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Conglomerate from
Amethyst Mountain, Park County, Wyoming, USA


Locality type:Mountain
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Type:Conglomerate
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Validity:Believed Valid
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Mineral Data:Click here to view Conglomerate data
Locality Data:Click here to view Amethyst Mountain, Park County, Wyoming, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1074593
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1074593:5
GUID (UUID V4):3a5b5452-e5ef-4e36-9234-416a1e567368
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Report (issue)
VOLCANIC SUPERGROUP IN THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK REGION Stratigraphic Framework of the Absaroka...Volcanic Supergroup in the Yellowsto-ne National Park Region By HARRY W. SMEDES and HAROLD J. PROSTKA...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY NA1~IONAL PROFESSIONAL PAPER PARK 729-C A brief description of the stratigraphy of...of the Eocene Absaroka volcanic field) Wyoming and lVf. ontana. The Absaroka Volcanic Supergroup) three... Yellowstone National Park, the oldest of the areas set aside as part of the national park sys· tern, lies
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by William J. Fritz Roadside Geology Series MOUNTAIN PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY MISSOULA, MONTANA Copyright...Geology—Yellowstone National Park Region—Guidebooks. 2. Yellowstone National Park. I. Title. QE79.F75 1985...85-4934 ISBN 0-87842-170-X Printed in the U.S.A. MOUNTAIN PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY P.O. Box 2399 * 1301S...sediments 05 Snowy Range Formation Pilgrim Limestone Park Shale Meagher Limestone Wolsey Shale Flathead Sandstone...detail of geology in the northern area of Yellowstone Park—not because the geology to the south is any less
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Structural Geology, Northeast Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming and Montana Abstract: Cenozoic eruptive rocks...Paleozoic, and Mesozoic rocks in the Yellowstone Park region. Eruption of lower Cenozoic andesitic breccias...rhyolites and associated rocks in northern Yellowstone Park which are believed to be Pliocene and younger. At... 1175 1175 Lower Cenozoic rocks Crandall(P) conglomerate 1175 Early acid breccia 1177 Crescent Hill basalt...basalt 1182 Lost Creek tuff 1182 Tower Creek conglomerate 1182 Late canyon basalt 1183 Yellowstone tuff
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fossil forests of Eocene age in Yellowstone National Park. There, inverse grading occurs commonly among the...Rifer Formation, Amethyst Mountain "Fossil Forest," Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Figure 2. Inversely...Gallatin "Petrified Forests," Yellowstone National Park, Montana. The base of the stump h a s b e e n b...of sedimentary rock (although most obvious in conglomerate and breccia) and may result f r o m (1) pyroclastic... v. 58, p. 9 1 - 1 2 7 . Lowe, D. R., 1973, Conglomerate-filled submarine fan channel in t h e Cretaceous
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localities in Oregon, Wash­ ington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. Illustrated with maps and photos. For the gem...Acicular Inclusions .................... VI THE MOUNTAIN WEST........................ New Mexico Woods...Yellowstone Park Miscellaneous Fossil Forests............... CHAPTER IX. SADDLE MOUNTAIN and the HORSE..... Wilson Canyon Petrified Wood........... Nye County Fossil Redwood............... Stone Redwoods of...conditions of the long gone past. The story is of mountain building, erosion, climate and rainfall, and a
Report (issue)
GLACIATION IN THE NORTHERN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK AREA ^~**/%.*^ s^ , * PAPEI .^r*f%SURW...NATIONAL PARK AREA 110°45' 45°55' FRONTISPIECE. Glaciation of Yellowstone National Park was more...Glaciation in the Northern Yellowstone National Park Area By KENNETH L. PIERCE GEOLOGY OF YELLOWSTONE...northern Yellowstone National Park area. (Geology of Yellowstone National Park) (Geological Survey Professional...National Park. 2. Glacial landforms Yellowstone National Park. 3. Yellowstone National Park. I. Title
Book (volume)
and the jades of Alaska, British Columbia, and Wyoming, are worldrenowned. Handsome and authoritative...Isle Royale National Park were rendered by Superintendent John G. Lewis and Park Historian Lloyd Abelson...Oregon, Kansas, Alabama, Ohio, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Wyoming, Montana and Illinois. Detailed information on...Department of Conservation; and on the Four Peaks amethyst deposit in Arizona by Dr. F. W. Galbraith of the...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and proved thicknesses of the strata of certain mountain chains, the author arrives at the conclusion that... Notices of Memoirs—Fossil Forests of Yellowstone Park. 551 II.—FOSSIL FORESTS OF THE YELLOWSTONE PAEK...feet of strata exposed on the north, face of Amethyst Mountain, and from the character of the vegetation...with beautiful crystals of calcite, quartz, and amethyst. J. M. III.—EEPORT ON THE STORMBEBG COAL-PIELD...alternating with grey felspathic sandstones, also conglomerate (p. 8) ; about 600 feet; with Sauroid bones;
Journal (issue)
MELE£ · Brazilian stones faceted In Brazil . . . Amethyst, cltrlne. green tourmaline. rubellite, 25 stones...customers MINIMUM ORDER SS.00 • WE PAY POSTAGE USA on Items This Ad • • 10 DAY RETURN PRIVILEGE • SATISFACTION...Club, May 7, 9:30 a.m. June 23 thru 25. ROCKY MOUNTAIN FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES. Annual...ineral Society of Washington , D.C . host. Sheraton-Park Hotel , Washington, O.C. Bob Romanowski, 2708 Ridge...demonstrations. food . Ma_y 6 and 7. Cheutauqua County Gem and M ineral Society. 6th Annual Show. East
Report (issue)
........... ........................ Quadrant Mountain, Bannock Peak, and the valley of the Gallatin............................ ... ..... Qnad1·ant Mountain . .. . . .. . .. .. . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... . . . . .. .. .. .. .. .. Little Quadra-nt :Mountain and Fawn Creek Valley............................. .............. Little Quadra-nt Mountain...................... ...................................... .... .... ...... .... ...... .... .... Gray Mountain mass and connected sheets....................
