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Plants as indicators of ground water

Perhaps the most outstanding feature of the flora of the desert is its relation or lack of relation to the water table. On the one hand are the plants which are adapted to extreme economy of water, which depend on the rains that occur at long intervals for their scanty water supplies, and which during prolonged periods of drought maintain themselves in a nearly dormant condition. These plants are
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Oscar Edward Meinzer

Potash brines in the Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah: Chapter B in Contributions to economic geology (short papers and preliminary reports), 1927: Part I - Metals and nonmetals except fuels

During and immediately after the war the brines of the Salduro Marsh, in the Great Salt Lake Desert, were a source of considerable potash for the domestic supply. Although no potash has been produced from these brines in the last few years, a continued interest in the area has been shown by a large number of filings, in different parts of the desert, under the potash law of October 2, 1917 (40 Sta
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T.B. Nolan

Quicksilver deposits of the Pilot Mountains, Mineral County, Nevada: Chapter E in Contributions to economic geology (short papers and preliminary reports), 1927: Part I - Metals and nonmetals except fuels

In the course of general geologic mapping of the Hawthorne quadrangle, in western Nevada, the writer undertook a short study of the quicksilver deposits of the Pilot Mountains. The work was. done under the supervision of Henry G. Ferguson, in charge of the field work in the Hawthorne quadrangle, and the writer was accompanied by L. B. Spencer, mining engineer, of Mina, Nev., whose intimate knowled
Authors
William F. Foshag

Revision of the American lemming mice (genus Synaptomys)

No abstract available.
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Alfred Brazier Howell

Shorter contributions to general geology, 1926

No abstract available.
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Surface water supply of Hawaii : July 1, 1922 to June 30, 1923

No abstract available.
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Nathan C. Grover, E.D. Burchard

Surface water supply of the United States, 1922, Part IX, Colorado River basin

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Authors
Nathan C. Grover, Robert Follansbee, A.B. Purton, Roger C. Rice