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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 [...]

Contacts

Data Owner :
U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
Love, John David

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Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Love, J.D. Collection.

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Type Scheme Key
name photoLibrary ljd00106
number photoLibrary 22422
batch photoLibrary btch131
number_in_book photoLibrary 106

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