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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
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