 | | Report (issue) | | Annotated Bibliography and Preliminary Survey of Nevada Paleobotany by Howard E. Schorn 1 - 2 , Christopher...Quadrangle Appendix B: Bibliography Cross-Referenced by County/Quadrangle Appendix C: Bibliography Cross-Referenced...groups of the Nevada Bureau of Land Management, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Nevada Department of...of Transportation, Nevada Parks and Recreation, the Nevada State Museum, and geologists, paleontologists...Annotated Bibliography and Preliminary Survey of Nevada paleobotany arranged alphabetically by author and/or |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist |  | | Book | | O DESERT, D E S E' R T, and adjacent areas of Nevada and Arizona By MARY F R ANC E S S T R O N G... 0 F NEVADA Queen Obsidian 1be Sump Hole Fish Lake Valley Goldfield Gem Claim Volcanic Hills Montezuma...Anaconda Dump 15 Calcite Hole 15 Northwest Darwin Hills 15 Christmas Gift Mine 15 Rainbow Ridge 17 Opalite...Falls and Roaring Ridge 22 Buried Petrified Forest 23 Canyon View Wood 23 Jasper Hill 24 Rand Mountains...de las Animas) Hanging Canyon 34 Hidden Hills Green Ash Hills Field Siding Calico Mountains INDEX MAP | | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst |  | | Journal (issue) | | STANDARDS Sodalite No. 1 $2.25 per ll Drumheller Wood $1.50 large piece Perthite 00 per Ib Copper Zinc...Keystone mine, Magnolia mining district, Boulder County, was the first mineral to bear a Colorado name...7 Mount Antero from the top of Mount White the hills; with them will be found the usual gangue minerals...southwest direction from Jamestown in Boulder County to the La Plata Mountains in the “golden San Juans...across the Arkansas River at Nathrop, are three volcanic hills of more than average interest. The rhyolite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Trail ROCK & GEM KIDS Articles and Puzzles PETRIFIED WOOD Seeing Pictures in Patterns and Textures ................ 46 A new way of appreciating petrified wood by Tom Elias by Bob Jones regular columns...CALIFORNIA: Annual show; Monrovia Rockhounds; LA County Arboretum, 301 S. Baldwin Ave.; Sat. 9-4:30, Sun...Annual show; Ventura Gem & Mineral Society; Ventura County Fairgrounds; 10 W. Harbor Blvd.; Sat. 10-5, Sun...Web site: www.sgams.com 7-9—NORTH APPLE VALLEY (COUNTY), CALIFORNIA: 38th Annual Outdoor Tailgate; Victor |  | | Book (volume) | | particolor amethsyt (78.70 ct), Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California;...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Fankboner, Burnaby, BC; James P. Flohr, Burnett Petrified Wood, Lebanon, OR; Dr. Eric Fritzsch, South Dakota |  | | Journal (issue) | | Large format, heavy paperback, 170 pages. $3.50. NEVADA GHOST TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS by Stanley W. Paher...complete collection of historic photographs of Nevada ever published. This, coupled with his excellent...18 different 4-wheel-drive trips into the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where he explores ghost towns, Indian...by the arrest of two persons in San Bernardino County for the possession of hides and skulls of the rare...the 30 miles of this range than any other area of Nevada. A month could be spent exploring the deposits |  | | Journal (issue) | | UNDERSTAND LIFE (Acrostic) By DARRELL TOTTEN Henderson. Nevada Deep down wilhin the complex brain of man One cell...interesting people he has met in his exploration of Utah, Nevada and Arizona deserts, extending over a period of...extends from the Rockies westward across Utah and Nevada. Before long, all his spare time was 5 devoted...accumulating a vast store of new magion in Wayne County. He had gone spare limited sums from his own bud-...creeks tributary to Jarbidge River in northeastern Nevada—but both of them carried the secret of its location |  | | Journal (issue) | | Papago Park, Phoenix. Arizona. Feb. 16-22—Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival, Arabian Nights...Vaqueros, Tucson. Arizona. Feb. 22-28—Maricopa County Fair, Horse Show, Mesa, Arizona. Feb. 22-29—Invitational...