Research Catalog

Title

The Salton Sea; a study of the geography, the geology, the floristics, and the ecology of a desert basin, by D. T. MacDougal and collaborators.

Author

MacDougal, Daniel Trembly, 1865-1958.

Publication

Washington, D. C., Carnegie institution of Washington, 1914.

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Details

Description

xi, 182 p. illus.; 30 cm.

Series Statement

Carnegie Institution of Washington. Publication no. 193

Uniform Title

Carnegie Institution of Washington publication 193.

Subject

Salton Sea (Calif.)

Note

• Three plates accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Cahuilla Basin and desert of the Colorado. By W.P. Blake.--Geographical features of the Cahuilla Basin. By G. Sykes.--Sketch of the geology and soils of the Cahuilla Basin. By E.E. Free.--Chemical composition of the water of Salton Sea and its annual variation in concentration 1906-1911. By W.H. Ross.--Variations in composition and concentration of water of Salton Sea 1912 and 1913. By A.E. Vinson.--Behavior of certain micro-organisms in brine. By J.G. Peirce.--The action of Salton Sea water on vegetable tissues. by M.A. Brannon.--The tufa deposits of the Salton Sink. By J.C. Jones.--Plant ecology and floristics of Salton Sink. By S.B. Parish.--Movements of vegetation due to submersion and desiccation of land areas in the Salton Sink. By D.T. MacDougal.--General discussion. By D.T. MacDougal.

LCCN

^^^14013390^

OCLC

• 506952
• SCSB-10132023

Owning Institutions

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