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Project Chief: Wes Danskin
Phone: 619-225-6132
Email: wdanskin@usgs.gov

Evaluation of the Hydrologic System and Selected Water-Management Alternatives in the Owens Valley, California


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Selected References

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Barometric effects on diurnal ground-water-level changes in Owens Valley, California: Irvine, University of California, School of Engineering, unpublished M.S. thesis, 105 p.
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Depositional and structural history of the Waucobi lake bed deposits, Owens Valley, California: Los Angeles, University of California, unpublished M.S. thesis, 129 p.
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Willard D. Johnson and the strike-slip component of fault movement in the Owens Valley, California earthquake of 1872: Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, v. 51, no. 4, p. 483-493.
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California Department of Water Resources, 1967b,
Review of a report by the city of Los Angeles on water supply management in Inyo and Mono Counties, California: Unpublished report, 14 p.
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Owens Valley ground water investigation, phase 1, 33 p.
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Bouguer gravity map of California, Mariposa sheet: scale 1:250,000.
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Estimates of evapotranspiration in alkaline scrub and meadow communities of Owens Valley, California, using the Bowen-ratio, eddy-correlation, and Penman-combination methods: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2370-E, 39 p.
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