| Rec | Mtg# | Year | Authors | Institution | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 755 | 1956 | David Joseph Varnes | USGS | Landslide types and processes |
| 2 | 755 | 1956 | Christopher Forbes Erskine | USGS | Use of piezometers in understanding the effect of a rising water table on landslides in the Pierre shale |
| 3 | 755 | 1956 | John Thomas McGill | University of California, Los Angeles | Landslides and residential building sites in Los Angeles, California |
| 4 | 756 | 1956 | George Robert Tilton | Department of Terrestrial Magnetism | The interpretation of lead age discrepancies by acid-washing experiments |
| 5 | 756 | 1956 | Gordon E. Andreasen; W. C. Rasmussen |
USGS | The hydrologic budget in relation to the climate and geology of the Beaverdam Creek basin, Maryland |
| 6 | 756 | 1956 | John Beaver Mertie Jr. | USGS | The recognition of paragneiss with examples in Virginia |
| 7 | 757 | 1956 | G. M. Knebel | President, American Association of Petroleum Geologists | Some of the habitats of oil |
| 8 | 757 | 1956 | Henry Faul | USGS | The age of the Earth (Best Paper 1956) |
| 9 | 758 | 1956 | C. E. Tilley | University of Cambridge | Present state of research on the Scottish Precambrian |
| 10 | 758 | 1956 | A. M. Pommer | USGS | Oxidation potential studies on a vanadiferous uranium ore |
| 11 | 758 | 1956 | Maurice J. Terman | USGS | Prediction of ground water conditions in island or coastal areas |
| 12 | 759 | 1956 | R. K. Bean | USGS | The orthophotoscope and its possible applications to geology |
| 13 | 759 | 1956 | Henry Rochambeau Joesting; P. E. Byerly |
USGS | Regional geophysical surveys in the Uravan district, Colorado |
| 14 | 759 | 1956 | John Warren Graham | Department of Terrestrial Magnetism | Rock magnetism -- retrospect and prospect (2nd Best Paper 1956) |
| 15 | 760 | 1956 | Howard Augustus Meyerhoff | Scientific Manpower Commission | Manpower shortages |
| 16 | 760 | 1956 | Harry Bastron; Kiguma Jack Murata |
USGS | A new optical test for minerals with narrow absorption bands in the visible region |
| 17 | 760 | 1956 | Roberta Dixon | USGS | Layered gabbros on Seiland in northern Norway |
| 18 | 760 | 1956 | Louis C. Conant | USGS | Origin of the Chattanooga shale |
| 19 | 761 | 1956 | Walter S. White | USGS | Regional structural setting of the Michigan copper district |
| 20 | 761 | 1956 | Charles Milton; J. M. Axelrod; F. S. Grimaldi |
USGS | Authigenic mineralization in the Green River formation, Utah |
| 21 | 761 | 1956 | B. T. Gale | National Park Service | Movie: Hawaiian Volcanoes |
| 22 | 762 | 1956 | Thorson Gunnar | Universitetets Zoologiske Museum Copenhagen | Animal communities of the shallow seas |
| 23 | 763 | 1956 | W. E. Swinton | British Museum (Natural History) | Birth of the dinosaurs |
| 24 | 764 | 1956 | Y. K. Bentor | Geological Survey of Israel | Geology of Israel |
| 25 | 765 | 1956 | S. E. Hollingsworth | University College, London | Implications of Pleistocene permafrost in Britain |
| 26 | 766 | 1956 | Irving A. Breger; J. M. Schopf |
USGS | Geochemical studies of coalified would |
| 27 | 766 | 1956 | William Edward Davies | USGS | Bay of Whales, Antarctica 1899-1955 |
| 28 | 766 | 1956 | A. R. Loeblich Jr.; Helen Tappan |
US National Museum | Planktonic foraminifera and Paleocene-Lower Eocene correlation |
| 29 | 767 | 1956 | John Frank Schairer | Geophysical Laboratory | The crystallization of rock-forming minerals from magmas and the nature of the residual liquid. (Presidential Address) |