Word: surveyed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...eight men who are this year taking Geology 22 under Dr. Jaggar are making a geological survey of the Middlesex Fells Park Reservation, which is about two miles north of Cambridge. The area of the reservation, about twelve square miles, has been carefully mapped topographically by the metropolitan Park Commissioners, and their chart is being used by the Harvard men as a starting point for more accurate and fine geological mapping. This region is a very important subject of study, since it illustrates many different rock formations. The structure of these formations has never been carefully worked...
...results of these investigations will probably be published by the United States Geological survey commission. The advanced work of three men of last year's class has already been prepared for publication. The note-books, theses and reports of the men in the class are made out on exactly the same plan this year and are kept as permanent records at the geological laboratory...
...class will again assemble at Meriden, Connecticut, August 6, and spend the remainder of the course in the examination and survey of the Newark rocks of the Connecticut valley...
...Newell, hydrographer of the U. S. Geological Survey, delivered an address before the Engineering Society last night, upon the investigations being made by the Division of Hydrography of the water resources of the country. His descriptions were illustrated by maps, views and diagrams, showing the operations of measuring the streams and determining the fluctuations in quantity from day to day and from season to season...
...case on the Great Plains where perennial streams are unknown and where the rich soil can not be cultivated without an artificial supply of moisture. The distribution of water beneath the surface and the depth at which it can be found are shown upon maps prepared by the Geological Survey, while the capacity and cost of reservoir sites for conserving the flow are exhibited in various reports...