This report contains descriptions of the geology of 10 dam and reservoir sites on the Little Colorado River and several of its larger tributaries in northern Arizona. All of the streams examined are intermittent in character and are dry during the greater part of every year. At times they all carry heavy floods, particularly in the early spring and late summer seasons. In addition to the periodic threat of damage to Holbrook, Joseph City and smaller communities, to the Santa Fe Railroad, and to other public and private property, the flood waters annually carry enormous quantities of silt. Most of this material eventually reaches the main Colorado River where it tends to fill the reservoir above Boulder Dam and is also undesirable for other reasons.
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It had long been the custom for families to come from considerable distances on horseback and in wagons and camp near the springs, in order to drink the water. In course of time a primitive town, known as Sulphur Springs, grew up near a group of springs known since as Pavilion Springs at the mouth of Sulphur Creek, now known as Travertine Creek. This town was still in existence at the time of my first visit to the locality in July, 1901. At this time, in company with Joseph A. Taff, of the United States Geological Survey, I spent a week riding over the country making a preliminary survey looking toward the setting aside of the area for a National Park.\r\n\r\nAfter the establishment of the National Park, the old town of Sulphur Springs was abandoned, and when the present boundaries of the park had been established the present town of Sulphur, now county seat of Murray County, grew up.\r\n\r\nIn July 1906, on request of Superintendent Joseph F. Swords, I visited the park and made an examination of the various springs and submitted a report, dated August 15, 1906, to Secretary of the Interior E.A. Hitchcock. Copies of this report are on file in the Regional Office and at Platt National Park. In this report I set forth the approximate amount of flow of the various springs, the character of the water in each, and the conditions of the springs as of that date. I also made certain recommendations regarding proposed improvements of each spring.\r\n\r\nIn this report I say: 'In the town of Sulphur, four wells have been drilled to a depth of between 450 and 500 feet in which artesian water has been secured. These wells are said to flow 200,000 gallons each per day.'\r\n\r\nI also say: 'From a study of the log of one of these wells, it appears that the artesian water is derived from the upper part of the Simpson sandstone. It is very probable that the water of the springs is derived from the same source.'\r\n\r\nThis early was recognized the relation between the water from the mineral springs and that from the artesian wells.\r\n\r\nAs the years have passed, other wells have been drilled in the town of Sulphur, chiefly to supply water for mineral baths and for swimming pools, so that to date more than 30 wells have been drilled. The exact number is not known. The custom has usually been to turn the wells loose and permit them to flow at full capacity, although some of the wells have been 'valved in' and the flow reduced. An estimate furnished me by the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce in 1937, referred to later in this report, indicated that at that time 16 wells were flowing approximately 28,800,000 gallons of water per day, practically all of which ran to waste.\r\n\r\nFor many years geologists in Oklahoma and elsewhere have watched this unrestricted waste of water from the artesian wells at Sulphur with growing concern. Remembering the history of other artesian basins throughout the world, these geologists believed that in all probability it was only a question of time until the water in the Sulphur artesian basin would begin to fail. On two different occasions the State Geologist of Oklahoma, bearing these conditions in mind, has prepared and had introduced into the State Legislature a bill which, if enacted into law, would have regulated the flow of water in artesian wells throughout the State. Both bills died in committee.\r\n\r\nPartly on account of the drought of the past three years, the matter has been brought to a head. 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Since the beginning of the science of hydrology attempts have been made to interpret these phenomena and determine their significance. On the basis of actual observations and “with special reference to Long Island, New York,” Veatch [see 1 of “References” at end of paper] in 1906 considered in some detail several different causes of water‐level fluctuations. He placed the known causes under two general headings, natural and human. However, considering proximate rather than ultimate causes a further classification might be, and indeed often is, made with regard to the conditions under which the fluctuations are produced by a given agency, natural or human. Thus we speak of ”water‐table conditions“ and ”artesian conditions,“ realizing, however, that the distinction between the two is not always definite. The phenomena peculiar to artesian conditions are usually the result merely of the imperviousness of the confining beds relative to the particular aquifer under consideration. Indeed, it is recognized that perhaps even the most dense clay is not absolutely impervious to the flow of water, given a difference in head, sufficient to produce the flow, though it may be beyond the precision of the means now employed to detect the flow of water through such impervious strata.
