The Desert Laboratory

The Vigil Network
Galena River: Description of Envelope Contents

Data Files:


S.C.H 9 December 1971

GALENA RIVER VALLEY, Wisconsin and Illinois, U.S.A.

1. Notes on Records of Galena River Valley Sedimentation Surveys (including References to Reports, and list of S.C.S. photographs).

2. Copies of parts of USGS topographic maps, showing approximate range locations.

3. Copy of 1940 data on valley cross sections, sediment areas and volumes, and bank erosion (meander plains). (9 pages)

4. Copy of Soil Conservation Service "Preliminary Report, Sedimentation Survey of Galena River Valley, Wisconsin-Illinois" 14 May 1940.

5. Copy of index of Galena notebooks in the National Archives (some original notebook numbers were changed, by persons unfamiliar with the project, before transmittal to National Archives; internal cross references in the books thus may require corrections).

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