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Show 167 r-e se ar ch of the d norm loc2.li ty t F'Lo od Comn.i s s i.on e could not be often than nore several even .. decades. But since the Lake Bonnevd.LLe to that assume there ever, disclosed those during the of which proximately 9,000 tended the Furthermore, recession it of "uncom- A careful these geological of al- survey Great Salt Lake, significant mountain how- runoff The in wh i.ch the :floods canyons to thei dropped from feet be to the one narrow canyon walls soils Range of Dav i s County the Was2.tch as high to from the in lencth, ele'ation than In steep. geological covering tend an of less and was of unconsolidated materials d 30,000 years had been many instances appr-ox irsa'te Ly four miles were of in the certainly reasonable indeed. origin2.ted slope .. nillenia.26 is fornidablc canyons given be Topogr2.phically, course a f'r-ora in several ye a l"'s--perhaps evidence of no ture in to recur in and around the structures cepal ... wou l.d moril.y" heavy rainfall. luvial , expected once w.i de a as was 4,500 some during of :feet. areas 2.p- The the thirty-five degrees, composed largely Bonneville deposits, erode under moderate pressure. 26This VIas a solid re-pudiation by J2Ines A. Eooper, Secretary of growers Association, when in reS'Donse nent ini ti8 of the '''Oublic state the Utaf1 State \'.'001to Governor Dern's indictment of' the she e omcn Hoener- asserted that no i.rrted :!co the occur:::-ence of neriodic floods in Davis County- 4\-ior to the appe2ance of w-11i te nan. See "Shee? 22..isers 2esent CharGe of Flood Cause," Descret , EeoloEical conditions ews, Au[st 15, 1930, Sec. 2, p. 1. |
