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Form a panorama of outer foothills east of San Emigdio creek, the smoothly rounded hills to the right are carved in the upper part of the Vaqueros formation; badlands at the left in Tertiary gravels. Kern County, California. October 31, 1912. Plate 9-A in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 116. 1920.
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Irregularly bedded sand and clay of the Woodbine sand in road cut leading down to the lower ferry at Arthurs Bluff, Red River; most of the fossil leaves from this locality described by E.W. Berry were obtained in the lower part of the section shown in the picture. Lamar County, Texas. 1924. Plate 25-B in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 154. 1929.
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North wall of Canadian Canyon, south of Gardener, a characteristic canyon wall ending in a promontory that overlooks the plain; the cottonwoods in the middle ground grow only near the stream. Pinon and juniper grow on the dry hillsides. Pierre shale on the lower slopes to right; Trinidad sandstone immediately above; Vermejo formation just left of center; lower part of Raton formation on the high ridge. Colfax County, New Mexico. 1922. Plate 3 in U.S. Geological Survey. Folio 214. 1922.
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Contact of the granite porphyry and conglomerate of Lobo formation on south slope of Fluorite ridge l mile west of Fluor camp, view looking north. The conglomerate lies on an irregular surface of the porphyry. The contact is indicated by the hammer head. Luna County, New Mexico. 1914. Plate 8 in U.S. Geological Survey. Folio 207. 1917.
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Exposure of Yarmouth (?) orange colored sands (in slope) separated from Illinoian till (at top) by a thin soil zone in road cut near Spring Creek. Emmet County, Illinois. 1915. Figure 9 in U.S. Geological Survey. Folio 208. 1919.
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Petroliferous Moenkopi strata in eastern part of Circe Cliffs: Garfield County, Utah. 1921. Plate 31-A in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 164. 1931.
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Electrum showing crystal outlines associated with quartz and sulphides. The argentite was very probably formed by the replacement of galena, but all the other minerals are believed to be alpha hypo gene. Photomicrograph of polished surface of ore from 1,260- foot level, Murray vein, Tonopah Extension mine. Nye County, Nevada. 1915. Plate 5- B, with graphics, in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 104. 1918.
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Soil bands in Pleistocene dune sands on Ste. Mary's Avenue, Prospect Park, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. 1914. Plate 19 in U.S. Geological Survey. Folio 201. 1916.
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From Florence Hill looking northwest. Esmeralda County, Nevada. 1905. Plate 12-A in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 66. 1909.
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Exposures of boulder bed member, a mile west of Housetop Mountain; knobs on hillside in middle distance are boulder of novaculite and of Pennsylvanian limestone; Caballos novaculite, Tesnus formation, Pennsylvanian limestone: diameter of each boulder given in feet (see published photo); sandstone and shales of Haymond formation underlying boulder bed member. Brewster County, Texas. June 1931. Plate 11-C, U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 187. 1937.
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Sand dollars and mollusks from Graciosa coarse-grained member of Careaga sandstone. California. Plate 19, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 222. 1950.
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Garnetite breccia in which the fragments have been partly replaced by epidote, Bluestone Mine; shows epidote and fragments of brecciated garnetite. Lyon County, Nevada. 1914. Plate 5-A in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 114. 1918.
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Late basalt flow resting on a conglomerate of basalt and other boulders: on road from Toquerville to La Verkin, Washington County, Utah. 1919. Plate 13-B in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 129. 1922.
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Divide between Queets and Queniult Rivers. Washington. Circa 1899. Plate 3-B in U.S. Geological Survey, Professional paper 7. 1902.
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Pleistocene formation on north border of Palos Verdes Hills: San Pedro sand in Richard Ball sand pit. Los Angeles County, California. October 24, 1923. Plate 20-A, U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 207. 1946.
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Little Rocky Mountains: Mission Gorge, south of St. Paul's, cut through the great limestone wall by Peoples Creek. Blaine County, Montana. July 22, 1920. Plate 9-A, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 174. 1932.
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Volcanic field in Owens Valley at the base of the Sierra Nevada, near Goodale Creek: Inyo County, California. July 2, 1913. Plate 12-A U.S. Geological Survey, Professional paper 110. 1918.
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Shale in Gasper formation with overlying Hartselle sandstone, Red Gap, just east of Gate City, northeast environs of Birmingham, the Red Gap fault, on which the movement causing the earthquake in 1914 took place, is near and along the highway. Jefferson County, Alabama. 1925. Plate 19 in U.S.Geological Survey. Folio 221. 1927
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Mount St. Elias from the south, with men and sled, Alaska, adequate substitute for plate 8-A in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 45. 1906.
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Nodosaria. Northern Alaska. Plate 25, in U.S.Geological Survey Professional paper 236. 1955.


map background search result map search result map Pleistocene formation on north border of Palos Verdes Hills. Los Angeles County, California. October 24, 1923. Pleistocene formation on north border of Palos Verdes Hills. Los Angeles County, California. October 24, 1923.