","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR020i004p00666","usgsCitation":"Jacob, C.E., 1939, Fluctuations in artesian pressure produced by passing railroad‐trains as shown in a well on Long Island, New York: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 20, no. 4, p. 666-674, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR020i004p00666.","productDescription":"9 p.","startPage":"666","endPage":"674","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":378703,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"New York","otherGeospatial":"Long Island","geographicExtents":"{\n \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n \"features\": [\n {\n \"type\": \"Feature\",\n \"properties\": {},\n \"geometry\": {\n \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n \"coordinates\": [\n [\n [\n -74.01214599609375,\n 40.52423878069866\n ],\n [\n -72.35595703125,\n 40.52423878069866\n ],\n [\n -72.35595703125,\n 41.0130657870063\n ],\n [\n -74.01214599609375,\n 41.0130657870063\n ],\n [\n -74.01214599609375,\n 40.52423878069866\n ]\n ]\n ]\n }\n }\n ]\n}","volume":"20","issue":"4","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Jacob, C. E.","contributorId":64504,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Jacob","given":"C.","email":"","middleInitial":"E.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":799535,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70214133,"text":"70214133 - 1939 - Earth‐tides shown by fluctuations of water‐levels in wells in New Mexico and Iowa","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-09-23T18:12:19.477419","indexId":"70214133","displayToPublicDate":"1939-09-23T13:02:58","publicationYear":"1939","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Earth‐tides shown by fluctuations of water‐levels in wells in New Mexico and Iowa","docAbstract":"It is quite generally known that ocean‐tides produce fluctuations of the water‐level in wells of the artesian type located close to the seashore by periodically changing the external load on the aquifer [see 1 of “References” at end of paper]. Fluctuations of ground‐water as a result of earth‐tides, however, are not generally known although they were observed and studied in a flooded coal‐mine in Europe [2] as early as 1879, and later 1905 to 1912 in wells in South Africa [3].
The phenomena of earth‐tides first came to the attention of the writer in March, 1938, when studying fluctuations of the water‐level In an artesian well near Carlsbad, New Mexico, recorded on charts of a water‐stage recorder, which had an approximately semidiurnal period. Because of the distance from the ocean, about 500 miles, and the altitude of the water‐bearing formation, about 2700 feet, it appeared that the fluctuations could not be the result of ocean‐tides. Neither did it appear they could be the result of other natural phenomena such as changing air‐pressure or changes in water‐level of a nearby lake and river. There was no pumpage from the aquifer, so the fluctuations of the water could not be caused by pumping. T. M. Cramer, Resident Manager of the United States Potash Company at Carlsbad, New Mexico, suggested that the fluctuations must be the result of some lunar attraction. Further study of the fluctuation was made by Dr. C. V. Theis, of the United States Geological Survey, and the writer, whereby the effect of changing air‐pressure was eliminated by correcting the water‐levels to an assumed constant atmospheric pressure. In this study it was demonstrated after applying the barometric correction that the remaining fluctuations were fairly regular and progressed with the transit of the Moon. It was also demonstrated that the fluctuations were of the greatest amplitude during the period of new Moon. Further work by W. E. Hale, of the United States Geological Survey, and the writer, has shown that the fluctuations were much more regular and of greater amplitude during the periods of new and full Moon than during the first and third quarters. It was, therefore, concluded that they are related to true earth‐tides. A preliminary note was published in the Transactions of the American Geophysical Union for 1938 [4].
