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; [...]
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; Heart Lake Conglomerate; Pinyon Conglomerate where it rests on Lower Cretaceous rocks; and Sheridan normal fault along the break in slope. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. September 2, 1948.
Published as Figure 4 in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional Paper 729-D. 1975.
Note: Photos ljd00110 and ljd00111 form a panorama.
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Love, J.D. Collection.
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