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Utility of selected Western lakes and reservoirs for water-loss studies

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G. Earl Harbeck

Vegetation of Southwestern watersheds in the nineteenth century

The recollections of many old-timers who tell of grass “stirrup high” have given rise to the idea that vegetation in the Southwest was uniformly better in the middle of the last century than it is at present. The change is usually attributed to overgrazing, which timed if it did not cause extensive gullying of the alluvial valleys,I lowering the water table and decreasing the availability of water
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Luna Bergere Leopold

Virgin Valley opal district, Humboldt County, Nevada

The Virgin Valley opal district, Humboldt County, Nevada, is near the Oregon-Nevada border in the Sheldon Game Refuge. Nineteen claims owned by Jack and Toni Crane were examined, sampled, and tested radiometrically for uranium. Numerous discontinuous layers of opal are interbedded with a gently-dipping series of vitric tuff and ash which is at least 300 ft thick. The tuff and ash are capped by a d
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Mortimer Hay Staatz, Herman L. Bauer

Water law, with special reference to ground water

This report was prepared in July 1950 at the request of the President's Water Resources Policy Commission. It followed the report entitled Water facts in relation to a national water-resources policy," which, in part, has been published as Geological Survey Circular 114 under the title "The water situation in the United States, with special reference to ground water.'' The only changes made in pre
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C. L. McGuinness

Water levels and artesian pressure in observation wells in the United States in 1947, Part 6, Southwestern States and Hawaii

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Water levels and artesian pressure in observation wells in the United States in 1948, Part 2, Southeastern States

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Water levels and artesian pressure in observation wells in the United States in 1948, Part 4, South-Central States

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Water levels and artesian pressure in observation wells in the United States in 1949, Part 4, South-Central States

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Water levels and artesian pressure in observation wells in the United States, 1947, Part 1, Northeastern States

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Water levels and artesian pressure in observation wells in the United States, 1947, Part 2, Southeastern States

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Water levels and artesian pressure in observation wells in the United States, 1947, Part 3, North-Central States

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Water levels and artesian pressure in observation wells in the United States, 1947, Part 5, Northwestern States

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