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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Floods of December 1937 in northern California
No abstract available.
Authors
H.D. McGlashan, R.C. Briggs
Summary of records of surface waters of Texas, 1898-1937
The first gaging station In Texas urns established on the Rio Grande at El Paso on May 10, 1889, under the provisions of the Act of Congress of October 2, 1888, which authorized the organization of the Irrigation Survey by the United States Geological Survey. A few miscellaneous measurements of streams In central Texas, between Del Rio and Austin, were made, by C. C. Babb of the Geological Survey
Authors
Clarence E. Ellsworth
Major Texas floods of 1935
In localities where highly mineralized water is present in beds above and below the beds that yield the supplies of fresh water it is necessary to be able to locate leaks in wells in order to know whether the wells are being contaminated through holes in the casings or whether the fresh water supply is failing. Four general methods of detecting salt-water leaks have been used. In the pumping metho
Authors
Tate Dalrymple
Records of the drilled wells of the island of Oahu, Hawaii
The description, location, log and meter tests of all the drilled wells on Oahu are given herein as of March 1 1938. Except for the discharges of plantation wells, which are published on pages 275 to 322 of Bulletin 1, head, chloride, and discharge records are listed only to the close of 1934, the date when this report was compiled. All head measurements and salt determinations made by the U.S. Ge
Authors
Harold T. Stearns, Knute N. Vaksvik
Report of cooperative stream measurements, U.S. Geological Survey: A part of chapter 9 in Twenty-first biennial report of the State Engineer to the governor of Utah: 1936-1938
Investigations for the surface-water resources of the State have been continued during the biennium under the standard form of co-operative agreement between the U.S. Geological Survey and the State of Utah through their respective agents. The nature, extent, and value of these co-operative investigations are discussed in the State Engineer’s Twentieth Biennial Report (pp. 51-58, incl.).
Authors
A.B. Purton
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