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Annals of the Former World

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by John McPhee


  geophysics: data-gathering techniques and laboratory geology magnetic field measurements methods of venting heat and Moho and oil exploration and Sierra batholith see also hot spots

  geopoetry

  George Washington Bridge site in Mississippian period site in Silurian period

  geosynclines vs. plate tectonics

  geothermal energy: California Coast Range power stations radioactive water Wyoming well-drilling projects Yellowstone geysers

  Germany: scientific drilling in Triassic period

  Gettysburg battlefields: creation of

  Gilbert, G. K.

  glacial drift: defined

  glacial erratics: in Brooklyn defined in Indiana

  Glacial Grooves State Memorial, Ohio

  Glacial Lake Agassiz

  Glacial Lake Chicago

  Glacial Lake Hackensack

  Glacial Lake Iroquois

  Glacial Lake Maumee

  Glacial Lake Passaic

  Glacial Lake Sciota

  glaciation, see alpine glaciers; continental glaciation

  Glacier Peak, Washington

  glaciers: Agassiz study of cirque future glaciation modern see also alpine glaciers; continental glaciation

  global tectonics, see plate tectonics

  Glomar Challenger

  gneiss: defined in New York City in Precambrian Wyoming

  Golconda, Nevada: and Sonomia suture

  Golconda Thrust

  gold: in California Coast Ranges Deffeyes on hydrothermal deposits electrum and glaciation sources in Sierra Nevada U.S. production Yukon drainage

  Golden Gate Bridge: and earthquakes site

  golden spike, Utah

  gold mining: coyote shafts in history hydraulic in Indiana methods see also California gold rush

  golf courses near Delaware Water Gap

  Gondwanaland

  Good, J. M.

  Goodacre, Alan

  Gosiute, Lake

  Goulding, Piercewell

  Grace, Bill

  Grand Canyon, Arizona: appearance of red rock and Colorado River Powell trip through unconformities in

  Grand Teton, Wyoming see also Teton Range, Wyoming

  Granger, Walter

  granite: along San Andreas Fault vs. granodiorite Hutton’s view of in New Hampshire in ocean crust as part of family of similar rocks pink, Wyoming Precambrian vs. rhyolite in Sierra Nevada in Toano Range and wind zircons in

  Granite Mountains, Wyoming

  granodiorite vs. andesite vs. granite in Sierra Nevada see also granite

  graphite: and diamonds

  gravity fields: gathering geophysical data

  Grayback Mountain, Utah: basalt flows

  Great Basin: vs. Basin and Range Capt. Stansbury in continental crust in evaporation vs. precipitation in mountain ranges in Pleistocene glaciation as site of future western seaway

  Great Central Valley, California: common river delta creation of described earthquakes in flatness of fold-and-thrust belt geologic history gradual rise home of Eldridge Moores I-80 in impact of hydraulic mining Moores’ backyard geologic column and reach of San Andreas family of faults rice-field contours river system of soil of in Triassic period

  Great Divide Basin, Wyoming

  Great Flood, see Noah’s Flood

  Great Lakes: age of creation of

  Great Meteor (oceanographic vessel)

  Great Meteor Seamount history as hot spot

  Great Piece Meadows, New Jersey

  Great Plains: and gangplank western edge see also midcontinent

  Great Salt Lake: age of and brine flies chemistry of floating in oolites railroad causeway across as remnant of Lake Bonneville rivers feeding

  Great Salt Lake Desert: and emigrants

  Great Sierra Nevada Unconformity

  Great Valley of the Appalachians

  Greece: Athens McPhee and Moores in Moores in Macedonia Mt. Olympus and ophiolites see also Cyprus; Macedonia

  Greenland: amount of ice and Canada

  Green River area, Wyoming age of river I-80 roadcuts and Jim Bridger power plant tunnel

  Green River Basin, Wyoming: La Barge oil field topographical vs. structural

  Green Valley Fault

  Grenville Orogeny

  griffins

  Griggs, David

  Gros Ventre River, Wyoming

  Guiana Shield

  Gutenberg, Beno

  guyots

  Hackensack, Lake

  Hackensack Valley, New Jersey: ancient contemporary viewing with Deffeyes

  Hadean Eon

  Hagen, Water

  Hailey, Wyoming

  Hall, James as founder of experimental geology and geosynclinal cycle view of James Hutton

  Halley, Edmund

  Hamilton, Warren

  Hammer Creek Conglomerate

  Hanna Basin, Wyoming

  Hares, Charles J.

