Author: Carl LumholtzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
New Trails in Mexico
Author: Carl LumholtzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
New Trails in Mexico. An Account of One Year's Exploration in North-Western Sonora, Mexico, and South-Western Arizona 1909-10
Author: Carl LumholtzNew Trails in Mexico
Author: Carl LumholtzPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781295685615
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
New Trails in Mexico. An account of one year's exploration in North-Western Sonora, Mexico, and South-Western Arizona, 1909-1910 ... With numerous illustrations, including two color plates and two maps
Author: Carl LUMHOLTZNew Trails in Mexico; an Account of One Year's Exploration in North-Western Sonora, Mexico, and South-Western Arizona, 1909-1910
Author: Carl LumholtzPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230268637
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX III GEOLOGICAL SKETCH OF THE PAPAGUERIA BY CYRUS F. TOLMAN, PROFESSOR IN MINING AND GEOLOGY, UNIVER- SITY OF ARIZONA The two groups of formations most extensively developed in the Papagueria belong respectively to the most ancient of rocks and to those formed during geologically recent times--to the pre-Cambrian complex on the one hand and to the Tertiary-Quaternary group on the other. This great area has been studied only in spots by geologists, and therefore detailed knowledge of the formations is lacking, and they have not been matched up with those of other and better known portions of the country. As far as present knowledge goes, the older group consists of gneisses, schists, slates, crystalline limestones, and coarse grained granites--the granites and granite-gneisses being most abundantly developed in the south-western portion. The group of younger rocks is made up chiefly of extrusives; volcanics represented by andesites, rhyolites, rhyolite-tuffs, and basalts. These are mentioned in the order of eruption as shown in the majority of localities. The most recent of the basalts, the extrusion of some of which may have continued into historic times, form in cases perfect volcanic cones, but the older lavas and most of the basalts appear as remnants of flows in fault blocks, or better as fault strips, these upturned blocks and strips forming many of the volcanic ranges. Less widely distributed than the two groups mentioned above, but important throughout the Arizona Copper Fields as ore carriers, are the Paleozoic Series of limestones and quartzites. These are found in the Papagueria in the eastern and southern ranges; for instance, in the Tucson Mountains, the Silverbell Mountains, the Sierrita Mountains, in the Vekol...
New Trails in Mexico
Author: Carl LumholtzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Books of 1912-
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: At the Desert's Green Edge
Author: Amadeo M. ReaPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816534292
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Klinger Book Award, this is the first complete ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima, presented from the perspective of the Pimas themselves.
Trails to Tibur—n
Author: W. J. McGeePublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816520305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
When William John McGee set out from Washington, D.C., for the Sonoran Desert in 1894, he was inspired by a passion for adventure as much as a thirst for knowledge. McGee lived in an era when discovery was made through travel rather than study, and reputations were forged by going where no outsiders had gone before. A self-taught scientist in the newly forming field of anthropology, McGee led two expeditions through southern Arizona and northern Sonora for the Bureau of American Ethnology. There he conducted ethnographic research among the Papagos (Tohono O'odham) and the Seris, and his subsequent publication The Seri Indians helped secure his place in the anthropological community. McGee's complete journals of the expeditions, kept in small field notebooks and preserved in the Library of Congress, are published here for the first time. These journals contain detailed descriptions of the country and people McGee encountered and convey the adventure of traveling through wild and unfamiliar places--including a voyage to Isla Tibur—n, or Shark Island, in the Gulf of California--and being plagued by foul weather, a shortage of supplies, and fear of attack from hostile Indians. Trails to Tibur—n features 57 historical photographs taken on the expedition, capturing the places McGee saw and the people he encountered. Fontana's notes to the diary provide useful botanical, geological, and ethnographic information, while his introduction places McGee and his field work in the context of late-nineteenth-century anthropology and science. Trails to Tibur—n reveals McGee's versatility as a field worker and shows his methods, often questioned today, to be the reasonable response of a man caught up in the intellectual fervor of his time. For anyone wanting to share in the spirit of adventure, these journals are a landmark in the annals of exploration.