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Low flow of streams, Hartford North Quadrangle, Connecticut Low flow of streams, Hartford North Quadrangle, Connecticut

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Map of deposits especially susceptible to compaction or subsidence, Parker quadrangle, Arapahoe and Douglas Counties, Colorado Map of deposits especially susceptible to compaction or subsidence, Parker quadrangle, Arapahoe and Douglas Counties, Colorado

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Map showing approximate density of houses in the Evergreen Quadrangle, Jefferson County, Colorado Map showing approximate density of houses in the Evergreen Quadrangle, Jefferson County, Colorado

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Map showing approximate ground-water conditions in the Parker quadrangle, Arapahoe and Douglas Counties, Colorado Map showing approximate ground-water conditions in the Parker quadrangle, Arapahoe and Douglas Counties, Colorado

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Map showing approximate locations, depths, and estimated yields of water wells in the Evergreen Quadrangle, Jefferson County, Colorado Map showing approximate locations, depths, and estimated yields of water wells in the Evergreen Quadrangle, Jefferson County, Colorado

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Map Showing Areas Containing Swelling Clay in the Morrison Quadrangle, Jefferson County, Colorado Map Showing Areas Containing Swelling Clay in the Morrison Quadrangle, Jefferson County, Colorado

Formations that contain clays having swelling pressures higher than 2,500 pounds per square foot (as measured by the Potential Volume Change meter) are listed in order of decreasing swelling pressure: Denver Formation, Pierre Shale, Laramie Formation, Green Mountain Conglomerate, Fox Hills Sandstone, and Arapahoe Formation. Some landslides derived from these formations also contain...

Map showing areas of past flooding in the Parker quadrangle, Arapahoe and Douglas Counties, Colorado Map showing areas of past flooding in the Parker quadrangle, Arapahoe and Douglas Counties, Colorado

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Map showing areas of selected potential geologic hazards in the Aspen Quadrangle, Pitkin County, Colorado Map showing areas of selected potential geologic hazards in the Aspen Quadrangle, Pitkin County, Colorado

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Map showing areas serviced by municipal and private sewerage agencies, San Francisco Bay region, California, 1970 Map showing areas serviced by municipal and private sewerage agencies, San Francisco Bay region, California, 1970

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Map showing avalanche areas in the Aspen Quadrangle, Pitkin County, Colorado Map showing avalanche areas in the Aspen Quadrangle, Pitkin County, Colorado

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Map showing construction materials in the Henrys Lake quadrangle, Idaho and Montana Map showing construction materials in the Henrys Lake quadrangle, Idaho and Montana

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Map showing drainage basins and historic cloudburst floods in the Salina quadrangle, Utah Map showing drainage basins and historic cloudburst floods in the Salina quadrangle, Utah

In the Salina quadrangle, as in most of the arid West, summer precipitation commonly occurs as thunderstorms. Suring these storms, rain falls as a torrential downpour, or cloudburst, in a local area. An inch of rain or more may fall in half an hour; U.S. Weather Bureau records show that o.4 inch of rain has fallen in a period of 5 minutes (Woolley, 1946). Such a fall of water far exceeds...
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Water Resources Mission Area, Utah Water Science Center
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