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- CREATION OF THE TETON LANDSCAPE The Geologic Story of Grand Teton National Park
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- 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.—
- View north.—
- View west.—
- View south.—
- A mountaineer’s view
- 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
- MOUNTAIN UPLIFT
- Kinds of mountains
- Anatomy of faults
- Time and rate of uplift
- Why are mountains here?
- The restless land
- ENORMOUS TIME AND DYNAMIC EARTH
- Framework of time
- Rocks and relative age
- Fossils and geologic time
- Radioactive clocks
- The yardstick of geologic time
- 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
- 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
- THE MESOZOIC—ERA OF TRANSITION
- Colorful first Mesozoic strata
- Drab Cretaceous strata
- Birth of the Rocky Mountains
- TERTIARY—TIME OF MAMMALS, MOUNTAINS, LAKES, AND VOLCANOES
- Rise and burial of mountains
- The First Big Lake
- Development of mammals
- Volcanoes
- QUATERNARY—TIME OF ICE, MORE LAKES, AND CONTINUED CRUSTAL DISTURBANCE
- Hoback normal fault
- Volcanic activity
- Preglacial lakes
- The Ice Age
- Modern glaciers
- THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE
- APPENDIX
- Acknowledgements
- Selected references—if you wish to read further
- About the authors
- Index of selected terms and features
- The GRAND TETON NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION
- Transcriber’s Notes
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