Mount Shasta

Beebe is partieularly known for hydraulics by his 1917 Report written jointly with Ross Riegel (1881-1966). This woik, made for the Miami Conservancy District, deals with hydraulic jiunps both in prismatic and in expanding stilling basins. Until then, few experimental works were conducted on this important free surface phenomenon. The main works further were conducted for either small supercritical approach flow Froude numbers, or for extremely small approach flow depths, resulting in scale effects. The results were not readily available but demonstrated that these complex hydraulic processes were amenable by hydraulic modeling. Beebe was also involved in the 1930s in the control of debris flow at Mount Shasta In 1924, a large mud flow had deposited almost one million m of debris which muddied the Sacramento River. Beebe outlined means to coimter future similar scenarios, which had also occurred in the 19 century, and were a constant threat to the Sacramento Valley. 

Dickson, B. A., and R. L. Croker, 1954. A chronosequence of soils and vegetation near Mount Shasta, California. Part III. Some properties of the mineral soils. /. Soil Sci. 5 173. 

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