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Surface water supply of the United States, 1923, Part VII, Lower Mississippi River basin
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Temperature of water available for industrial use in the United States: Chapter F in Contributions to the hydrology of the United States, 1923-1924
The importance of water supply as a limiting factor in industrial development is becoming more evident each year. The limitation in a particular instance may be the quantity of water available, the quality determined by the mineral matter in solution or in suspension or by organic pollution, or the temperature of the water. Generally it is a combination of two or more of these factors.Many publica
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W. D. Collins
The artesian water supply of the Dakota sandstone in North Dakota, with special reference to the Edgeley quadrangle
The Dakota sandstone and the overlying dense plastic shales form the most remarkable artesian basin in the United States with respect to its great extent, the long distances through which its water has percolated from the outcrops of the sandstone in the western mountains to the areas of artesian flow, and especially the tremendous pressure under which the water in the sandstone was originally by
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Oscar E. Meinzer, Herbert A. Hard
The evolution and disintegration of matter
In any attempt to study the evolution of matter it is necessary to begin with its simplest known forms, the so-called chemical elements. During a great part of the nineteenth century many philosophical chemists held a vague belief that these elements were not distinct entities but manifestations of one primal substance-the protyle, as it is sometimes called. Other chemists, more conservative, look
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Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
The geologic time classification of the United States Geological Survey compared with other classifications, accompanied by the original definitions of era, period and epoch terms
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Mary Grace Wilmarth
The Papago country, Arizona: A geographic, geologic, and hydrologic reconnaissance, with a guide to desert watering places
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Kirk Bryan
The resuscitation of the term Bryn Mawr gravel
In the course of geologic and physiographic work in eastern Pennsylvania, it has seemed to the writer that the time was ripe for the restriction of the term Brandywine formation, now including presumably both Pliocene and Pleistocene gravels, and the reinstatement of the old term Bryn Mawr gravel for a portion of the divided Brandywine. A brief history of the nomenclature and usage involved will s
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Florence Bascom
Variation in annual run-off in the Rocky Mountain region: Chapter A in Contributions to the hydrology of the United States, 1923-1924
Records of run-off in the Rocky Mountain States since the nineties and for a few stations since the eighties afford a means of studying the variation in the annual run-off in this region. The data presented in this report show that the variation in annual run-off differs in different areas in the Rocky Mountain region, owing to the differences in the sources of the precipitation in these areas. Ex
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Robert Follansbee
Water power and flood control of Colorado River below Green River, Utah
The purpose of this report is to present the facts regarding available water supply and all known dam sites on Colorado River between Cataract Canyon, Utah, and Parker, Ariz., and to show the relative value of these dam sites. To determine the relative value of the dam sites, a comprehensive plan of development for Colorado River below the mouth of Green River is presented that will provide for th
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Eugene Clyde La Rue, Hubert Work, Nathan C. Grover