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Album caption: Uncompahgre quadrangle, Colorado. Pre-Cambrian rocks in Black Canyon. Showing two distinct granitic injections into schists, representation the older and younger type of granite intrusions. 1/50 sec., 8 stop. 12/14/11. Handwritten notes on album caption: Gunnison Co.
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Album caption: Uncompahgre quadrangle, Colorado. From north rim of Black Canyon, ½ mile west of Cottonwood Gulch looking westward into the canyon. 8 stop, 3/25 sec. Sun screen. 7/10/13. Handwritten notes on album caption: Gunnison Co. No index card. Note: Published as plate XVII-C in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 166. 1932.
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Album caption: Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colo. Cimarron Canyon through which the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad enters the Black Canyon. Handwritten notes on album caption: Montrose County. 1909. No index card.
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Album caption: (Same as 519) Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colo. Cimarron Canyon through which the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad enters the Black Canyon. Handwritten notes on album caption: Montrose County. 1909. No index card.
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Album caption: (Same as 519) Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colo. Cimarron Canyon through which the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad enters the Black Canyon. Handwritten notes on album caption: Montrose County. 1909. No index card.
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Album caption: See photograph number 390. Index card: Different views of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument. Montrose County, Colorado. n.d.
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Album caption: See photograph number 390. Index card: Different views of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument. Montrose County, Colorado. n.d.
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Album caption: Curecanti Needle, six miles downstream from head of Black Canyon. Thousand-foot cliffs of Curecanti Quartz Monzonite, left. Old roadbed and shed of narrow-gage railroad (left foreground) abandoned in the 1940s. The Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Gunnison County, Colorado 1962. No index card. Note: Published as figure 11 in U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 1191. 1965.
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Album caption and index card: Greatest cliff in Colorado, Painted Wall, averages about 2,250 feet from rim to river. Cliff is carved from gneiss interlaced with pegmatite dikes. Deep fissures to the right of center are controlled by weathering along joints. The Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument. Grizzly Ridge quadrangle, Montrose County, Colorado. 1962. Note: Published as frontispiece in U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 1191. 1965.
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Album caption and index card: Different views of the Painted Wall. Cliff is carved from gneiss interlaced with pegmatite dikes. Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument. Montrose County, Colorado. n.d.
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Album caption and index card: Chasm Wall, at the north end of vernal Mesa, has a nearly vertical drop of 1,800 feet. Only the upper half of the cliff is shown in this view. Rock is vernal Mesa Quartz Monzonite. Exfoliation along vertical joints contributes to sheerness. The Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument. Grizzly Ridge quadrangle, Montrose County, Colorado. 1962. Note: Published as figure 5 in U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 1191. 1965.
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Album caption and index card: Pegmatite dike intruding biotite gneiss in Black Canyon, about two-fifths mile downstream from the mouth of Red Rock Canyon. Dike stands out because of superior erosive resistance. Note similar dikes in cliffs above. Red Rock Canyon quadrangle, Montrose County, Colorado. 1962. Note: Published as figure 13 in U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 1191. 1965.
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Album caption: Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colo. The Cureanti Needle. Alt 795 feet above the railroad. Handwritten notes on album caption: Gunnison, Co., Colo. 1909. No index card.


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