Dutton, Capt Clarence Edward, 1841?1912 (American geologist, United States Geological Survey)
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 03 May 1882
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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/10
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton telling Geikie that he has declined the invitation from the journal Nature to review Geikie's forthcoming publications, as he will shortly be leaving for the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) to do field work in preparation for a systematic study of the volcanic fields of California and Oregon. He recommends his colleague Grove Karl Gilbert for the task and asks Geikie if he will review his new monograph...
Dates:
03 May 1882
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton, 21 July 1884
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Identifier: Coll-74/11/5/16
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Capt Clarence Edward Dutton telling him that he is undertaking field work in New Mexico. He is concentrating on the plateau country aided by good topographic maps of the region. He tells Geikie that there are landforms and cliffs similar to those in Utah and Arizona with exposures of Triassic, Permain and Cretaceous strata. These are overlain with evidence of volcanic activity, ancient basalt of 50-200 feet depth on the plateau. Young basalt, in vast lava...
Dates:
21 July 1884
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- Geology, Stratigraphic Permian 1
- Geology, Stratigraphic Triassic 1
- Grand Canyon (Arizona, United States) 1
- Great Britain 1
- Hawaii (United States) 1
- Landforms 1
- Lava Flows 1
- New Mexico 1
- Oregon (United States) 1
- Professional Interaction 1
- Scholarly Publishing 1
- Topographic Maps 1
- Utah (United States) 1
- Vents, Volcanic 1
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- Volcanic Core 1
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