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Title: Annual report. 1st-12th, 1867-1878
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Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U. S. ); United States. General Land Office; United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES. 39 sources of the East Fork and in the mountains at the head of the Upper Yellowstone above the lake. Some of the hij>hest mountains in the Northwest are capped with these volcanic breccias arranged in horizon- tal strata, and showing most clearly that the agent was water. In almost all cases these stratified breccias are perfectly horizontal from base to summit, thereby indicating the probability that there has been no important movement of the earth's crust since their deposition. We Fig. 4.
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VOLCANIC BRECCIA AT THE HEAD OF CANON AND ROCK CREEKS. must conclude, then, that at a comparatively modern date the waters so covered these mountain-ranges of the Northwest that not even the sum- mits of the loftiest peaks were above the surftice. It is barely possible that we might make an exception in the case of the Grand Tetons. AVe may suppose that the materials were supplied from the numberless vol- canic fissures in unlimited quantities in a comparatively brief space of time; but the period which would be required for the waters to arrange

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