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Geology of Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming
Charles Sherwood Robinson
1956, Bulletin 1021-I
Devils Tower is a steep-sided mass of igneous rock that rises above the surrounding hills and the valley of the Belle Fourche River in Crook County, Wyo. It is composed of a crystalline rock, classified as phonolite porphyry, that when fresh is gray but which weathers to green or brown....
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...
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 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...
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...
Water levels in observation wells in Nebraska during 1955
C.F. Keech
1956, Open-File Report 56-70
The objective of the dbservation-well program in Nebraska is to provide an evaluation of the status of the ground-water supplies. Many uses for water-.level data are known but not all potential uses can be forseen. Among the important uses are the following:To indicate the status of ground water in storage...
Bentonite deposits in marine Cretaceous formations, Hardin district, Montana and Wyoming
Maxwell M. Knechtel, Sam H. Patterson
1956, Bulletin 1023
The bentonite deposits described in this report, which are roughly and tentatively estimated to include a minable reserve of 110 million short tons of montmorillonitic clay, are shown on a geologic map covering approximately 1,280 square miles, mostly in the Crow Indian Reservation, Big Horn County, Mont., but extending a...
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...
Ground water in the North Side Pumping Division, Minidoka Project, Minidoka County, Idaho
Emerson G. Crosthwaite, R. C. Scott
1956, Circular 371
The U. S. Bureau of Reclamation proposes to irrigate about 64, 000 acres, largely in southern Minidoka County north and west of the Snake River, with ground water from 175 wells; 13, 650 additional acres would receive surface water pumped to a high-line canal from Lake Milner. More than 20,000 additional...