- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource) : illustrations, maps +
- Series Statement
- Geological Survey professional paper ; 505
- Uniform Title
- Geological Survey professional paper ; 505.
- Alternative Title
- Rocks and landscape of a famous New Mexico ranch
- Subjects
- Note
- "The geologic story of the last billion eventful years in the Philmont Ranch region, where the Cimarron Range rises from the High Plains."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Source of Description (note)
- Title from title screen (viewed September 24, 2014).
- 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.
- Call Number
- GPO Internet I 19.16:505
- OCLC
- marcive1021851308
- Author
Robinson, G. D. (Gershon Du Vall), 1918- author.
- Title
Philmont country : the rocks and landscape of a famous New Mexico ranch / by G.D. Robinson [and three others]; illustrated by John R. Stacy.
- Publisher
Washington : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1964.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Geological Survey professional paper ; 505
Geological Survey professional paper ; 505.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Stacy, John R., illustrator.
Geological Survey (U.S.), issuing body.
- Other Form:
Print version: Robinson, G. D. (Gershon Du Vall), 1918-. Philmont country, the rocks and landscape of a famous New Mexico ranch (DLC)gs 64000234 (OCoLC)2118207
- Gpo Item No.
0624 (online)
- Sudoc No.
I 19.16:505