General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History (1911) (14779282294)

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Title: General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 Miner, Roy Waldo, 1875-1955
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO



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untains. 5. Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, in-cluding the geyser basins and RockyMountain type of topography. 6. The Pikes Peak, Colorado, model,showing the mountain composed of redgranite, and the bordering stratified de-posits of the Great Plains near ColoradoSprings. 7. The caldera of Mt. Mazama, fivemiles in diameter and two thousand feetdeep, which has been made a NationalPark, and has become famous under thename Crater Lake. Numerous outpour-ings of lava suggest the structure andhistory of the ancient volcano. 8. The Standing Stone district nearMonterey, Tennessee, showing normalsubaerial erosion and the production ofsink holes in horizontally disposed bedsof limestone and shale. Continuing on the opposite side of thehall are the following models: 9. The Mt. Tom-Mt. Holyoke districtol western Massachusetts, showing a greattrough, traversing the ancient crystallinerocks, which was filled with the sands,muds and intruded lava flows in Triassiclime. 10. 1 he Watkins Glen-Seneca Lake 24
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THE ERUPTION OF MT. PELEE OX THE ISLAND OF MARTINIQUE. This was one of themost destructive eruptions known in history. It took place in the year 1902 and completely de-stroyed the city of Saint Pierre causing the death of 30.000 inhabitants. From a painting in the Hall of Geologv district of central New York State, show-ing moraine deposits and other featuresdue to the advance and retreat of thecontinental ice sheet over a region ofhorizontally bedded limestone, sandstoneand shale. In the background appears arepresentation of the retreating ice-frontof the last glaciation. 11. The Mt. Washington, New Hamp-shire, region, showing typical glacialcirques and other glacial phenomena inan area of crystalline rocks. 12. The picturesque Yosemite Valleyin the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Cali-fornia, with U.shaped glaciated vallevbottom and precipitous marginal yvalls. 13. The San Francisco, California,model, exhibiting a portion of the PacificOcean, the Coast Range with volcanicand sedimentary