Water-supply Paper, Bände 380-383U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 |
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affected by ice alluvium Androscoggin River April August Black Mesa Canyon Carrizo Mountain chain gage Channel charge Chuska Mountains có có có Creek Daily discharge Daily gage height December Defiance Plateau Delaware River depth in inches Discharge in second-feet Discharge measurements Discharge measurements.-Made discharge.-Maximum stage recorded Drainage area drainage basins drainage racy ending Sept Extremes of discharge.-Maximum February flood flow Fort Defiance Geological Survey highway bridge inches on Accu irrigation January July June Kaibito Keams Canyon Little Colorado Location.-At M. L. Fuller Maine March Maximum Mean Minimum stage recorded Moenkopi Monthly discharge Navajo country ngủ NOTE.-Discharge determined NOTE.-Discharge relation November October R. S. Barnes reservoir RIVER BASIN rock Run-off depth Sacandaga River sandstone Sec.-ft September 30 shale springs square miles storage stream surface Tusayan underground waters United States Geological Wash Water-Supply Paper Westfield River Winter flow.-Discharge relation
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Seite xxxvi - Second-feet per square mile" is the average number of cubic feet of water flowing per second from each square mile of area drained, on the assumption that the run-off is distributed uniformly both as regards time and area. "Runoff (depth in inches...
Seite xxxvi - DEFINITION OF TERMS. The volume of water flowing in a stream— the "run-off" or " discharge " — is expressed in various terms, each of which has become associated with a certain class of work. These terms may be divided into two groups — (1) those which represent a rate of flow, as secondfeet, gallons per minute, miner's...
Seite xxxvii - CONVENIENT EQUIVALENTS. The following is a list of convenient equivalents for use in hydraulic computations : Table for converting discharge in second-feet per square mile into run-off in depth in inches over the area. NOTE. — For part of a month multiply the run-off for 1 day by the number of days.
Seite xxi - Price 15 cents. 32. Lists and Analyses of the Mineral Springs of the United States (a Preliminary Study), by Albert C.
Seite 7 - well defined" indicates in general that the rating is probably accurate within 5 per cent; "fairly well defined," within 10 per cent; "poorly defined" or "approximate," within 15 to 25 per cent. These notes are very general and are based on the plotting of the individual measurements with reference to the mean rating curve. The...
Seite 4 - The monthly means for any station may represent with high accuracy the quantity of water flowing past the gage, but the figures * showing discharge per square mile and depth of run-off in inches may be subject to gross errors caused by...
Seite ix - Fluctuations of the water level in wells, with special reference to Long Island, NY, by AC Veatch.
Seite 3 - Maximum" gives the mean flow, for the day when the mean gage height was highest. As the gage height is the mean for the day it does not...
Seite 5 - ... tables are computed. The rating table gives, either directly or by interpolation, the discharge in second-feet corresponding to every stage of the river recorded during the period for which it is applicable. It is not published in this report, but...