Report (issue)
Chhattisgarh 12 4. 13 I Marine Gondwana Fossil Park Manendragarh, Sarguja Dist., Chhattisgarh 17 Gujarat...Dist;. Gujarat 5. Himachal Pradesh Siwalik Fossil Park Saketi, Sirmur Dist., Himachal Prades� 6. 18 ...Granite Pali Dist., Rajasthan 60 1 6. m Barr Conglomerate Pali Dist., Rajasthan 62 17. IV Jodhpur...Dist., Rajasthan 67 19. VI Akal Fossil Wood Park Jaisalmer Dist., Rajasthan 69 20. vii Great Boundary...Bundi Dist., Rajasthan 72 21. viii Stromatolite Park Bhojunda, Chittaurgarh Dist., Rajasthan 74 22
Report (volume)
GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION" GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEYS WEST OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH................................................ Wyoming..................................................Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Eegion (Powell) ................................Geological Survey of the Territories, embracing Wyoming, by F. V. Hayden, U. S. geologist. Conducted under...Valley, pp. 220-229. Geological explorations in Wyoming Territory [by F. V. Hayden], pp. 229-255. 1869
Report (issue)
A253-A258 of this chapter. Numerous Federal, State, county, and municipal agencies and other organizations...investigations Continued Water resources Continued Rocky Mountain region_--__________________ Montana _________...______ North Dakota _ _______________________ Wyoming. _____------_-________________ South Dakota. __...cooperators_-____ ---------_____-____ 209 State, county, and municipal cooperaters__________ 209 Other...silver-gold mining district in northwestern Elko County, has revealed evidence leading to a revision of
Book (volume)
170 Euhedral and Coarse-Grained Varieties, 171 Amethyst, 171 Color and Heat Treatment, 174 Occurrence...morphological grounds, here with reference to amethyst, smoky quartz (morion), and rockcrystal, and partly...monoclinic form based on the anomalous dichroism of amethyst,’ and forms based on the optical elongation and...opposing optical rotation of (Brazil-twinned) amethyst that two types of quartz existed, and Herschel...angles, and that the axial ratios of smoky quartz, amethyst, and colorless quartz were different. The axial
Book (edition)
In discussing the Cenozoic history of the Rocky Mountain region, and in preparing Figures 256 and 257,...Plains. Mr. Edwin D. McKee, park naturalist at Grand Canyon National Park, contributed Figure 185, an...reproduce his published photograph of the Castle Mountain section. Especial acknowledgments are hereby made...limestone of the Green River formation (Eocene) in Wyoming. The fossil is permineralized. About ½ natural...from the fossil forests of the Yellowstone National Park. At the left, a piece of the silicified wood about
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siltstone commonly lie in the midst of coarse conglomerate and mark the general stratification (Fig. 3)...CambrianSilurian shales and slates of Washington County, N.Y., lines of holes occur now and then on transverse...cleaved early Paleozoic shales of Washing¬ ton County, New York. A. B,C. Bedding which b their original...described by Louderback (1912:21-31) from Santa Barbara County, California. Here, in a moderately dissected terrane...the grandest development is the sequence of conglomerate, sandstone, shale, and limestone that has so
Book (volume)
in proportion to the size of the do the highest mountain chains on the earth's surface, than apple when...formerly supposed, but he infers rightly that these mountain by a wrinkling of the earth's crust or by an...evidence from the chains were raised material of the mountain which leads the geologist to such a conclusion...precipitous cliff formed by the sudden dislodgment of a mountain side or by the sinking of a portion of the earth's...father of German geology, made most of subdued L mountain district of Saxony, es- his observations in the
Book (edition)
glaciers and seas formation of the volcanoes «^ mountain ranges, the nature been have ^U earthquakes occurrence...184 Layers of the Earth's Crust Diastrophism: Mountain Formation of the Earth Oceans and Lakes 97...Irregular Movements of Sea Water 187 Observations in Mountain Areas 189 Where Mountains Wave Erosion 190...Flood The Cave of the Three Brothers The Guil, a mountain torrent Lake Louise at the Foot of the Rockies...la Sausaie Erosion forms in Bryce Canyon National Park Red shales in Monument Valley, Arizona Highly folded
