1981 : Irradiation of samples for 40Ar/39Ar dating using the Geological Survey TRIGA reactor. Author: Dalrymple. 55p. $2
USGS Professional Paper 1177-A : 1980 : Geographical analysis of Fenwick Island, Maryland, a middle Atlantic coast barrier island. Author: Dolan. 24p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1177-B : 1986 : The Outer Banks of North Carolina. Author: Dolan. 47p. $2
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USGS Professional Paper 1178 : 1980 : Elements in fruits and vegetables from areas of commercial production in the conterminous United States. Author: Shacklette. 149p. $7
USGS Professional Paper 1183 : 1982 : Landslide overview map of the conterminous United States. By Dorothy H. Radbruch-Hall, Roger B. colton, William E. Davies, Ivo Lucchitta, Betty A. Skipp, and David J. Varnes. 25p., 1 color plate in pocket, 14 figures. Landslide incidence and susceptibility illustrated for major physical subdivisions of the United States. $10
USGS Professional Paper 1184 : 1981 : Bimodal Silurian and Lower Devonian volcanic rock assemblages in the Machias-Eastport area, Maine. Author: Gates Weakly metamorphosed volcanic rocks. 32p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1191 : 1980 : Storm-induced debris avalanching and related phenomena in the Johnstown area, Pennsylvania. Author: Pomeroy. 1980. 24p. $1
USGS Professional Paper 1193 : 1982 : Resources for the twenty-first century; proceedings of the International centennial symposium of the US Geological Survey. Author: Whitmore Held at Reston, Virginia, October 14-19, 1979. 345p. $12
USGS Professional Paper 1196 : 1981 : Hydrogeochemistry and simulated solute transport, Piceance Basin, northwestern Colorado. By Stanley G. Robson and George J. Saulnier, Jr. The hydrogeochemistry of the oil shale rich area is described and a digital model is used to simulate the possible effects of proposed oil-shale mining on ground-water quality. 65p., 45 figures, 4 tables. $2
USGS Professional Paper 1199-AE : 1981 : Shorter contributions to isotope research in the Western United States, 1980. Author: USGS Archean gneisses, redioelement distribution, ages of igneous rocks, cerro toledo rhyolite tephra, fission-track dating. 47p. (Extra wear on front cover.) $2
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