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Yield of sediment in relation to mean annual precipitation
Walter B. Langbein, S. A. Schumm
None, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (39) 1076-1084
Effective mean annual precipitation is related to sediment yield from drainage basins throughout the climatic regions of the United States. Sediment yield is a maximum at about 10 to 14 inches of precipitation, decreasing sharply on both sides of this maximum in one case owing to a deficiency of runoff...
Ocoee series of the southern Appalachians
W.O. George, A.J. Stose
None, Geological Society of America Bulletin (60 ) 267-320
The Ocoee series is divided into four major units present from northern North Carolina to western Georgia and a fifth, younger, formation present only in southern North Carolina and Georgia. The units recognize dare as follows: The Ocoee series is a broad synclinal belt of resistant Great Smoky quartzite, which...
The problem of the Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Granite
L.W. Currier
None, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union (18) 260-261
The Chelmsford granite is quarried in and around Oak Hill, about six miles west of Lowell, Massachusetts. The granite‐area is about eight miles long and one to three miles wide, and its longer dimension has a northeast bearing which is parallel with the regional axis of foliation in the country...
Sand and gravel resources of Puerto Rico
Rafael W. Rodriguez
None, Report
Many of Puerto Rico's beaches are eroding, and though rates of erosion vary, it is a major concern for the tourism and residential development industries. More than 85 percent of the population lives within 7 kilometers of the coast and they are heavily dependent on tourists that are attracted by...
Seafloor images refine petroleum exploration models
David Twichell
None, Report
Acoustic mapping of the EEZ sea floor using GLORIA side-scan sonar tool includes the margins of the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Johnston Island. This decade-long program was undertaken in cooperation with the United Kingdom's Institute of Oceanographic Sciences at the Deacon...
Louisiana coastal wetlands: a resource at risk
S. Jeffress Williams
None, Report
Approximately half the Nation's original wetland habitats have been lost over the past 200 years. In part, this has been a result of natural evolutionary processes, but human activities, such as dredging wetlands for canals or draining and filling for agriculture, grazing, or development, share a large part of the...
Seafloor studies of Mamala Bay, Honolulu, Hawaii
Michael E. Torresan
None, Report
No comprehensive study of the effects of disposal of dredge spoils has been conducted to determine if the environment has suffered. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has regularly dredged the shipping channels of Honolulu Harbor and Pearl Harbor for commercial and military purposes. The 5-year frequency for new...