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Title

Problems of American geology ; a series of lectures dealing with some of the problems of the Canadian shield and of the Cordilleras / delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation, in December, 1913, by William North Rice, Frank D. Adams, Arthur P. Coleman, Charles D. Walcott, Waldemar Lindgren, Frederick L. Ransome, William Diller Matthew.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press; [etc., etc.], 1915.

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Additional Authors

• Rice, William North, 1845-1928.
• Adams, Frank Dawson, 1859-1942.
• Coleman, A. P. (Arthur Philemon), 1852-1939.
• Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927.
• Lindgren, Waldemar, 1860-1939.
• Ransome, Frederick Leslie, 1868-1935.
• Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930.

Description

xvii pages, 1 leaf, 505 pages including illustrations, plates, maps : frontispiece (portrait), plates (part folded) maps (part folded) diagrams; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Yale University. Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures

Uniform Title

Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures.

Subjects

• Geology > United States
• Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895
• Geology > Rocky Mountains
• Geology > Canada

Note

• On cover: Dana commemorative lectures.

Contents

Preface, by C. Schuchert.--The geology of James Dwight Dana, by W.N. Rice.--Problems of the Canadian shield--the Archæozoic, by F.D. Adams.--The Proterozoic of the Canadian shield and its problems, by A.P. Coleman.--The Cambrian and its problems in the Cordilleran region, by C.D. Walcott.--The igneous geology of the Cordilleras and its problems, by W. Lindgren.--The Tertiary orogeny of the North American Cordillera and its problems, by F.L. Ransome.--The Tertiary sedimentary record and its problems, by W.D. Matthew.

LCCN

15004227

OCLC

ocm00562927

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries