Oscar E. Manz Papers, 1892-2001

Collection Overview

Abstract

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Biographical Information

Box 1

Folder 1: Manz, Oscar; Clay Research at the University of North Dakota, 1954

Folder 2: Manz, Oscar; Lightweight Aggregate Research at the University of North Dakota: 1955.

Folder 3: Manz, Oscar; Lake Agassiz Brick Clay Research: 1956.

Folder 4: Explorer: 1980.

Folder 5: Manz's Resume' and business cards: 1994.

Folder 6: Miscellaneous Articles: various dates.

Box 3

Folder 24: Text of speech in honor of Oscar Manz, delivered by Harvey Gullicks, 27 September 2000

Series 2: North Dakota Clays

Box 1

Folder 7: Babcock, E.J.; Clays of Economic Value in North Dakota, 1892

Folder 8: Clapp, C.H.; 1906 Administrative Report North Dakota Clays.

Folder 9: Leonard, A.G.; Forth Biennial Report of the State Geological Survey of North Dakota: 1906.

Folder 10: Leonard, A.G.; State Geological Survey of North Dakota: Sixth Biennial Report: 1912.

Folder 11: Leonard, Arthur Gray; The White River Formation in North Dakota: 1922.

Folder 12: Clay Patents: 1925-1935.

Folder 13: Budge, W.E.; Report of Survey of Clay Deposits along Main Line of the Northern Pacific Railway: 1931.

Folder 14: Fraser, F.J.; Geology of Southern Saskatchewan (maps to accompany): 1935.

Folder 15: School of Mines; Mineral Resources Survey of 1937: Bleaching Clay in the Pembina Mountains and Marl Deposits Near Devils Lake.

Folder 16: Gries, John Paul; Economic Possibilities of the Pierre Shale: 1942.

Folder 17: Laird, Wilson M., Dr.; Geology of the Pembina Hills: 1951

Folder 18: Manz's Research on Clays and Shales: 1954.

Folder 19: Manz's Research on Clays and Shales: 1956.

Folder 20: Prokopovich, Nikola; Preliminary Survey of Bloating Clays and Shales of Minnesota: 1957.

Folder 21: Adolphson, D.G.; Test Drilling in the Walhalla Area Pembina County, North Dakota: 1960.

Folder 22: Sahinen, U.M.; Progress Report of Clays and Shales of Montana: 1960-1961.

Folder 23: Van Sant, Joel N.; Refractory Clay Deposits of Wyoming: 1961.

Folder 24: Jepsen, Glenn L.; Eocene Vertebrates, Coprolites, and Plants in the Golden Valley Formation of Western North Dakota: 1963.

Folder 25: Schultz, Leonard G.; Quantitative Interpretation of Mineralogical Composition from X-Ray and Chemical Data for the Pierre Shale: 1964.

Folder 26: Schultz, Leonard G.; Mineralogy and Stratigraphy of the Lower Part of the Pierre Shale, South Dakota and Nebraska: 1965.

Folder 27: Leo J. Hickey, "Hebron Member Clays": Field Notes and Section Drawings for PhD. Dissertation, Princeton. (Geology Library has a copy). Part I. (1967).

Folder 28: Leo J. Hickey, "Hebron Member Clays": Field Notes and Section Drawings for PhD. Dissertation, Princeton. (Geology Library has a copy). Part II. (1967).

Folder 29: Leo J. Hickey, "Hebron Member Clays": Field Notes and Section Drawings for PhD. Dissertation, Princeton. (Geology Library has a copy). Part III. (1967).

Folder 30: Aase, James H.; Field Investigation and Testing of a Minnesota Clay Resource for Iron Ore Pellet Bonding: 1968.

Folder 31: Goss, David A.; Feasibility of Establishing a Clay Products or Cement Block Manufacturing Plant in the Forth Berthold Indian Reservation North Dakota: 1968.

Folder 32: Westwood Case: 1977.

Folder 33: Schrader, E.L.; General Geology and Operations of Kaolin Mining in the "Southwestern Clay Belt": A Perspective from Huber, Georgia: 1983.

Folder 34: Hauck, S.; LCMR Clay Project: NRRI Summary Report: 1990.

Folder 35: Toth, Thomas A.; Characterization of New and Traditional Clay Products Using Wrenshall, Springfield, and St. Cloud Area Clays: 1990.

Folder 36: Brick and Tile (undated).

Folder 37: Clay Miscellaneous (undated).

Folder 38: College of Mining Engineering; Laboratory Notes and Methods of Instruction in Chemistry of Clay Products: (undated).

