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Bulletin Volume 3-6. California Division Irrigation

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Author: California Division Irrigation
Number of Pages: 178 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781235881404
File size: 43 Mb
File Name: Bulletin.Volume.3-6.pdf
Download Link: Bulletin Volume 3-6
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...an extensive niountainrirdled valley known as the Sacramento-San Joaquin, and desert areas ii thp southeastern part of the state. This region. 3:5.000 square miles n extent, includes the bulk of California's agricultural area. Higher n elevation than these flat lands, are gentle slopes lying between the Iain-like areas and the base of the mountains. These are the rolling 'mithilbi and detrital-fillcd valleys, lands that are transitional to plain md highland regions. These are located mostly Mween 500 and 2500 Vet above sea-evel, and 53.000 square miles, or about one-third the area f the state, lie between these elevations. One-quarter of the agrinltural land of the state is in this region and only the scattered parcels n high mountain valleys and that on the plateau of northeastern 'alifornia lie above it. The area above the 25(!0-foot elevation. 72,0(10 square miles in extent r about half the state's area, the mountains proper, comprise the rockIre wn slopes, steep acclivities, sheer cliffs, rocky extrusions, serrated nlge. and mountain crests--surmounted by storm-swept pinnacles. f this region, 35,000 square miles or one-fifth the surface of Caliornia. lies nhove 5000 feet. The mountain and foothill regions 'tretber. are over triple the area of the agricultural lands and receive i irreater precipitation. This mountain water-producing area sheds t- run-'fT into streams and rivers which traverse the valley and plains ireax in their course to the water channel's mouth at the ocean margin. CHAPTER II. PRECIPITATION. Man, in common with all other life on this earth, is born, passes his entire existence and dies without ever emerging from water in which he is surrounded. Covering the earth from pole to pole and extending from the ocean's greatest depths to...

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