Mount Carbon, a laccolith of porphyry intruded into the coal measures. Gunnison County, Colorado. 1907.
Dates
Date Taken
1907
Summary
Mount Carbon, a laccolith of porphyry intruded into the coal measures. Porphyry was intruded at about the horizon of coal and displaced some or all of the coal beds. The north slope at the right is probably the original upper surface of the intruded mass. At the extreme right the sedimentary rocks are upturned on the flanks of the laccolith. Gunnison County, Colorado. 1907. Plate 12-A in U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 510. 1912.
Summary
Mount Carbon, a laccolith of porphyry intruded into the coal measures. Porphyry was intruded at about the horizon of coal and displaced some or all of the coal beds. The north slope at the right is probably the original upper surface of the intruded mass. At the extreme right the sedimentary rocks are upturned on the flanks of the laccolith. Gunnison County, Colorado. 1907. Plate 12-A in U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 510. 1912.
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