  Harlech Dome

  Harris, Anita: biography of at Brooklyn College described earthquake experience employed by United States Geological Survey interest in conodonts and Jack Epstein map-editing job New York background reputation as geologist scientific papers of views on plate tectonics

  Harris, Leonard interest in conodonts

  Hastings, Lansford

  Hatteras Abyssal Plain

  Hawaii: as hot spot and Pacific Plate shield volcanoes

  Hawaiian Seamounts

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel

  Hayden, F. V.

  Hayward, California as type locality

  Hayward Fault map of

  Healdsburg Fault

  Hearst, George

  heartland, see midcontinent

  heat, methods of venting

  Hebgen Lake, Montana

  Heezen, Bruce

  Helikian time

  Herodotus

  Hess, Harry in Macedonia and ophiolites

  Hickory Run State Park

  highways: first built in New World Lincoln Highway Nimitz Freeway significance of roadcuts to geologists St. Helena Highway see also Interstate

  Himalaya: formation of marine limestone in and ophiolites and plate tectonics

  Hindu fable

  Histoire Naturelle

  Hoar, Ebenezer

  hogbacks

  hole: defined see also Jackson Hole, Wyoming

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell

  Holmes, Sherlock: as first forensic geologist

  Holocene epoch: characteristics of vs. Pleistocene epoch

  Holy Toledo cut

  Homestake Mining Company

  Hook Mountain, New Jersey

  Hopkins, Mark

  horn silver

  horseback guesses

  horses, Eocene

  Hosgri Fault

  hot spots: Ascension Island as Bermuda as blind Cape Verde Islands as Crozet Hot Spot defined Great Meteor Hot Spot Hawaii as Iceland as Kerguelen Hot Spot Labrador Hot Spot as method of venting heat midcontinent Mt. Etna as number of parallel tracks of perforations and plates Raton, New Mexico, as and seamounts shooting-star analogy St. Helena Island as study of time span of Tristan da Cunha Hot Spot Yellowstone as see also seamounts

  hot springs: in Basin and Range Calistoga, California dead and metal deposits in Pleasant Valley see also hydrothermal activity

  Houston, Texas: as geologic influence topography of

  Hsü, Kenneth Jingwha

  Hubbert, M. King

  Hudson, Henry

  Hudson Bay

  Hudson River, New York: creation of in Triassic period

  Hudson River School

  Humboldt, Alexander von

  Humboldt Range, Nevada

  Humboldt River, Nevada: in Carlin Canyon described

  Humboldt Sink, Nevada and Lake Lahontan

  Hume, David

  Huntington, Collis P.

  Hutton, James: background of finds angular unconformities as founder of modern geology ideas about ice interest in earth’s processes response to his insights sense of geologi
c time Theory of the Earth and uniformitarianism as writer

  Huxley, Thomas Henry: view of Darwin’s The Origin of Species

  hydraulic mining as catastrophic event as form of erosion impact of tailings on Great Central Valley start of

  hydrochloric acid: and carbonate rocks

  hydrothermal activity: and metal deposits

  Iacovini, Peggy

  Iapetus Ocean

  Iceland: as hot spot

  ice sheets, see continental glaciation; Wisconsinan ice sheet

  Idaho: formation of Snake River Plain stratovolcanoes

  igneous rock: enumerated in Franciscan mélange by Andrew Lawson granodiorite in church vs. granite the rest of the week language of magmatic juices, chemically differentiating mystery of 1450 plutons Palisades Sill as example of homogeneous magma resulting in multiple expressions of rock study of relationship to plate tectonics see also andesite; basalt; diabase; gabbro; granite; lava flows; magma; rhyolite; volcanism

  Illinois: impact of glaciation in Ordovician period in Pennsylvanian period in Precambrian time in Silurian period in Triassic period

