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Water utilization in the basin of the Chewaucan River, Oregon

No abstract available.
Authors
R.O. Helland

Sylvatic plague

No abstract available.
Authors
Albert M. Day

Resistivity‐studies of some salt‐water boundaries in the Hawaiian Islands

In the course of a systematic survey of the ground‐water resources of the Hawaiian Islands which is being made under the direction of H. T. Stearns of the United States Geological Survey in cooperation with the Territorial Government of Hawaii, it was found desirable to test the utility of geophysical methods in the solution of certain Hawaiian water‐supply problems. A cooperative geophysical surv
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J.H. Swartz

Concerning fossil legumes

No  abstract available.

The use of resistivity‐methods in the location of salt‐water bodies in the El Paso, Texas, Area

During 1935 and 1936 the Ground‐Water Division of the United States Geological Survey made an investigation of the ground‐water resources of the El Paso, Texas, Area. Geological and hydrological studies comprised the principal part of the investigation, and these studies were supplemented by measurements of earth‐resistivity made largely by the Geophysical Section of the Geological Survey along tr
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A.N. Sayre, E.L. Stephenson

Ground‐water in Utah

In common with many of the arid and semiarid States, the prosperity of Utah probably is more dependent upon the amount of water available than upon any other natural resource. Although only about four per cent of the State is irrigated, a shortage of water for irrigation becomes a major calamity. A large part of the water‐supply for the State is derived from surface‐streams, but a most valuable su
Authors
George H. Taylor

The volcanic sequence in the Bull Valley region in southwestern Utah

No abstract available.
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F. G. Wells

Extraordinary topaz‐replacement body in the Brewer Mine, South Carolina

A large body of massive topaz forms a part of the gold‐bearing lode at the Brewer Mine, South Carolina. This gold‐mine was opened 100 years ago and merits the distinction of being one of the early gold‐discoveries of the Southern Appalachian Region. The Brewer Mine is located near Jefferson, in Chesterfield County, near the northern boundary of South Carolina, and on the eastern edge of the Piedmo
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Jewell J. Glass

A sphenolith in the Terlingua District, Texas

No abstract available
Authors
Clyde P. Ross

Appendix A—A selected list of papers relating to ground‐water hydrology

In the following list, brief‐statements have been added to certain references to call attention to special phases of ground‐water problems which are not apparent from the titles. Abstracts of most of the papers have been or will be published in the Annotated Bibliography of Economic Geology.
Authors
Albert Nelson Sayre

Amount of ground‐water recharge in the southern High Plains

For the last six years the United States Geological Survey, in cooperation with the State Engineer of New Mexico, has been making somewhat intensive studies of ground‐water in the part of the High Plains that lies in New Mexico, and in 1933 and 1934 the Geological Survey, with funas allocated by the Public Works Administration, made an extensive reconnaissance‐survey of the ground‐water conditions
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Charles V. Theis

Amygdales in Columbia River lavas near Freedom, Idaho

Incomplete study of seven amygdales from the Columbia River lava‐flows along Slate Creek, a tributary of Salmon River, near Freedom in north‐central Idaho, reveals that these small objects are of unusual geological and mineralogical interest. This paper includes an outline of the geology of the area from which the amygdales came, a description of the amygdales, and a brief account of the periodic
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John C. Reed