","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR020i004p00656","usgsCitation":"Robinson, T.W., 1939, Earth‐tides shown by fluctuations of water‐levels in wells in New Mexico and Iowa: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, p. 656-665, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR020i004p00656.","productDescription":"11 p.","startPage":"656","endPage":"665","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":378701,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"New Mexico","geographicExtents":"{\n \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n \"features\": [\n {\n \"type\": \"Feature\",\n \"properties\": {},\n \"geometry\": {\n \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n \"coordinates\": [\n [\n [\n -104.08653259277344,\n 32.16398792824025\n ],\n [\n -103.963623046875,\n 32.16398792824025\n ],\n [\n -103.963623046875,\n 32.33762011918333\n ],\n [\n -104.08653259277344,\n 32.33762011918333\n ],\n [\n -104.08653259277344,\n 32.16398792824025\n ]\n ]\n ]\n }\n }\n ]\n}","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Robinson, T. W.","contributorId":82285,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Robinson","given":"T.","email":"","middleInitial":"W.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":799533,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70214054,"text":"70214054 - 1939 - Discussion of question no. 2 of the International Commission on Subterranean Water: Definitions of the different kinds of subterranean water","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-09-21T20:29:11.281133","indexId":"70214054","displayToPublicDate":"1939-09-21T15:22:33","publicationYear":"1939","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Discussion of question no. 2 of the International Commission on Subterranean Water: Definitions of the different kinds of subterranean water","docAbstract":"The hydrologists who are concerned with the study of the water that occurs below the land‐surface feel strongly the need of better agreement among the different countries as to the fundamental concepts of this branch of hydrology and as to technical terms to designate these concepts. For this reason, the question as to the definitions of different kinds of subterranean water was selected as one of the three questions for discussion by the International Commission on Subterranean Water at the meeting in Edinburgh in 1936 and again (as Question No. 2) at the meeting that is to be held in Washington in September, 1939.
The purpose of the International meetings is not only to discuss subjects of mutual interest but also, so far as practicable, to make official decisions. Obviously, decisions on scientific questions should be made only after mature consideration and only on questions as to which there is general agreement. The reports that have been prepared in different countries on the question under consideration and the correspondence and oral discussion appear to show that the way is open for International agreement on some of the basic concepts. A comprehensive paper on the question was prepared for the Edinburgh meeting by Dr. Vasillevskij, of Russia (Internat, Ass. Sci. Hyd., Bull. 22, 1936). Dr. Yasilievskij, in a letter dated January 12, 1939, urges that a beginning be made at the Washington Assembly to adopt new terms on the basis of Latin and Greek roots, these terms to have strict meanings for all countries. The following are tentative suggestions for such a beginning, based especially on information from France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Japan, Russia, and the United States.
","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR020i004p00674","usgsCitation":"Meinzer, O.E., 1939, Discussion of question no. 2 of the International Commission on Subterranean Water: Definitions of the different kinds of subterranean water: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 20, no. 4, p. 674-677, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR020i004p00674.","productDescription":"4 p.","startPage":"674","endPage":"677","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":378640,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"20","issue":"4","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Meinzer, O. E.","contributorId":10020,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Meinzer","given":"O.","email":"","middleInitial":"E.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":799338,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70214050,"text":"70214050 - 1939 - Report of the committee on underground waters, 1938–39","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-09-22T13:53:48.545818","indexId":"70214050","displayToPublicDate":"1939-09-21T14:45:07","publicationYear":"1939","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Report of the committee on underground waters, 1938–39","docAbstract":"In preparing the report of the Committee on Underground Waters of the Section of Hydrology for the final year of the triennium, it becomes evident that the collection of fundamental data relating to the hydrology of underground waters continues at a rate comparable to that maintained in the past few years, and perhaps even at an accelerated rate. Almost every extensive practical investigation of ground‐water supplies offers some opportunity for study of fundamental problems, in fact many of them require such fundamental study. With a larger number of investigations in progress, and with fairly liberal appropriations much new and valuable information is being discovered. Some idea of the increase in ground‐water studies since the organization of the Section of Hydrology may be given by a few statistics on the work of the Division of Ground‐Water of the Federal Geological Survey, which does the largest amount of ground‐water work in the United States. In 1932 the Division worked on about 50 projects in 25 States, in 15 of which and in Hawaii the investigations were made in cooperation with States, or other local Governmental agencies. During the current fiscal year work has been completed, or is in progress, on about 100 investigations in 35 States, Hawaii, and the Virgin Islands. The number of States cooperating on the work has increased to 24. During the current fiscal year about \\$375,000 will be spent for ground‐water investigations by the Federal Geological Survey and cooperating organizations, as compared to about $175,000 spent during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1932.
