Creation of the Teton Landscape

About this eBook

Author

Reed, John C. (John Calvin), 1836-1910

Title

Creation of the Teton Landscape: The Geologic Story of Grand Teton National Park

Credits

Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

QE: Science: Geology

Subject

Geology -- Wyoming -- Grand Teton National Park

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 52838

Release Date

August 18, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.CREATION OF THE TETON LANDSCAPE The Geologic Story of Grand Teton National Park
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.FOREWORD
4. 4.THE STORY BEGINS — First questions, brief answers — An extraordinary story — An astronaut’s view — A pilot’s view — A motorist’s view — View north. — — View west. — — View south. — — A mountaineer’s view
5. 5.CARVING THE RUGGED PEAKS — Steep mountain slopes—the perpetual battleground — Rock disintegration and gravitational movement — Running water cuts and carries — Glaciers scour and transport — Effects on Jackson Hole
6. 6.MOUNTAIN UPLIFT — Kinds of mountains — Anatomy of faults — Time and rate of uplift — Why are mountains here? — The restless land
7. 7.ENORMOUS TIME AND DYNAMIC EARTH — Framework of time — Rocks and relative age — Fossils and geologic time — Radioactive clocks — The yardstick of geologic time
8. 8.PRECAMBRIAN ROCKS—THE CORE OF THE TETONS — Ancient gneisses and schists — Granite and pegmatite — Black dikes — Quartzite — A backward glance — The close of the Precambrian—end of the beginning
9. 9.THE PALEOZOIC ERA—TIME OF LONG-VANISHED SEAS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE — The Paleozoic sequence — Alaska Basin—site of an outstanding rock and fossil record — Advance and retreat of Cambrian seas: an example — Younger Paleozoic formations
10. 10.THE MESOZOIC—ERA OF TRANSITION — Colorful first Mesozoic strata — Drab Cretaceous strata — Birth of the Rocky Mountains
11. 11.TERTIARY—TIME OF MAMMALS, MOUNTAINS, LAKES, AND VOLCANOES — Rise and burial of mountains — The First Big Lake — Development of mammals — Volcanoes
12. 12.QUATERNARY—TIME OF ICE, MORE LAKES, AND CONTINUED CRUSTAL DISTURBANCE — Hoback normal fault — Volcanic activity — Preglacial lakes — The Ice Age — Modern glaciers
13. 13.THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE
14. 14.APPENDIX — Acknowledgements — Selected references—if you wish to read further — About the authors
15. 15.Index of selected terms and features
16. 16.The GRAND TETON NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION
17. 17.Transcriber’s Notes

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