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Annual Reports[edit]
- First annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior" Clarence King, Director. 1880
Monographs[edit]
There were 55 Monographs published by the USGS between 1882 and 1929.
- No. 1 "Lake Bonneville" by Gilbert, Grove Karl, 1890. 438 p.
- No. 2 "Tertiary history of the Grand Canyon district, with atlas" Dutton, Clarence E., 1882. 264 p. and atlas of 23 sheets folio
- No. 3 "Geology of the Comstock lode and the Washoe district, with atlas" Becker, George Ferdinand, 1882. 422 p. and atlas of 21 sheets folio
- No. 4 "Comstock mining and miners" Lord, Eliot, 1883. 451 p.
- No. 5 "The copper-bearing rocks of lake Superior" Irving, Roland Duer, 1883. 464 p.
- No. 6 "Contributions to the knowledge of the older Mesozoic flora of Virginia" Fontaine, William Morris, 1883. 144 p.
- No. 7 "Silver-lead deposits of Eureka, Nevada" Curtis, Joseph Story, 1884. 200 p.
- No. 8 "Paleontology of the Eureka district" Walcott, Charles D., 1884. 298 p.
- No. 9 "Brachiopoda and Lamelllibranchiata of the Raritan Clays and Greensland Marls of New Jersey" Whitfield R. P. 1885. 328 pp., 30 plts, 2 figs.
- No. 10 "Dinocerata an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals" Marsh O. C. 1885 243 pp., 56 fossil mammal plts, 200 figs.
- No. 11
- No. 12 "Geology and Mining Industry of Leadville, Colorado" Emmons S. F. 1886.769 pp., 45 plts, 6 figs.
- No. 13 "Geology of the Quicksilver Deposits of the Pacific Slope" Becker, G. F. 1888.
- No. 14
- No. 15 "The Potomac or Younger Mesozoic Flora" Fontaine, W. M. 1889.
- No. 16
- No. 17
- No. 18
- No. 19 ""The Penokee Iron Bearing Series of Michigan and Wisconsin" Irving R. D. & Van Hise C. R. 1892. 534 p, 37 pl. 12 fig.
- No. 20 "Geology of the Eureka District, Nevada" Hague, A. 1892. 396 p.
- No. 21 "Tertiary Rhynchophorus Coleoptera" Scudder, S. H. 1893, 206 p. 12 plates.
- No. 22
- No. 23 "Geology of the Green Mountains, Massachusetts" Pumpelly R. et al. 1894.206 pp., 23 plts, 79 figs.
- No. 24 "Mollusca and Crustacea of the Miocene Formations of New Jersey including Brachiopoda" Whitfield, R. P. 1894. 195 p., 24 plates.
Bulletins[edit]
There have been over 4,600 Bulletins prepared since 1883
- No. 1 "On hypersthene andesite and on triclinic pyroxene in augitic rocks" by Whitman Cross and Samuel Franklin Emmons, 1883
- "Gold and silver conversion tables, giving the coining values of troy ounces of fine metal, and the weights of fine metal represented by given sums of United States money: by Albert Williams, Jr., 1883
- No. 3 "On the fossil faunas of the Upper Devonian, along the meridian of 76 degrees 30', from Tompkins County, New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania" by Henry Shaler Williams, 1884
- No. 4 "On Mesozoic fossils" by Charles A. White, 1884
- No. 5 "A dictionary of altitudes in the United States" by Henry Gannett, 1884
- No. 6 "Elevations in the dominion of Canada" by J.W. Spencer, 1884
- No. 7 "Mapoteca geologica americana, a catalogue of geological maps of America (North and South), 1752-1881" by Jules Marcou and John Belknap Marcou, 1884
- No. 8 "On secondary enlargements of mineral fragments in certain rocks" by Roland Duer Irving and Charles Richard Van Hise, 1884
- No. 9 "A report of work done in the Washington laboratory during the fiscal year 1883-84" by Frank Wigglesworth Clarke and Thomas Marean Chatard, 1884
- No. 10 "On the Cambrian faunas of North America (preliminary studies)" by Charles D. Walcott, 1884
- No. 322 "Geology and oil resources of the Santa Maria oil district, Santa Barbara County, California" by Ralph Arnold and Robert van Vleck Anderson, 1907. 161 p.
- No. 664 "The Nenana coal field, Alaska" by George Curtis Martin, 1919. 54 p.
Professional Papers[edit]
There have been over 3,000 Professional Papers published since 1902
- No. 1 "Preliminary report on the Ketchikan mining district, Alaska, with an introductory sketch of the geology of southeastern Alaska" by Alfred Hulse Brooks. 1902
- No. 2 "A reconnaissance of the northwestern portion of Seward Peninsula, Alaska" by Collier, Arthur James, 1902
- No. 3 "The geology and petrography of Crater lake national park" by Joseph Silas Diller and Horace Bushnell Patton. 1902
- No. 4 "The forests of Oregon" Gannett, Henry. 1902
- No. 5 "The forests of Washington" by Henry Gannett. 1902
- No. 6 "Forest conditions in the Cascade Range, Washington, between the Washington and Mount Rainier forest reserves" Plummer, F. G. 1902
- No. 7 "Forest conditions in Olympic Forest Reserve, Washington" by Arthur Dodwell and Theodore F. Rixon, 1902
- No. 8 "Forest conditions in the northern Sierra Nevada, California" Leiberg, J. B. 1902
- No. 9 "Forest conditions in the Cascade Range Forest Reserve, Oregon" by H.D. Langille, 1903
- No. 10 Reconnaissance from Fort Hamlin to Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, by way of Dall, Kanuti, Allen, and Kowak rivers" by Mendenhall, W. C., 1903
- No. 42 "Geology of the Tonopah mining district, Nevada" by Spurr, J. E., 1905. 295 p.
General Interest Publications[edit]
- Prospecting for Gold in the United States, 1991
- Proposed expedition to explore Ellesmere land, northwest of Baffin Bay (1894) by Robert Stein
- The mineral industries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Slovenia (2000) by Walter G. Steblez
Works About the Bureau[edit]
- "Instructions Relating to the Work of the United States Geological Survey: To Take Effect May 1, 1903" (1903)
- "Handbook for Field Geologists in the United States Geological Survey by Charles Willard Hayes (1908)
- "Topographic Instructions of the United States Geological Survey (1913)
- Rabbitt, Mary C. "Minerals, lands, and geology for the common defence and general welfare : a history of public lands, Federal science and mapping policy, and development of mineral resources in the United States" US Geological Survey, 1979. 3 volumes:
- ... Assignment of Employees and Localities of Field Work: Season of 1905. Geologic, Topographic ... (1905)

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