Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean (1855)
United States. War Department, author · Washington [D.C.] : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer · leaf 571
e porphyry, trap-rock, gneiss and granite, and serpentinoid granite, or protogine, were found between Camps 129 and 130. At the base of the mountains, strata of red sandstone and conglomerate were found in connexion with basaltic and amygdaloidal trap. These are much uplifted and metamorphosed near… … BANKS OF THE HAWIUIAMOOK. The above sketch was taken about six miles above the mouth of the stream, and serves to show the rugged and desolate appearance of its rocky banks. In engraving the sketch, the peculiar characteristics of the different rock formations were lost, and the whole seem formed…
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