— Maricopa County Fair, Mesa Civic Center, Mesa, Arizona. Feb. 24-Mar. 4 — Imperial County Fair, El Centro...it. Thomas L. Smith was born in 1801 in Garrard County, Kentucky, the son of Christopher Smith, an Irish...the three buttes were part of the rim of a great volcanic crater, and that he was almost overcome with gas |  | | Report (issue) | | Extensional Tectonics Near the Latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada Edited by Brian P. Wernicke Department of Earth...extensional tectonics near the latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada / edited by Brian P. Wernicke. p. cm.— (Memoir...index. ISBN 0-8137-1176-2 1. Geology, Structural—Nevada—Las Vegas Region. I. Wernicke, Brian P., 1958-...and faulting in the Castle Mountains, southern Nevada and eastern California .......0... 00 ccc Ryan...Range Province, northwestern Arizona and southern Nevada; Implications for kinematic models DE CONnUNCHIOL |  | | Journal (issue) | | M. that Mr. Barnes put Globe, Arizona in Pinal county instead of GILA, a perhaps natural thing to do...right there. Gila county made an impression on me because it touches Maricopa county on top of Roosevelt...end, having obtained our license in Globe, the county seat. Best wishes to you and to all who assist...congress meets at Salt Lake City. 31 to Sept. 4 Nevada state fair and rodeo at Fallon. 2 Corn dance at...Catron, chairman. 2-4 Annual rodeo at Winnemucca, Nevada. 3-4 San Pedro valley rodeo at Benson, Arizona |  | | Journal (issue) | | children gathered rocks for the fireplace and collected wood for fuel. I set up my kitchen and helped with the...figure out how to get it back to camp." Burnt Hills "The hills are real nice but still warm even for this...night air gently tagged the warm day air off to the hills. Riding in on the cool air were the day smells—the...Across a mile of blue water loomed a red-brown volcanic island, protecting the northern arm of the bay...surprise. So we turned westward toward the low red volcanic hills. Below us the jeep trail threaded between our |  | | Book (edition) | | Colorado National Monument Mesa County Dinosaur National Monument Moffat County Great Sand Dunes National... Montezuma County NATIONAL PARKS IN COLORADO Mesa Verde National Park Montezuma County Rocky Mountain...Utah Border to Steamboat Springs, U. S. 40 Moffat County Dinosaur National Monument Hahns Peak Segment B...Camp Ground Teller Pegmatite Crystal Peak Area Petrified Forests Segment H — Salida to Canon City, U. S...can be picked up on almost any mine dump in the hills. With them will be seen the usual gangue minerals |  | | Journal (issue) | | the blacksmith's anvil ring, And smell the pine wood smoke where bacon burned. And I could see the burro...50th Anniversary of the establishment of the Petrified Forest National Monument, Holbrook, Arizona. Dec...Arizona. Dec. 22 — Community Christmas Party, Fallon, Nevada. Dec. 23—Salt Lake City, Utah, Oratorio Society's...December events on the desert 3 ARCHEOLOGY Fortified Hills in Baboquivari Valley By FRANK A. TINKER 4 WATERHOLE...Desert, California DECEMBER, 1956 Fortified Hills in Baboquivari Valley Man may never solve the mystery |  | | Journal (issue) | | his books. His new travel guide to the Riverside County mountain areas covers the Deser Divide Country...Southwest. Hardcover, illustrated, 175 pages, $7.50. NEVADA GHOST TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS by Stanley W. Pa her...complete CO lection of historic photographs of Nevada ever published. This, coupled with his excellent...is a dramatic story of the geology of the Sierra Nevada and of the people both of historic and present...covers from U.S. 395 at Little Lake to Boulder City, Nevada, to Parker Dam to Victorville. Colorado Desert |  | | Journal (issue) | | papoose aloft for Photographer Andrew Crofut of Reno, Nevada, whose charming family portrait won first prize...August 12-14—Wasatch County Fair and Rodeo, Heber, Utah. August 12-14—Sanpete County Fair, Manti, Utah....Square Dance Festival, Flagstaff. August 18-20—Cache County Fair, Logan, Utah. August 24-31—Hopi Snake Dances...August 27-28—Kane County Fair and Horse Show, Orderville, Utah. August 28-29—Tooele County Fair, Tooele,...the ground by the sheeps' sharp teeth and scanty wood is quickly burned. There is not enough to go around |  | | Book (edition) | | Montrose County Colorado National Monument Mesa County Dinosaur National Monument Moffat County Florissant...Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument Teller County Great Sand Dunes National Monument Saguache and...National Monument Montezuma County Yucca House National Monument Montezuma County NATIONAL PARKS IN COLORADO...COLORADO Mesa Verde National Park Montezuma County Rocky Mountain National Park Grand and Larimer Countie~...Utah Border to Steamboat Springs, U.S. 40 Moffat County Dinosaur National Monument Haims Peak Segment B |  | | Journal (issue) | | DESERT CALENDAR May 30—Lincoln County Homecoming Day. Caliente, Nevada. June 1-30 — Special exhibit, colored...passing through on their way from California to Nevada, some were rock collectors and others were camera...breakfast, Jose, Francisco, and I set out across the hills in quest of the mineral deposit. We climbed a steep...wave-cut benches distinctly seen on nearby rocky hills and the distant slopes of the Argus and Slate Mountains...beings it had ever seen. side of the giant Sierra Nevada. This grew disappeared long ago, leaving The kit |  | | Book | | Wander: Canyon de Chelly National Monument 121 10. Volcanic Violence in a Landscape Turned Upside Down: The...Magmas, a Variety of Volcanoes: The San Francisco Volcanic Field 12. Desert Niagara: Grand Falls 135 149...Meteor Crater 189 15. Triassic Time Capsule: Petrified Forest National Park 203 16. Continent Under...such as the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, the Petrified Forest, and Meteor Crater—all world-class examples...1,800-1,700 Ma Formation and amalgamation of volcanic arcs. Collision with proto—North American continent |  | | Journal (issue) | | footed burro to pack his stuff, 'Cause out in the hills the goin's tough. He'll stake you a claim on the...our dreams. TRIAL By DARRELL TOTTEN Henderson, Nevada In the desert book, where all may look Read what...negatives. The prospector is Rocky Mountain George of Nevada. Photograph by Adrian Atwater, Carson City. CAPTIVE...begun. There is reward for all good done. Desert hills hold their silver and gold; Ghost-towns hold their...• • • NONE S O BIG By B. R. BRADLEY Tempiute, Nevada I've a bushel of words All sorted for speed But |  | | Journal (issue) | | Inside Ancient Pebbles (Topock, Ariz.)* Jim. 52—Petrified Wood Along Butterfield Trail (Calif.)* May 53—Harquahala...Mountain Chalcedony (Ariz.)* Jun. 56—Circle Cliffs Petrified Wood (Utah)* Nov. 56—Gem Stones of Palo Verde Pass...Who Bought a Ghost Town (Calico, Calif.)* May 54—Nevada Ghost Town (Unionville)* Feb. 57—Only the Sidewalk... Fontana Margaret Stovall COMMUNITY 24 Pioche, Nevada Nell Murbarger TRAVEL 27 Mexico's Route 2 John...aroma of sour dough bread baking in Grandmother's wood-burning stove or cooling off on the table under |  | | Journal (issue) | | Date Festival to be February 14-23 The Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival takes place February...skiing to desert mountain hiking offered in the county. The show will include trailer, boating and conservation...Days, Wickenburg, Arizona. Feb. 14-23 — Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival, Indio, California...IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY By JEAN HOGAN DUDLEY Ingle wood, California We camped in Hopi Country by a cold...were in the Morrison formation with low cliffs and hills on both sides and a belt of willow, tamarisk and |  | | Journal (issue) | | meeting, Needles, California. Rotarians from Arizona, Nevada, California. 22 Swiss Swing, Holtville, California...cover photo contest FIELD TRIP Digging for Petrified Roots By M O R A M. BROWN ARTIST For your Desert...villages are found there covered with many inches of volcanic sand and ashes. But to George and me hiking along...the north extended a vast plain, a few rolling hills reaching, we thought, into southern Utah. It is...particularly clear day portions of California and Nevada as well as Utah are easily discernible. We thought |  | | Journal (issue) | | Tradition tells us that l\Iine Ln :\fotte, in ll'adison County, )lissouri, wns first worked by the Spaniards,...such is not the case. Its relatives- silicified wood, diatoma ceous earth, et ceteraare very common,...low ranges, table lands, and isolated flat-top hills. Small detached patches are found as outliers. These...kangaroo discovered a bright bit of opal fl.oat in the county of Yungnulgra about sixty-five miles northwest...Querecaro, the opal occurs in cavities of old volcanic lavas rich in silica. This rock is usually red |
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