Fossil Forests of the Yellowstone National ParkKnowlton, Frank Hall
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Fossil Forests of the Yellowstone National Park
Knowlton, Frank Hall
Paleobotany -- Yellowstone National Park; Petrified forests; Trees, Fossil -- Yellowstone National Park
National Park Portfolio, by Robert Sterling Yard. 270 pages, including
310 illustrations. Bound securely in cloth, $1.
Contains nine chapters, each descriptive of a national park and one
larger chapter devoted to other national parks and monuments.
Geological History of Yellowstone National Park, by Arnold Hague, 22
pages, including 10 illustrations, 10 cents.
This pamphlet contains a general résumé of the geologic forces that
have been active in the Yellowstone National Park.
Geysers of the Yellowstone National Park, by Walter Harvey Weed, 32
pages, including 23 illustrations, 10 cents.
In this pamphlet is a description of the forces which have produced
the geysers, and the geysers of the Yellowstone are compared with
those in Iceland and New Zealand.
Fossil Forests of the Yellowstone National Park, by F. H. Knowlton, 30
pages, including 15 illustrations, 10 cents. (This publication.)
This pamphlet contains descriptions of the fossil forests of the
Yellowstone National Park and an account of their origin.
Fishes of the Yellowstone National Park, by W. C. Kendall (Bureau of
Fisheries Document 818.) 28 pages, including 17 illustrations, 5
cents.
Contains descriptions of the species and lists of streams where found.
MAP.[3]
A topographic map of the park may be purchased from the Director of the
Geological Survey, Washington, D. C., at the price given. Remittances
should be made by cash or money order.
Map of Yellowstone National Park. size 28½ by 32 inches; scale, 2 miles
to the inch. Price, 25 cents.
The roads, trails, and names are put in black, the streams and lakes
in blue, and the relief is indicated by brown contour lines.
FOOTNOTES
[1]Hague, Arnold, Early Tertiary Volcanoes of the Absaroka Range: Geol.
Soc. Wash., Presidential Address, 1899, p. 4.
[2]Holmes, W. H., Twelfth Ann. Rept. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr.,
1878 (1883) p. 48.
[3]May be purchased by personal application at the information office in
the park, at Mammoth Hot Springs, but that office can not fill mail
orders.
Transcriber’s Notes
—Silently corrected a few typos.
—Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook
is public-domain in the country of publication.
—In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by
_underscores_.
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