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Panoramic view from top of Needle Mountain over the Pinal Creek area of Gila conglomerate; to the right of photo 206 is seen the Schultze ranch, surrounded by granitic hills, behind which rise the higher summits of the Pinal Range. In the middle-ground Bloody Tanks Wash may be traced from ranch down to Miami Flats near the left of photo 207. Surrounding these flats and stretching far to south, into the drainage basin of the Gila River, are the low sculptured spurs of Gila conglomerate, rising highest on the right against the slopes of the Pinal Range. Gila County, Arizona. December 17, 1901. Plates 6-C and D (in reverse order) in U.S. Geological Survey, Professional paper 12. 1903
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Form a panorama of Dry Fork valley from a little knoll on the southwest margin of the valley, Slug Creek quadrangle; former outlet; young valley of Blackfoot cycle, which now drains it. Caribou County, Idaho. Circa 1911. Plate 13-B in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 152. 1927.
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Goodpaster district, Yukon region, Alaska. 1980. Published as Figure 5 in U. S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 1170-E. 1983.
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Fault between Naco limestone, on left, and Escabrosa limestone on right, crest of Ecabrosa Ridge west of Bisbee. The view is north, the canyon on the right being that extending from Bisbee up to Mule Pass. Cochise County, Arizona. November 28, 1902. Plate 20-A in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 21. 1904.
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Gravels and sand, perhaps of kame origin, in Sunset Hill, Eliot; poorly sorted, unevenly stratified gravel. York County, Maine. Plate 12-B in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 108. 1918.
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Milk River, Lake St. Clair formed by boulders, which have protected it from erosion. Boulders along the shore have been washed out of the Emmet Moraine. Macomb County, Michigan. 1916. Plate 7 in U.S. Geological Survey. Folio 205. 1917.
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Nearer view in same general location as Ransome 770, showing constitution of a partly sandy variety: Yardstick for scale. Gila County, Arizona. 1911. Plate 22-B in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 115. 1919.
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Lake Peschang, an old oxbow lake in the Mississippi bottom 2 miles northwest of Blanding, precipitous Mississippi bluffs in distance composed of Galena dolomite. Jo Daviess County, Illinois. October 1910. Plate 9 in U.S. Geological Survey. Folio 200. 1916.
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Scaphites of the Colorado group Western interior, United States. Plate 1, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 239. 1951.
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Scaphites of the Colorado group Western interior, United States. Plate 15, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 239. 1951.
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East Spanish Peak, from the northwest, the great dike, which runs north from the West Peak, is shown in the middle ground. The ridge on the left is granite porphyry. Las Animas County, Colorado. 1896. Figure 3 in U.S. Geological Survey Folio 71. 1901.
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Blocks of Platteville limestone on eroded surface of St. Peter sandstone left in this position at foot of receding falls of river Warren. Exposed in railroad cut west of High Bridge, St. Paul. Ramsey County, Minnesota. 1914. Plate 20 in U.S. Geological Survey. Folio 201. 1916
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The small triangular mass in left center of the picture, to the left of the geologic hammer, is filled with Devonian fossils.
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Form a panoramic view of Cumberland and Columbus basins, the sharp hinge fold that characterizes the La Plata dome passes down the left side of Columbus Basin but is obscured by the large porphyry mass on Snowstorm Peak (Cumberland Mountain and Snowstorm Peak are left and right respectively in photo 32). These basins and the one at the head of the South Fork Hermosa Creek shown in the left foreground have been glaciated; view looking southeast from Indian Trail Ridge. La Plata County, Colorado. Circa 1936. Plate 6-A, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 219. 1949.
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Photomicrograph of unweathered oligoclase-mica gneiss from dump at Allatoona gold mine: with plain light showing oligoclase grains clouded with inclusions. Oligoclase, quartz, and orthoclase fill the lighter parts of the field. Other minerals ate intercrystallized micas m; calcite c; apatite a. Bartow County, Georgia. Circa 1944. Plate 6-A, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 224. 1950.
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View looking east from Hot Springs Mountain, Indian Mountain in the near distance, the level crested ridges in the far distance terminate westward in the Mazarn basin at right. Garland County, Arkansas. 1914. Plate 1 in U.S. Geological Survey. Folio 215. 1922.
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Lost River Range above Mackay, near Leatherman Pass. Custer County, Idaho. 1912. Plate 2-A in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 97. 1917.
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Form a panorama of reddish-brown (late Sangmon?) loess overlain by light buff (early Peorian?) loess with a humus-stained (old soil) zone at contact, SE 1/4 NE 1/4 sec. 11, T. 7 N., R. 13 W. Jersey County, Illinois. Circa 1928. Plate 13-C, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 218. 1952.
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Basalt plateau southeast of Keeler: Inyo County, California. 1912. Plate 11-A, U.S. Geological Survey, Professional paper 110. 1918.
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Hydraulic workings in bench gravels, Dream Gulch. The trench in the foreground is in decomposed Prichard slate. Shoshone County, Idaho. September 24, 1904, plate 17-A in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 62. 1908.


map background search result map search result map Quarry one mile west of Elmhurst where Devonian fossils were found. 1901. Quarry one mile west of Elmhurst where Devonian fossils were found. 1901.