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Water resources of the Mobile area, Alabama, with a section on salinity of the Mobile River
W.H. Robinson, William J. Powell, Eugene Brown, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
1956, Circular 373
Water is an abundant resource of the Mobile area. The Mobile River has an estimated average flow of 60, 000 cubic feet per second (cfs), or about 39,000 million gallons per day (mgd). It is the largest single source of water. Water is available in substantial quantities from the many...
Floods of August 1955 in the Northeastern States
Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
1956, Circular 377
The floods of August 1955 were an unprecedented disaster in a arge area of the northeastern United States. They rank among the most destructive in the country's his ory. Augmented by the antecedent hurricane sto m of August 11-15, the rainfall of August 17-20 accompanying hurricane Diane reached maximum val...
Surficial geology and geomorphology of Potter County, Pennsylvania
C. S. Denny
1956, Professional Paper 288
Potter County is located in the Appalachian Plateaus of north-central Pennsylvania and contains the headwaters of the Genesee River, the Allegheny River, and the Susquehanna River. Drift of Wisconsin age covers the northeastern part of the county. This study includes a detailed survev of the surficial deposits of the Genesee...
Ephemeral streams - Hydraulic factors and their relation to the drainage net
Luna Bergere Leopold, John P. Miller
1956, Professional Paper 282-A
The hydraulic factors of width, depth, velocity, and suspended sediment load of ephemeral streams near Santa Fe, N. Mex., were measured during flood flow. Later, channel slope was measured. These flood-flow data, in conjunction with an analysis of drainage-basin configuration by the methods proposed by Horton, are used to determine...
Geology of Saipan, Mariana Islands; Part 1, General geology
Preston E. Cloud Jr., Robert George Schmidt, Harold W. Burke
1956, Professional Paper 280-A
Saipan, situated about 15° N. and 146° E., is one of the larger and more southerly of the Mariana Islands. The 15 small islands of this chain are strung along an eastwardly convex ridge for more than 400 miles north to south, midway between Honshu and New Guinea and about...
Geology and mineral resources of the Ivanpah quadrangle, California and Nevada
D. F. Hewett
1956, Professional Paper 275
The Ivanpah quadrangle covers about 3,900 square miles in the northeastern part of the Mojave Desert of southeastern California and southern Nevada. It includes many mountain ranges 6,000 to 7,000 feet in altitude, and a single peak, Potosi Mountain, attains 8,504 feet. The ranges are separated by broad alluvial filled...
Geology and ore deposits of the Monument Valley area, Apache and Navajo Counties, Arizona
Irving Jerome Witkind
1956, Open-File Report 57-124
In 1951 the U.S. Geological Survey undertook a program of uranium investigations in Apache and Navajo Counties, northeastern Arizona. The work had three major objectives. The first was to accumulate data basic to an understanding of the regional geology. The second was to appraise the Triassic strata as host rocks...