Bowman, Amos. REPORT OF THE GEOLOGY OF THE MINING
DISTRICT OF CARIBOO, BRITISH COLUMBIA. Dawson. 1888. Wraps. Large
folding maps. Fine
& clean. INV#1180. For price and availability email
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Williams, Howel (editor). Landscapes of Alaska: their Geologic
Evolution, prepared by members of the United States Geological
Survey.
1958. Berkeley, University of California Press, 148 pages. 23
plates.
folding maps (part colored), tables. (Geology and geography of the
National Park Service's recreation survey of Alaska, pt. 4, v.
1).
[keywords: Geology--Alaska. Description and travel -Alaska]. Color
frontis tipped in. A classic!
TABLE OF CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION
by John C. Reed and Howell Williams; SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA by John
C.
Reed; GULF OF ALASKA AREA by Don J. Miller; WRANGELL MOUNTAINS by
Robert F. Black; COPPER RIVER PLATEAU by Robert F. Black;
TALKEETNA
MOUNTAINS by Farrell F. Barnes; COOK INLET-SUSITNA LOWLAND by
Farrell
F. Barnes; THE ALASKA RANGE by Clyde Wahrhaftig; ALASKA
PENINSULA-ALEUTIAN ISLANDS by Howard A. Powers; LOWLANDS AND
PLAINS OF
INTERIOR AND WESTERN ALASKA by Robert F. Black; INTERIOR HIGHLANDS
OF
WESTERN ALASKA by Joseph M. Hoare; INTERIOR HIGHLANDS OF EASTERN
ALASKA
by Robert M. Chapman; SEWARD PENINSULA by J. P. Hopkins and D. M.
Hopkins; BROOKS RANGE by George Gryc; ARCTIC SLOPE by George Gryc;
ISLANDS OF THE BERING SEA by George M. Flint, Jr. APPENDIX: GEOLOGIC TIME
SCALE; GLOSSARY; INDEX .OF GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES. PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES:
Parts of the St. Elias Range and Malaspina Glacier; Hubbard
Glacier
entering Disenchantment Bay, Yakutat Bay area; Mount Crillon
(12,726
feet) and Brady Glacier; Mount Crillon (12,726 feet) viewed across
Johns Hopkins Inlet; Nunatak Fiord, Yakutat Bay; Part of the
Chugach
Range, including Mount Witherspoon (12,023 feet); Perspective
diagram
of Upper Cook Inlet area showing setting of
Anchorage; Mount Sanford and the Wrangell Mountains; Sourdough
Peak in
the southern foothills of the Wrangell Mountains; Cliffs of
Triassic
limestone in the southeastern Wrangell Mountains; Mount McKinley
from
the northeast; Part of the Alaska Range, including Mount McKinley;
Eocene coals and sandstones on Lignite Creek, near Healy;
Recessional
moraines on the north side of Iliamna volcano; Caldera of Katmai
volcano; Head of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes; Dacite dome on
the
south Hank of Trident volcano; Shishaldin volcano, Unimak Island;
Placer gold mining near Fairbanks; Typical upland terrain,
northern
Seward Peninsula; Mount Doonerak from Amawk Mountain, Brooks
Range;
Highest part of the Brooks Range; Polygonal ground and thaw lakes
near
Skull Cliff, southwest of Barrow. MAPS
(some folding):
Physiographic provinces of Alaska; Southeastern Alaska; Gulf of
Alaska
area, Wrangell Mountains, Copper River plateau, Talkeetna
Mountains,
Cook Inlet and Susitna lowland, and Alaska Range; Alaska
Peninsula-Aleutian Islands; Lowlands and plains of interior and
western
Alaska; interior high-lands of western and eastern Alaska; Seward
Peninsula; Brooks Range and Arctic Slope. FIGURES:
Evolution of Okmok caldera, Umnak Island; Present areas occupied
by
glaciers and by permafrost, and areas formerly covered by glaciers
at
the time of their maximum spread during the Pleistocene period;
Development of the Bering Sea Land Bridge. Howel Williams,
a
Professor of Geology at Berkeley, was a world-famous volcanologist.
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