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Factors influencing runoff during the flood of December, 1937, in northern California

Engineers and hydrologists engaged on flood‐problems throughout much of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains must deal to a considerable extent with wide‐spread storms covering thousands of square miles. The gradations of meteorologic conditions as regard both area and time are relatively homogeneous during such storm‐events and are affected but moderately by orographical influences. Unde
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W.G. Boyt

Report of committee on the chemistry of natural waters, 1840–41

The membership of the Committee during the past year was as follows: I. A. Dennison. Bureau of Standards; C. S. Scofield, Department of Agriculture; D. G. Thompson, Geological Survey; T. G. Thompson, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; and C. S. Howard, United States Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. (Chairman).
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C. S. Howard

Magnetic studies by the Geophysical Section of the United States Geological Survey

Continued progress has been made in magnetic surveys over large sectional areas by G. R. MacCarthy. Beginning in Florida south of the Okeefenokee Swamp, magnetic traverses were measured and continued through the southern part of Georgia. The most northerly traverses crossed regions where they contacted the crystallines near the surface of the ground. All traverses were run in an east‐west directio
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F.W. Lee

The quicksilver deposits of the Terlingua region, Texas

Texas is second among quicksilver-producing States because of the Terlingua region, in the Big Bend of the Rio Grande. This region contains Cretaceous strata, largely calcareous, which grade upward into Tertiary volcanics, locally without break. The strata are cut by numerous intrusions, largely alkalic, and are extensively folded and faulted.Many of the lodes are near the base of the impervious D
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Clyde P. Ross

Discussion and communications: "Band", "Layer," and some kindred terms

No abstract available.
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Frank C. Calkins

Comments on the origin and major structural control of igneous rocks and related mineral deposits

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Gerald F. Loughlin

Abstract of fur laws, 1941-42

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The effect of a well on the flow of a nearby stream

In many irrigation‐districts where the supplies of surface‐water from a stream nave been entirely appropriated, pumping from wells has been resorted to in order to supplement the surface‐supply. Where the pumps are near a stream that has a flow during the irrigation‐season, either because of normal ground‐water flow or because of return flow from surface‐water irrigation, the pumping is likely to
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Charles V. Theis

Raising muskrats

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Directions for controlling tree squirrels.

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Branch of Predator and Rodent Control U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

The status of migratory game birds: 1940-41

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Publications on trapping

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Branch of Predator and Rodent Control U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service