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The majority of publications in this section address water resources in Utah or in bordering states. Some of the publications are included because one or more of the authors work at the Utah Water Science Center but have provided expertise to studies in other geographic areas.

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The composition of the river and lake waters of the United States

In the summer of 1903 the late Richard B. Dole, chemist of the water-resources branch of the United States Geological Survey, began a systematic investigation of the composition of the river and lake waters of the United States. His plan, which developed gradually, was to have analyses made of the different waters in such a manner as to give the average composition of each one for an entire year.
Authors
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke

The data of geochemistry

Upon the subject of geochemistry a vast literature exists, but it is widely scattered and portions of it are difficult of access. The general treatises, like the classical works of Bischof and of Koth, are not recent, and great masses of modern data are as yet uncorrelated. The American material alone is singularly rich, but most of it has been accumulated since Roth's treatise was published. The
Authors
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke

Water powers of the Great Salt Lake basin

The Great Salt Lake basin comprises that part of the Great Basin that drains into Great Salt Lake, Utah. It is about 27,000 square miles in area and includes the northern part of Utah, a small part of eastern Nevada, the southeast corner of Idaho, and the southwest corner of Wyoming.The eastern part of the area consists of mountainous highlands; the western part chiefly of low-lying plains. The lo
Authors
Ralf Rumel Woolley, Nathan Clifford Grover, Nathan C. Grover, W. T. Lee

The San Juan Canyon, southeastern Utah: A geographic and hydrographic reconnaissance

This report, which describes the San Juan Canyon, San Juan River and the tributary streams and the geography and to some extent the geology of the region, presents information obtained by me during the descent of the river with the Trimble party in 1921. The exploration of the canyon, which was financed jointly by the United States Geological Survey and the Southern California Edison Co., had as i
Authors
Hugh D. Miser

The occurrence of ground water in the United States, with a discussion of principles

The writer has planned and partly prepared a series of six papers on ground water in the United States. These papers are to deal with (1) occurrence, (2) origin, discharge, and quantity, (3) movement and head, (4) quality, (5) recovery and use, and (6) ground-water provinces. The present paper is the first of the series.The writer is indebted to many colaborers for assistance in preparing this pap
Authors
Oscar Edward Meinzer

Stream measurement work: Chapter 9 in Thirteenth biennial report of the State Engineer to the governor of Utah: 1921-1922

Systematic stream measurement work was probably first undertaken in Utah when the United States Geological Survey in 1888 began collecting records of flow of certain streams in the West in connection with special studies relating to irrigation in the arid sections. Since 1895 Congress has made small appropriations “for gaging the streams and determining the water supply of the United States.” Thes
Authors
A.B. Purton

Geothermal data of the United States, including many original determinations of underground temperature

The purpose of this report is to present all available published data bearing on the rate of increase of underground temperature with increasing depth in the United States, together with several hundred original observations by myself and my associates. A canvass of the governmental, State, and serial publications has yielded many records of temperature of flowing wells and also a few observations
Authors
Nelson Horatio Darton

Hydrometric work carried on in co-operation with the United States Geological Survey: Chapter 3 in Twelfth biennial report of the State Engineer to the governor of Utah: 1919-1920

The work of collecting stream flow data in Utah during the past two years has been continued under co-operative agreement between the State Engineer and the United States Geological Survey.  Details of this agreement have been fully outlines in the previous reports of the State Engineer.
Authors
A.B. Purton

Profile surveys in the Colorado River basin in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico

In connection with studies of the utilization of rivers the United States Geological Survey has from time to time made surveys and profiles of some of the more important streams of the country and published the results in its series of water-supply papers. In some parts of the country these surveys were made chiefly to determine the location of power sites on streams adapted to the development of
Authors
William Harrison Herron

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 extends b
Authors
Eugene Clyde La Rue, Nathan C. Grover

Profile surveys along Henrys Fork, Idaho, and Logan River and Blacksmith Fork, Utah

In order to determine the location of undeveloped water powers the United States Geological Survey has from time to time, alone and in cooperation with State organizations, made surveys and profiles of some of the rivers of the United States that are adapted to the development of power by low or medium heads of 20 to 100 feet.The surveys are made by means of plane table and stadia. Elevations are
Authors
William Harrison Herron
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