Sedimentary rocks, their relation to the Pleistocene rhyolitic welded tuffs, and their structure along the south and southeast sides of the Basin Creek uplift. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Circa 1967.
Dates
Date Taken
1967
Summary
Album caption and index card: Telephoto panorama showing the sedimentary rocks, their relation to the Pleistocene rhyolitic welded tuffs, and their structure along the south and southeast sides of the Basin Creek uplift in southern Yellowstone National Park. This view is northeast from about 1 mile north-northeast of milepost 15 on the southern boundary of the park; Mount Sheridan is 9 miles from the camera point. Mississippian Madison Limestone; cliff and slope of Pennsylvanian Tensleep Sandstone and Pennsylvanian and Mississippian Amsden Formation; Permian Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, showing characteristically patchy tree growth, and chert beds arched into a dome - for the last quarter century or more has been called [...]
Summary
Album caption and index card: Telephoto panorama showing the sedimentary rocks, their relation to the Pleistocene rhyolitic welded tuffs, and their structure along the south and southeast sides of the Basin Creek uplift in southern Yellowstone National Park. This view is northeast from about 1 mile north-northeast of milepost 15 on the southern boundary of the park; Mount Sheridan is 9 miles from the camera point. Mississippian Madison Limestone; cliff and slope of Pennsylvanian Tensleep Sandstone and Pennsylvanian and Mississippian Amsden Formation; Permian Phosphoria Formation and related rocks, showing characteristically patchy tree growth, and chert beds arched into a dome - for the last quarter century or more has been called Val Dome in honor of a lady by that name; Triassic Chugwater Formation, with its surface fluted by southwestward-moving ice, and its members that are described in the Snake River measured section 2 miles from the camera point - Red Peak Member, Alcova Limestone Member, cliff of Crow Mountain Sandstone Member, and cliff of Popo Agie Member; Jurassic Gypsum Spring Formation; Jurassic Sundance Formation, characteristically devoid of trees, and its lower part; Lower Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic Cloverly Formation and Morrison(?) Formation; Upper Cretaceous Frontier Formation at approximate site of large fossil collection described in the text; Paleocene and Upper Cretaceous Pinyon Conglomerate; volcaniclastic rocks of the Eocene Absaroka Volcanic Supergroup; Pleistocene or Pliocene Heart Lake Conglomerate (type section); Pleistocene Huckleberry Ridge Tuff; Pleistocene Lava Creek Tuff on the west wall of Heart River Canyon; large Quaternary landslides in Cretaceous shales. Measured section of Jurassic rocks east of Red Creek meadow, described in text. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Circa 1967.
Published as Frontispiece in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional Paper 729-D. 1975.
Photos ljd00104, ljd00105, ljd00106, and ljd00107 form a panorama.
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Love, J.D. Collection.
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