Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories ...

Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1876 - Geology

Contents

• Plate I Showing variability of the Lignitic beds Section looking north from Van Bibber Creek: 1
• Section at Bear Creek: 2
• Plate II Fig 1 Table Butte capped with trachyte: 3
• Plate III Monument Park Colorado: 4
• Geological map of Colorado Springs and vicinity: 5
• Sections accompanying map of Colorado Springs and vicinity: 6
• Preliminary map of eastern base of Rocky Mountains Plate IV Fig 1 Needle Rock in Glen Eyrie Triassic sandstone Fig 2 Concretions of sandstones Cr...: 7
• 74: 9
• Plate VI Fig 2 Silurian limestones resting unconformably on stratified granite Williams Cañon: 10
• Plate VII Surfacesection near Glen Eyrie Colorado: 11
• Plate VIII Gateway to the Garden of the Gods: 12
• Plate IX Cathedral Rock Garden of the Gods: 13
• Pleasant Park from the south: 14
• CONTENTS: 15
• Plate XI Longs Peak and Estes Park Colorado: 16
• Sketch and sections showing the moraines of the Upper Arkansas Valley in Colorado: 17
• Moraines of the Upper Arkansas 19 Plate XII Boulder Cañon Colorado granite: 19
• Plate XIII Chicago Lake Colorado: 20
• Plate XVI A portion of the east face of Gothic Mountain: 21
• Fig 1 Sections across the synclinal valley of Roaring Fork Fig 2 Chart of Sopris Peak: 23
• Fig 3 Section across the Sopris uplift: 24
• Fig 4 Sketch looking down Rock Creek: 25
• Fig 5 Geology of station: 27
• The Lignitic group as examined at Cañon CityColorado: 28
• Résumé of the geology along the eastern base of the Front: 39
• 41: 39
• 2234 + FORE 44: 39
• 46: 39
• Ancient lakebasinsGlacial lakesMorainal deposits in: 39
• Plate X Bluff at head of Ohbejoyful Creek: 47
• General view of the geography and geology of the Elk Mount: 50
• Report on the Geology of the Northwestern portion of the: 59
• 62: 60
• 63: 60
• 64: 60
• 65: 60
• 66: 60
• 67: 60
• 69: 60
• and: 60
• REPORT OF A C PEALE M D geologist of middle division: 63
• Introduction: 69
• Plate XIV: 72
• Section A Fig 2 Section B South from Eagle River 38 Plate III: 73
• Plate II Fold on Eagle River Fig 2 Section D: 80
• Map A Showing lines of section on Eagle River Across Eagle River to Holy Cross Mount 80 82 Across Eagle River to station 9: 81
• Plate IV: 88
• Section E Across Grand River: 88
• Plate V Bluff on Plateau Creek 42 Plate VI Bluff on Grand River near the mouth of the Gunnison From station 38 to Gunnison River: 91
• Plate VIII Fig 2 Section: 100
• Section L: 100
• Cañon: 101
• Map D Showing areas of trachorheites and lines of sections across the Gun: 131
• StratigraphyCenozoic formations: 140
• Wasatch group: 147
• Tertiary between Grand and Gunnison Rivers: 156
• Map E Showing basaltic areas between Grand and Gunnison Rivers and line: 160
• Eruptive rockstrachytestrachorheitesbasalt: 162
• 73: 167
• Economical geology: 175
• From Gunnison River westward Across the Gunnison below North Fork Across angle of Gunnison below the Grand 91: 176
• 75: 177
• 97: 178
• REPORT OF F M ENDLICH S N D: 181
• 100: 199
• Fig 2 Lizards Head: 206
• Section I From station 48 through station 49: 214
• Section VI Through station 47: 222
• Mines 999: 229
• Fig 3 Metalliferous veins near Howardville Colo: 232
• Conclusion: 239
• 85: 246
• Arrows found in the Loess woodcut in text: 255
• 94: 258
• Letter to Dr Hayden: 273
• Widdringtonia complanata: 299
• Laurus Persea præstens?: 305
• Arundo reperta: 311
• A review of the Cretaceous flora of North America: 316
• Plate I: 329
• Sequoia condita: 335
• Ficus laurophyllum: 342
• Andromeda affinis: 348
• Ampelophyllum attenuatum: 354
• 106: 363
• Figs 1 2 Aspidiophyllum trilobatum: 365
• Aralia Towneri: 365
• Lomatia Saportanea Lesqx: 365
• Hedera Schimperi: 365
• Dryophyllum Quercus salicifolium: 365
• Ancient ruins in Southwestern Colorado 369: 365
• Plate V Battlerock in the cañon of the McElmo: 365
• Plate VII Watchtower in the cañon of the McElmo: 375
• Natural history 1874: 385
• MOLLUSCA: 388
• Limax montanus: 394
• Helisoma plexata: 402
• List of authorities: 407
• REPORT OF HENRY GANNETT M E: 413
• Elevations: 429
• REPORT OF S B LADD M E northern division: 435
• REPORT OF A D WILSON: 443
• Pupilla alticola woodcut in text: 447
• 110: 448
• REPORT OF FRANKLIN RHODA: 451
• 111: 491
• GENERAL INDEX: 497
• 113: 498
• 137: 506
• SYSTEMATIC INDEX: 509
• 392: 511

