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Northwest from Mount Hancock toward Mount Sheridan, showing Cretaceous strata on both flanks of the Wolverine Anticline. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. 1948.

Dates

Date Taken
1948

Summary

Album caption and index card: View northwest from Mount Hancock toward Mount Sheridan, showing Cretaceous strata on both flanks of the Wolverine anticline and their relation to the faulted Basin Creek uplift and overlapping Pleistocene rhyolite welded tuffs. Mount Sheridan is composed of upfaulted Pleistocene Huckleberry Ridge Tuff, and Flat Mountain is composed of rhyolite welded tuff. Shown are: Pleistocene Lava Creek Tuff; sandstones in the Frontier Formation and Cody Shale on the east flank of the Wolverine anticline and Bacon Ridge Sandstone and Harebell Formation on the west flank (Big Game Ridge in left foreground); Basin Creek hot springs area; Cretaceous and Jurassic rocks on the southeast flank of the Basin Creek uplift; [...]

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 ljd00111
number photoLibrary 22425
batch photoLibrary btch131
number_in_book photoLibrary 111

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