Geology Publications

Contains: Type Localities Sampling Program, by William H. Moore, William S. Parks, and Marshall K. Kern; Hilgard as a Geologist, by Henry V. Howe; Plant Microfossils from the Eocene Cockfield Formation, Hinds County, Mississippi, by Donald W. Engelhardt; Current Projects of the Mississippi Geological Survey, by Frederic F. Mellen; Well Logging by Mississippi Geological Survey, by Alvin R. Bicker, Jr., and Frederic F. Mellen.

Survey of Lightweight Aggregate Materials of Mississippi

Contains: Regional Stratigraphy of the Midway and Wilcox in Missisippi, by Edward H. Rainwater; Late Pleistocene and Recent History of the Mississippi Sound Between Beauvoir and Ship Island, by Edward H. Rainwater; and Geology of the Northeast Quarter of the West Point, Mississippi Quadrangle, and Related Bentonites, by Thomas F. Torries.

Numerous test holes were drilled and many chemical analyses were made. A summary is given of ore production and sold in the past and of the smelting operation in 1913 at Winborn.

Report of a Geological Reconnaissance of Parts of the Counties of Yazoo, Issaquena, Washington, Holmes, Bolivar, Tallahatchie, Coahoma, Mississippi, during the Months of October and November 1870, by Eugene A. Smith; History of the Mississippi Geological Survey, by Ephraim N. Lowe; Memorial to Ephraim N. Lowe (1864-1933), by William C. Morse; Address at Recognition Dinner honoring Dr. W. C. Morse and Prof. F. E. Vestal, Upon Their Retirements, by Frederic F. Mellen; Memorial to William Clifford Morse (1874-1962), by Franklin E. Vestal; Employment in the Mining Industry in Mississippi, by William T. Hankins; The Present Course of the Mississippi Geological Survey, by Frederic F. Mellen and William S. Parks; The Survey's Enabling Act; List of State Geologists; Index to Bulletins 1-99.

The report contains additional sections: Attala County Ceramic Tests, by Thomas E. McCutcheon; Attala County Subsurface Geology, by William H. Moore; and Water Resources of Attala County, Mississippi, by B. E. Wasson.

This is the fourth in a series of geologic studies made by the Survey along State Highways. Beds from the Upper Cretaceous to Middle Eocene are profiled and described.

Economic Potential of Alumina-rich Clays and Bauxite in Mississippi; Stratigraphic Implications from Studies of the Mesozoic of Central and Southern Mississippi; Land Snails from the Loess of Mississippi; Pleistocene Land Snails of Southern Mississippi and Adjacent Louisiana; Problem of Desiccation Sinking at Clarksdale; and Geological History and Oil and Gas Possibilities of Mississippi.

A study of available geological and geophysical data on an area in Lafayette County thought to be favored for the accumulation of commercial oil and gas deposits, and a review of the possibilities for Cambrian and pre-Cambrian oil and gas in Northern Mississippi.

A study of the outcropping formations, their characteristics, and economic importance. It contains a section on oil and gas production by Hugh Mc.D Morse; a section on subsurface stratigraphy, by William H. Moore; and a section on ground-water geology and subsurface structure, by Marshall K. Kern..