Publications
This list of Water Resources Mission Area publications includes both official USGS publications and journal articles authored by our scientists. A searchable database of all USGS publications can be accessed at the USGS Publications Warehouse.
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Investigations conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey: A part of Chapter 5 in Twenty-first biennial report of the State Engineer to the governor of Utah: 1936-1938
A summary of past investigations in Utah and a description of the work done during the 1934-36 biennium are included in the State Engineer’s Twentieth Biennial Report (pp. 91-106). Co-operative investigation with the State Engineer, begun on July 1, 1935, has been continued during the past biennium. To provide for this work, the 1935 Utah State Legislature appropriated \$10,000 to the State Engine
Authors
G.H. Taylor, H. E. Thomas
Report on the geology and hydrology of Kings and Queens Counties, Long Island
No abstract available.
Authors
Homer Sanford
Floods of Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, January-February 1937, with a section on the Flood deposits of the Ohio River, January-February 1937
In January and February 1937 the Ohio and mid-Mississippi Rivers experienced floods which, over reaches many hundreds of miles in length, exceeded all previously recorded stages. When measured by the loss of life and property, extent of damage, and general disruption of human activities, these floods constituted a major catastrophe.
The floods were caused by a succession of heavy rainstorms that b
Authors
Nathan Clifford Grover, George Rogers Mansfield
The municipal ground water supplies of North Dakota
No abstract available.
Authors
G. A. Abbott, F. W. Voedisch
Engineering report on the water supplies of Long Island
No abstract available.
Authors
Russell Suter
Thermal springs in the United States
The earliest extensive studies of thermal springs in the United States were made by physicians. In 1831 Dr. John Bell issued a book entitled "Baths and Mineral Waters" in which he listed 21 spring localities. In the edition of his work published in 1855 the number was increased to 181. The earliest report on a geologic study of thermal springs was that of W. B, Rogers in 1840 on the thermal spring
Authors
Norah D. Stearns, Harold T. Stearns, Gerald A. Waring
Flood in La Canada Valley, California, January 1, 1934
No abstract available.
Authors
H.C. Troxell, John Q. Peterson
Geology and ground-water resources of Duval County, Texas
Duval County is situated in southern Texas, 100 to 150 miles south of San Antonio and about midway between Corpus Christi, on the Gulf of Mexico, and Laredo, on the Rio Grande. The county lies on the Coastal Plain, which for the most part is low and relatively featureless. Between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande in this part of Texas the plain is interrupted by an erosion remnant, the Reynosa
Authors
Albert Nelson Sayre