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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

Stream-gaging stations and publications relating to water sources, 1885-1913; Part IX: Colorado River basin Stream-gaging stations and publications relating to water sources, 1885-1913; Part IX: Colorado River basin

Investigation of water resources by the United States Geological Survey has consisted in large part of measurements of the volume of flow of streams and studies of the conditions affecting that flow, but it has comprised also investigation of such closely allied subjects as irrigation, water storage, water powers, underground waters, and quality of waters. Most of the results of these

The Transportation of Debris by Running Water The Transportation of Debris by Running Water

Scope.-The finer debris transported by a stream is borne in suspension. The coarser is swept along the channel bed. The suspended load is readily sampled and estimated, and much is known as to its quantity. The bed load is inaccessible and we are without definite information as to its amount. The primary purpose of the investigation was to learn the laws which control the movement of bed...
Authors
Grove Karl Gilbert, Edward Charles Murphy
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