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Identifier: annualreportofu2021geol_2 (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Subjects: Geological Survey (U.S.) Geology Water-supply Forest reserves Mines and mineral resources
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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^ of the Yakima just referred to hasbeen entertained, but not enough facts have been discovered to justifyit. It seems that the valley was formerly filled with stream-depositedgravel from side to side up to the level of the highest terrace on itsborders, and then reexcavated. Along the Teanaway, a tributary of the Yakima from the north,valley gravels again occur, and a conspicuous gravel terrace was
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LIBRARY OF ThE UNIVERSITY ILLINOIS. RCSSKI.I..) GRAVEL DEPOSITS AND TERRACES. 175 observed between 90 and LOO feet above the present stream. Thegravel deposits just referred to extend far up each of the three mainforks of the Teanaway, and in many localities have been cut into well-defined terraces. On the North Fork, just above Ryepatch, especiallycharacteristic terraces occur at 75, 80, and 113 feet above the adjacentriver. On Swauk Creek, also, typical gravel terraces occur, which haveextensions up each of its tributaries. An interesting- feature in thisregion is that the basin of the Swauk was never occupied by glacialice. Another instructive fact is that in some of the smaller tributaryvalleys the level flooring of gravel, from 70 to 80 feet deep, as shownby mining shafts, has not been trenched by modern stream erosion. Itis these valley gravels that yield placer gold near Liberty. The broad-est and highest terrace near Liberty is from 80 to 90 feet above thepresent drainage. A s

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Geological_Survey__U_S__
  • booksubject:Geology
  • booksubject:Water_supply
  • booksubject:Forest_reserves
  • booksubject:Mines_and_mineral_resources
  • bookpublisher:Washington___G_P_O_
  • bookcontributor:University_of_Illinois_Urbana_Champaign
  • booksponsor:University_of_Illinois_Urbana_Champaign
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