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Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 23 January 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/13
Scope and Contents
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton discussing his field trip to the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii). He reports on the large scale of the ultra basic basalt lava flows of the Mauna Loa eruption and the lack of cinder cones. He reports on the ferruginous nature of the lavas and their high olivine content along with observed layers of hematite and magnetite. He describes the volcano's impressive topography and its inability to support running water. He...
Dates:
23 January 1883
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 05 May 1883
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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/14
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton discussing the fossiliferous Upper Cambrian metamorphosed sandstone shales found at Lake Superior and the Grand Canyon. At Lake Superior these beds overlie 1400 feet of unfossiliferous sandstone and shale, interspersed with layers of copper bearing metamorphosed volcanic ash. These are the same as the Huronian metamorphic beds at Lake Huron which are possibly of the Lower Cambrian age due to an unconformity (as identified by...
Dates:
05 May 1883
Letter to Sir John Scott Keltie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 22 May 1882
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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/11
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Letter to Sir John Scott Keltie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton apologising that the advance atlas sheets for Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District, ( 1882) have not been sent to him due to a hold up at the printer's. He reports that he will shortly leave for the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) but will leave instructions for them to be sent on. This may not be for another 2 weeks due to the scale of the print job. He tells Keltie that he hopes Sir Archibald...
Dates:
22 May 1882
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- Grand Canyon (Arizona, United States) 10
- Scholarly Publishing 9
- Professional Interaction 7
- Hawaii (United States) 6
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- Politics 3
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- California (United States) 2
- Erosion 2
- Kaibab National Forest (Arizona, United States) 2
- Oregon (United States) 2
- Social Interaction 2
- Volcanic Activity 2
- Volcanoes 2
- Appointment to Office 1
- Boston (Massachusetts, United States) 1
- California, Gulf of (Mexico) 1
- Cascade Range (United States) 1
- Fossils 1
- Geological Mapping 1
- Geology 1
- Geology, Research 1
- Geology, Stratigraphic 1
- Geology, Stratigraphic Cambrian 1
- Geology, Stratigraphic Devonian 1
- Geology, Stratigraphic Pliocene 1
- Geology, Stratigraphic Quaternary 1
- Geology, Stratigraphic Tertiary 1
- Hematite 1
- Huron, Lake (Michigan, United States and Ontario, Canada) 1
- Lake Superior, Michigan, USA 1
- Lava Flows 1
- Lectures and Lecturing 1
- Magnetite 1
- Mexico -- Mexico City 1
- Montreal (Quebec, Canada) 1
- Photolithography 1
- Professional Criticism 1
- Rocks, Metamorphic 1
- Rocks, Sedimentary 1
- Rocky Mountains 1
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- Unconformities (Geology) 1
- United States 1
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