A Geohydrologic Reconnaissance of the Saratoga Spring Area, Death Valley National Monument, California (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from A Geohydrologic Reconnaissance of the Saratoga Spring Area, Death Valley National Monument, California Reports of previous hydrologic work in the Saratoga Spring area are limited to=(1) A quantitative description of the area by Thompson (1929. P. 586 (2) several administrative reports by the Park Service, (3) an estimate of the flow of the spring by Robinson and (4) chemical analyses of water by Scott and Barker (1962, p. 26-27) and by the California Department of Public Health (written commun.. Because the report by Thompson (1929) has been out of print several years and because his lucid description of the area is as applicable today as it was in 1917-18, pages 586-588 of his report are quoted directly in Location and General Features and in other sections of this report. Also, a chemical analysis of water from Saratoga Spring from Thompson (1929, p. 598) is given in table 1 of this report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.