Philmont country : the rocks and landscape of a famous New Mexico ranch / by G.D. Robinson [and three others]; illustrated by John R. Stacy.
Uniform Title: | Geological Survey professional paper ;
505. |
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Language: | English |
Published: |
Washington :
United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey,
1964.
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Series: | Geological Survey professional paper ;
505. |
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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.