Excerpt from Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies, Vol. 44: Contents and Index; January to June, 1910
The Determination of Ordinary high-water Plane on the Pacific Coast of the United States: A Discussion. D. E. Hughes and Otto von Geldern.
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