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Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center Publications

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The Pleistocene of Indiana and Michigan and the history of the Great Lakes

This monograph describes the glacial features and the great glacial lakes of a district in Indiana and Michigan lying between the areas covered by Monographs XXXVIII, and XLI. The glacial features are treated mainly by Mr. Leverett, and the glacial lakes and their moraines by Mr. Taylor. The pre-Wisconsin glacial and interglacial formations are given attention, but the principal subject of discuss
Authors
Frank Leverett, Frank Bursley Taylor

Flowing wells and municipal water supplies in the middle and northern portions of the southern peninsula of Michigan

A large amount of data on water supplies was collected by the writer in the course of glacial investigations made under the direction of Prof. T. C. Chamberlin in the last five years in the Southern Peninsula of Michigan. These investigations resulted in a partial acquaintance with conditions in about 200 separate flowing-well districts and brought out matters of such exceptional importance that a
Authors
Frank Leverett

Flowing wells and municipal water supplies in the southern portion of the southern peninsula of Michigan

A large amount of data on water supplies was collected by the writer in the course of glacial investigations made under the direction of Prof. T. C. Chamberlin in the last five years in the Southern Peninsula of Michigan. These investigations resulted in a partial acquaintance with conditions in about 200 separate flowing-well districts and brought out matters of such exceptional importance that a
Authors
Frank Leverett

Water resources of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan

This material is a portion of the outcome of Dr. Lane's studies in connection with the geological survey of the State of Michigan, supplemented by statements received in reply to circulars sent throughout the Lower Peninsula of Michigan to well drillers and others likely to be well informed and interested in the subject. The facts thus gathered have been collated with the result of two months' fie
Authors
Alfred C. Lane