Popular passages

Page 12 - ... and the most extensive and interesting conchological collection ever made in the Territories. The party was out eighty-four days, making sixty camps, and traveling one thousand two hundred and forty miles. Not a negative was broken or lost on the trip, and the naturalist's and dio'erent zoological and entomological collections came in safe.‎

Page 365 - Immediately below the house was a nearly perpendicular ascent of one hundred feet, that puzzled us for a while, and which we were only able to surmount by finding cracks and crevices into which fingers and toes could be inserted. From the little ledges occasionally found, and by stepping upon each other's shoulders, and grasping tufts of yucca, one would draw himself up to another shelf, and then, by letting down a stick of cedar, or a hand, would assist the other. Soon we reached a slope, smooth...‎

Page 449 - ... else, and even at this high elevation could be heard distinctly at the distance of fifty yards. The points of the angular stones being of different degrees of sharpness, each produced a sound peculiar to itself. The general effect of all was as if a heavy breeze were blowing across the mountain. The air was quite still, so that the wind could have played no part in this strange natural concert, nor was the intervention of a mythological Orpheus necessary to give to these trachytic stones a voice.‎

Page 370 - Formerly the aborigines inhabited all this country we had been over as far west as the head waters of the San Juan, as far north as the Rio Dolores, west some distance into Utah, and south and south-west throughout Arizona, and on down into Mexico. They had lived there from time immemorial — since the earth was a small island, which augmented as its inhabitants multiplied. They cultivated the valley...‎

Page 387 - The genital bladder is oval, with a very short duct entering the vagina above the penis-sac. Camp 9 : Hot Sulphur Springs 1 specimen. My notes taken on the spot were lost. The external characters of the animal in alcohol are unreliable ; hence the brief description. In Mr. Binney's "Notes'‎

Page 365 - In the high bluff, on the right hand in the sketch, are some of the most curious and unique little habitations yet seen. While jogging along under this bluff, fully 1,000 feet in height, and admiring its bold outlines and brilliant coloring, one of our party, sharper-eyed than the rest, descried, away up near the top, perfect little houses, sandwiched in among the crevices of the horizontal strata of the rock of which the bluff was composed. While busy photographing, two of the party started up to...‎

Page 260 - ... been chiseled by water agencies into unique forms. Indeed, viewed from a short distance they remind the explorer of one of those old cities which only exhibit their ruins as reminders of their ancient greatness. Among these grand desolations the weird, wild old stories of witchery appear plausible and possible. It is in the deep canons at the foot of stair-like projections that the earliest of those wonderful fossil treasures are found which have dono so much to revolutionize our notions of the...‎

Page 153 - The Judith River beds have their equivalent along the eastern edge of the mountains below the Lignite or Fort Union group, and also in Wyoming, and are Cretaceous, although of a higher horizon than the coal-bearing strata of Coalville and Bear River, Utah.‎

Page 369 - dozen miles down, and we came upon several little nest-like dwellings, very similar to those in Figs. 5 and 7, but only about 40 or 50 feet above the valley. Two miles farther, and we came upon the tower shown in Fig. 9, standing upon the summit of a great square block of sandstone, some forty feet in height, detached from the bluff back of it. The building, upon its summit, is square, with apertures like windows upon two faces, looking east and north, and very much ruined, but still standing in...‎

Page 381 - States lying between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west, designated, by Mr.‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories ...
• Author: Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
• Contributor: Geological Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
• Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1876
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Mar 9, 2007