Temperature of water available for industrial use in the United States: Chapter F in Contributions to the hydrology of the United States, 1923-1924
W. D. Collins
1925, Water Supply Paper 520-F
The importance of water supply as a limiting factor in industrial development is becoming more evident each year. The limitation in a particular instance may be the quantity of water available, the quality determined by the mineral matter in solution or in suspension or by organic pollution, or the temperature...
The composition of the river and lake waters of the United States
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
1924, Professional Paper 135
In the summer of 1903 the late Richard B. Dole, chemist of the water-resources branch of the United States Geological Survey, began a systematic investigation of the composition of the river and lake waters of the United States. His plan, which developed gradually, was to have analyses made of the...
The data of geochemistry
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
1924, Bulletin 770
Upon the subject of geochemistry a vast literature exists, but it is widely scattered and portions of it are difficult of access. The general treatises, like the classical works of Bischof and of Koth, are not recent, and great masses of modern data are as yet uncorrelated. The American material...
The occurrence of ground water in the United States, with a discussion of principles
Oscar Edward Meinzer
1923, Water Supply Paper 489
The writer has planned and partly prepared a series of six papers on ground water in the United States. These papers are to deal with (1) occurrence, (2) origin, discharge, and quantity, (3) movement and head, (4) quality, (5) recovery and use, and (6) ground-water provinces. The present paper is...
Summary of hydrometric data in Washington, 1878-1919
Glenn Lane Parker, Lasley Lee
1923, Water Supply Paper 492
Peneplains of the Front Range and Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Willis T. Lee
1923, Bulletin 730-A
The purpose of this paper is to call attention to some of the major surface features in the Rocky Mountain National Park and to point out their probable correlation with similar features in neighboring regions. The observations on which the paper is based were made in the summer of 1916,...
Guidebook of the western United States: Part E - The Denver & Rio Grande Western route
Marius R. Campbell
1922, Bulletin 707
The United States of America comprise an area so vast in extent and so diverse in natural features as well as in characters due to human agency that the American citizen who knows thoroughly his own country must have traveled widely and observed wisely. To 'know America first' is a...
Surface waters of Kansas, 1895-1919
R.C. Rice
1921, Report
Kansas is preeminently an agricultural state. According to the United States census of 1910, the area in farms was 43,384,799 acres, or 67,789 square miles, 83 per cent of the total area of the state —82,158 square miles. The products of these farms rank high in value among those of farms...
Geothermal data of the United States, including many original determinations of underground temperature
Nelson Horatio Darton
1920, Bulletin 701
The purpose of this report is to present all available published data bearing on the rate of increase of underground temperature with increasing depth in the United States, together with several hundred original observations by myself and my associates. A canvass of the governmental, State, and serial publications has yielded...
The data of geochemistry (fourth edition)
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
1920, Bulletin 695
The oil fields of Allen County, Kentucky, with notes on the oil geology of adjoining counties
Eugene Wesley Shaw, Kirtley F. Mather
1919, Bulletin 688
This report is based on a reconnaissance investigation of the oil field of Allen County, Ky., which was part of a broader study of the oil and gas fields of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama, on which a general report is planned. Most of the field work was done by Mr....
The Helderberg limestone of central Pennsylvania
John B. Reeside Jr.
1917, Professional Paper 108-K
This paper presents the results of a study made during 1913, 1914, and 1915, while the writer was a student at Johns Hopkins University. The formations discussed have been studies in Maryland, New Jersey, and New York, and described with more or less detail, but concerning their occurrence in the...
Contributions to the geology and paleontology of San Juan County, New Mexico: 1. Stratigraphy of a part of the Chaco River valley
Clyde Max Bauer
1916, Professional Paper 98-P
This preliminary paper is an attempt to set forth the principal features of the stratigraphy in a part of the San Juan Basin-to describe the succession of strata irrespective of possible correlations and thereby to establish a type section for the formations exposed and to bring out their relations to...
Accuracy of stream-flow data
Nathan Clifford Grover, John Clayton Hoyt
1916, Water Supply Paper 400-D
The data of geochemistry (third edition)
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
1916, Bulletin 616
Guidebook of the western United States: Part C - The Santa Fe route, with a side trip to Grand Canyon of the Colorado
Nelson Horatio Darton
1916, Bulletin 613
The United States of America comprise an area so vast in extent and so diverse in natural features as well as in characters due to human agency that the American citizen who knows thoroughly his own country must have traveled widely and observed wisely. To 'know America first' is a...
Guidebook of the western United States: Part B - The overland route, with a side trip to Yellowstone Park
Willis Thomas Lee, Ralph Walter Stone, Hoyt Stoddard Gale
1915, Bulletin 612
The United States of America comprise an area so vast in extent and so diverse in natural features as well as in characters due to human agency that the American citizen who knows thoroughly his own country must have traveled widely and observed wisely. To 'know America first' is a...
Springs of California
Gerald Ashley Waring
1915, Water Supply Paper 338
In 1903 the United States Geological Survey began an investigation of the underground water of California, generally with financial cooperation on the part of the State. Since that year ten papers on the underground water of the State have been issued by the Survey, each representing an investigation that has...
Erosion and sedimentation in Chesapeake Bay around the mouth of Choptank River
J. Fred Hunter
1915, Professional Paper 90-B
With the unfolding of geologic knowledge during the last century the processes of denudation, transportation of sediments, and sedimentation have become better understood, and to some extent their relative effects in bringing about the present configuration of the earth's surface have been determined. The nature of these processes has been...
Contributions to the stratigraphy of southwestern Colorado
Whitman Cross, E. S. Larsen Jr.
1915, Professional Paper 90-E
In the course of field work of the United States Geological Survey in the San Juan region of Colorado observations have been made in the last three seasons that considerably extend our knowledge of the great stratigraphic break below the La Plata sandstone, which is currently assumed to be of...
The composition of muds from Columbus Marsh, Nevada
W.B. Hicks
1915, Professional Paper 95-A
The investigation of the dry lake of Columbus Marsh, in Nevada, which had for its economic motive the discovery of potash, was continued by the United States Geological Survey during the summer of 1913 under the supervision of Hoyt S. Gale. The work done included the drilling of a shallow...
Guidebook of the western United States: Part D - The Shasta Route and Coast Line
Joseph Silas Diller
1915, Bulletin 614
The United States of America comprise an area so vast in extent and so diverse in natural features as well as in characters due to human agency that the American citizen who knows thoroughly his own country must have traveled widely and observed wisely. To 'know America first' is a...
Guidebook of the western United States: Part A - The northern Pacific route, with a side trip to Yellowstone Park
Marius R. Campbell
1915, Bulletin 611
The United States of America comprise an area so vast in extent and so diverse in natural features as well as in characters due to human agency that the American citizen who knows thoroughly his own country must have traveled widely and observed wisely. To 'know America first' is a...
Ground water in Boxelder and Tooele Counties, Utah
Everett Carpenter
1913, Water Supply Paper 333
The area covered by this report includes Boxelder County, Utah, the eastern part of Tooele County, Utah, and some small tracts in southern Idaho. It comprises about 9,500 square miles, or more than the combined area of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It lies between 40° and 42° north latitude and...
Water resources of the Penobscot River basin, Maine
Harold Kilbrith Barrows, Cyrus Cates Babb
1912, Water Supply Paper 279
This report on the Penobscot River drainage system, the largest and one of the most important in Maine, has been compiled chiefly from the records, reports, and maps of the United States Geological Survey and from the results of surveys made in cooperation with the Maine State Survey Commission. The...