Research Catalog

Title

Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America / edited by Stanley S. Beus.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Beus, Stanley S.
• Geological Society of America. Rocky Mountain Section
• Decade of North American Geology Project

Description

xx, 475 p. : ill., maps (some col.); 29 cm.

Series Statement

Centennial field guide ; v. 2

Uniform Title

Centennial field guide ; v. 2.

Subject

• Geology > Rocky Mountains Region > Guidebooks
• Rocky Mountains > Guidebooks

Genre/Form

Guidebooks

Note

• "One of a six-volume set of Centennial field guides prepared under the auspices of the regional Sections of the Geological Society of America as a part of the Decade of North American Geology (DNAG) Project"--Pref.
• Maps on lining papers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

The Athabasca glacier, Canada -- The Milk River Canyon -- Geology of the Butte mining district, Montana -- Geology of the craters of the Moon lava field, Idaho -- The Montini volcano -- Geology and evolution of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone -- Rhyolite-basalt volcanism of the Yellowstone plateau and hydrothermal activity of Yellowstone National park, Wyoming -- The White River badlands of South Dakota -- Metamorphic igneous, and sedimentary relationships on the Sioux quartzite ridge, South Dakota -- The geology of Salina canyon, Utah -- Beaver Dam Mountains, the geology Rosetta Stone for southwestern Utah -- Paradox Valley, Colorado; a collapsed salt anticline -- Monument Valley -- Geology of the Grey Mountain area -- Meteor Crater, Arizona -- Petrified forest, Arizona -- Ship Rock, New Mexico; the vent of a violent volcanic eruption -- White Sands, New Mexico.

ISBN

• 081375402X
• 0813754062 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 16438458
• SCSB-9939245

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library