| Rec | Mtg# | Year | Authors | Institution | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 658 | 1948 | Ellis Adolph Johnson | US Army | History of the Earth's magnetic field |
| 2 | 658 | 1948 | Paul Niggli | University of Zurich | Some aspects of the geology, petrography, and mineralogy of Switzerland |
| 3 | 659 | 1948 | James Steele Williams | USGS | Mississippian-Pennsylvanian contact in north central Rockies |
| 4 | 659 | 1948 | Arthur Charles Bevan | University of Virginia | High plateau drift, Beartooth Mountains, Montana |
| 5 | 659 | 1948 | David Gallagher | USGS | Lantern slide illustrations |
| 6 | 660 | 1948 | Max Waite Ball | Industry | The oil supply situation |
| 7 | 660 | 1948 | Nelson Horatio Darton† | Retired; age 82, died 17 days later | Sedimentary formations of the Washington region |
| 8 | 660 | 1948 | Charles Butler Hunt | USGS | Some results of studies being made in the Lake Bonneville Basin |
| 9 | 661 | 1948 | Louis Wade Currier | USGS | Mode of Wisconsin deglaciation in eastern Massachusetts |
| 10 | 661 | 1948 | Robert Foster Black; Charles Storrow Denny; et al. |
USGS | Some problems of permafrost and arctic geomorphology: a discussion |
| 11 | 662 | 1948 | David Marion Delo | US Army | The geologist in uniform—World War II. |
| 12 | 662 | 1948 | Josué Camargo Mendes | Universidade de São Paulo | Brazilian evidence bearing on Du Toit's geological comparison of South America with South Africa |
| 13 | 662 | 1948 | Birbal Sahni | Indian | Fossil plants and earth movements |
| 14 | 663 | 1948 | Donald Cave Duncan; N. M. Denson |
USGS | Oil-shale deposits in the vicinity of the Naval Oil Shale Reserve, Garfield County, Colorado |
| 15 | 663 | 1948 | John Adam Reinemund | USGS | The Triassic basin in central North Carolina (Best Paper 1948) |
| 16 | 663 | 1948 | Arthur Alan Baker; John W. Huddle; Douglas Merrill Kinney |
USGS | Some features of the Paleozoic geology of the Uinta Basin, Utah. |
| 17 | 664 | 1948 | George Gryc | USGS | Paleontological studies of Cretaceous and Tertiary sections of northern Alaska (2nd Best Paper 1948) |
| 18 | 664 | 1948 | Parker Davies Trask | USGS | Recent changes in sedimentation in the Gulf of Mexico |
| 19 | 664 | 1948 | Merle Antony Tuve | Department of Terrestrial Magnetism | Progress report on deep seismic shocks |
| 20 | 665 | 1948 | Esther Whitman Claffy | Naval Research Laboratory | The polarographic method for determining trace elements in rocks and minerals |
| 21 | 665 | 1948 | Kiguma Jack Murata | USGS | The causes of fluorescence in minerals |
| 22 | 665 | 1948 | Thomas Seward Lovering | USGS | Temperatures near a batholith |
| 23 | 666 | 1948 | Kenneth Elmo Lohman | USGS | Paleoecology, an integral part of paleontology |
| 24 | 666 | 1948 | Arthur Stewart Knox | USGS | Fossil pollen and paleoclimatology |
| 25 | 666 | 1948 | Richard Howell Fleming | US Navy | The new look in oceanography |
| 26 | 667 | 1948 | Judson Lowell Anderson | Johns Hopkins University | An interpretation of the subsurface geology of the Eastern shore of Maryland, based on the drilling of three deep oil tests |
| 27 | 667 | 1948 | Paul Livingston Applin; Charles Milton |
USGS | Buried pre-Mesozoic rocks in Florida and adjacent states |
| 28 | 667 | 1948 | William Maurice Ewing | Columbia University | Geophysical investigation of the Atlantic shelf |
| 29 | 668 | 1948 | Gordon Leslie Davis | Geophysical Laboratory | Radium content of ultra-mafic rocks |
| 30 | 668 | 1948 | Harry Hammond Hess | Princeton University | Geologic interpretation of the Ra content of ultra-mafic rocks |
| 31 | 668 | 1948 | William Donald Urry | Geophysical Laboratory | Radio generation of heat in the interior of the earth |
| 32 | 669 | 1948 | Clyde Polhemus Ross | USGS | Bearing of the region south of Glacier National Park on the Lewis overthrust and Belt stratigraphy |
| 33 | 669 | 1948 | James Morton Schopf | USGS | Methods and concepts of coal petrography |
| 34 | 669 | 1948 | Gustav Arthur Cooper | US National Museum | Facies in the Ordovician of the Appalachians |
| 35 | 670 | 1948 | William Walden Rubey | USGS | The problem of changes in composition of seawater and atmosphere during the geologic past. (Presidential Address) |