Publications
This list of Water Resources Mission Area publications includes both official USGS publications and journal articles authored by our scientists. A searchable database of all USGS publications can be accessed at the USGS Publications Warehouse.
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Quality of water in the Susquehanna River drainage basin, with an introductory chapter on physiographic features
No abstract available
Authors
Marshall O. Leighton, George Buell Hollister
Water resources of the Philadelphia district
The area included in the Philadelphia district lies between 39° 45' and 40° 15' north latitude and 75° and 75° 30' west longitude. It has a length of 34.50 miles from north to south and a width of 26.53 miles from east to west, and covers one-fourth of a square degree, which is equivalent, in that latitude, to, about 915.25 square miles. It is mapped on the Germantown, Norristown, Philadelphia, an
Authors
Florence Bascom
Preliminary list of deep borings in the United States Part II: Nebraska-Wyoming
The wells and borings reported in the paper are all more than 400 feet in depth. The information concerning them has been obtained partly from replies to circular letters sent to all parts of the United States an to lack of knowledge on the part of correspondents, and to the incompleteness of published records, doubtless there are borings which have not been reported. In regions of oil and gas we
Authors
Nelson Horatio Darton
Geology and water resources of the Patrick and Goshen Hole quadrangles in eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska
No abstract available.
Authors
George Irving Adams
Profiles of rivers in the United States
The profiles here represented are derived from various sources and differ from one another greatly in accuracy. Many of them are drawn from the annual reports of the Chief of Engineers, U.S.A., under which are included the reports of the Mississippi and Missouri River commissions. The heights thus obtained are those of the level of water in the rivers at certain stages, and may be regarded as of g
Authors
Henry Gannett
Geology and mining industry of the Tintic district, Utah: Section in Nineteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1897 - 1898: Part III - Economic Geology
The field work upon which this report is based was begun in July, 1897, and continued without interruption until December of the same year. The area studied is approximately 15 miles square and contains 234 square miles. The topographic maps, which are two in number, were prepared under the direction of Mr. R. U. Goode, Mr. S. S. Gannett doing the triangulation and Messrs. Marshall and Griswold th
Authors
George Warren Tower, George Otis Smith
Nineteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1897 - 1898: Part II - Papers Chiefly of a Theoretic Nature
No abstract available.
Authors
Charles D. Walcott
Seepage water of northern Utah
The term “seepage water” is used by the irrigators of the West to designate the water which reaches the lowest grounds or the stream channels, swelling the latter by imperceptible degrees and keeping up the flow long after the rains have ceased and the snow has melted. The word “seepage” is applied particularly to the water which begins to appear in spots below irrigation canals and cultivated fie
Authors
Samuel Fortier
Hydrographic surveys
This circular is intended to answer questions asked by correspondents regarding the progress and character of the work of the "Irrigation Survey" and of related investigations being carried on by the Division of Hydrography of the United States Geological Survey. It also gives a review of the legislation authorizing this work, together with a list of publications of the Geological Survey showing t