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BY MOUNTAIN : . c ‘ , Movement fluencing the Rate of Movement. TRANSPORTATION BY MOUNTAIN es...es . ; ae i Subglacial Material. OF MouNTAIN 4 F ; c : GLACIERS CONTINENTAL . . ACTION...Geosynclines. Lateral Pressure. Experiments in Mountain Building. Rate of Folding. To What the Topographic...Features of Folded Moun- tains are Due. THEORIES OF MOUNTAIN Cycle of Erosion of Mountains. BUILDING . i... A G . : Pacific Coast. Triassic 512 . Mountain Forming in the ‘ Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. Western
Report (issue)
described, from the Pliocene near Sommerville, Fayette County, Tennessee, Salix densinervis, Quercus saffordi...perfectly aware that, in the case of South Table Mountain, Golden, Colorado, the beds range downward unbroken...area is no more clearly defined than in the Rocky Mountain region. For example there is no fixed line of...2 f., Apr. 1937. - - Hints on geode formation, Wyoming wood tells a story: Mineralogist, vol. 12, no....on the fossil flora of the Ye!Jowstone National Park with particular reference to the Gallatin region:
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—Annual shipments from the Schuylkill, Lehigh, and Wyoming regions: 1820 to 1902 ..........-..--------Bituminous...Bituminous—Continued. Production by states—Continued. Page. Wyoming ~~ 2-2 onsale s fecein Socio Seicte aiewin me neo...eee oe eS eS 703 Table 57.—Coal production of Wyoming; by countless) Q02/- sae ee eee ee 708 Table 58...---+--Analysis of petroleum produced in Fresno County, California: 1902 ........-.-----------------------+-------4-The...de ene Ses oe Sele eloseis SIS Cee tS eee ree Amethyst «2c eet .cskscledccits ae cinsticic recess areneetei
Journal (volume)
The phy 436; prera d and of uair Geolo: Mountain 439; ley on the Crus- f Eastern ; Massachusetts...News,909Bw AENLy qaa VAEGA Hayden'ss New Mapa of Wyoming, etc., 62; African Exploration, of the Territories...1877-8. ae Unit ei 143; Triangulation and FE ER Park Maps, 2233 The nee of AN Expedition to the North...on the 18th of November, 1810, in Paris, Oneida county, New York, and is now Professor of Botany of _...Vas G. Dr. and , nty cou k oc nc Augusta, Ha . county. Amongst the American botanists, although born
Journal (volume)
Hole CROs PT aS ROS ie Oe 6 Ee FIOTMOR Park . ka les pees yan wooed SalviaJesolo vfoe Siege...the United States, 128; Robinson’s Flora of Essex county, Massachusetts, 129 ; Seance the can of the F iaakile...826; Sicagane i 754, French Anthro- of Berks county, Pa., rie 824 The 825; Zuni and the Peddiecst...it is a point deserving of attention. That the mountain ranges of the West had their glaciers, is : Je...ascending the Yellowstone valley towards the National Park, scattered moraine-mounds and abundant transported
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of parts of this publication may be made in the USA. All other copyright questions, including p h o t...BREITHAUPT Department University of Geology of Wyoming, KENNETH CARPENTER Department PA 19104, of Geology...University The Royal Copenhagen OH 43224, MN Wyoming, University, Boston, of Auckland, Danish NV...U.S.A J . D . STEWART Los Angeles Angeles, County CA 90007, ANNE H. WALTON Department of Geological...47907, Eichstatt, University KS 66605, AZ Los USA F.R.G. of Texas, Austin, TX U.S.A. State University
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the seat of a bishop; and chief town of the ami (county) of its name, on the south bank of the Limf jord...AALESUND, a seaport of Norway, in Romsdal ami (county), 145 m. N. by E. from Bergen. Pop. (1900) 11,672...(Mellingen, Muri, Villmergen, and Bremgarten), with the county of Baden, were ruled as " subject lands" by all...largest town in the kingdom, and capital of the ami (county) of Aarhus. Pop. (1901) 51,814. The district is...governed by the counts of Ponthieu. Together with that county, it came into the possession of the Alencon and
 
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