Some stream waters of the Western United States, with chapters on sediment carried by the Rio Grande and the industrial application of water analyses
Herman Stabler
1911, Water Supply Paper 274
A systematic study of the waters likely to be utilized on the Reclamation Service projects was made in order to determine the influence of the salinity of the waters on the growth of vegetation and the effect of suspended matter in silting canals and reservoirs. The work was begun early...
The data of geochemistry (second edition)
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
1911, Bulletin 491
Water resources of Beaver Valley, Utah
Willis Thomas Lee
1908, Water Supply Paper 217
Location and extent of area examined. Beaver Valley is located in Beaver County, in southwestern Utah, about 175 miles south of Salt Lake. It lies between the Tushar Mountains on the east and the Beaver Mountains on the west. The principal town of the valley is Beaver, which is most...
The data of geochemistry
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
1908, Bulletin 330
Underground water in Sanpete and central Sevier valleys, Utah
George Burr Richardson
1907, Water Supply Paper 199
Sanpete and central Sevier valleys are situated at the border of the Basin Range and Plateau provinces in south-central Utah. They are bounded on the east by the Wasatch and Sevier plateaus and on the west by the Gunnison Plateau and the Valley and Pavant ranges, and are drained by...
Flowing wells and municipal water supplies in the middle and northern portions of the southern peninsula of Michigan
Frank Leverett
1907, Water Supply Paper 183
A large amount of data on water supplies was collected by the writer in the course of glacial investigations made under the direction of Prof. T. C. Chamberlin in the last five years in the Southern Peninsula of Michigan. These investigations resulted in a partial acquaintance with conditions in about...
Flowing wells and municipal water supplies in the southern portion of the southern peninsula of Michigan
Frank Leverett
1906, Water Supply Paper 182
A large amount of data on water supplies was collected by the writer in the course of glacial investigations made under the direction of Prof. T. C. Chamberlin in the last five years in the Southern Peninsula of Michigan. These investigations resulted in a partial acquaintance with conditions in about...
Geology and mineral resources of part of the Cumberland Gap coal field, Kentucky
G. H. Ashley, L. C. Glenn
1906, Professional Paper 49
The Cumberland Gap coal field lies in Bell and Harlan counties, in the southeast corner of Kentucky and in Claiborne and Campbell counties, Tenn., and extends in a general northeast-southwest direction between Pine and Cumberland mountains from Fork Mountain on the southwest to the heads of Poor and Clover forks...
The geography and geology of Alaska; a summary of existing knowledge, with a section on climate, and a topographic map and description thereof
A. H. Brooks, Cleveland Abbe Jr., R.U. Goode
1906, Professional Paper 45
Alaska, the largest outlying possession of the United States, is that great land mass forming the northwestern extremity of the North American continent, whose western point is within 60 miles of the Asiatic coast (PI. II). About one-quarter of this area lies within the Arctic Circle, and from the standpoint...
Geology and underground waters of the Arkansas Valley in eastern Colorado
N. H. Darton
1906, Professional Paper 52
In the valley of Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado there is an area of considerable extent in which artesian flows are available. During the last ten years numerous wells have been sunk to develop this important resource and, in most cases in the lower lands, abundant water supplies have been...
The Montana lobe of the Keewatin ice sheet
F.H.H. Calhoun
1906, Professional Paper 50
Just south of the forty-ninth parallel and east of the Rocky Mountains is an area that is of much interest to glacialists. It is the area which lay between the Keewatin ice sheet and the mountain glaciers coming from the west. Although it has been known for nearly twenty years...
Hydrography of the Susquehanna River drainage basin
John Clayton Hoyt, Robert H. Anderson
1905, Water Supply Paper 109
A detailed study of the hydrographic features of the Susquehanna River drainage basin has revealed the existence of a large amount of interesting data. These, however, are widely distributed in various publications and manuscripts which are in most cases inaccessible. This paper has been prepared to meet the constant demand...
Preliminary list of deep borings in the United States
Nelson Horatio Darton
1905, Water Supply Paper 149
The first preliminary list of deep borings in the United States was issued as Water-Supply Papers Nos. 57 and 61. The present publication includes all of the wells listed in these two papers, together with many additional borings, mostly of recent date. Messrs. M. L. Fuller and A. C. Veatch,...
Preliminary report on the geology and underground water resources of the central Great Plains
N. H. Darton
1905, Professional Paper 32
The area to which this report relates is shown in Pl. II. It comprises the greater portions of South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, and the eastern portions of Colorado and of Wyoming, an area of about one-half million square miles. It is the result of my investigations during the past...
Drainage modifications in southeastern Ohio and adjacent parts of West Virginia and Kentucky
W. G. Tight
1903, Professional Paper 13
The field work upon which this paper is based was carried on intermittently for several years. During the season of 1899 the work in Washington County, Ohio, was conducted under the direction of the Ohio State Academy of Science, the expenses being covered by a grant from the Emerson McMillin...
Preliminary report on the geology and water resources of Nebraska west of the one hundred and third meridian
N. H. Darton
1903, Professional Paper 17
This report is based on field work of the season of 1897. It is designed mainly to furnish information in relation to the geologic structure and the prospects for underground waters. A general account will also be given of the surface waters and their present and prospective use for irrigation,...
The Passaic Flood of 1902
George Buell Hollister, Marshall O. Leighton
1903, Water Supply Paper 88
Late in February and early in March, 1902, there occured upon the drainage basin of the Passaic River in northeastern New Jersey the most disastrous flood in the history of the region. Not only was the discharge the largest recorded, but the flood was the most destructive to life and...
Chemical composition of igneous rocks expressed by means of diagrams, with reference to rock classification on a quantitative chemico-mineralogical basis
J. P. Iddings
1903, Professional Paper 18
The value of graphical methods for expressing relative quantities has been well established in all kinds of statistical exposition and discussion. Their use in conveying definite conceptions of relative quantities of chemical and mineral components of rocks is becoming more and more frequent, and the value of the results in...
Twenty-second annual report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, 1900-1901: Part IV - Hydrography
Charles D. Walcott
1902, Annual Report 22
I have the honor to transmit herewith the manuscript for a volume on hydrography, prepared for publication as Part IV of the Twenty-second Annual Report of the Survey. The data presented relate to the investigations carried on during the calendar year 1900. The first part of the report discusses the...
Fossil Flora of the John Day Basin, Oregon
Frank Hall Knowlton
1902, Bulletin 204
For a number of years I have been gradually accumulating material for a thorough revision of the Tertiary floras of the Pacific slope. Fossil plants are known to occur at numerous points within this area, and their study and identification has already furnished valuable data bearing on the geological history...
Twenty-First Annual report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, 1899-1900: Part VII - Texas
Charles D. Walcott
1901, Annual Report 21
Area treated.—The Black and Grand prairies of Texas and southern Indian Territory comprise about 50,000 square miles (see Pl. LXV, in pocket)—an area equal to that of fifty of the quadrangles mapped and described by the United States Geological Survey in its Geologic Atlas of the United States. The accompanying...
Preliminary report on the Cape Nome gold region, Alaska
Frank C. Schrader, Alfred H. Brooks
1900, Report
The following report is based on a few weeks' examination of the recently discovered Nome gold-mining region, made by us in October, 1899. We collected such topographic and geologic data of this important region as the climatic conditions would permit and our limited time would allow, the trip to Nome...
Water resources of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan
Alfred C. Lane
1899, Water Supply Paper 30
This material is a portion of the outcome of Dr. Lane's studies in connection with the geological survey of the State of Michigan, supplemented by statements received in reply to circulars sent throughout the Lower Peninsula of Michigan to well drillers and others likely to be well informed and interested...
Eighteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1896-1897: Part IV - Hydrography
Arthur Powell Davis, Frank Leverett, N. H. Darton, J.D. Schuyler
1897, Annual Report 18-4
The completion of this volume marks the revival of extended systematic investigation of the hydrography of the United State. This book is, in effect, the ninth annual report of what has been known as the Irrigation Survey. Its preparation and publication has been made possible by the act of June...
Volume XIII: The tertiary insects of North America
Samuel H. Scudder
1890, Report, Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories
That creatures so minute and fragile as insects, creatures which can so feebly withstand the changing seasons as to live, so to speak, but a moment, are to be found fossil, engraved, as it were, upon the rocks or embedded in their hard mass, will never cease to be a...