  Illinois Basin

  illite

  Imamura, Akitsune

  inactive faults

  Independence Valley, Nevada

  index fossils ammonites shown young David Love by geologists see also conodonts

  India: and Antarctica collision with Asia in Cretaceous period Deccan Plateau flood basalts and Madagascar map of spread-apart coast with Madagascar movement of and plate tectonics and polar-wander issue in Triassic period

  Indiana: gold mining in on I-80 impact of glaciation Indiana Dunes Lake James lakes in map of northeastern corner of in Ordovician period in Pennsylvanian period in Silurian period in Triassic period

  Indian Ocean: hot spots

  Indians: Cheyenne Lenape Minsi Paiute Shoshoni Sioux Yalesumni

  Indo-Australian Plate

  Indonesia

  Inness, George

  inselberge

  Interstate 80: California physiographic cross section Cambrian physiographic time line and Cheyenne Belt contemporary physiographic time line crossing Midcontinent Rift Deffeyes’ view at Delaware Water Gap and emigrant wagon trail Eocene physiographic time line exotic terranes near and gangplank highest point impact of wind maintenance of Mississippian physiographic time line Ordovician physiographic time line Pennsylvanian physiographic time line potential as geological experience Precambrian physiographic time line Silurian physiographic time line Triassic physiographic time line tunnels in Wyoming see also roadcuts

  ion-exchange chromatography

  Iowa: drilling into in Ordovician period in Pennsylvanian period in Precambrian time in Triassic period

  Iran

  iridium

  iron: oxidation of Precambrian origins role in determining rock age see also paleomagnetism

  living, Ted

  island arcs: accretion tectonics in Archean Eon Choco Terrane Coast Range Ophiolite collisions with western North America and Colorado and formation of Rocky Mountains in Jurassic period last midcontinent dockings list of map illustrating accretion and ophiolitic emplacement orange-cut analogy and plate tectonics Precambrian in Proterozoic Eon role in assembling of California Smartville Block Sonomia and subduction zones and Taiwan volcanic origins see also exotic terranes

  islands, undiscovered

  isostatic adjustment

  isotopes, radioactive see also radiometric dating

  Italy: geologic history and ophiolites

  Jackson, David

  Jackson, William Henry

  Jackson Hole, Wyoming 1983 earthquake complexity of landscape described map of in Miocene epoch as movie setting

  James, Lake

  Japan: earthquake studies as island arc movement toward North America and Pacific Plate

  Japan Trench

  Java Trench

  Jedburgh, Scotland

  Jenny Lake, Wyoming

  Jersey Valley, Nevada

  JOIDES Resolution

  Juan de Fuca Plate and accretionary wedges

  Judah, Theodore

  Jumping-Off Draw, Love Ranch, Wyoming

  Juniata sandstone

  Jurassic period: characteristics of naming of and Smartville Block

  Kalahari Craton

  kame-and-kettle topography

  Kankakee Arch

  Kansas: drilling into elevation of

  Keewaytin, Canada: and Great Meteor Hot Spot

  Kelleys Island, Ohio

  Kelvin, Lord: estimate of age of earth

  Kerguelen Hot Spot

  kettles: defined in Indiana

  Kilauea volcano

  Killpecker Creek, Wyoming

  kimberlite: characteristics of and craton defined and hot spots pipes as source of diamonds

  King, Clarence

  Kittatinny Mountain, New Jersey

  Kleinspehn, Karen: described at Great Salt Lake study of roadcuts view of rocks as unorganized

  klippe: Acropolis as

  Knadler Lake, Wyoming

  Knight, Samuel H.

  Kodiak Island

  Krakatoa

  Kraus, Mary

  Krogh, Thomas E.

