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Page 153 - Numbered 391, approved May 15, 1928 (45 Stat. 534), Seventieth Congress, entitled "An Act for the control of floods on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and for other purposes...
Page 122 - River, gives, not only an increase of saturation, but an actual discharge of sediment nearly equal to the maximum, and greater than that which accompanied the maximum discharge of water. From these indications the sediment may be classified as permanently or intermittently in suspension. The amount of the former at any given time will depend almost wholly upon the proportion of the river's discharge which has been contributed by the Missouri River. The amount of the latter will depend upon I he extent...
Page 19 - Missouri, in accordance with the engineering plan set forth and recommended in the report submitted by the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War dated December 1, 1927, and printed in House Document Numbered 90, Seventieth Congress, first session...
Page 67 - River an alternation of sands and clay takes place, just such as we see now during a single season of high and low water on the river — sands and clays deposited alternately, according to the rapidity or slowness of the current. A subsequent elevation of the southern portion of the Mississippi Valley has caused the river to make...
Page 66 - Tuouiey, 18ÖO and 1858. Report on Geology of Illinois. AC Worthen. Report on Geology of Iowa. CA White. The history of the Mississippi River affords an epitome of the history of that portion of the continent embraced within the United States. Its headwaters rise in the oldest Azoic rocks, near the line of British America, from the springs...
Page 20 - President and be paid out of the appropriations made to carry on this project, is hereby created; and such board is authorized and directed to consider the engineering differences between the adopted project and the plans recommended by the Mississippi River Commission in its special report dated November 28, 1927, and after such study and such further surveys as may be necessary, to recommend to the President such action as it may deem necessary to be taken in respect to such engineering differences...
Page 67 - Mountains, together with the accumulated water from the winter rains, causes it to overflow its present banks, and there is an annual deposit of alluvium extending from the banks across to the bluffs or highlands, which border what is known as the
Page 66 - Report on Geology of Iowa. CA White. The history of the Mississippi River affords an epitome of the history of that portion of the continent embraced within the United States. Its headwaters rise in the oldest Azoic rocks, near the line of British America, from the springs and lakes of Minnesota, and its affluents drain the western slope of the Appalachian water-shed, as well as the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains. It has excavated its bed through the Palaeozoic rocks of Wisconsin. Iowa, Illinois,...
Page 66 - ... out in the rocks of Cretaceous and Tertiary age from Cairo to the Gulf, and this basin has afterwards been filled above the gravel and pebbles which covered its bottom, by two distinct materials — the lower one...