Download or read book Geology Along Going To The Sun Road written by Omer B. Raup and published by Rio Nuevo Publishers. This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this newly updated, colorful, and lively guide, Glacier National Park visitors can take a self-guided tour of the fascinating geologic events that created the park's majestic scenery. Complete with an easy-to-read foldout map that offers a three-dimensional perspective on the area's geology, Geology Along Going-to-the-Sun Road gives lay readers and geologists alike a unique opportunity to get behind-the-scenery at 21 stops along this famous highway.
Download or read book THE GEOLOGY OF THE ROUTE written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE ROUTE NEAR THE THIRTY SECOND PARALLEL PREPARED FROM THE COLLECTION AND NOTES OF CAPT POPE written by WILLIAM P. BLAKE and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidebook of the Western United States written by Nelson Horatio Darton and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hard Road West written by Keith Heyer Meldahl and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic journeys of the 19th century Gold Rush come to life in this geologist’s tour of the American West and the events that shaped the land. In 1848, news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. The dramatic terrain these settlers crossed is so familiar to us now that it is hard to imagine how frightening—even godforsaken—its sheer rock faces and barren deserts once seemed to them. Hard Road West brings their perspective vividly to life, weaving together the epic overland journey of the covered wagon trains and the compelling story of the landscape they encountered. Taking readers along the 2,000-mile California Trail, Keith Meldahl uses settler’s diaries and letters—as well as his own experiences on the trail—to reveal how the geology and geography of the West shaped our nation’s westward expansion. He guides us through a landscape of sawtooth mountains, following the meager streams that served as lifelines through an arid land, all the way to California itself, where colliding tectonic plates created breathtaking scenery and planted the gold that lured travelers west in the first place. “Alternates seamlessly between vivid accounts of the 19th-century journey and lucid explanations of the geological events that shaped the landscape traveled.”—Library Journal
Download or read book Report on the Geology of the Route Near the Thirty Second Parallel written by William P Blake and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Geology of the Road building Stones of Massachusetts with Some Consideration of Similar Materials from Other Parts of the United States written by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to the Geology Along U S Route 23 Between Columbus and Portsmouth written by Ohio. Division of Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SP035 A Geologic and Natural History Tour Through Nevada and Arizona Along U S Highway 93 written by Joseph V. Tingley and published by NV Bureau of Mines & Geology. This book was released on 2010 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Route Near the Thirty Second Parallel From the Red River to the Rio Grande Explored by Bvt Capt John Pope Top Engineers in 1854 written by William P. Blake and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Route Near the Thirty-Second Parallel, From the Red River to the Rio Grande, Explored by Bvt. Capt. John Pope, Top. Engineers, in 1854: Report on the Geology of the Route, Near the Thirty-Second Parallel, Prepared From the Collection of Notes of Capt. Pope According to the profile which Captain Pope has presented, the elevated plain of the Llano may be considered to extend from the Guadalupe mountains, or the Pecos, to a point beyond the Colorado, or the divide between it and the Brazos river. This point is feet in altitude, and from it the surface descends very regularly for nearly 275 miles, to the banks of Red river, at the termination of the line of survey, only 641 feet above the tide - level. In the descriptions by Captain Pope, however, he regards the sources of the Colorado, or the Sulphur springs, as the eastern limit of the Llano; and the character of the country indicates a change in the nature of the rocks and soil. I have, therefore, concluded that the geological for-r mation composing the surface of the Llano does not extend on the line of the trail to the east of the Sulphur springs, and I have so represented it upon the geological map. Rivers and streams.-the principal streams which traverse or take their rise in the Llano, are the Canadian and Red rivers, the Brazos and Colorado, and the Pecos. The first named flows from its sources in the mountains near Santa Fe, almost directly east, and intersects the Llano; the Pecos, also rising in the same place, flows not across the plain, but southerly, parallel with the mountain ranges, forming a long valley of erosion. The other rivers ap pear to rise near the eastern margin of the plain, and are formed by the union of nume-r rous minor affluents, after they emerge from the cations of the plateau. With very few exceptions, wherever these streams traverse or intersect the Llano, they are characterized by bold, bluff banks or walls, on either side, which are almost impassable, and confine the traveller to the tortuous course of the stream; while, above the level surface of the plain stretches out and affords a boundless prospect in every direction. The vertical banks near the sources of Red river are graphically described by Captain Marcy in his report, as follows: The gigantic escarpments of sandstone, rising to the giddy height of 800 feet on each side, gradually closed in until they were only a few yards apart, and finally united overhead, leaving a long, narrow corridor beneath, at the base of which the head Spring of the principal branch of Red river takes its rise. It The stupendous escarpments of solid rock rising precipitously from the bed of the river to such a height as for a great portion of the day to exclude the rays of the sun, were worn away by the lapse of time, and the action of the water and the weather, into the most fantastic forms, that required but little effort of the imagination to convert into works of art, and all united in forming one of the grandest and most picturesque scenes that can be im agined. Occasionally might be seen a good representation of the towering walls of a castle of the feudal ages, with its giddy battlements pierced with loop-holes, and its projecting watch-towers standing out in bold relief upon the azure ground of the pure and trans parent sky above. In other places, our fancy would metamorphose the escarpments into a bas tion front, as perfectly modelled and constructed as if it had been a production of the genius of a Vauban, with redoubts and salient angles all arranged in due order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
Download or read book Guide to the Geology Along U S Route 23 Between Columbus and Portsmouth written by Michael C. Hansen and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traveling America s Loneliest Road written by Joseph V. Tingley and published by Nevada Bureau of Mines & Geology. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to what some call America's loneliest road Highway 50 between Lake Tahoe and Great Basin National Park. It takes the reader through historic mining towns, the Nevada gold belt, ghost towns, petroglyph sites, rock collecting localities, and wildlife viewing areas along the way.
Download or read book Geological Journeys written by Nick Norman and published by Struik Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geological Journeys: a traveller's guide to South Africa's rocks and landforms is an essential companion for car journeys. How often have we wondered about the jaunty tilt of a mountain ahead, the unusual patterns of a road cutting, the colour and texture of the roadside soil, or the purpose of a distant minehead? This handy volume offers answers and explanations about features along all the major routes across South Africa, and some of the lesser, but geologically interesting, routes too. Also included are the three main metropolitan areas - Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban - so that city r.
Download or read book Report on the Geology of the Route Near the 32d Parallel written by William Phipps Blake and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue and Index of Contributions to North American Geology 1732 1891 written by Nelson Horatio Darton and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Publications of the Geological Survey written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geology and Paleontology of the Raton Mesa and Other Regions in Colorado and New Mexico written by Willis Thomas Lee and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
