- Addicott, W. O., 1983, Biostratigraphy of the marine Neogene sequence at Cape Blanco, southwestern Oregon: Professional Paper 774-G, p. G1-G20,
- Attanasi, E. D.; Haynes, J. L., 1983, Future supply of oil and gas from the Gulf of Mexico: Professional Paper 1294, 21 p.,
- Bateman, Paul Charles; Busacca, Alan J., 1983, Millerton Lake Quadrangle, west-central Sierra Nevada, California; analytic data: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1261, 20 p.,
- Bindschadler, R. A.; Rasmussen, L. A., 1983, Finite-difference model predictions of the drastic retreat of Columbia Glacier, Alaska: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1258-D, 17 p.,
- Brown, C. E., 1983, Mineralization, mining, and mineral resources in the Beaver Creek area of the Grenville Lowlands in St. Lawrence County, New York: Professional Paper 1279, 21 p.; 1 plate in pocket,
- Brown, Robert David; Kockelman, William J., 1983, Geologic principles for prudent land use; a decisionmaker‘s guide for the San Francisco Bay region: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 946, 97 p.,
- Castle, Robert O.; Church, J. P.; Yerkes, R. F.; Manning, J. C., 1983, Historical surface deformation near Oildale, California: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1245, 42 p.; 2 plates in pocket,
- Cobban, William Aubrey; Merewether, E. A., 1983, Stratigraphy and paleontology of Mid-Cretaceous rocks in Minnesota and contiguous areas: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1253, 52 p.; 15 plates,
- Dusel-Bacon, Cynthia; Foster, H. L., 1983, A sillimanite gneiss dome in the Yukon crystalline terrane, east-central Alaska; petrography and garnet-biotite geothermometry: Professional Paper 1170-E, p. E1-E25,
- Edited by Brabb, Earl E., 1983, Studies in Tertiary stratigraphy of the California Coast Ranges: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1213, 93 p.; 17 plates,
- Edited by Gohn, Gregory S., 1983, Studies related to the Charleston, South Carolina, earthquake of 1886; tectonics and seismicity: Professional Paper 1313, 8 plates in pocket,
- Elias, R. J., 1983, Middle and Late Ordovician solitary rugose corals of the Cincinnati Arch region: Professional Paper 1066-N, p. N1-N13; 2 plates,
- Fox, K. F., Jr., 1983, Melanges and their bearing on late Mesozoic and Tertiary subduction and interplate translation at the west edge of the North American Plate: Professional Paper 1198, 40 p.,
- Fox, K. F., Jr., 1983, Tectonic setting of late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene rocks in part of the Coast Ranges north of San Francisco, California: Professional Paper 1239, 33 p.; 1 plate in pocket,
- Frank, David, 1983, Origin, distribution, and rapid removal of hydrothermally formed clay at Mount Baker, Washington: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1022-E, p. E1-E31; 1 plate in pocket,
- Fulton, P. A.; Coffin, R. W.; Kutsko, M. S., 1983, DEPTH; a system for the display of elementary petroleum themes: Professional Paper 1297, 82 p.; 5 plates in pocket,
- Geological Survey (U.S.), 1983, The National Gazetteer of the United States of America; Delaware 1983: Professional Paper 1200-DE, 101 p.,
- Grosz, A. E.; Kosanke, Kenneth L., 1983, Application of total-count aeroradiometric maps to the exploration for heavy-mineral deposits in the coastal plain of Virginia, with a section on field-spectrometer-data reduction: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1263, 20 p.; 5 plates in pocket,
- Hosterman, J. W.; Whitlow, S. I., 1983, Clay mineralogy of Devonian shales in the Appalachian Basin: Professional Paper 1298, 31 p.; 1 plate in pocket,
- Keefer, David K.; Johnson, Arvid M., 1983, Earth flows; morphology, mobilization, and movement: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1264, 56 p.; 3 plates in pocket,
- MacCary, L. M.; Cushing, E. M.; Brown, D. L., 1983, Potentially favorable areas for large-yield wells in the Red River Formation and Madison Limestone in parts of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming: Professional Paper 1273-E, p. E1-E13; 1 plate in pocket,
- McDowell, Robert C., 1983, Stratigraphy of the Silurian outcrop belt on the east side of the Cincinnati Arch in Kentucky, with revisions in the nomenclature: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1151-F, 27 p.; 2 plates in pocket,
- Moore, Ellen James, 1983, Tertiary marine pelecypods of California and Baja California; Nuculidae through Malleidae: Professional Paper 1228-A, p. A1-A108,
- Nokleberg, Warren J., 1983, Wallrocks of the central Sierra Nevada batholith, California; a collage of accreted tectono-stratigraphic terranes: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1255, 28 p.; 1 plate in pocket,
- Osterkamp, W. R.; Lane, L. J.; Foster, G. R., 1983, An analytical treatment of channel-morphology relations: Professional Paper 1288, 21 p.,
- Owens, James Patrick; Hess, M. M.; Denny, C. S.; Dwornik, E. J., 1983, Postdepositional alteration of surface and near-surface minerals in selected coastal plain formations of the Middle Atlantic States: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1067-F, p. F1-F45,
- Peck, D. L.; Van Kooten, G. K., 1983, Merced Peak Quadrangle, central Sierra Nevada, California; analytic data: Professional Paper 1170-D, 29 p.,
- Pewe, Troy Lewis; Journaux, Andre, 1983, Origin and character of loesslike silt in unglaciated south-central Yakutia, Siberia, U.S.S.R.: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1262, 46 p.,
- Rankin, Douglas W.; Stern, T. W.; McLelland, James; Zartman, R. E.; Odom, A. L., 1983, Correlation chart for Precambrian rocks of the Eastern United States: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1241-E, 33 p.; 1 plate in pocket,
- Rosenblum, Sam; Mosier, Elwin L., 1983, Mineralogy and occurrence of europium-rich dark monazite: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1181, 67 p.,
- Rush, F. Eugene, 1983, Reconnaissance of the hydrothermal resources of Utah: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1044-H, p. H1-H49,
- Sando, William Jasper, 1983, Revision of Lithostrotionella (Coelenterata, Rugosa) from the Carboniferous and Permian: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1247, 52 p.; 20 plates,
- Smith, George I.; Barczak, V. J.; Moulton, G. F.; Liddicoat, J. C., 1983, Core KM-3, a surface-to-bedrock record of late Cenozoic sedimentation in Searles Valley, California: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1256, 24 p.; 1 plate in pocket,
- Sohl, N. F.; Christopher, R. A., 1983, The Black Creek-Peedee formational contact (Upper Cretaceous) in the Cape Fear River region of North Carolina: Professional Paper 1285, 37 p.,
- Staatz, M. H., 1983, Geology and description of thorium and rare-earth deposits in the southern Bear Lodge Mountains, northeastern Wyoming: Professional Paper 1049-D, p. D1-D52; 2 plates in pocket,
- Thayer, P. A., 1983, Relationship of porosity and permeability to petrology of the Madison Limestone in rock cores from three test wells in Montana and Wyoming: Professional Paper 1273-C, p. C1-C29; 3 plates and 1 table in pocket,
- U.S. Geological Survey, 1983, Hydrologic and Geomorphic Studies of the Platte River Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1277, 297 p.,
- Yanosky, Thomas M., 1983, Evidence of floods on the Potomac River from anatomical abnormalities in the wood of flood-plain trees: U.S. G.P.O., Professional Paper 1296, 42 p.,
- Yochelson, E. L.; Dockery, David; Wolf, Heidi, 1983, Predation on sub-Holocene scaphopod mollusks from southern Louisiana: Professional Paper 1282, 13 p.; 4 plates,