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Publications

The following list of California Water Science Center publications includes both official USGS publications and journal articles authored by our scientists.

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Evaporation of brine from Searles Lake, California Evaporation of brine from Searles Lake, California

The bed of crystalline salts known as Searles Lake, in southeastern California, contains the most valuable potash-bearing brine known in the United States. This salt body has an exposed surface area estimated at 11 or 12 square miles and an average depth of about 70 feet. For the most part it is firm and compact enough to support a wagon and team even during wet seasons, when it is'...
Authors
W.B. Hicks

Colorado River and its utilization Colorado River and its utilization

The region traversed by the Colorado and its tributaries is for many reasons of intense interest to the people of the United States. Here was the home of that forgotten people of which there is almost no record except the hieroglyphics on the rocks, the ruins of their irrigation systems, and the cliff dwellings by which they are most widely known; here were Spanish missions whose history...
Authors
Eugene Clyde La Rue, Nathan C. Grover
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