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040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aQE691$b.D86 2001
082 00 $a551.7/8/0979132$221
100 1 $aDutton, Clarence E.$q(Clarence Edward),$d1841-1912.
245 10 $aTertiary history of the Grand Cañon District /$cClarence E. Dutton ; with an introduction by Wallace Stegner and a new foreword by Stephen J. Pyne.
250 $a1st University of Arizona Press ed.
260 $aTucson :$bUniversity of Arizona Press,$cc2001.
300 $axxv, 264 p. :$bill. ;$c29 cm.
500 $aReprint of the 1882 ed. published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, which was issued as vol. 2 of its Monographs.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: ABSTRACT OF THE MONOGRAPH----- 1 -- CHAPTER I.-GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE TOPOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGIC FEATURES OF THE -- GRAND CANON DISTRICT9 -- II.-THE MESOZOIC TERRACES UPON THE NORTHERN BORDER OF THE DISTRICT 26 -- III.-A DESCRIPTION OF THE VERMILION CLIFFS AND OF THE VALLEY OF THE VIRGEN. 51 -- IV.-THE GREAT DENUDATION61 -- V.-THE TOROWEAP VALLEY AND THE MIDDLE PORTION OF THE GRAND CARON 78 -- VI.--THE UINKARET PLATEAU101 -- VII.-A JOURNEY FROM KANAB ACROSS THE DESERT TO THE KAIBAB PLATEAU AND TO -- THE BRINK OF THE CHASM122 -- VlII.-THE SCENERY OF THE GRAND CANON IN THE KAIBAB DIVISION VIEWED FROM -- POINT SUBLIME140 -- IX.-THE AMPHITHEATERS OF THE KAIBAB DIVISION157 -- X.-STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF THE KAIBAB PLATEAU183 -- XI.-THE PARIA PLATEAU AND THE MARBLE CANON PLATFORM199 -- XII.-PHYSICAL HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF THE GRAND CANON DISTRICT 206 -- XIII.-THE EXCAVATION OF THE GRAND CANON-CORRASION AND WEATHERING 230 -- XIV.-THE EXCAVATION OF THE GRAND CANON-ORIGIN OF THE DETAILS OF ITS EROSION. 250.
650 0 $aGeology, Stratigraphic$yTertiary.
650 0 $aGeology$zArizona$zGrand Canyon Region.
651 0 $aGrand Canyon Region (Ariz.)
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001027969.html