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Geology of the Henry Mountains

Monograph
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https://doi.org/10.3133/70038096

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Abstract

If these pages fail to give a correct account of the structure of the Henry Mountains the fault is mine and I have no excuse. In all the earlier exploration of the Rocky Mountain Region, as well as in much of the more recent survey, the geologist has merely accompanied the geographer and has had no voice in the determination of either the route or the rate of travel. When the structure of a mountain was in doubt he was rarely able to visit the points which should resolve the doubt, but was compelled to turn regretfully away. Not so in the survey of the Henry Mountains. Geological exploration had shown that they were well disposed for examination, and that they promised to give the key to a type of structure which was at best obscurely known; and I was sent by Professor Powell to make a study of them, without restriction as to my order or method. I was limited only in time, the snow stopping my work two months after it was begun. Two months would be far too short a period in which to survey a thousand square miles in Pennsylvania or Illinois, but among the Colorado Plateaus it proved sufficient. A few comprehensive views from mountain tops gave the general distribution of the formations, and the remainder of the time was spent in the examination of the localities which best displayed the peculiar features of the structure. So thorough was the display and so satisfactory the examination, that in preparing my report I have felt less than ever before the desire to revisit the field and prove my conclusions by more extended observation.
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Unnumbered Series
Title Geology of the Henry Mountains
Series title Monograph
DOI 10.3133/70038096
Year Published 1877
Language English
Publisher Government Printing Office
Publisher location Washington, D.C.
Contributing office(s) U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region
Description x, 160 p.; 5 Plates
First page i
Last page 160
Country United States
State Utah
Other Geospatial Henry Mountains
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