Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Montana, near the border of Nevada, is the Mohave Desert, including the Valley of Death, which lies 150 feet below sea level. Here are found giant cacti, below which innumerable rattlesnakes and lizards crawl in the alkali dust...
...from 340 to 490 feet. It will consist of two masonry retaining walls on pile foundations, the space between them being filled with earth to a depth of from 15 to 50 feet. The height of the dam will be 21 feet above mean low water, about the present level of the street at the Cambridge end of Craigie bridge...
...will maintain a basin 8 miles long, and will affect the level of the water as far as the dam at Watertown. There will be 17 1-2 miles of shore-line, nearly all of which will be devoted to park purposes, the land having been purchased by the Metropolitan Park Commission and the City of Cambridge. The level of the basin will be about 2 feet below the present mean high tide level. Part of the engineering scheme for the construction of the dam provides for a temporary shut-off which will establish the level of the basin...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "The Finger Lakes of Western New York," Professor Davis; "Recent Changes of Level in Yakutat Bay, Alaska," (Illustrated,) Mr. Lawrence Martin, Geological Lecture Room...
...detailed statement of the work carried on this past year in Cambridge, and at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory. The average of the highest altitudes obtained in each of the kite-flights, made in confection with observations taken at the latter station was 6,940 feet above sea-level, and the maximum in any flight 11,180 feet...