","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR020i004p00545","usgsCitation":"Thompson, D., 1939, Report of the committee on underground waters, 1938–39: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 20, no. 4, p. 545-555, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR020i004p00545.","productDescription":"11 p.","startPage":"545","endPage":"555","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":378636,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"20","issue":"4","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Thompson, David G.","contributorId":8443,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Thompson","given":"David G.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":799334,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70214049,"text":"70214049 - 1939 - Relation of fall stream‐flow to spring runoff","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-09-21T19:44:38.413547","indexId":"70214049","displayToPublicDate":"1939-09-21T14:31:24","publicationYear":"1939","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Relation of fall stream‐flow to spring runoff","docAbstract":"In the prediction of spring runoff from precipitation‐records or snow‐surveys, one of the factors which seems to require consideration is the amount of water held in ground‐storage. The determination of the quantity of water in ground‐storage is a difficult problem involving soil‐sampling, measurements of ground‐water wells, and measurements of the flow of small streams and springs. It has occurred to the writer that selected stream‐flow records for either the late fall or early spring might provide a better index of the ground‐water available for spring runoff than that obtained by other methods. This would involve a comparison of runoff in the fall with runoff in the spring, and might eliminate uncertainties in the relation of a reservoir‐level in the fall with runoff in the spring. Such a method would be especially desirable because of the availability of stream‐flow records. The discussion which follows is more an explanation of the method to be used than an attempt to develop an accurate formula for the prediction of spring runoff.
","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR020i001p00117","usgsCitation":"Eagle, H., 1939, Relation of fall stream‐flow to spring runoff: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 20, no. 1, p. 117-221, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR020i001p00117.","productDescription":"5 p.","startPage":"117","endPage":"221","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":378635,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"20","issue":"1","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Eagle, H.C.","contributorId":241010,"corporation":false,"usgs":false,"family":"Eagle","given":"H.C.","email":"","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":799333,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70214048,"text":"70214048 - 1939 - Report of the committee on chemistry of natural waters, 1938–39","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-09-22T13:55:20.884105","indexId":"70214048","displayToPublicDate":"1939-09-21T14:13:31","publicationYear":"1939","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Report of the committee on chemistry of natural waters, 1938–39","docAbstract":"The membership of this Committee is as follows:
C. S. Howard (Chairman), United States Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.
I. A. Denison, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.
W. P. Kelley, 119 Hilgard Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California
A. C. Lane, 22 Arlington Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
C. S. Scofield, Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
D. G. Thompson, United States Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.
T. G. Thompson, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Studies on the corrosion of metals and soils have been continued at the National Bureau of Standards and a report of the recent findings was published under the title “Correlation of the electrolytic corrosion test with the active corrosiveness of soils,” by I. A. Denison and R. B. Darnielle [J. Res., Nation. Bur. Stan., No. 21, pp. 819‐830, December, 1938], Another paper on this subject by Kirk H. Logan was published under the title “Engineering significance of National Bureau of Standards soil corrosion data” [J. Res. Nation. Bur. Stan., pp. 109–125, January. 1939].
","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR020i004p00609","usgsCitation":"Howard, C.S., 1939, Report of the committee on chemistry of natural waters, 1938–39: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 20, no. 4, p. 609-611, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR020i004p00609.","productDescription":"3 p.","startPage":"609","endPage":"611","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":378634,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"volume":"20","issue":"4","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Howard, C. S.","contributorId":73180,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Howard","given":"C.","email":"","middleInitial":"S.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":799332,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70214047,"text":"70214047 - 1939 - Ground‐water problems in the Southern High Plains","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-09-21T19:12:35.557341","indexId":"70214047","displayToPublicDate":"1939-09-21T14:04:52","publicationYear":"1939","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Ground‐water problems in the Southern High Plains","docAbstract":"The High Plains region has been passing through a prolonged low in the precipitation‐cycle during a large part of the last decade. The drought has continued longer and has been more severe than any that has been experienced since the region began to be farmed. It has caused untold distress. Crops have failed for years in succession. In large areas in the so‐called dust‐bowl the top soil has been almost entirely removed by wind‐erosion and the dust‐storms have become so bad at times that the health of the inhabitants has been seriously threatened. In some parts of the region the annual rainfall, which ranges from about 18 to 24 inches, according to the location of the area, has returned to about the normal or long‐time average. In others the drought is still in progress and a partial or complete crop‐failure was again experienced in 1938. When the rainfall‐record is studied, it becomes apparent that a large part of the High Plains never should have been farmed and should be allowed to go back to the range, if indeed the native grasses can be restored. Other parts, however, can still be farmed with moderate success by the farmer who uses proper methods of cultivation and crop‐rotation, and combines farming with stock‐raising by keeping a part of his land in pasture and raising mostly feed‐crops. Irrigation, if it can be accomplished at a practicable cost, affords security both to the farmer and stock‐raiser.
