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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The reef-coral fauna of Carrizo Creek, Imperial County, California, and its significance
No abstract available.
Authors
T.W. Vaughan
Evaporation of brine from Searles Lake, California
The bed of crystalline salts known as Searles Lake, in southeastern California, contains the most valuable potash-bearing brine known in the United States. This salt body has an exposed surface area estimated at 11 or 12 square miles and an average depth of about 70 feet. For the most part it is firm and compact enough to support a wagon and team even during wet seasons, when it is' sometimes floo
Authors
W.B. Hicks
Ground water for irrigation in the Morgan Hill area, California
No abstract available.
Authors
William O. Clark
Profile surveys in the Colorado River basin in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico
In connection with studies of the utilization of rivers the United States Geological Survey has from time to time made surveys and profiles of some of the more important streams of the country and published the results in its series of water-supply papers. In some parts of the country these surveys were made chiefly to determine the location of power sites on streams adapted to the development of
Authors
William Harrison Herron
Surface water supply of the United States, 1914 : Part 11, Pacific slope basins in California
No abstract available.
Authors
Nathan Clifford Grover, Harry Deyoe McGlashan, Fred Forbes Henshaw
Ground water for irrigation in the Sacramento Valley, California
No abstract available.
Authors
Kirk Bryan
Colorado River and its utilization
The region traversed by the Colorado and its tributaries is for many reasons of intense interest to the people of the United States. Here was the home of that forgotten people of which there is almost no record except the hieroglyphics on the rocks, the ruins of their irrigation systems, and the cliff dwellings by which they are most widely known; here were Spanish missions whose history extends b
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Eugene Clyde La Rue, Nathan C. Grover
Profile surveys along Henrys Fork, Idaho, and Logan River and Blacksmith Fork, Utah
In order to determine the location of undeveloped water powers the United States Geological Survey has from time to time, alone and in cooperation with State organizations, made surveys and profiles of some of the rivers of the United States that are adapted to the development of power by low or medium heads of 20 to 100 feet.The surveys are made by means of plane table and stadia. Elevations are
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William Harrison Herron
The Navajo country: A geographic and hydrographic reconnaissance of parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah
To my mind the period of direct contact with nature is the true "heroic age" of human history, an age in which heroic accomplishment and heroic endurance are parts of the daily routine. The activities of people on this stage of progress deserve a place among the cherished traditions of the human race. I believe also that the sanest missionary effort includes an endeavor to assist the uncivilized m
Authors
Herbert E. Gregory
A deep well at Charleston, South Carolina; with a report on the mineralogy of the water
No abstract available.
Authors
L. W. Stephenson, Chase Palmer