Author: West Texas Geological Society. Field SeminarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Guadalupe Mountains Revisited, Texas and New Mexico
Author: West Texas Geological Society. Field SeminarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Clovis Revisited
Author: Anthony T. BoldurianPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1934536725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Explore the early days of Paleoindian archaeology in this engaging retrospective of Edgar B. Howard's Southwest Early Man Project, 1929-1937, cosponsored by the University Museum and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. This book contains a detailed analysis of the world-famous Clovis artifacts, discovered among the bones of mammoths and extinct bison in the Dust Bowl of eastern New Mexico. Blending traditional and current ideas, the authors offer an extended reference to the lifeways of early humans in the Americas, accented by a series of unique insights on their origins and adaptations. Well appointed with photos, line illustrations, and schematics, Clovis Revisited is essential reading for professionals, students, and avocational enthusiasts.
Castle Gap and the Pecos Frontier, Revisited
Author: Patrick DearenPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 087565388X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
First published in 1988, Castle Gap and the Pecos Frontier was acclaimed by reviewers as “superb,” “significant,” and “utterly delightful.” In this revised edition, Patrick Dearen draws upon the latest in scholarship to update his study of the Pecos River country of West Texas. It’s a land wild with tales that blend history, geography, and folklore, and from his search emerge six fascinating accounts: -Castle Gap, a break in a mesa twelve miles east of the Pecos River, used by Comanches, emigrants, stage drivers, and cattle drovers; -Horsehead Crossing, the most infamous ford of the Old West; -Juan Cordona Lake, a salt lake where sandstorms and skull-baking sun defied early efforts to mine salt vital to survival; -The “bulto” or ghost who wanders the Fort Stockton night; -Lost Wagon Train, a forty-wagon caravan buried in the sands; -The lost mine of Will Sublett, who found gold and kept its location secret unto death. Although linked by the search for treasure, the stories are as varied as the land itself. They speak eloquently of the Pecos country, its heritage, and its people.
The Permian of Northern Pangea
Author: Peter A. SchollePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642785905
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
The Permian was a remarkable time period. It represents the maximum stage of Pangean continental assembly, includes a major global climatic shift from glacial to nonglacial conditions (icehouse-greenhouse transition), and is ter minated by one of the most profound faunal/floral extinction events in the Earth's history. In addition, Permian oceans, although poorly understood, must have had some quite unique characteristics. Permian seas reached the most extreme values of carbon, sulfur, and strontium isotopic ratios ever achieved in Phanerozoic time, and the isotopic ratios of all three elements abruptly returned to more "normal" values at, or very close to, the Permo Triassic boundary. Finally, the Permian is marked by an abundance of important sedimentary mineral resources. It has large fossil fuel concentra tions (coal, oil, and natural gas), enormous phosphate reserves, and very extensive evaporite deposits, including gypsum, anhydrite, and halite, as well as a variety of potash salts. Study of the Permian has been hampered, however, by a number of factors. These include a scattered geologic literature (presented in a variety of languages), a confusing regional and global stratigraphic framework (based, in part, on inadequate type sections), and largely provincial, often poorly correlatable faunas. All have contributed to the sparsity and inadequacy of overviews of this critical geological interval. These two volumes attempt to bring together some of the widely scattered observations about these fascinating rocks, at least for the northern (predominantly nonglacial) parts of Pangea.
Smithsonian Contributions to the Earth Sciences
Author: The Guadalupian Symposium
Author: Bruce R. WardlawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Pennsylvanian-Permian Fusilinaceans of the Big Hatchet Mountains, New Mexico
Author: Garner L. WildePublisher: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Economics of Petroleum Production: Value and worth
Author: Ian LerchePublisher: multi-science publishing
ISBN: 9780906522240
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Report :Original ISBN not available, alternate ISBN recorded Comments :ISBN 9780906522233 replaced with 9780906522240.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and RecreationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Considers S. 295 and S. 698, to establish Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas.