Ground water in the High Plains of Texas
W. N. White, W. L. Broadhurst, Joseph W. Lang
1946, Water Supply Paper 889-F
The High Plains of Texas occupy an area of about 35,000 square miles, extending from the northern boundary of the Panhandle southward about 300 miles, and from the New Mexico line eastward an average distance of about 120 miles. This region is divided into two segments by the Canadian River...
Ground-water resources of the Houston district, Texas
Walter N. White, N.A. Rose, William F. Guyton
1944, Water Supply Paper 889-C
This report covers the current phase of an investigation of the supply of ground water available for the Houston district and adjacent region, Texas,- that has been in progress during the past 10 years. The field operations included routine inventories of pumpage, measurements of water levels in observation wells and...
Exploratory water-well drilling in the Houston District, Texas
Nicholas A. Rose, W. N. White, Penn Poore Livingston
1944, Water Supply Paper 889-D
In the spring and summer of 1939 a program of exploratory drilling wad undertaken in the Houston district, Tx., in conjunction with a general initiation of the water resources of the district. The main purposes of the program were to determine the thickness and character of water-bearing sands down to...
Geology and ground-water resources of the Balmorhea area, western Texas
Walter N. White, H. S. Gale, S. Spencer Nye
1941, Water Supply Paper 849-C
Balmorhea is the center of a thriving farming community, the lands of which are irrigated with water derived chiefly from large springs but partly from the storm flow of Toyah Creek. The storm flow of the creek and a part of the winter flow of the springs is stored in...
Geology and ground-water resources of the Lufkin area, Texas
Walter N. White, A.N. Sayre, J.F. Heuser
1941, Water Supply Paper 849-A
This report covers Angelina County, Texas, of which Lufkin is the county seat, and parts of Nacogdoches and other adjacent counties. The area is underlain by a series of sands, clays, and shales of Eocene age that dip, in general, southward at an angle a little greater than that of...
Notes on the elasticity of the Lloyd sand on Long Island, New York
C. E. Jacob
1941, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 783-787
The Lloyd sand is a productive artesian aquifer underlying all of Long Island except the westernmost part. It rests unconformably upon a floor of crystalline rock that slopes toward the southeast at about 100 feet to the mile. Locally the bed‐rock surface has a relief of more than 100 feet....
Fossil flora of the Wedington sandstone member of the Fayetteville shale
David White
1937, Professional Paper 186-B
Fossil plants from the Stanley shale and Jackfork sandstone in southeastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas
David White
1937, Professional Paper 186-C
Part 1, The coal field from Gallup eastward toward Mount Taylor, with a measured section of pre-Dakota(?) rocks near Navajo Church
Julian D. Sears
1934, Bulletin 860-A
The report describes the geology and coal deposits of the southwestern part of the San Juan Basin, N.Mex. The field lies northeast of the town of Gallup, on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, and is an irregular tract of about 630 square miles in central and west-central McKinley...
Geology and ore deposits of the Pioche district, Nevada
L.G. Westgate, Adolph Knopf
1932, Professional Paper 171
LOCATION AND SURFACE FEATURES The Bristol Range, Highland, and Ely Range quadrangles make up the larger part of a. rectangular area 35 miles north and south by 24 miles east and west, which lies 19 miles west of the Nevada-Utah line and about 250 miles southwest of Salt Lake...
A method of estimating ground-water supplies based on discharge by plants and evaporation from soil: Results of investigations in Escalante Valley, Utah
Walter N. White
1932, Water Supply Paper 659-A
Fluctuations of water levels in wells, if critically studied, may give much information as to the occurrence, movement, and quantity of available ground water. In some localities the ground-water level has been observed to decline during the day and to rise at night, the decline beginning at about the same...