","language":"English","publisher":"American Geophysical Union","doi":"10.1029/TR020i001p00032","usgsCitation":"White, W.N., 1939, Ground‐water problems in the Southern High Plains: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 20, no. 1, p. 32-35, https://doi.org/10.1029/TR020i001p00032.","productDescription":"4 p.","startPage":"32","endPage":"35","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":378633,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","otherGeospatial":"Southern High Plains","volume":"20","issue":"1","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2014-08-18","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"White, Walter N.","contributorId":99124,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"White","given":"Walter","email":"","middleInitial":"N.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":799331,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70214046,"text":"70214046 - 1939 - Some general observations of physiographic and climatic influences on floods","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-09-22T13:57:26.000928","indexId":"70214046","displayToPublicDate":"1939-09-21T13:49:50","publicationYear":"1939","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1578,"text":"Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union","onlineIssn":"2324-9250","printIssn":"0096-394","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Some general observations of physiographic and climatic influences on floods","docAbstract":"The magnitude of flood‐runoff and the degree to which it concentrates in river‐channels with respect to time is known to vary within wide limits. To a considerable extent these variations relate to the physiographic and edaphlc features of the drainage‐basins as they have been developed by the geologic and climatic history of the particular province in which they are located. Although storms of high intensity occur throughout the United States, the runoff therefrom has been observed to have certain inherent characteristics in wet or humid areas that are different from those in arid or semiarld regions even though the laws governing the flow of water either over ground or in river‐channels are universal in application. Essential features of flood‐behavior in wet or humid areas where stream‐flow is sustained throughout the year and river‐channels and valleys are comparatively well defined and permanent, differ from those in arid or semiarld regions where stream‐flow is very erratic and flashy and the channels are formed largely by occasional intense runoff rather than the slow and orderly development by the continuous occupancy by flowing water. Moreover the flood‐problem in areas where a part of the precipitation occurs as snow differs from that in areas where all the precipitation occurs as rain. Furthermore, in areas where snow does occur there seems to be a wide range in flood‐runoff characteristics depending upon the temperature in and altitude of the particular zone. Some of the different flood‐characteristics as they relate to total runoff and the concentration thereof are described herein and possible reasons therefor are related to conditions which seem to be more or less inherent in particular physiographic and climatic provinces.
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Harry Fielding Reid—Professor‐Emeritus of Geology, Johns Hopkins University (former member of the International Glacier Commission), 608 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, Maryland
William H. Hobbs—Professor‐Emeritus of Geology, University of Michigan (until recently Vice‐ President of the International Glacier Commission, at present associate member), Ann Arbor, Michigan
J. E. Church—Professor of Classics, University of Nevada (President of the International Commission of Snow, and Chairman of the Committee on Snow of the Section of Hydrology, American Geophysical Union), Reno, Nevada
Colonel Lawrence Martin—Chief of the Division of Maps, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. Wm. Osgood Field, Jr.—Explorer, 18 West Twelfth Street, New York, N.Y.
Earl A. Trager—Chief of the Naturalist Division, National Park Service, Washington, D. C.
Glenn L. Parker—District Engineer, Water Resources Branch, United States Geological Survey, 406 Federal Building, Tacoma, Washington
Oliver Kehrlein—Chairman, Committee on Glacier Studies, Sierra Club, 1050 Mills Tower, San Francisco, California
Kenneth N. Phillips—Associate Hydraulic Engineer, Water Resources Branch, United States Geological Survey, Chairman, Research Committee of the Mazamas, 606 Post‐Office Building, Portland, Oregon
William S. Cooper—Professor of Botany, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Gerald FitzGerald, Senior Topographic Engineer, Alaska Branch, United States Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.
Laurence M. Gould, Professor of Geology, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
François E. Matthes, Chairman, Senior Geologist, Section of Glacial Geology, United States Geological Survey (titular member of the International Glacier Commission), Washington, D.C.
In 1938, as in previous years, the Committee devoted its energies primarily to the collecting of data on the variations in length and volume of American glaciers, it being felt that the maintenance of a continuous record of these variations is of prime importance, not only to hydrology and glaciology, but, as has become increasingly evident recently, also to climatology, geomorphology, geography, ecology, history, and archaeology. As the time available for the work of the Committee is limited and does not permit covering the entire field of glaciology, it seems best to devote it before all else to this line of research which yields results of value to so many different sciences. Besides, the gathering of data on glacier‐oscillations is not a one‐man job that can be taken up or dropped at convenience from time to time, but is an organized and far‐flung enterprise whose success depends upon the faithful cooperation of many volunteer workers located in different parts of the country. Such an enterprise, once launched, must be kept running or it will disintegrate and the precious enthusiasm of the field‐workers will be lost.
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","language":"English","publisher":"American Chemical Society","doi":"10.1021/ie50356a022","usgsCitation":"Foster, M.D., 1939, Ground waters of the Houston-Galveston Area: Chemical character and industrial utility: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, v. 31, no. 8, p. 1028-1034, https://doi.org/10.1021/ie50356a022.","productDescription":"7 p.","startPage":"1028","endPage":"1034","costCenters":[],"links":[{"id":378628,"type":{"id":24,"text":"Thumbnail"},"url":"https://pubs.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg"}],"country":"United States","state":"Texas","otherGeospatial":"Houston Galveston Area","geographicExtents":"{\n \"type\": \"FeatureCollection\",\n \"features\": [\n {\n \"type\": \"Feature\",\n \"properties\": {},\n \"geometry\": {\n \"type\": \"Polygon\",\n \"coordinates\": [\n [\n [\n -96.3446044921875,\n 29.08977693862319\n ],\n [\n -94.54833984375,\n 29.08977693862319\n ],\n [\n -94.54833984375,\n 30.486550842588485\n ],\n [\n -96.3446044921875,\n 30.486550842588485\n ],\n [\n -96.3446044921875,\n 29.08977693862319\n ]\n ]\n ]\n }\n }\n ]\n}","volume":"31","issue":"8","noUsgsAuthors":false,"publicationDate":"2002-05-01","publicationStatus":"PW","contributors":{"authors":[{"text":"Foster, Margaret D.","contributorId":21141,"corporation":false,"usgs":true,"family":"Foster","given":"Margaret","email":"","middleInitial":"D.","affiliations":[],"preferred":false,"id":799325,"contributorType":{"id":1,"text":"Authors"},"rank":1}]}} ,{"id":70214039,"text":"70214039 - 1939 - Sienna (\"ocher\") deposits of the Cartersville District, Georgia","interactions":[],"lastModifiedDate":"2020-09-21T17:37:50.931582","indexId":"70214039","displayToPublicDate":"1939-09-21T12:26:02","publicationYear":"1939","noYear":false,"publicationType":{"id":2,"text":"Article"},"publicationSubtype":{"id":10,"text":"Journal Article"},"seriesTitle":{"id":1472,"text":"Economic Geology","active":true,"publicationSubtype":{"id":10}},"title":"Sienna (\"ocher\") deposits of the Cartersville District, Georgia","docAbstract":"Sienna (\"ocher\") deposits in the Cartersville district, Georgia, occur in the contact zone between dolomitic limestone and underlying quartzite of Lower Cambrian age. These rocks, together with interbedded schists, were folded and recrystallized probably near the close of Paleozoic time. Simple fissures and transverse and oblique faults, formed during the late stages of folding, admitted hydrothermal solutions, which deposited concentrated masses of hematite and pyrite, and other ore minerals, in the dolomites and calcareous schists. There is some evidence that large bodies of iron carbonate also were deposited.
Subsequent weathering has removed the dolomite near the surface, and its residuum in many places rests upon the more resistant quartzite. Iron derived from the hematite and pyrite, and possibly from iron carbonate, was transferred by meteoric waters and deposited as hydrous oxides by partial replacement of (1) irregular, structureless bodies of the residuum, and (2) irregular areas in schists both at the base of the dolomite and beneath the uppermost quartzite bed. A relatively thin superficial portion of the uppermost quartzite bed also was replaced. Transfer of the iron has taken place over short distances only, and the present positions of the sienna deposits reflect essentially the positions of the deposits of source minerals.
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