Folder 39: Crawford, G.S.; Saskatchewan Ball Clays in Whiteware Bodies: (undated).

Box 3

Folder 25: Fritz, Ann. "North Dakota Clay." North Dakota Geological Society Newsletter: Spring 1998.

Folder 26: Murphy, Edward. "North Dakota Clay: A Historical Review of Clay Utilization in North Dakota." North Dakota Geological Society Miscellaneous Series: 1995; "A Brief History of Clay Resources in North Dakota." North Dakota History: 1998.

Folder 27: Powell, Patrick. "Ball Clay Basics." The American Ceramic Society Bulletin: June 1996.

Folder 29: Newspaper and Magazine Clippings Regarding North Dakota Pottery: 1994-2001.

Series 3: Bentonites

Box 2

Folder 1: Hammers, Frieda L.; Properties of some North Dakota Bentonites: 1931.

Folder 2: Thompson, Raymond; Investigation of Acid Treatment of North Dakota Bentonites for use in the Clarification of Petroleum Oils: 1933.

Folder 3: Spivey, R.C.; Bentonite in Southwestern South Dakota: 1940 (1951).

Folder 4: Wing, M.E.; Bentonites of the Belle Fourche District: 1940.

Folder 5: United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Mines; The Utilization of North Dakota Bentonitic Clays: 1944.

Folder 6: Fisk, H.G.; Bentonite with Test Methods and Results of Tests of Wyoming Bentonites: 1946.

Folder 7: Gries, John Paul; Bentonitic Clays of Southwestern North Dakota: 1948.

Folder 8: Mineral Research and Development Department Great Northern Railway Company; Fuller's Earth Deposit Pembina Mountains, North Dakota Report No. 6: 1958.

Folder 9: Fuller's Earth: 1964.

Folder 10: Gill, James R.; Stratigraphy of the Pierre Shale, Valley City and Pembina Mountain Areas North Dakota: 1965.

Folder 11: Budge, William E.; The Bentonites of North Dakota: (undated).

Folder 12: Dakota Industries, Inc. development of cat litter (various dates).

Folder 13: Fuller's Earth (various dates).

Folder 14: Fuller's Earth (various dates).

Folder 15: Gilje, E. Norman; Water Softening Properties of North Dakota Bentonites (undated).

Folder 16: Investigation and Research of North Dakota Bentonite (undated).

Folder 17: Manz's Research and Notes on Bleaching Clay and Bentonites (various dates).

Series 4: Construction Material Studies

Box 2

Folder 18: Burkhart, Edsel J.; Investigation of Soils and Building Techniques for Rammed-Earth Construction: 1949.

Folder 19: Carlson, Clarence G.; The Niobrara Formation of Eastern North Dakota: It's Possibilities for use as a Cement Rock: 1964.

Folder 20: Manz, Oscar E.; Condition Survey: Lime- Stabilized Roads, Streets and Alleys Red River Valley, North Dakota: 1965.

Folder 21: Anderson, Sidney B.; Cement-rock Possibilities in Paleozoic Rocks of Eastern North Dakota: 1968.

Folder 22: Rammed Earth (undated).

Series 5: Fly Ash

Box 2

Folder 23: Budge, W.E.; Survey of Clay Deposits Along Main Line of the Northern Pacific Railway: 1931.

Folder 24: Clarke, Fremont F.; Southwestern North Dakota Clay Deposits Stark, Slope and Billings Counties, N. Dak.: 1948.

Folder 25: Reinbold, John A.; The Brick industry of North Dakota: 1958.

Folder 26: Chew, Randall T., III; A Preliminary Investigation of Clay Deposits in Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Northern Idaho and Washington: 1960.

Folder 27: Freas, Donald H.; Occurrence, Mineralogy, and Origin of the Lower Golden Valley Kaolinitic Clay Deposits Near Dickinson, North Dakota: 1962.

Folder 28: Lignite Mine Clays: 1962.

Folder 29: Pulst, Marvin L.; The Development of Fly Ash Bricks: 1969.

Folder 30: College of Engineering; Forming, Firing and Testing of Interior Wall Tile containing Boundary Dam Fly Ash: 1974.

Folder 31: Liem, J.; The Testing of Glazed Ceramic Tile: 1974.

Folder 32: Resource Planning Associates, Inc.; Economic Feasibility of Using Fly Ash in the Ceramic and Concrete/Cement Industries: 1980.

Folder 33: Manz's Research on Fly Ash (various dates).

