SUBJECT INDEX 



707 



Water, in carbonate rocks, 629 

 in oil reservoirs, 580 

 of plasticity, 467 



spreading of, in soil erosion control, 427 

 supplies of, 81, 113-123, 257, 265, 645, 



650 

 underground, 14 

 Water-bearing properties of rocks, 116, 



123 

 Water-bearing sand, 207 

 Water capacity of sediments, 114 

 Water content, 30, 33, 76, 80, 100, 101, 

 136, 198, 199, 203, 235, 467, 567, 

 580, 608, 645 

 relationship of, to strength, 97 

 Water drive in oil production, 583 

 Water table, 16, 96, 105, 128, 138, 167, 



176, 193, 195, 204, 513 

 Watershed treatment, 340, 380 

 Waterways Experiment Station, 70, 210, 



223, 317, 645 

 Watts Bar Dam, 162 

 Waves, 7, 19, 23, 279, 284, 394, 661, 662 



energy of, 23 

 Weasel in landing operations, 268 

 Weather forecasting, 76 

 Weathering, 4, 55, 57, 130, 147, 153, 165, 

 235, 441, 448, 513, 519, 638, 648 

 chemical, 5 

 factors of, 4 

 Weathering cycle, 541 

 Weathering test, 153, 162 

 Weber formation, Utah, 528, 594, 599 

 Weches glauconite, 514 

 Weight-accumulation curve, 477 

 Weirs, 184, 319 

 Well cores, 569 

 Well drilling, 118, 267 

 Well logs, 117, 560-570 

 Well points, 224 



Well survey, electric, 81, 562-565 

 Wepo Wash, Ariz., 427 

 West Edmond Field, Okla., 626 

 West Virginia, 135, 382 

 Westergaard's center-loading formula, 

 143 



Wettability, 597, 630 



White River, S. D., 382 



Willamette River, Ore., 189 



William Penn Highway, 142 



Willow growths in bank protection, 214, 

 429 



Wind, 7, 12, 19, 20, 119, 174, 402 



Wind-blown sand, 9, 20, 119, 207, 451 



Wind River Basin, Wyo., 411 



Winkler County, Tex., 627 



Winnowing, 18 



Winona glacial till, 46 



Wisconsin, 117, 119, 122, 382, 481, 506, 

 510, 547 



Wisconsin Alumni Research Founda- 

 tion, 3 



Wisconsin River, 329 



Wolf, Ohio, 385 



Wolframite, 488, 541 



Woodbine formation, Tex., 599 



Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 

 660 



Workability of soil, 638 



Wurttemberg oolitic ores, 517 



Wynooche River, Wash., 385 



Wyoming, 25, 27, 121, 239, 382, 411, 451 



X 



X-ray, 127 



Yadkin River, N. C, 382 

 Yolo soil, 44, 53 

 Youghiogheny Dam, 190 

 Yuma, Ariz., 371, 374, 467 



Z 



Zamora soils, 44 

 Zanthosiderite, 512 

 Zeeland, 236 



Zinc, 84, 524, 528, 540, 542 

 Zinc content of glacial till, 540 

 Zinc deposits, 525, 530, 543 

 Zircon, 475, 489, 572 



