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Title: General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 Miner, Roy Waldo, 1875-1955
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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untains. 5. Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, in-cluding the geyser basins and RockyMountain type of topography. 6. The Pikes Peak, Colorado, model,showing the mountain composed of redgranite, and the bordering stratified de-posits of the Great Plains near ColoradoSprings. 7. The caldera of Mt. Mazama, fivemiles in diameter and two thousand feetdeep, which has been made a NationalPark, and has become famous under thename Crater Lake. Numerous outpour-ings of lava suggest the structure andhistory of the ancient volcano. 8. The Standing Stone district nearMonterey, Tennessee, showing normalsubaerial erosion and the production ofsink holes in horizontally disposed bedsof limestone and shale. Continuing on the opposite side of thehall are the following models: 9. The Mt. Tom-Mt. Holyoke districtol western Massachusetts, showing a greattrough, traversing the ancient crystallinerocks, which was filled with the sands,muds and intruded lava flows in Triassiclime. 10. 1 he Watkins Glen-Seneca Lake 24
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