... the period 1927 through 1929 in borings and in a shaft for a water supply tunnel in Brooklyn, but its significance was not at first realized. This rock is an ancient laterite or ferricrete, and its presence strongly reinforces the evidence furnished by the saprolite for the existence of a humid tropical...

...N. Y. Brooklyn Abstract For many years I have used the method of trimming with a vise described by Mr. J. A. Grenzig in the July, 1918, number of this magazine, but not with a file for a cutter. Mr. Grenzig’s piece of file is easy to provide and no doubt an effective cutter, but is likely to fall...

... to the present spelling of the name in Dr. Lu-quer's branch of the family. Abraham Luquer owned a farm in Brooklyn, on Gowanus Bay, and there Dr. Luquer's father, Rev. Lea Luquer, was born; and lived, until his marriage, in 1860. The Reverend Lea Luquer graduated from Columbia College in 1852. He then studied...

... of the Brooklyn Group. The Brooklyn Group volcanic rocks have characteristics of mature island-arc rocks, including (La/Yb) n ≈ 2.5–4.5 and positive ε Nd values. The Paleozoic rocks are crosscut by a 200 million years old granodioritic intrusion containing zircon with an Early Proterozoic inheritance age (∼2.4 Ga...

...Irving May; Harry Rose; Edward J. Dwornik Abstract Frank Cuttitta, 62, research chemist for the U.S. Geological Survey, died suddenly on November 4, 1974, of a massive coronary while seemingly on the way to recovery from a minor stroke. Frank was born in Brooklyn, New York, and obtained a B.S...

...Thomas I. Miller Abstract It is with regret that we record the death of Joseph P. Wintringham at Oakland, New Jersey, on July 17, 1926. He was born at 153 Henry Street, Brooklyn, New York on May 2, 1852. He attended the Juvenile High School and Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, also boarding...

... were examined using a Nikon Eclipse E600 polarizing light microscope (Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) housed in the Micro-Imaging Lab of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Photographs of dinoflagellate cyst taxa and associated palynomorphs were obtained using...

..., South Dakota) for generously donating the pipe-like concretion that formed the focus of this study. For support in the field and thoughtful discussions in and out of the field, we thank Neal Larson (Larson Paleontology Unlimited), Kayla Irizarry (Pennsylvania State University), Shannon Brophy (Brooklyn...

... was an exploration geologist at Husky Oil Company in Denver, Colorado.Gerald M. Friedman is Distinguished Professor of Geology at the City University of New York, serving at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School and University Center. His previous position was at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he is now...