Summary Information on the State Geological Surveys & the United States Geological Survey Bulletin of the National Research Council (1932) / Chapter Skim
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Burdick, who has for years acted as Consulting Geologist for the State Tax Commission and the State Land Board, has undertaken, without compensation, the care of miscellaneous correspondence coming in from individuals, from the State Capitol, and from civic organizations making enquiries regarding geological subjects. In this capacity he carries the title of Acting State Geologist.
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He has always found abundant help in college professors and a few graduate students who were paid $3 to $5 per diem, or only expenses, or, in some rare cases nothing, their service being gratuitous. Such assistants work only during their summer vacations.
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Discussions of all these formations have been given in the several volumes of the present series of Geological Reports. PRESENT MAIN LINES OF WORK There are no mines except talc and one asbestos mine now worked in Vermont, but the main mineral wealth of the State lies in the granite, marble, and slate quarries and to the study of these much of the attention of the Vermont Geologist is, and has been, given during past years.
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