Tertiary history of the Grand Cañon District
By: Clarence E. Dutton ; with an introduction by Wallace Stegner and a new foreword by Stephen J. Pyne.
Edition: 1st University of Arizona Press ed.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Geology, Stratigraphic -- Tertiary.; Geology -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon Region.; Grand Canyon Region (Ariz.)
Description: "Originally published in 1882, Clarence Dutton's Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District has become one of the definitive books on the Grand Canyon. Commissioned as a study of the region's geology and issued by the fledgling U.S. Geological Survey, today it is admired as much for its literary as for its scientific merits. With its illustrations by Thomas Moran and William Henry Holmes, it is a seminal work on the Canyon that has never been surpassed for its eloquence and authority.".

"This new edition of Dutton's magnum opus makes that work available once again. Visitors to the Canyon will gain a new appreciation of its majesty as Dutton takes readers on several excursions among its castellated and cathedral-like peaks and ridges. Along the way, he explains the peculiar characteristics of various rocks, the water-sculpting process, volcanic cones and outflows, the extent of the river's erosion, and other geological features.".

"Dutton's Tertiary History remains arguably the most evocative and compelling geological writing ever done on the region. No one who has thrilled to the majesty of the Grand Canyon will fail to be moved by this timeless work."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Reprint of the 1882 ed. published by the U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, which was issued as vol. 2 of its Monographs.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ABSTRACT OF THE MONOGRAPH; title: - 1; title: CHAPTER I.-GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE TOPOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGIC FEATURES OF THE; title: GRAND CANON DISTRICT9; title: II.-THE MESOZOIC TERRACES UPON THE NORTHERN BORDER OF THE DISTRICT 26; title: III.-A DESCRIPTION OF THE VERMILION CLIFFS AND OF THE VALLEY OF THE VIRGEN. 51; title: IV.-THE GREAT DENUDATION61; title: V.-THE TOROWEAP VALLEY AND THE MIDDLE PORTION OF THE GRAND CARON 78; title: VI.; title: THE UINKARET PLATEAU101; title: VII.-A JOURNEY FROM KANAB ACROSS THE DESERT TO THE KAIBAB PLATEAU AND TO; title: THE BRINK OF THE CHASM122; title: VlII.-THE SCENERY OF THE GRAND CANON IN THE KAIBAB DIVISION VIEWED FROM; title: POINT SUBLIME140; title: IX.-THE AMPHITHEATERS OF THE KAIBAB DIVISION157; title: X.-STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF THE KAIBAB PLATEAU183; title: XI.-THE PARIA PLATEAU AND THE MARBLE CANON PLATFORM199; title: XII.-PHYSICAL HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF THE GRAND CANON DISTRICT 206; title: XIII.-THE EXCAVATION OF THE GRAND CANON-CORRASION AND WEATHERING 230; title: XIV.-THE EXCAVATION OF THE GRAND CANON-ORIGIN OF THE DETAILS OF ITS EROSION. 250.