Philmont country : the rocks and landscape of a famous New Mexico ranch / by G.D. Robinson [and three others]; illustrated by John R. Stacy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robinson, G. D. (Gershon Du Vall), 1918- (Author)
Corporate Author: Geological Survey (U.S.) (Issuing body)
Other Authors: Stacy, John R. (Illustrator)
Language:English
Published: Washington : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1964.
Series:Geological Survey professional paper ; 505.
Subjects:
Geology > New Mexico > Colfax County.
Geology.
New Mexico > Colfax County.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations, maps + 6 plates.
Variant Title:
Rocks and landscape of a famous New Mexico ranch
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • What this book is about
  • A bird's-eye view: the Philmont landscape
  • Landforms
  • Water on the land: creeks and lakes
  • Climate
  • A closer view: the rocks, fossils, and water beneath the land
  • Rocks beneath the plains
  • Gravel and sand
  • Black shale and orange shale
  • Grey limestone
  • Dark mica-rich lamporphyre
  • Brown andesite
  • Rocks of the benchlands
  • Yellow sandstone and conglomerate
  • Light-gray sandstone
  • Shale
  • Dark basalt
  • Dacite porphyry
  • Andesite
  • Coal
  • Rocks of the hummocky hillsides
  • Rocks of the rugged mountains
  • Spotted dacite porphyry
  • Striped gneiss and schist
  • Garnet schist
  • Quartzite
  • Diorite porphyry
  • Pink granodiorite
  • Yellow and gray quartz sandstone
  • Red sandstone and conglomerate
  • Red shale and black shale
  • Limestone conglomerate
  • Basalt
  • Red bomb beds
  • Pepper-and-salt diorite
  • Rubble
  • Ore deposits?
  • Thoughts about rocks
  • Water in the ground: the lake beneath us
  • A cake of many layers: the rock sequence
  • Putting the rocks on paper: naming and mapping formations
  • When was this cake made?
  • Missing layers
  • Subsurface geologic processes at work
  • Measuring the tilt of beds
  • Deformed layers: tilted and folded rocks
  • Deformed layers: broken rocks
  • Philmont in three dimensions
  • Uplift
  • Injections of molten rock
  • Volcanic eruptions
  • Ground water in folded rocks: artesian water?
  • Shaping the landscape
  • The network of streams
  • The special history of Cimarron Creek
  • The high benchlands
  • Deer Lake Mesa: hollowed by the wind?
  • The southern benchlands, their meadows and lakes
  • The lowland plains
  • Waterfalls and mountain meadows
  • The rugged mountain country
  • Hummocky hillsides: fossil landslides
  • Glaciers?
  • Landscapes of the past
  • Restless mountains, restless plains: the geologic history of Philmont
  • Exit wondering
  • Suggested reading
  • About this book.