Download or read book A Record of the Geology of Texas for the Decade Ending December 31 1896 written by Frederic William Simonds and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Record of the Geology of Texas for the Decade Ending December 31 1896 Classic Reprint written by Frederic William Simonds and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Record of the Geology of Texas for the Decade Ending December 31, 1896 Comstock, theo. B. The Geological Survey of Texas. Engineering and Mining Journal, Vol. XLIX, pp. 384-386, New York, Apr. 5, 1890. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Record of the Geology of Texas for the Decade Ending December 31 1896 written by Frederic W 1853-1941 Simonds and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Record of the Geology of Texas for the Decade Ending December 31 1896 written by Frederic William Simonds and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book M K Kellogg s Texas Journal 1872 written by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miner Kilbourne Kellogg’s notes about his experiences with “the most completely and comfortably fitted-out expedition which ever went to Texas” is an account of the beauty, the wildness, and the dangers and inconveniences of 1872 Texas. Editor Llerena Friend provides a setting for the journal by tracing the search for mineral wealth in post–Civil War Texas; by describing the aims of the Eastern-born Texas Copper and Land Association, whose expedition the diarist accompanied; and by narrating the life of Miner K. Kellogg—artist, world traveler, writer. Friend’s annotation of the journal fills in details about the names, places, and events that Kellogg mentions. As the expedition travels across North Texas toward Double Mountain, Kellogg reveals himself not only as a man of artistic vision but also as a chronic complainer, an accomplished observer of human nature and individual personality, and a skillful interpreter of problems that beset the people in the uncivilized regions of Texas. A cultured gentleman who had traveled the world and had sat in the company of presidents and princes, this non-Texan was disdainful of the “texans” of the wilderness, for whom “Cards & vulgar slang & stories of Indian adventures form the staple of their mental exercises.” An artist, he was often unable to draw, either because of his constant illnesses and frustrations or because of the unfavorable encampments of the party. Accustomed to the amenities and comforts of life, he criticized the lack of leadership and the purpose of the expedition, and complained incessantly of the chiggers, the “want of cleanliness decency & health,” and “the infernal bacon,” which became the stock fare. Amid the complaints and derisions, however, appear vivid images of the Texas landscape, set down in word pictures by an artist’s pen: the night sky, “with a half moon now & then eclipsed by dark clouds passing over the clear starry vault of bluish grey”; the river-bank soil of “Vandyke brown color”; the mesquite trees in a melancholy and wild basin, “without a leaf upon their dead carcasses, yet still standing & clinging to the hope of resurrection from the life yet remaining in their roots”; and the “acres of the brilliant yellow Compositea & pink sabatea-like carpets spread in the morning air.” Kellogg’s watercolor sketches were unfortunately lost in travel, but his literary record, “M. K. Kellogg’s Mems, Exploring Expedition to Texas, 1872,” remains as a personal account of an abortive attempt to exploit the natural resources of the Texas frontier during Reconstruction and an artist’s picture of the life and the land of that frontier.
Download or read book Bibliography of North American Geology written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1785/1918 includes material issued previously in the annual Bibliography of North America geology, and in cumulative volumes issued by N. H. Darton and F. B. Weeks. 1919/28 cumulation includes material previously issued in the 1919/20-1935/36 issues and also material not published separately for 1927/28. 1929/39 cumulation includes material previously issued in the 1929/30-1935/36 issues and also material for 1937-39 not published separately.
Download or read book Geologic Literature on North America 1785 1918 written by John Milton Nickles and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Geologic Literature on North America 1785 1918 written by John Milton Nickles (paléontologue).) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Transactions of the Texas Academy of Science for Together with the Proceedings for the Same Year written by Texas Academy of Science and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geology and Politics in Frontier Texas 1845 1909 written by Walter Keene Ferguson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservation and development of natural resources are issues of critical importance throughout the world. These issues have been matters of public concern in Texas since legislators first adopted the state-sponsored geological survey as a means of extending government funds to private citizens who would help develop and advertise the mineral and agricultural wealth of Texas. Walter Keene Ferguson examines the relation of politics to geological exploration during a critical period in Texas history—the first half-century of statehood. Although Texas shared its frontier experience with many other areas, it could not rely on federal aid in the form of land grants because the state government controlled the destiny of the public domain at all times. Acrimonious debate between farmers and urbanites of East Texas and pioneer ranchers of arid West Texas rendered the disposition of public lands even more difficult. As tools for developing and advertising resources, the geological and agricultural surveys of 1858 and 1867 fulfilled the demands of expectant capitalism made by politicians, speculators, and railroad entrepreneurs. Reconnaissance geologists publicized the wealth of Texas. Drought in 1886 and popular agitation against squandering of state land caused the emergence of a new concept of the geological survey as an instrument of land reform and public assistance. Lobbying by reformers and scientific organizations led to the formation of the Dumble Survey in 1888 and the University of Texas Mineral Survey in 1901. Stratigraphic analysis of the “individualities” of Texas geology helped the state realize its full economic potential and led to legislation to protect public mineral land from exploitation. The youthful oil industry finally removed geological exploration from the political arena. As part of the University, a permanent Bureau of Economic Geology was established in 1909 to extend the benefits of scientific research to private citizens and state organizations on a nonpartisan basis. Ferguson’s analysis of geological surveys in Texas contributes to an understanding not only of the geology and history of the state but of the urgent problem of evaluating the natural resources of underdeveloped regions.
Download or read book University Record written by University of Texas and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contributions to Economic Geology short Papers and Preliminary Reports 1925 written by Gerald Francis Loughlin and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
