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Identifier: reports9190miss (find matches)
Title: (Reports)
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Missouri. Division of Geological Survey and Water Resources
Subjects: Geology Mines and mineral resources
Publisher: Rollo (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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creek rises in the hills about a mile and a half a littlenortheast of the source of Three Hill creek, flows about four milesalmost due north and empties into Big river about a half a milefrom the mouth of Three Hill creek. Hopewell creek rises about a mile south of Summit, in the westcentral part of the sheet, flows about three and a half miles south-east where it empties into Big river. In addition to those above named there are fourteen or fifteenshort branches most of which are southward flowing tributaries ofthe Big river. For a distance of six miles the St. Francois river flows in asouthwesterly direction across the southeastern corner of this area.A part of its course is between steep bluffs, the remainder beingthrough a narrow flood plain. It receives several small tributaries,the principal one being Doe Run branch. This stream rises in thehills about three miles south of Elvins, flows south a mile and aquarter, emptying into the St. Francois river about a mile and a Figure I.
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Contour Interval SOFfc DIVIDES. 7 half west of Loughboro. The St. Francois river empties into theMississippi river about fifty miles south of Memphis, Tenn. Intermittent nature of the streams.—Some of the streams, likeDavis creek, lose their water through crevices which carry it underground. Other streams in this region are fed by springs whichrender them perennial. However, many of the smaller tributariesare maintained entirely by the surface drainage, as a result ofwhich they are intermittent. Likewise many of the springs areintermittent on account of which the volume of water carried bythe perennial streams fluctuates very greatly from one season toanother. Again some of the streams are perennial through por-tions of their course and intermittent through the remaining dis-tance. Davis creek, a tributary of Flat river, for example, is fedby springs but the water, during the dry spells, all disappears ina zone of faulting which crosses the channel about a mile from itsmouth. Anothe

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