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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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Memorandum on the ground-water resources of the Horse Creek and Cherry Creek drainage basins, Wyoming

This report is one of several that are being made by the United States Geological Survey as part of the program of the Department of the Interior for the control, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the Missouri River basin. The purpose of this report is to present an annotated bibliography of all existing reports pertaining to ground-water supplies in the area reported up
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H. M. Babcock

Status of development of selected ground-water basins in Utah

This technical publication consists essentially of abstracts of more detailed reports which have been published. Reference to existing reports are given in the text and in the bibliography, page 114.
Authors
H. E. Thomas, W.B. Nelson, B. E. Lofgren, R.G. Butler

Tertiary stratigraphy of South Carolina

No abstract available.
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C. Wythe Cooke, F. Stearns MacNeil

Index of water-resources records in the Delaware River basin to September 30, 1951

This report is an index of all surface-water, ground-water, and quality-of-water data which have been or are now being collected on a continuous or periodic basis, by the U. S. Geological Survey and the cooperating agencies in the Delaware River basin, to September 30, 1951. The index is divided into two principal sections, the surface-water section relating to streams and the ground-water section
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Floods in Youghiogheny and Kiskiminetas River basins, Pennsylvania and Maryland, frequency and magnitude

Engineers have long appreciated the fact that it is seldom economically sound to design hydraulic structures either for the maximum previous floods or for the computed maximum probable floods, unless failure of such structures involves loss of life or serious property damage. Such floods may not occur more often, on an average, than once in a hundred or pos- sibly even several thousand years. In p
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Compilation of field methods used in geochemical prospecting by the U.S. Geological Survey

The field methods described in this report are those currently used in geochemical prospecting by the U. S. Geological Survey. Some have been published, others are being processed for publication, while others are still being investigated. The purpose in compiling these methods is to make them readily available in convenient form. The methods have not been thoroughly tested and none is wholly sati
Authors
Hubert William Lakin, Frederick Norville Ward, Hy Almond

The industrial utility of public water supplies in the Mountain States, 1952

The location of industrial plants is dependent on an ample water supply of suitable quality. Information relating to the chemical characteristics of the water supplies is not only essential to the location of many plants but also is an aid in the manufacture and distribution of many commodities.Public water supplies are utilized extensively as a source of supply for many industrial plants, used ei
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E. W. Lohr, C. S. Howard, R.T. Kiser, J. D. Hem, H. A. Swenson