Richard G. Stearns Papers
File Listing: Boxes 1-9

Box 1:

• 1 Structure & Waters Budget
• 2 Final Orig. Porosity & HYD. etc.
• 3 Notes - Porosity for Water Level Changes
• 4 Appendix - Christmas Mud
• 5 Zurawski - Porosity of Carters Formation
  • Plan of Foundation Exploration
  • Plan of Reservoir Rim Exploration
  • Percy Priest Reservoir, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• 6 Borings - Log Sheet No.1, 6X Series
  • Percy Priest Reservoir
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• 7 Borings - Log Sheet No.6 & 7, P-1 thru P-16, P-17 thru P-28
  • Percy Priest Reservoir, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• 8 Borings - Log Sheet No.8
  • Calyx Borings
  • Percy Priest Reservoir, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• 9 Borings - Log Sheet No.4 & 5
  • 14-I thru 28-I, J and K Series, and 4-M, 6-M thru 28-M and R Series
  • Percy Priest Reservoir, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• 10 Borings - Log Sheet
  • RL -1 thru RL-11, RL-13 thru RL-20, -2-P
  • Percy Priest Reservoir, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• 11 Borings - Log Sheet
  • O-C, 2-E, 4-C, 32-C, U-31, C-1A thru C-12, C-13 thru C-21
  • Percy Priest Reservoir, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• 12 Borings - Log Sheet No. 2 & 3
  • C, D, and E Series and 11-G, 11-50G thru 22-G, 11-H, O-I thru 12+30I
  • Percy Priest Reservoir, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
    
    

  (Materials of Nos. 5-12 are in the letter-size envelops, instead of folders)

• 13 Notes - Curd Rd. Test
• 14 R. G. Sterns, "Porosity and Hydrology of Jointed Middle Ordovician Limestone in the J. Percy Priest Dam Area of Central Tennessee" (Oct. 1974)
• 15 Ron Smith, "Porosity of the Carter Limestone" (Summer 1972)
• 16 Betsy Daniel, Appendix - Porosity for Road Cut Photos
• 17 TDWR Clark No.1
• 18 TDWR Clark No.2
• 19 TDWR Clark No.3
• 20 A. T. Woodard Water Well
• 21 Rockdale Hill Section
• 22 Shady Grove-Staggs Section
• 23 Test Well Site: Detail Map
• 24 Skillman Basin Maps
• 25 Fort Payne Samples I-40 & I-65 (also some duplicate notes on RH)
• 26 LS & Chert Petrography Notes - RH I-40 & I-65
• 27 OWRR
• 28 Small Basin
• 29 Small Basin - Unassigned
• 30 R. G. STEARNS, "Geochemistry & Geohydrology of a Small Basin in the Upper Buffalo River Watershed, Tennessee" (period: Jul. 1969 - Jun. 1970)
• 31 Floyd C. Larson - General
• 32 Small Basin Budget (1968-69)
• 33 Small Basin Budget (1969-70)
• 34 A Notebook
• 35 Tests - Hoover Quarry
• 36 Hoover Quarry - Metro Airport (in a letter-size envelop)

Box 2:

• 1 R. G. Stearns, Physical Geology Textbook (Fall 1983)
• 2 Syllabus and Schedule - Sections 7-10
  Geology 101 - Physical Geology - Fall 1993
• 3 Nalco Chemical
• 4 Tests and Exams - Geology 102, Historical Geology, Early 1970s
• 5 Geology 150
• 6 May Term 94
• 7 May Term 93
• 8 May Term 92
• 9 CPLE Reviews
• 10 May Term 90
• 11 May Term 91
• 12 May Term 89
• 13 Geology 150 (1985-89)
• 14 Geology 150 (1984-85)
• 15 Geology 150 (1981)
• 16 Geology 240 (Spring 1994)
• 17 Syllabus and Schedule - Geology 255 - Exploration Geophysics (Fall 1993)

Box 3:

• 1 Correspondence, Notes, Photos, etc.
• 2 New Madrid, News, Notes & Correspondence, Buscchbach & Stever, etc.
• 3 A
• 4 B
• 5 C
• 6 Computer
• 7 D
• 8 E
• 9 Fencing Team
• 10 G
• 11 Grants
• 12 Gravity Meter & Grav. Correspondence
• 13 H
• 14 I
• 15 J
• 16 K
• 17 L
• 18 Leave 1988
• 19 LUMM
• 20 M
• 21 Memorial CWW
• 22 Misc. Curiosa, etc.
• 23 N
• 24 O
• 25 Promotions, 1984-88-93
• 26 P & Q
• 27 R
• 28 S
• 29 T
• 30 Travel
• 31 U & United Way
• 32 USGS & Cape Girardeau, Missouri
• 33 V
• 34 WX
• 35 Water File
• 36 YZ
• 37 Consistent Maps
• 38 Earthquakes
• 39 Old Stone Fort
• 40 Preliminary Paleogeography (F-'1) & (D-2, E)
• 41 Misc. USGS, NSF, TVA
• 42 GEOL. OF TENN.
• 43 GSA New Orleans (National Meeting 1967)

Box 4:

• 1 Stress and Faulting, Ronald C. Bass, Spring, 1965
• 2 Joint Poles, 1970 - I-40 E of McCray Lane
• 3 Earthquakes & Earth's Interior, NS 101, Nov. 1972
• 4 GEOL 240 1968 & 1969 - Hermitage, Tenn, Qud.
• 5 Student Papers and Reports on I-40 Joint Project
• 6 GEOL 240 - 1966, 1968, 1973, 1987, 1988
• 7 GEOL 240 - Past Course Reports, 1980-90
• 8 GEOL 240 - LAB 1987
• 9 GEOL 240 - Notes, etc. 1977
• 10 GEOL 240 - LAB 1988
• 11 GEOL 240 - Spring 1991-1994
• 12 How to write "Term Paper"
• 13 Geophysics & Ind Study
• 14 Geophysics
• 15 GEOL 101 - Fall 1986-87
• 16 GEOL 101 - Fall 1979
• 17 Geophysics (GEOL 285) 1989
• 18 GEOL 101 - Fall 1988
• 19 GEOL 101 - Spring 1991 & Fall 1990
• 20 GEOL 101 - 1992-93
• 21 Historical Geology

Box 5:

• 1 R. G. Stearn's Nootbook (Sedimentation & principles of Stratigraphy)
• 2 R. G. Stearn's Nootbook (Plant Anatomy & Microtechnique)
• 3 R. G. Stearn's Nootbook (Biology 421)
• 4 R. G. Stearn's Nootbook (Geology - Structural)
• 5 R. G. Stearn's Nootbook (Biology 323B)
• 6 R. G. Stearn's Nootbook (Biology 323A)
• 7 R. G. Stearn's Nootbook (Paleontology)
• 8 R. G. Stearn's Class Notes (323A)
• 9 R. G. Stearn's Class Notes (Morphology of Vascular Plants)
• 10 R. G. Stearn's Class Notes (Paleontology)
• 11 R. G. Stearn's Class Notes (Structural Geology)
• 12 R. G. Stearn's Class Notes (Paleobotany - 1949)
• 13 R. G. Stearn's Class Notes (Paleobotany)
• 14 Geology D-4 Lab Report - Sedimentation
• 15 Geology D-4 - Sedimentation
• 16 Syllabus - Geology C-2 (Fall 1949)
• 17 Geology D-5 - Laboratory Exercises 1950
• 18 Geophysics & Geochem. Principles, D-12-13-14 (1950-51)
• 19 Pottsville & Equivalents - Regional Analysis (1950)
• 20 Petrology & Petrography
• 21 Syllabus Geology D-5 Biostratigraphy, Sedimentary Facies, & Principles of Correlation
• 22 Dissertation Proposals
• 23 USGS - Groundwater Course
• 24 Groundwater Geology & Hydrology, U.S. Geol Survey Short Course
• 25 Statistics Class Notes
• 26 Math 230
• 27 Engineering Math & Mechanics Analyt. Geol & Calculus I & II
  Vector Statistics, Mech. of Materials Soil Mech. & Fluid Mech. (Fall 1967-71)

Box 6:

• 1 Stratigraphy (Fall 1964-5)
• 2 Mineralogy
• 3 C. W. Wilson - "Published" a Set of Notes on Historical Geology
• 4 Stratigraphy Notes
• 5 1966 - Notes on Historical Geology by C. W. Wilson, Jr.
• 6 1948 or Earlier - Notes on Historical Geology
  Stearns was a student in 1945-49)
• 7 Report Preparation
• 8 Structure Exam 1964
• 9 "An Investigation into the Physics and Chemistry of the Earth's Core"
  (Allen Zack, April 18, 1966)
• 10 "Is the Earth Shrinking or Expanding?
  (Clyde Lee, April 19, 1966)
• 11 "Some Theories Concerning the Origin of the Continents, with Emphasis on Accretion vs. Convection"
  (Richard C. Finch, April 18, 1966)
• 12 "Continental Draft: An Argument for Tidal Forces"
  (Charles M. Woodruff, Jr. April 18, 1966)
• 13 Structure Lab
• 14 Structure Lab
• 15 Structure Report (1963)
• 16 Student Papers for Structural Geology (May 1971)
• 17 Student Papers and Reports
• 18 Section Report by R. Bass
• 19 Stratig Reports, 1967
• 20 Richard Stearns: Math. B-11-12 Calculus
• 21 Richard Stearns: Isopach & Lithofacies Maps (1951, at Northwestern)
• 22 Richard Stearns: "Metamorphism of the Blue Ridge - Piedmont Province from PA-GA" (1951, at Northwestern)
• 23 1968 Geology Department Planning Document
• 24 Minutes of the Meeting of the Panel on Liberal Arts Education in Geological Sciences (Jan. 14-5, 1966, SMU, Dallas, Texas)
• 25 Structure Notes (C. W. Wilson, Jr.)

Box 7:

• 1 General Athletic Committee
• 2 Northwestern University Athletics
• 3 General Athletic Committee
• 4 Athletics
• 5 Campus Setting Committee
• 6 Geo Study
• 7 Technology and Human Values
• 8 Chess Club
• 9 Rec. Int & Club Sp. 1988
• 10 University Club
• 11 Club Sports, etc. 1977-1980
• 12 Interamurals, Club S., PE. 1980
• 13 PE Report, September 1980
• 14 Interamurals, 1980-84
• 15 Recreation Facility, 1984-86
• 16 Recreation Committee, 1986
• 17 CPLE Natural Science Subcommittee
• 18 CPLE Geology 101, 1991
• 19 Vanderbilt University Riele Team, 1978
• 20 FRATS
• 21 Faculty/Staff Campaign, 1994
• 22 AAUP
• 23 A.I.P.G.S.
• 24 Geology Department
• 25 Graduate Student Assistants
• 26 Tenn. Dir. Geology
• 27 Teaching Assistant Students

Box 8:

• 1 Higham
• 2 Metro Airport, Quarry
• 3 Huddleston Area, 1963
• 4 Airport - Geologic Mapping for Engineering Use
• 5 Harpeth UTIL (Bob Parker, Dennis Willis), 1987
• 6 1964-1966
• 7 TVA - LBL , 1977
• 8 Buntin Case (Walter Grouch), 1976
• 9 Tennessee Valley Authority
• 10 T.V.A. - Miscellaneous & Financial
• 11 Business End of Geology
• 12 Sardis Report CE. 1978
• 13 Krinitzsky Usage Project
• 14 Geologial-Seismological Investigation of Earthquake hazards at Sardis Dam, Mississippi, Final Report - June 1979
• 15 Yazoo River Basin, Mississippi, Sardis Lake, Little Tallahatchie River, Sardis Dam Earthquake Study, Sellection of a Design Earthquake, Nov.1976
• 16 Barkley Dam Report
• 17 R. G. Stearns, "Earthquake & Geology of the Barkley Dam Area in Relation to the New Madrid Earthquake Region"

Box 9:

• 1 Phi Beta Kappa
• 2 R. G. Stearns as a Student at Vanderbilt 1948-49
  • Correspondence - Graduate School applications
  • Bank Record
• Drawings for Professor C. W. Wilson, Jr.
• 3 Bank Statements, Fall 1982 - 1988
• 4 Bank Accounts and Statements, 1972 - August 1976
  

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