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Fossil Bearing Basalts (More Particularly The Yakima Basalt Of Central Washington), George F. Beck Nov 1935

Fossil Bearing Basalts (More Particularly The Yakima Basalt Of Central Washington), George F. Beck

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

Such an overwhelming majority of the floral and faunal remains of the earth's crust have been yielded by rocks of sedimentary origin that generalized statements concerning the occurrence of fossils often neglect their more rare appearance in metamorphic and igneous rocks. In fact there is the temptation, after volcanic tuffs have been excluded as more or less sedimentary, to venture the positive assertion that by their very character igneous rocks are incapable of recording the presence of the life which may have existed at the time of their extrusion. As a result, most that has been written concerning fossil floras …


Exotic Ancient Forests Of Washington, George F. Beck Apr 1935

Exotic Ancient Forests Of Washington, George F. Beck

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

The greatest fossil forest in the world is located within easy driving distance of the University of Washington campus in the State of Washington, near the Columbia River, east of the city of Ellensburg. Mr. George F. Beck, a member of the faculty of the Ellensburg State Normal School, and a former graduate student of the College of Forestry of the University of Washington, discovered this forest, which is now known as the Ginkgo Forest State Park. Aside from its importance from a scientific point of view, this "petrified forest," which contains a greater variety of species than any other …


A New Miocene Dog, Mesocyon Geringensis, Sp. Nov., Erwin Hinckley Barbour, C. Bertrand Schultz Jan 1935

A New Miocene Dog, Mesocyon Geringensis, Sp. Nov., Erwin Hinckley Barbour, C. Bertrand Schultz

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum

A field party from the Nebraska State Museum consisting of Messrs. E. L. Blue, Frank Crabill, Loren Eiseley, and C. Bertrand Schultz, on August 28, 1931, was fortunate in finding the remains of a new Mesocyon. This specimen, number 4-28-8-31, the Nebraska State Museum, was found in the Gering formation (lower Miocene), fifteen feet above the Brule, 400 feet west of the road in Redington Gap, near the center of the S. 1/2, sec. 14, T. 19 N., R. 52 W., west of Bridgeport, Morrill County, Nebraska.


Gnathabelodon Thorpei, Gen. Et Sp. Nov. A New Mud-Grubbing Mastodon, Erwin Hinckley Barbour, George F. Sternberg Jan 1935

Gnathabelodon Thorpei, Gen. Et Sp. Nov. A New Mud-Grubbing Mastodon, Erwin Hinckley Barbour, George F. Sternberg

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum

In February, 1932, while opening a gravel pit to get material for highway construction, the skull, tusks, and mandible of a new longirostral mastodont were found by Robert Arnold on his ranch, Sec. 24, T. 12 S., R. 22 W., 1 1/2 miles due east of Ogallah, Trego County, western Kansas. This point is located about 20 miles west and three miles north of Hays, the seat of the Fort Hays Kansas State College, in the museum of which the above mentioned specimen is mounted and exhibited. When unexpectedly exposed by Mr. Arnold and his associates, the great skull was …


The Thiem Method For Determining Permeability Of Water-Bearing Materials, L. K. Wenzel Jan 1935

The Thiem Method For Determining Permeability Of Water-Bearing Materials, L. K. Wenzel

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


The Pleistocene Geology Of Nebraska, A. L. Lugn Jan 1935

The Pleistocene Geology Of Nebraska, A. L. Lugn

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Nebraska Soils Grouped According To General Productivity And Use Capabilities Jan 1935

Nebraska Soils Grouped According To General Productivity And Use Capabilities

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Groundwater Level Survey In Nebraska, Herbert A. Waite Jan 1935

Groundwater Level Survey In Nebraska, Herbert A. Waite

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Geologic Cross-Section, Forest City, Missouri To Du Bois, Nebraska, G. E. Condra Jan 1935

Geologic Cross-Section, Forest City, Missouri To Du Bois, Nebraska, G. E. Condra

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Permo-Pennsylvanian Section Of The Hartville Area Of Wyoming (With Implications For Nebraska), G. E. Condra, E. C. Reed Jan 1935

Permo-Pennsylvanian Section Of The Hartville Area Of Wyoming (With Implications For Nebraska), G. E. Condra, E. C. Reed

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


A New Fossil Peccary, Prosthennops Niobrarensis, From Brown County, Nebraska, Edwin H. Colbert Jan 1935

A New Fossil Peccary, Prosthennops Niobrarensis, From Brown County, Nebraska, Edwin H. Colbert

Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum

During the summer of 1929, the writer, accompanied by Mr. Paul O. McGrew of the University of Nebraska, discovered during the course of excavations for fossil vertebrates in northern Brown County, Nebraska, a fairly complete peccary skull referable to the genus Prosthennops. This skull, due to its several unusual characters, as well as to its fair degree of completeness, would seem to warrant a special and a rather detailed description. Consequently the specimen has been kindly turned over to me by Dr. E. H. Barbour, Director of the Nebraska State Museum, not only for the purpose of the present …