William Phipps Blake

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According to Wikipedia, William Phipps Blake was an American geologist, mining consultant, and educator. Among his best known contributions include being the first college trained chemist to work full-time for a United States chemical manufacturer , and serving as a geologist with the Pacific Railroad Survey of the Far West , where he observed and detailed a theory on erosion by wind-blown sand on the geologic formations of southern California, one of his many scientific contributions. He started several western mining enterprises that were premature, including a mining magazine in the 1850s and the first school of mines in the Far West in 1864.

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William Phipps Blake's Published Works

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THE CARSON-CITY ICHNOLITES. (1884) (8)
Descriptions of plants collected along the route, by W.P. Blake, and at the mouth of the Gila / (4)
Notes on the Geology and Mines of Nevada Territory (Washoe Silver Region, U. S.) (1864) (2)
ORIGIN OF THE DEPRESSION KNOWN AS MONTEZUMA'S WELL, ARIZONA. (1906) (2)
NOTE UPON THE STRUCTURE OF THE SANTA CATALINA GNEISS, ARIZONA. (1908) (2)
From the Red River to the Rio Grande. (2)
NOTE UPON THE ABSORPTION OF SULPHUR BY CHARCOAL. (1893) (2)
New locality of the green turquoise... (1883) (2)
Mining and storing ice (1883) (1)
Columbite in the Black Hills of Dakota (1884) (1)
Description of a meteorite from Green County, Tennessee (1886) (1)
Columbite of the Black Hills, South Dakota (1891) (1)
Notes on the metallurgy of nickel in the United States (1883) (1)
Notes on the geology of the island of Yesso, Japan, from observations made in 1862 (0)
Notes upon some of the mineralogical curiosities of the Paris Exposition of 1867 (1868) (0)
Cassiterite, spodumene and beryl in the Black Hills, Dakota (1883) (0)
Crystallized gold in prismatic forms (1884) (0)
TELLURIDE OF GOLD, CRIPPLE CREEK, COLORADO. (1893) (0)
Report upon the precious metals: being statistical notices of the principal gold and silver producing regions of the world represented at the Paris Universal Exposition (0)
Note Upon the Absorption of Sulphur by Charcoal (1893) (0)
Occurrence of realgar and orpiment in Utah (1881) (0)
Letter from W. P. Blake, New York (1848) (0)
Tourmaline of Crown Point, New York (1908) (0)
The glaciers of Alaska, Russia, America (1867) (0)
Art Text-Books (0)
THE TIN ORES OF NEW SOUTH WALES AND SOUTH DAKOTA. (1893) (0)
The Keramic Art (0)
THE HARDNESS OF CARBORUNDUM. (1893) (0)
THE FLANKING DETRITAL SLOPES OF THE MOUNTAINS OF THE SOUTHWEST. (1907) (0)
Mineralogical notes (1890) (0)
Note on the occurrence of fossil remains of the tapir in California (1868) (0)
Geological report : routes in California, to connect with the routes near the thirty-fifth and thirty-second parallels, explored by Lieut. R.S. Williamson, corps topographical engineers, in 1853 (0)
Iodobromite in Arizona (1905) (0)

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