Offered here for sale for 1 price are 4 publications from the U.S. Geological Survey Annual Reports all by Douglas B. Sterrett.
1. THE PRODUCTION OF PRECIOUS STONES IN 1906 by Douglas B. Sterrett. DC: GPO USGS Special Offprint, 1907. 9" X 5 3/4", pp 44; original wrappers. A few stamps on front cover else very good. This is the first contribution by Sterrett to this series, continuing previous chapters by G.F. Kunz. Covered here are
miscellaneous
gemstones, gem minerals of Southern California,
occurrence
of diamonds in Arkansas by G.F. Kunz and Henry S. Washington. Includes a bibliography containing 37 entries. (Sinkankas #6341)
2. GEMS AND PRECIOUS STONES IN 1911 by Douglas B. Sterrett. DC: GPO USGS Special Offprint, 1912. 9" X 5 3/4", pp 46; original wrappers. A few stamps on front cover else very good and complete. Much on the emerald deposits of North Carolina and also on Southwest U.S.A. turquoise
. (Sinkankas #6346)
3. GEMS AND PRECIOUS STONES IN 1912 by Douglas B. Sterrett. DC: GPO USGS Special Offprint, 1913. 9" X 5 3/4", pp 42; original wrappers. A few stamps on front cover else very good and complete. Covers amethyst in North Carolina and Virginia, beryl deposits in North Carolina, amazonite, metric carat, birthstones list, statistics, and a bibliography containing 14 entries. (Sinkankas #6347)
4. GEMS AND PRECIOUS STONES IN 1914 by Douglas B. Sterrett. DC: GPO USGS Special Offprint, 1915. 9" X 5 3/4", pp iv + 307-346; original wrappers. A few stamps on front cover else very good and complete. Much on beryl, also on New England tourmaline; statistics; summary of the gemstone industry from 1882-1914, with table. The last contribution in this series by Sterrett. (Sinkankas #6349)
A set of rare offprints worthy of binding.
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CLASSIC GEOLOGY!!
This is USGS Professional Paper 366,
Ash-Flow Tuffs: Their Origin, Geologic Relations, and Identification
. Published in 1961, this 81-page book is the one book that took the varied ideas about volcanic rocks and distilled them in to a clearer picture.
Until this book, the nature of huge ash-flow tuffs, and their origins was not clear, mainly because the giant eruptions of the geologic past that produced huge packages of tuffs simply had not been observed in the relatively few years that geology existed as a science. Basically, geologists had no idea of the scale of certain kinds of volcanic events, or of the processes of welding, compaction, and crystallization that go with them. This book brought together many observations, helped clarify terminology, and explained many of the processes
involved
in these huge rock-forming events.
The book is great because one of the first sections involves the vocabulary associated with these rocks, so the reader is not left wondering what terms mean. In addition, the many photographs (nearly 100 figures are provided) have clear explanations of the features
within
the rocks. I've been a geologist for years, but when I finally got ahold of this I finally felt like I understood these complex rocks and could see them in the field with some
understanding
of them. It's a great book
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