Box 3

Folder 23: Anderson, Gary R. Potential Products from North Dakota Lignite Fly Ash.

Folder 28: Sorenson, Gary and Shondeep Sarkar. "High Volume Coal Ash Brick Production Using State of the Art Extrusion Process." Sixth CANMET/ACI International Conference on Fly Ash, Silica Fume, Slag and Natural Pozzolans in Concrete: 1998.

Series 6: Insulators

Box 2

Folder 34: Hansen, Miller; Clays of North Dakota as a Potential Source of Alumina: 1959.

Folder 35: National Porcelain Catalog: 1959.

Folder 36: NGK Insulators Catalog Number 60: 1960.

Folder 37: Northern Natural Gas Co; Porcelain Insulators: An Industrial Opportunity in the Northern Plains: 1965.

Folder 38: Sun, Shiou-Chuan; The Extraction of Alumina and the Removal of Iron from Pennsylvania Aluminous Clays: 1967.

Folder 39: Golden Valley Clay: 1968.

Folder 40: Golden Valley Sections: 1968.

Folder 41: Insulator Study: 1968.

Folder 42: Jacknin and Company, Inc.; Economic Feasibility Report: Porcelain Electric Insulator Plant in Chelan County, Washington: 1968.

Folder 43: Stewart, James A.; A Mineralogical and Chemical Investigation of North Dakota Clays: A Potential Source of Aluminum: 1969.

Folder 44: Schulte, Frank; Evaluation of the Golden Valley Formation as a Source of Alumina: undated.

Series 7: North Dakota Mineral and Water Resources

Box 2

Folder 45: Leonard, Arthur G.; The Lignite Deposits of North Dakota: 1925.

Folder 46: Tufte, Oswald; Mineral Resources of North Dakota: 1964.

Folder 47: Carlson, C.J.; Geology of Mercer and Oliver Counties, North Dakota: 1973.

Folder 48: U.S. Geological Survey; Mineral and Water Resources of North Dakota: 1973.

Series 8: Soil Stabilization

Box 2

Folder 49: Manz, Oscar E.; Soil Stabilization Study, 1969

Folder 50: Soil Stabilization Research and Information, various dates

Series 9: Volcanic Ash (Pumice)

Box 3

Folder 1: Dobbin, C.E.; Value of Ceramic Tests in Subsurface Correlation of Cretaceous Shales in Central Wyoming: 1931.

Folder 2: Nutting, P.G.; The Action of Some Aqueous Solutions on Clays of the Montmorillonite Group: 1943.

Folder 3: Reagan, M.M.; Development of a Light Weight Structural Product Using Saskatchewan Volcanic Dust: 1946.

Folder 4: Johnston, S.W.; Volcanic Ash and Lignite Coal in a Lightweight Structural Insulation Product: 1948.

Folder 5: Crawford, G.S.; Pumice in Saskatchewan: 1955.

Folder 6: Otis, L.M.; Pumice: 1959.

Folder 7: Linton, North Dakota: 1962 Report.

Folder 8: Manz, Oscar E.; Investigation of Pozzolanic Properties of the Cretaceous Volcanic Ash deposit near Linton, North Dakota: 1962.

Folder 9: Wilhelm, Thomas D.; Structural Bricks from Native North Dakota Volcanic Ash: 1967.

Folder 10: Parker, John G.; Pumice: 1969.

Folder 11: Wannemacher, W.; Report on Testing Volcanic Ash as an Additive Material in Portland Cement Concrete: 1971.

Folder 12: Wannemacher, W.; Report on Testing Calcined Volcanic Ash as an Additive Material in Portland Cement Concrete: 1971.

Folder 13: Hung, Yung-Tse; Use of Volcanic Ash in Waste Treatment for Phosphorus Removal: 1977.

Folder 14: Johnson, Dennis J.; Laboratory Evaluation of Volcanic Ash in Portland Cement Concrete: 1980.

Folder 15: Volcanic Ash Information: 1987.

Folder 16: VolAsh of North Dakota: May, 1988.

Folder 17: Manz's Research: (various dates).

Folder 18: Braund, Lawrence S.; Asphaltic Concrete: undated.

Folder 19: Chesterman, C.W.; Pumice, Pumicite, Perlite, and Volcanic Cinders: undated.

Folder 20: Coulson, Dale M.; Field and Laboratory Tests on Concrete in the Middle East: undated.

Folder 21: Mehta, P.K.; Properties of Portland Pozzolan Cements made with Santorin Earth: undated.

Folder 22: Schroeder, Harold J.; Pumice: undated.