Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior Volume 26 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...Among the problems undertaken were the definite outlining of flowing-well districts; a comparative study of the composition of the waters and their relation to geologic horizons; the discovery of buried river channels in the northeastern part of the State; the recognition of anticlinal folds which may have been connected with the deflection of Missouri River at certain points; and the discovery of evidence of the probable extension of the St. Peter sandstone along the west, northwest, and southwest flanks of the Ozark zone. Artesian pressure as a factor in-the New Madrid earthquake was pointed out in a paper on this earthquake, published in the January February number of the Journal of Geology, 1905. Mr. M. L. Fuller visited the New Madrid area in company with Professor Shepard in the fall of 1904, and studied a number of the earthquake features in Missouri and adjoining portions of Arkansas, and, in the spring of 1905, spent two weeks in the study of physiographic and earthquake problems in the southeastern portion of the State. Mr. Fuller also spent several days in an examination of the springs and underground streams of a portion of Greene County. A report on the water resources of the Joplin quadrangle was prepared by Mr. W. S. Tangier Smith, and an account of a number of large springs of the Ozarks was prepared by Mr. M. L. Fuller from notes furnished by Messrs. E. Johnson, jr., H. F. Bain, and E. M. Shepard. The publications which appeared within the year are as follows: Well and spring records, by E. M. Shepard: Water-Sup. and Irr. Paper No. 102, pp. 389-390. Wells of Joplin and vicinity, by W. S. Tangier Smith: Water-Sup. and Irr. Paper No. 102, pp. 404-408. Water supply of Livingstone County, Missouri, by R. Hawkins: Water-Sup. and Irr. Paper No. 1...