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Title: The American journal of science
Identifier: americanjournal451898newh (find matches)
Year: 1880 (1880s)
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Subjects: Science
Publisher: New Haven : J. D. & E. S. Dana
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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F. L. Eansome—Lava Flows of California. 357
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indicated, and the areas of latite are drawn with ap- proximate outlines, subject to future revision. A similar explanation should also be made in regard to the corner of the map lying east of longitude 120°, which is a part of the Dardanelles sheet. The work in this portion of the area was limited to a rapid reconnoissance before the completion of the topographic map. The elevations, in the region studied, range from a general altitude of about 500 feet, near Knight's Ferry, to 9529 feet on the culminating summit of the group of peaks, in the eastern corner of the area, known as the Dardanelles, cor- responding to an average grade of 150 feet per mile. As a whole, this area is prac- tically destitute of alluvial valley-bottoms, and is drained by streams of torrential char- acter. It is traversed from end to end by the young, con- sequent Stanislaus River, in- cluding its two principal branches the North and Mid- dle Forks, and may be re- garded as a thoroughly typical transverse strip of the great tilted and dissected peneplain which forms the western slope of the Sierra Nevada. The rocks upon which this rather uneven peneplain lias been carved are those of the so- called "Bed-rock Series" of the Gold Belt folios, compris- ing rocks of Jurassic and pro- Jurassic age, with later intru- sive masses, and consisting in

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ser. 4 v. 5 1898
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