  Kuhn, Thomas

  Kuril Trench

  laboratory geology: vs. field geology instruments and tools rock-dating methods at University of Kansas see also black-box geology; radiometric dating

  Labrador Hot Spot

  La Honda Fault

  Lahontan, Lake

  Lake, Pearl

  lakes: Boundary Waters Area, Minnesota ephemeral nature of formation in Great Basin glacial in Indiana on Laramie Plains and limestone in Teton Range

  Lamb, Linda

  Lammermuir Hills, Scotland

  Lander, Wyoming

  landfill: and earthquakes

  landmasses: and Old νs. New Geology see also continents; exotic terranes

  language, geological argot for Precambrian dates of rocks

  Lapworth, Charles

  Laramide Orogeny

  Laramie, Wyoming David Love in

  Laramie Plains, Wyoming

  Laramie Range, Wyoming: and age of Laramie River and Cheyenne Belt creation of in Precambrian time

  Laramie River, Wyoming age of

  Lassen Peak, California

  lateritic soil

  Laurasia

  Lava Creek ash

  lava flows: in Basin and Range cooling of basalt in New Jersey origins of and Teton Range see also basalt; magma; volcanism

  Lawrence Radiation Laboratory

  Lawson, Andrew names Franciscan mélange names San Andreas Fault views on California earthquakes

  Lawson, John Cuthbert

  LeConte, Joseph

  Lenape Indians and Penn family

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Le Pichon, Xavier

  Liassic time

  limestone: Acropolis example in Appalachian region in Basin and Range as building material changing into dolomite and conodonts in highway surface Jurassic Pennsylvanian Permian in Pine Bluffs and Smartville Block as summit of Mt. Everest testing for and tooth decay transforming into marble in Wyoming

  Lincoln Highway

  Lindgren, Waldemar

  Lippincott, Sara

  Lipps, Jere

  lithosphere: defined see also plate tectonics

  Litvak, Herschel

  Loma Prieta earthquake fate of reservoirs maximum jump and Nimitz Freeway path of travel in region of restraining bend and San Andreas Fault and San Francisco skyscrapers source of name spread of pressure wave

  London, Jack

  Longabaugh, Harry

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

  Long Island, New York: impact of glaciation

  Los Angeles Basin, California

  Lost Soldier, Wyoming

  Love, Allan

  Love, Charles

  Love, David: as adjunct professor background of and blind men and elephant fable children of college education of described des
cribed by his wife employed by Shell Oil Company employed by United States Geological Survey environmental views home in Laramie horseback guesses initial interest in geology meets and marries Jane Matteson publishes abstract on seismic activity in Yellowstone Park region reputation as geologist studies of Teton Range thousand-mile socks of twice senior author of Wyoming geologic map uranium discoveries view of resource projects

  Love, Ethel Waxham: arrives in Rawlins, Wyoming courted by John Love journey to Red Bluff Ranch at Love Ranch as Wyoming schoolteacher

  Love, Jane Matteson

  Love, John background courts Ethel Waxham

  Love, Phoebe

  Lovelock, Nevada

  Love Ranch cowboys David Love returns to loss of livestock steadings and uranium mining on U.S.G.S. map visitors to

  Lowell, James Russell

  Lucas, Ormel

  Lupton, Charles T.

  Lyell, Sir Charles adopts Agassiz’s glaciation theory advances Hutton’s theory and naming of Cenozoic epochs publishes Principles of Geology

  Lyman irrigation project

  Macedonia: geologic history McPhee with Moores in Moores in and ophiolites

  MacGregor, Ian

  Madagascar: and Africa and India map of spread-apart coast with India

  made ground, see landfill

  Madeira: as hot spot

  Madison limestone

  magma: and batholiths creation of dating of diorite vs. andesite: and formation of Jackson Hole gabbro vs. basalt granite vs. rhyolite magmatic juices, chemically differentiating and Palisades Sill and plates and volcanic necks and zircons see also lava flows; volcanism

  magnesium: in dolomite

  magnetic fields: determining latitudes gathering geophysical data reversals

  magnetic poles

  magnetic signatures

  magnetite

  magnetometers proton-precession

  Malpas, John

  Manhattan, New York City: building façades Fifth Avenue geology of

  Manila Trench

  Manlius, Lake

  mantle: under basin and range boundary with ocean crust characteristics of example in Macedonia floating of rocks on heat rising from as magma piano-wire analogy and plate tectonics viscosity of

  maps, accompanying text: listed

  maps, geologic: Composite Magnetic Anomaly Map of the United States creating and field work in magnetic and gravity analysis remapping surface nature of as textbooks on one sheet of paper

  marble: in Great Valley of the Appalachians Hutton’s view of in Manhattan Parthenon example transforming dolomite into transforming limestone into see also dolomite; limestone; metamorphic rock

 

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